• Democratic Equality and Confucian Hierarchy

    Safra Center for Ethics 124 Mt. Auburn St., Suite 520N, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Joseph Chan, University of Hong Kong Discussant: Archon Fung, Harvard Kennedy School of Government **Please register HERE no later than Friday, May 12.** NOTE: The paper will be circulated one week in advance to all seminar participants. Joseph Chan is professor of the Department of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Hong Kong. A leading scholar […]

  • An Ethics of Observation. Four Films by Wang Bing

    Three Sisters (San zimei) September 9, 7:00 pm September 30, 4:00 pm France/Hong Kong 2016, DCP, color, 153 min. Mandarin with English subtitles High in the remote Yunnan Mountains live three sisters, ages ten, six and four, abandoned by their mother and left largely alone by a father who must travel vast distances in search […]

  • An Ethics of Observation. Four Films by Wang Bing

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

    Three Sisters (San zimei) September 9, 7:00 pm September 30, 4:00 pm France/Hong Kong 2016, DCP, color, 153 min. Mandarin with English subtitles High in the remote Yunnan Mountains live three sisters, ages ten, six and four, abandoned by their mother and left largely alone by a father who must travel vast distances in search […]

  • Critical Issues Confronting China Series – The U.S. and China: How Should We Assess the Policy of “Engagement?”

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

    Read event summary Speaker: Orville Schell, Asia Society Orville Schell is the Arthur Ross Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relationsat Asia Society in New York. He is a former professor and Dean at the University of California, Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. Schell was born in New York City, graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard University in […]

  • East Asian Legal Studies Open House

    Austin Hall Room 308 1515 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Join East Asian Legal Studies for an opportunity to meet EALS Faculty, Staff, Research Fellows, and the 2017-2018 Visiting Scholars. Light refreshments will be served.

  • Asia Beyond the Headlines: One Belt/One Road in Historical and Global Context

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

    Chair: Professor Elizabeth Perry, Henry Rosovksy Professor of Government; Director, Harvard-Yenching Institute Professor Mark Elliott, Vice Provost of International Affairs;  Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History, Harvard University Professor Michael Szonyi,  Professor of Chinese History; Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University Dr. William Overholt, Senior Fellow, Harvard University Asia Center […]

  • An Ethics of Observation. Four Films by Wang Bing

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

    Three Sisters (San zimei) September 9, 7:00 pm September 30, 4:00 pm France/Hong Kong 2016, DCP, color, 153 min. Mandarin with English subtitles High in the remote Yunnan Mountains live three sisters, ages ten, six and four, abandoned by their mother and left largely alone by a father who must travel vast distances in search […]

  • Identity Politics and Organized Crime

    Austin Hall Room 308 1515 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA, United States

    East Asian Legal Studies talk with Professor J. Mark Ramseyer, Harvard Law School Mark Ramseyer spent most of his childhood in provincial towns and cities in southern Japan, attending Japanese schools for K-6. He returned to the U.S. for college. Before attending law school, he studied Japanese history in graduate school. Ramseyer graduated from HLS […]

  • What to Expect from the 19th Party Congress

    Join us for a discussion about what's going to happen at the 19th Party Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Xiang Bing, Dean of Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business, will speak. Arne Westad, S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations, HKS, will moderate. Refreshments will be served. This event is cosponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese […]

  • An Ethics of Observation. Four Films by Wang Bing

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

    Three Sisters (San zimei) September 9, 7:00 pm September 30, 4:00 pm France/Hong Kong 2016, DCP, color, 153 min. Mandarin with English subtitles High in the remote Yunnan Mountains live three sisters, ages ten, six and four, abandoned by their mother and left largely alone by a father who must travel vast distances in search […]