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Aging in China: Labor Participation, Retirement, Pension and Long-term Care Insurance

China’s population is ageing rapidly at a rate that surpasses most of its Asian neighbors and advanced economies in the West. In 2015, 10.5% of the population was aged 65+, and this number is projected to grow to 26.1% by 2050. Evidencing increases in life expectancy, the growth of the 80+ population from 22 million […]

Archives, Libraries, and Databases in Taiwan

Speakers: Feng-yuan Hsu, National Archives Administration Shiuon Chu, Academia Sinica, Institute of Modern History Hsi-yuan Chen, Academia Sinica, Institute of History and Philology and Academia Sinica Center for Digital Cultures Hsiao Ya-Hung, Academia Sinica, Institute of Modern History Archives Moderator: David Cheng Chang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Emily Baum (University of California, […]

Nancy Steinhardt – Convergence and Entanglement: Reconsidering the Mongol Architectural Narrative

Speaker: Nancy Steinhardt, Professor of East Asian Art and Curator of Chinese Art, University of Pennsylvania Among approximately four hundred buildings that survive in China from the period of Mongolian rule, 1271-1368, about one percent have features that sharply distinguish them from the rest: a pagoda, a minaret, an observatory, a mausoleum, and rock-carved architecture […]

Academic Jobs Outside of the United States

Speakers: Rowena He, Chinese University of Hong Kong Taomo Zhou, Nanyang Technological University Mary Brazelton, Cambridge University Charles Chang, Duke Kunshan Emily Baum (University of California, Irvine) and Denise Y. Ho (Yale University) present the second annual webinar series, Doing Chinese History (in a New Era). Designed for—but not exclusive to—graduate students and junior scholars in Chinese […]

Modern China Lecture Series featuring Jeremy Brown and Louisa Lim – Reassessing June Fourth: New Approaches and Sources on the Tiananmen Protests and Beijing Massacre

Speakers:Jeremy Brown, Professor, Department of History, Simon Fraser UniversityLouisa Lim, Journalist and Lecturer, University of Melbourne Part of the Modern China lecture series https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Evla4wWSkKI&list=PLdMj8AtCCOREyCyE0QZzx7AOnzHnNOgJe&index=9&t=2s https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/reassessing-june-fourth-with-jeremy-brown-and-louisa-lim   How significant were the events of June 1989 in the broader span of recent Chinese history?  How does the aftermath of the Beijing massacre help to explain events since […]

Film Screening – Happy Together

Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center 24 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA, United States

Director: Wong Kar Wai One of the most searing romances of the 1990s, Wong Kar Wai’s emotionally raw, lushly stylized portrait of a relationship in breakdown casts Hong Kong superstars […]

Modern Chinese Humanities Seminar featuring Laurence Coderre – The Future Is Now: On Newborn Socialist Things

Speaker: Laurence Coderre, Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies, New York University https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLGKB-fPGXc&t=96s https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/the-future-is-now-on-newborn-socialist-things-with-laurence-coderre?in=fairbank-center/sets/public-lecture-series-fairbank Read the transcript of the event here. Whereas the contemporary era in China is often depicted […]

Environment in Asia Series featuring Zhang Meng – Timber and Forestry in Qing China: Sustaining the Market

Speaker: Zhang Meng, Assistant Professor of History, Vanderbilt University Part of the Environment in Asia lecture series https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXEB2NB7vhk&t=109s https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/timber-and-forestry-in-qing-china-with-zhang-meng?in=fairbank-center/sets/public-lecture-series-fairbank In the Qing period, China's population tripled, and the flurry of new development generated unprecedented demand for timber. Standard environmental histories have often depicted this as an era of reckless deforestation. The reality was more complex: […]

Investment Screening and Supply Chain Security: Japanese, EU, and U.S. Perspectives on China

Panelists: Sarah Bauerle-Danzman, Assistant Professor, Department of International Studies, Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, Indiana University Bloomington Sophie Meunier Aitsahalia, Senior Research Scholar, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs; Co-Director, European Union Program at Princeton, Princeton University Kristin Vekasi, Academic Associate, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University; Associate Professor, Department of […]

Yangyang Cheng – Those Who Fall Behind Get Beaten Up: Can Science Build a Strong China?

Speaker: Yangyang Cheng, Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale Law School; Columnist at SupChina. From the last Chinese empire to the current People's Republic, generations of politicians and intellectuals have sought advanced science and technology to build a strong China. They pondered the relationship between East and West, tradition and modernity, national allegiance and cosmopolitan ideals. Their efforts […]