Environmental Public Interest Litigation in China: Cases and Reform
Austin Hall Room 308 1515 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Barbara Finamore, Senior Attorney and Asia Director, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) On January 1, 2015, amendments to China’s Environmental Protection Law went into effect that would allow an estimated […]
Building Energy Efficiency Regulations in China: Policies and Trends
Pierce Hall 100F 29 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Barbara Finamore, Senior Attorney and Asia Director, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) Abstract: Energy used in buildings is responsible for 30% of China’s CO2 emissions, a percentage that is expected to grow […]
Film Screening: The Eagle Huntress
Harvard Art Museum, Menschel Hall, Lower Level 32 Quincy St, cambridge, MA, United StatesFree admission Cosponsored by the Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies at Harvard University and the Harvard Art Museums
Critical Issues Confronting China Series: China – A Bullish Case
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Chen Zhao, recently retired as Co-Head of Macro Research, Brandywine Global Investment Management; former Partner, Managing Editor and Chief Global Strategist at BCA Research Group Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center […]
Critical Issues Confronting China Series: The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: John Pomfret, Author of The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom: America and China, 1776 to the Present and Chinese Lessons; former Washington Post correspondent Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center […]
Reporting from China: A Conversation with New York Times Correspondent David Barboza
Speaker: David Barboza, New York Times reporter and 2016 Knight Visiting Nieman Fellow at Harvard's Nieman Foundation Join David Barboza for a discussion about the challenges and opportunities of reporting from China. Prior […]
Unpacking China’s Belt and Road Initiative and Its Energy and Environmental Implications
Pierce Hall 100F 29 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Weidong Liu, Professor in Economic Geography, Assistant Director, and Chair of the Center for the Belt and Road Initiative, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of […]
Establishing the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank: The Lawyer’s View
Speaker: Natalie Lichtenstein, Adjunct Professor of China Studies, Johns Hopkins University; Inaugural General Counsel, AIIB (retired) Chair: Ezra Vogel, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus, Harvard University […]
Chinese Religions Seminar: Illness, Healing, and Ritual in Chinese Religion
Participants: Jessey Choo, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey TJ Hinrichs, Cornell University Antje Richter, University of Colorado Stephen Teiser, Princeton University Organizers: Michael Puett, Harvard University Robert Weller, […]
Taiwan Studies: New Directions and Connections
Workshop for Taiwan Studies: New Directions and Connections, organized by Professor David Der-wei Wang.
Taiwan Studies: New Directions and Connections
Workshop for Taiwan Studies: New Directions and Connections, organized by Professor David Der-wei Wang.
Modern China Lecture: Governing the Souls of Chinese Modernity
Speaker: Andrew Kipnis, Professor of Anthropology in the College of Asia and the Pacific at The Australian National University Philippe Descola argues that human societies can be categorized by the ways in which they utilize broad assumptions about interiority and physicality, where interiority refers to something similar to what Edward Tyler and James Frazer meant by […]