Exhibition – Life in Singapore: Views from Migrant Workers
Asian Centers Lounge 1730 Cambridge St. First Floor, Cambridge, MA, United StatesOrganized by: Yong Han Poh, Harvard College ’20 Exhibition Reception: Thursday, February 6, 2020; 4:15 p.m. Asian Centers’ Lounge, 1st Floor, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge Sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, the Harvard University Asia Center, and the Mahindra Humanities Center with additional support from Migrant Writers Singapore and Migrant Workers […]
Kent Calder – Super Continent: BRI and the Emergence of an Integrated Eurasia
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesRead event summary here Speaker: Kent Calder, Johns Hopkins University Kent Calder serves as Vice Dean for Faculty Affairs and International Research Cooperation at JHU. He is also Director of […]
Kwok-leong Tang – Digital China Lab: Web Scraping without Coding
Registration Form: https://d.pr/SgidPR This workshop will introduce tools and basic skills to extract and collect data from web pages. It is intended for participants who have no familiarity with programming […]
Daniel Koss – Where the Party Rules: The Rank and File of China’s Communist Party
Speaker: Daniel Koss, Lecturer, EALC, Harvard University In most non-democratic countries, today governing forty-four percent of the world population, the power of the regime rests upon a ruling party. Contrasting […]
Dirk van der Kley – Less is More…The New BRI in Central Asia
Speaker: Dirk van der Kley, Program Director for Policy Research, China Matters Xi Jinping’s Belt and Road Initiative has changed significantly in Central Asia in the last few years. In […]
Jude Blanchette – What’s Communist about the Communist Party of China?
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesRead event summary here Speaker: Jude Blanchette - Center for Strategic and International Studies The speaker will explore the extant ideological and institutional legacies of socialism and Marxism within the […]
Mark Elliott and Kirsten Weld – The Public Face of History series: The Historian Confronting Political Controversies
History Department Conference Room, Robinson Hall 35 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeakers: Mark Elliott, Vice Provost for International Affairs; Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History, Harvard University Kirsten Weld, Professor of History, Harvard University
Xi Yang – China’s Coal-to-Gas Policy for Residential Heating: Between the Shadow and the Light
Pierce Hall 100F 29 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Xi Yang, Visiting Researcher, Harvard-China Project; Associate Professor, China University of Petroleum Beijing Under the pressure of improving its environmental governance, China has strengthened its coal substitution policy known as “coal-to-gas” in residential heating in Northern region. This bold policy sets strict gas replacement targets for “26 + 2” key cities. However, China suffered […]
Zvi Ben-Dor Benite – “The 18th Brumaire of Yuan Shikai,” By Mao Zedong: History, Classical Commentary, and Politics.
Speaker: Zvi Ben-Dor Benite, New York University Taking a small comment by the young Mao Zedong in his "Classroom Notes" as its point of departure, this talk revisits the very early days after the fall of the last dynasty. It ties them to events in post-revolutionary France and the late Han period. It ends and begins […]
Exhibition – Elegy to a Uyghur Dreamscape
Japan Friends of Harvard Concourse, CGIS South, Lower Level 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesPhotographs by Lisa Ross Sponsored by the Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and Harvard Asia Center Arts […]
Zhai Shaodong – Ground Stone Tool Production: A Forsaken Craft During Early Urbanization in China
Speaker: Zhai Shaodong, Associate Professor, Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2019-20 Chair/discussant: Rowan Flad, John E. Hudson Professor of Archaeology, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University In China, ground stone tools emerged during the transition period from the Paleolithic to the Neolithic time. However, they did not take the place […]
Jessica Brandt and Torrey Taussig – China, Russia, and Europe’s Authoritarian Challenge
Adolphus Busch Hall 27 Kirkland St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeakers: Jessica Brandt, Head of Policy and Research, Alliance for Securing Democracy; Fellow, The German Marshall Fund of the United States Torrey Taussig, Research Director, Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship, Harvard Kennedy School Chair: Sebastián Royo, Professor of Government, Suffolk University; Visiting Scholar 2019-2020, Local Affiliate and Seminar Co-chair, CES, Harvard University https://ces.fas.harvard.edu/events/2020/02/china-russia-europe-authoritarian