Special Event
PRC @ 75 Series – Film Screening – Remembering the 1980s: The Documentary Series Tiananmen, featuring an introduction by Yuhua Wang & Q+A with Rowena Xiaoqing He and Shi Jian
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesIntroduction: Yuhua Wang, Professor of Government, Harvard UniversityQ+A Discussion: Rowena Xiaoqing He, Senior Research Fellow, University of Texas Austin; author of Tiananmen Exiles: Voices of the Struggle for Democracy in ChinaProgrammer: Sam Maclean, Communications Manager, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Followed by a Zoom Q+A with filmmaker Shi Jian, co-director of Tiananmen The eight-part documentary series Tiananmen, about life […]
PRC @ 75 Series — Bao Pu — An Insider’s View of Mao’s Reign: The Life of Bao Tong, Communist Reformer
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Bao Pu, Founder, New Century Press, Hong Kong Discussant: Michael Puett, Director, Harvard University Asia Center; Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History and Anthropology, Harvard University Mao Zedong’s 26-year reign profoundly shaped the People's Republic of China. And yet while there have been numerous social, political, and economic analyses of the PRC, the […]
PRC @ 75 – Film Screening – The Dreamers Revisited: Bumming in Beijing (Original Extended Version), featuring an introduction by Eugene Yuejin Wang & Q+A with Wu Wenguang and Dingru Huang
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesIntroduction: Eugene Yuejin Wang, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art; Founding Director of Harvard FAS CAMLab, Harvard University. Q+A Discussion: Dingru Huang, Rumsey Family Junior Professor in the Humanities and the Arts, Department of International Literary and Cultural Studies, Tufts University; former Fairbank Center associateProgrammer: Sam Maclean, Communications Manager, Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesFollowed by a Zoom Q+A […]
Visiting Fellow Presentation and Discussion featuring Mitch Presnick — Leveraging China’s Strengths as Alternative to Decoupling: Opportunities for Multinational Companies
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Mitch Presnick, Visiting Fellow of Practice, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies; Founder, Super 8 Hotels, ChinaDiscussant: William Kirby, Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration and T.M. Chang Professor of China Studies, Harvard University In 1978, Deng Xiaoping Relaunched his “Reform and Opening” policy to leverage Western technology and know-how for China’s development … Deng recognized […]
Transforming Classical Chinese Texts into Searchable Databases with AI
CGIS South Room S354 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Guenther Lomas, Founder, Sigtica As artificial intelligence becomes integral to the digital humanities, it offers innovative methods that transform research capabilities and uncover new insights into historical texts and cultural narratives. This talk will demonstrate how AI-powered pipelines can process large volumes of unstructured classical Chinese texts, such as genealogies and Qing dynasty government employee records, […]
PRC @ 75 – Memory as Resistance: From Tiananmen to Hong Kong featuring Rowena Xiaoqing He
Hall A, Science Center 1 Oxford St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Rowena Xiaoqing He (何曉清), Senior Research Fellow, University of Texas Austin; author, Tiananmen Exiles: Voices of the Struggle for Democracy in ChinaDiscussant: Anthony Saich, Daewoo Professor of International Affairs; Director, Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia, Harvard Kennedy School This talk is grounded in over two decades of fieldwork on the preservation of historical memory […]
Fei Huang — Bathing Through Time and Landscape: A Longue Durée History of Hot Springs in China (1000–1945)
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Fei Huang, Professor of Chinese History and Society, University of Tübingen Part of the Science and Technology in Asia series. Sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center. Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Presented via Zoom. Register at: https://scholar.harvard.edu/seow/STinAsia Venue
Household Registration: A Tale of Two Cities
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Anthony Saich, Director of the Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia and Daewoo Professor of International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy SchoolDiscussant: Rana Mitter, S.T. Lee Professor of US-Asia Relations, Harvard Kennedy School The household registration system (hukou) is widely seen as a major factor contributing to inequality in China. Individuals’ benefits depend on where their registration is located, with rural residents […]
Weixin XU — Ukraine Every Day: An Artist’s Diary of 1,090 Digital Drawings
CGIS South, Room S153 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesArtist Weixin XU has been working on his art project “Ukraine Every Day” since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Xu has completed almost 700 works using an iPad application. The portfolio includes portraits of soldiers, political figures, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, as well as scenes of the war. These images give […]
Esther Hu — Soong Mayling and Wartime China, 1937-1945: Deploying Words as Weapons
CGIS South Room S250 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Esther Hu, Research Affiliate, Boston University Center for the Study of Asia, Pardee School of Global StudiesChair: William Kirby, T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies; Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration; Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor; Director, Harvard China Fund Soong Mayling and Wartime China, 1937-1945: Deploying Words as Weapons focuses on the First […]
Jishun Zhang — Revolution in the Lilong and Its Legacy: Revisiting Shanghai Residents’ Committees in the Mao Zedong Era
CGIS South, Room S153 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Jishun Zhang, 2024-25 Professor Emeritus of the Si-Mian Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities of East China Normal University; Fairbank Center 2024-2025 Visiting Scholar *This talk will be presented in Mandarin* From April to May 2022, Shanghai’s 61-day COVID-19 lockdown saw the sudden reassertion of the once-dormant Residents’ Committees. Their resurgence raises critical questions: Is this […]
Panel Discussion — Three Years In, Prospects for Peace? China-Russia-North Korea Relations on the Third Anniversary of Putin’s Ukraine War
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeakers:Andrew S. Erickson, Professor of Strategy, U.S. Naval War College China Maritime Studies Institute; Visiting Scholar, Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesEmily J. Holland, Assistant Professor, Naval War College Russia Maritime Studies Institute; former postdoctoral fellow, Davis CenterVitaly Kozyrev, Distinguished Professor of Political Science & International Studies, Endicott CollegeSeong-hyon Lee, Visiting Scholar, Harvard University Asia Center; Senior Fellow, George H.W. […]