Urban China Lecture Series Featuring Koji Hirata — Local Governments and Central SOEs: Historical Evidence from Angang
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Koji Hirata, Monash University This presentation examines the city of Anshan in Liaoning Province as a case study to explore the interactions between large state-owned enterprises and local governments in Mao-era China. Anshan was home to China's largest steel enterprise at the time, Anshan Iron and Steel Works (Angang). Although Angang was primarily controlled […]
Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Jianbo Huang — Can China Live Without Religion?
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Jianbo Huang, Professor of Anthropology, East China Normal University China is often labeled as the least religious nation in the world, yet its people express a rich tapestry of spirituality. This talk reveals that Chinese citizens engage with a broad spectrum of religious and spiritual traditions—frequently in informal settings and beyond traditional institutional boundaries. These […]
China Economy Lecture Featuring Heng Wang — How is China Affecting the International Economic Order?
CGIS South Room S250 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Heng Wang, Professor, Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management UniversityModerator: Mark Wu, Henry Stimson Professor of Law, Harvard Law School; Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies China’s practices, such as those under the extra-regional Belt and Road Initiative, are selectively reshaping international economic order. More recently, China's role in the international economic […]
Taiwan Studies+
Plimpton Room (133), Barker Center 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeakers: Moira Weigel, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University Sarah Plovnick, Hou Family Postdoctoral Fellow in Taiwan Studies, Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesYedong Sh-Chen, Ph.D. Candidate in East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard UniversityChang-Min Yu, Associate Professor, National Taiwan UniversityHardy Stewart, Hou Family Predoctoral Fellow in Taiwan Studies, Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesChia-wei Lai, Ph.D. Candidate […]
Film Screening: This Woman (這個女人)
Museum of Fine Arts, Remis Auditorium 465 Huntingon Ave, Boston, Massachusetts, United StatesDirected by Alan Zhang (China, 2023, 90 min.). Mandarin with English subtitles. In her striking debut feature, filmmaker Alan Zhang explores the life of a 35-year-old woman who, after losing her decade-long job during the COVID-19 pandemic, returns to her hometown from Beijing. As she works to support herself, her parents, and her child, she […]
Esther Hu — Soong Mayling and Wartime China, 1937-1945: Deploying Words as Weapons
CGIS South Room S250 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Esther Hu, Research Affiliate, Boston University Center for the Study of Asia, Pardee School of Global StudiesChair: William Kirby, T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies; Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration; Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor; Director, Harvard China Fund Soong Mayling and Wartime China, 1937-1945: Deploying Words as Weapons focuses on the First […]
Hang Tu — 𝘚𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘙𝘦𝘱𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤: 𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘦 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘢𝘰𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘗𝘢𝘴𝘵
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Hang Tu, Assistant Professor of Chinese Studies, National University of SingaporeModerator: David Wang, Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University How does emotion shape the landscape of public intellectual debate? In Sentimental Republic, Hang Tu proposes emotion as a new critical framework to approach a post-Mao cultural controversy. As […]
Urban China Lecture Series Featuring Amy Zhang – Circular Ecologies: Environmentalism and Waste Politics in Urban China
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Amy Zhang, New York University After four decades of reform and development, China is confronting a domestic waste crisis. Starting in the early 2000s, Chinese policymakers came to see waste management as an object of environmental governance central to the creation of “modern” cities. China’s cities started experiments with the circular economy, in which […]
Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Admiral James Stavridis, USN (Ret.) — Crisis Scenario: Imagining U.S.-China Relations and War in the Pacific
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Admiral James Stavridis, USN (Ret.), Partner and Vice Chair, Global Affairs, The Carlyle Group; Chair of the Board of Trustees, Rockefeller Foundation Admiral James Stavridis is Partner and Vice Chair, Global Affairs of The Carlyle Group and Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Rockefeller Foundation, following five years as the 12th Dean […]
Trump 2.0: Journalistic Insights on U.S. – Asia Relations
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesPanelists:Steven L Herman, Broadcast Journalist, Voice of AmericaJosh Rogin, Columnist, The Washington PostEdward Wong, Diplomatic Correspondent, The New York Times Moderator: James Robson, James C. Kralik and Yunli Lou Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations; Harvard College Professor; Director, Harvard-Yenching Institute This discussion will explore the impact of President Trump’s second term on Asia, examining […]
Li Miao — Retaining Desire for Social Mobility Within and Beyond Schooling: A Longitudinal Ethnography of Migrant Youth in China
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Li Miao, Professor, Department of Sociology, Shandong University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2024-25Chair/Discussant: Emily Hannum, Professor of Sociology and Education; Associate Dean, School of Arts & Sciences, University of Pennsylvania Based on the results of China’s seventh national population census in 2020, 71.09 million children of migrant-peasant workers have participated in rural-urban migration for family […]
Fu Hualing in Conversation With Bill Alford
Austin Hall Room 308 1515 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Professor Fu Hualing, Dean of the Faculty of Law; Warren Chan Professor in Human Rights and Responsibilities, University of Hong Kong Discussant: Bill Alford, Jerome A. and Joan L. Cohen Professor of Law, Harvard Law School Fu Hualing is Professor of Law and holder of the Warren Chan Professorship in Human Rights and Responsibilities at […]