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 […]
David Shambaugh – Power Shift? America and China in Southeast Asia
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesRead event summary here Speaker: David Shambaugh, George Washington University Professor Shambaugh is an internationally recognized authority and author on contemporary China and the international relations of Asia, with a strong interest in the European Union and transatlantic issues. Before joining the faculty at George Washington, he held the positions of Reader in Chinese Politics at […]
Gender Studies Workshop: Gender and Friendship in China
CGIS South Room S354 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United States12:45-1 p.m. Welcoming remarks First Panel Moderator: Wai-yee Li, Harvard University 1-1:30p.m. Zhou Yiqun, Stanford University: “Hermits and Their Wives in Early Chinese Texts” 1:30-2p.m. Hu Ying, University of […]
Amelia Ying Qin – Seeking Patterns: Close and Distant Readings of Two Collections of Tang 唐 (618-907) Dynasty Anecdotes
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Amelia Ying Qin, An Wang Post Doctoral Fellow, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies This study takes two different approaches—close and distant readings—to the hidden patterns in two anecdote collections. The Songchuang zalu 松牕雜錄 (Miscellaneous Notes under the Pine Window) is a small Tang 唐 (618-907) collection of sixteen anecdotes that claims its accounts are both “particularly […]
The Arnold Arboretum and China: A Century-Old Partnership
Weld Hill Research Building 1300 Centre St., Boston, MA, United StatesSurrounded by our Bonsai & Penjing collection, enjoy cocktails and hors d'oeuvres as you view Professor Yin Kaipu's (Chengdu Institute of Biology) photographs which document a century of environmental change. Each of his images will be paired with a sister image taken in the same location by Arboretum explorer Ernest Henry Wilson. Then screen highlights […]