Events of Interest
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Chinese Kinesthetic Forms
Sackler Building Auditorium 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA, United StatesTopics: Movement has a distinctively rich tradition in China. Chinese Kinesthetic Forms considers movement as an organizing principle across myriad media and cultural forms—from dance and music, to painting and […]
Seung Wha Chang – An Arbitration Model for Resolving International Economic/Public Disputes: A (Korean) WTO Appeal Arbitrator’s View
Morgan Courtroom, Austin Hall 1515 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Seung Wha Chang, Chairman of Korea Trade Commission & Professor of Seoul National University Venue
Youqin Hang – Families in Transition: Living Arrangements, Intergenerational Support, and Subjective Wellbeing in 21st Century China
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Youqin Huang, Professor of Geography and Planning, Research Associate of the Center for Social and Demographic Analysis, University at Albany, State University of New YorkThis paper examines whether the […]
Urban China Seminar Series featuring Tingting Lu – Collaborative Neighborhood Governance During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: 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, […]
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 StatesSpeaker: 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, […]