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, 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 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 as Executive Director of the Inter-University Program for Chinese Language Studies (IUP), a consortium of 14 American universities which administers an advanced Chinese language program […]
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 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 […]
Zhang Changhong – A Shift in Buddhist Iconography between the 8th and 12th Century: Rock Carvings and Mandala Murals in Eastern and Western Tibet
Speaker: Zhang Changhong, Palace Museum, Beijing; HYI Coordinate Research Scholar Chair: Leonard van der Kuijp, Harvard University https://harvard-yenching.org/events/shift-buddhist-iconography-between-8th-and-12th-century-rock-carvings-and-mandala-murals
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 StatesSpeaker: 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 StatesSpeakers: 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; founding trustee at the People's Archive of Rural India Bonny Symons-Brown, Australian Broadcasting Corporation; former TV news anchor, Jakarta, Indonesia Edward Wong, The New York […]
Gao Xiaosong – The Story of a Private Library in Contemporary China
Speaker: Gao Xiaosong, Director, Za Library, Beijing, China Moderator: Xiaofei Tian, Professor of Chinese Literature, EALC, Harvard Mr. Gao Xiaosong 高曉松, director of Za shu guan 雜書館, will speak on the Za Library, one of the largest private libraries open to the public in China.
Mark Sidel – China and Overseas NGOs and Foundations: New Frameworks and New Challenges
Speaker: Mark Sidel, Doyle-Bascom Professor of Law and Public Affairs, University of Wisconsin-Madison Moderator: Anthony Saich, Harvard Kennedy School https://ash.harvard.edu/event/future-chinese-civil-society-foreign-ngos?admin_panel=1
Dwight Perkins – How to Measure China’s Economic Reform
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesRead 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 […]
Hongtu Chen – The Aging Population in China and the Development of the Care Workforce
Speaker: Dr. Hongtu Chen, Associate, Harvard University Asia Center; Assistant Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School Chair: Professor Arthur Kleinman, Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology, Harvard […]
Chinese Ecologies – An International Symposium on the Environment and Indigeneity
CGIS South CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesApril 6 Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street 13:00-13:10 Welcome Remarks 13:10-14:25 Panel 1: Articulating the Polemics of the Anthropocene Chair: Karen Thornber (Harvard University) Haiyan Lee (Stanford University): Through Thick and Thin: The Romance of the Species in the Anthropocene Christopher Coggins (Bard College at Simon’s Rock): […]
Knife in the Clear Water
Brattle Theater 40 Brattle St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesFree screening and discussion! Co-presented by Crows & Sparrows and the Emergent Visions Series of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard, in conjunction with the Harvard Yenching Indigeneity and Environment Symposium. Winner of the New Currents Award at the 2016 Busan International Film Festival and based on the story by Shi Shuqing (who […]