Events

River, Governance and Place: Sentiment in The Travels of Lao Can

Speaker: Hsu Hui-Lin,  Associate Professor, Department of Chinese Literature, National Taiwan University; HYI Visiting Scholar Chair/discussant: Karen Thornber Professor of Comparative Literature and of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University   […]

New Noir: Chinese Crime Films

Film noir, as its meaning “black film” or “film of the night” indicates, is an art of darkness. For its connotation of pessimism and menace, crime, especially unsolved ones, has […]

New Noir: Chinese Crime Films

Brattle Theater 40 Brattle St, Cambridge, MA, United States

Film noir, as its meaning “black film” or “film of the night” indicates, is an art of darkness. For its connotation of pessimism and menace, crime, especially unsolved ones, has […]

Huang Yinghong – Compulsory Development: the Ideal Type of Land Acquisition in India and China

Speaker: Huang Yinghong, Associate Professor, School of International Relations, Sun Yat-sen University; HYI Visiting Scholar Chair/discussant: Malcolm McPherson, Senior Research Fellow, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School https://harvard-yenching.org/events/compulsory-development-ideal-type-land-acquisition-india-and-china

East Asian Legal Studies Talk With Professor Curtis Milhaupt

Austin Hall Room 308 1515 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA, United States

Speaker: Curtis J. Milhaupt is the Parker Professor of Comparative Corporate Law and Fuyo Professor of Japanese Law at Columbia Law School. He also serves as the Law School's director of the Parker School of Foreign and Comparative Law and director of the Center for Japanese Legal Studies. He is also a member of Columbia University’s Weatherhead East Asian […]

New Noir: Chinese Crime Films

Brattle Theater 40 Brattle St, Cambridge, MA, United States

Film noir, as its meaning “black film” or “film of the night” indicates, is an art of darkness. For its connotation of pessimism and menace, crime, especially unsolved ones, has been a rare event in Chinese cinema, because it is considered by the authority as an admission to the discontents of life in what is […]

Roderick MacFarquhar – The Rise of Xi Jinping

CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United States

Speaker: Roderick MacFarquhar, Leroy B. Williams Professor of History and Political Science and former Director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. Listen again on the Fairbank Center's podcast:  

Film Series – Aging in Asia

CGIS South Room S354 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United States

Monday, November.13 Old Partner (Korea, 78 min.) Introduced by: Paul Chang, Associate Professor of Sociology, Harvard University Tuesday, November. 14 Baghban (India, 178 min.) Introduced by: Professor Samir Dayal, English and Media Studies, Bentley University Wednesday, November 15 For Fun (Zhao le) (China, 98 min) Introduced by: Haijing Hao, Asia Center Associate; Assistant Professor, Management […]

New Noir: Chinese Crime Films

Brattle Theater 40 Brattle St, Cambridge, MA, United States

Film noir, as its meaning “black film” or “film of the night” indicates, is an art of darkness. For its connotation of pessimism and menace, crime, especially unsolved ones, has been a rare event in Chinese cinema, because it is considered by the authority as an admission to the discontents of life in what is […]