Critical Issues Confronting China

Events Search and Views Navigation

Event Views Navigation

Today

  • Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring David Yang — Laboratories of Autocracy: How China’s Re-centralization Impacted Economic Growth

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

    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 David 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

  • Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Dan Wang — Breakneck: Can China Outcompete the U.S. on Innovation?

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

    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 *** Dan Wang

  • 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

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

    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 Over the past decade, Chinese NGOs gained formal roles in environmental governance through

  • Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Anthony Saich — Through the Past Darkly: Culture and Practice of the Chinese Communist Party 

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

    Speaker: Anthony Saich, Daewoo Professor of International Affairs; Director, Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia, Harvard Kennedy SchoolDiscussant: Rana Mitter, ST Lee Chair in US-Asia Relations, Harvard Kennedy School Little could the founders of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) have known that they were setting in motion one of history’s greatest revolutionary movements. While much has

  • Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Yi Lu — Garbage Time of History? Chinese Archives in the Era of Xi Jinping

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

    Speaker: Yi Lu, Assistant Professor of History, Dartmouth CollegeDiscussant: Daniel Koss, Associate Senior Lecturer on East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University The Chinese internet has recently been captivated by a meme: “the garbage time of history.” The phrase evokes the Soviet Union’s final, suffocating decades to suggest that China, too, has entered an era

  • 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

  • ***NOW TAKING PLACE VIA ZOOM*** Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Courtney Fung — Can China Achieve its UN Ambitions?

    Presented via Zoom

    Speaker: Courtney Fung, Associate Professor, School of International Studies, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia Please note the different day and time for this Critical Issues talk.***DUE TO INCLEMENT WEATHER, THIS LECTURE WILL NOW TAKE PLACE VIA ZOOM WEBINAR***REGISTER AT: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_af-PQxTHQXaRabRNCONE6QChina presents itself as a supporter of ‘true multilateralism,’ with the United Nations as a bedrock institution

  • 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 Discussant: James Robson, James C. Kralik and Yunli Lou Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard College Professor, Harvard University; Director, Harvard-Yenching Institute In his Asian tour in 1920, Bertrand Russell noted the prominence

  • Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Jennifer Lind — Can China’s Smart Authoritarianism Model Win?

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

    Speaker: Jennifer Lind, Associate Professor of Government, Dartmouth University Discussant: Meg Rithmire, James E. Robison Professor of Business Administration, Business, Government, and International Economy Unit, Harvard Business SchoolGreat power competition requires countries to be technological leaders, but an influential literature holds that autocracies, which suppress creativity and information flows, stifle innovation. Many observers of China's

  • 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 Counsel Discussant: Arunabh Ghosh, Professor of History, Harvard UniversityOver the past year, Robert Suettinger has spent much time monitoring domestic politics in the People’s Republic of China, much as he did as an apprentice political-military analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency fifty years

  • Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Dongsheng Zang — China’s Great Leap Forward to AI Supremacy

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

    Speaker: Dongsheng Zang, Professor of Law, University of Washington School of LawModerator: Feng Zhu, MBA Class of 1958 Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business SchoolThe talk aims to provide a framework in understanding China's industrial policy on artificial intelligence (AI) in the last decade, 2016-2026. It examines the AI policy from the perspective of state-industry

  • 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 Discussant: Michael Szonyi, Frank Wen-Hsiung Wu Memorial Professor of Chinese History; Former Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University 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