Events of Interest
Wendy Leutert – The Reform & Global Expansion of Chinese State-Owned Enterprises
Speaker: Wendy Leutert, Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures, Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, Indiana University Bloomington. Discussant: Meg Rithmire, F. Warren MacFarlan Associate Professor in Business, Government, and International Economy, Harvard Business School. Hosted by the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School Presented via Zoom Register at: […]
Roselyn Hsueh – Micro-Institutional Foundations of Capitalism: Sectoral Pathways to Globalization in China, India, and Russia
Speaker: Roselyn Hsueh, Associate Professor of Political Science, Temple University Hsueh will discuss how her book’s Strategic Value Framework shows that the perceived strategic value orientation of state elites rooted in significant phases of internal and external pressures shape dominant patterns of market governance, which vary by country and sector within country. Specifically, Hsueh’s research […]
Jun Jing – Meaningful Dying and End of Life Care in China
Presented via ZoomTopics: Improving end of life care in China represents one particularly important opportunity to enhance the well-being of the country’s older adult population as they enter their final phase of […]
Lessons for East Asia from Eastern Europe’s Institutional Changes and Governing Challenges
Presented via ZoomSpeakers:Bojan Bugarič, Professor at the University of Sheffield and former Deputy Interior Minister of SloveniaLance Liangping Gore, Senior Research Fellow at the NUS East Asian InstituteJacques Rupnik, Professor at CERI-Sciences […]
Lessons for East Asia from Eastern Europe’s Economic Challenges and Transformation
Presented via ZoomSpeakers:Lajos Bokros, Professor at Central European University and former Minister of Finance of HungaryMarcin Piatkowski, Professor at Kozminski University, author of Europe’s Growth Champion, and former visiting scholar at Harvard’s Center […]
In Search for a New Architecture for New China— Zhang Kaiji and Chinese Modern Architecture in the 1950s
Presented via ZoomTopics: Organizer:Harvard CAMLab Academic Convenor:Jeffrey W. CODYFormer Senior Project Specialist, Building & Sites Department, Getty Conservation Institute WU JiangFormer Vice-President of Tongji UniversityAcademician of the French Academy of Architecture Panelist:FAN […]
Youth Political Mobilization & Socialization in Contemporary China: The Centenary of the Communist Youth League
2022 marks the 100th anniversary of the official establishment of the Chinese Communist Youth League (中国共产主义青年团, CYL), one of the largest youth political organizations in the world. As the Chinese […]
Christine Wong – Local Finance Under Siege: Unpacking the Paralysis of Fiscal Policy on the Eve of the 20th Party Congress
Speaker: Christine Wong, National University of Singapore Local finances are under stress. In the first seven months of 2022 tax revenues were down 14%, and land revenues 32%, yet payroll […]
Urban China Series featuring Yang Zhan – “Keep Moving, Little Bees!”: Real Estate Promotion and the Financial Roots of Urban Precariousness in China
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Yang Zhan, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology, The Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityDevelopers in China’s real estate industry organize temporary workers, or “little bees,” to promote sales. Most developers rely […]
Navigating Asia: Interdisciplinary Conversations in Honor of Ezra Vogel
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesThis conference is organized to honor and celebrate the late Professor Ezra Vogel’s role as the inaugural Director of the Harvard Asia Center and his commitment to transnational scholarship. Day […]
Urban China Series featuring Toby Lincoln – Out of the Rubble of World War II: Reconstruction in China in Comparative Perspective
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Toby Lincoln, Associate Professor of Chinese Urban History, Centre for Urban History, University of Leicester.This paper explores urban reconstruction in China after WWII, and argues that this was more […]
The United States Indo-Pacific Strategy: A Conversation with Assistant Secretary of State Daniel J. Kritenbrink
Malkin Penthouse, Littauer Building 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Daniel J. Kritenbrink, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Please join the Asia-Pacific Initiative and Future of Diplomacy Project for a conversation with Daniel J. Kritenbrink, […]