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
Chris Leighton – Selling the Revolution: China’s Capitalist Ambassadors, 1949-1966
Room 101, Baker Library | Bloomberg Center Soldiers Field, Boston, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Chris Leighton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Business History Seminar at Harvard Business School Friday, November 16th, at 3:30 in Baker Library/Bloomberg Center Room 101
Shen Hong – “Seeking Truth”? True and Not True: On the Equivocal Position of Hangchow Christian College in the History of Zhejiang University
Spekaer: Shen Hong, Zhejiang University; HYI Visiting Scholar 2018-19 Discussant: David Wang, Harvard University https://harvard-yenching.org/events/shen-hong-november-20
Meow Hui Goh – Fake News, Genuine Words: The Power Dynamic of Literature in Early Medieval China
Speaker: Meow Hui Goh, Ohio State University As we grapple with the consequences of fake news, disseminated across the globe in high-speed internet to impact countries and communities on issues as grave as presidential election, gender discrimination, and ethnic cleansing, it might feel as if our world is treading on unchartered territory. But viral misinformation is […]
Film Screening: The Great Buddha
Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center 24 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesDirected by Huang Hsin-yao. With Cres Chuang, Bamboo Chen, Leon Dai Taiwan 2017, DCP, color & b/w, 102 min. Min Nan with English subtitles https://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa General Admission Tickets $9, $7 Non-Harvard Students, Seniors, Harvard Faculty and Staff. Harvard students free
Kang Jin-A — Transnational Merchant Diaspora in Modern East Asia: British and Cantonese cooperation in the treaty ports seen through the case of the Tongshuntai Firm
Speaker: Kang Jin-A, History Department, Hanyang University; HYI Visiting Scholar 2018-19 Chair/discussant: Victor Seow, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University https://harvard-yenching.org/events/transnational-merchant-diaspora-modern-east-asia-british-and-cantonese-cooperation-treaty
William Hsiao – The Power of China’s Bureaucracy: Through the Health Sector Lens
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesRead the event summary here Speaker: William Hsiao, K.T. Li Research Professor of Economics in Department of Health Policy and Management and Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard University T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Xi Lian – Political Dissent in the Name of God: Lin Zhao and Her Legacy in Contemporary China
Speaker: Xi Lian, Professor of World Christianity, Duke Divinity School
Panel Discussion – Early? Modern? Asia?: Three Perspectives
Panelists: Professor Carla Nappi, Department of History, University of Pittsburgh Professor Elaine Fisher, Department of Religious Studies, Stanford University Professor Michael Charney, Department of History, SOAS, University of London Chair: Professor David Atherton, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University Early Modern Asia Seminar Series, Harvard University Asia Center
Ruth Mostern – The Natural and Unnatural History of the Yellow River
Speaker: Ruth Mostern, University of Pittsburgh The geographer Jamie Linton has observed that under conditions of human entanglement, there is no such thing as a hydrological cycle, and that we should seek to understand the dynamics of hydrosocial cycles instead. Under anthropogenic conditions, water still precipitates and evaporates. Rivers are still fluvial systems in which […]