Special Event
“Friends with No Limits?” The Future of China-Russia Relations
Hall A, Science Center 1 Oxford St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesRead our blog post on the event: Friends with “No Limits”? A Year into War in Ukraine, History Still Constrains Sino-Russian Relations Speakers:Andrew S. Erickson, Professor of Strategy and Research Director, U.S. Naval War College (NWC) China Maritime Studies Institute (CMSI); Visiting Professor, Government Department, Harvard University; Associate in Research, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies.M. Taylor Fravel, Arthur and […]
The Stories We Tell: The Politics of History in China and the United States
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesRead our blog post on the event: The Stories We Tell: Can the U.S. and China Reset their Conflicting Narratives? Speakers:Jill Lepore, David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History and Affiliate Professor of Law, Harvard University; Staff Writer, The New YorkerWen YU, Visiting Assistant Professor of History, Boston College Moderator: Michael Puett, Walter C. […]
How Soy Sauce Shapes Modern China: The Power of an Everyday Food—2023 Fairbank Center Reischauer Lecture Series featuring Angela KC Leung, Night One, “Becoming an Everyday Food: Soy Sauce in the High Qing Period”
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesRead our blog post on this series of lectures: What Soy Sauce Can Tell Us About History, Politics—and Chinese Identity The lecture series examines the cultural and political meaning of […]
How Soy Sauce Shapes Modern China: The Power of an Everyday Food—2023 Fairbank Center Reischauer Lecture Series featuring Angela KC Leung, Night Two, “The Power of a Malleable Everyday Food: Soy Sauce in Modern China”
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesRead our blog post on this series of lectures: What Soy Sauce Can Tell Us About History, Politics—and Chinese Identity The lecture series examines the cultural and political meaning of […]
How Soy Sauce Shapes Modern China: The Power of an Everyday Food – 2023 Fairbank Center Reischauer Lecture Series featuring Angela KC Leung, Night Three, “Soy Sauce in Crisis: China’s First Engagement with Technoscience”
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesRead our blog post on this series of lectures: What Soy Sauce Can Tell Us About History, Politics—and Chinese Identity The lecture series examines the cultural and political meaning of […]
Adrian Zenz – Xinjiang Update: What New Documents Tell Us About Beijing’s Evolving Internment Policy
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesRead our blog post on the event: Xinjiang Update: Beijing’s Evolving Internment Policy Speaker: Adrian Zenz, Senior Fellow and Director in China Studies, Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation Moderator: Mark […]
An Introduction to Generative AI for East Asian Studies
Yenching Auditorium 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesThis workshop introduces the use of generative AI. Generative AI refers to a category of artificial intelligence algorithms that generate new outputs based on data. Unlike traditional AI systems that recognize patterns and make predictions, generative AI can create new content in the form of texts as well as images and audio. It enables one […]
Visiting Scholars Present: Parks in Modern China, Xinjiang, Water Conservancy Projects, and More
CGIS South, Room S153 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesFairbank Center visiting scholars will share their research in China studies with the Harvard community. This workshop-style event will feature current research on parks in Modern China, Xinjiang, water conservancy projects, land development in China, and American China studies. There will be an opportunity for Q & A discussion following each short presentation. Please join […]
Visiting Scholars Present: Taiwan Studies
CGIS South Room S250 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesFairbank Center visiting scholars will share the work of Taiwan filmmaker Edward Yang, research on Qing Dynasty Taiwan war preparations, and new findings on U.S. views of U.S.-China AI competition. Please join us for this fascinating workshop! Presenters: Ruochen Bo, 2022-23 Hou Family Pre-doctoral Fellow in Taiwan Studies Bo will talk about the iconic Taiwan […]
Daniel A. Bell – China’s Struggle between Communism and Confucianism
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Daniel A. Bell, Professor, Chair of Political Theory with the Faculty of Law, University of Hong KongDiscussants: Peter Bol, Charles H. Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, […]
Fairbank Center Visiting Scholars Workshop
CGIS South Room S250 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesWhat do gender politics, the Sino-Japanese War, Cold War anxiety, and the Cultural Revolution have in common? Come for lunch and find out on Tuesday, November 28, when Fairbank Center Visiting Scholars present their recent research! At the workshop, scholars will present research on gender politics in Chinese film, contemporary Taiwanese literature and media studies, environmental […]
Business in China’s “New Era”: Roundtable Discussion with Fairbank Center Visiting Fellows of Practice
CGIS South, Room S050 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesVisiting Fellows Brendan Li, Shujun Li, Tony Liu, and Mitch Presnick will explore the role of business in Xi Jinping’s “new era,” from technology to finance, manufacturing to services, as well as opportunities for collaboration between Chinese and American enterprises. This is an in-person event open to Harvard community members. The discussion will not be […]