Events of Interest
Hidden Air: Urbanization, the Built Environment, and Indoor Air Quality in China
Pierce Hall 100F 29 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Gary Adamkiewicz, Assistant Professor of Environmental Health and Exposure Disparities, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health China’s recent economic growth and rate of urbanization are unprecedented […]
The People’s Liberation Army: Perspectives from the United States and Japan
Speaker: Gen. Yoshikazu Watanabe, Asia Center Fellow; Researcher, Fujitsu System Integration Laboratories, LTD.; Eastern Army Commanding General (Ret.), Japan Ground Self Defense Force Chair: Dr. Andrew S. Erickson, Professor of […]
Ma Ying-jeou: From Harvard Law School to the Presidential Office
Harvard Law School, Austin North (Room 100) 1515 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, United StatesSpeaker: Ma Ying-jeou, S.J.D.‘81, Former President of the Republic of China (Taiwan) Co-sponsored by the East Asian Legal Studies program at the Harvard Law School.
Lawyer Activism in Authoritarian Contexts: The Case of China
Room 102, Pound Hall 1563 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Sida Liu, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Toronto; Faculty Fellow, American Bar Foundation
The Elastic Ceiling: Gender and Professional Career in Chinese Courts
Morgan Courtroom, Austin Hall 1515 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Sida Liu, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Toronto; Faculty Fellow, American Bar Foundation
Introducing the Chinese Text Project
The Chinese Text Project (https://ctext.org) is an online open-access digital library that makes pre-modern Chinese texts available to readers and researchers all around the world. Founder Donald Sturgeon introduces the database.
Harvard-Yenching Insitute Annual Roundtable Discussion: Asian Studies in Asia
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesPanelists: Hirano Kenichiro (Professor Emeritus of Tokyo University and of Waseda University, Executive Director of Toyo Bunko (education and employment)) Park Hyungji (Professor of English Literature, Yonsei University) Wang Hui […]
Environmental Public Interest Litigation in China: Cases and Reform
Austin Hall Room 308 1515 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Barbara Finamore, Senior Attorney and Asia Director, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) On January 1, 2015, amendments to China’s Environmental Protection Law went into effect that would allow an estimated […]
Building Energy Efficiency Regulations in China: Policies and Trends
Pierce Hall 100F 29 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Barbara Finamore, Senior Attorney and Asia Director, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) Abstract: Energy used in buildings is responsible for 30% of China’s CO2 emissions, a percentage that is expected to grow […]
Film Screening: The Eagle Huntress
Harvard Art Museum, Menschel Hall, Lower Level 32 Quincy St, cambridge, MA, United StatesFree admission Cosponsored by the Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies at Harvard University and the Harvard Art Museums
Reporting from China: A Conversation with New York Times Correspondent David Barboza
Speaker: David Barboza, New York Times reporter and 2016 Knight Visiting Nieman Fellow at Harvard's Nieman Foundation Join David Barboza for a discussion about the challenges and opportunities of reporting from China. Prior […]
Establishing the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank: The Lawyer’s View
Speaker: Natalie Lichtenstein, Adjunct Professor of China Studies, Johns Hopkins University; Inaugural General Counsel, AIIB (retired) Chair: Ezra Vogel, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus, Harvard University […]