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  • A New Asia: How China Shaped the Postwar Global Order

    Loeb House 17 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    The 2016 S.T. Lee Lecture will be presented by Rana Mitter, professor of history and politics of modern China and fellow of St Cross College, University of Oxford. Established in 2001, the Lee Lecture focuses on military history, strategy, and policy making. RSVP to arrd_events@hks.harvard.edu

  • Book Talk: The Last Days of Stalin

    Lewis 241A 1557 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Joshua Rubenstein. staff member of Amnesty International USA from 1975 to 2012 and associate at Harvard University’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies.

  • China’s National Cap-and-Trade Program: the Promise and the Reality

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

    Speaker: WANG Pu, Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School Co-sponsored by the China Project, Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and the Environment and Natural Resources Program, Harvard Kennedy School. China’s national cap-and-trade program is regarded as a cornerstone of its climate policy outlined in the 13th Five-year plan (2016-2020), published right after the […]

  • Workshop: The Artist’s Hand—Technology in Practice

    Deknatel Hall 32 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA, United States

    This workshop is an international event jointly sponsored by the Harvard History of Art and Architecture Dept., the China Academy of Art, and the Rhode Island School of Design. It is designed to unite practicing artists and art historians in an exploration of the role of the Artist’s Hand and traditional technique in contemporary artistic […]

  • Film Screening and Discussion: Mr. Deng Goes to Washington

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

    Mr. Deng Goes to Washington tells the story of Deng Xiaoping’s, China’s paramount leader, historic visit to the United States in 1979 that changed the trajectory of world history.  This dramatic story is told through first-hand experiences of those people from both countries who made the normalization of relations possible–politicians, diplomats,  and one former U.S. […]

  • Film Screening: “Song of the Reed”

    In 1998, the Taiwan Women’s Rescue Foundation (TWRF) made a groundbreaking documentary that revealed the existence of Taiwanese comfort women. More than 15 years later, the same organization filmed a second documentary, Song of the Reed. Following the later years of six former comfort women, Song of the Reed focuses on the therapy that the […]

  • South China Sea: Hague and Aftermath

    Boston University School of Education Auditorium 2 Silber Way, Boston, MA, United States

    Speakers: Andrew Loewenstein, Partner, Foley Hoag Peter Dutton, Naval War College Michael McDevitt, CNA Strategic Studies Taylor Fravel, MIT

  • The Mining Industry, Caravan Transportation and Ethnic Mobilization in southwest China from the 17th to 19th Century

    Speaker: Prof. Ma Jianxiong (Hong Kong U. of Science and Technology; HYI Visiting Scholar) Chair/discussant: Prof. Michael Szonyi (Director, Harvard University Fairbank Center) Harvard-Yenching Institute Lunchtime Talk This talk will review the history of silver and copper mines on the borderland between Yunnan and Burma, in particular the social organization of miners in remote mountainous […]

  • The World of Universities in the 21st Century – Two Case Studies: UC-Berkeley & Hong Kong University

    Lower Level Library, Robinson Hall 35 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    William Kirby, Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School; T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies, Harvard University Commentators: Charles S. Maier, Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History, Harvard University Sugata Bose, Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History, Harvard University Aniket De, PhD Candidate in History, Harvard University

  • Unlikely Partners: Chinese Reformers, Western Economists, and the Making of Global China

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

    Speaker: Julian Gewirtz '13  Julian Gewirtz will discuss his forthcoming book, Unlikely Partners: Chinese Reformers, Western Economists, and the Making of Global China, which Harvard University Press will publish in January. Writing for the New Yorker, Evan Osnos summarizes: "The book tells the little-known story of how Chinese intellectuals and leaders, facing a ruined economy at […]

  • The Exile and Diplomacy of the 13th Dalai Lama (1904-1912): Tibet’s Encounters with the US and Japan

    Speaker: Prof. Kobayashi Ryosuke (Toyo Bunko; HYI Visiting Scholar) Chair/discussant: Prof. Leonard van der Kuijp (Harvard University) Harvard-Yenching Institute Lunch Talk This talk will show how Tibet attempted to participate in the international community around the demise of the Qing Dynasty in 1912 by focusing on its relationships with the US and Japan. The sojourns of […]