Gal Gvili and Adhira Mangalagiri – Imagination and Disconnection: New Literary Studies of China-India
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeakers: Gal Gvili, McGill University; Author, Imagining India in Modern ChinaLiterary Decolonization and the Imperial Unconscious, 1895–1962Adhira Mangalagiri, Queen Mary University of London; Author, The China-India Literary Relation in the Twentieth Century Moderator: Karen Thornber, Harry Tuchman Levin Professor in Literature and Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University Chair: Arunabh Ghosh, Associate […]
Scott Kennedy – Xi Jinping’s About Face: Implications for China’s Economy, Politics, and Relations With the West
Rubenstein 414AB 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Scott Kennedy, Senior Adviser and Trustee Chair in Chinese Business & Economics, Center for Strategic & International Studies. Lunch will be served for those joining us in person in Rubenstein 414AB. Others should register to join us remotely via Zoom. Register at https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_mrBlnYUUSwW9rduJgp_6wQ. Venue
Chinese Politics and Foreign Policy Workshop featuring Daniel Mattingly – The Party and the Gun: How the Military Shapes Elite Conflict in China
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Daniel Mattingly, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Yale University How do authoritarian leaders such as Xi Jinping consolidate political power? In this book, I examine how control over the military has been crucial for elite and mass power struggles in Chinese politics. Drawing on new quantitative data on officers in the PLA, and extensive qualitative evidence, […]
Wei Wei – Family Matters: Chinese Queer Politics Around the Rise of a Family-State
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Wei Wei, Professor of Sociology, East China Normal University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2022-23 Chair/Discussant: Michael Bronski, Professor of the Practice In Media And Activism In Studies Of Women, Gender, And Sexuality, Harvard University LGBT activism in mainland China, based on the trajectory of identity politics, faces increasing challenges from the state in recent years. […]
China Humanities Seminar featuring Xin Wen – Curating a Museum of Stones: The “Forest of Stelae” (Beilin) and the Politics of the Past in Middle Period China
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesRead our blog post on the event: What a Museum of Tang Stones Says About How China Views its Past Speaker: Xin Wen, Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies and History, Princeton University Chang’an, the capital of the Tang dynasty (618–907), was the largest city in the medieval world. The walled area of the city […]
Urban China Series featuring Eli Friedman – The Urbanization of People: The Politics of Development, Labor Markets, and Schooling in the Chinese City
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Eli Friedman, Cornell University Beginning in 2014 China’s central government began pushing for more people to move to cities, as they believe that increased urbanization will be necessary in advancing a new phase of economic development. But despite cities' heavy reliance on the labor of rural migrants, major institutional obstacles remain for those wishing […]
Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Margaret Pearson – China’s Overseas Economic Push: Influence or Backlash
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesRead our blog post on the event: Why the Narrative on China’s Rising Overseas Economic Influence Might be Inaccurate Speaker: Margaret Pearson, Dr. Horace E. and Wilma V. Harrison Distinguished Professor, and Distinguished Scholar-Teacher in the Department of Government and Politics, University of Maryland, College Park Moderator: Meg Rithmire, F. Warren MacFarlan Associate Professor in […]
Film Screening: Hidden Letters, featuring discussion with Director Violet Feng
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesViolet Du Feng, Director and Producer A fascinating new documentary, Hidden Letters, introduces NuShu 女书, a secret women’s script developed 400 years ago in China’s Hunan Province to help peasants deal with conditions in which their feet were bound and they were confined to their chamber rooms. Following the screening, the director, Violet Du Feng, will join […]
26th Annual Harvard East Asia Society Conference – Mirrors: Contemplating Asia
CGIS South CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesThe 26th Annual Harvard East Asia Society Conference is coming up this week! The HEAS conference will take place in-person at Harvard's CGIS South building on the 17th and 18th (Friday and Saturday) of February, 2023. The conference is open to all, and we encourage interested students and faculty to join us and participate in our panel […]
Critical Issues Confronting China featuring Ma Jun – Can China Meet its Green Targets?
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Ma Jun, Director, Institute of Public & Environmental Affairs (IPE)Moderator: Daniel Schrag, Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology, Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering, Harvard University; Director, Harvard University Center for the Environment ***PLEASE NOTE EARLIER START TIME*** President Xi Jinping has sought to make the environment part of his lasting legacy. Since 2012, China […]
Evaluating the Impact of the Feed-in Tariffs on Solar PV and Wind Power Development in China
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Changgui Dong, Associate Professor, School of Public Administration and Policy, Renmin University of China Dr. Changgui Dong's research focuses on energy and environmental economics, technological change, policy evaluation and China’s governance. He is particularly interested in analyzing energy and environmental policies from an interdisciplinary perspective, and understanding China’s governance from the perspective of renewable energy […]
Brandon Dotson – Marginal Comedy and the Production of Sutras in 9th-Century Dunhuang
Barker Center, Thompson Room 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MASpeaker: Brandon Dotson, Associate Professor and Thomas P. McKenna Chair of Buddhist Studies, Georgetown University There is something delightful about jottings and doodles in the margins of religious books. Perhaps […]