Critical Issues Confronting China Series
Dwight Perkins – How to Measure China’s Economic Reform
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesRead event summary here Speaker: Dwight Perkins, Harvard University Dwight H. Perkins is the Harold Hitchings Burbank Research Professor of Political Economy of Harvard University, where he joined the faculty in 1963. Previous positions at Harvard include Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy, 1963-2006; Associate Director of the Fairbank Center, 1973-1977; chairman of the […]
Diana Fu: Mobilizing Without the Masses
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesRead event summary here Speaker: Dr. Diana Fu, University of Toronto Diana Fu is assistant professor of Asian politics. Her research examines the relationship between popular contention, state power, and civil society […]
Edward Cunningham – Elite Philanthropy in the US and China: What Does the Data Tell Us?
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesRead event summary here Speaker: Dr. Edward A. Cunningham, Harvard Kennedy School Edward Cunningham is Director of Ash Center China Programs and of the Asia Energy and Sustainability Initiative at Harvard Kennedy School. He is also an Adjunct Lecturer of Public Policy, focusing on energy markets and governance, international economics and competitiveness, the political economy of development, and China’s integration into […]
Wu Xinbo – Managing growing and expanding competition between China and the U.S.
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesRead event summary here Speaker: Wu Xinbo, Professor & Director Center for American Studies Dean Institute of International Studies Fudan University Dr. Wu is Professor and Dean, Institute of International Studies, […]
David Shambaugh – Power Shift? America and China in Southeast Asia
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesRead event summary here Speaker: David Shambaugh, George Washington University Professor Shambaugh is an internationally recognized authority and author on contemporary China and the international relations of Asia, with a strong […]
David Barboza – Business and the State
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesRead event summary here Speaker: David Barboza - The New York Times
Leta Hong Fincher – The Feminist Awakening in China
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesRead the event summary here Speaker: Leta Hong Fincher, Author Listen to Leta Hong Fincher's podcast interview with the Fairbank Center's "Harvard on China" podcast: Read and download the transcript […]
Frank Lavin – Is China ready for the international major leagues?
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesRead the event summary here Speaker: Ambassador Frank Lavin, CEO of Export Now
Tony Saich – Xi’s Policy Challenges: Some Questions for Discussion
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesRead the event summary here Speaker: Tony Saich, Harvard Kennedy School
Andrew Mertha – Externalizing Fragmented Authoritarianism: Using History to Anticipate Challenges for Belt and Road
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesRead the event summary here Speaker: Andrew Mertha, George and Sadie Hyman Professor and Director of China Studies at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins […]
William Overholt – Myths in Sino-American Relations
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesRead the event summary here Speaker: William Overholt, President, Fung Global Institute; Senior Research Fellow Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University Much of U.S. policy toward China is being driven by fundamental misunderstandings of China political structure, the pressures on it, its economic challenges, and the […]
John Osburg – Consuming Belief: Han Chinese Practitioners of Tibetan Buddhism in the PRC
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesRead the summary here Speaker: John Osburg, University of Rochester