Events

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 Studies, Korea) Tatsuo Inoue (Professor, Graduate Schools for Law and Politics, University of Tokyo, Japan) Hongmei Qu (Professor, Department of Philosophy, Jilin University, China) Chaired by Elizabeth Perry […]

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 […]

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 at Yale, she runs a summer fieldwork seminar where Yale students work collaboratively with students from Hong Kong and China. Davis is currently a Trustee […]

(De)Constructing Boundaries – The 21st Harvard East Asia Society Conference

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

Harvard 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 […]

Andrew Field – Nightlife in Shanghai: From the Jazz Age 1920s to the Current Age of the Super-Wealthy

Huntington Hall 10-250 222 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA, United States

Speaker: Andrew Field, Associate Dean of Undergraduate Programs, Duke Kunshan University, China In the 1920s, Shanghai became known worldwide for its nightlife as the city learned to dance to the rhythms of the American jazz age. The war years of the 1940s and the Communist Revolution of the 1950s put an end to the city’s […]

Tang Xiaobing – The Road to the Chinese Communist Revolution: How Petty Intellectuals Gathered and Accepted Leftist Ideologies in 1920s and 1930s Shanghai

Speaker: Tang Xiaobing (Associate Professor, History Department, East China Normal University; Visiting Scholar, Harvard-Yenching Institute) Chair/discussant: Elizabeth Perry (Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government, Harvard University; Director, Harvard-Yenching Institute) Harvard-Yenching Institute lunch talk https://harvard-yenching.org/events/tang-xiaobing-february-22-2018