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  • Panel Discussion – Early? Modern? Asia?: Three Perspectives

    Panelists: Professor Carla Nappi, Department of History, University of Pittsburgh Professor Elaine Fisher, Department of Religious Studies, Stanford University Professor Michael Charney, Department of History, SOAS, University of London Chair: Professor David Atherton, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University Early Modern Asia Seminar Series, Harvard University Asia Center

  • Wang Zhen — An undesigned nuclear triangle of the U.S., China and India?

    Speaker: Wang Zhen, Associate Professor of International Studies, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences Chair/discussant: Steven E. Miller, Director, International Security Program, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School https://harvard-yenching.org/events/undesigned-nuclear-triangle-us-china-and-india

  • Jianping Ye – Rural Land Tenure System in China: History and Current Reform

    Lincoln Institute of Land Policy 13 Brattle St., Cambridge, MA, United States

    Overview: China's rural land tenure system has experienced continuous reforms since 1978, but has faced new challenges amid rapid urbanization. The institutional structure of the system is complicated and evolving. In this seminar, Professor Ye will trace the history of institutional and policy changes in China's rural land tenure system, and discuss the current reform […]

  • Exhibition Opening – Eye Eye Nose Mouth: Art, Disability, and Mental Illness in Nanjing, China and Shiga-ken, Japan

    Japan Friends of Harvard Concourse, CGIS South, Lower Level 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United States

    This exhibition at the Harvard University Asia Center explores the intersections of art, disability, and mental health by displaying original works on paper and sculptures created by ten groundbreaking, self-taught artists from China and Japan. Their compelling, formally innovative works come in a wide range of styles and media, from gestural abstractions to proliferating figurations, from […]

  • Chen Wei – How well has China’s family planning policy worked?

    Speaker: Chen Wei, Professor, School of Sociology and Population Studies, Renmin University of China; HYI Visiting Scholar 2018-19 Chair/discussant: Mary Brinton,  Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Harvard University Demography is destiny. China’s economic success has been importantly driven by its demographic changes which might also determine China’s future. At the center of the demographics […]

  • Contemporary China Film Screening – Art in Fog: A Conversation with Director Lydia Chen

    Discussant: Shelley Drake Hawkes, Middlesex Community College Moderator: Eugenio Menegon, Boston University Directed by Lydia Chen, Art in Smog offers an intimate encounter with four artists and a curator in China, as they pursue their dreams over 25 years of rapid change. The pursuit of art takes them from quiet lives in the 1990s to the extremes […]

  • Wen Chen – China’s Healthcare Reform: Does Restructuring Government Functions Matter?

    Harvard Chan School, Building 1, Room 1208 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, United States

    Speaker: Wen Chen, Professor of Health Economics, Fudan University Professor CHEN received his M.D. degree in social medicine and health management from Shanghai Medical University in 1998 and completed a research fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health from August 2000 to May 2001. Currently, he serves as Director of PuDong […]