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  • East Asian Legal Studies Open House

    Please join East Asian Legal Studies to meet EALS faculty, staff, and scholars. The Zoom link to this event will be published at: http://www.law.harvard.edu/programs/eals/events.html

  • Jinying Li – Walled Media, Mediating Walls

    Speaker: Jinying Li, Brown University As the global digital network promises boundless access to limitless information, we are facing increasing layers of mounting walls in digital media: the Great Firewall (GFW), the Facebook Walls, the virtual walls in virtual realities…. The existence of the walls shatters the myth of an infinitely open, borderless digital space, […]

  • Nicolas Tackett – The Mechanics of Cultural Change in China in a Period of Disunity

    Speaker: Nicolas Tackett, University of California Berkeley Situated at the epicenter of the “Tang-Song Transition,” the tenth-century interregnum between the Tang and Song dynasties was a period of rapid change. This talk will focus on the dramatic evolution of Chinese political culture, as reflected in new political ideals, new ideas of Chinese space, and a […]

  • Chinese Language Resources

    The Harvard-Yenching Library is offering online bibliographic orientation sessions via Zoom to introduce you to the most important resources in Chinese, Japanese and Korean language resources. Register in advance for this meeting: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0pdO-grz4pG9ch-VhtIx9tM_Bncj7GvyLt After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

  • Repatriation and Reintegration of ISIS Affiliates in Central Asia

    Speakers: Vera Mironova, Writer; Center Associate, Davis Center Farukh Chariyev, Project Component Manager, NGO “Barqaror Hayot” Rustam Azizi, Deputy Director, Center for Islamic Studies under the President of the Republic of Tajikistan Moderator: Nargis Kassenova, Senior Fellow, Program on Central Asia, Davis Center Around 5,000-10,000 individuals from post-Soviet Eurasia traveled to Syria and Iraq to join […]

  • Bruce Rusk – Information and Its Objects: Provenancing the Censers of the Xuande Court

    Speaker: Bruce Rusk, University of British Columbia This presentation examines the textual existence of material objects in early modern China, arguing that a new concept of the archive refigured the relationship between document and thing. The use of textual sources to understand the material culture of the past of course had a long history, particularly […]

  • Deng Yanhua – Value Clashes, Power Competition and Community Trust: Why an NGO’s Earthquake Recovery Program Faltered in Rural China

    Speaker: Deng Yanhua, Professor, School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Nanjing University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2020-21 Chair/discussant: Anthony Saich, Daewoo Professor of International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School NGOs in rural China cannot operate successfully and achieve their goals if they lose the trust of the people they aim to serve and the grassroots leaders they must work […]

  • Lyle Goldstein and Vitaly Kozyrev — From a ‘Marriage of Convenience’ to the ‘Axis of Authoritarianism’: Evaluating the Russia-China Relationship in the 21st Century

    Speakers: Lyle Goldstein, Research Professor, China Maritime Studies Institute (CMSI), Naval War College Vitaly Kozyrev, Professor, Political Science and International Studies, Endicott College Watch live on YouTube. Examining contemporary Russia-China relations, assessments by Western scholars yield a wide variety of perspectives and conclusions.  Some view the relationship as inherently brittle, lacking in genuine substance and […]

  • Left-Wing South

    Co-hosts: David Der-wei Wang, Harvard University Letty Chen, Washington University in St. Louis Special Guests: Wang Anyi, Fudan University Ng Kim Chew, National Chi Nan University Presenters: Tu Hang, Harvard University Jessica Tan, Harvard University Kang Ling, Fudan University Nicholas Wong, Hong Kong University Po-hsi Chen, Yale University Chung Chih-wei, National Taiwan University Join us […]

  • Arnika Fuhrmann – In the Mood for Texture: Bangkok as a Chinese City

    Speaker: Arnika Fuhrmann, Associate Professor, Department of Asian Studies, Cornell University. What does it mean to imagine “Asia” beyond the reductive visions of contemporary policy? This project explores the contemporary visual culture of Chinese pasts and colonial modernities, revived across the cinemas, new media, hospitality venues, and other material sites of East and Southeast Asia. […]

  • Daniel S. Markey and Andrew Small — China’s Western Horizon: Beijing and the New Geopolitics of Eurasia

    Speakers: Daniel S. Markey, Senior Research Professor, International Relations, School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), John Hopkins University Andrew Small, Senior Transatlantic Fellow, Asia Program, The German Marshall Fund of the United States Moderator: Nargis Kassenova, Senior Fellow, Program on Central Asia, Davis Center; Associate Professor, KIMEP University Watch live on YouTube. Under the ambitious leadership of President […]

  • Lucas R. Bender – The Eternal Frontier of China’s Cosmopolitan Empire: Changing Attitudes Towards Ethnocultural Others in Tang-Dynasty Texts

    Speaker: Lucas R. Bender, Yale University The seventh and early-eighth centuries have often been considered the period of “China’s Cosmopolitan Empire” on account of their relative tolerance of religious and ideological diversity, their acceptance of significant “foreign” populations in the capital and on the borderlands, and their active recruitment of non-“Han” ethnicities into the military and civil […]