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  • Conference — Designers of Mountains and Water: Alternative Landscapes for a Changing Climate

    Piper Auditorium Gund Hall - 42 Quincy St, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    The Sinographic compound (山水), denoting “mountain and water,” is widely shared across many Asian contexts, with different regional traditions and approaches. As shanshui in China, sansui in Japan, and sansu in Korea, the term has historically referred to creative artistic and philosophical visions of the natural world, combining the vital elements of a fully dynamic landscape. With climate change underway, what

  • Sonic Socialism: Radio and the Technopolitics of Listening in Maoist China

    Presented via Zoom

    Speaker: Yu Wang, Cornell University This talk is a condensed, selected presentation of my forthcoming book, Sonic Socialism: Radio and the Technopolitics of Listening in China, 1940-1976. In the book, I explore how radio unleashed its potential and limits in a series of engagements with the auditory sense and the production of reality during the

  • Paper Currency in the Early Ming Period Observed via Questions and Answers on the Provincial Examination

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

    Speaker: KAKINUMA Yohei, Professor, Faculty of Letters, Arts, and Sciences, Waseda University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2025-26 Chair/Discussant: David Yang, Yvonne P. L. Lui Professor of Economics, Harvard University This talk has examined some aspects of people’s perceptions of paper currency in the early Ming period, drawing on the questions and excellent answers from the provincial

  • Harvard East Asia Society Conference — Delineations: Temporality, Boundaries, and Imaginaries of East Asia

    CGIS South CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United States

    The Harvard East Asia Society (HEAS) Graduate Student Conference is an annual two-day event that provides an interdisciplinary forum for graduate students to exchange ideas and discuss current research on topics related to Asia. This year, we are excited to host twelve panels featuring Harvard faculty and participants from around the world, as well as

  • Critical Issues Confronting China featuring Fan Dai — Decoupling Crisis: Subnational Climate Action and China’s Domestic Coal Challenge

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

    Speaker: Fan Dai, Assistant Professor, International Climate Policy, Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, BerkeleyDiscussant: Henry Lee, Jassim M. Jaidah Family Director of the Environment and Natural Resources Program; Co-Chair, Arctic Initiative, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy SchoolMore information coming soon.Fan Dai is an Assistant Professor in International Climate

  • Film Screening – Too Loud for the State—Chinese Rock n’ Roll on the March: Zhang Yuan’s Beijing Bastards 北京杂种 (1993)

    CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Rana Mitter, ST Lee Chair in US–Asia Relations, Harvard Kennedy SchoolGuest filmmaker (via Zoom Q&A):Zhang Yuan, Director of Beijing Bastards “Rock music was the only way young people could express what they were feeling.” —Zhang Yuan Join us for a special screening of Beijing Bastards (北京杂种, 1993), Zhang Yuan’s raw, unflinching, and influential portrait of China’s underground rock

  • Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Courtney Fung — Can China Achieve its UN Ambitions?

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

    Speaker: Courtney Fung, Associate Professor, School of International Studies, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia Please note the different day and time for this Critical Issues talk.China presents itself as a supporter of ‘true multilateralism,’ with the United Nations as a bedrock institution of global governance. The United Nations’ truly global reach, China’s UN Security Council veto,

  • Modern China Lecture Series featuring Xiaobo Lü — Domination and Mobilization: The Rise and Fall of Political Parties in China’s Republican Era

    CGIS South, Room S050 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    Speaker: Xiaobo Lü, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of California, BerkeleyXiaobo Lü is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. His research explores the relationships between fiscal policies, party-building, and state-society relations in authoritarian regimes, particularly in China. He is particularly interested in the formation

  • Urban China Lecture Series Featuring Song Nianshen — Space, State, and Daily Life in a Manchurian City

    Presented via Zoom

    Speaker: Song Nianshen, Tsinghua UniversityWhat can one neighborhood reveal about the making of a modern nation? This talk deciphers the unexpected significance of Xita, a half-square-mile quarter in Shenyang, in Northeast China. It shows that over nearly four centuries, Xita has been shaped and reshaped by empire, war, migration, and urban transformation. The history of

  • China and the Asymmetric Great Power Competition in the Middle East

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

    Speaker: Gangzhen She, Visiting Scholar, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs; Director, Center for Overseas Security and Associate Professor Department of International Relations, Tsinghua University, China Discussant: Robert Ross, Professor of Political Science, Boston University; Fairbank Center Associate Venue

  • China Energy Dialogue: Can China Remain an Advanced Technology Superpower?

    T-G50 Executive Education Classroom, Taubman Building 15 Eliot St, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    Speaker: Meg Rithmire, James E. Robison Professor of Business Administration, Business, Government, and International Economy Unit, Harvard Business SchoolModerator: Henry Lee, Jassim M. Jaidah Family Director, Environment and Natural Resources Program; Senior Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy SchoolIn this China Energy Dialogue, Meg Rithmire, James E. Robison Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business

  • Modern China Lecture Series featuring Micah Muscolino — Remaking the Earth, Exhausting the People: The Burden of Conservation in Modern China

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

    Speaker: Micah Muscolino, Professor and Paul G. Pickowicz Endowed Chair in Modern Chinese History, University of California San Diego From the 1940s to the 1960s, soil and water conservation measures remade both the arid, erosion-prone landscape of China’s Loess Plateau and the lives of rural people. Drawing from his recent book, Micah Muscolino discusses how