Graham Allison – Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’ Trap?
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Graham Allison, Douglas Dillon Professor of Government, Harvard Kennedy School Discussants: Roderick MacFarquhar, Leroy B. Williams Professor of History, Harvard University Oriana Skylar Mastro, Assistant Professor of Security Studies, Edmund A. […]
The Belt and Road Initiative and Authoritarian Spillovers
One of the Fairbank Center's Visiting Scholars, Maria Adele Carrai, will be giving a presentation on Friday, April 20 from 2-4 in CGIS S153 on her paper “The Belt and […]
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 StatesDirector 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 […]
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 StatesSpeaker: 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? […]
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 StatesRead 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, […]
Liu Shuguang – Cultural Heritage in China: Present and Future
Speaker: Liu Shuguang, Deputy Administrator, State Administration of Cultural Heritage (SACH), People's Republic of China This talk will focus on the distinctive features of cultural heritage in China, the formation […]
Victor Seow – Energy Transitions amidst Regime Change: Mining Coal in the Early People’s Republic of China
Pierce Hall 100F 29 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Victor Seow, Assistant Professor, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University The decade after the revolution of 1949 witnessed a China that was being made anew. The material […]
Reconsidering Chinese Literature in the World: An International Symposium in Honor of Stephen Owen
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 […]
Fanmei Wang – Career Development for Ethnic Minority Employees: A Case Study in the Tibetan Autonomous Region
Speaker: Fanmei Wang, Fairbank Center Visiting Scholar, Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Donlinks School of Economics and Management, University of Science and Technology Beijing Hosted by: Mark Elliott, Vice Provost for International Affairs, Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History, Harvard University The presentation will focus on the issue of career advancement for ethnic minority […]
Workshop: Chinese Food: Culture, Economy, and Ecology
CGIS South CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesPart 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 (Harvard University) Sponsors: Harvard University Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Harvard-China Project on Energy, Economy, and Environment (Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences) […]
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 StatesIn 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 […]