Events of Interest
Layered Taiwan: Interwoven Pasts and Multiple Futures
Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University 121 Bay State Rd, Boston, Massachusetts, United StatesModerated by Robert Weller, Boston University Department of Anthropology Program Schedule9:00 AM Morning Opening Reception 9:15 AM Welcoming Remarks from BUCSA Director Robert Hefner9:20 AM Welcoming Remarks by TECO-Boston Education Director Cynthia Huang9:25 AM Opening Remarks by Rob Weller and Daigengna Duoer, Overview of the conference theme & Q&A format9:30 AM Lung-chih Chang, Director, National […]
Trump’s U.S., Xi’s China, and Our Future: An Evening with the Award-Winning Creators of Face-Off: The U.S. vs China
CGIS Knafel, K050 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeakers: Jane Perlez, Former Beijing Bureau Chief, The New York Times Rana Mitter, S.T. Lee Chair in U.S.-Asia Relations, Harvard Kennedy School Mia Lobel, Executive Producer, Face-Off: U.S. vs China Frank Zhou ’26, Associate Producer, Face-Off: U.S. vs China Curious what China's rise means for you as a young American or international student? Want an […]
Rong Ma — Powering a Just Transition: The Impacts of Place-Based Solar Expansion in Rural China
Pierce Hall Room 301 29 Oxford St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Rong Ma, Associate Professor, China Agricultural University; Alumnus (Visiting Fellow) and Collaborator, Harvard-China Project This paper examines a solar subsidy program in China designed to alleviate poverty among rural households in the country’s most impoverished regions through solar resource development. The empirical findings indicate a substantial increase in firm entry in treated villages, accompanied […]
Reading Sinophone Women Writers
Plimpton Room (133), Barker Center 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeakers: Li Zishu 黎紫書Lu Pin 鹿苹Lin Zhao 林棹Dorothy Tse 謝曉虹Moderators:David Der-wei Wang, Harvard UniversityMingwei Song, Wellesley CollegeDingru Huang, Tufts University Venue
Film Screening: Wang Bing’s Youth Trilogy – Youth (Spring) Qingchun
Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center 24 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesMore than two decades after making his monumental West of the Tracks (2002), documentary auteur Wang Bing (b. 1967) has released a new cinematic fresco of Chinese workers. Whereas his debut work memorializes the declining Socialist industrial complex in Northeast China and its aging employees, the Youth trilogy chronicles the plights of young migrant workers […]
Film Screening: Wang Bing’s Youth Trilogy – Youth (Hard Times) Qingchun: Ku
Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center 24 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesMore than two decades after making his monumental West of the Tracks (2002), documentary auteur Wang Bing (b. 1967) has released a new cinematic fresco of Chinese workers. Whereas his debut work memorializes the declining Socialist industrial complex in Northeast China and its aging employees, the Youth trilogy chronicles the plights of young migrant workers […]
Film Screening: Wang Bing’s Youth Trilogy – Youth (Homecoming) Qingchun: Gui
Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center 24 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesMore than two decades after making his monumental West of the Tracks (2002), documentary auteur Wang Bing (b. 1967) has released a new cinematic fresco of Chinese workers. Whereas his debut work memorializes the declining Socialist industrial complex in Northeast China and its aging employees, the Youth trilogy chronicles the plights of young migrant workers […]
Daisy Yan Du – Chinese Animation: Multiplicities in Motion
Room S030, CGIS South 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Daisy Yan Du, Associate Professor, Division of Humanities, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Moderator: Alexander Zahlten, Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University Registration appreciated for planning purposes. Chinese Animation: Multiplicities in Motion is the first edited volume that explores the multiple histories, geographies, industries, technologies, media, and transmedialities of Chinese animation, from early animated special […]
Indigenous Narrative: The Dynamic Biographies of gShen-rab Mi-bo, Founder of the Tibetan Bon Religion
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Konchok Tsering, Assistant Professor, School for Tibetan Studies, Minzu University of China; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2024-25 Chair/Discussant: Janet Gyatso, Hershey Professor of Buddhist Studies, Harvard University This talk delves into the transformation of gShen-rab Mi-bo’s life stories within the Tibetan Bon religion, examining three significant texts: mDo ‘dus, mdo gzer mig, and mdo dri med gzi brjid. Each […]
Film Screening: Wang Bing’s Youth Trilogy – Youth (Homecoming) Qingchun: Gui
Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center 24 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesMore than two decades after making his monumental West of the Tracks (2002), documentary auteur Wang Bing (b. 1967) has released a new cinematic fresco of Chinese workers. Whereas his debut work memorializes the declining Socialist industrial complex in Northeast China and its aging employees, the Youth trilogy chronicles the plights of young migrant workers […]
Film Screening: Wang Bing’s Youth Trilogy – Youth (Hard Times) Qingchun: Ku
Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center 24 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesMore than two decades after making his monumental West of the Tracks (2002), documentary auteur Wang Bing (b. 1967) has released a new cinematic fresco of Chinese workers. Whereas his debut work memorializes the declining Socialist industrial complex in Northeast China and its aging employees, the Youth trilogy chronicles the plights of young migrant workers […]
Film Screening: Wang Bing’s Youth Trilogy – Youth (Spring) Qingchun
Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center 24 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesMore than two decades after making his monumental West of the Tracks (2002), documentary auteur Wang Bing (b. 1967) has released a new cinematic fresco of Chinese workers. Whereas his debut work memorializes the declining Socialist industrial complex in Northeast China and its aging employees, the Youth trilogy chronicles the plights of young migrant workers […]