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  • Daisy Yan Du – Plasmatic Empire: Animated Filmmaking in the Manchukuo Film Association, 1937-1945

    Speaker: Daisy Yan Du, Assistant Professor, Division of Humanities, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; HYI Visiting Scholar Chair/discussant: Jie Li, Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University This talk examines animated filmmaking in the Manchukuo Film Association (Manying, 1937-1945), which played an important role in shaping wartime film culture in Northeast China […]

  • Nicholas Burns – U.S. Foreign Policy, Trump, and China

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

    As President Trump returns from his first visit to China as Commander-in-Chief, how is U.S. foreign policy reacting to a new administration in Washington and a new rising power in Beijing? Join Ambassador and Harvard Kennedy School Professor Nicholas Burns in conversation with Jeeyang Rhee Baum, Ezra Vogel, and Odd Arne Westad, moderated by Michael […]

  • Mediating Religion: Text and Object in Chinese Religion

    CGIS South Room S354 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United States

    9:30 AM     Workshop Opens 9:45-10:45     Playing with Corpses: Assembling Bodies for the Dead in Southwest China Speaker: Erik Mueggler, University of Michigan This paper describes the ritualization of death in a “minority” community in Yunnan Province, China, called Júzò in the local Tibeto-Burman language. Here, people are heir to an extraordinary range of resources […]

  • Paul W. Kroll – Personal Moments in Medieval Chinese Poetry

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

    Speaker: Paul W. Kroll, University of Colorado Medieval Chinese poetry, like most self-consciously traditional literature, embraces learning, presumption, and intertextuality with ardor. Scholarship delights to roam in these fields which provide rich fare for the mind. But those moments that suddenly engage the heart (a somewhat neglected organ in the postmodern era) affect us at […]

  • Liao Yang – When Buddha *Tejaprabha Came to Yunnan: Regional Characteristics and His Place in the Local Pantheon

    Speaker: Liao Yang (Professor, Institute of Ethnology & Anthropology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Visiting Scholar, Harvard-Yenching Institute) Chair/discussant: Eugene Wang (Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art, Department of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University) Harvard-Yenching Institute lunch talk https://harvard-yenching.org/events/when-buddha-tejaprabha-came-yunnan-regional-characteristics-and-his-place-local-pantheon

  • A roundtable discussion on “Encountering China: Michael Sandel and Chinese Philosophy”

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

    Participants: Michael Sandel (Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government, Harvard University) Joseph C.W. Chan (Professor, Department of Politics and Public Administration, University of Hong Kong) Chaibong Hahm (President, The Asan Institute for Policy Studies, Korea) Tatsuo Inoue (Professor, Graduate Schools for Law and Politics, University of Tokyo, Japan) Hongmei Qu (Professor, Department of Philosophy, Jilin University, China) Chaired by Elizabeth Perry […]

  • Deborah Davis – China’s Changing Families

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

    Read event summary here Speaker: Dr. Deborah Davis, Yale University Deborah S. Davis' primary teaching interests are inequality and stratification, contemporary Chinese society, and methods of fieldwork. In addition to teaching at Yale, she runs a summer fieldwork seminar where Yale students work collaboratively with students from Hong Kong and China. Davis is currently a Trustee […]

  • Jennifer Rudolph and Michael Szonyi – The Coop Event Series/ “The China Questions” Book Launch

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

    Join the editors and contributors to The China Questions for a book launch at the Harvard Coop's Event Series. Many books offer information about China, but few make sense of what is truly at stake. The questions addressed in this unique volume provide a window onto the challenges China faces today and the uncertainties its meteoric ascent […]

  • Xu Lanjun – Leftist Print Culture and New Notions of “Chineseness”: Hu Yuzhi, Shanghai Book Co., and Overseas Chinese Youth in Cold War Southeast Asia

    Speaker: Xu Lanjun (Associate Professor of Chinese Studies, the National University of Singapore; Visiting Scholar, Harvard-Yenching Institute Chair/discussant: David Wang (Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University) Harvard-Yenching Institute lunch talk https://harvard-yenching.org/events/xu-lanjun-february-8-2018

  • Q&A Session—China’s Environmental Challenges 2018: Summer Undergraduate Research Assistantships in China

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

    Interested in research in China this summer? Join Harvard-China Project staff and a participating Tsinghua University professor to learn more about our fully-funded research assistantships opportunity. No knowledge of Chinese language is required. The Harvard-China Project on Energy, Economy, and Environment will provide generous financial support for six Harvard undergraduates to spend the summer in China […]