Events of Interest
Kwok-Leong Tang – Digital China Lab: Preparation for Digital Scholarship in Chinese Studies
Speaker: Kwok-Leong Tang, Digital China Fellow, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University Digital China Lab is a series of workshops on data collecting and wrangling, which will be offered by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies this semester. Kwok-leong will talk about the difficulties faced by humanities students in engaging with digital methodologies and explain […]
Daniel Koss – Where the Party Rules: The Rank and File of China’s Communist Party
Speaker: Daniel Koss, Lecturer, EALC, Harvard University In most non-democratic countries, today governing forty-four percent of the world population, the power of the regime rests upon a ruling party. Contrasting […]
Mark Elliott and Kirsten Weld – The Public Face of History series: The Historian Confronting Political Controversies
History Department Conference Room, Robinson Hall 35 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeakers: Mark Elliott, Vice Provost for International Affairs; Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History, Harvard University Kirsten Weld, Professor of History, Harvard University
Xi Yang – China’s Coal-to-Gas Policy for Residential Heating: Between the Shadow and the Light
Pierce Hall 100F 29 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Xi Yang, Visiting Researcher, Harvard-China Project; Associate Professor, China University of Petroleum Beijing Under the pressure of improving its environmental governance, China has strengthened its coal substitution policy known as “coal-to-gas” in residential heating in Northern region. This bold policy sets strict gas replacement targets for “26 + 2” key cities. However, China suffered […]
Jessica Brandt and Torrey Taussig – China, Russia, and Europe’s Authoritarian Challenge
Adolphus Busch Hall 27 Kirkland St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeakers: Jessica Brandt, Head of Policy and Research, Alliance for Securing Democracy; Fellow, The German Marshall Fund of the United States Torrey Taussig, Research Director, Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship, Harvard Kennedy School Chair: Sebastián Royo, Professor of Government, Suffolk University; Visiting Scholar 2019-2020, Local Affiliate and Seminar Co-chair, CES, Harvard University https://ces.fas.harvard.edu/events/2020/02/china-russia-europe-authoritarian
Bin Li – From History Books to Digital Humanities Database: Methods, Tools, and Case Studies of Chinese Classics
Artificial intelligence technology has rapidly changed the study form of humanities. In this presentation, we will discuss the key issues in using natural language processing, deep learning, GIS, database and visualization technologies to design a new digital humanities database from the electronic texts of ancient books. We will introduce automatic tagging tools for ancient Chinese […]
EALC First Fridays Live Broadcast
Speakers: Hisa Kuriyama, Reischauer Institute Professor of Cultural History: "Toward a History of Timeless Wisdom" Dylan Suher, Ph.D. Candidate in Chinese Literature: "Chinese Television at Midnight: Triumph at Midnight and the Birth of 'Television-Style Television'" The Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard invites you to join us for our first ever live broadcast of our signature […]
The Stories We Tell and the Objects We Keep: Asian American Women and the Archives
Radcliffe Knafel Center 10 Garden St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesThe stories of Asian American women extend far beyond the geographic borders of the United States. Inspired by tales and objects from family history, their narratives often reflect the transnational nature of Asian American women’s lives. Despite the importance of these narratives to expanding and complicating our understanding of war, migration, inequity, and difference, the […]
Zhang Ke – Progress or Perish: Different Images of India in Late Qing China
Speaker: Zhang Ke, Associate Professor of History, Fudan University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2019-20 Chair/discussant: Arunabh Ghosh, Associate Professor of History, Harvard University https://harvard-yenching.org/events/progress-or-perish-different-images-india-late-qing-china
Feruza Aripova – Tracing the Effects of Soviet Gender and Sexual Politics in Central Asia
Speaker: Feruza Aripova, PhD Candidate in World History, Northeastern University; Center Associate, Davis Center Moderator: Rochelle Ruthchild, Research Scholar, Women's Studies Research Center, Brandeis University; Center Associate, Davis Center Online event. For […]
Audrye Wong and Alex Yu-Ting Lin – Rising China in a Changing Asia
Speakers: Alex Yu-Ting Lin, predoctoral research fellow, Belfer Center's International Security Program; Ph.D. candidate at the University of Southern California Audrye Wong, Grand Strategy, Security, and Statecraft postdoctoral fellow, Belfer […]
Digital Sources for Chinese History
Speakers: Jianye He, Librarian for Chinese Collections, UC Berkeley Kwok leong Tang, Digital China Fellow of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University Ian Chapman, China Studies Reference and […]