2025 Gender Studies Workshop — The Beauty and the Book: Women, Knowledge, Literature, and Book Culture in Late Imperial China and Beyond
Yenching Auditorium 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesThis year's Gender Studies Workshop—The Beauty and the Book: Women, Knowledge, Literature, and Book Culture in Late Imperial China and Beyond: A Conference in Honor of Ellen Widmer—will explore new […]
Film Screening: Wang Bing’s Youth Trilogy – Youth (Homecoming) Qingchun: Gui
Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center 24 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesMore than two decades after making his monumental West of the Tracks (2002), documentary auteur Wang Bing (b. 1967) has released a new cinematic fresco of Chinese workers. Whereas his […]
Film Screening: Wang Bing’s Youth Trilogy – Youth (Hard Times) Qingchun: Ku
Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center 24 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesMore than two decades after making his monumental West of the Tracks (2002), documentary auteur Wang Bing (b. 1967) has released a new cinematic fresco of Chinese workers. Whereas his […]
Visiting Scholar Presentation featuring Zimeng Pan — China’s Current Patriotic Education: From Policy to Practice
CGIS South, Room S050 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Zimeng Pan, 2024-25 Visiting Scholar; Professor in the Department of International Studies and Director of the Research Center for Discourse and Society, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics China’s […]
China Economy Lecture featuring Ka Zeng — Chains of Resilience? The U.S.-China Trade War and Firm Backshoring
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Ka Zeng, Professor of Political Science, University of Massachusetts-Amherst Amid rising U.S.-China strategic competition, efforts to decouple the two largest economies or mitigate the vulnerabilities posed by increased economic […]
Urban China Lecture Series Featuring Claudia Huang — Play a day, count a day: planning for old age in contemporary urban China
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Claudia Huang, California State University, Long Beach The current generational cohort of Chinese retirees have gotten a tough bargain in many ways. Because the one-child policy created an upside-down […]
Film Screening, Part 2 – River Elegy (河殇), Episodes 3 – 6 featuring Andrew S. Erickson & Shih-Diing Liu
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesAndrew S. Erickson, Professor of Strategy, China Maritime Studies Institute, U.S. Naval War College; Visiting Scholar 2024-25, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard UniversityShih-Diing Liu, Professor of Communication and Senior […]
2025 Charles Neuhauser Memorial Lecture featuring Ambassador R. Nicholas Burns — Lessons from the Front Lines of the U.S.-China Relationship
Hall C, Science Center 1 Oxford St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: R. Nicholas Burns, U.S. Ambassador to China, 2021-2025; Roy and Barbara Goodman Family Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Relations, Harvard Kennedy School Ambassador Nicholas Burns is […]
Sigrid Schmalzer — The Connected Worlds of Dazhai and the Whole Earth Catalog: Capitalism, Colonialism, and Alternative Technology Movements
CGIS South, Room S153 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Sigrid Schmalzer, University of Massachusetts Amherst Sigrid Schmalzer is Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her research focuses on social, cultural, and political aspects of the […]
China Humanities Seminar featuring Robert Campany — Traditions of Exemplary Transcendents (Liexian zhuan 列仙傳): A Reading
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Robert Campany, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair in Humanities; Professor of Asian Studies, Vanderbilt University Liexian zhuan, plausibly attributed to the late Western Han scholiast and court official Liu Xiang […]
Film Screening: Wang Bing’s Youth Trilogy – Youth (Spring) Qingchun
Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center 24 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesMore than two decades after making his monumental West of the Tracks (2002), documentary auteur Wang Bing (b. 1967) has released a new cinematic fresco of Chinese workers. Whereas his […]