Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Cheng Li – Forecasting Personnel Changes at the 20th Party Congress
Speaker: Cheng Li, Director, John L. Thornton China Center, Brookings InstitutionModerator/Discussant: Elizabeth J. Perry, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government and Director of the Harvard-Yenching Institute, Harvard University Cheng Li is […]
Mengmeng Yang – The Syntax of “NP zhi (之) VP” in Old Chinese
Speaker: Mengmeng Yang, Associate Research Professor, Institute of Linguistics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2021-22 Chair/discussant: C.-T. James Huang, Professor of Linguistics, Harvard University This talk focuses on […]
Art Study Center Seminar at Home, with Hong Chun Zhang
Speakers: Hong Chun Zhang, Artist Jerrica Li, Harvard College Class of ’22, founder, The Wave magazine, Harvard University Sarah Laursen, Alan J. Dworsky Associate Curator of Chinese Art, Division of Asian and Mediterranean Art, Harvard Art Museums In her work, Kansas-based Chinese artist Hong Chun Zhang reimagines the world around her as enveloped in hair. […]
Japan, the U.S., and Economic and Security Policy Linkages in the Taiwan Strait
Panelists: Tain Jy Chen, Professor of Economics, Taipei School of Economics and Political Science; Professor Emeritus, National Taiwan UniversitySadamasa Oue, Senior Fellow, Asia Pacific Initiative; Lt. Gen. (retired), Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF)Shelley Rigger, Brown Professor of Political Science, Davidson CollegeDaniel Russel, Vice President, International Security and Diplomacy, Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI)Moderator: Christina L. Davis, Director, […]
Carla Nappi – How to Come Apart: Decomposing a History of Translation in China
Speaker: Carla Nappi, The University of Pittsburgh Check back soon for more information! Presented via Zoom Registration Required Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0sfuyuqzstHNLcP21UNFfqiHHReSkx1_H7 Part of the Science and Technology in Asia Seminar […]
Yang Lichao – Children’s Dimensions of Poverty: Qualitative Studies in Urban China
Speaker: Yang Lichao. Associate Professor, Chinese Academy of Social Management/School of Sociology, Beijing Normal University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2021-22 Chair/discussant: Nicole Newendorp, Lecturer on Social Studies, Harvard University Poverty is multidimensional […]
Harvard Film Archive Film Screening – Tabooed Initiation: Two Early Films by Mou Tun-Fei
I Didn't Dare Tell You / Bugan gen ni jiang, 78 minutes, Taiwan, 1969. Mandarin with English subtitles. The End of the Track / Pao Dao Zhongdian, 90 minutes, Taiwan, 1970. Mandarin with English subtitles. Recently discovered by the Taiwan Film & Audiovisual Institute, I Didn’t Dare Tell You and The End of the Track debuted at the […]
Critical Issues Confronting China Series Featuring Jennifer Pan – Wielding Welfare to Support Autocracy
Speaker: Jennifer Pan, Associate Professor of Communication, Stanford University Moderator: William Overholt, Senior Research Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School Jennifer Pan is an Associate Professor of Communication at Stanford University. Her […]
Tatsuya Nakanishi – Chinese-Speaking Muslims’ Responses to Islamic Intellectual Trends from West, South and Central Asia during the Nineteenth Century
Speaker: Tatsuya Nakanishi, Associate Professor, Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2021-22 Chair/discussant: Ali Asani, Murray A. Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures, Harvard University HYI Visiting Scholars Talk Presented via Zoom Registration link: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEocuyrrDwiGdZ8o3s2RwLBWoSR8cKtEDE8 More information: https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/chinese-speaking-muslims-responses-to-islamic-intellectual-trends-from-west-south-and-central-asia-during-the-nineteenth-century/
Yves Tiberghien -Why Has the East Asian Covid Model Diverged over Delta and Omicron?
Speaker: Yves Tiberghien, Professor of Political Science; Konwakai Chair in Japanese Research, University of British Columbia Moderator: Christina L. Davis, Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Professor of Government; Susan S. and […]
Contemporary Chinese Society Lecture Series featuring Ethan Michelson – Decoupling: Gender Injustice in China’s Divorce Courts
Speaker: Ethan Michelson, Professor of Sociology, Professor and Chair, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Indiana University-Bloomington; Professor of Law, IU Maurer School of Law Presented via Zoom Also streaming on YouTube Transcript: Download Transcript
Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring William Alan Reinsch – China as Best Customer and Biggest Threat – Trade Policy in the Biden Era
Speaker: William Alan Reinsch, Senior Adviser and Scholl Chair in International Business, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)Moderator: William Overholt, Senior Research Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School William Reinsch holds […]