Exhibition – Fire Dream: Zhao Meng and the Reinvention of the Clay Medium
CGIS South CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesExploring the myriad material possibilities of clay, Zhao pushes the boundaries of the medium while reworking traditional forms. A closing reception and panel discussion will feature artists and scholars Brad Miller, Jeffrey Moser, Sun Ren, Eugene Y. Wang, and Nigel Wood. Closing Event: Friday, October 25, 2019 | 4:00 - 6:00 PM Room 427 | […]
Exhibition – Treasures of the Za Library
CGIS South CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesThis exhibition in the first floor lounge of CGIS South features a selection of treasured items from the collection of the Za Library (Zashuguan 雜書館) and from the Harvard-Yenching Library. The Za Library is the biggest privately-owned library in mainland China that is open to the public. The Harvard librarians have also made available a […]
Zhou Dan – Unbecoming Advocates: The Queer Career of Public Interest Lawyering in China
Morgan Courtroom, Austin Hall 1515 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Zhou Dan, L.L.M, ’16 SJD candidate
Ong Chang Woei – The Limits of “Civilization” in the Late Northern Song
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Ong Chang Woei, National University of Singapore Wang Anshi’s New Policies included hotly debated military reforms, but little is known about how the new military system functioned in different regions. The Khara-Khoto manuscripts discovered in the early 20th century allow us to explore how military reforms transformed territorial administration in Shaanxi from their initial […]
Ya-Wen Lei – Publics, Scientists, and the State: Mapping the Global Human Genome Editing Controversy, 2015–2019
William James Hall, Room 1550 33 kirkland st, cambridge, MA, United StatesRead event summary here Speaker: Ya-Wen Lei, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Harvard University
Anthony DeBlasi – The Anomaly of Tang Zhongzong 唐中宗 (r. 684 and 705-710) and the Dynamics of Tang History
Speaker: Anthony DeBlasi, University at Albany, State University of New York Most accounts of the life and reigns of the Tang emperor Zhongzong have portrayed him as an addendum to the careers of his more illustrious relatives, his mother the Empress Wu Zetian 武則天 and his nephew Tang Xuanzong 唐玄宗, seeing him as merely an […]
Ying Zhu – Trump’s Trade War and Sino-Hollywood Negotiation
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesRead event summary here Speaker: Ying Zhu, City University of New York; Hong Kong Baptist University Ying Zhu is a Professor of Cinema Studies at the City University of New York and Director of the Center for Film and Moving Image Research at the Academy of Film, Hong Kong Baptist University. She has published eight […]
Panel Discussion – Archival and Private Collection in Modern China
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesRead and download the transcript of the event here. Speakers: Katherine Alexander, Assistant Professor of Chinese, University of Colorado at Boulder Riley Brett-Roche, The Mellon International Dissertation Research Fellow (2018); PhD Candidate in History, Stanford University Xiaosong Gao, Director, The Za Library; Associate at the Department of EALC, Harvard University Michael Szonyi, Frank Wen-Hsiung Wu Memorial […]
Elizabeth Ingleson – Making Made In China: Race, Labor, and Politics in U.S.-China Trade 1971-1980
History Department Conference Room, Robinson Hall 35 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Elizabeth Ingleson, Southern Methodist University
Kyle Jaros – China’s Urban Champions: The Politics of Spatial Development
Wiener Auditorium, Taubman Building 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Kyle Jaros, author of China's Urban Champions: The Politics of Spatial Development; Associate Professor in the Political Economy of China Respondent: Meg Rithmire, F. Warren McFarlan Associate Professor of Business […]
Christian de Pee – Losing the Way in the City: Cities and Intellectual Crisis in Eleventh-Century China
Speaker: Christian de Pee, University of Michigan During the eleventh century, literati endeavored for the first time to write the commercial streetscape. Literati of previous centuries had written the city in the past tense, in tales of dissolute youth and in memoirs about capitals destroyed, but had otherwise hidden urban streets behind a generic blur of […]
Chen Jian – A Flawed Giant: Zhou Enlai and China’s Prolonged Rise
JFK Jr. Forum, Harvard Kennedy School 79 John F. Kennedy St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Chen Jian, Distinguished Global Network Professor of History, New York University and NYU-Shanghai Moderator: Fred Logevall, Laurence D. Belfer Professor of International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School of Government https://ash.harvard.edu/event/st-lee-lecture-flawed-giant-zhou-enlai-and-china%E2%80%99s-prolonged-rise