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 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 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? 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 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 of Cultural Heritage Management Mechanism with Chinese Characteristics and the existing state and challenges to Cultural Heritage Management in China. Liu Shuguang, graduated from the […]
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 transformation of society and economy that had been the goal of preceding regimes was realized to a hitherto unseen degree in the industrial edifice raised […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 StatesThe 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 the public. SYNOPSIS: An Elephant Sitting Still (大象席地而坐), 2018, HD, Mandarin with English subtitles, 230 min. Under the gloomy sky of a small town in […]