Events

Nicholas Burns – U.S. Foreign Policy, Trump, and China

CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United States

As 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 […]

Mediating Religion: Text and Object in Chinese Religion

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

9:30 AM     Workshop Opens 9:45-10:45     Playing with Corpses: Assembling Bodies for the Dead in Southwest China Speaker: Erik Mueggler, University of Michigan This paper describes the ritualization of death […]

Kevin O’Brien – China’s Disaffected Insiders

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

Event Summary Speaker: Professor Kevin O’Brien, Walter and Elise Haas Professor of Asian Studies; Alann P. Bedford Professor of Asian Studies; Professor of Political Science; Director, Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley

Paul W. Kroll – Personal Moments in Medieval Chinese Poetry

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

Speaker: Paul W. Kroll, University of Colorado Medieval Chinese poetry, like most self-consciously traditional literature, embraces learning, presumption, and intertextuality with ardor. Scholarship delights to roam in these fields which provide rich fare for the mind. But those moments that suddenly engage the heart (a somewhat neglected organ in the postmodern era) affect us at […]

A roundtable discussion on “Encountering China: Michael Sandel and Chinese Philosophy”

CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United States

Participants: Michael Sandel (Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government, Harvard University) Joseph C.W. Chan (Professor, Department of Politics and Public Administration, University of Hong Kong) Chaibong Hahm (President, The Asan Institute for Policy […]

Deborah Davis – China’s Changing Families

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

Read event summary here Speaker: Dr. Deborah Davis, Yale University Deborah S. Davis' primary teaching interests are inequality and stratification, contemporary Chinese society, and methods of fieldwork. In addition to teaching […]