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  • Adrian Zenz – Recent Developments in Xinjiang

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

    Speaker: Adrian Zenz, Lecturer in social research methods, European School of Culture & Theology, Germany Moderator: Mark Elliott, Vice Provost, International Affairs, Harvard University Co-Sponsored by: Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies East Asian Legal Studies Program, Harvard Law School Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program Listen again on

  • Reischauer Lecture Series – Stephen Owen

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

    Listen Again:  Speaker: Stephen Owen, James Bryant Conant University Professor, Emeritus, Harvard University Stephen Owen is a sinologist specializing in premodern literature, lyric poetry, and comparative poetics. Much of his work has focused on the middle period of Chinese literature (200-1200), however, he has also written on literature of the early period and the Qing.

  • Reischauer Lecture Series – Stephen Owen

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

    Listen Again:  Speaker: Stephen Owen, James Bryant Conant University Professor, Emeritus, Harvard University Stephen Owen is a sinologist specializing in premodern literature, lyric poetry, and comparative poetics. Much of his work has focused on the middle period of Chinese literature (200-1200), however, he has also written on literature of the early period and the Qing.

  •  40 Years of Economic Reform and Opening: Achievements and Challenges

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

    Speakers: Li Shi, Beijing Normal University Tao Ran, Renmin University of China Qin Qianhong, Wuhan University Discussant: Meg Rithmire, Harvard Business School

  • Cao Yin — From Policemen to Revolutionaries: A Sikh Diaspora in Global Shanghai, 1885-1945

    Speaker: Cao Yin, Tsinghua University This talk will uncover the less-known story of Sikh emigrants in Shanghai in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It argues that the cross-border circulation of personnel and knowledge across the British colonial and the Sikh diasporic networks, facilitated the formation of the Sikh community in Shanghai, eventually making this

  • Exhibition Opening – Eye Eye Nose Mouth: Art, Disability, and Mental Illness in Nanjing, China and Shiga-ken, Japan

    Japan Friends of Harvard Concourse, CGIS South, Lower Level 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United States

    This exhibition at the Harvard University Asia Center explores the intersections of art, disability, and mental health by displaying original works on paper and sculptures created by ten groundbreaking, self-taught artists from China and Japan. Their compelling, formally innovative works come in a wide range of styles and media, from gestural abstractions to proliferating figurations, from

  • Workshop: The Birth of the Chinese Population

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

    Speaker: Malcolm Thompson, An Wang Postdoctoral Fellow Discussant: Gail Hershatter, Professor of History, UC–Santa Cruz Abstract: What kind of problem is "the population problem" in China? That it would be a problem, or at least an issue, seems clear, but this tells us little about how, or why, it was specifically problematized there for the

  • Neuhauser Lecture featuring Susan Thornton – Can We Live with China? A Roadmap for Co-evolution

    Listen again:  Read and download the transcript for this event here.   Speaker: Susan Thornton, Former Acting Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Susan Thornton was Acting Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs at the Department of State during the first 18 months of the Trump administration. Prior to her departure,

  • Allan Layug – Order in International Thought: Unpacking China’s Concept of World Order

    Speaker: Allan Layug, PhD Candidate, University of Queensland; Associate, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Discussant: Robert Ross, Professor of Political Science, Boston College How do we conceptualize China’s world order? What are its defining characteristics? Whose ideas matter in conceptualizing it—and why? And how do the different conceptions affect the Chinese world-ordering projects in the 21st

  • Felix Wemheuer – Rebels in Power: Factionalism in Shandong during China’s Cultural Revolution (1966-1969)

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

    Speaker: Felix Wemheuer, Chair Professor of Modern China Studies, University of Cologne During the early Cultural Revolution (1966-1969), factional conflicts inside the CCP (Communist Party of China) and within the society resulted in civil war and the almost collapse of the party-state. Wemheuer will present Shandong Province as a case study for the development of factional conflicts at

  • Douglas Paal – The Taiwan Relations Act at Forty

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

    Speaker: Douglas Paal, Distinguished Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Former Director, American Institute in Taiwan