Speaker: Lin Chaochao, Department of History, Fudan University; HYI Visiting Scholar Chair/discussant: Elizabeth Perry, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government, Harvard University; Director, Harvard-Yenching Institute The year 1949 marked a watershed in Chinese working-class history. With rapid industrialization, the policy inclination of the state brought great changes to all aspects of the working-class: their size and […]

Speaker: Li Zheng, Executive Vice President, Institute for Climate Change and Sustainable Development, Tsinghua University; Professor, Department of Energy and Power Engineering, Tsinghua University Presented via Zoom Registration Required Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwsdeGopj4oHtFVDnYKTCpu9EiOozMH7rFi

Speakers: Sophie Richardson, Human Rights Watch Thor Halvorssen, President, Human Rights Foundation Irwin Cotler, Raoul Wallenberg Center Gregory Niemeyer, University Of California, Berkeley Chris Coons, US Senator, Delaware Martha Minow, Former Dean, Harvard Law School Join Rayhan Asat (Harvard Law School ‘16) in commemorating the fifth anniversary of her brother Ekpar’s imprisonment by the Chinese […]

Speaker: Sarah Laursen, Alan J. Dworsky Associate Curator of Chinese Art, Harvard Art Museum The Harvard Art Museums’ database identifies over 6,600 objects in the collection as “Chinese.” But are they really? At least one third of China’s dynastic history—from its unification by the first emperor in 221 BCE until the fall of the Qing […]

The Harvard-Yenching Library is offering virtual bibliographic orientation sessions via Zoom to introduce you to the most important Chinese language resources. Presented via Zoom Registration Required Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUvc--oqzIqGdxB4YY7w9_4_JRVcTfeHNBh

Panelists: Lawrence H. Summers, Charles W. Eliot University Professor and President Emeritus at Harvard University; Former Secretary of the Treasury; Former Director of the National Economic Council Kevin Rudd, 26th Prime Minister of Australia; President and CEO of Asia Society; President of Asia Society Policy Institute; Chairman of International Peace Institute Jin Liqun, President and […]

Speaker: Teng Fei, Associate Professor in the Institute of Energy, Environment, and Economy at Tsinghua University; Deputy Director of the Berkeley-Tsinghua Joint Research Center on Energy and Climate Change Teng Fei's research interests include climate policy, international climate regimes, consumer behavior in energy consumption, and energy modeling. He is also a lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate […]