Events

East Asian Digital Scholarship Community Hour

Read the transcript of the event here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIE0MD6b7Vs&t=4s   The East Asian Digital Scholarship Community Hour is an experimental and casual community-building event. It aims to provide a platform for scholars, graduate students, in particular, to share their ideas, skills, big and small projects, and learn from each other. Examples of presentation topics include but […]

Xingyi Wang – Boundary of the Body: The Monastic Robe and Revival of the Vinaya in Medieval China and Japan

Speaker: Xingyi Wang, PhD Candidate, Harvard University Modern scholarship often compares Buddhist monastic rules to legal codes or treats them mainly as nominal prescriptions. The reality, however, was more complex than what appeared on paper. I propose a new understanding of the Vinaya which sees it as vital device and site for the formation of […]

Tahir Hamut Izgil and Rana Yashar Aybala – Uyghur Poetry in Translation

Join us for the opportunity to hear from Tahir Hamut Izgil and Rana Yashar Aybala, two of the foremost poets writing in Uyghur today. The event will feature opening remarks by Mark Elliott, Harvard’s Vice Provost of International Affairs, followed by presentations from both poets. We will also have the opportunity to hear from Dr […]

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 […]

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

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 Daokui Li, Founding Dean of the Schwarzman Scholars program, Mansfield Freeman Professor of Economics, and Director of the Center for China in the World Economy […]

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 […]