Events

Roger Shih-Chieh Lo – Redemptive Society and Cold War: Tongshanshe (Fellowship of Goodness) in Zhejiang, Fujian, and Taiwan, 1949-1978

Speaker: Roger Shih-Chieh Lo, National Taiwan University; HYI Visiting Scholar Chair/discussant: Michael Szonyi, Harvard University Throughout the 20th century, the two most influential redemptive societies in Chinese local society, Tongshanshe (Fellowship of Goodness) and Yiguangdao (Persistent way) both suffered various level of crackdown from different regimes. From fieldwork and local archives, however, it is evident […]

Faan Chen – Driving and the Built Environment: Is Transit-Oriented Development Effective in Shanghai?

Pierce Hall 100F 29 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA, United States

Speaker: Faan Chen, Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard-China Project, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University The rapid growth of cities such as Shanghai in China has presented many transportation, land use and climate change challenges for local government officials, planning and transit practitioners and property developers. These challenges include traffic congestion, […]

Reveal 揭幕 – 2019 Harvard Taiwan Arts Festival

Arts Wing, Second Floor, Smith Campus Center 1350 Mass Ave., Cambridge, MA, United States

The first Taiwan Arts Festival in Boston titled “Reveal” provides a platform for many artwork inspired by Taiwan. Sharing inspirations, the selected artwork display and uncover both similarities and differences […]

Zeb Raft – ‘Echoes’ in the Shishuo Xinyu: Repetition and its Significance in Early Medieval China

Speaker: Zeb Raft, Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica The Shishuo xinyu, the fifth-century collection of anecdotes, is full of echoes.  Stories can be repeated, in somewhat different form.  Individual entries may juxtapose two accounts that are different, yet similar in certain respects.  Common motifs figure prominently.  How should we interpret this “echo effect”?  This […]

Repercussions: The Hong Kong Protests in Context

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

Chair: James Robson, James C. Kralik and Yunli Lou Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations; Victor and William Fung Director, Harvard University Asia Center Steven Goldstein, Sophia Smith Professor […]

Geremie R. Barmé – Tales from Two Chinese Cities: Resistance in the 2019 Year of Anniversaries

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

Read event summary here Speaker:  Geremie R. Barmé, Editor, China Heritage From late 2018, China has marked a series of major anniversaries and commemorations.  A century of political, cultural and social upheaval has been brought into sharp focus by tumultuous contemporary events. Today, the past is living in to the present in ways that are […]

Workshop: Law and Empire in the Sino-Asian Context

Austin Hall Room 308 1515 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA, United States

Co-hosted by International Society for Legal History , American Society for Legal History, The International Society for Chinese Law and History, and the Harvard Law School Program in East Asian […]