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  • Randall Schriver – U.S. National Defense Strategy Implementation in the Indo-Pacific

    Allison Dining Room, 5th Floor Taubman Building 15 Eliot St., Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Randall G. Schriver, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs Moderator: Graham Allison,  Douglas Dillon Professor of Government, former Director of the Belfer Center, and founding Dean of Harvard Kennedy School RSVP required.

  • Film Screening and Panel Discussion – “One Child Nation”

    CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Panel Discussion: Jialing Zhang, Co-Director of “One Child Nation” Mable Chan, Founder of China Personified; One in a Billion Productions Susan Greenhalgh, John King and Wilma Cannon Fairbank Research Professor of Chinese Society, Harvard University Jie Li, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University Karen Thornber, Harry Tuchman Levin Professor in Literature […]

  • International Implications from Contemporary Developments in Chinese Higher Education

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

    Speakers: Hamish Coates, Professor, Institute of Education and Director, Higher Education Division; Deputy Director, Global Research Center for the Assessment of College and Student Development, Tsinghua University Wen Wen, Associate Professor, Institute of Education, Tsinghua University; Deputy Director, Asian Research Center, Tsinghua University; Fulbright Scholar (2019-2020), Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University Discussants: Manja […]

  • Xin Zhang – Governance by Numbers: Origins, Present and Future of China’s Social Credit System

    WCC 1010, Wasserstein Hall 1585 Mass. Ave., Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Xin Zhang, Visiting Scholar, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University; Associate Professor, School of Law, University of International Business and Economics, Beijing Commenter/Discussant : Ya-Wen Lei, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Harvard University Asian food will be provided.

  • Roger Shih-Chieh Lo – Redemptive Society and Cold War: Tongshanshe (Fellowship of Goodness) in Zhejiang, Fujian, and Taiwan, 1949-1978

    Speaker: Roger Shih-Chieh Lo, National Taiwan University; HYI Visiting Scholar Chair/discussant: Michael Szonyi, Harvard University Throughout the 20th century, the two most influential redemptive societies in Chinese local society, Tongshanshe (Fellowship of Goodness) and Yiguangdao (Persistent way) both suffered various level of crackdown from different regimes. From fieldwork and local archives, however, it is evident […]

  • Faan Chen – Driving and the Built Environment: Is Transit-Oriented Development Effective in Shanghai?

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

    Speaker: Faan Chen, Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard-China Project, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University The rapid growth of cities such as Shanghai in China has presented many transportation, land use and climate change challenges for local government officials, planning and transit practitioners and property developers. These challenges include traffic congestion, […]

  • Repercussions: The Hong Kong Protests in Context

    CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United States

    Chair: James Robson, James C. Kralik and Yunli Lou Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations; Victor and William Fung Director, Harvard University Asia Center Steven Goldstein, Sophia Smith Professor of Government, Emeritus, Smith College; Associate and Organizer, Taiwan Studies Workshop, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Mary Alice Haddad, Professor of Government, East Asian Studies, […]

  • Workshop: Law and Empire in the Sino-Asian Context

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

    Co-hosted by International Society for Legal History , American Society for Legal History, The International Society for Chinese Law and History, and the Harvard Law School Program in East Asian Legal Studies Graduate Student Panel 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM Chair: Tahirih Lee (FSU) Yue Jiang (Stanford)    Commentator: Michael Szonyi (Harvard) Gender, Property, and Lineage in […]

  • Pan Weilin – Dialectics of Waste: Recycling Campaigns in Socialist China, 1949-1978

    Speaker: Pan Weilin, Assistant Professor, Institute of China Studies, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2019-20 Chair/discussant: Elizabeth Perry,  Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government, Harvard University; Director, Harvard-Yenching Institute This talk will examine how the national system of China’s waste recovery and recycling took shape through the mass movements during the heydays of […]

  • American Factory: Film Screening and Discussion with Directors

    Klarman Hall, Harvard Business School Kresge Way, Boston, MA, United States

    Speakers: Julia Reichert, Director Steven Bognar, Director Meg Rithmire, F. Warren McFarlan Associate Professor of Business Administration Kris Rondeau, Director of AFSCME New England The film profiles the launch of the Fuyao Glass factory in Moraine, Ohio, sited in a former General Motors plant. To launch the factory, Fuyao brought in hundreds of experienced Chinese […]