Events of Interest
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 […]
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 […]
Urban China Series featuring Yang Zhan – “Keep Moving, Little Bees!”: Real Estate Promotion and the Financial Roots of Urban Precariousness in China
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: 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 […]
Film Screenings – The Face of Time: Recent Films by Tsai Ming-Liang
Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center 24 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesRare 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 […]
Navigating Asia: Interdisciplinary Conversations in Honor of Ezra Vogel
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesThis 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 […]
Urban China Series featuring Toby Lincoln – Out of the Rubble of World War II: Reconstruction in China in Comparative Perspective
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Toby Lincoln, Associate Professor of Chinese Urban History, Centre for Urban History, University of Leicester.This paper explores urban reconstruction in China after WWII, and argues that this was more […]
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 StatesSpeaker: 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, […]
Chia-Ling Wu – Making Multiple Babies: The Anticipatory Governance of Assisted Reproduction in Japan and Taiwan
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Chia-Ling Wu, Professor, National Taiwan University Venue
LGBTQ Rights Advocacy in China: Status and Challenges
Wasserstein Hall 1019 Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeakers: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 StatesThe 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 […]
Panel Discussion – Lu Xun and World Literature: The Task of Translation
Presented via ZoomPanelists: Eileen Cheng, Pomona CollegeDavid Damrosch, Harvard UniversityTheodore Huters, University of California Los AngelesYing Hu, University of California - IrvineModerator:David Wang, Harvard University Venue
Minhua Ling – Containerization of Migrant Housing on Shanghai’s Edge
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Minhua Ling, Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study China’s escalated infrastructural and real estate development has gradually erased urban villages and reduced affordable living space for rural-to-urban migrants. This talk showcases the emerging practice of container housing among low-income migrants who live in removable cargo containers or prefabricated metal shelters on the urban fringe of […]