Taiwan Studies Workshop – Taiwan Elections 2022: Examining the Results
Presented via ZoomPanelists:Lev Nachman, National Chengchi UniversitySara Newland, Smith CollegeChia-hung Tsai, National Chengchi University; 2022-2023 Visiting Scholar, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Moderator: Steven M. Goldstein, Fairbank Center Associate The opposition Kuomintang party achieved what some consider to be a “blue wave” in the November 26 elections for local government offices by winning a total of thirteen […]
The Significance of Small Things: Small Hydropower, Renewable Energy, and Rural Development in the PRC, 1949-1979
Pierce Hall 100F 29 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Arunabh Ghosh, Associate Professor of Modern Chinese History, Harvard UniversityArunabh Ghosh is a historian of modern China, with research and teaching interests in social and economic history, history of science and statecraft, transnational history, and China-India history. Venue
How to Tell the Good Dongbei Story? A Dialogue with Ban Yu 讲好东北故事？班宇谈小说
Presented via ZoomPanelists:Ban, Yu ,Writer班宇（作家）Cui, Qiao, Beijing Contemporary Art Foundation崔峤（北京当代艺术基金会）Michel Hockx, University of Notre Dame贺麦晓（圣母大学）Huang, Ping, East China Normal University黄平（华东师范大学）Liang, Hai, Dalian University of Technology梁海（大连理工大学）Liu, Yan, University of International Business and Economics刘岩（对外经济贸易大学）Zhang, Xuexin, Liaoning Normal University张学昕（辽宁师范大学） Moderators:David Der-wei Wang, Harvard University王德威（哈佛大学）Weijie Song, Rutgers University宋伟杰（罗格斯大学） Sponsors:Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University 哈佛大学费正清中国研究中心Asian Languages and Cultures, Rutgers University […]
Trisha Tsui-Chuan Lin – Mitigating COVID Disinfodemic: Health Misinformation, Digital Literacy and Vaccination in Taiwan
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Trisha Tsui-Chuan Lin, Professor, College of Communication, National Chengchi University, Taiwan; Harvard Yenching Visiting Scholar, 2022-23; Fulbright Senior Researcher, Harvard University, 2022-23 Chair/discussant: Winnie Yip, Professor of the Practice of Global Health Policy and Economics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health During the COVID-19 pandemic, social media algorithms has facilitated the viral spread […]
Shaoda Wang – Judicial Independence, Local Protectionism, and Economic Integration: Evidence from China
Room 105, Hauser Hall 18 Everett St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Shaoda Wang, University of Chicgao Shaoda Wang is an Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy, and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). He also serves as the Deputy Faculty Director at the Energy Policy Institute at UChicago, China center (EPIC-China). He is an […]
China Humanities Seminar featuring Anne Feng – Water Transformation: Buddhist Meditation and Pure Land Art in Tang China
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Anne N. Feng, Assistant Professor of Chinese Art, Boston University This paper investigates the relationship between Buddhist meditation and images in medieval China by reconsidering the development of Pure Land transformation tableaux in Dunhuang caves. Working against previous studies that treat the Sixteen Meditations as a linear step-by-step sequence in which the meditator focuses […]
Urban China Series featuring Tang Beibei – The Making of “New Citizens:” Landless Farmers and Urban Governance in China
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Tang Beibei, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University This talk examines landless farmers who have entered Chinese urban life as urban residents in an organized and managed way as cities expand and spread. It explores in what ways and to what extent the central government’s initiatives on the integration of landless farmers into the urban economy and […]
Stephen Halsey – Rocks and Bugs: Developmentalism and the Environment in Early Twentieth Century China
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Stephen Halsey Presented via Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJItfuuopzgpH9QA2pFC6FpjH_0wL_Nd7nB1 Venue
Zhou Zhenyu – The origin of ancient Austronesian: from the perspective of archaeological discoveries in Southeast China
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Zhou Zhenyu, Associate Professor, Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2022-23 Discussant: Rowan Flad, John E. Hudson Professor of Archaeology, Harvard University Harvard-Yenching Institute Visiting Scholar talk Seating is limited. Masks are required for all in-person audience members. Venue
Liang Emlyn Yang – Understanding and Enhancing Climate Resilience in the Mekong Basin
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Liang Emlyn Yang, Senior Researcher/Lecturer, Department of Geography, Chair of Human Geography, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany Dr. Liang Emlyn Yang (杨亮, 字也明) is a geographer studying on human-environment relations with focus on long-term climate adaptation and resilience. Household survey, stakeholder network analysis, agent-based model and geo-information systems are often applied in the […]
Eugene Wang – “Bardo” before the Bardo: Is There an ancient Chinese Book of the Dead?
Barker Center, Thompson Room 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MASpeaker: Eugene Wang, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art, Harvard UniversityWhat is it like to be dead? Two Books of Dead dominate our thinking about afterlife and near-death experience. One is the ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead, the other the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Granted, both titles are misleading. So the use […]
Asia-Pacific Practices: A Conversation with Brian Burke of Shearman & Sterling
WCC 1010, Wasserstein Hall 1585 Mass. Ave., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Brian Burke, Partner, Shearman & Sterling. Brian Burke has conducted dozens of investigations across Asia-Pacific and is experienced in FCPA/anti-corruption, economic sanctions, antitrust, shareholder litigation, anti-money laundering, and other compliance and investigative matters. Mr. Burke acted as lead advisor to GlaxoSmithKline on the landmark bribery case against GSK in China, the first such case […]