Chinese Language Resources
The Harvard-Yenching Library is offering online bibliographic orientation sessions via Zoom to introduce you to the most important resources in Chinese, Japanese and Korean language resources. Register in advance for […]
Critical Issues Confronting China Series Featuring Lily Wu – The Crisis of China’s Investment Environment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96iAuifWlgM https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/the-crisis-of-chinas-investment-environment-with-lily-wu?in=fairbank-center/sets/public-lecture-series-fairbank Read the transcript for the event here. Speaker: Lily Wu, Chief Investment Officer, China Prosper Group In over 40 years of opening and reform (改革开放, foreign and domestic direct investment has been a critical economic growth driver, and change driver. However, both drivers face significant challenges today, which could limit their role or efficacy […]
Olga Lomová – European Dream About Chinese Poetry in Sinological Research: The Cases of Vasiliv Alekseyev (1881–1951) and Jaroslav Průšek (1906–1980)
Via Zoom Meeting Speaker: Olga Lomová, Charles University in Prague It is a well-known fact that since the late nineteenth century many Western modernists were fascinated by ancient Chinese poetry […]
Opening Event, Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar in Book History
Speakers: Cynthia Brokaw, Brown University Alex Csiszar, Harvard University Kathryn James, Yale University Presented via Zoom. Registration Required Register at https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEpf-mvqDsiGtAblBeWA3ymZhyloJtgcQs4
MODERN CHINA LECTURE SERIES FEATURING Sören Urbanksy – Beyond the Steppe Frontier: A History of the Sino-Russian border
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C34LVzYgMuc&feature=youtu.be https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/beyond-the-steppe-frontier-a-history-of-the-sino-russian-border-with-soren-urbansky Read the transcript of the event here. Speaker: Sören Urbanksy, Research Fellow, German Historical Institute Washington The Sino-Russian border, once the world’s longest land border, was special in many ways. It not only divided the two largest Eurasian empires, it was also the place where European and Asian civilizations met, where nomads and […]
Confronting Disinformation: A Conversation with Audrey Tang
Speaker: Audrey Tang, Taiwan Digital Minister in charge of Social Innovation Moderator: Joan Donovan, Research Director, Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, Harvard University Audrey Tang is Taiwan’s Digital […]
East Asian Legal Studies Open House
Please join East Asian Legal Studies to meet EALS faculty, staff, and scholars. The Zoom link to this event will be published at: http://www.law.harvard.edu/programs/eals/events.html
Critical Issues Confronting China Series Featuring Robert Ross – Rising China in Perspective: Global Threat or Great Power Competitor
https://youtu.be/fwwxMTfMxyE https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/rising-china-in-perspective-global-threat-or-great-power-competitor-with-ross-robert?in=fairbank-center/sets/public-lecture-series-fairbank Read the transcript of the event here. Speaker: Robert S. Ross, Professor of Political Science, Boston College; Fairbank Center Associate Part of the Critical Issues Confronting China Series Presented via Zoom Webinar
Digital China Series – Long Live the Digital Scholarship Project!
https://youtu.be/LAi1v3xUTNk https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/long-live-the-digital-scholarship-project Read the transcript for the event here. Presenters: Peter Bol, Harvard University, China Biographical Database Grace Fong, McGill University, Ming-Qing Women’s Writings Andrew Gordon, Harvard University, Japan Disasters […]
Ann Heirman – Protecting Insects in Medieval Chinese Buddhism: Daoxuan’s Vinaya Commentaries
Speaker: Ann Heirman, Ghent University Buddhist texts generally prohibit the killing of all sentient beings. This is certainly the case in vinaya (disciplinary) texts, which contain strict guidelines on the preservation of all human and animal life. When these vinaya texts were translated into Chinese, they formed the core of Buddhist behavioural codes, influencing both monastic […]
Jinying Li – Walled Media, Mediating Walls
Speaker: Jinying Li, Brown University As the global digital network promises boundless access to limitless information, we are facing increasing layers of mounting walls in digital media: the Great Firewall (GFW), the Facebook Walls, the virtual walls in virtual realities…. The existence of the walls shatters the myth of an infinitely open, borderless digital space, […]
Critical Issues Confronting China Series Featuring Jorge Heine – China and the Global South: From Debt Diplomacy to Dependency?
https://youtu.be/pQ-2N-J47wE https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/china-and-the-global-south-from-debt-diplomacy-to-dependency-with-jorge-heine Read the transcript of the event here. Speaker: Jorge Heine, Research Professor, Boston University; Former Ambassador of Chile to China (2014-2017), to India (2003-2007) and to South Africa ( 994-1999), and Cabinet Minister in the Chilean Government Part of the Critical Issues Confronting China Series Presented via Zoom Webinar