Li Miao — Retaining Desire for Social Mobility Within and Beyond Schooling: A Longitudinal Ethnography of Migrant Youth in China
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Li Miao, Professor, Department of Sociology, Shandong University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2024-25Chair/Discussant: Emily Hannum, Professor of Sociology and Education; Associate Dean, School of Arts & Sciences, University of Pennsylvania […]
Fu Hualing in Conversation With Bill Alford
Austin Hall Room 308 1515 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Professor Fu Hualing, Dean of the Faculty of Law; Warren Chan Professor in Human Rights and Responsibilities, University of Hong Kong Discussant: Bill Alford, Jerome A. and Joan L. Cohen […]
China Humanities Seminar featuring Robert Ashmore — Song and its Powers: Revisiting the Question of the “Musicality” of the Song-poems of Li He 李賀 (790–816)
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Robert Ashmore, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of California Berkeley Li He’s own writings, as well as comments from his contemporaries and […]
Modern China Lecture Series Featuring Yixin Chen — Famine and Rebellion: The Counterrevolutionary Case of the Chinese People’s Life-Saving Army in the Wester Stream Villages, 1959-1960.
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Yixin Chen, Professor of History, University of North Carolina Wilmington. This talk explores why numerous cases of counterrevolutionary groups emerged in rural China during the Great Leap Forward famine […]
Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Jeremy Daum — Unchained Watchdog: How China’s Supervision Commission Escapes Legal Bounds
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Jeremy Daum, Senior Research Scholar in Law and Senior Fellow, Paul Tsai China Center, Yale University Jeremy Daum is a Senior Research Scholar in Law and Senior Fellow at […]
Jishun Zhang — Revolution in the Lilong and Its Legacy: Revisiting Shanghai Residents’ Committees in the Mao Zedong Era
CGIS South, Room S153 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Jishun Zhang, 2024-25 Professor Emeritus of the Si-Mian Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities of East China Normal University; Fairbank Center 2024-2025 Visiting Scholar *This talk will be presented in Mandarin* […]
Border of Water and Ice: The Yalu River and Japan’s Empire in Korea and Manchuria
CGIS South, Room S050 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Joseph Seeley, Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of VirginiaChair: Victor Seow, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences, Harvard University Border of Water and Ice explores the significance of […]
Panel Discussion — Three Years In, Prospects for Peace? China-Russia-North Korea Relations on the Third Anniversary of Putin’s Ukraine War
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 China Maritime Studies Institute; Visiting Scholar, Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesEmily J. Holland, Assistant Professor, Naval War College Russia Maritime Studies Institute; former postdoctoral […]
China Economy Lecture featuring Qiao Liu — Understanding the Chinese Economy
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Qiao Liu, Professor of Finance; Dean, Guanghua School of Management, Peking University Qiao Liu currently serves as Professor of Finance and Dean in the Guanghua School of Management, Peking […]
Urban China Lecture Series Featuring Zhao Yawei
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Zhao Yawei, University of Manchester This event series is sponsored by the MIT Sustainable Urbanization Lab, the University of British Columbia’s School of Community and Regional Planning, and the […]
HYI Annual Roundtable — Authoritarianism in Hong Kong
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesPanelists:John P. Burns, Emeritus Professor and Honorary Professor of Politics and Public Administration, the University of Hong KongMichael C. Davis, Global Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; Senior Research […]
Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Martin Whyte and Scott Rozelle — Getting Ahead in Today’s China: From Optimism to Pessimism
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeakers:Martin K. Whyte, John Zwaanstra Professor of International Studies and Sociology, Emeritus; Former Acting Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies 2007-2008, Harvard UniversityScott Rozelle, Helen F. Farnsworth Senior Fellow and […]