Events of Interest
Martha Hanson – Heaven and Earth Are Within One’s Grasp (Qian Kun zai wo 乾坤在握): The Handy Mind in Late Imperial Chinese Medicine
Room 469, Science Center 1 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Professor Marta Hanson, Johns Hopkins Part of the Harvard University Asia Center Science and Technology Seminar Series
Tony Saich and Jesse Turiel – Polling China: Understanding Public Opinion Across China
Speakers: Tony Saich, Ash Center Director, and Jesse Tureil, PhD candidate, Boston University Join us for a conversation with Ash Center Director and Daewoo Professor of International Affairs Tony Saich and Jesse Turiel, a PhD candidate from Boston University as they discuss their groundbreaking public opinion survey project in China. Starting in 2003, Saich developed a series […]
Jing-Bao Nie – In search of a Benevolent Polity: Eldery Suicide in China and a Confucian Socio-Ethical Vision of Eldercare
Speaker: Professor Jing-Bao Nie, University of Otago, New Zealand Chair: Professor Arthur Kleinman, Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University; Professor of Medical Anthropology and Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School Part of the Asia Center Seminar Series
Lan Pei-Chia – Raising Global Families: Global Parenting and Class Inequality in Taiwan
Speaker: Prof. Lan Pei-Chia, National Taiwan University Chair: Prof. Andrew Gordon, Harvard University; Acting Director, Harvard-Yenching Institute https://harvard-yenching.org/events/raising-global-families-global-parenting-and-class-inequality-taiwan Based on in-depth interviews with ethnic Chinese parents from more than a hundred families […]
East Asian Legal Studies Open House
Austin Hall Room 308 1515 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA, United StatesAn opportunity to meet EALS Faculty, Staff, Research Fellows, and the 2018-2019 Visiting Scholars Remarks at 3:00 p.m. Light refreshments will be served.
Panel Discussion: The End of Concern: Maoist China, Activism, and Asian Studies
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesPanelists: Fabio Lanza, University of Arizona Ellen Schrecker, Yeshiva University Andrew Gordon, Harvard University Joseph Esherick, University of California San Diego Sugata Bose, Harvard University Lien-Hang Nguyen, Columbia University Bruce Cumings, University of Chicago Moderator: Karen Thornber, Harvard University Asia Center Organized by: Arunabh Ghosh, Harvard University Co-Sponsored by: Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Harvard University Asia Center Reischauer Institute […]
China’s Anti-Poverty Miracle?
JFK Jr. Forum, Harvard Kennedy School 79 John F. Kennedy St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesPanelists: Lu Mai Secretary General, China Development Research Foundation Rohini Pande Rafik Hariri Professor of International Political Economy, Harvard Kennedy School Anthony Saich Daewoo Professor of International Affairs and Director, […]
Panel Discussion – Strongman Politics in the 21st Century
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeakers: Elsa Clavé, Harvard University Asia Center Ayşe Kadıoğlu, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University Joseph Fewsmith, Boston University Valerie Sperling, Clark University Moderator: Thomas Vallely, Ash Center […]
William Alford – Learn from the Past to Appreciate the Present, That is What Makes One a Teacher 溫故而知新,可以為師矣: Confucius, Cohen (s) and Contemporary China
Milstein West, Wasserstein Hall 1585 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: William P. Alford, Jerome A. and Joan L. Cohen Professor of East Asian Legal Studies, Harvard University Dean John F. Manning invites you to join the Harvard Law School […]
Jerome A. Cohen – Law and Power in China and in Its Foreign Relations
Room 111 Austin West, Harvard Law School 1515 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Jerome A. Cohen, Professor of Law, NYU School of Law; Of Counsel, Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison; Founding Director, East Asian Legal Studies Program East Asian Legal Studies Lunchtime Talk Series
Su-Bing Chang – Taiwan Biographical Database: An Introduction
Speaker: Su-bing Chang, Professor, National Taiwan University; Visiting Scholar, Fairbank Center Please RSVP to Feng-en Tu (hyl.eadh@gmail.com)
Adrian Zenz – Recent Developments in Xinjiang
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Adrian Zenz, Lecturer in social research methods, European School of Culture & Theology, Germany Moderator: Mark Elliott, Vice Provost, International Affairs, Harvard University Co-Sponsored by: Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies […]