Events

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 States

Speaker: 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 States

Speakers: 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 States

More 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 States

More 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 States

More 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 […]

China’s Future: Navigating Geopolitics in a New Era

Room L-166, Littauer Building 79 JFK St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Speakers:David J. Firestein, President and CEO of the George H. W. Bush Foundation for U.S.-China Relations Andrew S. Erickson, Professor of Strategy, U.S. Naval War College China Maritime Studies Institute; Fairbank Center Visiting Scholar Venue

Daisy Yan Du – Chinese Animation: Multiplicities in Motion

CGIS South, Room S153 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Speaker: 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 […]

Art of Journeys: From Ape Tales to the Monkey King Wukong

Sackler Building, Lower Level 485 Broadway, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

The launch of the hit game, “Black Myth: Wukong,” in August 2024 has sparked renewed interests in the many historical sites that inspired its stunning visuals. In fact, the role that players take on in the game—an anthropomorphic monkey with supernatural abilities—also has many previous incarnations in the history of Chinese and East Asian art […]

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 States

Speaker: 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 States

More 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 States

More 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 States

More 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 […]