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Critical Issues Confronting China Series Featuring Jennifer Pan – Wielding Welfare to Support Autocracy
Speaker: Jennifer Pan, Associate Professor of Communication, Stanford University Moderator: William Overholt, Senior Research Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School Jennifer Pan is an Associate Professor of Communication at Stanford University. Her research focuses on political communication and authoritarian politics. Pan uses experimental and computational methods with large-scale datasets on political activity in China and other authoritarian
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Tatsuya Nakanishi – Chinese-Speaking Muslims’ Responses to Islamic Intellectual Trends from West, South and Central Asia during the Nineteenth Century
Speaker: Tatsuya Nakanishi, Associate Professor, Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2021-22 Chair/discussant: Ali Asani, Murray A. Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures, Harvard University HYI Visiting Scholars Talk Presented via Zoom Registration link: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEocuyrrDwiGdZ8o3s2RwLBWoSR8cKtEDE8 More information: https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/chinese-speaking-muslims-responses-to-islamic-intellectual-trends-from-west-south-and-central-asia-during-the-nineteenth-century/
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Yves Tiberghien -Why Has the East Asian Covid Model Diverged over Delta and Omicron?
Speaker: Yves Tiberghien, Professor of Political Science; Konwakai Chair in Japanese Research, University of British Columbia Moderator: Christina L. Davis, Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Professor of Government; Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University This seminar is part of the Special Series on Policy Innovations in Crises, supported
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Contemporary Chinese Society Lecture Series featuring Ethan Michelson – Decoupling: Gender Injustice in China’s Divorce Courts
Speaker: Ethan Michelson, Professor of Sociology, Professor and Chair, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Indiana University-Bloomington; Professor of Law, IU Maurer School of Law Presented via Zoom Also streaming on YouTube Transcript: Download Transcript
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Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring William Alan Reinsch – China as Best Customer and Biggest Threat – Trade Policy in the Biden Era
Speaker: William Alan Reinsch, Senior Adviser and Scholl Chair in International Business, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)Moderator: William Overholt, Senior Research Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School William Reinsch holds the Scholl Chair in International Business at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and is a senior adviser at Kelley, Drye & Warren
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Environment in Asia Series featuring Brian Lander – The Ecology of China’s Early Political Systems
Speaker: Brian Lander, Assistant Professor of History, Brown UniversityDiscussant: Ling Zhang, Associate Professor, Department of History, Boston College By encouraging us to rethink familiar historical processes through an ecological lens, the field of environmental history provides new insights into the past. Lander's book The King’s Harvest uses such an ecological perspective to examine the formation of
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China’s Role in the World: Is China Exporting Authoritarianism?
Speakers: Elizabeth Economy, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University Sheena Chestnut Greitens, Associate Professor, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin Naima Green-Riley, PhD Candidate, Department of Government, Harvard University Maria Repnikova, Assistant Professor in Global Communication, Department of Communication, Georgia State University Chair: Alastair Iain Johnston, The Governor James
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Yuen Yuen Ang – Does Corruption Really Disappear as Countries Grow Richer?
Speaker: Yuen Yuen Ang, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Discussant: Patrick O. Okigbo, founder of Nextier and M-RCBG senior fellow This webinar is part of M-RCBG's weekly Business & Government Series. Yuen Yuen Ang is the author of How China Escaped the Poverty Trap (2016) and China's Gilded Age: The
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Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Guobin Yang – Listening to the Wuhan Lockdown
Speaker: Guobin Yang, Grace Lee Boggs Professor of Communication and Sociology, Annenberg School for Communication and the Department of Sociology, University of PennsylvaniaModerator/discussant: Nara Dillon, Senior Lecturer on Government, Harvard University The sealing off of Wuhan from January 23 to April 8, 2020 was an extraordinary historical event in modern world history. Recently published by Columbia
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Nirupama Rao – The Fractured Himalaya
Speaker: Nirupama Rao, Former Foreign Secretary of India and Ambassador to the United States and China Chair: Sugata Bose, Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs Part of the Borders in Modern Asia Seminar Series Co-sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, and the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute
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China Humanities Seminar featuring Yuhang Li – Engineering Religious Bliss at the Qing Court: Jile shijie in the Beihai Park
Speaker: Yuhang Li, University of Wisconsin-Madison In 1770, with the purpose of presenting an unusual surprising gift to his mother Empress Dowager Chongqing (1692-1777) for her eightieth birthday, Emperor Qianlong (1711-1799) ordered the imperial architectural department to construct a Buddhist compound named jile shijie or blissful land on the northern shore of imperial Beihai Park next
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