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Urban China Series featuring Yang Zhan – “Keep Moving, Little Bees!”: Real Estate Promotion and the Financial Roots of Urban Precariousness in China
Urban China Series featuring Yang Zhan – “Keep Moving, Little Bees!”: Real Estate Promotion and the Financial Roots of Urban Precariousness in China
Speaker: Yang Zhan, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology, The Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityDevelopers in China’s real estate industry organize temporary workers, or “little bees,” to promote sales. Most developers rely on high-interest loans, and must repay their creditors as quick as possible to keep the chain of funding intact, reduce risk, and secure profits. Thus, […]
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Film Screenings – The Face of Time: Recent Films by Tsai Ming-Liang
Rare and valuable is the filmmaker who expands one’s conception of the cinematic art; rarer still is the filmmaker who enlarges one’s notion of the term “director.” Malaysian-born, Taiwan-based auteur Tsai Ming-liang (b. 1957) accomplished the former with his rigorous, uncompromising and reputation-defining features of the nineties and early 2000s, and ever since his self-declared […]
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Navigating Asia: Interdisciplinary Conversations in Honor of Ezra Vogel
This conference is organized to honor and celebrate the late Professor Ezra Vogel’s role as the inaugural Director of the Harvard Asia Center and his commitment to transnational scholarship. Day 1: Friday, October 14, 2022 4:00-5:00pm Welcome:James Robson (Victor and William Fung Director, Harvard Asia Center; James C. Kralik and Yunli Lou Professor, Department of East Asian Languages […]
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Urban China Series featuring Toby Lincoln – Out of the Rubble of World War II: Reconstruction in China in Comparative Perspective
Urban China Series featuring Toby Lincoln – Out of the Rubble of World War II: Reconstruction in China in Comparative Perspective
Speaker: Toby Lincoln, Associate Professor of Chinese Urban History, Centre for Urban History, University of Leicester.This paper explores urban reconstruction in China after WWII, and argues that this was more successful than is normally thought, especially when compared with other countries similarly devastated by war. With a particular focus on Changsha, which probably suffered more […]
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The United States Indo-Pacific Strategy: A Conversation with Assistant Secretary of State Daniel J. Kritenbrink
The United States Indo-Pacific Strategy: A Conversation with Assistant Secretary of State Daniel J. Kritenbrink
Speaker: Daniel J. Kritenbrink, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Please join the Asia-Pacific Initiative and Future of Diplomacy Project for a conversation with Daniel J. Kritenbrink, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs. The Assistant Secretary will deliver remarks on the Biden Administration's Indo-Pacific Strategy, followed by a […]
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Chia-Ling Wu – Making Multiple Babies: The Anticipatory Governance of Assisted Reproduction in Japan and Taiwan
Chia-Ling Wu – Making Multiple Babies: The Anticipatory Governance of Assisted Reproduction in Japan and Taiwan
Speaker: Chia-Ling Wu, Professor, National Taiwan University Venue
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LGBTQ Rights Advocacy in China: Status and Challenges
LGBTQ Rights Advocacy in China: Status and Challenges
Speakers:Yanhui Peng, Former Director, LGBT Rights Advocacy ChinaZhijun Hu, Founder, China’s Parents, Family, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG)Wei Wei, Professor of Sociology, East China Normal University; Visiting Scholar, Harvard-Yenching Institute If 5% of the population are members of the LGBTQ community, China’s LGBTQ population reaches at least 70 million. Over the past two […]
Hopkins-Nanjing Center Open House
Hopkins-Nanjing Center Open House
The Johns Hopkins University Hopkins-Nanjing Center will hold an information session for students interested in graduate study in China. Madeline Satin, Assistant Director of Admissions at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, will be visiting to speak about the Hopkins-Nanjing Center's graduate programs. To schedule a one-on-one appointment or admissions interview with her, visit […]
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Panel Discussion – Lu Xun and World Literature: The Task of Translation
Panel Discussion – Lu Xun and World Literature: The Task of Translation
Panelists: Eileen Cheng, Pomona CollegeDavid Damrosch, Harvard UniversityTheodore Huters, University of California Los AngelesYing Hu, University of California - IrvineModerator:David Wang, Harvard University Venue
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