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 […]
David Huang – Accommodating America?: Understanding U.S. Influence in Xi’s Policy Toward Taiwan
The Ash Center invites you to a discussion with David Huang, Associate Research Fellow, Institute of European and American Studies (IEAS), Academia Sinica, Taiwan and Associate Professor, Graduate Institute of National […]
Film Screening of “Plastic China” and Q&A with Director Wang Jiuliang
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesAfter the screening, Director Wang Jiuliang will attend via Skype for a Q&A with the audience moderated by Professor Zhang Ling of Boston College and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. […]
Mark Gillette – Security Implications of a More Assertive China
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesEvent Summary Speaker: Mark Gillette, Deputy Director for Strategic Planning and Policy, U.S. Pacific Command; formerly Defense Attaché-China, Defense Intelligence Agency
Xu Jian – The Legendary Yelang State in Southwest China, What, Where and by Whom? Rethinking the roles of historical writing and archaeology in reconstructing ancient history
Speaker: Xu Jian, Professor of Archaeology and Art history, Department of History, Sun Yat-sen University; HYI Visiting Scholar Chair/discussant: Rowan Flad, John E. Hudson Professor of Archaeology, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University […]
Jie Li – Gained in Translation: The Reception of Foreign Films in the Mao Era
Speaker: Jie Li, Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University Discussant: Professor Carter Eckert, Yoon Se Young Professor of Korean History, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, […]
Asia Responds to Trump in Asia
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesListen again on the Fairbank Center's podcast: Chair: Karen Thornber, Victor and William Fung Director, Harvard University Asia Center; Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and of Comparative Literature, […]
Lex Berman – A Practical Approach to GIS and Spatial Thinking for China Research
Northwest Building, Room B129 52 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Lex Berman, GIS Specialist & Web Services Manager, Center for Geographic Analysis Spatial Humanities is a synthesis between traditional historical and textual research methods and the use of geographic information systems […]
CANCELED: Jing Tsu – Key Strokes: What Made the Chinese Script Revolution?
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Jing Tsu, Yale University It is tempting to understand the Chinese script revolution of the modern era as part of a familiar narrative of vengeance. The Chinese language was idealized then disparaged by the Europeans, on this view, banished then revived only to play a mere prop in different fantasies about the Orient. That Chinese […]
Daisy Yan Du – Plasmatic Empire: Animated Filmmaking in the Manchukuo Film Association, 1937-1945
Speaker: Daisy Yan Du, Assistant Professor, Division of Humanities, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; HYI Visiting Scholar Chair/discussant: Jie Li, Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University This talk examines animated filmmaking in the Manchukuo Film Association (Manying, 1937-1945), which played an important role in shaping wartime film culture in Northeast China […]
Meg Rithmire – State-Business Relations Under Xi Jinping: The End of an Era?
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesEvent Summary Professor Meg Rithmire, F. Warren McFarlan Associate Professor of Business of Administration, Harvard Business School
Nicholas Burns – U.S. Foreign Policy, Trump, and China
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesAs President Trump returns from his first visit to China as Commander-in-Chief, how is U.S. foreign policy reacting to a new administration in Washington and a new rising power in Beijing? Join Ambassador and Harvard Kennedy School Professor Nicholas Burns in conversation with Jeeyang Rhee Baum, Ezra Vogel, and Odd Arne Westad, moderated by Michael […]