Events of Interest
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Fox’s Spirit under Tiger’s Might: The Struggles for Identity and Integration among the Hakka Community in Southern Vietnam
Fox’s Spirit under Tiger’s Might: The Struggles for Identity and Integration among the Hakka Community in Southern Vietnam
Speaker: Nguyen Ngoc Tho, Advanced Researcher, Faculty of Cultural Studies, University of Social Science and Humanities, Vietnam National University-Ho Chi Minh City; HYI Visiting Scholar Chair/discussant: Robert Weller, Professor, Department of Anthropology, […]
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After the Chinese Communist Party Congress: Where does China go from here?
After the Chinese Communist Party Congress: Where does China go from here?
The CCP Congress scheduled on 18th October 2017 was one of the most important domestic political events in China, showcasing its leadership transition. The panel will discuss the future of China […]
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Exhibition Opening and Panel Discussion – Black and Red Revolution: Dazibao and Woodcuts from 1960s China
Exhibition Opening and Panel Discussion – Black and Red Revolution: Dazibao and Woodcuts from 1960s China
哈佛费正清中国研究中心的大字报特展 Join the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies for a panel discussion and reception to celebrate the launch of our new exhibition of Cultural Revolution-era artworks. The exhibition will be on […]
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New Noir: Chinese Crime Films
New Noir: Chinese Crime Films
Film noir, as its meaning “black film” or “film of the night” indicates, is an art of darkness. For its connotation of pessimism and menace, crime, especially unsolved ones, has […]
New Noir: Chinese Crime Films
New Noir: Chinese Crime Films
Film noir, as its meaning “black film” or “film of the night” indicates, is an art of darkness. For its connotation of pessimism and menace, crime, especially unsolved ones, has […]
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Huang Yinghong – Compulsory Development: the Ideal Type of Land Acquisition in India and China
Huang Yinghong – Compulsory Development: the Ideal Type of Land Acquisition in India and China
Speaker: Huang Yinghong, Associate Professor, School of International Relations, Sun Yat-sen University; HYI Visiting Scholar Chair/discussant: Malcolm McPherson, Senior Research Fellow, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School https://harvard-yenching.org/events/compulsory-development-ideal-type-land-acquisition-india-and-china
East Asian Legal Studies Talk With Professor Curtis Milhaupt
East Asian Legal Studies Talk With Professor Curtis Milhaupt
Speaker: Curtis J. Milhaupt is the Parker Professor of Comparative Corporate Law and Fuyo Professor of Japanese Law at Columbia Law School. He also serves as the Law School's director of the Parker School of Foreign and Comparative Law and director of the Center for Japanese Legal Studies. He is also a member of Columbia University’s Weatherhead East Asian […]
New Noir: Chinese Crime Films
New Noir: Chinese Crime Films
Film noir, as its meaning “black film” or “film of the night” indicates, is an art of darkness. For its connotation of pessimism and menace, crime, especially unsolved ones, has been a rare event in Chinese cinema, because it is considered by the authority as an admission to the discontents of life in what is […]
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Roderick MacFarquhar – The Rise of Xi Jinping
Roderick MacFarquhar – The Rise of Xi Jinping
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:
Film Series – Aging in Asia
Film Series – Aging in Asia
Monday, November.13 Old Partner (Korea, 78 min.) Introduced by: Paul Chang, Associate Professor of Sociology, Harvard University Tuesday, November. 14 Baghban (India, 178 min.) Introduced by: Professor Samir Dayal, English and Media Studies, Bentley University Wednesday, November 15 For Fun (Zhao le) (China, 98 min) Introduced by: Haijing Hao, Asia Center Associate; Assistant Professor, Management […]
New Noir: Chinese Crime Films
New Noir: Chinese Crime Films
Film noir, as its meaning “black film” or “film of the night” indicates, is an art of darkness. For its connotation of pessimism and menace, crime, especially unsolved ones, has been a rare event in Chinese cinema, because it is considered by the authority as an admission to the discontents of life in what is […]
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Tyler Harlan – Small Hydropower and the Low-Carbon Frontier in China
Tyler Harlan – Small Hydropower and the Low-Carbon Frontier in China
Speaker: 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 […]
Film Series – Aging in Asia
Film Series – Aging in Asia
Monday, November.13 Old Partner (Korea, 78 min.) Introduced by: Paul Chang, Associate Professor of Sociology, Harvard University Tuesday, November. 14 Baghban (India, 178 min.) Introduced by: Professor Samir Dayal, English […]
New Noir: Chinese Crime Films
New Noir: Chinese Crime Films
Film noir, as its meaning “black film” or “film of the night” indicates, is an art of darkness. For its connotation of pessimism and menace, crime, especially unsolved ones, has […]
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Maria Repnikova – Media Politics in China: Improvising Power under Authoritarianism
Maria Repnikova – Media Politics in China: Improvising Power under Authoritarianism
Join us for a discussion with Maria Repnikova, Assistant Professor Communication at Georgia State University and author of, "Media Politics in China: Improvising Power under Authoritarianism." Ash Center Director Tony Saich will […]
Film Series – Aging in Asia
Film Series – Aging in Asia
Monday, November.13 Old Partner (Korea, 78 min.) Introduced by: Paul Chang, Associate Professor of Sociology, Harvard University Tuesday, November. 14 Baghban (India, 178 min.) Introduced by: Professor Samir Dayal, English […]
Prasenjit Duara – Spiritual Ecologies: Sustainability and Transcendence in Contemporary Asia
Prasenjit Duara – Spiritual Ecologies: Sustainability and Transcendence in Contemporary Asia
Speaker: 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, […]
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David Palmer & Elijah Siegler – Enchanting Huashan in the Global Spiritual Circuit: Intersecting Modes of Making Sacred Space
David Palmer & Elijah Siegler – Enchanting Huashan in the Global Spiritual Circuit: Intersecting Modes of Making Sacred Space
Speakers: David Palmer, University of Hong Kong Elijah Siegler, College of Charleston This talk is based on the newly released book Dream Trippers (University of Chicago Press), a multi-sited ethnographic study of […]
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Film Screening of “Plastic China” and Q&A with Director Wang Jiuliang
Film Screening of “Plastic China” and Q&A with Director Wang Jiuliang
After 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. […]
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Xu Jian – The Legendary Yelang State in Southwest China, What, Where and by Whom? Rethinking the roles of historical writing and archaeology in reconstructing ancient history
Xu Jian – The Legendary Yelang State in Southwest China, What, Where and by Whom? Rethinking the roles of historical writing and archaeology in reconstructing ancient history
Speaker: Xu Jian, Professor of Archaeology and Art history, Department of History, Sun Yat-sen University; HYI Visiting Scholar Chair/discussant: Rowan Flad, John E. Hudson Professor of Archaeology, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University […]
Jie Li – Gained in Translation: The Reception of Foreign Films in the Mao Era
Jie Li – Gained in Translation: The Reception of Foreign Films in the Mao Era
Speaker: Jie Li, Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University Discussant: Professor Carter Eckert, Yoon Se Young Professor of Korean History, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, […]
Asia Responds to Trump in Asia
Asia Responds to Trump in Asia
Listen again on the Fairbank Center's podcast: Chair: Karen Thornber, Victor and William Fung Director, Harvard University Asia Center; Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and of Comparative Literature, […]
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