Kevin O’Brien – China’s Disaffected Insiders
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesEvent 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 StatesSpeaker: 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 […]
Liao Yang – When Buddha *Tejaprabha Came to Yunnan: Regional Characteristics and His Place in the Local Pantheon
Speaker: Liao Yang (Professor, Institute of Ethnology & Anthropology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Visiting Scholar, Harvard-Yenching Institute) Chair/discussant: Eugene Wang (Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art, Department of […]
A roundtable discussion on “Encountering China: Michael Sandel and Chinese Philosophy”
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesParticipants: 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 […]
Colin P.C. Jones – Searching for a Social Order: The Sociology and Afterlives of Law in Japanese-Occupied China
Speaker: Colin P.C. Jones, Reischauer Institute Postdoctoral Fellow (Ph.D. Japanese History, Columbia 2017) Moderator: Andrew Gordon, Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History, Harvard University This talk connects the legal history of the Japanese empire to the broader history of legal and social thought in the twentieth century. It examines the design, execution, and […]
Fu Gang 傅剛 – A Study of the Western Han Bamboo Slip Text, “Fan yin,” in the Collection of Peking University 北京大學藏西漢竹簡《反淫》的整理與研究
Speaker: Fu Gang, 傅剛, Peking University Moderator: Xiaofei Tian, EALC, Harvard University The talk will be given in Chinese.
Deborah Davis – China’s Changing Families
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesRead 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 […]
Jennifer Rudolph and Michael Szonyi – The Coop Event Series/ “The China Questions” Book Launch
Harvard Coop 1400 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA, United StatesJoin the editors and contributors to The China Questions for a book launch at the Harvard Coop's Event Series. Many books offer information about China, but few make sense of what is […]
Xu Lanjun – Leftist Print Culture and New Notions of “Chineseness”: Hu Yuzhi, Shanghai Book Co., and Overseas Chinese Youth in Cold War Southeast Asia
Speaker: Xu Lanjun (Associate Professor of Chinese Studies, the National University of Singapore; Visiting Scholar, Harvard-Yenching Institute Chair/discussant: David Wang (Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature, Department of East […]
(De)Constructing Boundaries – The 21st Harvard East Asia Society Conference
CGIS South CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesHarvard East Asia Society 21st Annual Conference: (De)Constructing Boundaries Harvard University, February 9-10, 2018 Special Panel: The Art of Narrating China Discussant: Professor Eugene Wang (Harvard University) Location: CGIS S030 […]
Bryan Lowe – Preaching to the Periphery: Buddhism in Provincial Villages in Ninth-Century Japan
Speaker: Bryan Lowe, Vanderbilt University This paper looks at itinerant preaching in early ninth-century Japan with a particular focus on sermons intended for provincial villagers. In contrast to most studies of this period, which address sectarian founders, I will highlight figures peripheral to dominant scholarly accounts: minor monks, provincial patrons, and destitute villagers. I will […]
Q&A Session—China’s Environmental Challenges 2018: Summer Undergraduate Research Assistantships in China
Pierce Hall 100F 29 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesInterested in research in China this summer? Join Harvard-China Project staff and a participating Tsinghua University professor to learn more about our fully-funded research assistantships opportunity. No knowledge of Chinese […]