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Those Waters Giving Way

An overview of Michael Cherney’s artistic process and recent works. The art combines photography with the subject matter, aesthetics, materials and formats traditionally associated with classical Chinese painting, which allows […]

Joseph Esherick: Bandits and Bolsheviks: the Shaanxi-Gansu Base Area before Mao

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

Speaker: Joseph W. Esherick, Professor Emeritus, University of California, San Diego In the fall of 1935, Mao read a newspaper article about a Communist base in Northern Shaanxi. He redirected the Long March to that base, which would become the Yan’an-centered “revolutionary holy land” from which the Chinese Communist Party would rise to power during […]

The Rise of New Religions in Asia

Speakers:  Helen Hardacre, Harvard University Adam Lyons, Harvard University Frank Korom, Boston University Amanda Lucia, University of California Riverside Robert Hefner, Boston University Juliane Schober, Arizona State University Gareth Fisher, Syracuse University Chien-yu Julia Huang, City Colleges of Chicago Wei-ping Lin, National Taiwan University More Info: www.bu.edu/asian/2018/01/03/the-rise-of-new-religions-in-asia/

Jeff Wasserstrom and Maura Cunningham — China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know

Harvard Coop 1400 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA, United States

Speakers: Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom and Maura Elizabeth Cunningham Harvard Coop Book Talk In this fully revised and updated third edition of China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know®, Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom and Maura Elizabeth Cunningham provide cogent answers to urgent questions regarding the world's newest superpower and offer a framework for understanding China's meteoric […]

Reporting on Asia – A Discussion with Four Nieman Fellows

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

Speakers: Glenda M. Gloria, Managing Editor and Co-Founder of Rappler, Philippines social news network Shalini Singh, Features Reporter, New Delhi, India; former reporter for The Week and the Hindustan Times; […]

Harvard University Asia Center 20th Anniversary Celebration

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

S020, Belfer Case Study Room, Japan Friends of Harvard Concourse 9:30 a.m.         Coffee 9:45 a.m.         Welcome by Professor Karen Thornber, Victor and William Fung Director, Asia Center; Professor of East […]

His Excellency Cui Tiankai Speaks on U.S. – China Relations

Harvard Law School, Austin North (Room 100) 1515 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, United States

This Event begins at 12:15pm. Speaker: Cui Tiankai, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People's Republic of China to the United States of America. His Excellency Cui Tiankai, Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China to the United States of America, will present a public lecture on the current state of U.S.-China relations at the Fairbank […]

Graham Allison – Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’ Trap?

CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United States

Speaker: Graham Allison, Douglas Dillon Professor of Government, Harvard Kennedy School Discussants: Roderick MacFarquhar,  Leroy B. Williams Professor of History, Harvard University Oriana Skylar Mastro, Assistant Professor of Security Studies, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University This event is co-sponsored by the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation. Listen again: