Events

Urban China Seminar Series featuring Tingting Lu – Collaborative Neighborhood Governance During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Presented via Zoom

Speaker: Tingting Lu, ​Shanghai Jiao Tong University ​The COVID-19 pandemic is a governance challenge for nations and cities across the world. While early observations have primarily focused on nation-scale government actions, our research shows that neighborhood social capital also plays a key role in Chinese neighborhoods. Drawing from collaborative governance theory, we examine the horizontal and hierarchical […]

The Significance of Small Things: Small Hydropower, Renewable Energy, and Rural Development in the PRC, 1949-1979

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

Speaker: Arunabh Ghosh, Associate Professor of Modern Chinese History, Harvard UniversityArunabh Ghosh is a historian of modern China, with research and teaching interests in social and economic history, history of science and statecraft, transnational history, and China-India history. Venue

Shaoda Wang – Judicial Independence, Local Protectionism, and Economic Integration: Evidence from China  

Room 105, Hauser Hall 18 Everett St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Speaker: Shaoda Wang, University of Chicgao Shaoda Wang is an Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy, and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). He also serves as the Deputy Faculty Director at the Energy Policy Institute at UChicago, China center (EPIC-China). He is an […]

Zhou Zhenyu – The origin of ancient Austronesian: from the perspective of archaeological discoveries in Southeast China

Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Speaker: Zhou Zhenyu, Associate Professor, Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2022-23 Discussant: Rowan Flad, John E. Hudson Professor of Archaeology, Harvard University Harvard-Yenching Institute Visiting Scholar talk Seating is limited. Masks are required for all in-person audience members. Venue

Asia-Pacific Practices: A Conversation with Brian Burke of Shearman & Sterling

WCC 1010, Wasserstein Hall 1585 Mass. Ave., Cambridge, MA, United States

Speaker: Brian Burke, Partner, Shearman & Sterling. Brian Burke has conducted dozens of investigations across Asia-Pacific and is experienced in FCPA/anti-corruption, economic sanctions, antitrust, shareholder litigation, anti-money laundering, and other compliance and investigative matters. Mr. Burke acted as lead advisor to GlaxoSmithKline on the landmark bribery case against GSK in China, the first such case […]

Wei Wei – Family Matters: Chinese Queer Politics Around the Rise of a Family-State

Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Speaker: Wei Wei, Professor of Sociology, East China Normal University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2022-23 Chair/Discussant: Michael Bronski, Professor of the Practice In Media And Activism In Studies Of Women, Gender, […]

Final Conference of 1st Fudan-Harvard China-U.S. Young Leaders Dialogue

Starr Auditorium, Belfer Building, Floor 2.5, Harvard Kennedy School 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA, United States

Featuring: James Heller, Consul General of the US Embassy in ShanghaiRandall Schriver, Former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs and more. The U.S.-China relationship is undoubtedly the most […]

Li Chunyuan – Contextualizing the Numbers: grain prices in Yuan 元 dynasty China, 1250-1350

Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Speaker: Li Chunyuan, Associate Professor, Department of History, Xiamen University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2022-23 Chair/Discussant: David Yang, Associate Professor of Economics, Harvard University Harvard-Yenching Institute Visiting Scholar Talk Masks are required for all in-person audience members. Seating is limited. Venue

Dean’s Symposium on Social Science Innovation – China in Focus: New Social Science Approaches

Presented via Zoom

Host: Lawrence Bobo, Dean of Social Science, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard UniversityModerator: Mark Elliot, Vice Provost for International Affairs; Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History, Harvard UniversityPanelists:Ya-Wen Lei, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Harvard UniversityVictor Seow, Assistant Professor, History of Science, Harvard UniversityYuhua Wang, Professor of Government, Harvard UniversityDavid Yang, […]