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  • Reporting from China: A Conversation with New York Times Correspondent David Barboza

    Speaker: David Barboza, New York Times reporter and 2016 Knight Visiting Nieman Fellow at Harvard's Nieman Foundation Join David Barboza for a discussion about the challenges and opportunities of reporting from China. Prior to his selection as Knight Visiting Fellow, Barboza most recently served as Shanghai bureau chief for the Times. Ash Center Director and Daewoo Professor of International […]

  • Establishing the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank: The Lawyer’s View

    Speaker: Natalie Lichtenstein, Adjunct Professor of China Studies, Johns Hopkins University; Inaugural General Counsel, AIIB (retired) Chair: Ezra Vogel, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus, Harvard University Asia Center Seminar Series; co-sponsored with the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies

  • History in Images, History in Words: In Search of Facts in Documentary Filmmaking

    Boston University Photonics Center 8 St. Mary's Street, 9th Floor, Boston, MA, United States

    Speaker: Carma Hinton, Robinson Professor of Visual Culture and Chinese Studies, George Mason University Comments by: Gerald Peary, Suffolk University Sponsored by the BU’s Pardee School of Global Studies Center for the Study of Asia, Center for the Humanities, BU Arts Initiative, the Institute for the Study of Muslim Societies & Civilizations, the Department of World Languages & Literatures, and […]

  • The Souls of China: The Return of Religion After Mao

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

    Speaker: Ian Johnson is a Pulitzer-Prize winning writer focusing on society, religion, and history. He works out of Beijing and Berlin, where he also teaches and advises academic journals and think tanks. Johnson has spent over half of the past thirty years in the Greater China region, first as a student in Beijing from 1984 to 1985, […]

  • The February 28th Incident: Imperial Legacies and War Aftermath in Taiwan, 1947

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

    Speaker: Victor Louzon, Postdoctoral Scholar at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University The February 28th Incident, as the 1947 Taiwanese rebellion against Guomindang rule and its bloody suppression are known, is perhaps the most notorious episode in modern Taiwanese history. This talk offers new insights on this event, exploring the dynamics of decolonization and demobilization […]

  • China’s Banking Transformation: The Untold Story

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

    Speaker: James Stent, Independent Director and Chairman of the Audit Committee of XacBank of Mongolia. Pundits have been predicting the impending collapse of the Chinese banking system. The collapse has not happened. What have these pundits been missing? Why have their predictions not materialized? James Stent, author of China’s Banking Transformation: the Untold Story (Oxford […]

  • “Behemoth”: Film Screening and Discussion with Director Zhao Liang

    Brattle Theater 40 Brattle St, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Beginning with a mining explosion in Mongolia and ending in a ghost city west of Beijing, documentarian Zhao Liang’s new film Behemoth details, in one breathtaking sequence after another, the social and environmental devastation driven by the totality of humankind’s desire and greed. After the screening, Director Liang will attend via Skype for a discussion with […]

  • Reischauer Lecture Series – Empire and Righteous Nation: 600 Years of China-Korea Relations

    Day One Focus: China and Korea from 1392 (the beginning of the Choson state) to the late 19th century May 1, 2017 | 4pm - 6pm Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street Discussant: Kirk W. Larsen, Brigham Young University https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gHchhLjPBg Day Two Focus: China and Korea in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries  May 2, 2017 | […]

  • Reischauer Lecture Series – Empire and Righteous Nation: 600 Years of China-Korea Relations

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

    Day Two Focus: Late 19th Century and 20th Century Speaker: Odd Arne Westad is the S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations at Harvard University, where he teaches at the Kennedy School of Government.  He is an expert on contemporary international history and on the eastern Asian region. Before coming to Harvard in 2015, Westad was School Professor […]

  • Reischauer Lecture Series – Empire and Righteous Nation: 600 Years of China-Korea Relations

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

    Day Three Focus: China’s relations with North and South Korea Today Speaker: Odd Arne Westad is the S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations at Harvard University, where he teaches at the Kennedy School of Government.  He is an expert on contemporary international history and on the eastern Asian region. Before coming to Harvard in 2015, Westad […]

  • Berggruen Workshop: Perspectives on Chinese Thought in the World

    Safra Center for Ethics 124 Mt. Auburn St., Suite 520N, Cambridge, MA, United States

    This workshop celebrates the partnership between the Berggruen Institute and the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, thereby also taking advantage of the presence of the first group of Berggruen Fellows at Harvard. The topic of the workshop, also related to a major concern of the Berggruen Institute, is “Perspectives on Chinese Thought in the […]