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 […]
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 […]
Lyle Goldstein – Meeting China Halfway: The Future of the Korean Peninsula and Beyond
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Dr. Lyle Goldstein, Naval War College Dr. Goldstein is a professor in the Strategic Research Department of the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. He was director of the […]
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 StatesSpeaker: 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 […]
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 […]
Michael Szonyi – Book Talk: The Art of Being Governed: Everyday Politics in Late Imperial China
Speaker: Michael Szonyi, Author; Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies; Professor of Chinese History, Harvard University Chair: Karen Thornber, Victor and William Fung Director, Harvard University Asia Center; Professor of […]
Daisy Yan Du – An Animated Wartime Encounter:Princess Iron Fan and the Chinese Connection in Early Japanese Animation
Speaker:Daisy Yan Du, Harvard-Yenching Visiting Scholar: Assistant Professor, Division of Humanities, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Asia Center Seminar Series