Karine Chemla – Historiography and History of Mathematical Symbolism: A View from Chinese Sources
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Karine Chemla, Director of Research, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique The common historiography of mathematical symbolism holds that it is a “European invention.” This view has been disputed based on Arabic, Sanskrit and Chinese sources. These challenges to the mainstream historiography, however, tacitly accept the common understanding of what mathematical symbolism means. In […]
Dongsheng Zang — China’s Reception of the AI Revolution
Austin Hall Room 308 1515 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Dongsheng Zang, Associate Professor of Law, University of Washington School of LawDongsheng Zang joined the faculty at University of Washington School of Law full-time in 2006, after serving as a visiting assistant professor in 2005-06. His teaching and research areas include international law and comparative study of Chinese law. In recent years, his research […]
PRC @ 75 Series — Bao Pu — An Insider’s View of Mao’s Reign: The Life of Bao Tong, Communist Reformer
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Bao Pu, Founder, New Century Press, Hong Kong Discussant: Michael Puett, Director, Harvard University Asia Center; Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History and Anthropology, Harvard University Mao Zedong’s 26-year reign profoundly shaped the People's Republic of China. And yet while there have been numerous social, political, and economic analyses of the PRC, the […]
Yao Yu — China’s Natural Rubber Plantation in the 1950s: A Global View
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Yao Yu, Professor, History, East China Normal University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2024-25Chair/Discussant: Victor Seow, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences, Harvard University Venue
CID Speaker Series: China and the Global Economy
Ellwood Democracy Lab - Rubenstein 414AB 79 JFK St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeakers:David Yang, Director, Center for History and Economics and Professor of EconomicsJie Bai, HKS Associate Professor of Public PolicyMark Wu, Director, Fairbank Center for China Studies; Henry L. Stimson Professor of LawShengqiao Lin, CID and Fairbank Center Post-Doctoral Fellow The need for policy and public engagement with China---through rigorous analysis, informed perspectives and constructive dialogue--- […]
Digital China Initiative Workshop — Beyond Chatbots: RAG and Agent
Room 202, 61 Kirkland St. 61 Kirkland St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesThis workshop delves deeper into advanced applications of Large Language Models (LLMs) beyond simple chatbot interfaces. Participants will explore how to leverage APIs to connect various tools with LLMs, build private knowledge bases for more accurate and context-specific generation, and utilize agents to expand the capabilities of LLMs in Literay Sinitic Studies. Target Audience: Workshop […]
Amit Prasad — Contestations over Stem Cell Ethics and the US-China Tech War: What Should We Do with Their Orientalist and Colonial Framing?
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Amit Prasad, Associate Professor of History and Sociology, Georgia Tech Part of the Science and Technology in Asia series. Sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center. Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Presented via Zoom. Register at: https://scholar.harvard.edu/seow/STinAsia Venue
Urban China Lecture Series featuring Zhang Lei – Urban Planning and Planners in China: Continuity and Change
Presented via ZoomSpeakers: Zhang Lei, Renmin UniversityProfessional planning in China has changed over the past four decades, shifting from a focus on market-oriented reforms to a focus on the environment and people-centered practice. This lecture will discuss these changes at three different scales. First, what has changed along with the transition in the urban planning system? Second, I examine […]
Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring David Zweig — China’s Battle for Talent and Technology
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: David Zweig, Professor Emeritus, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; Distinguished Visiting Professor of Taipei School of Economics and Political Science, National Tsinghua University, Taiwan; Vice President, Center for China and Globalization (Beijing) In the mid-1990s, China’s hope for a “reverse brain drain” of overseas scientists, academics, and entrepreneurs stalled. So, in […]
Zhang Jing — A Modernization Marching to Revolution: Science, Technology, and Diplomacy in Mao’s China
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Zhang Jing, Associate Professor, Department of History, Peking University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2024-25Chair/Discussant, Arunabh Ghosh, Associate Professor of History, Harvard University As a set of terms, “modernization” and its earlier discursive forms, such as “industrialization” and “Westernization,” have been continuously invoked by historical actors and historians throughout over a century of Chinese history, particularly […]
Digital China Initiative Workshop — Beyond Chatbots: RAG and Agent
Room 202, 61 Kirkland St. 61 Kirkland St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesThis workshop delves deeper into advanced applications of Large Language Models (LLMs) beyond simple chatbot interfaces. Participants will explore how to leverage APIs to connect various tools with LLMs, build private knowledge bases for more accurate and context-specific generation, and utilize agents to expand the capabilities of LLMs in Literay Sinitic Studies. Target Audience: Workshop […]
Exhibit: Dunhuang and Beyond
Sackler Building, Lower Level 485 Broadway, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesA major milestone and world-renowned heritage site within Silk Road networks, Dunhuang preserves more than 400 embellished Buddhist cave shrines in present-day northwest China. Dunhuang’s cave shrines date from the fifth to fourteenth centuries. Each encloses visitors within murals and carved figures that depict Buddhist legends and paradises. Chronicling innumerable exemplary works of Buddhist artmaking […]