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  • Fairbank Center Visiting Scholar Presentations: Culture Wars and Philosophical Debates in East Asia and China

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

    Featuring presentations by two Fairbank Center Visiting Scholars who will share current research. Each short talk will be followed by Q and A discussion. The Cultural Cold War: Moral Re-Armament Movement in East Asia Speaker: Hok Yin Chan, Professor of Chinese and History, City University of Hong Kong; 2025 Visiting Scholar, Fairbank Center for Chinese

  • U.S.-China Cooperation on Climate Change and Clean Energy: A China Energy Dialogue with John Holdren

    Room 230, Littauer Building 79 JFK St., Cambridge, Massachusetts

    Speaker: John Holdren, Teresa and John Heinz Research Professor of Environmental Policy, Harvard Kennedy SchoolIn this inaugural China Energy Dialogue, John Holdren will give a talk on the history of collaboration between scholars at the Belfer Center, Tsinghua University, and other Chinese institutions to identify pathways and challenges to China's goals to peak carbon emissions

  • From Balancing to Coalition-Building: The US, Taiwan, & Asia’s Grand Reshuffling

    Malkin Penthouse, Littauer Building 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speakers:Steve Yates, Former Deputy National Security Advisor; Senior Fellow, Heritage FoundationTony Saich, Daewoo Professor of International Affairs, at the Harvard Kennedy School; Director, Rajawali Foundation Institute for AsiaEdward Cunningham, Director, Ash Center China Programs and the Asia Energy and Sustainability Initiative, Harvard Kennedy School As the Indo-Pacific enters a period of intensified strategic competition, alliances and partnerships across

  • Fairbank @ 70 — Witnesses to the Birth of Modern China: The Fairbanks and Liangs, 1932-1949

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

    Speakers:Holly Fairbank, Executive Director, Maxine Greene Institute for Aesthetic Education and Social ImaginationWilliam Kirby, T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies, Harvard University; Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business SchoolRana Mitter, ST Lee Chair in US-Asia Relations, Harvard Kennedy School Wang Ruiheng, Associate Professor of History, Nanjing University; Visiting Scholar, Harvard-Yenching InstituteAbraham Zamcheck, Assistant

  • China Humanities Seminar featuring Nathan Vedal — The Art of (Tested) Translation: Manchu Exams in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

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

    Speaker: Nathan Vedal, Assistant Professor, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Toronto; Former Fairbank Center Graduate Student Associate This talk, introducing a forthcoming monograph (Translation, Emulation, and Manchu Literary Culture), will consider the institution of a civil service translation examination during the Qing dynasty, as well as the Manchu translation program in the elite

  • China Economy Lecture Series Panel Discussion — Can China Pay for its Technological Ambitions?

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

    Speakers:Andrew Collier, Senior Fellow, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy SchoolKellee Tsai, Dean, College of Social Sciences and Humanities, Northeastern UniversityDavid Bulman, Jill McGovern and Steven Muller Assistant Professor of China Studies and International Affairs, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) Moderator: Meg Rithmire, James E. Robison Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business

  • Can Industrial Overcapacity Enable Seasonal Flexibility in Electricity Use? A Case Study of Aluminum Smelting in China

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

    Speaker: Ruike Lyu, Visiting Student Research Collaborator (VSRC) at ZERO Lab, Princeton University; Ph.D Candidate in Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University In many countries, declining demand in energy-intensive industries (EIIs) such as cement, steel, and aluminum is leading to industrial overcapacity. Although industrial overcapacity is traditionally envisioned as problematic and resource-wasteful, it could unlock EIIs’ flexibility

  • Taiwan Workshop featuring Wu Jieh-min — Weaponized Interdependence: How Taiwan Is Rethinking its “Silicon Shield”

    Presented via Google Meet

    Speaker: Wu Jieh-min, Distinguished Research Fellow, Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan; Co-founder, Center for Contemporary China, National Tsing Hua University Moderator: Ya-Wen Lei,  Professor, Department of Sociology, Harvard University The “Silicon Shield” is often treated as a Taiwan-centered, overly-fixed concept that emphasizes Taiwan’s technological indispensability as a rationale for its defense. This talk challenges

  • Where is Home? The Basel Mission and the Modern Overseas Hakka Diaspora (1860-1924)

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

    Speaker: Lei LI, Associate Professor, School of Foreign Studies, Nankai University; BC Ricci Institute–HYI Joint Visiting Researcher Fellowship Program, 2025-26 Chair: M. Antoni J. Ucerler, S. J., Associate Professor, History, Boston College; Director, Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History Discussant: Elizabeth J. Perry, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government, Harvard University This presentation explores how the

  • Wu Jingxiong, Between Natural Law and Geopolitics: The Insights and Dilemmas of a Catholic Chinese Law Professor in Cold War America

    Speaker: Jedidiah Kroncke, Associate Professor of Law, The University of Hong Kong The life of Chinese legal scholar Wu Jingxiong has long attracted attention given his diverse intellectual interests and high profile in Chinese judicial politics and constitutional reform during the 1930s and 1940s. Like many of his generation, Wu’s education combine traditional Confucian schooling

  • 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