Events

Dennis Blair and Taylor Fravel – China, the U.S., and East Asia’s Maritime Disputes

CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

Speakers: 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 Professor of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Moderator: Susan Pharr, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics and Director, WCFIA Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, […]

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 States

Speaker: 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 attempts to cut through the hyperbole on both sides to examine the evolution of China’s high-tech policies and its recent performance record. Chinese technology policy […]

Asia’s Growing Generation Gap: Causes and Consequences

CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United States

Harvard-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, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo, Japan Teresa Kuan, Department of Anthropology, Chinese University of Hong Kong Shen Yifei, Department of Sociology, Fudan […]

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 States

Read 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 States

Speaker: 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 followers are fashioning an economic and administrative system that they hope can achieve these ambitious goals.  Some parts of this multi-stranded program will succeed and […]

James Palmer – China’s Historical Experience and the Challenge of Covering Chinese Politics Today

Fainsod Room (324), Littauer Building 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA, United States

Speaker: James Palmer, Asia Editor of Foreign Policy and author, The Death of Mao: The Tangshan Earthquake and the Birth of the New China, Moderator: Julian Gewirtz, Fellow in History and Public Policy and author of Unlikely Partners: Chinese Reformers, Western Economists, and the Making of Global China The event is sponsored by the Initiative on […]

Reporting on Asia – A Discussion with Four Nieman Fellows

CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United States

Speakers: Glenda M. Gloria, Managing Editor and Co-Founder of Rappler, Philippines social news network Shalini Singh, Features Reporter, New Delhi, India; former reporter for The Week and the Hindustan Times; […]

Dwight Perkins – How to Measure China’s Economic Reform

CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United States

Read event summary here Speaker: Dwight Perkins, Harvard University Dwight H. Perkins is the Harold Hitchings Burbank Research Professor of Political Economy of Harvard University, where he joined the faculty […]