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  • 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

  • Modern China Lecture: Varieties of Chinese Utopianism, 1900-1940

    Speaker: Peter Zarrow, University of Connecticut Utopianism was a major motif in early twentieth century Chinese political thought.  Utopianism was not only widespread, it became constitutive of political thought.  Utopianism did so in the form of the utopian impulse rather than full-fledged utopianism.  The “utopian impulse” is revealed in the context of generally non-utopian ideas.  While not […]

  • Legitimating State Power and Social Policies: A Comparative Study of Early Modern England, Tokugawa Japan, and Qing China

    Speaker: Prof. He Wenkai (Division of Social Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; HYI-Radcliffe Visiting Scholar) Chair/discussant: Prof. Daniel Ziblatt (Government, Harvard University) This talk employs comparative historical analysis to examine a crucial linkage between the legitimation of state power and the adoption of social policies in three early modern states, England (1550-1700), […]

  • A New Asia: How China Shaped the Postwar Global Order

    Loeb House 17 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    The 2016 S.T. Lee Lecture will be presented by Rana Mitter, professor of history and politics of modern China and fellow of St Cross College, University of Oxford. Established in 2001, the Lee Lecture focuses on military history, strategy, and policy making. RSVP to arrd_events@hks.harvard.edu

  • Xi Jinping: The Three Problems and the Two Issues

    Speaker: Professor Joseph Fewsmith, Department of Political Science, Boston University Critical Issues Confronting China Seminar Series; co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies  and the Harvard University Asia Center

  • Tourism, Homeland, and Imaginaries: the percolating role of a Yi Jia Le family in a Sani Yi village in southwest China

    Tourism has increasingly become a force that propels economic and social change in a wide range of ethnic villages in China. For the local ethnic minorities, engaging in the business of tourism means not only learning new livelihood skills but also adjusting the community’s imaginaries of their own homeland to outside tourist imaginaries.

  • Book Talk: The Last Days of Stalin

    Lewis 241A 1557 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Joshua Rubenstein. staff member of Amnesty International USA from 1975 to 2012 and associate at Harvard University’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies.

  • The Dictator’s Dilemma: The Chinese Communist Party’s Strategy for Survival

    Speaker: Professor Bruce J. Dickson, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs; Director, Sigur Center for Asian Studies, Elliott School of International Affairs, The George Washington University Critical Issues Confronting China Seminar Series; co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies  and the Harvard University Asia Center

  • Taiwan in Transition? Initial Impressions of the Tsai Ing-wen Administration

    Taiwan Studies Workshop 9:45am - Introductory Remarks: Hon. Stanley Kao, Representative, Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the United States. 10:15am - Shelley Rigger, Davidson College 11:15am - Scott Kennedy, Center for Strategic and International Studies 1:00pm - Kuen-da (Dalton) Lin, Georgia Institute of Technology 2:00pm - Alan Romberg, Stimson Center  

  • The Future of Sino-EU Relations After Brexit

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

    Philippe Le Corre, Visiting Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center on the United States and Europe, The Brookings Institution Co-sponsored by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Program on Transatlantic Relations For years China’s international investment interests focused on a search for natural resources in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Recently China’s focus has shifted to […]