Events of Interest
Poetry Reading
Speaker: Dang Zi, Translator: Eleanor Goodman Zang Di, who has been honored three times as one of China’s top ten poets, is a featured poet at the Princeton Poetry Festival on October 5-6, 2017. His new collection, The Roots of Wisdom, translated by award-winning translator Eleanor Goodman, will be published at the same time by […]
The Revolutionary Ethic and the Spirit of Factionalism in the Chinese Cultural Revolution
William James Hall, Room 1550 33 kirkland st, cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Guobin Yang, Grace Lee Boggs Professor of Communication and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania From 1966 to 1968, youth in urban China were embroiled in factional battles in what many of them believed to be a revolution of a lifetime. Based on the recently published book The Red Guard Generation and Political Activism in […]
Book Talk – The Futility of Law and Development: China and the Dangers of Exporting American Law
Austin Hall Room 308 1515 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Jedidiah J. Kroncke
China’s Anthropogenic Methane Emissions: A Review of Current Bottom-Up Inventories
Pierce Hall 100F 29 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Prof. Zhang Bo, Visiting Scholar, Harvard-China Project; Associate Professor, State Key Laboratory of Coal Resources and Safe Mining, China University of Mining & Technology (Beijing) Methane (CH4) is the second ranking anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG), with a global warming potential (GWP) 28 times greater than that of carbon dioxide (CO2) on a mass basis. In contrast […]
Infinite Interfusion: The Visible and the Invisible in Liao Pagodas
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Youn-mi Kim, Ewha Womans University The shamanistic Khitan people were exposed to Buddhism −the Indian religion that reached these nomads mediated by the Han Chinese sedentary culture− when they suddenly […]
Modular Construction: Building Decorated Tombs in Song and Jin North China
Speaker: Deng Fei, Associate Professor, National Institute of Advanced Humanistic Studies, Fudan University; HYI Visiting Scholar Chair/discussant: Eugene Wang, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art, Department of History of Art and […]
“8 Brokens” – Rediscovered: Painted Collage from China, ca. 1900
Museum of Fine Arts, Riley Seminar Room 465 Huntingon Ave, Boston, MA, United StatesSymposium Organized by Harvard University and the Museum of Fine Arts RSVP: https://symposium-8-brokens.app.rsvpify.com/
From Mandala to Palace: Transforming Space and Site at Qutan Monastery
Speaker: Aurelia Campbell, Boston College Moderator: Eugene Wang, Harvard University The lecture concentrates on Qutan Monastery, a Buddhist temple located in an isolated mountainous region near Ledu, Qinghai province, at […]
Embodied Virtue: How Was Loyalty Edited and Performed in Late Imperial China?
Speaker: Chiung-yun Evelyn Liu, Associate Research Fellow, Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica; HYI Visiting Scholar Chair/discussant: Wai-yee Li, Professor of Chinese Literature, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University https://harvard-yenching.org/events/layered-knowledge-layered-sentiment-encyclopedic-writing-after-fall-dynasty
Neuhauser Lecture – Embracing Sovereignty: China, the U.S., and the Future of World Order
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: James Steinberg, University Professor of Social Science, International Affairs, and Law, Syracuse University In the past year, the leaders of China and the United States laid out their respective visions for future peace and prosperity in widely noted speeches at Davos (President Xi) and the UN (President Trump). What do those speeches tell us about […]
China’s Future Leadership: An Instant Analysis of China’s 19th Party Congress
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesJoin the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation for a panel discussion where experts weigh in with exclusive insight and opinions on China's 19th Party Congress. Watch this panel on YouTube: Listen again to this panel on Soundcloud: Moderator: Mark Elliott, Vice Provost of International Affairs […]
China Humanities Seminar – Huaben and the Mind
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Tina Lu, Yale University As a genre, huaben are relentlessly experimental. Sometimes these stories come close to stream of consciousness (especially in their depiction of dreams), and it is easy to lapse into habits of reading that consider those experiments proto-modernist. Tina Lu would like to take a step back and consider the ways […]