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  • 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 […]

  • Brown University Strait Talk Final Presentation on Taiwan-China Cross Strait Relations at Harvard University

    Each year, fifteen delegates travel to Brown University for a weeklong Interactive Conflict Resolution and public events on the Taiwan Strait issue. The ICR will be facilitated by Dr. Tatsushi Arai, a professor at the School of International Training Graduate Institute. The final presentation made by the delegates of the Strait Talk Symposium will surround […]

  • CHINA Town Hall: Local Connections, National Reflections

    China's rapid development and Sino-American relations have a direct impact on the lives of just about everyone in the United States. CHINA Town Hall: Local Connections, National Reflections, is a national day of programming from the National Committee on U.S. - China Relations (NCUSCR) designed to provide Americans across the United States and beyond the […]

  • Lecture and Panel Discussion: Cultural Heritage and Ai Weiwei

    Using the historical legacy and artistic concepts of Ai Weiwei’sCircle of Animals/Zodiac Heads as a point of departure, join The Greenway and the Arts & Business Council as they present a panel of experts that can guide us through current cultural heritage concerns and remedies. The event will present specialists in the fields of heritage […]

  • Film Screening: Wansei Back Home

    After Japan was defeated in World War II, nearly 350,000 Japanese civilians living in Taiwan were repatriated. Among those numbers, more than half consisted of wansei, or Taiwan-born Japanese subjects. Directed by Huang Ming-cheng, this documentary draws on 12 years of research, focusing on the experiences of 8 wansei. Interviews with these subjects reveal stories […]

  • India and Japan, India and China

    Speaker: Tarun Das,  former Director-General and Chief Mentor of the Confederation of Indian Industries Chair: Sugata Bose, Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs, Harvard University Asia Center Seminar Series; co-sponsored with the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, and the South Asia Institute, Harvard University

  • China’s Evolving Vulnerability to Climate Change Impacts: A Spatial Analysis of its Infrastructure System

    Pierce Hall 100F 29 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker:  Xi (Sisi) HU, Ph.D. Candidate, Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford; Visiting Fellow, China Project Sponsored by the China Project, Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. To learn more about our seminar series, visit our website: https://chinaproject.harvard.edu/seminars You can also subscribe to our mailing list by emailing tiffanychan@seas.harvard.edu 

  • The Anti-rightist Campaign as Media Event: Censorship, Political Dissent, and Media in 1950s China

    Zhang Naiqi, the Minister of Food and democratic party leader, was denounced as one of the three leading "rightists" during the Anti-Rightist Campaign (1957-58) in China. Accusations against Zhang by other intellectuals were actively publicized through the news media. Intriguingly, rather than simply censoring "rightist voices," the CCP allowed the news media to publicize Zhang's contestation against the accusation, even when the CCP had the capacity to completely censor Zhang's rebuttal. The CCP by the early 1950s monopolized the ability to construct publicity and public opinion on party policies and political affairs by gaining tight media control through nationalizing the media and establishing a relatively effective censorship system. Thus, the CCP's effective media control itself does not fully explain Zhang's vulnerability to the accusation. Ultimately, Zhang was unsuccessful in contesting the public accusation, and was ultimately purged from most of his public positions.

  • Critical Issues Confronting China Series: Cross-Strait Dilemmas

    Speakers: Professor Syaru Shirley Lin, Chinese University of Hong Kong Professor Harry Harding, University of Virginia Critical Issues Confronting China Seminar Series; co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Harvard University Asia Center