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  • Ya-Wen Lei: The Contentious Public Sphere: Law, Media, and Authoritarian Rule in China

    William James Hall, Room 1550 33 kirkland st, cambridge, MA, United States

    Deparment of Sociology Colloquium Series Speaker: Ya-Wen Lei, Harvard University. In this talk, I will situate my book, The Contentious Public Sphere: Law, Media, and Authoritarian Rule in China, in relation to one of the department’s traditions and discuss issues related to disciplinary boundaries. I will then discuss how the book speaks to the relationship between globalization, institutions, […]

  • David Dollar – Challenges to China’s Economy: At Home and Abroad

    CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United States

    Read event summary here Speaker: David Dollar, Brookings Institution David Dollar is a senior fellow in the John L. Thornton China Center at the Brookings Institution. From 2009 to 2013, Dollar was the U.S. Treasury’s economic and financial emissary to China, based in Beijing, facilitating the macroeconomic and financial policy dialogue between the United States […]

  • Wang Liping – More than Affirmative Action: China’s Preferential Policy in Historical and Comparative Perspective

    Speaker: Wang Liping,  Peking University; Visiting Scholar, Harvard-Yenching Institute Chair/discussant: Lei Ya-Wen,  Harvard University With the ethical appeal of equality and justice as well as a more cohesive society, affirmative action has been in place for many years around the world. Such measures, going by various names depending on the context and perceived acceptability, have attained […]

  • Bilahari Kausikan: US-China Competition for Influence in Southeast Asia

    CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United States

    Read event summary here Speaker: Bilahari Kausikan, Ambassador-at-Large at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Singapore This event is co-sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center.

  • Those Waters Giving Way

    An overview of Michael Cherney’s artistic process and recent works. The art combines photography with the subject matter, aesthetics, materials and formats traditionally associated with classical Chinese painting, which allows for viewing the present day environment and landscape in China through the lens of art history. In addition to the presentation, the artist will guide […]

  • The Rise of New Religions in Asia

    Speakers:  Helen Hardacre, Harvard University Adam Lyons, Harvard University Frank Korom, Boston University Amanda Lucia, University of California Riverside Robert Hefner, Boston University Juliane Schober, Arizona State University Gareth Fisher, Syracuse University Chien-yu Julia Huang, City Colleges of Chicago Wei-ping Lin, National Taiwan University More Info: www.bu.edu/asian/2018/01/03/the-rise-of-new-religions-in-asia/

  • Chinese Popular Culture at the Beginning of the 20th and 21st Centuries

    Speakers: Zheng Yanqing,  Chinese Academy of Social Sciences: "Popular Culture and the Public Sphere" Shao Yanjun, Peking University:  "Internet Fiction and Imagined Community" Christopher Rea, University of British Columbia: "Of Spongers, Sharpers, and Cannibal Eunuchs: The Swindle Story around the World." The event is sponsored by the Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation.

  • Evelyn (Chiung-yun) Liu – When Fantastic Narrative Encounters Empirical Knowledge: Imagining the World in “The Eunuch Sanbao’s Voyage to the Western Ocean”

    CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Evelyn (Chiung-yun) Liu,  Academia Sinica, HYI Visiting Scholar The Eunuch Sanbao's Voyage to the Western Ocean, a late-sixteenth century novel loosely based on the historical expeditions commanded by Zheng He (1371-1433), is a peculiar mixture of factual accounts of foreign lands and fantastic narrative. In this work, popular Buddhist and Daoist figures living in a […]

  • Nathan Vedal – Philology as a Discipline in Pre-Modern China

    Boylston Hall Room 203 Boylston Hall, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Nathan Vedal, Visiting Fellow, Center for Humanities and Information, Penn State Organizer: Technical Traditions in Greece and Rome: Between Theory and Practice, Harvard University GSAS Workshop 

  • Jeff Wasserstrom and Maura Cunningham — China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know

    Harvard Coop 1400 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speakers: Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom and Maura Elizabeth Cunningham Harvard Coop Book Talk In this fully revised and updated third edition of China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know®, Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom and Maura Elizabeth Cunningham provide cogent answers to urgent questions regarding the world's newest superpower and offer a framework for understanding China's meteoric […]

  • Thomas Gold – An ‘Old Youth’ (老青年) Looks at Chinese Youth Today

    CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United States

    Read event summary here Speaker: Thomas B. Gold, University of California at Berkeley Thomas B. Gold is Professor of Sociology at the University of California. Since 2000 he has also served as Executive Director of the Inter-University Program for Chinese Language Studies (IUP), a consortium of 14 American universities which administers an advanced Chinese language program […]