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
Dan Arnold – Personalism and the Mādhyamika Recuperation of Conventional Truth: Some Heretical Thoughts
Speaker: Dan Arnold, University of Chicago Over the years, I have advanced an interpretation of Madhyamaka that frames Nāgārjuna’s arguments in terms suggested by some contemporary debates in philosophy of […]
Ya-Wen Lei: The Contentious Public Sphere: Law, Media, and Authoritarian Rule in China
William James Hall, Room 1550 33 kirkland st, cambridge, MA, United StatesDeparment of Sociology Colloquium Series Speaker: Ya-Wen Lei, Harvard University. In this talk, I will situate my book, The Contentious Public Sphere: Law, Media, and Authoritarian Rule in China, in relation to one […]
David Dollar – Challenges to China’s Economy: At Home and Abroad
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesRead event summary here Speaker: David Dollar, Brookings Institution David Dollar is a senior fellow in the John L. Thornton China Center at the Brookings Institution. From 2009 to 2013, […]
Paul Clifford: The China Paradox – At the Front Line of Economic Transformation
Speaker: Paul Clifford, Author Respondent: Jie Bae, Harvard Kennedy School Moderator: Tony Saich, Harvard Kennedy School HKS Professor Jie Bae will serve as a respondent, and Tony Saich will moderate. The […]
Stalemate Across the Taiwan Strait: A Trip Report
Speakers: Michael Szonyi, Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Steven Goldstein, Sophia Smith Professor of Government, Emeritus, Smith College Robert Ross, Professor of Political Science, Boston College
Eric Greene – Repentance in the Formation of Chinese Buddhism
Speaker: Eric Greene, Yale University The ritual activity that in China was known as chanhui 懺悔 – often understood to mean “confession” or “repentance” – was without doubt one the central forms […]