Events

COVID and Telemedicine: Experience from China, India, and the U.S.

Panelists: Hongqiao Fu, Assistant Professor in Health Economics and Policy in School of Public Health, Peking University Ajay Nair, CEO, Swasth Digital Health Foundation Atveev Mehrotra, Associate Professor of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School Moderator: Winnie Chi-Man Yip, Professor of Global Health Policy and Economics, Harvard School of Public Health; Director, Harvard China Health Partnership; […]

Special Event – China and the United States in 2021 and Beyond: Paths Forward

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7bK551_dIo https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/china-and-the-united-states-in-2021-and-beyond-paths-forward Read the transcript of the event here. Speakers: Fred Hu, Founder and Chairman, Primavera Capital Group Shelley Rigger, Brown Professor of East Asian Politics at Davidson College David Daokui Li, Founding Dean of the Schwarzman Scholars program, Mansfield Freeman Professor of Economics, and Director of the Center for China in the World Economy […]

Reischauer Lecture Series featuring Rana Mitter — New Eras, Old Stories: From May Fourth and Meiji to the Twenty-First Century “New Era” – Defining East Asia in the Age of Novelty, Emotion and Purpose

https://youtu.be/c3bi9N2NY6E Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies · How New is the New Era? 2021 Annual Reischauer Lecture with Rana Mitter, Part 1 Speaker: Rana Mitter, Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China, St. Cross College, University of Oxford Discussant: Odd Arne Westad, Elihu Professor of History and Global Affairs, Yale University Lecture […]

Reischauer Lecture Series featuring Rana Mitter — New Eras, Old Stories: From May Fourth and Meiji to the Twenty-First Century “New Era” – Defining East Asia in the Age of Novelty, Emotion and Purpose

https://youtu.be/L4X4wUM-oeI   Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies · An Era of Emotion? 2021 Annual Reischauer Lecture with Rana Mitter, Part 2 Speaker: Rana Mitter, Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China, St. Cross College, University of Oxford Discussant: Jie Li, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University Lecture 2 […]

Northern Europe’s Response to China’s Belt and Road Initiative

Reading the transcript of the event here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1gK_MwpIZk&t=95s Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies · Northern Europe's Response to China's Belt and Road Initiative Read the transcript of the event here. Una Aleksandra Bērziņa-Čerenkova, Head, China Studies Centre, Riga Stradins University; Head, New Silk Road Program, Latvian Institute of International Affairs Björn Jerdén, Director, Knowledge […]

Reischauer Lecture Series featuring Rana Mitter — New Eras, Old Stories: From May Fourth and Meiji to the Twenty-First Century “New Era” – Defining East Asia in the Age of Novelty, Emotion and Purpose

https://youtu.be/NsS3JeQaEHQ Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies · A Sense of Purpose? 2021 Annual Reischauer Lecture with Rana Mitter, Part 3 Read the transcript of the event here. Speaker: Rana Mitter, Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China, St. Cross College, University of Oxford Discussant: Arunabh Ghosh, Associate Professor of History, Harvard University […]

Harvard-Yenching Institute Annual Roundtable: Modernizing Asia’s Countryside

Panelists: Han Do-Hyun, Professor of Sociology, Academy of Korean Studies Nguyen Thi Phuong Cham, Director, Cultural Studies Institute, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences Nishikawa Kunio, College of Agriculture, Ibaraki University Mini Sukumar, Department of Women's Studies, University of Calicut, Kerala Wen Tiejun, Professor and Director of the Centre of Rural Reconstruction, Renmin University of China […]

Special Event featuring Xiaotong Feng – Rural Revitalization: China’s “Ace” in Dealing with Western “Competition”

https://youtu.be/JDPcaAYYI2s https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/rural-revitalization-chinas-ace-in-dealing-with-western-competition-with-xiaotong-feng?in=fairbank-center/sets/public-lecture-series-fairbank Reading the transcript of the event here. Speaker: Xiaotong Feng, Ph.D. Candidate, Communication University of China; Fairbank Center Visiting Scholar Discussant/Moderator: Michael Szonyi, Frank Wen-Hsiung Wu Memorial Professor of Chinese History; Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University In the past few years, even the most optimistic scholars will not deny that China’s […]

Fairbank Center Annual Neuhauser Lecture featuring Wang Jisi – China and America: Is Peaceful Competition Possible?

https://youtu.be/fiQ4ZMO9mpQ https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/china-and-america-is-peaceful-competition-possible-with-wang-jisi?in=fairbank-center/sets/public-lecture-series-fairbank Read the transcript of the event here. Speaker: Wang Jisi, Professor in the School of International Studies and president of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies, Peking University Wang Jisi is a professor in the School of International Studies and president of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies(IISS), Peking University(PKU). He […]

Takashi Shiraishi – Maritime Asia vs. Continental Asia: National Strategies in a Region of Change

https://youtu.be/dLu1opvjlyY Read the transcript of the event here. Speaker: Takashi Shiraishi, Chancellor, Prefectural University of Kumamoto; Professor Emeritus, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS), Japan Moderators: Nargis Kassenova, Senior Fellow, Program on Central Asia, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies James Evans, Communications Officer, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies; Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, […]

Meaningful Ageing: Shaping a Better Future for China’s Elderly

Monday, June 21, 2021 - 8:30-10:30 PM EDT Tuesday, June 22, 2021 - 8:30-10:30 AM EDT The challenges presented by the ageing of China’s population are vast and complex. Not only does ageing have major impacts on labor supply, savings, economic growth and social and family relationships, ageing also necessitates re-imagining social systems—such as healthcare, […]

Special Event – The State of Taiwan Studies: A Roundtable Discussion on Methods and Directions

https://youtu.be/IZH0o9q_Wdc https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/the-state-of-taiwan-studies-a-roundtable-discussion-on-methods-and-directions?in=fairbank-center/sets/public-lecture-series-fairbank Read the transcript of the event here. PanelistsJaw-Nian Huang, Assistant Professor, Graduate Institute of Development Studies, National Chengchi University, TaiwanLawrence Zi-Qiao Yang, Assistant Professor, Institute of Social Research and Cultural Studies, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, TaiwanKevin Wei Luo, Doctoral Fellow, Hou Family fellow in Taiwan Studies, Harvard UniversityLev Nachman, PhD in […]