• CHINA Town Hall: Local Connections, National Reflections

    China's rapid development and Sino-American relations have a direct impact on the lives of just about everyone in the United States. CHINA Town Hall: Local Connections, National Reflections, is a national day of programming from the National Committee on U.S. - China Relations (NCUSCR) designed to provide Americans across the United States and beyond the […]

  • Traces: Dark Clouds – Special One-Day Photography Exhibition

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

    Speaker/Photographer: Ian Teh Asia Centers Lounge • First Floor • CGIS South Building This event is part of the Environment in Asia series at the Fairbank Center. Ian Teh is an award-winning photographer based in UK and Malaysia.  He has published three monographs, Undercurrents (2008), Traces (2011) and Confluence (2014). His work is part of the permanent […]

  • Tectonic Geopolitical Shift? The China-Russia-US Strategic Triangle in the Trump Era

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

    Speakers:  Lyle Goldstein, Associate Professor, US Naval War College Vitaly Kozyrev, Associate Professor of Political Science, Endicott College, Beverly, MA Resurgent China-Russia relations have formed a new and major factor in global politics over the last decade and especially in the last few years.  The current world order has come to resemble in some disturbing […]

  • Liberalism, Globalization, Populism and Nationalism in the World Today

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

    Across the world there has been a growing reaction against liberalism and globalization paired with a rise in populism and nationalism. This specially adjourned panel, organized and moderated by Professor Peter Bol, examines these trends in a global perspective, with Harvard University experts in the histories of China and East Asia, the UK and Europe, the […]

  • Picturing the World: Asian Maps After Mercator

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

    Speaker: Professor Timothy Brook, University of British Columbia; author of Mr. Selden’s Map of China Chair: Andrew Gordon, Acting Director, Harvard Asia Center; Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor, Harvard University Reception to follow in the Asian Centers’ Lounge, 1st Floor, CGIS South Asia Center Seminar Series                                         

  • Introducing the Chinese Text Project

    The Chinese Text Project (https://ctext.org) is an online open-access digital library that makes pre-modern Chinese texts available to readers and researchers all around the world. Founder Donald Sturgeon introduces the database.

  • Harvard-Yenching Insitute Annual Roundtable Discussion: Asian Studies in Asia

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

    Panelists: Hirano Kenichiro (Professor Emeritus of Tokyo University and of Waseda University, Executive Director of Toyo Bunko (education and employment)) Park Hyungji (Professor of English Literature, Yonsei University) Wang Hui (Professor of Literature and History, Tsinghua University; Coordinate Research Scholar, Harvard-Yenching Institute and Visiting Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations (Spring 2017), Harvard University)) […]