The Taliban Takeover and Central Asian Security: What Will Russia and China Do?
Speakers: Andrey Kortunov, Director General, Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) Yun Sun, Senior Fellow and Co-Director of the East Asia Program and Director of the China Program, Stimson Center Zuhra Halimova, Independent Consultant, Dushanbe, Tajikistan Akram Umarov, Center for Governance and Markets at the University of Pittsburgh; Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow, University of World Economy […]
Fairbank Center Panel Discussion – Transnational Aging in the Chinese Diaspora
https://youtu.be/6RwE94ZhjFo https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/transnational-aging-in-the-chinese-diaspora Panel Participants:Sara L. Friedman, Professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies, Indiana UniversityRussell King, Professor of Geography, University of SussexSarah Lamb, Barbara Mandel Professor of Humanistic Social Sciences and Professor of Anthropology, Brandeis UniversityAndrea Louie, Professor of Anthropology, Michigan State UniversityNicole Newendorp, Associate Director and Lecturer, Social Studies, Harvard UniversityKen Chih-Yan Sun, Assistant […]
China Humanities Seminar Featuring Stephanie Balkwill – Another Cakravartin Ruler?: Feminist History and the History of Buddhism in Early Medieval China
Speaker: Stephanie Balkwill, Assistant Professor, Buddhist Studies, UCLA Northern Wei 北魏 (386–534 CE) Empress Dowager Ling 靈 (d. 529) is commonly regarded as the last independent ruler of her dynasty, which descended into terminal internecine war during her regency. As a ruler, she inherited a deeply divided state. The move of the capital from Pingcheng […]
Modern China Lecture Series Featuring Isabella Weber – How China Escaped Shock Therapy: The Market Reform Debate
https://youtu.be/Vu34m6CeK5w https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/how-china-escaped-shock-therapy-with-isabella-weber Speaker: Isabella Weber, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst China has become deeply integrated into the world economy. Yet, gradual marketization has facilitated the country's rise without leading to its wholesale assimilation to global neoliberalism. This book uncovers the fierce contest about economic reforms that shaped China's path. In the […]
Critical Issues Confronting China featuring Jeffrey S. Lehman – What Does U.S. Business Really Want From China?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6G7NarElPM https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/what-does-us-business-really-want-from-china-with-jeffrey-lehman Speaker: Jeffrey Lehman, Vice Chancellor and Professor of Law, NYU Shanghai Jeffrey Lehman is the Vice Chancellor of NYU Shanghai, where he oversees all academic and administrative operations. Lehman is an internationally acclaimed leader in higher education, having served as dean of the University of Michigan Law School, the 11th president of […]
China Economy Lecture Series featuring Yeling Tan – Disaggregating China, Inc: State Strategies in the Liberal Economic Order
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6YwbP_roXE https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/disaggregating-china-inc-with-yeling-tan Speaker: Yeiling Tan, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Oregon Professor Yeling Tan discusses her book, Disaggregating China, Inc: State Strategies in the Liberal Economic Order. […]
Modern Chinese Humanities Seminar Featuring Pang Laikwan – Economic Sovereignty in Contemporary China: The Biopolitical Subject as Garlic Chive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zztJsHgONFA https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/economic-sovereignty-in-contemporary-china-with-pang-laikwan?in=fairbank-center/sets/public-lecture-series-fairbank Speaker: Pang Laikwan, Professor of Cultural Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong This paper focuses on the wide popularity of the meme and buzzword jiucai, garlic chives, on […]
Weixia Gu – Dispute Resolution in China: Litigation, Arbitration, Mediation and their Interactions
Speaker: Weixia Gu, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong For more details, including a Zoom link, please visit http://www.law.harvard.edu/programs/eals/events.html.
David Cheng Chang – Escaping From the Communists and Then From the Anti-Communists: A Prisoner’s Odyssey From Southwest China to Korea, India, and Argentina
Speaker: David Cheng Chang, Division of Humanities, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; HYI-Radcliffe Institute Fellow, 2021-22 Chair/discussant: Arunabh Ghosh, Associate Professor of History, Harvard University By the end of the Korean War, only 88 out of more than 150,000 Chinese and North Korean prisoners of war (POWs) refused to return to either side of […]
Environment in Asia Lecture Series featuring Ruth Mostern – The Yellow River: A Natural and Unnatural History
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OR4Z30g7gA https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/the-yellow-river-a-natural-and-unnatural-history-with-ruth-mostern?in=fairbank-center/sets/public-lecture-series-fairbank Speaker: Ruth Mostern, University of Pittsburgh This talk showcases Ruth Mostern’s new book: The Yellow River: A Natural and Unnatural History (Yale University Press, 2021). The Yellow River explains how environmentally transformative human activity has shaped the whole watershed and constituted the relationship between people and the river since Neolithic times. […]
Panel Discussion – The Future of Africa-China Engagement/Relations
Speakers: Maria Adele Carrai, Assistant Professor of Global China Studies, NYU Shanghai; Associate, Harvard University Asia Center Folashadé Soulé, Senior Research Associate, Global Economic Governance Programme, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford Lina Benabdallah, Assistant Professor, Politics and International Affairs Department, Wake Forest University Moderator: Emmanuel K. Akyeampong, Ellen Gurney Professor of History and Professor […]
Modern China Lecture Series Featuring Fang Xiaoping – Pandemics and Politics in Mao’s China: The Rise of the Emergency Disciplinary State
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tw8Qrq8D1uw Speaker: Fang Xiaoping, Assistant Professor of History, School of Humanities, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. During the 1961-1965 period, a cholera pandemic ravaged the southeastern coastal areas of Mao’s China which was already suffering from lingering starvation, class struggles, political campaigns and geopolitical challenges of the Cold War. This lecture focuses on the first […]