Events

Symposium on Asia at the World’s Fairs: An Online Exhibition of Cultural Exchange

Boston University Hillel House, 213 State Road 213 Bay State Road, Boston, MA, United States

Director and Project Curator: Catherine V. Yeh Web-designer: Janet Liu Co-curators: Janet Liu, Robert Murowchick, Alice Tseng, and Wen-hao Tien Please join us for the celebratory opening of our exciting new online digital initiative, Asia at the World’s Fairs: An Online Exhibition of Cultural Exchange.The symposium features presentations on the cultural, political, and economic roles […]

Victor Shih – Protective Umbrella: How Factional Ties Attenuated the Impact of an Anti-Corruption Campaign in China

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

Speaker: Victor Shih, University of California San Diego Do stricter enforcement of the law and sudden intensification of corruption investigation always lead to better economic outcomes in the medium term? A strand of the literature suggests that where the government imposes great distortion to the market, corruption “with theft” can incentivize local state agents to […]

Wang Jianping – Upholding the Faith in an Atheistic Land: Flourishing Unofficial Islamic Publications in Contemporary China

Speaker: Wang Jianping, Professor of Islamic Studies (retired), Shanghai Normal University; HYI Library Research Grant recipient Chair: James Cheng, Librarian of the Harvard-Yenching Library, Harvard University https://harvard-yenching.org/events/upholding-faith-atheistic-land-flourishing-unofficial-islamic-publications-contemporary-china

Wu Xinbo – Managing growing and expanding competition between China and the U.S.

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

Read event summary here Speaker: Wu Xinbo, Professor & Director Center for American Studies Dean Institute of International Studies Fudan University Dr. Wu is Professor and Dean, Institute of International Studies, […]

Workshop: Chinese Food: Culture, Economy, and Ecology

CGIS South CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United States

Part of the Fairbank Center's "Environment in Asia" series April 27, 8:30am-6:30pm, CGIS South Room S153 April 28, 8:30am-3:30pm, CGIS South Room S250 Organizer: Ling Zhang (Boston College); Elizabeth Lord […]

Reconsidering Chinese Literature in the World: An International Symposium in Honor of Stephen Owen

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

In honor of Harvard University Professor Stephen Owen’s retirement from teaching, the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University and the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale University will convene an international symposium on Chinese and comparative literatures on April 26 and 27, 2018, at Harvard University. Papers will […]

Fairbank Center Visiting Scholar Presentations

Join this year's Visiting Scholars as they provide a brief overview of their research and other accomplishments during the past academic year at the Fairbank Center.

Film Screening: An Elephant Sitting Still

Brattle Theater 40 Brattle St, Cambridge, MA, United States

The final event of the spring semester for the Emergent Visions film series will be hosted at the Brattle Theatre in Harvard Square. The event is free and open to […]