Events of Interest
Events
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Neuhauser Lecture featuring Susan Thornton – Can We Live with China? A Roadmap for Co-evolution
Listen again: Read and download the transcript for this event here. Speaker: Susan Thornton, Former Acting Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Susan Thornton was Acting Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs at the Department of State during the first 18 months of the Trump administration. Prior to her departure, […]
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Yiu Yuk-man Carine – Reconstructing the history of Chinese dialects through foreigners’ eyes
Speaker: YIU Yuk-man Carine, Associate Professor of Humanities, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; HYI Visiting Scholar 2018-19 Chair/discussant: C.-T. James Huang, Professor of Linguistics, Harvard University https://harvard-yenching.org/events/reconstructing-history-chinese-dialects-through-foreigners-eyes
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Başak Bilecen – Chinese International Students’ Networks at Elite Universities: A Comparative Study of Germany and the US
Adolphus Busch Hall 27 Kirkland St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Başak Bilecen, Rosalind Franklin Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Groningen Chair: Muriel Rouyer, Adjunct Professor of Public Policy, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School; Local Affiliate, CES, Harvard University In migration scholarship, the role of social networks has been well-established in people's decisions on whether to migrate and where […]
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Jenny So – Rare and Beautiful Objects, New and Unexpected Findings: Revisiting Harvard’s Early Chinese Jades
Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Jenny So, Chinese University of Hong Kong Jenny So will highlight the exciting discoveries she made while preparing a new catalogue of the ancient Chinese jades in the Harvard Art Museums collections. Free admission, but seating is limited. Tickets will be distributed beginning at 5:30pm at the museums’ Broadway entrance. One ticket per person. […]
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Lyu Peng – Animal transition and subsistence strategy on an ancient Chinese island: A zooarchaeological study of the Xiaozhushan Site
Speaker: Lyu Peng, Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; HYI Visiting Scholar 2018-19 Chair/discussant: Richard Meadow, Senior Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University https://harvard-yenching.org/events/animal-transition-and-subsistence-strategy-ancient-chinese-island-zooarchaeological-study
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Allan Layug – Order in International Thought: Unpacking China’s Concept of World Order
Speaker: Allan Layug, PhD Candidate, University of Queensland; Associate, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Discussant: Robert Ross, Professor of Political Science, Boston College How do we conceptualize China’s world order? What are its defining characteristics? Whose ideas matter in conceptualizing it—and why? And how do the different conceptions affect the Chinese world-ordering projects in the 21st […]
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Felix Wemheuer – Rebels in Power: Factionalism in Shandong during China’s Cultural Revolution (1966-1969)
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Felix Wemheuer, Chair Professor of Modern China Studies, University of Cologne During the early Cultural Revolution (1966-1969), factional conflicts inside the CCP (Communist Party of China) and within the society resulted in civil war and the almost collapse of the party-state. Wemheuer will present Shandong Province as a case study for the development of factional conflicts at […]
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Harvard-Yenching Institute Annual Roundtable: Preserving Asia’s Colonial and Modern Architectural Heritage
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesPanelists: Fu Chao-Ching, Emeritus, Department of Architecture, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan Kim Hyon-Sob, Department of Architecture, Korea University, South Korea Liu Chen, School of Architecture, Tsinghua University, China; HYI Visiting Scholar 2018-19 Thant Myint-U, Writer, Historian, and Founder and Chairman of the Yangon Heritage Trust Chair: Andrew Gordon, Harvard University/Acting Director, Harvard-Yenching Institute This year’s HYI roundtable will […]
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Richard Weitz: Russia, China, and the United States as Great-Power Competitors: Implications for Nuclear Security and Conflict
CGIS South Room S354 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Richard Weitz, Senior Research Fellow, Hudson Institute
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Rudolf Wagner – The Public Performance of Justice: The Transcultural Career of a Political Installation Across Eurasia
Speaker: Rudolf Wagner, Universitat Heidelberg; Fairbank Center Associate
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Yeling Tan – Disaggregating “China, Inc” – Explaining the Rise of Chinese State Capitalism
Starr Auditorium, Belfer Building, Floor 2.5, Harvard Kennedy School 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Yeling Tan, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Oregon When China joined the WTO in 2001, conventional wisdom held that global trade rules would provide a credible commitment to liberalization. While significant reforms did take place, scholars soon pointed to the emergence of a Chinese “state capitalism”. Why did the expansion of market-oriented institutions […]
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Symposium – Tale of Three Cities: Urban Regeneration Through Design and Cultural Innovation
Gund Hall Room 111 48 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeakers: Yuan Qian, Director, Vanke Urban Research Institute Lemin Zhang, Xiamen University. Ruoxi Zhang, Xiamen University. Neill Mclean Gaddes, Principal, Sans Practice James Shen, Principal, People’s Architecture Office, Harvard Loeb Fellow 2018, Research Fellow - Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies In four decades China’s urban population has exploded, tripling to 58% of its total […]