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 […]
Critical Issues Confronting China featuring Kellee Tsai – Evolutionary Governance under Authoritarianism in Contemporary China
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUxKgh7eN9Q Speaker: Kellee Tsai, Dean of Humanities and Social Science and Chair Professor of Social Science, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology The structural transformation of China over the past several decades has given rise to a fundamental tension between the pursuit of social stability and authoritarian resilience. On the one hand, repressive […]
China Humanities Seminar Featuring Scott Pearce – Looking Behind the Text: The Case of Northern Wei’s ‘Yuan Pi’
Speaker: Scott Pearce, Western Washington University All textual traditions are based on their own particular sets of assumptions and preoccupations. This was the case of the Chinese classical tradition as well, which having taken full shape under the Han empire, continued to be used as the only available language of written record by the very […]
Harvard Buddhist Studies Forum Featuring Aaron Proffitt – Buddha’s Name as Mantra in Medieval Japan
Speaker: Aaron Proffitt, Assistant Professor of Japanese Studies, University at Albany-SUNY The recitation of the name of a buddha (nenbutsu) is often associated with deathbed practices and traditions commonly grouped under the rubric Pure Land Buddhism. In this talk, Professor Aaron Proffitt will consider this widely popular practice as understood by practitioners of mantra, focusing […]
Jie Li — Socialist Hot Noise: Loudspeakers and Open-Air Cinema in Mao’s China
Speaker: Li Jie, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University As a scholar of literary, film, and cultural studies, Jie Li’s research interests center on the mediation of memories in modern China. Her first book, Shanghai Homes: Palimpsests of Private Life (Columbia, 2014), excavates a century of memories embedded in two alleyway neighborhoods destined […]
David Cheng Chang – Between Worlds: China’s WWII Interpreters and Their Divergent Fates in China, Taiwan, and the United States
Speaker: David Cheng Chang, Associate Professor of Humanities; Associate Director, Global China Center, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. In this lecture, Professor Chang will talk about the use […]