The Souls of China: The Return of Religion After Mao
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Ian Johnson is a Pulitzer-Prize winning writer focusing on society, religion, and history. He works out of Beijing and Berlin, where he also teaches and advises academic journals and think […]
Environment in Asia Seminar: “Layer upon Layer: Experience, Ecology, Engineering, Heritage, and (most of all) History in the Making of China’s Agricultural Terraces”
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Sigrid Schmalzer, University of Massachusetts Amherst Professor Schmalzer's research focuses on social, cultural, and political aspects of the history of science in modern China. Her first book, The People's Peking Man: […]
Critical Issues Confronting China Series: China – End of the Reform Era
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Professor Carl Minzner, Fordham University School of Law Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Harvard University Asia Center
Modern China Lecture Series: Ryōdōraku (良導絡) in New China: Sino-Japanese Medical Exchange in the 1950s and the Role of Machines in East Asian Medical Modernity
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Ruth Rogaski, Vanderbilt University In December of 1957, a medical delegation from the People’s Republic of China visited Japan as part of a decade-long series of semi-official cultural exchanges between the two former enemies. The delegation brought back a “Nakatani Ryōdōraku electrodermometer”—a scientific apparatus which, according to its inventor, Nakatani Yoshio, could be used […]
Critical Issues Confronting China Series: China’s Economic Statecraft in Asia and Europe
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Dr. James Reilly, Associate Professor, Department of Government and International Relations, University of Sydney Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Harvard University Asia Center
The February 28th Incident: Imperial Legacies and War Aftermath in Taiwan, 1947
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Victor Louzon, Postdoctoral Scholar at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University The February 28th Incident, as the 1947 Taiwanese rebellion against Guomindang rule and its bloody suppression are known, is perhaps the most notorious episode in modern Taiwanese history. This talk offers new insights on this event, exploring the dynamics of decolonization and demobilization […]
State Legitimation and Popular Political Participation in the Early Modern Era: England 1560-1640, Japan 1660-1868, and China 1720-1840
Professor Wenkai He, Radcliffe/Yenching Fellow, Harvard University; Associate Professor, Hong Kong University Science and Technology, Division of Social Science Chair: Professor David Howell, Professor of Japanese History, Department of East […]
China’s Banking Transformation: The Untold Story
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: James Stent, Independent Director and Chairman of the Audit Committee of XacBank of Mongolia. Pundits have been predicting the impending collapse of the Chinese banking system. The collapse has […]
“Behemoth”: Film Screening and Discussion with Director Zhao Liang
Brattle Theater 40 Brattle St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesBeginning with a mining explosion in Mongolia and ending in a ghost city west of Beijing, documentarian Zhao Liang’s new film Behemoth details, in one breathtaking sequence after another, the social and environmental devastation driven by the totality of humankind’s desire and greed. After the screening, Director Liang will attend via Skype for a discussion with […]
Trump and Asia: Business as Usual? U.S.-Asia Business and Trade in the Trump Era
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesThe "Trump and Asia" series continues with with a look at international business and trade between the U.S. and Asia.
Critical Issues Confronting China Series: Corruption in China on the Eve of the 19th Party Congress
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Michael Forsythe, The New York Times Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Harvard University Asia Center
Gender Studies Workshop: Women and Friendship in Dynastic China
Participants: Beverly Bossler, University of California, Davis Ron Egan, Stanford University Grace Fong, McGill University Eileen Chow, Duke University Maram Epstein, University of Oregon Xu Man, Tufts University Organized by: Wai Yee Li, Harvard University Ellen Widmer, Wellesley College AGENDA 12:45-1:00 p.m. Welcoming remarks First Panel Chair: Wai-yee Li Discussant: Xu Man […]