The Chip War: China, The US, and Europe
Ellwood Democracy Lab - Rubenstein 414AB 79 JFK St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeakers:John Haigh, Co-Director, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy SchoolChris Miller, Associate Professor of International History, The Fletcher School, Tufts University; author of The Chip War. Moderator: Edoardo Campanella, M-RCBG Senior Fellow This is a hybrid event. Zoom registration: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ZxRp90CRRHiaDcFMLJrYWw Venue
Fairbank Center Visiting Scholars Present
CGIS South, Room S153 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesFairbank Center visiting scholars and fellows share their current research in China studies with the Harvard community. This workshop will feature five short presentations with an opportunity for Q & […]
China Humanities Seminar featuring Lu Kuo - The Temporary Recluse: The Discourse of Not Working in Early Medieval Chinese Poetry
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Lu Kou, Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University For imperial officials, “work” – fulfilling duties in the office, traveling for business, or managing lawsuits, taxation, […]
Urban China Seminar Series featuring Tingting Lu – Collaborative Neighborhood Governance During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Tingting Lu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University The COVID-19 pandemic is a governance challenge for nations and cities across the world. While early observations have primarily focused on nation-scale government actions, our research shows that neighborhood social capital also plays a key role in Chinese neighborhoods. Drawing from collaborative governance theory, we examine the horizontal and hierarchical […]
White Paper Protests: What’s Happening in China? – Voices on the Ground
Presented via ZoomSpeakers:Ya-Wen Lei, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Harvard University Frank Tsai, Founder, China Crossroads, Shanghai Selina Wang, International Correspondent, CNN Beijing David Rennie, Beijing Bureau Chief, The Economist Moderator: Dorinda Elliott, Executive Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University Where did the White Paper Protests that have swept across China come from, and where […]
Taiwan Studies Workshop – Taiwan Elections 2022: Examining the Results
Presented via ZoomPanelists:Lev Nachman, National Chengchi UniversitySara Newland, Smith CollegeChia-hung Tsai, National Chengchi University; 2022-2023 Visiting Scholar, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Moderator: Steven M. Goldstein, Fairbank Center Associate The opposition Kuomintang party achieved what some consider to be a “blue wave” in the November 26 elections for local government offices by winning a total of thirteen […]
The Significance of Small Things: Small Hydropower, Renewable Energy, and Rural Development in the PRC, 1949-1979
Pierce Hall 100F 29 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Arunabh Ghosh, Associate Professor of Modern Chinese History, Harvard UniversityArunabh Ghosh is a historian of modern China, with research and teaching interests in social and economic history, history of science and statecraft, transnational history, and China-India history. Venue
How to Tell the Good Dongbei Story? A Dialogue with Ban Yu 讲好东北故事？班宇谈小说
Presented via ZoomPanelists:Ban, Yu ,Writer班宇（作家）Cui, Qiao, Beijing Contemporary Art Foundation崔峤（北京当代艺术基金会）Michel Hockx, University of Notre Dame贺麦晓（圣母大学）Huang, Ping, East China Normal University黄平（华东师范大学）Liang, Hai, Dalian University of Technology梁海（大连理工大学）Liu, Yan, University of International Business and Economics刘岩（对外经济贸易大学）Zhang, Xuexin, Liaoning Normal University张学昕（辽宁师范大学） Moderators:David Der-wei Wang, Harvard University王德威（哈佛大学）Weijie Song, Rutgers University宋伟杰（罗格斯大学） Sponsors:Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University 哈佛大学费正清中国研究中心Asian Languages and Cultures, Rutgers University […]
Trisha Tsui-Chuan Lin – Mitigating COVID Disinfodemic: Health Misinformation, Digital Literacy and Vaccination in Taiwan
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Trisha Tsui-Chuan Lin, Professor, College of Communication, National Chengchi University, Taiwan; Harvard Yenching Visiting Scholar, 2022-23; Fulbright Senior Researcher, Harvard University, 2022-23 Chair/discussant: Winnie Yip, Professor of the Practice of Global Health Policy and Economics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health During the COVID-19 pandemic, social media algorithms has facilitated the viral spread […]
Shaoda Wang – Judicial Independence, Local Protectionism, and Economic Integration: Evidence from China
Room 105, Hauser Hall 18 Everett St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Shaoda Wang, University of Chicgao Shaoda Wang is an Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy, and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). He also serves as the Deputy Faculty Director at the Energy Policy Institute at UChicago, China center (EPIC-China). He is an […]
China Humanities Seminar featuring Anne Feng – Water Transformation: Buddhist Meditation and Pure Land Art in Tang China
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Anne N. Feng, Assistant Professor of Chinese Art, Boston University This paper investigates the relationship between Buddhist meditation and images in medieval China by reconsidering the development of Pure Land transformation tableaux in Dunhuang caves. Working against previous studies that treat the Sixteen Meditations as a linear step-by-step sequence in which the meditator focuses […]
Urban China Series featuring Tang Beibei – The Making of “New Citizens:” Landless Farmers and Urban Governance in China
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Tang Beibei, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University This talk examines landless farmers who have entered Chinese urban life as urban residents in an organized and managed way as cities expand and spread. It explores in what ways and to what extent the central government’s initiatives on the integration of landless farmers into the urban economy and […]