Events of Interest
Wu Xinbo – Managing growing and expanding competition between China and the U.S.
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesRead event summary here Speaker: Wu Xinbo, Professor & Director Center for American Studies Dean Institute of International Studies Fudan University Dr. Wu is Professor and Dean, Institute of International Studies, […]
Liu Shuguang – Cultural Heritage in China: Present and Future
Speaker: Liu Shuguang, Deputy Administrator, State Administration of Cultural Heritage (SACH), People's Republic of China This talk will focus on the distinctive features of cultural heritage in China, the formation of Cultural Heritage Management Mechanism with Chinese Characteristics and the existing state and challenges to Cultural Heritage Management in China. Liu Shuguang, graduated from the […]
Victor Seow – Energy Transitions amidst Regime Change: Mining Coal in the Early People’s Republic of China
Pierce Hall 100F 29 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Victor Seow, Assistant Professor, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University The decade after the revolution of 1949 witnessed a China that was being made anew. The material transformation of society and economy that had been the goal of preceding regimes was realized to a hitherto unseen degree in the industrial edifice raised […]
David Shambaugh – Power Shift? America and China in Southeast Asia
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesRead event summary here Speaker: David Shambaugh, George Washington University Professor Shambaugh is an internationally recognized authority and author on contemporary China and the international relations of Asia, with a strong interest in the European Union and transatlantic issues. Before joining the faculty at George Washington, he held the positions of Reader in Chinese Politics at […]
Amelia Ying Qin – Seeking Patterns: Close and Distant Readings of Two Collections of Tang 唐 (618-907) Dynasty Anecdotes
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Amelia Ying Qin, An Wang Post Doctoral Fellow, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies This study takes two different approaches—close and distant readings—to the hidden patterns in two anecdote collections. The Songchuang zalu 松牕雜錄 (Miscellaneous Notes under the Pine Window) is a small Tang 唐 (618-907) collection of sixteen anecdotes that claims its accounts are both “particularly […]
The Arnold Arboretum and China: A Century-Old Partnership
Weld Hill Research Building 1300 Centre St., Boston, MA, United StatesSurrounded by our Bonsai & Penjing collection, enjoy cocktails and hors d'oeuvres as you view Professor Yin Kaipu's (Chengdu Institute of Biology) photographs which document a century of environmental change. Each of his images will be paired with a sister image taken in the same location by Arboretum explorer Ernest Henry Wilson. Then screen highlights […]
Gufran Beig – Anatomy of Extreme Pollution Event in a Megacity: Delhi
Pierce Hall 100F 29 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Gufran Beig, Project Director, System of Air Quality Forecasting and Research, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India; Fellow, Indian Academy of Sciences; World Meteorological Organization Norbert Gerbier-Mumm International Award A Harvard-China Project Research Seminar Megacities are engines of growing pollution. Delhi is cursed by its geography to be […]
Jennifer Hsieh – Noise, Decibels, and the Paradox of Reproducibility in Urban Taiwan
Davison Room, Music Building 3 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Jennifer Hsieh, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Jennifer Hsieh holds a Ph.D. in anthropology from Stanford University and comes to the Fairbank Center from the University of Amsterdam where she was a Vossius Fellow. Part of the Graduate Music Forum Friday Lunch Talk Series
David Yang – Historical Traumas and the Roots of Political Distrust: Political Inference from the Great Chinese Famine
Littauer Center, Room M16 1805 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: David Yang, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Harvard University Chairs: Melissa Dell, Faculty Associate. Assistant Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Harvard University Claudia Goldin,Henry Lee Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Harvard University Nathan Nunn, Frederic E. Abbe Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Harvard University
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