Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Christopher Carothers – When Autocrats Clean House: Xi Jinping’s Anti-Corruption Campaign and Its Consequences
Speaker: Christopher Carothers, Post-doctoral Fellow, Center for the Study of Contemporary China, University of PennsylvaniaModerator: Nara Dillon, Senior Lecturer on Government, Harvard University Corruption is rampant in many authoritarian regimes, leading to the widespread perception that autocrats have little incentive or ability to curb government wrongdoing. Yet meaningful anti-corruption efforts by nondemocratic governments are more […]
Moses on the Plain: Shuang Xuetao and New Dongbei Literature
Presented via ZoomTopics: Speakers:双雪涛 Shuang Xuetao, Writer程异 Jeremy Tiang, Translator张学昕 Zhang Xuexin, Critic罗鹏 Carlos Rojas, Scholar, Translator陶建 Eric Abrahamsen, TranslatorBrian Lax, Editor Organizers:王德威 David Der-wei Wang, Harvard University宋伟杰 Weijie Song, Rutgers University This event will be conducted in Mandarin and English. Co-Sponsors:哈佛大学费正清中国研究中心 Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies罗格斯大学亚洲语言文化系 Rutgers University, Asian Languages and Cultures罗格斯大学中国研究中心 Rutgers Center for Chinese […]
Contemporary Chinese Society Lecture Series featuring Rachel Stern – Performing Legality: When and Why Chinese Government Leaders Show Up in Court
Speaker: Rachel E. Stern, Professor of Law and Political Science, Pamela P. Fong and Family Distinguished Chair in China Studies, UC Berkeley School of Law Rachel E. Stern is a Professor of Law and Political Science and currently holds the Pamela P. Fong and Family Distinguished Chair in China Studies. Her research looks at law […]
India’s Evolving Partnerships with Africa and the China Factor
Presented via ZoomTopics: Panelists: W. Gyude Moore, Senior Policy Fellow, Center for Global Development; Lecturer at the University of Chicago’s Harris School for Public Policy; Former Minister of Public Works, LiberiaHannah Ryder, CEO, Development Reimagined; Senior Associate, Africa Program of the Center for Strategic International Studies Anthea Mulakala, Senior Director for International Development Cooperation, The Asia Foundation Philani […]
Adam P. Liff – The U.S.-Japan Alliance and Taiwan
Presented via ZoomTopics: Speaker: Adam P. Liff, Associate Professor of East Asian International Relations, Hamilton Lugar School of Global & International Studies; Director, 21st Century Japan Politics and Society Initiative, Indiana University. Moderator: Mary C. Brinton, Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology; Director, Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University. Venue
Buddhist Studies Forum Featuring Julia Cross – Relic Transfers and Statue-Reliquaries in Medieval Japan
Presented via ZoomTopics: Speaker: Julia Cross, Postdoctoral Associate in East Asian Studies and Lecturer in Religious Studies, Yale University Prior to the medieval period, Buddha relics (Sk. śarīra; dhātu) in Japan were typically under the domain of the court or court-related temples. In the Kamakura era (1185–1333), this shifted, however, as relic worship became increasingly accessible to temples […]
China Humanities Seminar featuring Ronald Egan – Su Shi Beyond Poetry: The Invention of a New Kind of Informal Prose
Speaker: Ronald Egan, Stanford University Su Shi 蘇軾 (1037-1101) is remembered first as a poet in various forms (shi 詩, ci 詞, and fu 賦) and only then as a prose stylist. Even among his prose writings Su Shi is remembered primarily, to judge from modern selections of his works, for his output in the traditional literary […]
Taiwan Studies Workshop featuring Jaewoong Jeon – Sugar and Commodity Form: Manifestations in Colonial Taiwan and Korea
Presented via ZoomTopics: Speaker: Jaewoong Jeon, Postdoctoral Fellow in Global History, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs; Postdoctoral Fellow in Taiwan Studies, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University Moderator: Steven Goldstein, Sophia Smith Professor of Government, Emeritus, Smith College; Fairbank Center Associate This talk will not be recorded for future viewing. This talk is co-sponsored by the […]
Gender Studies Workshop: Gender, Family, and Law
Presented via ZoomSpeakers:Bettine Birge, Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Southern CaliforniaYing Zhang, Associate Professor and Director of the Institute for Chinese Studies, The Ohio State UniversityMara Yue Du, Assistant Professor and Himan Brown Faculty Fellow, Cornell UniveristyXiaoping Cong, Professor of History, University of HoustonModerator:Michael Szonyi, Frank Wen-Hsiung Wu Memorial Professor of Chinese History […]
Environment in Asia series featuring Michael J. Hathaway – What a Mushroom Lives For: Matsutake Mushrooms and the Worlds They Make
Speaker: Michael J. Hathaway, Professor of Anthropology and Director of the David Lam Center for Asian Studies, Simon Fraser University This talk introduces the second book in an academic trilogy that began with Anna L. Tsing’s The Mushroom at the End of the World. In this talk, Michael J. Hathaway draws from his forthcoming book. […]
Victor Seow – Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia
Presented via ZoomTopics: Speaker: Victor Seow, Assistant Professor of the History of Science, Harvard UniversityCommentator: Paul Sabin, Yale University Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia is a study of the deep links between energy extraction and technocratic politics through the history of what was once East Asia’s largest coal mine. In delving into the origins […]
Buddhist Studies Forum featuring Halvor Eifring – Let the mind wander towards the Pure Land: Two 19th-Century Chinese Monks on How to Treat Spontaneous Thought
Presented via ZoomTopics: Speaker: Halvor Eifring, University of Oslo Mind wandering has been an issue within contemplative traditions for more than two thousand years. How to go about your meditation or prayer when spontaneous thoughts constantly pull your mind in other directions? This talk will focus on the answers of two 19th-century Chinese Pure Land Buddhist monks, […]