Critical Issues Confronting China Series – The U.S. and China: How Should We Assess the Policy of “Engagement?”
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesRead event summary Speaker: Orville Schell, Asia Society Orville Schell is the Arthur Ross Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relationsat Asia Society in New York. He is a former professor and Dean at the University of California, Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. Schell was born in New York City, graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard University in […]
East Asian Legal Studies Open House
Austin Hall Room 308 1515 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA, United StatesJoin East Asian Legal Studies for an opportunity to meet EALS Faculty, Staff, Research Fellows, and the 2017-2018 Visiting Scholars. Light refreshments will be served.
Asia Beyond the Headlines: One Belt/One Road in Historical and Global Context
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesChair: Professor Elizabeth Perry, Henry Rosovksy Professor of Government; Director, Harvard-Yenching Institute Professor Mark Elliott, Vice Provost of International Affairs; Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History, Harvard University Professor Michael Szonyi, Professor of Chinese History; Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University Dr. William Overholt, Senior Fellow, Harvard University Asia Center […]
I’d Rather Be Dead: Conflicts of Care at the End of Life
Spaeaker: Karen Thornber, Professor of Comparative Literature and East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University Victor and William Fung Director, Harvard University Asia Center
An Ethics of Observation. Four Films by Wang Bing
Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center 24 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesThree Sisters (San zimei) September 9, 7:00 pm September 30, 4:00 pm France/Hong Kong 2016, DCP, color, 153 min. Mandarin with English subtitles High in the remote Yunnan Mountains live three sisters, ages ten, six and four, abandoned by their mother and left largely alone by a father who must travel vast distances in search […]
Identity Politics and Organized Crime
Austin Hall Room 308 1515 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA, United StatesEast Asian Legal Studies talk with Professor J. Mark Ramseyer, Harvard Law School Mark Ramseyer spent most of his childhood in provincial towns and cities in southern Japan, attending Japanese schools for K-6. He returned to the U.S. for college. Before attending law school, he studied Japanese history in graduate school. Ramseyer graduated from HLS […]
What to Expect from the 19th Party Congress
Join us for a discussion about what's going to happen at the 19th Party Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Xiang Bing, Dean of Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business, will speak. Arne Westad, S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations, HKS, will moderate. Refreshments will be served. This event is cosponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese […]
An Ethics of Observation. Four Films by Wang Bing
Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center 24 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesThree Sisters (San zimei) September 9, 7:00 pm September 30, 4:00 pm France/Hong Kong 2016, DCP, color, 153 min. Mandarin with English subtitles High in the remote Yunnan Mountains live three sisters, ages ten, six and four, abandoned by their mother and left largely alone by a father who must travel vast distances in search […]
Critical Issues Confronting China Series – This Is Sino Tap: My Life as a Chinese Rock Star
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesEvent Summary Speaker: Kaiser Kuo, Sinica Podcast/ChinaFile, former member of the band Tang Dynasty Kaiser previously worked as director for international communications for Chinese search engine Baidu. Before that he was a technology correspondent for Red Herring magazine, and also worked as director of digital strategy, China, for Ogilvy & Mather in Beijing. He used to write a column for the foreigner-focused […]
Digital Research: Concepts, Current State, and Debates
Northwest Building, Room B129 52 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesPart of the Digital China Initiative Workshop Series As an introductory session for a series of workshops on digital tools and methods in China studies, this first session will be an open discussion on the nature of data, existing projects and research examples, exploratory exercises of sample DH tools, and debates on the advantages and disadvantages […]
Hopkins-Nanjing Center Information Session
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesMeet with a Hopkins-Nanjing Center (HNC) admissions representative to learn more about our graduate school program offerings in China, as well as the application process, fellowship opportunities and career outcomes for HNC graduates. Feel free to contact feneh1@jhu.edu to schedule a one-on-one appointment.
Co-ethnic Capital in Coastal China and India: The Developmental Diasporas of Guangdong and Kerala
Elaine Conference Room 300, Chao Center, Harvard Business School 25 Harvard Way, Bostom, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Kellee Tsai, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology