Events

Picturing the World: Asian Maps After Mercator

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

Speaker: Professor Timothy Brook, University of British Columbia; author of Mr. Selden’s Map of China Chair: Andrew Gordon, Acting Director, Harvard Asia Center; Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor, Harvard University […]

Hidden Air: Urbanization, the Built Environment, and Indoor Air Quality in China

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

Speaker: Gary Adamkiewicz, Assistant Professor of Environmental Health and Exposure Disparities, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health China’s recent economic growth and rate of urbanization are unprecedented […]

Ma Ying-jeou: From Harvard Law School to the Presidential Office

Harvard Law School, Austin North (Room 100) 1515 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, United States

Speaker: Ma Ying-jeou, S.J.D.‘81, Former President of the Republic of China (Taiwan) Co-sponsored by the East Asian Legal Studies program at the Harvard Law School.  

Doubts about the Chinese current of “doubting antiquity” and its critics

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

Speaker: Rudolf G. Wagner Fairbank Center Associate at Harvard University, and Cluster Asia and Europe Associate at Heidelberg University, Germany. This is a study of the background, impact, and cost of the “doubting antiquity,” or yigu, current associated with the Gushi bian collection that followed a strong political agenda of undoing the authority of the orthodox view […]

China Humanities Seminar: Perceptions of China’s Sexual Economy

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

Speaker: Harriet Zurndorfer Abstract: This lecture focuses on men and women engaged in China’s sexual economy, which is dominated by the exchange between wealthy and politically influential men and unmarried young women who trade their femininity and sexuality for material wealth and financial security from these men. Drawing on analyses of the popular 2009 television […]