“Environment in Asia” Reunion with a Tribute to Robert Marks and Peter Perdue
Presented via ZoomRead our blog posts on the event: Exploring How the Environment Shapes China’s History and Conference Examines Planning and China’s Rapidly Growing Cities Organizer: Ling Zhang, Boston College; Convener of […]
Imperial Gateway: Colonial Taiwan and Japan’s Expansion in South China and Southeast Asia, 1895–1945
CGIS South Room S250 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Seiji Shirane, Assistant Professor, Department of History; Affiliated Faculty Member, Asian Studies Program, The City College of New York (CUNY) Moderator: Karen Thornber, Harry Tuchman Levin Professor in Literature; Professor […]
Rejuvenating Communism: Youth Organizations and Elite Renewal in Post-Mao China
Wexner W-434 A.B 19 Eliot St, Cambridge, United StatesSpeaker: Jérôme Doyon, Junior Professor at SciencesPo; author of Rejuvenating Communism: Youth Organizations and Elite Renewal in Post-Mao ChinaRespondent: Elizabeth Perry, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government at Harvard University; Director, Harvard-Yenching Institute, […]
Wealth and Politics in Asia: HYI Annual Roundtable
Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall Boylston Hall, Cambridge, MA, United StatesPanelists:Yuen Yuen Ang, Alfred Chandler Chair of Political Economy, Johns Hopkins UniversityYasheng Huang, Epoch Foundation Professor of International Management, MIT Sloan School of ManagementDevesh Kapur, Starr Foundation Professor of South […]
Harvard Visual China Inaugural Graduate Symposium–“Luminosity in Chinese Art & Culture”
Sackler Building Auditorium 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA, United StatesFrom Prometheus the Fire-Bringer to myths of cosmogony, light and luminosity is an enduring metaphor in human history. In modern science, light and luminosity are understood as matters of wavelength […]
Urban China Series featuring Adam Liu: Small Banks, Big Politics: The Cause and Consequences of Bank Proliferation in China
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Adam Liu, National University of Singapore The Henan bank protest, the Evergrande crisis, and the perennial local government debt issue in China all point to one thing: there’s something wrong with the country’s banking system and Beijing needs to fix it. In particular, it needs to better regulate the numerous small banks that are now so intimately […]
How Soy Sauce Shapes Modern China: The Power of an Everyday Food—2023 Fairbank Center Reischauer Lecture Series featuring Angela KC Leung, Night One, “Becoming an Everyday Food: Soy Sauce in the High Qing Period”
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesRead our blog post on this series of lectures: What Soy Sauce Can Tell Us About History, Politics—and Chinese Identity The lecture series examines the cultural and political meaning of […]
Critical Issues Confronting China – Challenges Confronting China’s Healthcare System Post-COVID: A conversation between Winnie Yip and William Hsiao
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesRead our blog post on the event: How a Slowing Economy—and Big Hospitals—Are Challenging Healthcare Reform in China Speaker: Winnie Chi-Man Yip, Professor of the Practice of Global Health Policy […]
How Soy Sauce Shapes Modern China: The Power of an Everyday Food—2023 Fairbank Center Reischauer Lecture Series featuring Angela KC Leung, Night Two, “The Power of a Malleable Everyday Food: Soy Sauce in Modern China”
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesRead our blog post on this series of lectures: What Soy Sauce Can Tell Us About History, Politics—and Chinese Identity The lecture series examines the cultural and political meaning of […]
Alexis Brown – Time and Narrative in the Rasavāhinī: A Literary Theoretical Approach to Reading a Theravada Buddhist Text
Barker Center, Thompson Room 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MASpeaker: Alexis Brown, Harvard University Venue
How Soy Sauce Shapes Modern China: The Power of an Everyday Food – 2023 Fairbank Center Reischauer Lecture Series featuring Angela KC Leung, Night Three, “Soy Sauce in Crisis: China’s First Engagement with Technoscience”
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesRead our blog post on this series of lectures: What Soy Sauce Can Tell Us About History, Politics—and Chinese Identity The lecture series examines the cultural and political meaning of […]
China Economy Lecture featuring Henry Gao – China, State Capitalism and the World Trading System
CGIS South Room S250 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Henry Gao, Professor of Law, Singapore Management University; Senior Fellow, CIGI Henry Gao is Professor of Law at Singapore Management University and Senior Fellow at CIGI. With law degrees […]