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  • Taiwan Studies+ 2.0 Symposium

    Yenching Auditorium 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    As Taiwan finds itself reentering into the global conversation today, where does the field of Taiwan Studies find itself in this historical moment? From the origins of capitalism to the

  • Subversion and Seduction: China’s Economic Statecraft

    Fainsod Room (324), Littauer Building 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Audrye Wong, Senior Fellow, American Enterprise InstituteChair: Rana Mitter, S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations, Harvard Kennedy School Even as the Chinese government intensifies supply-chain coercion, it continues to

  • Developing the Philippine-U.S. Alliance’s Integrated Deterrence through the CADC: Preparing for a Taiwan Contingency

    Rajen Kilachand Center for Integrated Life Sciences & Engineering, Boston University 610 Commonwealth Ave,, Boston, Massachusetts, United States

    Speaker: Renato Cruz de Castro, De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines The lecture will examine the Philippines’ grand strategy, the Comprehensive Archipelagic Defense Concept (CADC), and how it enables the

  • On Political Thought in China

    Ellwood Democracy Lab - Rubenstein 414AB 79 JFK St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    Speaker: Daniel Bell, Chair Professor of Political Theory at the University of Hong KongModerator: Rana Mitter, S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations, Harvard Kennedy SchoolJoin us for an afternoon with

  • China’s Industrial Overcapacity: Impacts Beyond the U.S. and Europe

    Ofer 401 Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    Speaker: Padmashree Gehl Sampath, Senior Fellow, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School Led by M-RCBG Senior Fellow Padmashree Gehl Sampath, this study group looks at recent geopolitical changes

  • When Men Marry into Their Wives’ Families: Changing Patriarchy, Intimacy, and Masculinity in Everyday Family Life of Post-Reform China

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

    Speaker: Guanli Zhang, Associate Professor, School of Sociology, Beijing Normal University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2026-27Chair/Discussant: Susan Greenhalgh, John King and Wilma Cannon Fairbank Research Professor of Chinese Society Emerita, Harvard

  • Mapping Global China: Data, Maps, and Stories of China’s Global Presence

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

    Speakers:Adele Carrai, Associate Professor, University of OxfordDavide Zoppolato, Hong Yen Chang Center Fellow, Columbia Law School  Moderator: Iain Johnston, Gov. James Albert Noe and Linda Noe Laine Research Professor of

  • Farewell to Grand Narratives: The Cultural Psychology of China’s Younger Generation (告别宏大叙事：当代中国年轻一代的文化心理)

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

    Speaker: Xu Jilin (许纪霖), Professor of History, East China Normal UniversityCo-Chair: Yedong Sh-Chen, Visiting Assistant Teaching Professor in Chinese, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Wellesley College***This talk will

  • The Ideological Origins of Modern Chinese Revolution: The Noble Spirit of the late Qing Revolutionaries – 近代中国革命的思想起源： 晚清一代革命者的志士精神 

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

    Speaker: Xu Jilin, Professor, Department of History, East China Normal UniversityChair/Discussant: Elizabeth J. Perry, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government, Harvard University This talk will be conducted in Chinese. 清末世纪之交，在读书人中间，分化出一批激进的革命者。这些边缘知识人抛弃了儒家的意识形态，思想深处的虚无主义、破坏主义，与无政府主义的激进乌托邦与反满的族群意识结合，再加上唯意志论的催化，形成了视死如归的志士精神。20世纪中国的思想源头，大半渊源于晚清这一代革命者的志士精神。 华东师范大学特聘教授、历史系博士生导师、中国现代思想文化研究所副所长，兼任中国史学会理事、香港《二十一世纪》杂志编委，主要从事二十世纪中国思想史与知识分子的研究以及当代中国文化研究。主要著作有：《中国知识分子十论》（复旦大学出版社，2003）、《启蒙如何起死回生》（北京大学出版社，2011）、《当代中国的启蒙与反启蒙》（社会科学文献出版社，2011）、《家国天下：现代中国的个人、国家与世界认同》（上海人民出版社，2017）、《安身立命：大时代中的知识人》（上海人民出版社，2019）、《脉动中国：许纪霖的50堂传统文化课》（上海三联书店，2021）、《一个民族的精神史》（香港三联书店，2019）、《中国时刻？从富强到文明崛起的历史逻辑》（香港城市大学出版社2019）、《左冲右突：现代政治激流中的中国知识分子》（香港城市大学出版社2021）、Rethinking