Events

Visiting Scholar Presentations

Join us to hear the Fairbank Center’s 2016-17 Visiting Scholars present on the projects that brought them to Harvard.

East Asian Legal Studies Open House

Austin Hall Room 308 1515 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA, United States

Join East Asian Legal Studies for an opportunity to meet EALS Faculty, Staff, Research Fellows, and the 2017-2018 Visiting Scholars. Light refreshments will be served.

What to Expect from the 19th Party Congress

Join us for a discussion about what's going to happen at the 19th Party Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Xiang Bing, Dean of Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business, will speak. Arne Westad, S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations, HKS, will moderate. Refreshments will be served. This event is cosponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese […]

Sino-Japanese Relations: What Went Wrong after 1992

CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

Speaker: Ezra Vogel, Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus, Harvard University. Moderator: Susan Pharr, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics and Director, WCFIA Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University.

Poetry Reading

Speaker: Dang Zi, Translator: Eleanor Goodman Zang Di, who has been honored three times as one of China’s top ten poets, is a featured poet at the Princeton Poetry Festival on October 5-6, 2017. His new collection, The Roots of Wisdom, translated by award-winning translator Eleanor Goodman, will be published at the same time by […]

Jack Downey and the Third Force in China

Speaker: John Delury, Associate Professor of Chinese Studies. Yonsei University Graduate School of International Studies Professor Delury will discuss his research on the extraordinary case of Jack Downey, who flew into Mao’s China in 1952 as part of a CIA project to support a “Third Force” resistance against the Communist government. Downey’s plane was shot down, and he […]

China Town Hall Featuring Susan Rice

CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

China Town Hall: Local Connections, National Reflections Join 80+ communities across the United States in a national conversation on China. Featuring an interactive webcast with former UN Ambassador Susan Rice, […]

Roderick MacFarquhar – The Rise of Xi Jinping

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

Speaker: Roderick MacFarquhar, Leroy B. Williams Professor of History and Political Science and former Director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. Listen again on the Fairbank Center's podcast: