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 […]
Wang Horng-luen— Patriotic Education for the PRC?: Examining the “National Experience” of Degree-Pursuing PRC Students in Taiwan
Speaker: Wang Horng-luen, Research Fellow, Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica; HYI Visiting Scholar 2018-19 Chair/discussant: Paul Cohen, Professor of History Emeritus, Wellesley College https://harvard-yenching.org/events/wang-horng-luen-december-4
Cao Yin — From Policemen to Revolutionaries: A Sikh Diaspora in Global Shanghai, 1885-1945
Speaker: Cao Yin, Tsinghua University This talk will uncover the less-known story of Sikh emigrants in Shanghai in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It argues that the cross-border circulation […]
Xi Chen – Historical Maps and Digital Humanities: A Survey on Harvard Library’s China-Related Map Collection
Speaker: Xi Chen, Visiting Librarian of the Harvard-Yenching Library; Fudan University The presentation will be given in Chinese.
Paul Evans – Living with the U.S.: What Would Fairbank Advise?
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesRead the event summary here Speaker: Paul Evans, University of British Columbia
Sheena Greitens – Information, Prevention, and Authoritarian Stability: Local Coercive Capacity in China
Conference Room, Cotting House Soliders Field Road, Boston, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Sheena Greitens, University of Missouri
Panel Discussion – The Taiwan Elections of 2018: Implications for the Future
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesListen again: Panelists: Ming-sho Ho, National Taiwan University Chang-ling Huang, National Taiwan University Steven Goldstein, Sophia Smith Professor of Government, Emeritus, Smith College
Wang Zhen — An undesigned nuclear triangle of the U.S., China and India?
Speaker: Wang Zhen, Associate Professor of International Studies, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences Chair/discussant: Steven E. Miller, Director, International Security Program, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School https://harvard-yenching.org/events/undesigned-nuclear-triangle-us-china-and-india