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  • 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

  • Critical Issues Confronting China series featuring Xi Lian — Christian Social Activism in Contemporary China

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

    Speaker: Xi Lian, David C. Steinmetz Distinguished Professor of World Christianity, Duke University Divinity School; Visiting Scholar, Harvard Divinity School Discussant: James Robson, James C. Kralik and Yunli Lou Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard College Professor, Harvard University; Director, Harvard-Yenching Institute In his Asian tour in 1920, Bertrand Russell noted the prominence

  • Film Screening — Invisible Nation, followed by Q&A with Director Vanessa Hope

    Hall C, Science Center 1 Oxford St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    Speaker: Vanessa Hope, DirectorDiscussant: Ya-Wen Lei, Professor, Department of Sociology, Harvard University Invisible Nation follows the story of Taiwan’s first female president, Tsai Ing-wen, and explores themes of resilience, identity, and freedom, while shedding light on Taiwan's complex history and its ongoing struggle in the international society. The 90-minute documentary will be followed by a

  • Peter Dutton

    Taiwan Workshop featuring Peter Dutton — What is the Legal Status of Taiwan and Why Does it Matter?

    CGIS South, Room S153 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    Speaker: Peter Dutton, Senior Research Fellow, Paul Tsai China Center; Professor Emeritus, U.S. Naval War College Discussant: Alastair Iain Johnston, Professor, Government Department, Harvard University Taiwan’s political status often dominates headlines. Yet its legal status — the foundation of U.S. policy — remains underdiscussed. At this event, Paul Tsai China Center Senior Fellow Dr. Peter

  • HYI Annual Roundtable — Gender, Class, and Youth: The Formation of Civic Democracy in Asia in the Post-Developmental State Era

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

    Panelists:Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal, Harvard Divinity School Fellow, Publisher, and Democracy ActivistMing-sho Ho, Professor, Department of Sociology, National Taiwan UniversityEleana Kim, Professor, Anthropology and Asian American Studies, University of California, IrvineHyun Mee Kim, Professor, Department of Cultural Anthropology, Yonsei UniversityAnthony J. Spires, Professor, Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies, The University of MelbourneKiyoteru Tsutsui, Director, Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research

  • Urban China Lecture Series Featuring Su Xiaobo — State Venturism and the Financialization of Urban Development in China

    Presented via Zoom

    Speaker: Su Xiaobo, University of Oregon Financialization has become a central force to reshape urban development. This paper explores one specific mechanism of financialization—state-led venture capital (SVC)—to elucidate an emergent trend in which governments act as equity investors to support startups and scaleups. Such investments are not necessarily aimed at ownership, but rather at fostering

  • Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Jennifer Lind

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

    Speaker: Jennifer Lind, Associate Professor of Government, Dartmouth UniversityGreat power competition requires countries to be technological leaders, but an influential literature holds that autocracies, which suppress creativity and information flows, stifle innovation. Many observers of China's rise thus argued that it would be unable to compete technologically with the United States. Jennifer Lind’s Autocracy 2.0 shows that China

  • Critical Issues Confronting China series featuring Robert Suettinger — Factional Politics in the CCP: Is Change in the Air?

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

    Speaker:Robert Lee Suettinger, Former National Intelligence Officer for East Asia, National Intelligence CounselMore information coming soon. Robert Lee Suettinger is a historian of contemporary elite politics in the People’s Republic of China. He recently completed a biography of Hu Yaobang (1915-1989), General Secretary and Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party of China, published by Harvard

  • Rethinking the Global Order: Latin America, China, and the U.S. Amid Transforming Economic and Political Paradigms

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

    Keynote: Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuéllar, President, Carnegie Endowment for International PeaceModerator: Marisol Argueta de Barillas, Head of Latin America; Member of the Executive Committee, World Economic Forum Panelists:Enrique Dussel Peters, Professor, Graduate School of Economics, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)Mark Wu, Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University; Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law,