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  • Critical Issues Confronting China featuring Fan Dai — Decoupling Crisis: Subnational Climate Action and China’s Domestic Coal Challenge

    CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Fan Dai, Assistant Professor, International Climate Policy, Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, BerkeleyDiscussant: Henry Lee, Jassim M. Jaidah Family Director of the Environment and Natural Resources Program; Co-Chair, Arctic Initiative, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy SchoolMore information coming soon.Fan Dai is an Assistant Professor in International Climate

  • Critical Issues Confronting China series featuring Xi Lian — Christian Social Activism in Contemporary China

    CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Xi Lian, David C. Steinmetz Distinguished Professor of World Christianity, Duke University Divinity School; Visiting Scholar, Harvard Divinity School In his Asian tour in 1920, Bertrand Russell noted the prominence of Christians in the Korean independence movement, adding that in Korea “a Christian was practically synonymous with a bomb-thrower.” This talk explores a less

  • Critical Issues Confronting China series featuring Robert Suettinger — Factional Politics in the CCP: Is Change in the Air?

    CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker:Robert Lee Suettinger, Former National Intelligence Officer for East Asia, National Intelligence CounselMore information coming soon. Robert Lee Suettinger is a historian of contemporary elite politics in the People’s Republic of China. He recently completed a biography of Hu Yaobang (1915-1989), General Secretary and Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party of China, published by Harvard

  • Critical Issues Confronting China series featuring Ian Johnson — Reclaiming Historical Memory and the Struggle for China’s Future

    CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Ian Johnson, Author; Founder, China Unofficial Archives More information coming soon. Ian Johnson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author, teacher, and researcher. He has been engaged with China for the past thirty-five years, writing on the country’s search for faith and values, as well as efforts to control dissent and history. He was a