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  • Performing Enlightenment: Buddhism and Theater in Early Modern China

    Zoom Registration Required

    Speaker: Mengxiao Wang, Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Southern CaliforniaModerator: Thomas P. Kelly, Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University In early modern China, a major revival of Buddhism coincided with a surging fascination with theater. Buddhist monastics and laypeople increasingly participated in viewing, discussing, and writing plays.

  • Christian Kaps — Charging Fast and Slow: Quantifying the Real-Life Value of EV Charging for Users, OEMs, and the Grid

    Pierce Hall 100F 29 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Christian Kaps, Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Technology and Operations Management (TOM) Unit, Harvard Business School Managing electricity demand is critical for lowering the cost of electrified products, integrating intermittent renewables, and reducing grid expansion needs. With its often flexible demand, electric vehicle (EV) charging has long been considered a promising candidate, yet many managed

  • Modern China Lecture Series featuring Xiaobo Lü — Domination and Mobilization: The Rise and Fall of Political Parties in China’s Republican Era

    CGIS South, Room S050 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    Speaker: Xiaobo Lü, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley Examining the miraculous rise of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the surprising downfall of the Kuomintang (KMT) in the early twentieth century, I reveal that domination and mobilization are key for authoritarian parties to seize state power, challenging the prevailing wisdom

  • Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) at 10: Legal Innovation in Multilateral Development Banks

    WCC 3019 Wasserstein Hall, 1585 Mass. Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    Speaker: Natalie Lichtenstein JD '78, AIIB Inaugural General Counsel (retired) Discussant: Alastair Iain Johnston, The Governor James Albert Noe and Linda Noe Research Professor of China in World Affairs, Harvard University When the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) was launched in 2016, many wondered how this new multilateral development bank (MDB) would be different. China

  • Benjamin Ho — After Liberalism? Political Myths, Order-Building and The Return of History in East Asia 

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

    Speaker: Benjamin Ho, Assistant Professor and Coordinator, China Programme; S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), SingaporeModerator: Mark Wu, Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law, Harvard Law School; Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard UniversityIn recent years, questions have been posed regarding the durability of the current rules-based (liberal) international order and what this

  • Developing the Philippine-U.S. Alliance’s Integrated Deterrence through the CADC: Preparing for a Taiwan Contingency

    Rajen Kilachand Center for Integrated Life Sciences & Engineering, Boston University 610 Commonwealth Ave,, Boston, Massachusetts, United States

    Speaker: Renato Cruz de Castro, De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines The lecture will examine the Philippines’ grand strategy, the Comprehensive Archipelagic Defense Concept (CADC), and how it enables the Philippines to develop the necessary military capabilities to respond to a possible Taiwan contingency. In conclusion, the talk will argue that the AFP’s growing military

  • Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Laikwan Pang — A Sense of Justice: The Struggle with Laws in Hong Kong

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

    Speaker: Laikwan Pang, Choh-Ming Li Professor of Cultural & Religious Studies, Chinese University of Hong KongDiscussant: Li Jie, Ford Foundation Professor of East Asian Studies, Harvard College Professor, Director of Graduate Studies, Harvard UniversityCan a state maintain a sense of justice among its citizenry even as it tightens the legal apparatus of social control?  This

  • Muslim Transnationalism in Modern China: Debates on Hui Identity and Islamic Reform

    CGIS South, Room S050 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    Speaker: Hale Eroğlu, Bogazici University Muslim Transnationalism in Modern China provides a portrait of underrecognized reformists who aimed to turn Muslim subjects into active Chinese citizens and revive “true” Islam in order to aid China’s development and promote peace. Eroğlu examines reformists’ engagement with local and transnational Muslim currents, spanning “orthodox,” “heterodox,” reformist, secular, and

  • On Political Thought in China

    Ellwood Democracy Lab - Rubenstein 414AB 79 JFK St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    Speaker: Daniel Bell, Chair Professor of Political Theory at the University of Hong KongModerator: Rana Mitter, S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations, Harvard Kennedy SchoolJoin us for an afternoon with Professor Daniel Bell, Chair Professor of Political Theory at the University of Hong Kong and an expert on Chinese political thought, to discuss how ancient

  • China’s Industrial Overcapacity: Impacts Beyond the U.S. and Europe

    Ofer 401 Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    Speaker: Padmashree Gehl Sampath, Senior Fellow, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School Led by M-RCBG Senior Fellow Padmashree Gehl Sampath, this study group looks at recent geopolitical changes in light of China’s excessive industrial capacity to assess its implications for other late industrializing economies outside of USA and Europe. It will focus on

  • Uncanny Beliefs: Superstition in Modern Chinese History

    Presented via Zoom

    Speakers: Emily Baum, Professor of History, University of California, IrvineAlbert Wu, Associate Research Fellow, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan Chair: Michael Puett, Victor and William Fung Foundation Director, Harvard University Asia Center; Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History and Anthropology; Harvard College Professor In the early twentieth century, scholars around

  • Celebrating the Scholarship and Legacy of Professor Elizabeth J. Perry

    Yenching Auditorium 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    This conference's registration has reached in-person capacity. You may register to view the livestream at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_t0R6hZJMQx6YR27WJqR3AQ#/registration Co-sponsored with the Harvard University Asia Center and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Conference agenda 9:00–9:20 a.m. Opening Remarks James Robson, Mark Wu, and Michael Puett, introduced by Yuhua Wang Panel I: China in Historical Perspective 9:20–10:50 a.m.Chair: