Special Event
Fairbank Center Visiting Scholars Present
CGIS South, Room S153 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesFairbank Center visiting scholars and fellows share their current research in China studies with the Harvard community. This workshop will feature five short presentations with an opportunity for Q & […]
White Paper Protests: What’s Happening in China? – Voices on the Ground
Presented via ZoomSpeakers:Ya-Wen Lei, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Harvard University Frank Tsai, Founder, China Crossroads, Shanghai Selina Wang, International Correspondent, CNN Beijing David Rennie, Beijing Bureau Chief, The Economist Moderator: Dorinda Elliott, Executive Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University Where did the White Paper Protests that have swept across China come from, and where […]
Urban China Series featuring Tang Beibei – The Making of “New Citizens:” Landless Farmers and Urban Governance in China
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Tang Beibei, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University This talk examines landless farmers who have entered Chinese urban life as urban residents in an organized and managed way as cities expand and spread. It explores in what ways and to what extent the central government’s initiatives on the integration of landless farmers into the urban economy and […]
Visiting Scholars Present: European-Chinese Imperial Maps, China-South Korea (Is the Party Over?), and More
CGIS South, Room S153 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesFairbank Center visiting scholars will share their research in China studies with the Harvard community. This workshop-style event will feature current research on the social networks of Chinese equity analysts, Korea-China relations, European-Chinese imperial maps of Central Asia, and land development in China. There will be an opportunity for Q & A discussion following each […]
“Friends with No Limits?” The Future of China-Russia Relations
Hall A, Science Center 1 Oxford St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesRead our blog post on the event: Friends with “No Limits”? A Year into War in Ukraine, History Still Constrains Sino-Russian Relations Speakers:Andrew S. Erickson, Professor of Strategy and Research Director, U.S. Naval War College (NWC) China Maritime Studies Institute (CMSI); Visiting Professor, Government Department, Harvard University; Associate in Research, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies.M. Taylor Fravel, Arthur and […]
The Stories We Tell: The Politics of History in China and the United States
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesRead our blog post on the event: The Stories We Tell: Can the U.S. and China Reset their Conflicting Narratives? Speakers:Jill Lepore, David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History and Affiliate Professor of Law, Harvard University; Staff Writer, The New YorkerWen YU, Visiting Assistant Professor of History, Boston College Moderator: Michael Puett, Walter C. […]
How Soy Sauce Shapes Modern China: The Power of an Everyday Food—2023 Fairbank Center Reischauer Lecture Series featuring Angela KC Leung, Night One, “Becoming an Everyday Food: Soy Sauce in the High Qing Period”
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesRead our blog post on this series of lectures: What Soy Sauce Can Tell Us About History, Politics—and Chinese Identity The lecture series examines the cultural and political meaning of soy sauce by tracing its long trajectory from an obscure elite condiment to a mundane, everyday food in the modern period. The condiment acquired in […]
How Soy Sauce Shapes Modern China: The Power of an Everyday Food—2023 Fairbank Center Reischauer Lecture Series featuring Angela KC Leung, Night Two, “The Power of a Malleable Everyday Food: Soy Sauce in Modern China”
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesRead our blog post on this series of lectures: What Soy Sauce Can Tell Us About History, Politics—and Chinese Identity The lecture series examines the cultural and political meaning of soy sauce by tracing its long trajectory from an obscure elite condiment to a mundane, everyday food in the modern period. The condiment acquired in […]
How Soy Sauce Shapes Modern China: The Power of an Everyday Food – 2023 Fairbank Center Reischauer Lecture Series featuring Angela KC Leung, Night Three, “Soy Sauce in Crisis: China’s First Engagement with Technoscience”
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesRead our blog post on this series of lectures: What Soy Sauce Can Tell Us About History, Politics—and Chinese Identity The lecture series examines the cultural and political meaning of soy sauce by tracing its long trajectory from an obscure elite condiment to a mundane, everyday food in the modern period. The condiment acquired in […]
Adrian Zenz – Xinjiang Update: What New Documents Tell Us About Beijing’s Evolving Internment Policy
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesRead our blog post on the event: Xinjiang Update: Beijing’s Evolving Internment Policy Speaker: Adrian Zenz, Senior Fellow and Director in China Studies, Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation Moderator: Mark C. Elliott, Vice Provost for International Affairs, Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History, Harvard University Since the start of Beijing’s campaign of […]
An Introduction to Generative AI for East Asian Studies
Yenching Auditorium 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesThis workshop introduces the use of generative AI. Generative AI refers to a category of artificial intelligence algorithms that generate new outputs based on data. Unlike traditional AI systems that recognize patterns and make predictions, generative AI can create new content in the form of texts as well as images and audio. It enables one […]
Visiting Scholars Present: Parks in Modern China, Xinjiang, Water Conservancy Projects, and More
CGIS South, Room S153 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesFairbank Center visiting scholars will share their research in China studies with the Harvard community. This workshop-style event will feature current research on parks in Modern China, Xinjiang, water conservancy projects, land development in China, and American China studies. There will be an opportunity for Q & A discussion following each short presentation. Please join […]