Richard Madsen – Happiness in China: Defining, Seeking, Being Frustrated
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesRead event summary here Speaker: Richard Madsen, Director, Fudan-UC Center on Contemporary China; Distinguished Professor of Sociology, University of California, San Diego
Tyler Harlan – Small Hydropower and the Low-Carbon Frontier in China
Pierce Hall 100F 29 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Tyler Harlan, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Geography, University of California, Los Angeles Since the 1950s, the Chinese government has used small hydropower (SHP) to drive rural electrification and local economic development in the remote, resource-rich west of the country. More recently, however, this same technology has been re-framed as a renewable energy that generates electricity […]
Film Series – Aging in Asia
CGIS South Room S354 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesMonday, November.13 Old Partner (Korea, 78 min.) Introduced by: Paul Chang, Associate Professor of Sociology, Harvard University Tuesday, November. 14 Baghban (India, 178 min.) Introduced by: Professor Samir Dayal, English […]
New Noir: Chinese Crime Films
Brattle Theater 40 Brattle St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesFilm noir, as its meaning “black film” or “film of the night” indicates, is an art of darkness. For its connotation of pessimism and menace, crime, especially unsolved ones, has […]
Maria Repnikova – Media Politics in China: Improvising Power under Authoritarianism
Join us for a discussion with Maria Repnikova, Assistant Professor Communication at Georgia State University and author of, "Media Politics in China: Improvising Power under Authoritarianism." Ash Center Director Tony Saich will […]
Film Series – Aging in Asia
CGIS South Room S354 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesMonday, November.13 Old Partner (Korea, 78 min.) Introduced by: Paul Chang, Associate Professor of Sociology, Harvard University Tuesday, November. 14 Baghban (India, 178 min.) Introduced by: Professor Samir Dayal, English […]
Prasenjit Duara – Spiritual Ecologies: Sustainability and Transcendence in Contemporary Asia
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Prasenjit Duara, Oscar Tang Professor of East Asian Studies, Duke University The crisis of global modernity has been produced by human overreach that was founded upon a paradigm of national modernization. Today, three global changes: the rise of non-western powers, the crisis of environmental sustainability and the loss of authoritative sources of transcendence – the ideals, principles […]
Mae Ngai – The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics
Speaker: Professor Mae Ngai, Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies and Professor of History, Columbia University
David Palmer & Elijah Siegler – Enchanting Huashan in the Global Spiritual Circuit: Intersecting Modes of Making Sacred Space
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeakers: David Palmer, University of Hong Kong Elijah Siegler, College of Charleston This talk is based on the newly released book Dream Trippers (University of Chicago Press), a multi-sited ethnographic study of transnational encounters between American Daoist spiritual tourists and practitioners and the Chinese monks and hermits of the sacred Daoist peak of Huashan. In this talk, the […]
Film Screening and In-Person Discussion with the Director – We the Workers
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesShot over a six-year period (2009-15) mainly in the industrial heartland of south China, this film primarily follows labor activists Peng Jiayong and Deng Xiaoming as they find common ground […]
Donald Sturgeon – Digital Research Tools for Pre-modern Chinese Texts
Northwest Building, Room B129 52 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Donald Sturgeon, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University Digital methods offer increasingly powerful tools to aid in the study and analysis of historical written works, both through exploratory techniques in which previously unnoticed trends and relationships are highlighted, as well as through computer-assisted assembly of data to refute or confirm particular hypotheses. Applying […]
Ezra Vogel – China’s Development and Its Role in the Global Affairs
Wiener Auditorium, Taubman Building 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesKeynote Speaker: Ezra Vogel (傅高义）, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus Panelists: Ezra Vogel, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus Richard Cooper, Maurits C. Boas Professor of […]