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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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