Events of Interest
Michelle Miao – Health Code Apps as Social Control in China: Empirical Findings from the Pandemic
Morgan Courtroom, Austin Hall 1515 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Michelle Miao, Associate Professor of Law, Chinese University of Hong Kong; Fellow, Stanford University Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences Michelle Miao is Associate Professor of Law at Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). Her major areas of research include ethics of technological innovation, comparative law, criminal justice, law and society, and […]
Mitchell Presnick – US-China Business Relations: Past, Present, and Future
Room K354, CGIS Knafel 1737 Cambridge St, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Mitchell Presnick, Visiting Fellow, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Mr. Presnick will lead a fireside chat about his 30 years in China from 1988 - 2019. Topics will include serving on Budweiser’s(百威啤酒) China market entry team, founding the China practice of APCO Worldwide (安可顾问), a Washington, D.C. based global advisory and advocacy firm, founding […]
Racing to Be a Better Race: A Longue Durée History of China’s Toilet Revolution
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Nicole Barnes, Associate Professor of History, Duke University More information: https://scholar.harvard.edu/seow/STinAsia Venue
Film Screening: Yi Yi (A One and a Two …), with introduction by Kalli Peng
Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center 24 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesEdward Yang’s cinematic swan song, released at the turn of the millennium, is a moving tapestry that weaves together the dissolution and reconstitution of the fragile subjectivities in an increasingly […]
Film Screening: A Brighter Summer Day (Guling jie shaonian sharen shijian), with introduction by Kalli Peng
Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center 24 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSimilar to Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s A City of Sadness (1989), A Brighter Summer Day also traces the experiences of a large family during a critical historical epoch in Taiwan. Set in the early 1960s, against the backdrop […]
Film Screening: A Confucian Confusion (Du li shi dai)
Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center 24 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesA satirical comedy with biting wit and a romance that is equally suspicious of and hopeful about love, this film ambitiously negotiates the coexistence of Confucianism with capitalism and democracy. In what […]
Glen S. Fukushima - U.S. Trade Policy, Japan, and China
Morgan Courtroom, Austin Hall 1515 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Glen S. Fukushima, Vice Chair, Securities Investor Protection Corporation; Former Deputy Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Japan and China Glen S. Fukushima was nominated by President Joseph R. Biden […]
Film Screening: Mahjong (Ma jiang)
Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center 24 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesMahjong is a game for four players, and the one who first collects winning sets of tiles wins. But the real game lies not in these rectangular pieces per se, […]
Film Screening: The Terrorizers (Kong bu fen zi)
Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center 24 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesCharacterized as “Yang’s most difficult, intellectually provocative, and structurally challenging film” (John Anderson), Edward Yang’s third feature-length film is a puzzle with immense reverberatory power. The Terrorizers depicts the intertwining of love […]
Dreams from China’s Past: Visions of the Future in Popular Science and Literature Magazines, 1927–1949
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Aaron William Moore, Professor of Asian Studies and Handa Chair of Japanese-Chinese Relations, University of Edinburgh More information: https://scholar.harvard.edu/seow/STinAsia Venue
Curatorial Chat: Central Asian Chronicles Echoes of the Silk Road in Manuscripts and Imagery
Houghton Library Quincy Street & Harvard Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesJoin co-curators Dr. Gülnar Eziz, Preceptor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University, and Isa Youshe, PhD Student, Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies at Harvard University, for a 30-minute guided tour of the Central […]
Film Screening: That Day, on the Beach (Hai tan de yi tian)
Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center 24 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesA renowned young pianist, Tan Ching-Ching (Terry Hu) comes back to Taipei for the first time in thirteen years to give a performance. An old friend, Lin Jia-li (Sylvia Chang), […]