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  • Learning Community Organizing in Japan and China

    CGIS South Room S354 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speakers: Dr. Marshall Ganz, Senior Lecturer in Public Policy, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School Kanoko Kamata, Executive Director, Community Organizing Japan Iris Hu, Leadership Trainer and Coach,  Harvard SEED for Social Innovation Moderator:  Professor Andrew Gordon, Acting Director, Harvard Asia Center; Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor, Harvard University S354, […]

  • Fantasies of the Self: Multiples, Illusions and Poems in the Photographic Culture of Modern China

    Speaker: Prof. Shengqing Wu (Division of Humanities, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology;  HYI Visiting Scholar, 2016-17) Chair/discussant: Prof. David Wang (EALC, Harvard University) This talk investigates the visual configurations, rhetorical conventions, and fundamental concepts underlying China’s portrait photography in the early twentieth century. By surveying pictorial magazines, photo albums of courtesans, and poems […]

  • Living With A China Made Great Again

    Speaker: Ambassador Chas W. Freeman, Jr.;  Senior Fellow, Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University; former Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs;  former U. S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia; former Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs; former Deputy Chief of Mission and Chargé d'affaires in the American embassies in Bangkok […]

  • China’s National Cap-and-Trade Program: the Promise and the Reality

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

    Speaker: WANG Pu, Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School Co-sponsored by the China Project, Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and the Environment and Natural Resources Program, Harvard Kennedy School. China’s national cap-and-trade program is regarded as a cornerstone of its climate policy outlined in the 13th Five-year plan (2016-2020), published right after the […]

  • Workshop: The Artist’s Hand—Technology in Practice

    Deknatel Hall 32 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA, United States

    This workshop is an international event jointly sponsored by the Harvard History of Art and Architecture Dept., the China Academy of Art, and the Rhode Island School of Design. It is designed to unite practicing artists and art historians in an exploration of the role of the Artist’s Hand and traditional technique in contemporary artistic […]

  • Film Screening and Discussion: Mr. Deng Goes to Washington

    CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Mr. Deng Goes to Washington tells the story of Deng Xiaoping’s, China’s paramount leader, historic visit to the United States in 1979 that changed the trajectory of world history.  This dramatic story is told through first-hand experiences of those people from both countries who made the normalization of relations possible–politicians, diplomats,  and one former U.S. […]

  • The Master Branches Out: Images of Confucius in Contemporary China

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

    As Confucius (551-479 BCE) has returned to political favor in recent years, his image has become ubiquitous in mainland China and increasingly used abroad to symbolize Chinese culture.  Represented in a great variety of media, both traditional and modern, depictions of the ancient teacher serve new purposes and address a much wider audience than ever […]

  • Film Screening: “Song of the Reed”

    In 1998, the Taiwan Women’s Rescue Foundation (TWRF) made a groundbreaking documentary that revealed the existence of Taiwanese comfort women. More than 15 years later, the same organization filmed a second documentary, Song of the Reed. Following the later years of six former comfort women, Song of the Reed focuses on the therapy that the […]

  • Can China Back Down? Crisis De-escalation in the Shadow of Popular Opposition

    Speaker: Professor Alastair Iain Johnston, Governor James Albert Noe and Linda Noe Laine Professor of China in World Affairs, Government Department, Harvard University Critical Issues Confronting China Seminar Series; co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Harvard University Asia Center

  • The First World War and the Idea of “China”

    CGIS Knafel, K050 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    This lecture will focus on the meaning of the First World War to China and China's role in the Great War. It will pay special attention to the issue how the Great War and its aftermath provided a momentum for the Chinese and the world to think about the ideas of China and Chineseness. Most importantly, this talk will explain why and how the Chinese seized the Great […]