Events of Interest
Events
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Jenny So – Rare and Beautiful Objects, New and Unexpected Findings: Revisiting Harvard’s Early Chinese Jades
Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Jenny So, Chinese University of Hong Kong Jenny So will highlight the exciting discoveries she made while preparing a new catalogue of the ancient Chinese jades in the Harvard […]
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Lyu Peng – Animal transition and subsistence strategy on an ancient Chinese island: A zooarchaeological study of the Xiaozhushan Site
Speaker: Lyu Peng, Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; HYI Visiting Scholar 2018-19 Chair/discussant: Richard Meadow, Senior Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University https://harvard-yenching.org/events/animal-transition-and-subsistence-strategy-ancient-chinese-island-zooarchaeological-study
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Allan Layug – Order in International Thought: Unpacking China’s Concept of World Order
Speaker: Allan Layug, PhD Candidate, University of Queensland; Associate, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Discussant: Robert Ross, Professor of Political Science, Boston College How do we conceptualize China’s world order? What […]
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Felix Wemheuer – Rebels in Power: Factionalism in Shandong during China’s Cultural Revolution (1966-1969)
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Felix Wemheuer, Chair Professor of Modern China Studies, University of Cologne During the early Cultural Revolution (1966-1969), factional conflicts inside the CCP (Communist Party of China) and within the society […]
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Harvard-Yenching Institute Annual Roundtable: Preserving Asia’s Colonial and Modern Architectural Heritage
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesPanelists: Fu Chao-Ching, Emeritus, Department of Architecture, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan Kim Hyon-Sob, Department of Architecture, Korea University, South Korea Liu Chen, School of Architecture, Tsinghua University, China; HYI Visiting Scholar 2018-19 […]
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Richard Weitz: Russia, China, and the United States as Great-Power Competitors: Implications for Nuclear Security and Conflict
CGIS South Room S354 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Richard Weitz, Senior Research Fellow, Hudson Institute
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Rudolf Wagner – The Public Performance of Justice: The Transcultural Career of a Political Installation Across Eurasia
Speaker: Rudolf Wagner, Universitat Heidelberg; Fairbank Center Associate
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Yeling Tan – Disaggregating “China, Inc” – Explaining the Rise of Chinese State Capitalism
Starr Auditorium, Belfer Building, Floor 2.5, Harvard Kennedy School 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Yeling Tan, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Oregon When China joined the WTO in 2001, conventional wisdom held that global trade rules would provide a credible commitment […]
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Symposium – Tale of Three Cities: Urban Regeneration Through Design and Cultural Innovation
Gund Hall Room 111 48 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeakers: Yuan Qian, Director, Vanke Urban Research Institute Lemin Zhang, Xiamen University. Ruoxi Zhang, Xiamen University. Neill Mclean Gaddes, Principal, Sans Practice James Shen, Principal, People’s Architecture Office, Harvard Loeb […]
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Julie Zhu – Life under Mao: the Cultural Revolution and the “Barefoot Doctors”
Harvard Chan School, Building 1, Room 1208 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Julie Zhu Up through the early 1970s, the "Barefoot Doctor" initiative in China brought primary care to rural China through a cadre of village health workers affectionately referred to […]
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Workshop – Sinophone Humanities in Southeast Asia
SCHEDULE 10.15am – 10.30am: Welcome Remarks by David Wang 10.30am – 12pm: Panel A: The Geopolitics of Southeast Asian Space, Memory and History Chair: Huang Ying-che (Aichi University) Ko Chia-cian […]
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May Fourth @ 100: China and the World
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesAn international symposium to celebrate and reflect upon the monumental legacy of China’s May Fourth movement. Listen to the keynote speeches by Rudolf Wagner (University of Heidelberg) and Chen Pingyuan […]