Harvard Buddhist Studies Forum featuring James Benn – Meditation in the Surangama Sutra
Speaker: James Benn, Professor and Director of the Centre for Buddhist Studies, McMaster University Please note earlier start time. In the later Chinese Buddhist tradition one text above all others has […]
Shellen Wu – Mapping Science in a Global Age: the Human Dynamics of Scientific Knowledge
Speaker: Shellen Wu, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Science and Technology in Asia Seminar Series; supported by the Harvard University Asia Center Presented via Zoom Registration Required Register here.
Modern China Lecture Series featuring Andrew B. Liu – Tea War: A History of Capitalism in China and India
https://youtu.be/LM5J3E5pDmQ https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/tea-war-a-history-of-capitalism-in-china-and-india-with-andrew-b-liu?in=fairbank-center/sets/public-lecture-series-fairbank Read the transcript for the event here. Speaker: Andrew B. Liu, Assistant Professor of History, Villanova University Tea remains the world’s most popular commercial drink today, and at the turn of the twentieth century, it represented the largest export industry of both China and colonial India. In analyzing the global competition between Chinese […]
Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Yuen Yuen Ang – China’s Corrupt Meritocracy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FXPUdMduNw https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/chinas-corrupt-meritocracy-with-yuen-yuen-ang?in=fairbank-center/sets/public-lecture-series-fairbank Read the transcript for the event here. Speaker: Yuen Yuen Ang, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Michigan Portrayals of China’s political economy tend to be divided, with one side depicting it as a Confucian-style meritocracy, and the other arguing that the regime is a kleptocracy. In fact, neither view is correct: […]
Robert Morrison – Scientific Exchange at the Courts of Mehmed II and Bayezid II
Speaker: Robert Morrison, Professor and Chair, Department of Religion, Bowdoin College The courts of the Ottoman sultans Mehmed II (d. 1481) and Bayezid II (d. 1512) were, on one hand, […]
The Stories We Tell and the Objects We Keep: Asian American Women and the Archives
The stories of Asian American women extend far beyond the geographic borders of the United States. Inspired by tales and objects from family history, their narratives often reflect the transnational nature of Asian American women’s lives. Despite the importance of these narratives to expanding and complicating our understanding of war, migration, inequity, and difference, the […]
Fairbank Center Director’s Seminar featuring Kerry Ratigan – Social Policy and Decentralization in China
https://youtu.be/1zocRxRANdE https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/social-policy-and-decentralization-in-china-with-kerry-ratigan?in=fairbank-center/sets/public-lecture-series-fairbank Speaker: Kerry Ratigan, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Amherst College China is widely known for its strong central government, but the center needs the provinces to implement policies using their knowledge of local conditions. However, provincial priorities sometimes conflict with those of the center. Drawing on research conducted for her forthcoming book, Let […]
China Humanities Seminar featuring Paula Varsano – Troubled Hearts and Worried Minds: Knowing the Subjects of the “Airs of the States”
Speaker: Paula Varsano, University of California, Berkeley In a moment when digital humanities, distant reading, manuscript studies, and a variety of historical and political lenses invite us to look at literature as a manifestation of larger and, sometimes, impersonal cultural forces, this talk takes up a different constellation of questions: how does one recognize and define […]
Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Jean Oi – The Political Genesis of Local Government Debt in China
https://youtu.be/kBCR9tSQaf4 https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/the-political-genesis-of-local-government-debt-in-china-with-jean-oi?in=fairbank-center/sets/public-lecture-series-fairbank Read the transcript of the event here. Speaker: Jean Oi, William Haas Professor of Chinese Politics, Department of Political Science; Director, Stanford China Program, Stanford University China’s rapidly growing local government debt (LGD) is now branded a “grey rhino,” a known threat that has received little attention. Why did Beijing let LGD get […]
Harvard-Yenching Library Bibliographic Orientation Session
The Harvard-Yenching Library is offering virtual bibliographic orientation sessions via Zoom to introduce you to the most important Chinese language resources. Presented via Zoom Registration Required Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMvduyurD0sH9Ud92IUxxZt3oOUh4kv6XfQ
David Mervart – The Missing Colonial Empire: Reading European Histories from within the Sinosphere
Speaker: David Mervart, Associate Professor in Japanese History, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Spain Moderator: David Howell, Robert K. and Dale J. Weary Professor of Japanese History and Chair, Dept. of East Asian Languages and Civilizations (EALC), Harvard University This talk proposes to take stock of the conceptual vocabulary which early Japanese observers and commentators […]
Reischauer Lecture Series featuring Rana Mitter — New Eras, Old Stories: From May Fourth and Meiji to the Twenty-First Century “New Era” – Defining East Asia in the Age of Novelty, Emotion and Purpose
https://youtu.be/c3bi9N2NY6E Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies · How New is the New Era? 2021 Annual Reischauer Lecture with Rana Mitter, Part 1 Speaker: Rana Mitter, Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China, St. Cross College, University of Oxford Discussant: Odd Arne Westad, Elihu Professor of History and Global Affairs, Yale University Lecture […]