40 Years of Opening and Reform: A Comprehensive View – Politics, Law, Thought, Culture, Society
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeakers: Ren Jiantao, Tsinghua University He Weifang, Peking University Xiao Gongqin, Shanghai Normal University Rong Jian, Independent Scholar Discussant: Susan Greenhalgh, Harvard University
Liu Chen – Father and Son: A Neglected Legacy of the Renaissance on Liang Qichao and Liang Sicheng
Speaker: Liu Chen, Tsinghua University, HYI Visiting Scholar 2018-19 Discussant: Lino Pertile, Harvard University https://harvard-yenching.org/events/liu-chen-november-7
Fan Gang – Trade War and China’s New Phase of Development
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesRead the summary here Speaker: Fan Gang, professor at the Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) and at the Peking University HSBC Business School, as well as the director of China's National Economic Research Institute (NERI). Co-sponsored by the Unirule Institute of Economics Check back soon for more information!
40 Years of Economic Reform and Opening: Achievements and Challenges
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeakers: Li Shi, Beijing Normal University Tao Ran, Renmin University of China Qin Qianhong, Wuhan University Discussant: Meg Rithmire, Harvard Business School
Vigil and Memorial: Two Films by Wang Bing
Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center 24 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesAn in-person discussion with Wang Bing follows each film screening. $12 Special Event Tickets This event is co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center's Emergent Visions in Independent Chinese Cinema series, organized […]
Andrew Chittick – The Resistant South: Sketching a History of the Wu People in the First Millennium CE
Speaker: Andrew Chittick, Eckerd College The history of East Asia in the first millennium CE is ordinarily framed as the successive “fragmentation” of China under the Han dynasty, and its “reunification” under the Sui and Tang dynasties. This talk develops an alternative perspective, in which mainland East Asia is characterized by many distinct cultural regions, which […]
Christina Davis – East Asian Trade at a Crossroads: From TPP to China’s State-led Capitalism
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Christina Davis, Professor of Government and Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University Moderator: Susan Pharr, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics and Director, WCFIA Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University
Hopkins-Nanjing Center Open House
The Johns Hopkins University Hopkins-Nanjing Center will hold an information session for students interested in graduate study in China. Students at the HNC take coursework in Chinese in areas including politics, Chinese studies, law, economics, and energy, resources, and the environment. MA and certificate programs are available, with guaranteed funding for all financial aid applicants. […]
Denise Ho – New Exhibitions and China’s Cultural Revolution: Rethinking Class, Material, Culture, and Propaganda
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Denise Y. Ho, Yale University Listen to our "Harvard on China" podcast interview with Denise Y. Ho. Download and read the transcript of this podcast interview. Denise Y. Ho is assistant professor of twentieth-century Chinese history at Yale University, and the author of "Curating Revolution: Politics on Display of Mao’s China" (2018). Using a […]
Chas Freeman – A New Era in US-China Relations: Malicious Coexistence Amidst a Phony Peace?
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesRead the event summary here Speaker: Amb. Chas W. Freeman, Jr., Chair, Projects International, Inc. Ambassador Freeman is a career diplomat (retired) who was Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs from 1993-94, earning the highest public service awards of the Department of Defense for his roles in designing a NATO-centered post-Cold War European […]
Zheng Jing – From Asylums to Housing: A Vernacular Architectural Adaptation in Southeastern China
Speaker: Zheng Jing, Wuhan University, HYI Visiting Scholar 2018-19 Discussant: Michael Szonyi, Harvard University https://harvard-yenching.org/events/asylums-housing-vernacular-architectural-adaptation-southeastern-china
Meg Rithmire – Unfaithful Friends: State and Business in Developing Asia
Speaker: Meg Rithmire, F. Warren McFarlan Associate Professor of Business of Administration, Harvard Business School Chair: Ezra Vogel, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences, Emeritus, Harvard University Asia Center Seminar Series; co-sponsored with the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies