Special Event
Film Series – Aging in Asia
CGIS South Room S354 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesMonday, 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 […]
Maria Repnikova – Media Politics in China: Improvising Power under Authoritarianism
Join us for a discussion with Maria Repnikova, Assistant Professor Communication at Georgia State University and author of, "Media Politics in China: Improvising Power under Authoritarianism." Ash Center Director Tony Saich will moderate. Lunch will be provided.
Film Series – Aging in Asia
CGIS South Room S354 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesMonday, 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 StatesListen 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 StatesAs 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 StatesJoin 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 […]
Daisy Yan Du – An Animated Wartime Encounter:Princess Iron Fan and the Chinese Connection in Early Japanese Animation
Speaker:Daisy Yan Du, Harvard-Yenching Visiting Scholar: Assistant Professor, Division of Humanities, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Asia Center Seminar Series
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 […]
Joseph Esherick: Bandits and Bolsheviks: the Shaanxi-Gansu Base Area before Mao
CGIS South Room S354 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: 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 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 […]
Jeff Wasserstrom and Maura Cunningham — China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know
Harvard Coop 1400 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeakers: Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom and Maura Elizabeth Cunningham Harvard Coop Book Talk In this fully revised and updated third edition of China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know®, Jeffrey […]