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
Sino-Japanese Relations: What Went Wrong after 1992
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Ezra Vogel, Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus, Harvard University. Moderator: Susan Pharr, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics and Director, WCFIA Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University.
Critical Issues Confronting China Series – The Progression of Repression: Online Censorship and Physical Repression in China Today
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesEvent Summary Speaker: Mary Gallagher, University of Michigan Mary Gallagher is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan, where she is also the Director of the Center for Chinese Studies, and a faculty associate at the Center for Comparative Political Studies at the Institute for Social Research. Her research areas are Chinese politics, comparative politics […]
Poetry Reading
Speaker: Dang Zi, Translator: Eleanor Goodman Zang Di, who has been honored three times as one of China’s top ten poets, is a featured poet at the Princeton Poetry Festival on October 5-6, 2017. His new collection, The Roots of Wisdom, translated by award-winning translator Eleanor Goodman, will be published at the same time by […]
The Revolutionary Ethic and the Spirit of Factionalism in the Chinese Cultural Revolution
William James Hall, Room 1550 33 kirkland st, cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Guobin Yang, Grace Lee Boggs Professor of Communication and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania From 1966 to 1968, youth in urban China were embroiled in factional battles in what many of them believed to be a revolution of a lifetime. Based on the recently published book The Red Guard Generation and Political Activism in […]
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 […]