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  • Democratic Equality and Confucian Hierarchy

    Safra Center for Ethics 124 Mt. Auburn St., Suite 520N, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Joseph Chan, University of Hong Kong Discussant: Archon Fung, Harvard Kennedy School of Government **Please register HERE no later than Friday, May 12.** NOTE: The paper will be circulated one week in advance to all seminar participants. Joseph Chan is professor of the Department of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Hong Kong. A leading scholar […]

  • East Asian Legal Studies Open House

    Austin Hall Room 308 1515 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Join East Asian Legal Studies for an opportunity to meet EALS Faculty, Staff, Research Fellows, and the 2017-2018 Visiting Scholars. Light refreshments will be served.

  • Identity Politics and Organized Crime

    Austin Hall Room 308 1515 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA, United States

    East Asian Legal Studies talk with Professor J. Mark Ramseyer, Harvard Law School Mark Ramseyer spent most of his childhood in provincial towns and cities in southern Japan, attending Japanese schools for K-6. He returned to the U.S. for college. Before attending law school, he studied Japanese history in graduate school. Ramseyer graduated from HLS […]

  • What to Expect from the 19th Party Congress

    Join us for a discussion about what's going to happen at the 19th Party Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Xiang Bing, Dean of Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business, will speak. Arne Westad, S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations, HKS, will moderate. Refreshments will be served. This event is cosponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese […]

  • Hopkins-Nanjing Center Information Session

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

    Meet with a Hopkins-Nanjing Center (HNC) admissions representative to learn more about our graduate school program offerings in China, as well as the application process, fellowship opportunities and career outcomes for HNC graduates. Feel free to contact feneh1@jhu.edu to schedule a one-on-one appointment.

  • Sino-Japanese Relations: What Went Wrong after 1992

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

    Speaker: Ezra Vogel, Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus, Harvard University. Moderator: Susan Pharr, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics and Director, WCFIA Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University.

  • Poetry Reading

    Speaker: Dang Zi, Translator: Eleanor Goodman Zang Di, who has been honored three times as one of China’s top ten poets, is a featured poet at the Princeton Poetry Festival on October 5-6, 2017. His new collection, The Roots of Wisdom, translated by award-winning translator Eleanor Goodman, will be published at the same time by […]

  • The Revolutionary Ethic and the Spirit of Factionalism in the Chinese Cultural Revolution

    William James Hall, Room 1550 33 kirkland st, cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Guobin Yang, Grace Lee Boggs Professor of Communication and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania From 1966 to 1968, youth in urban China were embroiled in factional battles in what many of them believed to be a revolution of a lifetime. Based on the recently published book The Red Guard Generation and Political Activism in […]

  • China’s Anthropogenic Methane Emissions: A Review of Current Bottom-Up Inventories

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

    Speaker: Prof. Zhang Bo, Visiting Scholar, Harvard-China Project; Associate Professor, State Key Laboratory of Coal Resources and Safe Mining, China University of Mining & Technology (Beijing) Methane (CH4) is the second ranking anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG), with a global warming potential (GWP) 28 times greater than that of carbon dioxide (CO2) on a mass basis. In contrast […]

  • Infinite Interfusion: The Visible and the Invisible in Liao Pagodas

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

    Speaker: Youn-mi Kim, Ewha Womans University The shamanistic Khitan people were exposed to Buddhism −the Indian religion that reached these nomads mediated by the Han Chinese sedentary culture− when they suddenly rose to power and founded the Liao Empire (907-1125). By exploring the pagodas from the Liao Empire, this lecture discusses how the synthesis of these […]