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 […]

Speaker: Daniel Koss, Lecturer, EALC, Harvard University In most non-democratic countries, today governing forty-four percent of the world population, the power of the regime rests upon a ruling party. Contrasting with conventional notions that authoritarian regime parties serve to contain elite conflict and manipulate electoral-legislative processes, this book presents the case of China and shows […]

Speakers: Mark Elliott, Vice Provost for International Affairs; Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History, Harvard University Kirsten Weld, Professor of History, Harvard University

Speaker: Xi Yang, Visiting Researcher, Harvard-China Project; Associate Professor, China University of Petroleum Beijing Under the pressure of improving its environmental governance, China has strengthened its coal substitution policy known as “coal-to-gas” in residential heating in Northern region. This bold policy sets strict gas replacement targets for “26 + 2” key cities. However, China suffered […]

Speakers: Jessica Brandt, Head of Policy and Research, Alliance for Securing Democracy; Fellow, The German Marshall Fund of the United States Torrey Taussig, Research Director, Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship, Harvard Kennedy School Chair: Sebastián Royo, Professor of Government, Suffolk University; Visiting Scholar 2019-2020, Local Affiliate and Seminar Co-chair, CES, Harvard University https://ces.fas.harvard.edu/events/2020/02/china-russia-europe-authoritarian