Events

Critical Issues Confronting China Series – This Is Sino Tap: My Life as a Chinese Rock Star

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

Event Summary Speaker: Kaiser Kuo, Sinica Podcast/ChinaFile, former member of the band Tang Dynasty Kaiser previously worked as director for international communications for Chinese search engine Baidu. Before that he was a technology correspondent for Red Herring magazine, and also worked as director of digital strategy, China, for Ogilvy & Mather in Beijing. He used to write a column for the foreigner-focused […]

Critical Issues Confronting China Series – The Progression of Repression: Online Censorship and Physical Repression in China Today

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

Event Summary Speaker: Mary Gallagher, University of Michigan Mary Gallagher is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan, where she is also the Director of the Center for Chinese Studies, and a faculty associate at the Center for Comparative Political Studies at the Institute for Social Research.  Her research areas are Chinese politics, comparative politics […]

Critical Issues Confronting China Series – China Policy Under Trump

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

Read event summary here Dr. Jeffrey Bader, Senior Fellow, John L. Thornton China Center, Brookings Institution Jeffrey Bader is a senior fellow in the John L. Thornton China Center at the Brookings Institution. From 2009 until 2011, Bader was special assistant to the president of the United States for national security affairs at the National […]

Critical Issues Confronting China Series – Behind the Headlines: Rebuilding Fiscal Foundations for Xi Jinping’s Governance Reform

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

Event Summary Speaker: Professor Christine Wong, Director, Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies, University of Melbourne Professor Wong is a leading authority on China's public finance. Her work on public finance, central-local relations and their implications for governance, economic development and welfare in China are widely cited, including several major World Bank studies for which Professor […]

Critical Issues Confronting China Series – China’s Complex Health Care Reform

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

Read event summary here Speaker: Winnie Yip, Harvard University Dr. Winnie Yip is Professor of Global Health Policy and Economics in the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and also Director of the school wide China Health Partnership. Dr. Yip was previously a Professor of Health Policy […]

Critical Issues Confronting China Series – Asia’s Reckoning: China, Japan, and the Fate of U.S. Power in the Pacific Century

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

Event Summary Speaker: Richard McGregor, author of Asia's Reckoning: China, Japan, and the Fate of U.S. Power in the Pacific Century and The Party: The Secret World of China’s Communist Rulers;  former Washington and Beijing Bureau Chief for The Financial Times  

Roderick MacFarquhar – The Rise of Xi Jinping

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

Speaker: Roderick MacFarquhar, Leroy B. Williams Professor of History and Political Science and former Director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. Listen again on the Fairbank Center's podcast:  

Mark Gillette – Security Implications of a More Assertive China

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

Event Summary Speaker: Mark Gillette, Deputy Director for Strategic Planning and Policy, U.S. Pacific Command; formerly Defense Attaché-China, Defense Intelligence Agency

Kevin O’Brien – China’s Disaffected Insiders

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

Event Summary Speaker: Professor Kevin O’Brien, Walter and Elise Haas Professor of Asian Studies; Alann P. Bedford Professor of Asian Studies; Professor of Political Science; Director, Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley