Contesting Territory, Asserting Sovereignty beyond China’s Borders
Presented via ZoomSpeakers:Darshana M. Baruah, Fellow, South Asia Program, Carnegie Endowment for International PeaceAndrew Chubb, Senior Lecturer in Chinese Politics and International Relations, Lancaster UniversityIsaac B. Kardon, Senior Fellow for China Studies, […]
China Humanities Seminar featuring Ariel Fox – Every Man a Merchant: Plays of the Suzhou Circle and the Making of an Early Modern Economic Subject
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Ariel Fox, Assistant Professor of Chinese literature, University of Chicago. This talk explores the way in which commercial identities are recast and recreated in the plays of the Suzhou […]
The Stories We Tell: The Politics of History in China and the United States
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesRead our blog post on the event: The Stories We Tell: Can the U.S. and China Reset their Conflicting Narratives? Speakers:Jill Lepore, David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History […]
Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Zak Dychtwald – What Do China’s Youth Want?
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Zak Dychtwald, Founder and CEO, Young China Group There is enormous discussion of China’s hundreds of millions of young people. Consumer, competitor, collaborator, and most recently political participant – […]
Texas: From Carbon Emitter to Green Hydrogen Exporter – A Promising Sustainable Future
Pierce Hall 100F 29 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Haiyang Lin, Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard-China Project on Energy, Economy and Environment Texas, as the largest oil and natural gas producer in the United States, faces significant challenges in the […]
Journey of an Exile Tibetan Leader: From Harvard to Dharamsala
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Dr. Lobsang Sangay, Former Sikyong (President), Central Tibetan Administration; Senior Visiting Fellow, East Asian Legal Studies Program, Harvard Law School Harvard University Asia Center's 17th Tsai Lecture, sponsored by […]
Wei-Cheng Lin – House of the Buddha in Scale: China’s “Small” Architecture
Plimpton Room (133), Barker Center 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Wei-Cheng Lin, University of Chicago Venue
Grey zones: Opium Trade, Migrations, and Empires in Central and Northeast Asia, 1900s-1930s
CGIS South Room S354 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Niccolò Pianciola, Associate Professor of History, University of PaduaModerator: Nargis Kassenova, Senior Fellow; Director, Program on Central Asia, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies By comparing the border […]
Norifumi Sakai – Between the Canon and the Field: Daoist liturgical manuals in Qing China
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Norifumi Sakai, Associate Professor, Keio University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2022-23Discussant: James Robson, James C. Kralik and Yunli Lou Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University Harvard-Yenching Institute […]
Urban China Series featuring Tao Ran – The China Model of Growth and Urbanization
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Tao Ran, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen) This talk outlines a holistic analytical framework for China’s current growth and urbanization model, as well as its political and […]
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 China: Literary Decolonization and the Imperial Unconscious, 1895–1962Adhira Mangalagiri, Queen Mary London; Author, States of Discontent: The China-India Literary Relation in […]
Japan’s Real Estate Crisis and Implications for China
Presented via ZoomSpeakers:Takeo Hoshi, Professor and Dean of the Graduate School of Economics, University of TokyoPaul Sheard, former Senior Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School and author of The Power of MoneyWei Xiong, Professor […]