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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 and modeling/predicting air pollution are crucial to understanding the links between emissions and air pollution levels, to supporting air quality management, and to reducing human […]

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 of the Critical Issues Confronting China Series Presented via Zoom Webinar

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 Moderator: Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Chancellor's Professor of History, University of Califorina - Irvine For much of the last seventy years the answer to the question “Did Chinese […]

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 a special scientific symposium titled, “From 30 Million to Zero Malaria Cases in China: Lessons Learned for Malaria-Eliminating Countries in Africa.” Participants will gain insights […]

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 and Modern Jewish and Hebrew Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University The late Irene Eber (1929-2019), professor of East Asian Studies at the […]

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 Inter-societal History at the Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, teaching Chinese, Central Asian and world history. He also teaches as invited professor in the […]

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 Relations; Professor of Government; and Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University This seminar is part of the […]

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 modern era, the Qing and Russian empires both penetrated the heartland of Inner Eurasia. Military subjugation and conquest was followed by a migration of people […]