2025 Gender Studies Workshop — The Beauty and the Book: Women, Knowledge, Literature, and Book Culture in Late Imperial China and Beyond
Yenching Auditorium 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesThis year's Gender Studies Workshop—The Beauty and the Book: Women, Knowledge, Literature, and Book Culture in Late Imperial China and Beyond: A Conference in Honor of Ellen Widmer—will explore new directions in the study of writings by and about women in late imperial China and will take place on April 25, 2025. The conference is […]
Film Screening: Wang Bing’s Youth Trilogy – Youth (Homecoming) Qingchun: Gui
Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center 24 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesMore than two decades after making his monumental West of the Tracks (2002), documentary auteur Wang Bing (b. 1967) has released a new cinematic fresco of Chinese workers. Whereas his debut work memorializes the declining Socialist industrial complex in Northeast China and its aging employees, the Youth trilogy chronicles the plights of young migrant workers […]
Film Screening: Wang Bing’s Youth Trilogy – Youth (Hard Times) Qingchun: Ku
Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center 24 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesMore than two decades after making his monumental West of the Tracks (2002), documentary auteur Wang Bing (b. 1967) has released a new cinematic fresco of Chinese workers. Whereas his debut work memorializes the declining Socialist industrial complex in Northeast China and its aging employees, the Youth trilogy chronicles the plights of young migrant workers […]
Visiting Scholar Presentation featuring Zimeng Pan — China’s Current Patriotic Education: From Policy to Practice
CGIS South, Room S050 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Zimeng Pan, 2024-25 Visiting Scholar; Professor in the Department of International Studies and Director of the Research Center for Discourse and Society, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics China’s current patriotic education is deeply embedded in President Xi's ideology of Cultural Confidence with an aim of strengthening national identity and unity through traditional cultural […]
China Economy Lecture featuring Ka Zeng — Chains of Resilience? The U.S.-China Trade War and Firm Backshoring
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Ka Zeng, Professor of Political Science, University of Massachusetts-Amherst Amid rising U.S.-China strategic competition, efforts to decouple the two largest economies or mitigate the vulnerabilities posed by increased economic interdependence through “de-risking” strategies have threatened to upend the extensive supply chain relationships between the two countries. To what extent have recent geopolitical tensions generated […]
Urban China Lecture Series Featuring Claudia Huang — Play a day, count a day: planning for old age in contemporary urban China
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Claudia Huang, California State University, Long Beach The current generational cohort of Chinese retirees have gotten a tough bargain in many ways. Because the one-child policy created an upside-down population pyramid, the customary practice of aging at home under the care of an adult child is becoming increasingly untenable. At the same time, the […]
Film Screening, Part 2 – River Elegy (河殇), Episodes 3 – 6 featuring Andrew S. Erickson & Shih-Diing Liu
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesAndrew S. Erickson, Professor of Strategy, China Maritime Studies Institute, U.S. Naval War College; Visiting Scholar 2024-25, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard UniversityShih-Diing Liu, Professor of Communication and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Macau; Visiting Scholar 2024-25, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University Join us for the […]
2025 Charles Neuhauser Memorial Lecture featuring Ambassador R. Nicholas Burns — Lessons from the Front Lines of the U.S.-China Relationship
Hall C, Science Center 1 Oxford St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: R. Nicholas Burns, U.S. Ambassador to China, 2021-2025; Roy and Barbara Goodman Family Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Relations, Harvard Kennedy School Ambassador Nicholas Burns is the Roy and Barbara Goodman Family Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Relations at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. He is the […]
Sigrid Schmalzer — The Connected Worlds of Dazhai and the Whole Earth Catalog: Capitalism, Colonialism, and Alternative Technology Movements
CGIS South, Room S153 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Sigrid Schmalzer, University of Massachusetts Amherst Sigrid Schmalzer is Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her research focuses on social, cultural, and political aspects of the history of science in modern China and also includes the history of science activism transnationally. She is the author of The People’s Peking Man: Popular Science […]
China Humanities Seminar featuring Robert Campany — Traditions of Exemplary Transcendents (Liexian zhuan 列仙傳): A Reading
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Robert Campany, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair in Humanities; Professor of Asian Studies, Vanderbilt University Liexian zhuan, plausibly attributed to the late Western Han scholiast and court official Liu Xiang 劉向 (79-8 BCE), is the earliest extant collection of anecdotes about individuals deemed to have transcended the limits of the human condition to become beings […]
Film Screening: Wang Bing’s Youth Trilogy – Youth (Spring) Qingchun
Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center 24 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesMore than two decades after making his monumental West of the Tracks (2002), documentary auteur Wang Bing (b. 1967) has released a new cinematic fresco of Chinese workers. Whereas his debut work memorializes the declining Socialist industrial complex in Northeast China and its aging employees, the Youth trilogy chronicles the plights of young migrant workers […]
2025 Graduating Student Presentations
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesFrom exploring 8th Century art to examining contemporary geopolitics, Harvard’s Class of 2025 is full of individuals engaged in path-breaking research in Chinese Studies. We’ve selected a few outstanding projects to provide you a glimpse of the bold ideas being put forward by our graduating students. Come hear lightning talks from the following students: Joyce Chen - […]