Objects of Addiction: Opium, Empire, and the Chinese Art Trade
Harvard Art Museum, Menschel Hall, Lower Level 32 Quincy St, cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Sarah Laursen, Alan J. Dworsky Associate Curator of Chinese Art, Harvard Art Museums Objects of Addiction explores the entwined histories of the opium trade and the Chinese art market between
Xiconomics: What China’s Dual Circulation Strategy Means for Global Business
WCC 2009, Wasserstein Hall 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MassachusettsSpeakers:Andrew Cainey, Founding Director of the UK National Committee on China; Senior Fellow, Royal United Services InstituteMark Wu, Henry L. Stimson Professor, Harvard Law School; Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese
Urban China Series Featuring Yuan Qifeng: Cross-Border Competition and Governance in the Greater Bay Area of Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macau
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Yuan Qifeng, Professor, School of Architecture, South China University of Technology This talk will be conducted in Mandarin. The concept of the Greater Bay Area of Guangdong, Hong Kong,
Modern China Lecture Series Featuring Jennifer Altehenger – When Folding Chairs Became Bestsellers: The Revolutionary Roots of China’s Furniture Exports
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Jennifer Altehenger, Jessica Rawson Fellow in Modern Asian History, Associate Professor of Chinese History, Merton College, Oxford The People’s Republic of China is one of the world’s leading furniture
China Economy Lecture Featuring Arthur Kroeber – Has China’s Economy Hit the Wall?
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Arthur Kroeber, Founding Partner and Head of Research, Gavekal Dragonomics As China emerged from Covid lockdowns early this year, many expected that its economy would enjoy a roaring recovery.
The Chinese Surveillance Technology Industry and its Reception in African Countries
Morgan Courtroom, Austin Hall 1515 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Bulelani Jili, Meta Ph.D. Research Fellow, Harvard University Bulelani Jili's research seeks to offer insights into how China’s domestic surveillance market and cyber capability ecosystem operate, especially given the
China Humanities Seminar featuring Charles Hartman – Structures of Governance in Song Dynasty China
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Charles Hartman, University at Albany, Emeritus This lecture will introduce my recent book, Structures of Governance in Song Dynasty China 960-1279 CE (Cambridge, 2023). Together with its historiographical prelude,
Daniel A. Bell – China’s Struggle between Communism and Confucianism
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Daniel A. Bell, Professor, Chair of Political Theory with the Faculty of Law, University of Hong KongDiscussants: Peter Bol, Charles H. Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations,
Lung Yingtai – My Life in an Indigenous Village
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Lung Yingtai, Writer, Former Minister of Culture of TaiwanChair: Elizabeth J. Perry, Director, Harvard-Yenching Institute; Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government, Harvard University Since Lung Yingtai relocated to an indigenous
Ian Johnson – Sparks: China’s Underground Historians
Harvard Book Store 1256 Massachusetts Ave.,, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Ian Johnson, Senior Fellow for China Studies, Council on Foreign RelationsDiscussant: Annie Jieping Zhang, Reporter, Columnist, and Entrepreneur Harvard Book Store welcomes Ian Johnson — journalist whose work has
Wei Hai Min and Her Personae: Jingju in Our Time
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Wei Hai Mun, Awardee of the Plum Blossom Award and the National Award for Arts in TaiwanDiscussant: David Der-wei Wang, Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature, Harvard University
Environment in Asia Series Panel Discussion – Stevan Harrell’s “An Ecological History of Modern China”
Presented via ZoomPanelists: Stevan Harrell, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Environmental and Forest Sciences, University of Washington Peter Perdue, Professor Emeritus of History at Yale University Jesse Rodenbiker, Assistant Professor of Geography, Rutgers