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 […]
China’s Anthropogenic Methane Emissions: A Review of Current Bottom-Up Inventories
Pierce Hall 100F 29 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Prof. Zhang Bo, Visiting Scholar, Harvard-China Project; Associate Professor, State Key Laboratory of Coal Resources and Safe Mining, China University of Mining & Technology (Beijing) Methane (CH4) is the second ranking […]
Infinite Interfusion: The Visible and the Invisible in Liao Pagodas
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Youn-mi Kim, Ewha Womans University The shamanistic Khitan people were exposed to Buddhism −the Indian religion that reached these nomads mediated by the Han Chinese sedentary culture− when they suddenly […]
Critical Issues Confronting China Series – Behind the Headlines: Rebuilding Fiscal Foundations for Xi Jinping’s Governance Reform
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesEvent Summary Speaker: Professor Christine Wong, Director, Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies, University of Melbourne Professor Wong is a leading authority on China's public finance. Her work on public finance, central-local relations and their implications for governance, economic development and welfare in China are widely cited, including several major World Bank studies for which Professor […]
Modular Construction: Building Decorated Tombs in Song and Jin North China
Speaker: Deng Fei, Associate Professor, National Institute of Advanced Humanistic Studies, Fudan University; HYI Visiting Scholar Chair/discussant: Eugene Wang, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art, Department of History of Art and […]
“8 Brokens” – Rediscovered: Painted Collage from China, ca. 1900
Museum of Fine Arts, Riley Seminar Room 465 Huntingon Ave, Boston, MA, United StatesSymposium Organized by Harvard University and the Museum of Fine Arts RSVP: https://symposium-8-brokens.app.rsvpify.com/
Critical Issues Confronting China Series – China’s Complex Health Care Reform
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesRead event summary here Speaker: Winnie Yip, Harvard University Dr. Winnie Yip is Professor of Global Health Policy and Economics in the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and also Director of the school wide China Health Partnership. Dr. Yip was previously a Professor of Health Policy […]
From Mandala to Palace: Transforming Space and Site at Qutan Monastery
Speaker: Aurelia Campbell, Boston College Moderator: Eugene Wang, Harvard University The lecture concentrates on Qutan Monastery, a Buddhist temple located in an isolated mountainous region near Ledu, Qinghai province, at […]
Embodied Virtue: How Was Loyalty Edited and Performed in Late Imperial China?
Speaker: Chiung-yun Evelyn Liu, Associate Research Fellow, Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica; HYI Visiting Scholar Chair/discussant: Wai-yee Li, Professor of Chinese Literature, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, […]
Neuhauser Lecture – Embracing Sovereignty: China, the U.S., and the Future of World Order
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: James Steinberg, University Professor of Social Science, International Affairs, and Law, Syracuse University In the past year, the leaders of China and the United States laid out their respective visions […]
China’s Future Leadership: An Instant Analysis of China’s 19th Party Congress
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesJoin the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation for a panel discussion where experts weigh in with exclusive insight and opinions on […]