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 […]
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 and the interventions that such work allows for. In this respect, the conference is associated with the asia-theory-visuality conference held in Princeton in November 2015. […]
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 […]
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 Wilson Center and former member of the Korean National Assembly. Dr Park will be introduced by Julia Lee, a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for […]
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 […]
Border-Crossing Ethics Textbooks in Late-Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth Century East Asia
This talk by Nguyen Nam presents a preliminary survey of how ethics as a branch of knowledge from the West was introduced to Japan.
An Ethics of Observation. Four Films by Wang Bing
Three 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 […]
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 […]