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 […]
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
Robert Daly – A Few Questions As We Barrel Toward the Brink: Has the United States Thought Through its Competition with China?
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesRead the summary here Speaker: Robert Daly, Director, Wilson Center’s Kissinger Institute on China and the United States Robert Daly has served as a U.S. diplomat in Beijing; as an interpreter for Chinese and U.S. leaders, including President Carter and Secretary of State Kissinger; as head of China programs at Johns Hopkins, Syracuse, and the […]
Jianping Ye – Rural Land Tenure System in China: History and Current Reform
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy 13 Brattle St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesOverview: China's rural land tenure system has experienced continuous reforms since 1978, but has faced new challenges amid rapid urbanization. The institutional structure of the system is complicated and evolving. […]
Exhibition Opening – Eye Eye Nose Mouth: Art, Disability, and Mental Illness in Nanjing, China and Shiga-ken, Japan
Japan Friends of Harvard Concourse, CGIS South, Lower Level 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesThis exhibition at the Harvard University Asia Center explores the intersections of art, disability, and mental health by displaying original works on paper and sculptures created by ten groundbreaking, self-taught […]
Chen Wei – How well has China’s family planning policy worked?
Speaker: Chen Wei, Professor, School of Sociology and Population Studies, Renmin University of China; HYI Visiting Scholar 2018-19 Chair/discussant: Mary Brinton, Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Harvard University Demography […]