Evelyn (Chiung-yun) Liu – When Fantastic Narrative Encounters Empirical Knowledge: Imagining the World in “The Eunuch Sanbao’s Voyage to the Western Ocean”
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Evelyn (Chiung-yun) Liu, Academia Sinica, HYI Visiting Scholar The Eunuch Sanbao's Voyage to the Western Ocean, a late-sixteenth century novel loosely based on the historical expeditions commanded by Zheng He (1371-1433), is a peculiar mixture of factual accounts of foreign lands and fantastic narrative. In this work, popular Buddhist and Daoist figures living in a […]
Film Screening – China’s Van Goghs
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesThe documentary screening will be followed by a Q&A with Producer and Director Kiki Tianqi Yu via Skype, moderated by Benny Shaffer, PhD Candidate in Media Anthropology. About the film: China’s Van Goghs (Mandarin with English subtitles, 80 min, HD) Until 1989, Dafen Village on the outskirts of Shenzhen, China was little more than a […]
Kishore Mahbubani – Is the Chinese Government Legitimate?
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesRead a summary of the event here. Speaker: Kishore Mahbubani, National University of Singapore
Nathan Vedal – Philology as a Discipline in Pre-Modern China
Boylston Hall Room 203 Boylston Hall, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Nathan Vedal, Visiting Fellow, Center for Humanities and Information, Penn State Organizer: Technical Traditions in Greece and Rome: Between Theory and Practice, Harvard University GSAS Workshop
Jing Tsu – Thinking Small in the Literary Cosmos
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Jing Tsu, Yale University More than ten years after Sinophone studies, is it breaking up? This talk begins with a recent skirmish over the fraught term and its export. In the […]
Jeff Wasserstrom and Maura Cunningham — China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know
Harvard Coop 1400 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeakers: Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom and Maura Elizabeth Cunningham Harvard Coop Book Talk In this fully revised and updated third edition of China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know®, Jeffrey […]
I-Mei Hung – Encountering DocuSky: Right Here Right Now
Northwest Building, Room B129 52 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: I-Mei Hung, Research Center for Digital Humanities, National Taiwan University Digital China Initiative Workshop Series 我們正在經歷一個橋接的世代，一個從傳統跨越數位的世代。 在2018的春天，孤獨的人文研究之路，綻放了一朵美麗的雲彩–DocuSky。 DocuSky數位人文學術研究平台為著人文學者的研究需要而開發，以數位科技協作人文研究。學者可上傳自己的研究材料，透過各式數位工具，進行文本格式轉換、後設資料整理，憑藉自己之力建置數位資料庫；也能夠對自己掌握的材料進行文本探勘與分析，從多元的視角，挖掘潛藏於材料中的議題線索與脈絡；在傳統的線性觀察之外，以視覺化的呈現，探索文本的時空與計量資訊。 此時此地，讓我們一起來遇見DocuSky~ (此教程由國立臺灣大學數位人文研究中心提供，中英文交互使用) We’re experiencing a ‘bridge generation’, a generation to cross […]
Dennis Blair and Taylor Fravel – China, the U.S., and East Asia’s Maritime Disputes
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeakers: Admiral Dennis Blair, Chairman of the Board and Distinguished Senior Fellow, Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA; U.S. Director of National Intelligence (2009-10); Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Pacific Command (1999-2002) Taylor Fravel, Associate […]
Scott Kennedy – The Fat Tech Dragon: Commercial and Strategic Implications of China’s Hi-Tech Drive
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Scott Kennedy, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) China’s high-tech drive has drawn both fierce criticism for being unfair and breathless praise for its recent successes. This presentation […]
Asia’s Growing Generation Gap: Causes and Consequences
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesHarvard-Yenching Institute Annual Roundtable Note: This event will begin at 4:15 pm and conclude at 6:15 pm. Panelists: Cho Haejoang, Emerita, Department of Cultural Anthropology, Yonsei University, Korea Ishida Hiroshi, […]
Thomas Gold – An ‘Old Youth’ (老青年) Looks at Chinese Youth Today
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesRead event summary here Speaker: Thomas B. Gold, University of California at Berkeley Thomas B. Gold is Professor of Sociology at the University of California. Since 2000 he has also served […]
Barry Naughton – China’s Great Gamble
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Barry Naughton, University of California San Diego Xi Jinping is consolidating power just as China has embarked on an unprecedented push to become a global and technological power. Xi’s […]