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  • Concert: “The Voice of Taiwan”

    First Church in Cambridge 11 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Complimentary tickets available for Fairbank affiliates, please contact rainsalt@gmail.com. First come, first served.

  • The “Religion of Images”? – Buddhist Image Worship in the Early Medieval Chinese Imagination

    Sackler Building, Room 515 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Art historians and scholars of Chinese Buddhism have long recognized that Buddhism exerted a decisive influence on the use of sacred icons within nearly all forms of Chinese religion. So significant was Buddhism’s role in introducing, popularizing, or otherwise emphasizing novel image-practices that Buddhism was supposedly known in medieval China as the “religion of images.” […]

  • Mid-Autumn Festival

    Science Center Plaza 1 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Join the Fairbank Center for an afternoon of lively performances, delicious food and drink, cultural displays, music, crafts, tea ceremonies, giveaways, and of course, mooncakes! In honor of our 60th anniversary, our Mid-Autumn Festival event celebrates all things China at Harvard. So come learn about our innovative research, practice Chinese calligraphy, try your hand at making […]

  • Developing China: The Remarkable Impact of Foreign Direct Investment

    The Ash Center cordially welcomes you to a talk by Michael Enright, Director, Enright, Scott & Associates and Professor, School of Business, University of Hong Kong entitled Developing China: The Remarkable Impact of Foreign Direct Investment. This discussion will be moderated by William Overholt, President, Fung Global Institute and Asia Center Fellow, Harvard University.

  • The South China Sea in 2016: Progress and Regress

    CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United States

    Peter Dutton, U.S. Naval War College; Director, China Maritime Studies Institute The Critical Issues Confronting China Seminar Series is co-sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies.

  • Developments in the South China Sea, Post-Arbitration Award

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

    Speaker: Lynn Kuok, Non-resident Fellow at the Brookings Institution, Senior Visiting Fellow at the Centre for International Law of the National University of Singapore, Member of the Global Future Council on International Security of the World Economic Forum; Visiting Scholar at East Asian Legal Studies

    Speaker: Peter Dutton, Professor of Strategic Studies and Director of the China Maritime Studies Institute at the U.S. Naval War College

    Co-sponsored by East Asian Legal Studies and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies

  • Modern China Lecture Series: (Self-)Disciplining the Corporation: FCPA Practice, Compliance, and Global Anti-Corruption Regimes in China

    Speaker: Matthew S. Erie, Associate Professor of Modern Chinese Studies, University of Oxford An expansive literature examines the question of norm diffusion and legal transplantation, particularly in regards to democracy, transparency, and human rights, in the developing world, and, especially, China. To the extent that such analyses consider human actors, these are usually public interest lawyers, NGOs, […]

  • China’s Rise in the Asia-Pacific Region and Japanese Foreign Policy

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

    Speaker: Makato Iokibe Senior Fellow, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs; Chancellor, Prefectural University of Kumamoto; President, National Defense Academy of Japan (2006-12); formerly Professor of History, Kobe University Discussant: Arne Westad S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations, Harvard Kennedy School. Organized by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Co-Sponsored by the […]

  • China’s Economy: Does Growth Have a Future?

    Arthur R. Kroeber, Head of Research, Gavekal; Founder, Gavekal Dragonomics; Editor, China Economic Quarterly Critical Issues Confronting China Seminar Series is co-sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies.

  • Workshop: China, East Asia and Global Value Chains

    Participants: Gary G. Hamilton: Making Money: Taiwanese Industrialists and the Making of the New Global Economy (Co-authored with Kao Cheng-shu) Mark P. Dallas: Fragmented Development: China, East Asia and 'Emergent' Global Production Timothy Sturgeon: Compressed Development:   The Shrinking of Time and Space in an Interconnected World (Co-authored with  D. Hugh Whittaker, Tianbiao Zhu and Toshie Okita) […]