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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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
Nicolas Tackett – The Mechanics of Cultural Change in China in a Period of Disunity
Speaker: Nicolas Tackett, University of California Berkeley Situated at the epicenter of the “Tang-Song Transition,” the tenth-century interregnum between the Tang and Song dynasties was a period of rapid change. […]
Critical Issues Confronting China Series Featuring Rosemary Foot – China, the UN, and Human Protection: Beliefs, Power, Image
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUGul3_tUiw https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/china-the-un-and-human-protection-with-rosemary-foot Read the transcript of the event here. Speaker: Rosemary Foot, Senior Research Fellow in International Relations at the University of Oxford; Emeritus Fellow of St Antony’s College; Research Associate of Oxford’s China Centre Part of the Critical Issues Confronting China Series Presented via Zoom Webinar
COVID and Telemedicine: Experience from China, India, and the U.S.
Panelists: Hongqiao Fu, Assistant Professor in Health Economics and Policy in School of Public Health, Peking University Ajay Nair, CEO, Swasth Digital Health Foundation Atveev Mehrotra, Associate Professor of Health Care […]
Modern China Lecture Series Featuring Gina Anne Tam – Dialect and the Making of Modern China: From Republican Revolutionaries to Hong Kong Protesters
https://youtu.be/30Q6tcBlH-g https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/dialect-and-the-making-of-modern-china-with-gina-anne-tam Read the transcript for the event here. Speaker: Gina Anne Tam, Assistant Professor of History, Trinity University Taking aim at the conventional narrative that standard, national languages transform […]
Critical Issues Confronting China Series Featuring Suisheng Zhao – China Re-examines Global Governance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GITQiqguWIo https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/china-re-examines-global-governance-with-suisheng-sam-zhao Read the transcript of the event here. Speaker: Suisheng (Sam) Zhao, Professor and Executive Director of the Center for China-US Cooperation at Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver Part of the Critical Issues Confronting China Series Presented via Zoom Webinar
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 […]