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 […]
The New Political Landscape in East Asia
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Buddhist Studies Forum – Tantric Buddhist Communities and Seeking Patronage at Medieval Indian Courts
Speaker: Péter-Dániel Szántó, All Souls College, University of Oxford The talk will share some thoughts backed by evidence about how medieval Indian tantric communities were organized socially and economically. It […]
Book Talk – The Futility of Law and Development: China and the Dangers of Exporting American Law
Austin Hall Room 308 1515 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Jedidiah J. Kroncke
Critical Issues Confronting China Series – China Policy Under Trump
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesRead event summary here Dr. Jeffrey Bader, Senior Fellow, John L. Thornton China Center, Brookings Institution Jeffrey Bader is a senior fellow in the John L. Thornton China Center at the Brookings Institution. From 2009 until 2011, Bader was special assistant to the president of the United States for national security affairs at the National […]