Environment
China’s Anthropogenic Methane Emissions: A Review of Current Bottom-Up Inventories
Pierce Hall 100F 29 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Prof. Zhang Bo, Visiting Scholar, Harvard-China Project; Associate Professor, State Key Laboratory of Coal Resources and Safe Mining, China University of Mining & Technology (Beijing) Methane (CH4) is the second ranking […]
Thomas DuBois: China’s Dairy Century – Making, Drinking and Dreaming of Milk
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Thomas DuBois, Modern China Historian China’s dairy industry has of late become big news. A country that few would have instinctively associated with milk has emerged as the world’s […]
Tyler Harlan – Small Hydropower and the Low-Carbon Frontier in China
Pierce Hall 100F 29 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Tyler Harlan, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Geography, University of California, Los Angeles Since the 1950s, the Chinese government has used small hydropower (SHP) to drive rural electrification and local economic […]
Prasenjit Duara – Spiritual Ecologies: Sustainability and Transcendence in Contemporary Asia
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Prasenjit Duara, Oscar Tang Professor of East Asian Studies, Duke University The crisis of global modernity has been produced by human overreach that was founded upon a paradigm of national modernization. Today, […]
Film Screening of “Plastic China” and Q&A with Director Wang Jiuliang
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesAfter the screening, Director Wang Jiuliang will attend via Skype for a Q&A with the audience moderated by Professor Zhang Ling of Boston College and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. […]
Jennifer Rudolph and Michael Szonyi – The Coop Event Series/ “The China Questions” Book Launch
Harvard Coop 1400 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA, United StatesJoin the editors and contributors to The China Questions for a book launch at the Harvard Coop's Event Series. Many books offer information about China, but few make sense of what is […]
Those Waters Giving Way
An overview of Michael Cherney’s artistic process and recent works. The art combines photography with the subject matter, aesthetics, materials and formats traditionally associated with classical Chinese painting, which allows […]
Liu Zhenya – The Art of Energy Revolution: From Ultra High Voltage Power Grids to Global Energy Interconnection
Milstein East B/C, Wasserstein Hall 1585 Mass Ave., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Liu Zhenya, Former Chairman and President of State Grid Corporation of China; Chairman of Global Energy Interconnection Development and Cooperation Organization (GEIDCO) Mr. Liu formerly served as the Chairman […]
Workshop: Chinese Food: Culture, Economy, and Ecology
CGIS South CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesPart of the Fairbank Center's "Environment in Asia" series April 27, 8:30am-6:30pm, CGIS South Room S153 April 28, 8:30am-3:30pm, CGIS South Room S250 Organizer: Ling Zhang (Boston College); Elizabeth Lord […]
The Arnold Arboretum and China: A Century-Old Partnership
Weld Hill Research Building 1300 Centre St., Boston, MA, United StatesSurrounded by our Bonsai & Penjing collection, enjoy cocktails and hors d'oeuvres as you view Professor Yin Kaipu's (Chengdu Institute of Biology) photographs which document a century of environmental change. […]
From Eco-Threat to Green Leader: Narratives of China’s Environment
Speaker: Elizabeth Lord, An Wang Postdoctoral Fellow, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies This talk aims to unpack dominant narratives about China’s environment, including the discourse of crisis, the idea that growth brings environmental protection and the potential that China can act as an environmental ‘vanguard’ at the international level. By analyzing how each of these […]
Gufran Beig – Anatomy of Extreme Pollution Event in a Megacity: Delhi
Pierce Hall 100F 29 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Gufran Beig, Project Director, System of Air Quality Forecasting and Research, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India; Fellow, Indian Academy of Sciences; World […]