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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Jeffrey Wasserstrom — Hong Kong 2025: Competing Visions of a City's Past\, Present\, and Future
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Jeffrey Wasserstrom\, Distinguished Professor of History\, UC IrvineDiscussant: Moira Weigel\, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature\, Harvard University  \n\n\n\nIn 2015\, a group of Hong Kong filmmakers made an anthology film called “Ten Years\,” made up of dystopian vignettes set in a dramatically transformed city one decade in the future. Now that 2025 has arrived\, while everyone agrees that Hong Kong has changed a lot\, some see the film as having proved prophetic but supporters of the Chinese Communist Party in the city itself and in Beijing insist that the metropolis has in fact been moving in a positive direction. This talk will bring in three kinds of comparisons to try to place the debate about today’s Hong Kong\, and the dilemmas the CCP has long faced and continues to face in dealing with the city and its discontents\, into perspective. It will ask what we can learn from looking at developments in Macau and Singapore in the recent past and in Shanghai circa 1950\, back when that port was the most important urban center shaped by cosmopolitan and capitalist currents that the Party was striving to integrate fully into the PRC. \n\n\n\nJeffrey Wasserstrom is a Distinguished Professor of History at UC Irvine. Along with publishing in academic journals\, he often writes for general interest periodicals\, ranging from the New York Times and the Atlantic to the TLS\, and he is on the editorial boards of two of them: Dissent Magazine and the Los Angeles Review of Books. His most recent books are a pair of interrelated short ones published by Columbia Global Reports–Vigil: Hong Kong on the Brink (2020) and The Milk Tea Alliance: Inside Asia’s Struggle Against Autocracy and Beijing (2025).  \n\n\n\nWasserstrom was educated at UC Santa Cruz (B.A. in History)\, Harvard (Masters in Regional Studies: East Asia)\, and Berkeley (PhD in HIstory)\, and he is a past editor of the Journal of Asian Studies (2008-2018) and a past member of the advisory board of the Hong Kong International Literary Festival. He will have a new book out in February from Brixton Ink\, which is a short primer on the era of Xi Jinping: Everything You Wanted to Know About China* (But Were Afraid to Ask). He is now working on a book about Orwell and Asia that is under contract with the trade division of Princeton University Press. \n\n\n\nMoira Weigel is an Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature in the Harvard University Department of Comparative Literature and a Faculty Associate of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. She was a Junior Fellow at Harvard University and a Sociotechnical Security Fellow at the Data and Society Research Institute. She writes and teaches about the history\, theory\, and social life of media and communication technologies\, from the early 19th century to the present. \n\n\n\nHer first book\, Labor of Love: The Invention of Dating (2016\, Macmillan)\, countered widespread claims that the rise of mobile phones and apps were bringing about the “death of romance\,” showing that modern courtship practices have consistently coevolved with consumer capitalism and gendered work.  Labor of Love has been translated into six languages and appeared in dozens of outlets including The New Yorker\, The New York Times\, The Economist\, The Washington Post\, The Atlantic\, The Guardian\, The Wall Street Journal\, NPR\, CNN\, and  HBO. \n\n\n\nHer current recent research focuses on transnational online marketplaces such as Amazon and eBay and China’s “four little dragons” (四小龍): Alibaba\, Shein\, Temu\, and TikTok. She notes that despite tech competition\, cross-border e-commerce (跨境電商) has made ordinary people in China and the U.S. ever more closely entangled. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-featuring-jeffrey-wasserstrom-hong-kong-2025-competing-visions-of-a-citys-past-present-and-future/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China,Critical Issues Confronting China Series
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Zenobia Chan — The Influence Game: What Does China Really Want?
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Zenobia T. Chan\, Assistant Professor\, Department of Government\, Georgetown UniversityMore information coming soon! \n\n\n\nProfessor Chan is a researcher in international relations\, focusing on economic statecraft\, as well as influence and information operations. I also develop machine learning methods for estimating heterogeneous treatment effects in experimental and observational data. \n\n\n\nHer book project Alms and Influence examines when economic inducements — such as foreign aid\, large-scale investment initiatives\, and discounted sales of natural resources — can buy influence abroad. She holds a PhD in Politics from Princeton and has taught at Columbia\, Georgetown\, Oxford\, Princeton\, and the Institute for Qualitative and Multi-Method Research (IQMR). She also led an analytics team at Google and worked at the United Nations\, World Bank\, and OECD on development assistance\, infrastructure financing\, and industrial policy. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-featuring-zenobia-chan/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China,Critical Issues Confronting China Series
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring David Yang — Laboratories of Autocracy: How China’s Re-centralization Impacted Economic Growth
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: David Yang\, Yvonne P. L. Lui Professor of Economics\, Harvard UniversityDiscussant: Anthony Saich\, Daewoo Professor of International Affairs; Director\, Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia\, Harvard Kennedy School \n\n\n\nDavid Y. Yang is a Professor in the Department of Economics at Harvard University and Director of the Center for History and Economics at Harvard. David is a Faculty Research Fellow at NBER\, a Global Scholar at CIFAR\, and a fellow at BREAD. David’s research focuses on political economy. In particular\, David studies the forces of stability and forces of changes in authoritarian regimes\, drawing lessons from historical and contemporary China. David received a B.A. in Statistics and B.S. in Business Administration from University of California at Berkeley\, and PhD in Economics from Stanford.A part of Harvard Worldwide Week \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-featuring-david-yang-laboratories-of-autocracy-how-chinas-re-centralization-impacted-economic-growth/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China,Critical Issues Confronting China Series
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Dan Wang — Breakneck: Can China Outcompete the U.S. on Innovation?
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dan Wang\, Hoover InstitutionDiscussants: Susan Greenhalgh\, John King and Wilma Cannon Fairbank Research Professor of Chinese Society Emerita\, Department of Anthropology\, Harvard UniversityMark Wu\, Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law\, Harvard Law School; Director\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard University***PLEASE NOTE DIFFERENT START TIME FOR THIS CRITICAL ISSUES CONFRONTING CHINA SERIES TALK *** \n\n\n\nDan Wang is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution\, Stanford University\, in its Hoover History Lab and is one of the most-cited experts on China’s technological capabilities. He is the author of the forthcoming Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future (W. W. Norton [US] and Penguin [UK]\, Fall 2025). \n\n\n\nWang was previously a fellow at the Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center and a lecturer at Yale University’s MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies. From 2017 to 2023\, he worked in China as the technology analyst at Gavekal Dragonomics\, based in Hong Kong\, Beijing\, and then Shanghai. \n\n\n\nWhile based in China\, Wang covered the web of US tech restrictions; their impact on leading companies; and the country’s growing capabilities in semiconductors\, clean technology\, and advanced manufacturing. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-featuring-dan-wang/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China,Critical Issues Confronting China Series
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Yanmei Lin — The Fire Alarm and the Iron Hand: Civil Society’s Place in China’s Environmental Rule of Law
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Yanmei Lin\, Professor of Law\, Vermont Law and Graduate SchoolDiscussant: William P. Alford\, Jerome A. and Joan L. Cohen Professor of East Asian Legal Studies; Director of East Asian Legal Studies; Chair\, Harvard Law School Project on Disability\, Harvard Law School \n\n\n\nOver the past decade\, Chinese NGOs gained formal roles in environmental governance through public interest litigations\, access-to-information requests\, and participation in legal processes. That space is narrowing today. A more centralized political climate\, the expanded authority of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment\, increased prosecutorial control\, and campaign-style enforcement have reasserted central state power. Drawing on cases like Friends of Nature v. State Grid Co. and the Green Peacock case\, this lecture explores how civil society actors continue to adapt\, influence\, and navigate in a shifting political landscape\, raising open questions about what forms of engagement remain viable\, and what strategies still make a difference. \n\n\n\nYanmei Lin is Acting Director of the Maverick Lloyd School for the Environment and Professor of Law at Vermont Law and Graduate School\, where she also serves as Deputy Director of the U.S.-Asia Partnerships for Environmental Law. Her work focuses on comparative environmental rule of law and the role of civil society. She has supported environmental strategic litigation\, public interest legal networks\, environmental damages and compensation system’s legislative reform and community legal empowerment initiatives in collaboration with environmental NGOs\, legal clinics\, judicial institutions and academic partners in the region. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-featuring-yanmei-lin/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China,Critical Issues Confronting China Series
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