• Chinese Politics in the Xi Jinping Era

    Cheng Li,  Director, John L. Thornton China Center and Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Program, Brookings Institution Critical Issues Confronting China Seminar Series is co-sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies.    

  • Witnessing the Cultural Revolution 1966-69

    Speaker: George Walden, former diplomat and member of British Parliament Chair: Roderick MacFarquhar, Leroy B. Williams Research Professor of History and Political Science, Emeritus

  • 楚帛書的故事-中美兩國調查記

    Speaker: Li Ling 李零, Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Peking University 北京大学中文系 Note: This event will be conducted in Mandarin.

  • 60th Anniversary Symposium

    CGIS South CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Join us for a two-day academic symposium celebrating sixty years of the Fairbank Center's world-leading research on China.

  • Law and Power in US-China Relations

    Room 100, Pound Hall 1563 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Jerome A. Cohen (孔傑榮/柯恩), Founding Director of EALS; Professor of Law, NYU School of Law; Of Counsel, Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison

  • Book talk with Arthur Kroeber, China’s Economy: What Everyone Needs to Know. Moderated by Edward Cunningham

    The Ash Center cordially invites you to a book talk with Arthur R. Kroeber, author of China’s Economy: What Everyone Needs to Know. This discussion will be moderated by Edward Cunningham, China Programs Director at the Ash Center. Arthur R. Kroeber is founding partner of Gavekal Dragonomics, a China-focused economic research consultancy he helped establish in Beijing in […]

  • Patent and Software Licensing in China and Business Norms in Asia

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

    Speaker: Nick Psyhogeos Nick leads the IP Licensing function at Microsoft, as President of Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary that owns, manages and licenses Microsoft’s patent portfolio.  In that role, Nick oversees the patent licensing strategy for Microsoft, including the Android licensing program. He manages a team of legal and business professionals responsible […]

  • Sinophone Studies: New Directions

    CGIS South CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Listen again: “Sinophone” is arguably one of the most provocative concepts of world literary studies since the turn of the new millennium. In 2007, we held the Yale-Harvard joint international conference “Globalizing Modern Chinese Literature: Sinophone and Diasporic Writings,” examining an array of issues ranging from diaspora to multicultural articulations. Since then, waves of scholarship […]

  • The Origins and Dynamics of Crony Capitalism in China: Insights from 260 Cases of Collusive Corruption

    Corruption in the post-Tiananmen era exhibits distinct characteristics not found in the 1980s, such as astronomical sums of money looted by officials, their family members, and their cronies in the private sector, large networks of co-conspirators, and the sale of public office.  By examining the evolution of Chinese economic and political institutions since the early […]