Cheng Yu-yu – Revolution in the Nation of Poetry: Physical and Linguistic Perspectives since 1919 (詩國革命的「漢語」脈絡)
Speaker: Cheng Yu-yu, National Taiwan University This talk will be given in Mandarin. Once Chinese poetry becomes “modern poetry,” its so-called modernity must be discussed in the context of the modernity of “Chinese language” itself. From the late Qing and early Republican periods on, when confronted with the invasion of such things as new lexicon, new academic […]
Meng Gao – The Essential Role of Vertical Profile Observations of Atmospheric Composition in China
**PLEASE NOTE THE DATE OF THIS EVENT HAS CHANGED FROM NOVEMBER 18 TO DECEMBER 2** Speaker: Meng Gao, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Hong Kong Baptist University; Associate, Harvard-China Project Monitoring […]
Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Edward Cunningham – Understanding CCP Resilience: Surveying Chinese Public Opinion Through Time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtoGLKUXsOs&t=2s https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/understanding-ccp-resilience-surveying-chinese-public-opinion-through-time-with-edward-cunningham Read the transcript of the event here. Speaker: Edward Cunningham, Director of Ash Center China Programs and of the Asia Energy and Sustainability Initiative, Harvard Kennedy School Part […]
Michael Szonyi – Did Chinese Peasants Have a Revolution? Perspectives from the Long Twentieth-Century
Speaker: Michael Szonyi, Frank Wen-hsiung Wu Professor of Chinese History; Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University. Discussant: Gail Hershatter, Distinguished Professor of History, University of California - Santa Cruz […]
From 30 Million to Zero Malaria Cases in China: Lessons Learned for Malaria- Eliminating Countries in Africa
On December 7–8, 2020, Harvard University will partner with National Institute for Parasitic Diseases (NIPD), Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the World Health Organization to convene […]
Special Event – China and the United States in 2021 and Beyond: Paths Forward
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7bK551_dIo https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/china-and-the-united-states-in-2021-and-beyond-paths-forward Read the transcript of the event here. Speakers: Fred Hu, Founder and Chairman, Primavera Capital Group Shelley Rigger, Brown Professor of East Asian Politics at Davidson College David […]
Song Lihong – Trauma and Transcendence: The Shadow of the Holocaust on an Israeli Sinologist
Speaker: Song Lihong, Professor, Department of Religious Studies and Glazer Institute of Jewish and Israel Studies, Nanjing University; HYI Visiting Scholar 2020-21 Chair/discussant: David Stern, Harry Starr Professor of Classical […]
Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring James A. Millward – History of the Crisis in the Uyghur Autonomous Region: Trends in Development and Assimilation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNfll79Zz-k https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/history-of-the-crisis-in-the-uyghur-autonomous-region-with-james-a-millward Read the transcript of the event here. Speaker: James A. Millward, Professor of Inter-societal History, Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University James A. Millward is Professor of […]
Paul Blustein – Schism 2.0: China and America’s Trade Conflict in the Biden Administration
Speaker: Paul Blustein, Senior Fellow, Centre for International Governance Innovation; Senior Associate (non-resident), Simon Chair in Political Economy, Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) Moderator: Christina Davis, Director, Program on U.S.-Japan […]
Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring David M. Lampton – Biden Deals with China Amidst Multiple Crises, Domestic and International
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-15yLfaxKkQ https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/biden-deals-with-china-amidst-multiple-crises-domestic-and-international-with-david-m-lampton?in=fairbank-center/sets/public-lecture-series-fairbank Read the transcript of the event here. Speaker: David M. Lampton, Hyman Professor Emeritus Johns Hopkins—SAIS; Senior Fellow, SAIS Foreign Policy Institute David M. Lampton is Senior Fellow […]
Wei-chieh Tsai – Settler Nativization in the Inner Eurasian Borderlands of the Qing and Russian Empires
Speaker: Wei-chieh Tsai, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Shenzhen University Settler nativization is an important issue, yet insufficiently studied in colonial histories of early modern Eurasian empires. In the early […]
Philippe LeCorre – EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment: Did Beijing Steal the Show?
Speaker: Philippe Le Corre, Research Fellow, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government and Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School of Government Presented via Zoom Register at:https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_9rPP_9PsTgizqjl-rRhxrA