Reischauer Lecture Series – Empire and Righteous Nation: 600 Years of China-Korea Relations
Day One Focus: China and Korea from 1392 (the beginning of the Choson state) to the late 19th century May 1, 2017 | 4pm - 6pm Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South […]
China Humanities Seminar: Forging a Master Key: Li Yu’s 李漁 Theory of Universal Theater
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: S.E. Kile, University of Michigan Studies of Li Yu’s theorization of playwriting and theatrical performance have generally focused on his creation of a new technical vocabulary for playwriting and performance, the relationship between his theory’s tenets and his own playwriting practice, and the impact of profit-seeking on his ideas. I propose that using technology […]
Reischauer Lecture Series – Empire and Righteous Nation: 600 Years of China-Korea Relations
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesDay Two Focus: Late 19th Century and 20th Century Speaker: Odd Arne Westad is the S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations at Harvard University, where he teaches at the Kennedy School of […]
Critical Issues Confronting China Series: Fifty Years with China – A Canadian Perspective
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Bernard Frolic, Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Science, York University Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Harvard University Asia Center
Reischauer Lecture Series – Empire and Righteous Nation: 600 Years of China-Korea Relations
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesDay Three Focus: China’s relations with North and South Korea Today Speaker: Odd Arne Westad is the S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations at Harvard University, where he teaches at the […]
Berggruen Workshop: Perspectives on Chinese Thought in the World
Safra Center for Ethics 124 Mt. Auburn St., Suite 520N, Cambridge, MA, United StatesThis workshop celebrates the partnership between the Berggruen Institute and the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, thereby also taking advantage of the presence of the first group of Berggruen Fellows at Harvard. The topic of the workshop, also related to a major concern of the Berggruen Institute, is “Perspectives on Chinese Thought in the […]
East Asian Media Studies Conference
CGIS South CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesThe East Asian Media Studies Conference will present a snapshot of a young and still-forming field of inquiry. It will provide a space for discussing the question of field formation […]
Can Computation Change the Study of Chinese Culture and History?
Speaker: Richard Jean So, University of Chicago The emergence of large corpora of digitized cultural and historical texts and new methods in text mining and analysis have made possible a new form of computational analysis for the humanities and China Studies. The question and challenge is whether these new methods and "data" will enrich our study […]
Living on the Edge: Korean Brothels in Colonial Taiwan
Speaker: Jin Jungwon, Associate Research Fellow, Institute of Taiwan History, Academia Sinica; HYI Visiting Scholar Chair/Discussant: Elizabeth Remick, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Tufts University Harvard-Yenching Institute lunch talk, co-sponsored with the Korea Institute Despite its wide practice, the sex trade and sex industry in Taiwan and Korea had never been put under governmental control before […]
Visiting Scholar Presentations
Join us to hear the Fairbank Center’s 2016-17 Visiting Scholars present on the projects that brought them to Harvard.
The U.S., China, and the Future of the Korean Peninsula
Join the Ash Center for a discussion on the U.S., China, and the Future of the Korean Peninsula with Dr. Jin Park, a Public Policy Scholar in residence at the Woodrow […]
Democratic Equality and Confucian Hierarchy
Safra Center for Ethics 124 Mt. Auburn St., Suite 520N, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Joseph Chan, University of Hong Kong Discussant: Archon Fung, Harvard Kennedy School of Government **Please register HERE no later than Friday, May 12.** NOTE: The paper will be circulated one week in advance to all seminar participants. Joseph Chan is professor of the Department of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Hong Kong. A leading scholar […]