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  • Sacred Nation: Chinese Museums and the Legacy of Empire

    Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street 24 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Magnus Fiskesjö, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Cornell University The official Chinese view of China’s history and national identity has been transformed in recent decades from a tale of revolutionary class struggle into a story of ancient and unbroken national and imperial glory. This shift can be discerned in both new and restored Chinese […]

  • Picturing the World: Asian Maps After Mercator

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

    Speaker: Professor Timothy Brook, University of British Columbia; author of Mr. Selden’s Map of China Chair: Andrew Gordon, Acting Director, Harvard Asia Center; Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor, Harvard University Reception to follow in the Asian Centers’ Lounge, 1st Floor, CGIS South Asia Center Seminar Series                                         

  • Hidden Air: Urbanization, the Built Environment, and Indoor Air Quality in China

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

    Speaker: Gary Adamkiewicz, Assistant Professor of Environmental Health and Exposure Disparities, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health China’s recent economic growth and rate of urbanization are unprecedented in human history.  These driving forces create great opportunities and present significant challenges.  While cities have always been engines of creativity and innovation, they can […]

  • The People’s Liberation Army: Perspectives from the United States and Japan

    Speaker: Gen. Yoshikazu Watanabe, Asia Center Fellow; Researcher, Fujitsu System Integration Laboratories, LTD.; Eastern Army Commanding General (Ret.), Japan Ground Self Defense Force Chair:  Dr. Andrew S. Erickson, Professor of Strategy, China Maritime Studies Institute (CMSI), Strategic and Operational Research Department, U.S. Naval War College Asia Center Fellows Seminar Series, Sponsored by the Harvard University […]

  • Ma Ying-jeou: From Harvard Law School to the Presidential Office

    Harvard Law School, Austin North (Room 100) 1515 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, United States

    Speaker: Ma Ying-jeou, S.J.D.‘81, Former President of the Republic of China (Taiwan) Co-sponsored by the East Asian Legal Studies program at the Harvard Law School.  

  • Introducing the Chinese Text Project

    The Chinese Text Project (https://ctext.org) is an online open-access digital library that makes pre-modern Chinese texts available to readers and researchers all around the world. Founder Donald Sturgeon introduces the database.

  • Harvard-Yenching Insitute Annual Roundtable Discussion: Asian Studies in Asia

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

    Panelists: Hirano Kenichiro (Professor Emeritus of Tokyo University and of Waseda University, Executive Director of Toyo Bunko (education and employment)) Park Hyungji (Professor of English Literature, Yonsei University) Wang Hui (Professor of Literature and History, Tsinghua University; Coordinate Research Scholar, Harvard-Yenching Institute and Visiting Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations (Spring 2017), Harvard University)) […]

  • Environmental Public Interest Litigation in China: Cases and Reform

    Austin Hall Room 308 1515 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Barbara Finamore, Senior Attorney and Asia Director, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) On January 1, 2015, amendments to China’s Environmental Protection Law went into effect that would allow an estimated 700 Chinese NGOs to bring lawsuits against polluters on behalf of the public interest. The Supreme People’s Court then issued an authoritative “interpretation” that provides […]

  • Building Energy Efficiency Regulations in China: Policies and Trends

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

    Speaker: Barbara Finamore, Senior Attorney and Asia Director, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) Abstract: Energy used in buildings is responsible for 30% of China’s CO2 emissions, a percentage that is expected to grow as China continues to urbanize and transition to a service economy. China has developed a variety of policy tools designed to reduce building energy consumption […]