Eviatar Shulman – What is a Discourse (Sutta)? Reconsidering the Nature of Early Buddhist Scripture
Speaker: Eviatar Shulman, Hebrew University of Jerusalem We commonly speak of the Buddha’s “discourses” – sutta, sūtra – knowing that they were not just spoken by him (or “him”) in […]
Fairbank Center Director’s Seminar: Impact of COVID-19 on Mental Health in China, India, and the United States
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URIoKLJrb8o https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/impact-of-covid-19-on-mental-health-in-china-india-and-the-us-fairbank-center-directors-seminar?in=fairbank-center/sets/public-lecture-series-fairbank Read the transcript of the event here. Moderator: Arthur Kleinman, Professor of Medical Anthropology, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical […]
Modern China Lecture Series Featuring Covell Meyskens – Mao’s Massive Military Industrial Campaign to Defend Cold War China
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGH8wYKggXk https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/maos-massive-military-industrial-campaign-to-defend-cold-war-china-with-covell-meyskens Read the transcript of the event here. Speaker: Covell Meyskens, Assistant Professor of Chinese History, Naval Postgraduate School In 1964, the Chinese Communist Party made a momentous policy […]
China and the World in the Post-COVID-19 Era
What will the impact be of COVID-19 on the global economy and how will that impact global health and the potential for global collaboration for a healthier future? Join “China […]
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. When: Nov 12, 2020 […]
Fairbank Center Director’s Seminar – Myths and Realities in Sino-American Relations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1oY9_6u0qY&t=2137s https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/myths-and-realities-in-sino-american-relations-fairbank-center-directors-seminar?in=fairbank-center/sets/public-lecture-series-fairbank Speaker: William Overholt, Senior Research Fellow, Harvard Kennedy SchoolModerator: Lawrence H. Summers, Charles W. Eliot University Professor and President Emeritus, Harvard University; Secretary of the Treasury for President […]
China Town Hall: Society & Culture
Speakers: Raymond Chang, Major League Baseball China Lucas Sin, Junzi Kitchen Janet Yang, Janet Yang Productions Moderator: Alison Friedman, Performing Arts of West Kowloon Cultural District Authority Starting with ping-pong diplomacy […]
Javier Cha — The Big Data Turn in the Humanities: Sailing into Uncharted Waters
Speaker: Javier Cha, Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies, College of Liberal Studies, Seoul National University; Visiting Scholar and Digital Historian-in-Residence, Department of History, Lingnan University The total amount of […]
Chinese Literature Across the Borderlands
Convened by: David Der-wei Wang, Harvard University Kyle Shernuk, Yale University Miya Qiong Xie, Dartmouth University This workshop aims to explore the shifting definitions of the borderland as a territorial […]
Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Joseph Fewsmith – The Fifth Plenum: Implications for the Future
https://youtu.be/UGFXhhLyGbM https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/the-fifth-plenum-implications-for-the-future-with-joseph-fewsmith Read the transcript of the event here. Speaker: Joseph Fewsmith, Professor of International Relations and Political Science, Boston University Pardee School of International Relations and Political Science. Part […]
Panel Discussion – East Asia Responds to U.S. Election Results
Presenters: Toshihiro Nakayama, Professor of American Politics and Foreign Policy, Faculty of Policy Management, Keio University; Adjunct Fellow, Japan Institute of International Affairs Shin-wha Lee, Professor, Department of Political Science […]
Economy Lecture Series featuring Kristen Looney – Rural Development in China and East Asia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDEEV4VSgck https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/rural-development-in-china-and-east-asia-with-kristen-looney Read the transcript of the event here. Speaker: Kristen Looney, Assistant Professor of Asian Studies and Government, Georgetown University Moderator/Discussant: Meg Rithmire, F. Warren McFarlan Associate Professor of Business […]