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  • Poetry Evaluation and Gender Portrayal in Early Medieval Chinese Texts: Two Case Studies Using Language Models

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

    Speaker: Wenyi Shang, Assistant Professor, School of Information Science & Learning Technologies, University of MissouriEarly medieval Chinese texts are known for their interpretive richness, inviting a wide range of sometimes conflicting readings. The development of Transformer-based language models allows us to revisit these texts and examine them comparatively within a shared semantic space. This presentation

  • Electric Vehicle–Power System Interactions: Potential, Impacts, and Economics

    Pierce Hall 100F 29 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: ZHAO Yang, Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences RSVP Required EV-grid integration (VGI) has the potential to manage the power demand from EVs and utilize EV batteries as distributed storage to support power-system balancing. Challenges remain in planning the long-term development of EV-grid integration, as the system value of VGI

  • How to Cultivate a Moral Human: A Conversation with Michael Puett and Amy Zhang

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

    Speakers:Michael Puett, Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History; Director, Harvard University Asia CenterAmy Zhang, Master's Student, Harvard Graduate School of EducationWhat can ancient Confucian philosophy offer for how we design education and live well in the AI age?Mencius argued that moral life begins not with rules but with cultivating the "four sprouts," the seeds

  • Film Screening and Discussion: Daughter of the Light with the Filmmaker

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

    Speaker: Khashem Gyal, Filmmaker; Adjunct Assistant Professor, School of the Arts, and Asia in Action Fellow, Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University  Daughter of the Light is a deeply moving feature documentary about thirteen-year-old Metok Karpo who lives in a Tibetan boarding school for orphans. The film follows Metok as she navigates the emotional complexities

  • Subversion and Seduction: China’s Economic Statecraft

    Fainsod Room (324), Littauer Building 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Audrye Wong, Senior Fellow, American Enterprise InstituteChair: Rana Mitter, S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations, Harvard Kennedy School Even as the Chinese government intensifies supply-chain coercion, it continues to deepen the trade and investment linkages that sustain its global economic centrality. Audrye Wong’s new book, Subversion and Seduction: China’s Economic Statecraft, explores an underemphasized aspect

  • Urban China Lecture Series featuring Wang Mengqi — Anxious Homes: Inflexible Demand and China’s Housing Market

    Presented via Zoom

    Speaker: Mengqi Wang, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Duke Kunshan University This talk presents the vernacular concept of inflexible demand, known as 刚需/gangxu in Chinese, that people in contemporary urban China draw on to refer to—and construct—an absolute need for homeownership for all city dwellers. Drawing on fieldwork conducted in a gangxu development at the urban

  • Fairbank Center Student Welcome Night

    Riverview Commons, 10th Floor Smith Campus Center 1350 Mass Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    Find out about China-related activities at Harvard and hear about opportunities available to students who join the Fairbank Center Student Network. Fun Chinese snacks will be served!This event is open only to Harvard students. Venue

  • China Economy Lecture featuring Yeling Tan — China’s Economic Security Growth Model, and the US-China Security Dilemma

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

    Speaker: Yeling Tan, Professor of Public Policy, Blavatnik School of Government, University of OxfordTraditional conceptions of export- or domestic investment–led growth no longer appropriately capture the dynamics shaping the Chinese economy. Rather, China has adopted a model in which national security logic increasingly underpins economic policy. This talk will outline the main components of this

  • Performing Enlightenment: Buddhism and Theater in Early Modern China

    Zoom Registration Required

    Speaker: Mengxiao Wang, Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Southern CaliforniaModerator: Thomas P. Kelly, Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University In early modern China, a major revival of Buddhism coincided with a surging fascination with theater. Buddhist monastics and laypeople increasingly participated in viewing, discussing, and writing plays.

  • Christian Kaps — Charging Fast and Slow: Quantifying the Real-Life Value of EV Charging for Users, OEMs, and the Grid

    Pierce Hall 100F 29 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Christian Kaps, Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Technology and Operations Management (TOM) Unit, Harvard Business School Managing electricity demand is critical for lowering the cost of electrified products, integrating intermittent renewables, and reducing grid expansion needs. With its often flexible demand, electric vehicle (EV) charging has long been considered a promising candidate, yet many managed

  • 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, Berkeley Examining the miraculous rise of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the surprising downfall of the Kuomintang (KMT) in the early twentieth century, I reveal that domination and mobilization are key for authoritarian parties to seize state power, challenging the prevailing wisdom

  • Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) at 10: Legal Innovation in Multilateral Development Banks

    WCC 3019 Wasserstein Hall, 1585 Mass. Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    Speaker: Natalie Lichtenstein JD '78, AIIB Inaugural General Counsel (retired) Discussant: Alastair Iain Johnston, The Governor James Albert Noe and Linda Noe Research Professor of China in World Affairs, Harvard University When the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) was launched in 2016, many wondered how this new multilateral development bank (MDB) would be different. China