Eric Taglicozzo and Tansen Sen – Borders in Modern Asia: Concepts and Cases
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesBorders in Modern Asia Seminar Series Eric Tagliacozzo, Professor of History, Cornell University Tansen Sen, Professor of History, NYU Shanghai Chaired by Sugata Bose and Sunil Amrith
Xiaofei Tian – The Halberd at Red Cliff: Jian’an and the Three Kingdoms
Speaker: Xiaofei Tian, Professor of Chinese Literature; Chair of Regional Studies East Asia (RSEA), Harvard University
Robert Ross – The Rise of the Chinese Navy: What it Means for East Asia and the United States
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesRead the event summary here Speaker: Robert Ross, Boston College Robert S. Ross is Professor of Political Science at Boston College and Associate, John King Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University in 1984. He has taught at Columbia University and at the University of […]
Huang Chang-Ling – Fighting for Seats: The Politics of Gender Quotas in East Asia
Speaker: Huang Chang-Ling, Professor of Political Science, National Taiwan University; HYI Visiting Scholar and Radcliffe Fellow, 2018-19 Chair/discussant: Mona Lena Krook, Professor, Department of Political Science, Rutgers University The level of women’s political representation varies in East Asia. Taiwan is the leader with 38 percent of its national legislature comprised of women, much higher than China’s 23 […]
22nd Annual Harvard East Asia Society Conference – Voice and Silence: Memory in East Asia
CGIS South CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesThe 22nd annual Harvard East Asia Society (HEAS) Conference will take place at Harvard CGIS-South on Friday, February 8 and Saturday, February 9. Organized by a committee of RSEA students, this year's conference offers multiple panels on the theme of Voice and Silence: Memory in East Asia. On Friday, February 8 at 5:30 pm Prof. Xiaofei Tian, Faculty Chair of […]
Christopher Atwood: Environmental Geographies of the Mongol Empire
Speaker: Christopher Atwood, Professor, Mongolian and Chinese Frontier & Ethnic History, University of Pennsylvania The European conquest of the Americas, the consequent ecological exchange, massive mortality, and rise of plantation economies have been one of the prime topics of environmental history. Less widely understood have been the similar ecological impacts and imperatives of the thirteenth century […]
Contemporary China Film Screening – Art in Fog: A Conversation with Director Lydia Chen
Discussant: Shelley Drake Hawkes, Middlesex Community College Moderator: Eugenio Menegon, Boston University Directed by Lydia Chen, Art in Smog offers an intimate encounter with four artists and a curator in China, as they pursue their dreams over 25 years of rapid change. The pursuit of art takes them from quiet lives in the 1990s to the extremes […]
Yi Na – Seeing and Being Seen: The Cultural Roles of Tibetan Thangka
Speaker: Yi Na, Associate Professor, Institute of Ethnic Literature, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; HYI Visiting Scholar 2018-19 Chair/discussant: Gregory Nagy, Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University *Please note early (10 am) start time* Thangka originally is a kind of scroll painting depicting Tibetan Buddhism images on textile. There […]
Nara Dillon – Feeding the Poor: Food Welfare in the PRC
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesRead event summary here Speaker: Nara Dillon, Harvard University Nara Dillon’s research interests include globalization and the politics of welfare, charity, and inequality in China. In addition to contemporary Chinese social policy, her research examines its origins in the Mao and the pre-revolutionary Republican periods. Her publications include At the Crossroads of Empires: Middlemen, Social Networks, […]
Zuoyue Wang – Transnational Science in Modern China: From May Fourth to the Cold War and Beyond
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Zuoyue Wang, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona How have transnational exchanges, especially with the United States, in science and technology shaped and reshaped modern China in the last century since the May Fourth Movement of 1919? This talk explores key players and events in this history from the Science Society of China during the […]
Derek Scissors – Chinese Investment: State-Owned Enterprises Stop Globalizing, for the Moment
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Derek Scissors - American Enterprise Institute Derek M. Scissors is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where he focuses on the Chinese and Indian economies and on US economic relations with Asia. He is concurrently chief economist of the China Beige Book. Dr. Scissors is the author of the China Global Investment […]
Workshop: The Birth of the Chinese Population
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Malcolm Thompson, An Wang Postdoctoral Fellow Discussant: Gail Hershatter, Professor of History, UC–Santa Cruz Abstract: What kind of problem is "the population problem" in China? That it would be a problem, or at least an issue, seems clear, but this tells us little about how, or why, it was specifically problematized there for the […]