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  • Film Series – Aging in Asia

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

    Monday, November.13 Old Partner (Korea, 78 min.) Introduced by: Paul Chang, Associate Professor of Sociology, Harvard University Tuesday, November. 14 Baghban (India, 178 min.) Introduced by: Professor Samir Dayal, English and Media Studies, Bentley University Wednesday, November 15 For Fun (Zhao le) (China, 98 min) Introduced by: Haijing Hao, Asia Center Associate; Assistant Professor, Management […]

  • Film Series – Aging in Asia

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

    Monday, November.13 Old Partner (Korea, 78 min.) Introduced by: Paul Chang, Associate Professor of Sociology, Harvard University Tuesday, November. 14 Baghban (India, 178 min.) Introduced by: Professor Samir Dayal, English and Media Studies, Bentley University Wednesday, November 15 For Fun (Zhao le) (China, 98 min) Introduced by: Haijing Hao, Asia Center Associate; Assistant Professor, Management […]

  • Film Series – Aging in Asia

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

    Monday, November.13 Old Partner (Korea, 78 min.) Introduced by: Paul Chang, Associate Professor of Sociology, Harvard University Tuesday, November. 14 Baghban (India, 178 min.) Introduced by: Professor Samir Dayal, English and Media Studies, Bentley University Wednesday, November 15 For Fun (Zhao le) (China, 98 min) Introduced by: Haijing Hao, Asia Center Associate; Assistant Professor, Management […]

  • Asia Responds to Trump in Asia

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

    Listen again on the Fairbank Center's podcast: Chair:  Karen Thornber, Victor and William Fung Director, Harvard University Asia Center; Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and of Comparative Literature, Harvard University Moderator: Andrew Gordon, Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History, Harvard University Ronak Desai, Associate, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, India […]

  • Nicholas Burns – U.S. Foreign Policy, Trump, and China

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

    As President Trump returns from his first visit to China as Commander-in-Chief, how is U.S. foreign policy reacting to a new administration in Washington and a new rising power in Beijing? Join Ambassador and Harvard Kennedy School Professor Nicholas Burns in conversation with Jeeyang Rhee Baum, Ezra Vogel, and Odd Arne Westad, moderated by Michael […]

  • Jennifer Rudolph and Michael Szonyi – The Coop Event Series/ “The China Questions” Book Launch

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

    Join the editors and contributors to The China Questions for a book launch at the Harvard Coop's Event Series. Many books offer information about China, but few make sense of what is truly at stake. The questions addressed in this unique volume provide a window onto the challenges China faces today and the uncertainties its meteoric ascent […]

  • Michael Szonyi – Book Talk: The Art of Being Governed: Everyday Politics in Late Imperial China

    Speaker: Michael Szonyi, Author; Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies; Professor of Chinese History, Harvard University Chair: Karen Thornber, Victor and William Fung Director, Harvard University Asia Center; Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and of Comparative Literature, Harvard University Discussants: Peter Bol, Charles H. Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations; Vice […]

  • 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 for viewing the present day environment and landscape in China through the lens of art history. In addition to the presentation, the artist will guide […]

  • 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/