• Cobus van Staden – China’s Belt and Road Initiative in Africa: Lessons for Central Asia

    CGIS South Room S354 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Cobus van Staden, Senior Researcher on China-Africa relations, South African Institute of International Affairs. Before the Belt and Road Initiative became the heart of Chinese foreign engagement, China was already active in Africa. The lessons it learned in building railways, ports, and diplomatic networks on the continent helped to shape Beijing’s global rollout of […]

  • The Taiwan Constitutional Court: History and Challenges

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

    Speakers: Tzong-Li Hsu, Dr. iur., Georg-August Universität Göttingen, Germany; Chief Justice, Taiwan Constitutional Court and President, Judicial Yuan Jau-yuan Hwang (SJD ‘95), Justice, Taiwan Constitutional Court http://www.law.harvard.edu/programs/eals/events.html

  • Valerie Karplus – China’s Climate Policy and Air Quality: From Subnational to Global Impacts

    CGIS South Room S354 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Valerie J. Karplus, Assistant Professor of Global Economics and Management, MIT Sloan School of Management China's future energy mix will have a decisive effect on the world's ability to meet climate change mitigation goals. This talk will discuss China's national approach to climate change, and use a multi-scale modeling approach to analyze the effects […]

  • Liu Jingfang – China’s Green Movement: Players, Style, and Strategy

    Speaker: Liu Jingfang, Associate Professor, School of Journalism, Fudan University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2019-20 Chair/discussant: Karen Thornber, Professor of Comparative Literature and of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University While China is transforming itself into an economic powerhouse, it also suffers from dire environmental degradation and crisis. Behind the notorious images of Beijing’s grey […]

  • 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.