Events

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 […]

“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 […]

Visiting Scholar Presentations

Join us to hear the Fairbank Center’s 2016-17 Visiting Scholars present on the projects that brought them to Harvard.

East Asian Legal Studies Open House

Austin Hall Room 308 1515 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA, United States

Join East Asian Legal Studies for an opportunity to meet EALS Faculty, Staff, Research Fellows, and the 2017-2018 Visiting Scholars. Light refreshments will be served.

What to Expect from the 19th Party Congress

Join us for a discussion about what's going to happen at the 19th Party Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Xiang Bing, Dean of Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business, will speak. Arne Westad, S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations, HKS, will moderate. Refreshments will be served. This event is cosponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese […]

Sino-Japanese Relations: What Went Wrong after 1992

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

Speaker: Ezra Vogel, Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus, Harvard University. Moderator: Susan Pharr, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics and Director, WCFIA Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University.

Poetry Reading

Speaker: Dang Zi, Translator: Eleanor Goodman Zang Di, who has been honored three times as one of China’s top ten poets, is a featured poet at the Princeton Poetry Festival on October 5-6, 2017. His new collection, The Roots of Wisdom, translated by award-winning translator Eleanor Goodman, will be published at the same time by […]