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 […]
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 it is the counterpoint that they offer to the generally serious and devout contents of the texts they abut. Perhaps it is also that marginalia […]
US-China-India Triple Entente in Bangladesh
Presented via ZoomPanelists:Anu Anwar, Fellow, Harvard University Asia Center; Ph.D. candidate, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International StudiesMichael Kugelman, Director, South Asia Institute, The Wilson CenterGeoffrey Macdonald, Senior Advisor for Asia, International Republican Institute Moderator: James Robson, James C. Kralik and Yunli Lou Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations; Victor […]
Bo Li – Regulating Fintech: The Asian Experience
WCC 2036 Milstein East A, Harvard Law SchoolSpeaker: Bo Li, J.D. ‘99, Deputy Managing Director, International Monetary Fund Boxed lunch will be provided. Venue
Final Conference of 1st Fudan-Harvard China-U.S. Young Leaders Dialogue
Starr Auditorium, Belfer Building, Floor 2.5, Harvard Kennedy School 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesFeaturing: James Heller, Consul General of the US Embassy in ShanghaiRandall Schriver, Former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs and more. The U.S.-China relationship is undoubtedly the most important bilateral relationship in the world today. In recent years, the conflicts between China and the United States in various key areas and issues have […]
Jie Gao – From Planned Economy to Planned Governance: Transformation of China’s Socialist Planning System
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Jie Gao, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, National University of Singapore; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2022-23Discussant: Isabella Weber, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst In China as in many other Communist countries, the evolution of socialist planning has been central to the transition from a planned economy to a market-oriented one. Conventional […]
Urban China Series featuring Chen Jinsong
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Chen Jinsong, Shenzhen Worldunion Group (世联行) This event series is made possible by the generous support of the MIT Sustainable Urbanization Lab, the School of Community and Regional Planning at the University of British Columbia, and the Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. Venue