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  • The Lifestyles in the Tang Dynasty under the Influence of Manuscript Culture

    Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    Speaker: Zhao Shuyang, Nanjing University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2023-24Chair/Discussant: Prof. Xiaofei Tian, Harvard University The physical form of books plays a crucial role in human’s daily life. Prior to the advent of woodblock printing in ancient China, the manuscript era prevailed, in which all books were laboriously copied by hand. This unique method of production

  • International Mitigation Finance: Carbon Mitigation, Welfare, and Optimal Recipient Design

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

    Speaker: Naixin Huang, Ph.D. Candidate in Economics, Tsinghua University; Harvard-China Project Fellow International mitigation finance is a primary way in global climate cooperation to limit fast-growing carbon emissions of developing countries. Using a multi-country-multi-sector quantitative trade model, we take the year 2017 as an example to estimate carbon mitigation and welfare effects from mitigation finance and

  • He Wenkai – Book talk: Public Interest and State Legitimation: Early Modern England, Japan, and China

    Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    Speaker: He Wenkai, Associate Professor, Division of Social Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; HYI Visiting Scholar 2016-17 In this book, Public Interest and State Legitimation: Early Modern England, Japan, and China (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023), Wenkai He examines the connections between state capacity, state legitimation and the expansion of political participation. He demonstrates

  • Hou Zhe – Between Ideals and Reality: The Working Class‘s Role in China’s Education Revolution

    Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    Speaker: Hou Zhe, Assistant Professor, Institute of China Studies, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2023-24 Chair/Discussant: Elizabeth Perry, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government, Harvard University; Director, Harvard-Yenching Institute The assertion that “the working class must lead everything” was a fundamental tenet in the ideological framework of the education revolution during Mao’s era

  • The China Challenge and America’s Future

    JFK Jr. Forum, Harvard Kennedy School 79 John F. Kennedy St., Cambridge, MA, United States

    Join us for a special conversation with Mike Gallagher and Raja Krishnamoorthi, the Chairman and Ranking Member of the Select Committee on the Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party. This conversation will be moderated by former Assistant Secretary of Defense and Douglas Dillon Professor of Government Graham Allison, and Director of the Belfer Center

  • Jiajun Zou – Is Examination Success the Result of Geographical Luck? New Ming Provincial Examination Dataset and Its Macro Social and Historical Implications

    CGIS South Room S250 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    Speaker: Jiajun Zou, Ph.D. Candidate in History, Emory University Jiajun Zou introduces a fresh perspective to Ming dynasty studies with his pioneering dataset of 92,000 juren profiles. In his presentation, Zou will share his journey in assembling this comprehensive dataset, utilizing a mix of CBDB resources, computational techniques, and prompt engineering via ChatGPT. He will

  • Harvard East Asia Society Conference 2024 – Knots: Complex Legacies and Imagined Futures of East Asia

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

    The Harvard East Asia Society (HEAS) Graduate Student Conference is an annual event which provides an interdisciplinary forum for graduate students to exchange ideas and discuss current research on topics related to Asia. The conference allows young scholars to present their research to both their peers and to renowned scholars in relevant fields. All panels

  • Transport and Communication in Late Imperial China: Routes and Costs

    CGIS South, Room S001 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    Speaker: Ruoran Cheng, Ph.D. candidate at the London School of Economics. Ruoran Cheng will introduce his work on transport routes and costs in the Ming and Qing dynasties. Using techniques from geographic information science and data from historical route books, he has proposed a more accurate and comprehensive account of transport routes. Based on this

  • Elizabeth Perry – Public Health, National Strength and Regime Legitimacy: China’s Patriotic Health Campaign

    Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University 121 Bay State Rd, Boston, Massachusetts, United States

    Speaker: Elizabeth J. Perry, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government, Harvard University; Director, Harvard-Yenching Institute This talk focuses on China's longest-lived mass movement: the Patriotic Health Campaign(PHC). Introduced by Mao Zedong in 1952 during the Korean War, the PHC continues even today, having recently played a role in Xi Jinping's Zero-Covid effort. The talk will question

  • Echoes of the Past, Visions for the Future: The Power of Ideas to Navigate the China- West Divides

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

    Speakers:Tiziana Lippiello, Ca’ FoscariMichael Puett, Harvard UniversityAnna Irene Baka, Harvard University; Ca’ FoscariBryan Van Norden, Vassar CollegeTao Jiang, Rutgers UniversityHsinning Liu, Academia SinicaWen Yu, Boston CollegeBenjamin Gallant, Harvard UniversityKaren Turner, Harvard University; College of the Holy CrossFranklin Perkins University of Hawai’iDimitra Amarantidou, University of MacauLisa Raphals, University of California, RiversideWang Hui, Tsinghua UniversityPeter Bol, Harvard

  • Michelle Miao – Health Code Apps as Social Control in China: Empirical Findings from the Pandemic

    Morgan Courtroom, Austin Hall 1515 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Michelle Miao, Associate Professor of Law, Chinese University of Hong Kong; Fellow, Stanford University Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences Michelle Miao is Associate Professor of Law at Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). Her major areas of research include ethics of technological innovation, comparative law, criminal justice, law and society, and

  • Mitchell Presnick – US-China Business Relations: Past, Present, and Future

    Room K354, CGIS Knafel 1737 Cambridge St, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    Speaker: Mitchell Presnick, Visiting Fellow, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies  Mr. Presnick will lead a fireside chat about his 30 years in China from 1988 - 2019. Topics will include serving on Budweiser’s（百威啤酒) China market entry team, founding the China practice of APCO Worldwide (安可顾问), a Washington, D.C. based global advisory and advocacy firm, founding