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 truly at stake. The questions addressed in this unique volume provide a window onto the challenges China faces today and the uncertainties its meteoric ascent […]
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 Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University) Harvard-Yenching Institute lunch talk https://harvard-yenching.org/events/xu-lanjun-february-8-2018
(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 language is required. The Harvard-China Project on Energy, Economy, and Environment will provide generous financial support for six Harvard undergraduates to spend the summer in China […]
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 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 […]
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