Panel Discussion – Gaming with Chinese Characteristics
Speakers: Heather Inwood, Cambridge University Nakamura Akinori, Ritsumeikan University Deng Jian, Peking University Special Guest: Zhu Jiayin, Founder/Editor of Chuapp Organizers: David Der-wei Wang, Harvard University Yedong Sh-Chen, Harvard University This panel is co-sponsored by the Harvard Provostial Fund for the Arts and Humanities and the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation. It is a part of the […]
Environment in Asia Series Featuring Ying Jia Tan – War and the Reconfiguration of China’s Energy Geography
Speaker: Ying Jia Tan, Assistant Professor of History and East Asian Studies, Wesleyan University In Recharging China in War and Revolution, 1882–1955 (Cornell University Press, 2021), Ying Jia Tan argues that, even in times of peace, the Chinese economy operated as though still at war, constructing power systems that met immediate demands but sacrificed efficiency […]
Critical Issues Confronting China Lecture Series featuring Naima Green-Riley – Pinyin and Paper Fans: China-Funded Education Programs in U.S. Schools
Speaker: Naima Green-Riley, Ph.D. Candidate and Raymond Vernon Fellow, Department of Government, Harvard University; Former Consular Officer, US. Consulate General, Guangzhou, China Also streaming on YouTube Transcript: Download Transcript
Modern Chinese Humanities Seminar Featuring Michel Hockx — The Shifting Limits of Reform: Literature and Censorship in China since 1979
Speaker: Michel Hockx, Professor of Chinese Literature, University of Notre Dame On July 30, 1979, Deng Xiaoping addressed the fourth national conference of Chinese writers and artists. Towards the end of his speech he stated, to collective sighs of relief, that “the Party’s leadership of literature and the arts does not mean issuing orders, nor […]
Panel Discussion – Taiwan Studies: New Questions and Challenges
Speakers: Kevin Luo 羅巍, Tsinghua University Chih-Wei Chung 鍾秩維, Fu Jen Catholic University Su-Yon Lee 李時雍, National Taiwan University Jaewoong Jeon 全在雄, Harvard University Lawrence Yang 楊子樵, Yang Ming Chiao Tung University Cheng-Heng Lu 盧正恆, Yang Ming Chiao Tung University Organizer: David Der-wei Wang 王德威, Harvard University A bilingual workshop sponsored by the Fairbank Center […]
2021 Charles Neuhauser Memorial Lecture featuring Evan S. Medeiros — Competition, Coexistence and the Future of US-China Relations
Speaker: Evan Medeiros, Penner Family Chair in Asian Studies and the Cling Family Senior Fellow in US-China Relations, Georgetown University Evan S. Medeiros is a professor and Penner family chair in Asia studies in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He has published several books and articles on East Asia, U.S.-China relations, and […]
China Humanities Seminar Featuring Suyoung Son – Publisher at Work: Yu Xiangdou’s Images and Visualizing Intellectual Labor
Speaker: Suyoung Son, Associate Professor, Cornell University How could intangible, tacit intellectual labor be legible, acknowledged, and compensated? The relationship between authorship and authorial property was hotly debated in late […]
Panel Discussion – Cross-Strait Relations One Year After Biden’s Election
The Legislative Yuan, Room 801, No. 1, Sec. 1 Jinan Rd., Zhongzheng District, Taipei, TaiwanPanelists: Steven Goldstein, Sophia Smith Professor of Government at Smith College Emeritus and director of the Taiwan Studies Workshop, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University Alastair Iain Johnston, Laine professor of China in World Affairs, Department of Government, Harvard University Sara Newland, Assistant Professor, Department of Government, Smith College Szue-chin Philip Hsu, Professor of […]
Critical Issues Confronting China Lecture Series Featuring Scott Rozelle – Early Childhood Development in Rural China: The Biggest (or Smallest?) Challenge That China Faces That No One Knows About
Speaker: Scott Rozelle, Helen F. Farnsworth Senior Fellow and the co-director of the Center on China's Economy and Institutions, Stanford University Scott Rozelle is the Helen F. Farnsworth Senior Fellow and the co-director of Stanford Center on China's Economy and Institutions in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and Stanford Institute for Economic Policy […]
Symposium – Social Technology for Eldercare in China and Global Aging
Panelists:Ann Forsyth, Ruth and Frank Stanton Professor of Urban Planning, Harvard Graduate School of DesignFawwaz Habbal, Executive Dean for Education and Research, Harvard John A. Paulson School Of Engineering And Applied SciencesEric Krakauer, Associate Professor, Harvard […]
Chih-ming Wang – Re-Articulations: Foreign Literature Studies in Taiwan
Speaker: Chih-ming Wang, Associate Research Fellow, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2021-22 Chair/discussant: David Wang, Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University This talk revisits the institutional and intellectual history of foreign literature studies in Taiwan through the lenses of colonial […]
Panel Discussion – Combatting Anti-Asian Racism and Misogyny: Perspectives from Harvard Alumni
Speakers: Kei Ashizawa (MC/MPA 2017) U.S – Japan Relations Community Organizer and Attorney at Law Aaron Huang (MPP 2020) U.S. Foreign Service Officer Jenny Lu Mallamo (MPP 2013) Deputy Director, Global Communications & Media Relations at Council on Foreign Relations Rebecca Yang (MPP 2015) Business Advisor of U.S. Education & State and Local Government, Worldwide Public Sector, Amazon Web Services Moderator: […]