Events

Başak Bilecen – Chinese International Students’ Networks at Elite Universities: A Comparative Study of Germany and the US

Adolphus Busch Hall 27 Kirkland St., Cambridge, MA, United States

Speaker: Başak Bilecen, Rosalind Franklin Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Groningen Chair: Muriel Rouyer, Adjunct Professor of Public Policy, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School; Local Affiliate, CES, Harvard University  In migration scholarship, the role of social networks has been well-established in people's decisions on whether to migrate and where […]

Jenny So – Rare and Beautiful Objects, New and Unexpected Findings: Revisiting Harvard’s Early Chinese Jades

Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA, United States

Speaker: Jenny So, Chinese University of Hong Kong Jenny So will highlight the exciting discoveries she made while preparing a new catalogue of the ancient Chinese jades in the Harvard Art Museums collections. Free admission, but seating is limited. Tickets will be distributed beginning at 5:30pm at the museums’ Broadway entrance. One ticket per person. […]

Lyu Peng – Animal transition and subsistence strategy on an ancient Chinese island: A zooarchaeological study of the Xiaozhushan Site

Speaker: Lyu Peng, Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; HYI Visiting Scholar 2018-19 Chair/discussant: Richard Meadow, Senior Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University https://harvard-yenching.org/events/animal-transition-and-subsistence-strategy-ancient-chinese-island-zooarchaeological-study

Harvard-Yenching Institute Annual Roundtable: Preserving Asia’s Colonial and Modern Architectural Heritage

CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United States

Panelists: Fu Chao-Ching, Emeritus, Department of Architecture, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan Kim Hyon-Sob, Department of Architecture, Korea University, South Korea Liu Chen, School of Architecture, Tsinghua University, China; HYI Visiting Scholar 2018-19 […]

Yeling Tan – Disaggregating “China, Inc” – Explaining the Rise of Chinese State Capitalism

Starr Auditorium, Belfer Building, Floor 2.5, Harvard Kennedy School 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA, United States

Speaker: Yeling Tan, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Oregon When China joined the WTO in 2001, conventional wisdom held that global trade rules would provide a credible commitment to liberalization. While significant reforms did take place, scholars soon pointed to the emergence of a Chinese “state capitalism”. Why did the expansion of market-oriented institutions […]

Symposium – Tale of Three Cities: Urban Regeneration Through Design and Cultural Innovation

Gund Hall Room 111 48 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA, United States

Speakers: Yuan Qian, Director, Vanke Urban Research Institute Lemin Zhang, Xiamen University. Ruoxi Zhang, Xiamen University. Neill Mclean Gaddes, Principal, Sans Practice James Shen, Principal, People’s Architecture Office, Harvard Loeb Fellow 2018, Research Fellow - Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies In four decades China’s urban population has exploded, tripling to 58% of its total […]