Events of Interest
Zhang Changhong – A Shift in Buddhist Iconography between the 8th and 12th Century: Rock Carvings and Mandala Murals in Eastern and Western Tibet
Speaker: Zhang Changhong, Palace Museum, Beijing; HYI Coordinate Research Scholar Chair: Leonard van der Kuijp, Harvard University https://harvard-yenching.org/events/shift-buddhist-iconography-between-8th-and-12th-century-rock-carvings-and-mandala-murals
Reporting on Asia – A Discussion with Four Nieman Fellows
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeakers: Glenda M. Gloria, Managing Editor and Co-Founder of Rappler, Philippines social news network Shalini Singh, Features Reporter, New Delhi, India; former reporter for The Week and the Hindustan Times; […]
Gao Xiaosong – The Story of a Private Library in Contemporary China
Speaker: Gao Xiaosong, Director, Za Library, Beijing, China Moderator: Xiaofei Tian, Professor of Chinese Literature, EALC, Harvard Mr. Gao Xiaosong 高曉松, director of Za shu guan 雜書館, will speak on the Za […]
Dwight Perkins – How to Measure China’s Economic Reform
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesRead event summary here Speaker: Dwight Perkins, Harvard University Dwight H. Perkins is the Harold Hitchings Burbank Research Professor of Political Economy of Harvard University, where he joined the faculty […]
Hongtu Chen – The Aging Population in China and the Development of the Care Workforce
Speaker: Dr. Hongtu Chen, Associate, Harvard University Asia Center; Assistant Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School Chair: Professor Arthur Kleinman, Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology, Harvard […]
Manoranjan Mohanty – China’s Transformation: The Success Story and the Success Trap
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Prof. Manoranjan Mohanty, Council for Social Development, New Delhi Chair: Prof. Elizabeth Perry, Harvard University/Harvard-Yenching Institute The book provides insights into the economic and social transformation that China has undergone from 1979 […]
William Overholt – Book Talk: “China’s Crisis of Success”
Harvard Coop 1400 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: William Overholt, Senior Fellow, Harvard University Asia Center China's Crisis of Success provides new perspectives on China's rise to superpower status, showing that China has reached a threshold where […]
Maya Stiller – Maps, Graffiti, Kinship: The Use of GIS in the Spatial Analysis of a Sacred Mountain in Late Chosŏn Korea (1600-1900)
Speaker: Maya Stiller Fellow, Korea Institute; ACLS/The Robert H.N. Ho Family Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in Buddhist Studies, Department of History of Art and Architecture; Assistant Professor, University of Kansas Light refreshments […]
Diana Fu: Mobilizing Without the Masses
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesRead event summary here Speaker: Dr. Diana Fu, University of Toronto Diana Fu is assistant professor of Asian politics. Her research examines the relationship between popular contention, state power, and civil society in contemporary China. She is the author of “Mobilizing Without the Masses: Control and Contention in China,” (Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics Series and Columbia University’s […]
Eugenio Menegon and Elisa Frei – Calamity from Within? Jesuits, Papal Legates, and Chinese Imperial Envoys in the Eighteenth Century
John J. Burns Library, Boston College 140 Commonwealth Ave., Chestnut Hill, MA, United StatesSpeakers: Eugenio Menegon, Department of History, Boston University & Collaborative Scholar, Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies Elisa Frei, Fellow, Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies, Boston College Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies Colloquium, Boston College More information: https://www.bc.edu/centers/iajs/Programs/institute-colloquium-.html
Harvard University Asia Center 20th Anniversary Celebration
CGIS South CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesS020, Belfer Case Study Room, Japan Friends of Harvard Concourse 9:30 a.m. Coffee 9:45 a.m. Welcome by Professor Karen Thornber, Victor and William Fung Director, Asia Center; Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and of Comparative Literature, Harvard University 10:00 a.m. Introduction by Vice Provost Mark Elliott, Vice Provost for International Affairs, Harvard University; Mark […]
Lin Wei-ping – Gender, Gambling, and the State in the Militarized Islands between China and Taiwan
Speaker: Lin Wei-ping, National Taiwan University; HYI Associate Discussant: Michael Szonyi, Harvard University https://harvard-yenching.org/events/gender-gambling-and-state-militarized-islands-between-china-and-taiwan