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Tony Saich and Jesse Turiel – Polling China: Understanding Public Opinion Across China
Speakers: Tony Saich, Ash Center Director, and Jesse Tureil, PhD candidate, Boston University Join us for a conversation with Ash Center Director and Daewoo Professor of International Affairs Tony Saich and Jesse Turiel, a PhD candidate from Boston University as they discuss their groundbreaking public opinion survey project in China. Starting in 2003, Saich developed a series […]
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Leta Hong Fincher – The Feminist Awakening in China
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesRead the event summary here Speaker: Leta Hong Fincher, Author Listen to Leta Hong Fincher's podcast interview with the Fairbank Center's "Harvard on China" podcast: Read and download the transcript for this podcast here. Leta Hong Fincher 洪理达 is author of the book Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China (Verso 2018). On the eve of International […]
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Jing-Bao Nie – In search of a Benevolent Polity: Eldery Suicide in China and a Confucian Socio-Ethical Vision of Eldercare
Speaker: Professor Jing-Bao Nie, University of Otago, New Zealand Chair: Professor Arthur Kleinman, Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University; Professor of Medical Anthropology and Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School Part of the Asia Center Seminar Series
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Jing-Bao Nie – Reclaiming a sense of common humanity: a Chinese vision for transcultural and global bioethics
TMEC Building, Harvard Medical School, Room 106 260 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Jing-Bao Nie, University of Otago Lunch will be available.
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China’s War on Smuggling: Law, Economic Life, and the Making of the Modern State, 1842–1965
Speaker: Professor Philip Thai, Assistant Professor of History, Northeastern University Chair: Professor Arunabh Ghosh, Assistant Professor of History, Harvard University Asia Center Seminar Series
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Lan Pei-Chia – Raising Global Families: Global Parenting and Class Inequality in Taiwan
Speaker: Prof. Lan Pei-Chia, National Taiwan University Chair: Prof. Andrew Gordon, Harvard University; Acting Director, Harvard-Yenching Institute https://harvard-yenching.org/events/raising-global-families-global-parenting-and-class-inequality-taiwan Based on in-depth interviews with ethnic Chinese parents from more than a hundred families in Taiwan and Boston, my new book Raising Global Families examines how parents navigate transnational mobilities and negotiate cultural boundaries to cope with uncertainties and […]
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East Asian Legal Studies Open House
Austin Hall Room 308 1515 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA, United StatesAn opportunity to meet EALS Faculty, Staff, Research Fellows, and the 2018-2019 Visiting Scholars Remarks at 3:00 p.m. Light refreshments will be served.
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Panel Discussion: The End of Concern: Maoist China, Activism, and Asian Studies
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesPanelists: Fabio Lanza, University of Arizona Ellen Schrecker, Yeshiva University Andrew Gordon, Harvard University Joseph Esherick, University of California San Diego Sugata Bose, Harvard University Lien-Hang Nguyen, Columbia University Bruce Cumings, University of Chicago Moderator: Karen Thornber, Harvard University Asia Center Organized by: Arunabh Ghosh, Harvard University Co-Sponsored by: Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Harvard University Asia Center Reischauer Institute […]
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Frank Lavin – Is China ready for the international major leagues?
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesRead the event summary here Speaker: Ambassador Frank Lavin, CEO of Export Now
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Fabio Lanza – Liberation through Labor? The Urban Commune Experiment in Beijing
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Fabio Lanza, University of Arizona In the years between 1958 and 1962, the Urban Commune movement was promoted as a radical effort to change the daily lives of city residents. By inserting women into the “productive” life of factory work, the movement also aimed at achieving a new form of everyday, based on a true equality of gender relationships, one […]
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China’s Anti-Poverty Miracle?
JFK Jr. Forum, Harvard Kennedy School 79 John F. Kennedy St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesPanelists: Lu Mai Secretary General, China Development Research Foundation Rohini Pande Rafik Hariri Professor of International Political Economy, Harvard Kennedy School Anthony Saich Daewoo Professor of International Affairs and Director, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School Graham Allison (Moderator) Douglas Dillon Professor of Government, Harvard Kennedy School
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Panel Discussion – Strongman Politics in the 21st Century
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeakers: Elsa Clavé, Harvard University Asia Center Ayşe Kadıoğlu, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University Joseph Fewsmith, Boston University Valerie Sperling, Clark University Moderator: Thomas Vallely, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School Listen again on Soundcloud: As the role of "strongman" leaders on the world stage appears to be […]
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