Events

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60th Anniversary Symposium

CGIS South CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge

Join us for a two-day academic symposium celebrating sixty years of the Fairbank Center's world-leading research on China.

Sinophone Studies: New Directions

CGIS South CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge

Listen again: “Sinophone” is arguably one of the most provocative concepts of world literary studies since the turn of the new millennium. In 2007, we held the Yale-Harvard joint international conference “Globalizing Modern Chinese Literature: Sinophone and Diasporic Writings,” examining an array of issues ranging from diaspora to multicultural articulations. Since then, waves of scholarship […]

China Humanities Seminar: Perceptions of China’s Sexual Economy

CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge

Speaker: Harriet Zurndorfer Abstract: This lecture focuses on men and women engaged in China’s sexual economy, which is dominated by the exchange between wealthy and politically influential men and unmarried young women who trade their femininity and sexuality for material wealth and financial security from these men. Drawing on analyses of the popular 2009 television […]