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 […]

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, […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Speaker: Urban Rusnák, Secretary General, Energy Charter Secretariat Moderator: Mark Wu, Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law, Harvard Law School Opening remarks: Rawi Abdelal, Herbert F. Johnson Professor of International Management, Harvard Business School; Director, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Join the Negotiation Task Force for a guest lecture by Urban Rusnák, Secretary General of the Energy Charter […]

Speaker: Elizabeth Ingleson, Southern Methodist University Interested attendees should e-mail marinoauffant@gmail.com for a copy of the pre-circulated paper. Part of the Harvard International & Global History Seminar (HIGHS) series, a forum for cutting-edge work in the fields of international and global history.

The Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University will convene a symposium on Jin Ping Mei (The Plum in the Golden Vase) in honor of David Tod Roy (1933 – 2016), Professor Emeritus of the University of Chicago, on December 5, 2019, at Harvard University. For more information, visit https://scholar.harvard.edu/jpm

Speaker: Jane Perlez, 2019 Joan Shorenstein Center Fellow, Beijing Bureau Chief for The New York Times. Moderator: Lucy Hornby, 2020 Nieman Fellow, Deputy Beijing Bureau Chief for the Financial Times. Long before she was Beijing bureau chief for The New York Times, Jane Perlez was an accidental tourist at the peak of China's Cultural Revolution. […]

Speaker: Judge Shen Hongyu, The Supreme People’s Court of China; Visiting Scholar, The Center for Chinese Legal Studies, Columbia Law School

Speaker: Kwok-Leong Tang, Digital China Fellow, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University Digital China Lab is a series of workshops on data collecting and wrangling, which will be offered by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies this semester. Kwok-leong will talk about the difficulties faced by humanities students in engaging with digital methodologies and explain […]