• Contemporary China Film Screening – Art in Fog: A Conversation with Director Lydia Chen

    Discussant: Shelley Drake Hawkes, Middlesex Community College Moderator: Eugenio Menegon, Boston University Directed by Lydia Chen, Art in Smog offers an intimate encounter with four artists and a curator in China, as they pursue their dreams over 25 years of rapid change. The pursuit of art takes them from quiet lives in the 1990s to the extremes […]

  • Wen Chen – China’s Healthcare Reform: Does Restructuring Government Functions Matter?

    Harvard Chan School, Building 1, Room 1208 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, United States

    Speaker: Wen Chen, Professor of Health Economics, Fudan University Professor CHEN received his M.D. degree in social medicine and health management from Shanghai Medical University in 1998 and completed a research fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health from August 2000 to May 2001. Currently, he serves as Director of PuDong […]

  • Neuhauser Lecture featuring Susan Thornton – Can We Live with China? A Roadmap for Co-evolution

    Listen again:  Read and download the transcript for this event here.   Speaker: Susan Thornton, Former Acting Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Susan Thornton was Acting Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs at the Department of State during the first 18 months of the Trump administration. Prior to her departure, […]

  • Başak Bilecen – Chinese International Students’ Networks at Elite Universities: A Comparative Study of Germany and the US

    Adolphus Busch Hall 27 Kirkland St., Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Başak Bilecen, Rosalind Franklin Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Groningen Chair: Muriel Rouyer, Adjunct Professor of Public Policy, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School; Local Affiliate, CES, Harvard University  In migration scholarship, the role of social networks has been well-established in people's decisions on whether to migrate and where […]

  • 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 States

    Speaker: 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 Art Museums collections. Free admission, but seating is limited. Tickets will be distributed beginning at 5:30pm at the museums’ Broadway entrance. One ticket per person. […]

  • 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

  • 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 are its defining characteristics? Whose ideas matter in conceptualizing it—and why? And how do the different conceptions affect the Chinese world-ordering projects in the 21st […]

  • Felix Wemheuer – Rebels in Power: Factionalism in Shandong during China’s Cultural Revolution (1966-1969)

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

    Speaker: 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 resulted in civil war and the almost collapse of the party-state. Wemheuer will present Shandong Province as a case study for the development of factional conflicts at […]

  • Harvard-Yenching Institute Annual Roundtable: Preserving Asia’s Colonial and Modern Architectural Heritage

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

    Panelists: 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 Thant Myint-U, Writer, Historian, and Founder and Chairman of the Yangon Heritage Trust Chair: Andrew Gordon, Harvard University/Acting Director, Harvard-Yenching Institute This year’s HYI roundtable will […]