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  • Ma Xinrong — Migration Pathway, Precariousness and Migration Control: the Case of Irregular Migrants From the Philippines and Myanmar to China

    Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    Speaker: MA Xinrong, Associate Professor, Sun Yat-sen University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2025-26Chair/Discussant: Meg Rithmire, James E. Robison Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School China, emerging as a new destination for international migration, has been receiving an increasing number of labor migrants from neighboring countries. Except for limited pilot schemes in border areas, Chinese authorities

  • Asia and Asians at Harvard Conference

    CGIS South CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Harvard’s enduring engagement with Asia has shaped scholarly inquiry, public policy, and campus life—within the University and across the region. This two-day conference convenes faculty, students, alumni, and institutional partners from across Schools and disciplines to examine the evolving relationship between Harvard and Asia from the late nineteenth century to the present and to consider

  • Films from the Film Study Center: Screening and Conversation

    Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center 24 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Please join us, in partnership with ArtsThursdays, for a special screening of short films by Darol Olu Kae, Kendra McLaughlin, Tiff Rekem, and Svetlana Romanova—current fellows at the Film Study Center at Harvard. Following the screening, the filmmakers will participate in a conversation with Dennis Lim, Artistic Director of the New York Film Festival. Tiff Rekem
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  • Wang Junqi — The Evolution of Iconography Associated with the Great Compassion Mantra

    Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    Speaker: WANG Junqi, Research Fellow, Institute for the Study of Buddhism and Religious Theory; Associate Professor, School of Philosophy, Renmin University of China; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2025-26Chair/Discussant: Parimal Patil, Professor of Religion and Indian Philosophy, Harvard University The Great Compassion Mantra (大悲呪) is one of the most widely recited mantras in Chinese Buddhism, often accompanied

  • Once Burned, Twice Shy: A Conversation on U.S.- China Trade with Ambassador Katherine Tai

    Hall D, Science Center 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Ambassador Katherine C. Tai, U.S. Trade Representative (2021-2025)Moderator: Mark Wu, Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law, Harvard Law School; Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University Join us for a conversation with Ambassador Katherine C. Tai, U.S. Trade Representative (2021-2025) on U.S.- China trade relations, moderated by Professor Mark Wu, Director of the

  • Domee Shi — Drawing from Life: Storytelling, Heritage, and Turning the Personal into the Universal

    Radcliffe Knafel Center 10 Garden St., Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Domee Shi, Academy Award–Winning Director, Writer, and Storyteller; Creative Vice President, PixarDiscussant: Ju Yon Kim, Patsy Takemoto Mink Professor of English, Harvard University Join the Academy Award–winning director, animator, and filmmaker Domee Shi for an engaging conversation about creative expression and empathetic storytelling. A self-described “film nerd,” Shi will be joined by Ju Yon Kim, the Patsy Takemoto

  • Aaron Halegua — Fighting Forced Labor on U.S. Soil: Litigation on Behalf of Chinese Workers

    WCC 3008, Wasserstein Hall 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    Speaker: Aaron Halegua, Lead Counsel for Plaintiffs, Wang v. Gold Mantis Construction and Liu v. Wellmade Industries Aaron Halegua leads a boutique litigation firm in New York City focused on labor and employment litigation, with particular experience representing human trafficking and forced labor victims. In 2021, he won $6.9 million for seven Chinese construction workers trafficked to build a

  • Chuncheng Liu — Metricocracy: The Data and Symbolic Politics of a Chinese Social Credit System

    William James Hall, Room 1550 33 kirkland st, cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Chuncheng Liu, Assistant Professor of Communication Studies, Northeastern University Numbers have become the universal language of modern governance. What happens when an authoritarian state attempts to quantify the moral worth of its citizens? Drawing from my fieldwork inside China's social credit system bureaucracy, this talk reveals how a quantification system designed to enhance state

  • Weila Gong — Implementing a Low-Carbon Future: Climate Leadership in Chinese Cities

    Presented via Zoom

    Speaker: Weila Gong, University of California-San Diego Why are some Chinese cities more successful than others in initiating and implementing low-carbon policy actions? Despite being the world’s largest carbon emitter, China has committed to peak carbon emissions before 2030 and to achieving carbon neutrality by 2060. Since the early 2010s, Beijing has selected over one hundred

  • Zong-Rong Lee — Kinship, Business Elite and the Market in Contemporary Taiwan

    Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    Speaker: Zong-Rong LEE, Research Fellow, Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2025-26Chair/Discussant: Frank Dobbin, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences, Harvard University In the fields of history and anthropology, kinship has long been regarded as a crucial factor in shaping the economic organization, political authority, and social mobility of East

  • Fairbank Center Visiting Scholar Presentations: Culture Wars and Philosophical Debates in East Asia and China

    CGIS South Room S250 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    Featuring presentations by two Fairbank Center Visiting Scholars who will share current research. Each short talk will be followed by Q and A discussion. The Cultural Cold War: Moral Re-Armament Movement in East Asia Speaker: Hok Yin Chan, Professor of Chinese and History, City University of Hong Kong; 2025 Visiting Scholar, Fairbank Center for Chinese

  • U.S.-China Cooperation on Climate Change and Clean Energy: A China Energy Dialogue with John Holdren

    Room 230, Littauer Building 79 JFK St., Cambridge, Massachusetts

    Speaker: John Holdren, Teresa and John Heinz Research Professor of Environmental Policy, Harvard Kennedy SchoolIn this inaugural China Energy Dialogue, John Holdren will give a talk on the history of collaboration between scholars at the Belfer Center, Tsinghua University, and other Chinese institutions to identify pathways and challenges to China's goals to peak carbon emissions