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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 of personnel and knowledge across the British colonial and the Sikh diasporic networks, facilitated the formation of the Sikh community in Shanghai, eventually making this […]

Panel Discussion – The Taiwan Elections of 2018: Implications for the Future

CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United States

Listen 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 States

Read 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 States

Overview: 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. In this seminar, Professor Ye will trace the history of institutional and policy changes in China's rural land tenure system, and discuss the current reform […]

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 States

This 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 artists from China and Japan. Their compelling, formally innovative works come in a wide range of styles and media, from gestural abstractions to proliferating figurations, from […]

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 is destiny. China’s economic success has been importantly driven by its demographic changes which might also determine China’s future. At the center of the demographics […]