International Implications from Contemporary Developments in Chinese Higher Education
William James Hall, Room 1550 33 kirkland st, cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeakers: Hamish Coates, Professor, Institute of Education and Director, Higher Education Division; Deputy Director, Global Research Center for the Assessment of College and Student Development, Tsinghua University Wen Wen, Associate Professor, Institute of Education, Tsinghua University; Deputy Director, Asian Research Center, Tsinghua University; Fulbright Scholar (2019-2020), Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University Discussants: Manja […]
Film Screening – Fukuoka
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesDirected by: Zhang Lu Q&A with Director following the screening, moderated by Peng Hai, PhD Candidate, East Asian Languages and Civilizations Hae-hyo and Jea-moon were very good friends in college, eventually going their separate ways after falling in love with the same girl. They have not seen or heard from each other ever since. As […]
Film Screening – Jinpa
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesDirected by: Pema Tseden Q&A with Director following the screening, moderated by Benny Shaffer, PhD Candidate, Anthropology On an isolated road passing through the vast barren plains of Tibet, a truck driver who has accidentally run over a sheep chances upon a young man who is hitching a ride. As they drive and chat, the […]
Xin Zhang – Governance by Numbers: Origins, Present and Future of China’s Social Credit System
WCC 1010, Wasserstein Hall 1585 Mass. Ave., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Xin Zhang, Visiting Scholar, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University; Associate Professor, School of Law, University of International Business and Economics, Beijing Commenter/Discussant : Ya-Wen Lei, Assistant Professor, […]
Jane Perlez – On the trail of Xi Jinping: A New York Times Correspondent on Reporting in China
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesRead event summary here Speaker: Jane Perlez, The New York Times
Gerard Sanders and Xuan Gao – The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank: A 21st-Century Multilateral Development Bank
Austin East, Room 101 1515 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeakers: Gerard Sanders, General Counsel, AIIB Xuan Gao, Senior Counsel and Head of Institutional Unit, AIIB Non-pizza lunch will be served.
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 StatesSpeaker: 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, […]
Gerard Sanders – Legal Paths in the World of International Organizations
WCC 1010, Wasserstein Hall 1585 Mass. Ave., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Gerard Sanders, General Counsel, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank
Li Jin – Interpreting Demons: Armed Resistance and Epistemic Struggle in 1950s Tibet
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Li Jin, Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan In the 1950s, Chinese incursion drove Tibetans in Sichuan to launch a guerrilla war. This war led to the exile of the Dalai Lama. Retrospectively assessing this war, Tibet’s monastic leaders have condemned it as a betrayal of the Buddhist virtue of non-violence. This talk seeks […]
改革开放中的中国与世界 | China and the World In the Age of Reform and Opening Up
9:00 - 10:00am 韩钢 Han Gang, East China Normal University：1980年代中国改革的高层政治格局 China's High-level Political Structures During the Reforms of the 1980s 10:15 - 11:15am: 肖冬连 Xiao Donglian, East China Normal University：农村改革与中国市场的转轨 Rural Reforms and China's Marketization 11:30 - 12:30: Robert S. Ross, Boston College, Fairbank Center Associate: The Origins of the New “Cold War”: U.S.-China Relations, […]
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 […]