Critical Issues Confronting China featuring Ji Li – How Rising Geopolitical Tensions are Impacting Chinese Firms Overseas
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Ji Li, John & Marilyn Long Professor of US-China Business and Law, University of California - Irvine Rising geopolitical tensions have significantly amplified the risk of international trade and investment for Chinese firms. How do they cope with it? What is the role of law? How do their coping strategies implicate US-China relations? These […]
Mingwei Song – Fear of Seeing: A Poetics of Chinese Science Fiction
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Mingwei Song, Wellesley College Special Guests:Mu Ming, Science Fiction WriterYan Feng, Fudan University Cohosts:David Der-wei Wang, Harvard UniversityJie Li, Harvard Univeristy Presented via Zoom. Register: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_5kFBIXkeQdSBPFNyJkoEAg#/registration Venue
Craig Allen – China’s Economic Development Model: Implications for US-Japan Relations
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Craig Allen, President, US-China Business CouncilModerator: Christina L. Davis, Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics, Department of Government, Harvard University Venue
The China Challenge and America’s Future
JFK Jr. Forum, Harvard Kennedy School 79 John F. Kennedy St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesJoin us for a special conversation with Mike Gallagher and Raja Krishnamoorthi, the Chairman and Ranking Member of the Select Committee on the Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist […]
Jiajun Zou – Is Examination Success the Result of Geographical Luck? New Ming Provincial Examination Dataset and Its Macro Social and Historical Implications
CGIS South Room S250 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Jiajun Zou, Ph.D. Candidate in History, Emory University Jiajun Zou introduces a fresh perspective to Ming dynasty studies with his pioneering dataset of 92,000 juren profiles. In his presentation, […]
Critical Issues Confronting China featuring Meg Rithmire – Can the Chinese Financial System be Effective?
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Meg Rithmire, F. Warren McFarlan Associate Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business SchoolModerator: Daniel Koss, Associate Senior Lecturer on East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University The last 25 years have been turbulent ones for the PRC’s financial system. Efforts at liberalization in the early 2000s accelerated early in Xi Jinping’s tenure, only to […]
Harvard East Asia Society Conference 2024 – Knots: Complex Legacies and Imagined Futures of East Asia
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesThe Harvard East Asia Society (HEAS) Graduate Student Conference is an annual event which provides an interdisciplinary forum for graduate students to exchange ideas and discuss current research on topics […]
Transport and Communication in Late Imperial China: Routes and Costs
CGIS South, Room S001 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Ruoran Cheng, Ph.D. candidate at the London School of Economics. Ruoran Cheng will introduce his work on transport routes and costs in the Ming and Qing dynasties. Using techniques […]
Special Presentation – China-Russia Relations Two Years into Putin’s Ukraine War: How Strong, For How Long?
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeakers:Andrew S. Erickson, Professor of Strategy, U.S. Naval War College (NWC) China Maritime Studies Institute (CMSI); Visiting Professor, Government Department, Harvard University; Associate in Research, Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesJulia Famularo, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesVitaly Kozyrev, Distinguished Professor of Political Science & International Studies, Endicott CollegeAlexandra Vacroux, Executive Director, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard […]
Urban China Lecture Series featuring Shaun SK Teo – Two Experiments in Theorizing (with) Urban China
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Shaun SK Teo, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, National University of Singapore Is Chinese urbanization unique? What can we learn from Chinese urbanization? How might cases in urban China be integrated into global discussions on urban governance and transformation? This talk addresses these burning questions. Chinese urbanization presents rich cases for an engaged pluralism […]
Sophie Ling-chia Wei – A Sage Embellished with Elements of “Chinoiserie”: The Making of Jesus in the Jesuit Figurist Translations of Chinese Classics
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Sophie Ling-chia Wei, Associate Professor, Department of Translation, Chinese University of Hong Kong; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2023-24Chair/Discussant: James Robson, James C. Kralik and Yunli Lou Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University When Christianity was introduced to China in the Ming and Qing dynasties, translations of sacred texts and stories of biblical […]
Generative AI for Chinese Studies – Introductory Workshop
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesDigital China Initiative is organizing two workshops on how to apply generative AI for Chinese studies. The first workshop, on 23 Feb 2024, will introduce basic GenAI concepts, writing prompts, and examples of domain-specific tasks (language learning, data extraction, etc.). The second workshop, on 5 April, will cover how to use open-source large language models on local devices, […]