Winter Pasture: A Writer’s Journey to Altay, Northern Xinjiang — A Conversation with Li Juan
This event will be conducted in Mandarin. 冬牧場：一個作家的邊地之旅 與李娟對話 Panelists: Li Juan David Der-wei Wang, Harvard University Mingwei Song, Wellesley College Kyle Shernuk, Yale University Bilingual reading from Winter Pasture: Li Juan, Talia O'Shea, Lily Sall Co-sponsored by the Wellesley College East Asian Studies Program, CCK Foundation for Sinology Studies, and Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies […]
Harvard-Yenching Institute Annual Roundtable: Modernizing Asia’s Countryside
Panelists: Han Do-Hyun, Professor of Sociology, Academy of Korean Studies Nguyen Thi Phuong Cham, Director, Cultural Studies Institute, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences Nishikawa Kunio, College of Agriculture, Ibaraki University Mini Sukumar, Department of Women's Studies, University of Calicut, Kerala Wen Tiejun, Professor and Director of the Centre of Rural Reconstruction, Renmin University of China […]
Buddhist Studies Forum Featuring Matthew King – Ocean of Milk, Ocean of Blood: A Mongolian Monk in the Ruins of the Qing Empire
Speaker: Matthew King, Associate Professor of Transnational Buddhism and Director, Asian Studies Program, University of California, Riverside After the fall of the Qing empire, amid nationalist and socialist upheaval, Buddhist monks in the Mongolian frontiers of the Soviet Union and Republican China faced a chaotic and increasingly uncertain world. In this book, Matthew W. King […]
Lin Chaochao – Rethinking the Making of the Chinese Working Class after 1949
Speaker: Lin Chaochao, Department of History, Fudan University; HYI Visiting Scholar Chair/discussant: Elizabeth Perry, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government, Harvard University; Director, Harvard-Yenching Institute The year 1949 marked a watershed […]
Li Zheng – Decarbonization Pathways of China’s Power Sector
Speaker: Li Zheng, Executive Vice President, Institute for Climate Change and Sustainable Development, Tsinghua University; Professor, Department of Energy and Power Engineering, Tsinghua University Presented via Zoom Registration Required Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwsdeGopj4oHtFVDnYKTCpu9EiOozMH7rFi
Free Ekpar: Commemorating Five Years of the Unjust Detention of Ekpar Asat
Speakers: Sophie Richardson, Human Rights Watch Thor Halvorssen, President, Human Rights Foundation Irwin Cotler, Raoul Wallenberg Center Gregory Niemeyer, University Of California, Berkeley Chris Coons, US Senator, Delaware Martha Minow, Former Dean, Harvard Law School Join Rayhan Asat (Harvard Law School ‘16) in commemorating the fifth anniversary of her brother Ekpar’s imprisonment by the Chinese […]
Critical Issues Confronting China Lecture Series featuring David Dollar – China’s Economy Faces Domestic and External Challenges
https://youtu.be/y_V_PGvMy7w https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/chinas-economy-faces-domestic-and-external-challenges-with-david-dollar?in=fairbank-center/sets/public-lecture-series-fairbank Speaker: David Dollar, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Global Economy and Development, John L. Thornton China Center, Brookings Institution China has gotten COVID-19 under control and is poised to bounce back strongly with 8% growth in 2021. But in the medium term it faces daunting domestic and external challenges. On the domestic side, demographic […]
Sarah Laursen – The Invisible Outsider: Non-Chinese “Chinese” Art in the Harvard Art Museums
Speaker: Sarah Laursen, Alan J. Dworsky Associate Curator of Chinese Art, Harvard Art Museum The Harvard Art Museums’ database identifies over 6,600 objects in the collection as “Chinese.” But are they really? At least one third of China’s dynastic history—from its unification by the first emperor in 221 BCE until the fall of the Qing […]
East Asian Digital Scholarship Series featuring Matthias Kaun – An Introduction to CrossAsia
Speaker: Matthias Kaun, Director of the East Asia Department, Berlin State Library (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin) Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin (Berlin State Library) has been developing and running the platform CrossAsia (https://crossasia.org) for more than a decade. It was launched in 2005 to provide an easy to use and central point of access to the printed and […]
Fairbank Center Director’s Seminar Featuring Tyler Jost: Institutional Origins of Miscalculation in Chinese Foreign Policy
Speaker: Tyler Jost, Assistant Professor of Political Science, International & Public Affairs and Watson Institute Assistant Professor of China Studies, Brown University Moderator: Elizabeth J. Perry, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government and Director of the Harvard-Yenching Institute, Harvard University Tyler Jost's research focuses on international security and Chinese foreign policy, with a particular interest in the design […]
China Humanities Seminar featuring Wu Hung – Unearthing Wu Daozi (c. 686 – c. 760)
Speaker: Wu Hung, University of Chicago Worshipped by later folk artists as the God of Painting, Wu Daozi (c. 686 – c. 760) was also praised by Tang art historian Zhang Yanyuan as someone who “did not look back and will have no successors.” But alas this Sage of Painting (Hua Sheng) left no work to […]
Modern China Lecture Series featuring Taomo Zhou – Leveraging Liminality: Shenzhen and the Origins of China’s Reform and Opening
https://youtu.be/dPpcJSF2k4w https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/leveraging-liminality-shenzhen-and-the-origins-of-chinas-reform-and-opening-with-taomo-zhou?in=fairbank-center/sets/public-lecture-series-fairbank Speaker: Taomo Zhou, Assistant Professor of History, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Immediately north of Hong Kong, Shenzhen is China’s most successful Special Economic Zone (SEZ). Commonly known as the “social laboratory” of reform and opening, Shenzhen was the foremost frontier for the People’s Republic’s adoption of market principles and entrance into the world […]