Jennifer Altehenger – A History of Legal Lessons: law, propaganda, and the state in socialist China
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Jennifer Altehenger, King's College London In 2016, the PRC embarked on the seventh five-year plan for the popularization of law. Today, the dissemination of basic legal knowledge is an established part of CCP governance, closely associated with the extensive legal reforms that followed the death of Mao Zedong in 1976. Yet people learned about […]
David Barboza – Business and the State
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesRead event summary here Speaker: David Barboza - The New York Times
Rob Efird – Nature for Nurture: Environmental Education, Nature Experience, and the Healthy Chinese Child
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Robert Efird, Professor of Anthropology and Asian studies, Seattle University For the past 15 years, the Chinese Ministry of Education’s attempt to promote environmental education in public schools has faced nearly insurmountable structural obstacles. By contrast, there is a growing popular embrace of the value of nature exposure for children’s health and well-being. Drawing […]
Jennifer Hsieh – Noise, Decibels, and the Paradox of Reproducibility in Urban Taiwan
Davison Room, Music Building 3 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Jennifer Hsieh, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Jennifer Hsieh holds a Ph.D. in anthropology from Stanford University and comes to the Fairbank Center from the University of Amsterdam where she was a Vossius Fellow. Part of the Graduate Music Forum Friday Lunch Talk Series
David Yang – Historical Traumas and the Roots of Political Distrust: Political Inference from the Great Chinese Famine
Littauer Center, Room M16 1805 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: David Yang, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Harvard University Chairs: Melissa Dell, Faculty Associate. Assistant Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Harvard University Claudia Goldin,Henry Lee Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Harvard University Nathan Nunn, Frederic E. Abbe Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Harvard University
Martha Hanson – Heaven and Earth Are Within One’s Grasp (Qian Kun zai wo 乾坤在握): The Handy Mind in Late Imperial Chinese Medicine
Room 469, Science Center 1 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Professor Marta Hanson, Johns Hopkins Part of the Harvard University Asia Center Science and Technology Seminar Series
Tony Saich and Jesse Turiel – Polling China: Understanding Public Opinion Across China
Speakers: Tony Saich, Ash Center Director, and Jesse Tureil, PhD candidate, Boston University Join us for a conversation with Ash Center Director and Daewoo Professor of International Affairs Tony Saich and Jesse Turiel, a PhD candidate from Boston University as they discuss their groundbreaking public opinion survey project in China. Starting in 2003, Saich developed a series […]
Leta Hong Fincher – The Feminist Awakening in China
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesRead the event summary here Speaker: Leta Hong Fincher, Author Listen to Leta Hong Fincher's podcast interview with the Fairbank Center's "Harvard on China" podcast: Read and download the transcript […]
Jing-Bao Nie – In search of a Benevolent Polity: Eldery Suicide in China and a Confucian Socio-Ethical Vision of Eldercare
Speaker: Professor Jing-Bao Nie, University of Otago, New Zealand Chair: Professor Arthur Kleinman, Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University; Professor of Medical Anthropology and Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School Part of the Asia Center Seminar Series
Jing-Bao Nie – Reclaiming a sense of common humanity: a Chinese vision for transcultural and global bioethics
TMEC Building, Harvard Medical School, Room 106 260 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Jing-Bao Nie, University of Otago Lunch will be available.
China’s War on Smuggling: Law, Economic Life, and the Making of the Modern State, 1842–1965
Speaker: Professor Philip Thai, Assistant Professor of History, Northeastern University Chair: Professor Arunabh Ghosh, Assistant Professor of History, Harvard University Asia Center Seminar Series
Lan Pei-Chia – Raising Global Families: Global Parenting and Class Inequality in Taiwan
Speaker: Prof. Lan Pei-Chia, National Taiwan University Chair: Prof. Andrew Gordon, Harvard University; Acting Director, Harvard-Yenching Institute https://harvard-yenching.org/events/raising-global-families-global-parenting-and-class-inequality-taiwan Based on in-depth interviews with ethnic Chinese parents from more than a hundred families in Taiwan and Boston, my new book Raising Global Families examines how parents navigate transnational mobilities and negotiate cultural boundaries to cope with uncertainties and […]