Events of Interest
The Exile and Diplomacy of the 13th Dalai Lama (1904-1912): Tibet’s Encounters with the US and Japan
Speaker: Prof. Kobayashi Ryosuke (Toyo Bunko; HYI Visiting Scholar) Chair/discussant: Prof. Leonard van der Kuijp (Harvard University) Harvard-Yenching Institute Lunch Talk This talk will show how Tibet attempted to participate in the international community around the demise of the Qing Dynasty in 1912 by focusing on its relationships with the US and Japan. The sojourns of […]
Beijing Faces its Periphery: Update on Hong Kong and Taiwan
Speaker: Dr. Richard Bush, Brookings Institution: Senior Fellow, the Richard H. Armacost Chair, the Chen-Fu and Cecilia Yen Koo Chair in Taiwan Studies, Director of the Center for East Asia Policy Studies, and Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, John L. Thornton China Center; former Chairman and Managing Director of the American Institute in Taiwan Critical Issues […]
Competing Air Quality and Water Conservation Co-Benefits from Power Sector Decarbonization in China
Pierce Hall 100F 29 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: PENG Wei, Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School Co-sponsored by the China Project, Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and the Environment and Natural Resources Program, Harvard Kennedy School
The Buddha and the Dragon Princess in the Lotus Sutra — for deciphering the Devadatta frontispiece in the Heike Tokyo set
Speaker: Ryūichi Abé, Harvard University The Heike Nokyo is a sumptuously produced set of Buddhist scriptural handscrolls that was commissioned by the Heike military aristocratic clan and offered to the Goddess of Itsukushima, the clan’s tutelary divinity, in the mid-twelfth century. The set is arguably the most sublime example of illustrated and decorated Buddhist scriptures in Japanese history. The Heike […]
The East-Asian Peace: Can it Last?
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: The Honorable Börje Ljunggren, Former Asia Center Fellow; former Swedish Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China and Vietnam Critical Issues Confronting China Seminar Series; co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Harvard University Asia Center
Long-Term Trend and Spatial Pattern of PM2.5-Induced Premature Mortality in China
Pierce Hall 100F 29 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: WANG Haikun, Associate Professor, School of Environment, Nanjing University Sponsored by the China Project, Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. With rapid economic growth, China has witnessed increasingly frequent and severe haze and smog episodes over the past decade, posing serious health impacts to the Chinese population, especially those in densely populated […]
The Indian Yogācāra Scholar Sthiramati and the Works Attributed to Him
1 Bow St., Room 317 1 Bow St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Jowita Kramer, Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich This paper focuses on the scriptural corpus of Sthiramati, a pivotal scholar in the development of Indian Yogācāra thought in the 6th century. So far Sthiramati’s work has received far less attention from modern scholars than the treatises of other Yogācāra authors like Asaṅga or Vasubandhu—probably because of the perception of Sthiramati as […]
Association for Asian Studies – New England Regional Conference
Boston College 140 Commonwealth Ave, Chestnut Hill, MA, United StatesTraces: Dark Clouds – Special One-Day Photography Exhibition
CGIS South CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker/Photographer: Ian Teh Asia Centers Lounge • First Floor • CGIS South Building This event is part of the Environment in Asia series at the Fairbank Center. Ian Teh is an award-winning […]
Regional Production Networks in East Asia: Origin, Evolution, and Implications
Speaker: Professor Min Shu, Harvard-Yenching Visiting Scholar; Associate Professor of International Economy, Waseda University, Japan Chair: Professor Daniel M. Smith, Department of Government, Harvard University In the past three decades, regional production networks played an increasingly important role in East Asian political economy. Originated from Japan’s industrial policy to ‘export’ its sunset industries, the flow […]
Does Gender Matter? Nuns in a Modern Chan Buddhist Monastery
Center for the Study of World Religions, Common Room 42 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Chin-ning Wang (Changshen Shih), PhD (Dharma Drum Institute), Visiting Lecturer on Women’s Studies and Chinese Religion, Women’s Studies in Religion Program, Harvard Divinity School Lunch will be provided.
The Path to Success and Globalization of HNA Group
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Chen Feng, Chairman, HNA Group