Wen-Yi Huang – Families Divided: Migration and Those Left Behind in Fifth- and Sixth-Century China
Speaker: Wen-Yi Huang, An Wang Post-Doctoral Fellow, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University In this talk I explore the impact of migration on family members left behind, particularly those whose parents, children, siblings, and spouses were forcibly moved to the Northern Wei (386-534 CE) from four successive southern states of Eastern Jin (317-420 CE), Liu-Song (420-479 […]
Tansen Sen – India, China, and the World: A Connected History
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Tansen Sen, New York University Shanghai By focusing on the early material exchanges, transmissions of knowledge and technologies between ancient India and ancient China; the networks of exchange during the colonial period; and some of the less-known facets of interactions between the Republic of India and the People’s Republic of China, this presentation argues […]
William Alford – Learn from the Past to Appreciate the Present, That is What Makes One a Teacher 溫故而知新,可以為師矣: Confucius, Cohen (s) and Contemporary China
Milstein West, Wasserstein Hall 1585 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: William P. Alford, Jerome A. and Joan L. Cohen Professor of East Asian Legal Studies, Harvard University Dean John F. Manning invites you to join the Harvard Law School Community and Friends in honoring William P. Alford on the occasion of his appointment as the Jerome A. and Joan L. Cohen Professor of East […]
Jerome A. Cohen – Law and Power in China and in Its Foreign Relations
Room 111 Austin West, Harvard Law School 1515 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Jerome A. Cohen, Professor of Law, NYU School of Law; Of Counsel, Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison; Founding Director, East Asian Legal Studies Program East Asian Legal Studies Lunchtime Talk Series
Su-Bing Chang – Taiwan Biographical Database: An Introduction
Speaker: Su-bing Chang, Professor, National Taiwan University; Visiting Scholar, Fairbank Center Please RSVP to Feng-en Tu (hyl.eadh@gmail.com)
Tony Saich – Xi’s Policy Challenges: Some Questions for Discussion
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesRead the event summary here Speaker: Tony Saich, Harvard Kennedy School
Anna Sun – Turning Ghosts into Ancestors: Ritual, Gender, and the Afterlife in Contemporary Urban China
Andover Hall, Braun Room 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Anna Sun, Kenyon College, Visiting Associate Professor of Women’s Studies and East Asian Religions Lunch will be provided.
Ho Ming-Sho – Standoff and Improvisation in Eventful Protests: Taiwan’s Sunflower Movement and Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement
Speaker: Ho Ming-Sho, National Taiwan University, HYI Visiting Scholar Chair/discussant: Paul Chang, Harvard University Taiwan's Sunflower Movement and Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement of 2014 belong to an unusual case of "eventful […]
The Complex India-China Strategic Relationship: Can the Two Asian Powers Rise Peacefully?
Speaker: Professor Arjun Subramaniam, Visiting Professor, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University; former Visiting Scholar, Harvard University Asia Center Chair: Arne Westad, S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia […]
Adrian Zenz – Recent Developments in Xinjiang
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Adrian Zenz, Lecturer in social research methods, European School of Culture & Theology, Germany Moderator: Mark Elliott, Vice Provost, International Affairs, Harvard University Co-Sponsored by: Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies […]
Andrew Mertha – Externalizing Fragmented Authoritarianism: Using History to Anticipate Challenges for Belt and Road
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesRead the event summary here Speaker: Andrew Mertha, George and Sadie Hyman Professor and Director of China Studies at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University
Foreign NGOs, Foundations and Think Tanks in China After Two Years of a New Policy and Legal Framework
Lewis Hall 214A, Harvard Law School 1557 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Mark Sidel, Doyle-Bascom Professor of Law and Public Affairs, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Consultant (Asia), International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL) East Asian Legal Studies Lunchtime Talk Series Co-sponsored by the Harvard Asia Law […]