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  • Lecture and Panel Discussion: Cultural Heritage and Ai Weiwei

    Using the historical legacy and artistic concepts of Ai Weiwei’sCircle of Animals/Zodiac Heads as a point of departure, join The Greenway and the Arts & Business Council as they present a panel of experts that can guide us through current cultural heritage concerns and remedies. The event will present specialists in the fields of heritage […]

  • Film Screening: Wansei Back Home

    After Japan was defeated in World War II, nearly 350,000 Japanese civilians living in Taiwan were repatriated. Among those numbers, more than half consisted of wansei, or Taiwan-born Japanese subjects. Directed by Huang Ming-cheng, this documentary draws on 12 years of research, focusing on the experiences of 8 wansei. Interviews with these subjects reveal stories […]

  • China’s Evolving Vulnerability to Climate Change Impacts: A Spatial Analysis of its Infrastructure System

    Pierce Hall 100F 29 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker:  Xi (Sisi) HU, Ph.D. Candidate, Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford; Visiting Fellow, China Project Sponsored by the China Project, Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. To learn more about our seminar series, visit our website: https://chinaproject.harvard.edu/seminars You can also subscribe to our mailing list by emailing tiffanychan@seas.harvard.edu 

  • A New Asia: How China Shaped the Postwar Global Order

    Loeb House 17 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    The 2016 S.T. Lee Lecture will be presented by Rana Mitter, professor of history and politics of modern China and fellow of St Cross College, University of Oxford. Established in 2001, the Lee Lecture focuses on military history, strategy, and policy making. RSVP to arrd_events@hks.harvard.edu

  • Book Talk: The Last Days of Stalin

    Lewis 241A 1557 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Joshua Rubenstein. staff member of Amnesty International USA from 1975 to 2012 and associate at Harvard University’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies.

  • China’s National Cap-and-Trade Program: the Promise and the Reality

    Pierce Hall 100F 29 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: WANG Pu, Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School Co-sponsored by the China Project, Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and the Environment and Natural Resources Program, Harvard Kennedy School. China’s national cap-and-trade program is regarded as a cornerstone of its climate policy outlined in the 13th Five-year plan (2016-2020), published right after the […]

  • Workshop: The Artist’s Hand—Technology in Practice

    Deknatel Hall 32 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA, United States

    This workshop is an international event jointly sponsored by the Harvard History of Art and Architecture Dept., the China Academy of Art, and the Rhode Island School of Design. It is designed to unite practicing artists and art historians in an exploration of the role of the Artist’s Hand and traditional technique in contemporary artistic […]

  • Film Screening and Discussion: Mr. Deng Goes to Washington

    CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Mr. Deng Goes to Washington tells the story of Deng Xiaoping’s, China’s paramount leader, historic visit to the United States in 1979 that changed the trajectory of world history.  This dramatic story is told through first-hand experiences of those people from both countries who made the normalization of relations possible–politicians, diplomats,  and one former U.S. […]

  • Film Screening: “Song of the Reed”

    In 1998, the Taiwan Women’s Rescue Foundation (TWRF) made a groundbreaking documentary that revealed the existence of Taiwanese comfort women. More than 15 years later, the same organization filmed a second documentary, Song of the Reed. Following the later years of six former comfort women, Song of the Reed focuses on the therapy that the […]

  • South China Sea: Hague and Aftermath

    Boston University School of Education Auditorium 2 Silber Way, Boston, MA, United States

    Speakers: Andrew Loewenstein, Partner, Foley Hoag Peter Dutton, Naval War College Michael McDevitt, CNA Strategic Studies Taylor Fravel, MIT