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In Search for a New Architecture for New China— Zhang Kaiji and Chinese Modern Architecture in the 1950s

Presented via Zoom

Topics: Organizer:Harvard CAMLab Academic Convenor:Jeffrey W. CODYFormer Senior Project Specialist, Building & Sites Department, Getty Conservation Institute WU JiangFormer Vice-President of Tongji UniversityAcademician of the French Academy of Architecture Panelist:FAN SizhengTeaching Professor, College of Technology, Architecture and Applied Engineering, Bowling Green State University CHENG LizhenAssociate Professor, School of Architecture and Design, Beijing Jiaotong UniversityAuthor of […]

Youth Political Mobilization & Socialization in Contemporary China: The Centenary of the Communist Youth League

2022 marks the 100th anniversary of the official establishment of the Chinese Communist Youth League (中国共产主义青年团, CYL), one of the largest youth political organizations in the world. As the Chinese Communist Party’s assistant and reserve force, the CYL is the Party’s main channel to socialize youth in the official political discourse and practices, and mobilize […]

Christine Wong – Local Finance Under Siege: Unpacking the Paralysis of Fiscal Policy on the Eve of the 20th Party Congress

Speaker: Christine Wong, National University of Singapore Local finances are under stress.  In the first seven months of 2022 tax revenues were down 14%, and land revenues 32%, yet payroll and other expenditures have to be met, including the Covid-related bills for mass testing and other containment measures.  Since 2021 social media has been flooded […]

Urban China Series featuring Yang Zhan – “Keep Moving, Little Bees!”: Real Estate Promotion and the Financial Roots of Urban Precariousness in China

Presented via Zoom

Speaker: Yang Zhan, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology, The Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityDevelopers in China’s real estate industry organize temporary workers, or “little bees,” to promote sales. Most developers rely on high-interest loans, and must repay their creditors as quick as possible to keep the chain of funding intact, reduce risk, and secure profits. Thus, […]

Film Screenings – The Face of Time: Recent Films by Tsai Ming-Liang

Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center 24 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA, United States

Rare and valuable is the filmmaker who expands one’s conception of the cinematic art; rarer still is the filmmaker who enlarges one’s notion of the term “director.” Malaysian-born, Taiwan-based auteur Tsai Ming-liang (b. 1957) accomplished the former with his rigorous, uncompromising and reputation-defining features of the nineties and early 2000s, and ever since his self-declared […]

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Navigating Asia: Interdisciplinary Conversations in Honor of Ezra Vogel

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

This conference is organized to honor and celebrate the late Professor Ezra Vogel’s role as the inaugural Director of the Harvard Asia Center and his commitment to transnational scholarship.  Day 1: Friday, October 14, 2022 4:00-5:00pm Welcome:James Robson (Victor and William Fung Director, Harvard Asia Center; James C. Kralik and Yunli Lou Professor, Department of East Asian Languages […]

The United States Indo-Pacific Strategy: A Conversation with Assistant Secretary of State Daniel J. Kritenbrink

Malkin Penthouse, Littauer Building 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA, United States

Speaker: Daniel J. Kritenbrink, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Please join the Asia-Pacific Initiative and Future of Diplomacy Project for a conversation with Daniel J. Kritenbrink, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs. The Assistant Secretary will deliver remarks on the Biden Administration's Indo-Pacific Strategy, followed by a […]

LGBTQ Rights Advocacy in China: Status and Challenges

Wasserstein Hall 1019 Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Speakers:Yanhui Peng, Former Director, LGBT Rights Advocacy ChinaZhijun Hu, Founder, China’s Parents, Family, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG)Wei Wei, Professor of Sociology, East China Normal University; Visiting Scholar, Harvard-Yenching Institute If 5% of the population are members of the LGBTQ community, China’s LGBTQ population reaches at least 70 million. Over the past two […]

Hopkins-Nanjing Center Open House

First Floor Seminar Room, 9 Kirkland Place 9 Kirkland Place, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

The Johns Hopkins University Hopkins-Nanjing Center will hold an information session for students interested in graduate study in China. Madeline Satin, Assistant Director of Admissions at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, will be visiting to speak about the Hopkins-Nanjing Center's graduate programs. To schedule a one-on-one appointment or admissions interview with her, visit […]