Events of Interest
Bruce Rusk – Information and Its Objects: Provenancing the Censers of the Xuande Court
Speaker: Bruce Rusk, University of British Columbia This presentation examines the textual existence of material objects in early modern China, arguing that a new concept of the archive refigured the […]
Deng Yanhua – Value Clashes, Power Competition and Community Trust: Why an NGO’s Earthquake Recovery Program Faltered in Rural China
Speaker: Deng Yanhua, Professor, School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Nanjing University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2020-21 Chair/discussant: Anthony Saich, Daewoo Professor of International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School NGOs in rural China cannot […]
Lyle Goldstein and Vitaly Kozyrev — From a ‘Marriage of Convenience’ to the ‘Axis of Authoritarianism’: Evaluating the Russia-China Relationship in the 21st Century
Speakers: Lyle Goldstein, Research Professor, China Maritime Studies Institute (CMSI), Naval War College Vitaly Kozyrev, Professor, Political Science and International Studies, Endicott College Watch live on YouTube. Examining contemporary Russia-China […]
Left-Wing South
Co-hosts: David Der-wei Wang, Harvard University Letty Chen, Washington University in St. Louis Special Guests: Wang Anyi, Fudan University Ng Kim Chew, National Chi Nan University Presenters: Tu Hang, Harvard […]
Arnika Fuhrmann – In the Mood for Texture: Bangkok as a Chinese City
Speaker: Arnika Fuhrmann, Associate Professor, Department of Asian Studies, Cornell University. What does it mean to imagine “Asia” beyond the reductive visions of contemporary policy? This project explores the contemporary […]
Daniel S. Markey and Andrew Small — China’s Western Horizon: Beijing and the New Geopolitics of Eurasia
Speakers: Daniel S. Markey, Senior Research Professor, International Relations, School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), John Hopkins University Andrew Small, Senior Transatlantic Fellow, Asia Program, The German Marshall Fund of the United […]
Lucas R. Bender – The Eternal Frontier of China’s Cosmopolitan Empire: Changing Attitudes Towards Ethnocultural Others in Tang-Dynasty Texts
Speaker: Lucas R. Bender, Yale University The seventh and early-eighth centuries have often been considered the period of “China’s Cosmopolitan Empire” on account of their relative tolerance of religious and ideological […]
China and the World in the Post-COVID-19 Era
What will the impact be of COVID-19 on the global economy and how will that impact global health and the potential for global collaboration for a healthier future? Join “China […]
Chinese Language Resources
The Harvard-Yenching Library is offering online bibliographic orientation sessions via Zoom to introduce you to the most important resources in Chinese, Japanese and Korean language resources. When: Nov 12, 2020 […]
China Town Hall: Society & Culture
Speakers: Raymond Chang, Major League Baseball China Lucas Sin, Junzi Kitchen Janet Yang, Janet Yang Productions Moderator: Alison Friedman, Performing Arts of West Kowloon Cultural District Authority Starting with ping-pong diplomacy […]
Chinese Literature Across the Borderlands
Convened by: David Der-wei Wang, Harvard University Kyle Shernuk, Yale University Miya Qiong Xie, Dartmouth University This workshop aims to explore the shifting definitions of the borderland as a territorial […]
Panel Discussion – East Asia Responds to U.S. Election Results
Presenters: Toshihiro Nakayama, Professor of American Politics and Foreign Policy, Faculty of Policy Management, Keio University; Adjunct Fellow, Japan Institute of International Affairs Shin-wha Lee, Professor, Department of Political Science […]