Henny Sender – Trump as China’s Friend?
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesRead event summary here Speaker: Henny Sender, Financial Times Henny Sender is chief correspondent for international finance at the Financial Times, based in Hong Kong. Sender was part of a […]
Panel Discussion – Tiananmen at 30
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesWatch again on YouTube: Listen again on Soundcloud: Read and download a transcript of this event here. Speakers: Hao Jian, Professor, Beijing Film Academy Louisa Lim, Senior Lecturer, University of […]
Conference – Interpreting Energy Dependence in Eurasia
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesEnergy dependence is the leitmotif of Eurasian political economy. The concept recurs in official speeches and is often invoked to imply a threat. The higher the level of dependence on hydrocarbon imports, […]
Film Screening and Discussion with Director Hu Jie – The Spark
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesDirector Hu Jie will be in person for a Q&A (Mandarin with English translation) following the screening. Following the Anti-Rightist movement of 1957, a group of Lanzhou University students who had been condemned as Rightists were sent to rural areas in Tianshui, Gansu Province, to be reformed through labor. There they witnessed the violent absurdities […]
Exhibition Reception – Calligraphy • China Gene : Ronghua Jing
Gutman Library 6 Appian Way, Camrbidge, MA, United States"One brush reveals all" is the secret of calligraphy and the key of decoding aesthetics of traditional Chinese art. This exhibition consists of ten calligraphies and ten Chinese paintings, including […]
Chinese Optics: Artful Looking
Sackler Building Room 427 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA, United StatesPauline Yu – ’A New Day is Upon Us’: Building the Field of Chinese Studies
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Pauline Yu, President Emeritus, American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Pauline Yu served as President of the American Council of Learned Societies from 2003-19 and was previously Dean of Humanities […]
Celebration of Professor Roderick MacFarquhar
Memorial Church 1 Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA, United StatesRoderick MacFarquhar 1930-2019 The Fairbank Community is Invited to Attend a Celebration on Saturday, September 7, 2019 at 2:00 PM, at the Memorial Church of Harvard University With Tributes from […]
Wilt L. Idema – A Second Look at the Precious Scroll of the Red Gauze (Hongluo Baojuan 紅羅寶卷): Some Considerations on the Development of the Genre
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Wilt L. Idema, Professor of Chinese Literature Emeritus, Harvard University When the Precious Scroll of the Red Gauze was first introduced to the academic world, it was presented as […]
Ezra Vogel – China and Japan: Facing History
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Ezra Vogel, Author; Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus, Harvard University Read and download the transcript of this event here. With brief presentations by: Richard Dyck, former President, Teredyne, Japan Paula Harrell, School of Continuing Studies, Georgetown University Moderator: Elizabeth Perry, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government; Director, Harvard-Yenching Institute Sponsored by […]
Isaac Kardon – Pier Competitor: China’s Global Port Expansion
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesRead event summary here Speaker: Isaac Kardon, US Naval War College Isaac B. Kardon (孔适海) is assistant professor in the Strategic and Operational Research Department’s China Maritime Studies Institute (CMSI). Dr. Kardon researches and writes on maritime disputes, Indo-Pacific maritime security and commerce, China-Pakistan relations, and the law of the sea. He teaches classes on […]
Craig Allen – US-China Trade Negotiations: No Perpetual Friends or Enemies, Only Perpetual Interests
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Craig Allen, President, US-China Business Council Read and download the transcript of the event here. On July 26, 2018, Craig Allen began his tenure in Washington, DC, as the sixth President of the United States-China Business Council (USCBC), a private, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization representing over 200 American companies doing business with China. Prior to joining […]