Speaker: Renato Cruz de Castro, De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines The lecture will examine the Philippines’ grand strategy, the Comprehensive Archipelagic Defense Concept (CADC), and how it enables the

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Speaker: Guanli Zhang, Associate Professor, School of Sociology, Beijing Normal University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2026-27Chair/Discussant: Susan Greenhalgh, John King and Wilma Cannon Fairbank Research Professor of Chinese Society Emerita, Harvard

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Speaker: Xu Jilin (许纪霖), Professor of History, East China Normal UniversityCo-Chair: Yedong Sh-Chen, Visiting Assistant Teaching Professor in Chinese, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Wellesley College***This talk will

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The history of the guqin, the Chinese zither, reflects how a civilization sustains itself amid change. Its tablature preserves fingering while leaving rhythm and expressive proportion to the performer. Each

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