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 […]
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 […]
China Humanities Seminar featuring Shoufu Yin — The China that Could Have Been: Counterfactual Imagination and Political Thought, 1313-1621
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Shoufu Yin, Assistant Professor of History, University of British Columbia What could China—or the entire world—have been? Starting in the fourteenth century, hundreds of thousands of individuals in present-day China, Korea, and Vietnam were ruminating on this question in their own ways. They began by placing themselves in a moment in Chinese history, composing […]
Modern China Lecture Series featuring Janet Chen – Medium or Message? The Politics of Language in Broadcasting in Taiwan, 1945-1975
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Janet Y. Chen, Professor of Chinese History; Director, East Asian Studies Program, Princeton University At the end of 1975, the KMT government in Taiwan passed the Radio and Television Law, designating Mandarin as the “primary language of broadcasting” and mandating the reduction of dialect. This legislation, which took effect in January 1976, was the […]
Jim Suk-Fong (Theodora) – Divine Saving in Greek and Chinese Polytheism
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Jim Suk-Fong (Theodora), Associate Professor, Ancient Greek History, The University of Nottingham; HYI Library Research Scholar, 2024Chair/Discussant: Michael Puett, Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History and Anthropology; Director, Asia Center, Harvard University Contrary to the tendency to study ancient Mediterranean religions in isolation from religions in the Far East, this project brings together […]
Michael C. Davis — Freedom Undone: The Assault on Liberal Values and Institutions in Hong Kong
124 Mount Auburn Street Suite 200N, Ash Center Seminar Room 225 124 Mt. Auburn St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Michael Davis, Global Fellow, Wilson Center; Senior Research Scholar, Weatherhead East Asia Institute; Professor of Law and International Affairs, O.P. Jindal Global University. Discussant: Dennis Kwok, Partner, Elliott Kwok Levine Jaroslaw Neils LLP What happens when liberal constitutional institutions guaranteeing basic freedoms are undone? Can Freedom survive the loss of separation of powers with the […]
Asia Beyond Borders: Transnational Activist Connections from Sun and Ho’s Day to this Era of Lennon Walls and Three-Finger Salutes
CGIS South, Room S050 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Chancellor's Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine Moderator: James Robson, James C. Kralik and Yunli Lou Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations; Harvard College Professor; Director, Harvar-Yenching Institute In-person event. RSVP appreciated. This presentation will look at some of the various ways that activists fighting for change in different parts of Asia have learned […]
Sheng Liu — Why Climatic Uncertainty Matters to Building Energy Performance: Case Studies in a Subtropical High-Density City
Pierce Hall 100F 29 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Sheng Liu, Assistant Professor, School of Architecture, Southwest Jiaotong University; Visiting Scholar, Harvard-China Project (SEAS) and Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) Dr. Sheng Liu is currently an Assistant Professor in the School of Architecture, Southwest Jiaotong University who works on climate-responding architecture design and low-carbon city design. His research interests include sustainable architecture design, building performance simulation and […]
Laikwan Pang – One and All: The Logic of Chinese Sovereignty
Presented via ZoomSpeakers: Laikwan Pang, Chinese University of Hong KongYurou Zhong, University of TorontoHang Tu, National University of SingaporeModerator:David Der-wei Wang, Harvard UniversityCo-Sponsors: East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard UniversityChiang Ching-kuo FoundationFairbank Center for Chinese Studies Presented via Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_jmaBY41-TSS6wjgs6fWQmQ Venue
Sung Eun Kim – Circumventing the Liberal Order: Protectionism with Chinese Characteristics
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Sung Eun Kim, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and International Relations, Korea University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2024-25Chair/Discussant: Stephen Chaudoin, Assistant Professor, Government, Harvard University This talk will explore how China navigates its position as a rising power within the U.S.-led liberal economic order by employing veiled protectionist measures that align with international rules […]
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 […]
JFK Jr. Forum – A Conversation with Ambassador Kevin Rudd
JFK Jr. Forum, Harvard Kennedy School 79 John F. Kennedy St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Kevin Rudd, Australia's Ambassador to the United States and Former Prime Minister of Australia Moderators:Graham Alison, Douglas Dillon Professor of Government, Harvard UniversityMark Wu, Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies; Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law In Rudd’s summary, Xi is "part emperor and part revolutionary socialist." Drawing on his direct experience with Xi, […]