Events

China Humanities Seminar – Huaben and the Mind

CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

Speaker: Tina Lu, Yale University As a genre, huaben are relentlessly experimental. Sometimes these stories come close to stream of consciousness (especially in their depiction of dreams), and it is easy to lapse into habits of reading that consider those experiments proto-modernist. Tina Lu would like to take a step back and consider the ways […]

Jack Downey and the Third Force in China

Speaker: John Delury, Associate Professor of Chinese Studies. Yonsei University Graduate School of International Studies Professor Delury will discuss his research on the extraordinary case of Jack Downey, who flew into Mao’s China in 1952 as part of a CIA project to support a “Third Force” resistance against the Communist government. Downey’s plane was shot down, and he […]

China Town Hall Featuring Susan Rice

CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

China Town Hall: Local Connections, National Reflections Join 80+ communities across the United States in a national conversation on China. Featuring an interactive webcast with former UN Ambassador Susan Rice, […]

Critical Issues Confronting China Series – Asia’s Reckoning: China, Japan, and the Fate of U.S. Power in the Pacific Century

CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United States

Event Summary Speaker: Richard McGregor, author of Asia's Reckoning: China, Japan, and the Fate of U.S. Power in the Pacific Century and The Party: The Secret World of China’s Communist Rulers;  former Washington and Beijing Bureau Chief for The Financial Times  

Longmen Grottoes: New Perspectives

CGIS South Room S354 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United States

A UNESCO World Heritage Site filled with magnificently carved Buddhist caves, the Longmen Grottoes are renown throughout the world for their enduring legacy to Chinese art. Join experts from the Longmen […]

Film Screening: “Vanished Archives”

Northwest Building, Room B103 52 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA, United States

The 1967 riots are a watershed in Hong Kong history and some would say the starting point for the development of Hong Kong consciousness. Yet the official records of this […]

River, Governance and Place: Sentiment in The Travels of Lao Can

Speaker: Hsu Hui-Lin,  Associate Professor, Department of Chinese Literature, National Taiwan University; HYI Visiting Scholar Chair/discussant: Karen Thornber Professor of Comparative Literature and of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University   […]

China Biographical Database and Social Network Analysis

Northwest Building, Room B129 52 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA, United States

Speakers: Peter K. Bol, Vice Provost, and Dr. Amelia Ying Qin The workshop will cover design, data population, and search functions of the China Biographical Database in relation to sample research […]