Karl Eikenberry – The Military Dimension of Sino-American Strategic Competition
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesRead event summary here Speaker: Karl Eikenberry, Stanford University Karl Eikenberry is Director of the U.S.-Asia Security Initiative and faculty member at the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, faculty member of […]
Lu Pin – Finding a Voice: A Conversation on China’s Feminist Voices
Speaker: Lu Pin, Chinese journalist and feminist activist Chair: Julian Gewirtz, Lecturer, Department of History; Academy Scholar, Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, Harvard University Discussant: Moira Weigel, Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows Asia Center Seminar Series. Sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center; cosponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
Li Jie – Maoist Cinema as a Spirit Medium
Speaker: Li Jie, EALC, Harvard University As a scholar of literary, film, and cultural studies, Jie Li’s research interests center on the mediation of memories in modern China. Her first […]
Terry Sicular – Rural Secondary Education During the Cultural Revolution: The Untold Story
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Terry Sicular, Professor of Economics, The University of Western Ontario Terry Sicular is a leading North American specialist on the Chinese economy. She has written extensively on household incomes, […]
Wei Shang – “The Story of the Stone” and the Visual Culture of the Manchu Court
Speaker: Wei Shang, Columbia University This talk addresses The Story of the Stone (otherwise known as Dream of the Red Chamber, Honglou meng 紅樓夢), authored by Cao Xueqin (ca. 1715--ca. 1763), with special focus on its recurrent theme as captured in Chapter 1: “Truth becomes fiction when fiction is true; real becomes not-real where the […]
Paul Clifford – Huawei Technologies: World-Class Company or State Agent?
Starr Auditorium, Belfer Building, Floor 2.5, Harvard Kennedy School 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Paul Clifford, Ash Center Nonresident Senior Fellow Moderator: Anthony Saich, Ash Center Director and Daewoo Professor of International Affairs China has come a long way from relying on imports to […]
Felix Boecking | Chinese trade wars in historical perspective— No Great Wall: Trade, Tariffs, and Nationalism in Republican China, 1927-1945
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesListen to an interview with Felix Boecking on our "Harvard on China" podcast. Download and read the podcast transcript here Download and read the podcast transcript here. Speaker: Felix Boecking, University of Edinburgh No Great Wall (Harvard Asia Center, 2017), an in-depth study of Nationalist tariff policy, fundamentally challenges the widely accepted idea that the key to the Communist seizure […]
Philippe Le Corre – China and Europe: Potential Partners or Systemic Rivals?
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesRead event summary here Speaker: Philippe Le Corre, Harvard Kennedy School Philippe Le Corre is an affiliate with the Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship and a senior fellow with Harvard Kennedy School's Mossavar-Rahmani Center on Business and Government at the Harvard Kennedy School. He is also a former fellow with the Belfer Center. Philippe […]
Sebastian Veg – Minjian: the Rise of China’s Grassroots Intellectuals
Speaker: Sebastian Veg, School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS), Paris While China’s intellectuals throughout the twentieth century were defined in terms of their elite position and responsibility for the nation, this role was profoundly challenged after the crackdown on the democracy movement of 1989. In its aftermath, new groups of intellectuals emerged from […]
2019 Gender Studies Workshop: Images, Objects, and Gender in China
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United States12:45-1 p.m. Welcoming remarks First Panel Moderator: Catherine Vance Yeh 1-1:30p.m. Jeehee Hong, “ ‘Gender’ and Affect in Song Faces” 1:30-2p.m. Mao Wen-Fang, “The Object and the Beauty in Painting: the Metaphorical Viewing and Lyrical Interpretations of Portrait Texts in the Modes of ‘San hao三好’ (three good things) and ‘Lang yu li郎與麗’ (gentleman […]
Yan Xuetong and Graham Allison: US-China Competition in the Age of the Knowledge Economy
Belfer Center Library Room 369, Littauer Center 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Yan Xuetong, Distinguished Professor and Dean of the Institute of International Relations, Tsinghua University Moderator: Graham Allison, Douglas Dillon Professor of Government and former Director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School
The EU and China as Global Actors: The Cases of Syria and Africa
Adolphus Busch Hall 27 Kirkland St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeakers: Catherine Gegout, Harvard Kennedy School Fidel Sendagort, Former Ambassador of Spain to Egypt The panelists will discuss the differing approaches towards conflict management, and the different ways through which China […]