Events

Glen S. Fukushima – U.S. Trade Policy, Japan, and China

Morgan Courtroom, Austin Hall 1515 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA, United States

Speaker: Glen S. Fukushima, Vice Chair, Securities Investor Protection Corporation; Former Deputy Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Japan and China Glen S. Fukushima was nominated by President Joseph R. Biden to serve as Vice Chair of the Securities Investor Protection Corporation in October 2021 and confirmed by the U.S. Senate in April 2022.  After graduating […]

Wu Helin – From Serampore to Singapore: The Making of the Missionary Enterprise to China (1800-1840)

Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Speaker: Wu Helin, Associate Research Fellow, India Study Center, Central China Normal University; HYI Visiting Scholar, Indian Studies In China Program, 2023-24 Discussant: Dana L. Robert, William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor, Director of the Center for Global Christianity and Mission, Boston University Venue

Generative AI for Chinese Studies – Advanced Workshop

CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

Digital China Initiative is organizing two workshops on how to apply generative AI for Chinese studies. The workshop on 5 April will cover how to use open-source large language models on local devices, query through APIs, and basic concepts of retrieval augment generation. The workshops will be limited to 45 attendees each to ensure enough space and […]

Film Screening: Mahjong (Ma jiang)

Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center 24 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA, United States

Mahjong is a game for four players, and the one who first collects winning sets of tiles wins. But the real game lies not in these rectangular pieces per se, but in deliberating what one already has and could afford to discard or how to acquire from others what one desires but does not yet […]

Film Screening: The Terrorizers (Kong bu fen zi)

Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center 24 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA, United States

Characterized as “Yang’s most difficult, intellectually provocative, and structurally challenging film” (John Anderson), Edward Yang’s third feature-length film is a puzzle with immense reverberatory power. The Terrorizers depicts the intertwining of love […]

Urban China Lecture Series featuring Cole Roskam – Planning Exchange: Ideas, People, and Cities in Circulation During China’s Opening and Reform Era

Presented via Zoom

Speaker:  Cole Roskam, Professor of Architectural History, Department of Architecture, University of Hong Kong Beginning in the 1970s and intensifying during the 1980s, the People’s Republic of China initiated international scholarly exchange programs with numerous countries at a range of levels and scales within Chinese society. These interactions were intended to facilitate knowledge transfer, particularly […]

2024 China Town Hall Featuring Kurt Campbell and Rana Mitter

L-332 DELAND, Littauer Building 79 JFK St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Speakers:Kurt Campbell, Deputy U.S. Secretary of StateRana Mitter, ST Lee Chair in US-Asia Relations, Harvard Kennedy SchoolJoin the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations and the Greater China Society at HKS on April 9th for the 2024 CHINA Town Hall (CTH), a two-part […]

Critical Issues Confronting China featuring Keith Bradsher – An Industrial Surge Amidst China’s Slowdown

CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United States

Speaker: Keith Bradsher, Beijing Bureau Chief, The New York Times China’s economy is slowing, dragged down by real estate troubles, but its industrial sector has never been stronger. That poses dilemmas for trade partners in sectors from steel to solar panels to electric cars. Venue

Environment in Asia Series featuring Jesse Rodenbiker – Ecological States: Politics of Science and Nature in Urbanizing China

CGIS South Room S250 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Speaker: Jesse Rodenbiker, Associate Research Scholar, Princeton University; Assistant Teaching Professor of Geography, Rutgers University-New Brunswick Discussant: Stevan Harrell, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Environmental and Forest Sciences, University of Washington; […]

Arbitrary Detention in Xinjiang: A Survivor’s Story

WCC 1015, Wasserstein Hall 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Speakers:Rayhan Asat, Uyghur Lawyer, HLS LLM ‘16Mihrigul Tursun, Uyghur Activist, Former Detainee and Camp Survivor In 2015, Mihrigul Tursun was imprisoned in a re-education camp in Xinjiang by the Chinese […]