Events

Urban China Lecture Series Featuring Qiao Shitong

Presented via Zoom

Speaker: Qiao Shitong, Duke University This event series is sponsored by the MIT Sustainable Urbanization Lab, the University of British Columbia’s School of Community and Regional Planning, and the Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. Zoom Meeting Link: https://mit.zoom.us/j/97147498753 Venue

Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Chenggang XU — How Will China’s Institutional Problems Cripple its Economy?

CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United States

Speaker: Chenggang XU, Senior Research Scholar, Stanford Center on China's Economic and Institutions; Visiting Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University; Visiting Professor, Department of Finance, Imperial College London Discussant: Robert Ross, Professor of Political Science, Boston College; Fairbank Center Associate Chenggang Xu is a Senior Research Scholar at the Stanford Center on China's Economic and Institutions, […]

China Economy Lecture featuring Christine Wong

CGIS South Room S250 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Speaker: Christine Wong, Visiting Research Professor, East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore More information coming soon. Venue

Daisy Yan Du – Chinese Animation: Multiplicities in Motion

Room S030, CGIS South 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Speaker: Daisy Yan Du, Associate Professor, Division of Humanities, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology  Moderator: Alexander Zahlten, Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University  Registration appreciated for planning purposes.  Chinese Animation: Multiplicities in Motion is the first edited volume that explores the multiple histories, geographies, industries, technologies, media, and transmedialities of Chinese animation, from early animated special […]

China Humanities Seminar featuring Tamara Chin — How to Do Things with Loanwords: Premodern Sino-Xenic Language Contact in Modern Philology, Linguistics, and Politics, 1870-1970

Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Speaker: Tamara Chin, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Brown University The study of ancient language contact traditionally lacked prestige in both Confucian classical studies and European philology.  This changed somewhat in the early twentieth century.  The discovery of multilingual manuscript archives in and around Dunhuang coincided with the internationalization of Western-style linguistics, prompting both scientific and political interest […]

Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Li Zhang — Anxious China: Rethinking Therapeutic Governing Before and After the Pandemic

CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United States

Speaker: Li Zhang, Professor of Anthropology, University of California-Davis Discussant: Arthur Kleinman, Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology; Professor of Medical Anthropology in Social Medicine; Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard University Li Zhang (Ph.D. Cornell 1998) is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California-Davis. She is the author of three award-winning books: Strangers in […]

Modern China Lecture featuring Joseph Ho — Developing Mission: Photography, Filmmaking, and American Missionaries in Modern China

CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

Speaker: Joseph Ho, Associate Professor of History, Albion College, Michigan; Center Associate, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan Developing Mission is a transnational cultural history of US and Chinese communities framed by missionary lenses through time and space – tracing the lives and afterlives of images, cameras, and visual imaginations from before the […]

Urban China Lecture Series Featuring Mark Baker

Presented via Zoom

Speaker:  Mark Baker, University of Manchester This event series is sponsored by the MIT Sustainable Urbanization Lab, the University of British Columbia’s School of Community and Regional Planning, and the Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. Zoom Meeting Link: https://mit.zoom.us/j/97147498753 Venue

Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Suisheng Zhao — The Dragon Roars Back: Xi’s Power Concentration and Foreign Policy Implications

CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United States

Speaker: Suisheng Zhao, Suisheng Zhao, Professor and Director, Center for China-US Cooperation, Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver Discussant: Meg Rithmire, James E. Robison Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School Suisheng Zhao is Professor and Director of the Center for China-US Cooperation at Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of […]

2025 Gender Studies Workshop — The Beauty and the Book: Women, Knowledge, Literature, and Book Culture in Late Imperial China and Beyond

Room K354, CGIS Knafel 1737 Cambridge St, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

This year's Gender Studies Workshop— The Beauty and the Book: Women, Knowledge, Literature, and Book Culture in Late Imperial China and Beyond— will explore new directions in the study of writings by and about women in late imperial China and will take place on April 25, 2025. It will have four panels: 1. Uncovering new connections […]

China Economy Lecture featuring Ka Zeng

CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

Speaker: Ka Zeng, Professor of Political Science, University of Massachusetts-Amherst More information coming soon. Venue