Speaker: Jinying Li, Brown University As the global digital network promises boundless access to limitless information, we are facing increasing layers of mounting walls in digital media: the Great Firewall (GFW), the Facebook Walls, the virtual walls in virtual realities…. The existence of the walls shatters the myth of an infinitely open, borderless digital space, […]

Speaker: Nicolas Tackett, University of California Berkeley Situated at the epicenter of the “Tang-Song Transition,” the tenth-century interregnum between the Tang and Song dynasties was a period of rapid change. This talk will focus on the dramatic evolution of Chinese political culture, as reflected in new political ideals, new ideas of Chinese space, and a […]

The Harvard-Yenching Library is offering online bibliographic orientation sessions via Zoom to introduce you to the most important resources in Chinese, Japanese and Korean language resources. Register in advance for […]

Speakers: Vera Mironova, Writer; Center Associate, Davis Center Farukh Chariyev, Project Component Manager, NGO “Barqaror Hayot” Rustam Azizi, Deputy Director, Center for Islamic Studies under the President of the Republic of Tajikistan Moderator: Nargis Kassenova, Senior Fellow, Program on Central Asia, Davis Center Around 5,000-10,000 individuals from post-Soviet Eurasia traveled to Syria and Iraq to join […]

Speaker: Bruce Rusk, University of British Columbia This presentation examines the textual existence of material objects in early modern China, arguing that a new concept of the archive refigured the […]

Speaker: Deng Yanhua, Professor, School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Nanjing University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2020-21 Chair/discussant: Anthony Saich, Daewoo Professor of International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School NGOs in rural China cannot […]

Speakers: Lyle Goldstein, Research Professor, China Maritime Studies Institute (CMSI), Naval War College Vitaly Kozyrev, Professor, Political Science and International Studies, Endicott College Watch live on YouTube. Examining contemporary Russia-China relations, assessments by Western scholars yield a wide variety of perspectives and conclusions.  Some view the relationship as inherently brittle, lacking in genuine substance and […]

Speaker: Arnika Fuhrmann, Associate Professor, Department of Asian Studies, Cornell University. What does it mean to imagine “Asia” beyond the reductive visions of contemporary policy? This project explores the contemporary visual culture of Chinese pasts and colonial modernities, revived across the cinemas, new media, hospitality venues, and other material sites of East and Southeast Asia. […]

Speakers: Daniel S. Markey, Senior Research Professor, International Relations, School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), John Hopkins University Andrew Small, Senior Transatlantic Fellow, Asia Program, The German Marshall Fund of the United States Moderator: Nargis Kassenova, Senior Fellow, Program on Central Asia, Davis Center; Associate Professor, KIMEP University Watch live on YouTube. Under the ambitious leadership of President […]