China Humanities Seminar featuring Meimei Zhang – Immortalizing the Ephemeral: Qin Inscriptions from the Song Dynasty (960-1279)
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Meimei Zhang, Occidental College This paper examines the Song dynasty literati’s ming 銘 inscriptions on the qin 琴, a seven-string plucked instrument that is also known as zither or guqin. The tradition of inscribing musical instruments […]
Urban China Series featuring Leif Johnson – Building infrastructure, building the urban: Migrant labor in a Shanghai fiber-optic reconstruction project
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Leif Johnson, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University While scholars have long tracked China’s rapid infrastructural development, the everyday labor of migrant workers in infrastructural construction has often been rendered as a […]
Xiaotian Yin – Mantra and Icon: Verbalizing and Visualizing Sitatapatrā in Buddhist Art of Inner Asia and China
Barker Center, Thompson Room 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MASpeaker: Xiaotian Yin, Harvard University Venue
Asia and the Russia’s War on Ukraine
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesIn-person attendees, register at https://forms.gle/zntgppbURiWLKch87Remote attendees via Zoom, register at https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_i1W35PQSRoGfeMlV-Maizg#/registration How does Asia respond to Russia’s war in Ukraine? And what are the implications for Asian security and stability? While Japan […]
Emily Baum – From Cold War to COVID-19: Acupuncture as Soft Power in the PRC
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Emily Baum Presented via Zoom. Register at: https://scholar.harvard.edu/seow/STinAsia Venue
The Tormented Alliance: American Servicemen and the Occupation of China, 1941–1949
History Department Conference Room, Robinson Hall 35 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Zach Fredman, Duke Kunshan University Commentator: Jesus Solis, Harvard University This session will take place in person, with an option for remote access. Please register in advance to receive […]
2023 Gender Studies Workshop – The Chinese Family Romance
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeakers:Emma Jinhua Teng, MITTing Guo, The Chinese University of Hong KongYangyang Cheng, Yale UniversityCarlos Rojas, Duke UniversityEileen Cheng-yin Chow, Duke UniversityJie Li, Harvard UniversityTina Lu, Yale UniversityOrganizers:Eileen Cheng-yin Chow, Duke UniversityWai-Yee Li, Harvard UniversityEllen Widmer, Wellesley […]
Asia and Russia’s War on Ukraine: A Conversation with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: The Honorable Dmytro Kuleba, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Moderator: Yaena Kwon, Fellow, Harvard University Asia Center; TV Journalist at ZDF and WDR Co-sponsored by the Asia Center; Fairbank Center for […]
Visiting Scholars Present: Parks in Modern China, Xinjiang, Water Conservancy Projects, and More
CGIS South, Room S153 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesFairbank Center visiting scholars will share their research in China studies with the Harvard community. This workshop-style event will feature current research on parks in Modern China, Xinjiang, water conservancy […]
Shehuo: Zhang Xiao’s Photography of Rural China
Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street 24 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Zhang Xiao, 2018 Robert Gardner Fellow in Photography, Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Harvard University In conversation with: Ou Ning, Artist, Curator, Writer Contemporary photographer Zhang Xiao explores the impact […]
Visiting Scholars Present: Taiwan Studies
CGIS South Room S250 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesFairbank Center visiting scholars will share the work of Taiwan filmmaker Edward Yang, research on Qing Dynasty Taiwan war preparations, and new findings on U.S. views of U.S.-China AI competition. […]
China’s Clean Energy Engagement in Central Asia
Speakers:Yipeng Zhou, Coordinator, Imperiia Project / A.M. in Regional Studies–REECAChristoph Nedopil, Director, Green Finance and Development Center, Fanhai International School of Finance, Fudan UniversityAlmas Chukin, Managing Partner, Visor Kazakhstan Moderator: […]