Events
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Soldiers and Cellphones: The Cold War Roots of the Consumer Electronics Industry in Shenzhen, China
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Taomo Zhou, National University of SingaporeMeeting Registration - Zoom Venue
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Chinese Immigrant Lawyers in the United States: Challenges and Adaptation
WCC 3009, Wasserstein Hall 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeakers:Ji Li, John & Marilyn Long Professor of US-China Business and Law, UC Irvine School of Law William Lee, Partner, WilmerHaleEli Goldston, Visiting Lecturer on Law, Harvard Law School Tiezheng
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China Humanities Seminar featuring Rebecca Doran — Dress Regulation, Dynastic Image-Building, and Geopolitical Competition in Early Medieval China
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Rebecca Doran, University of Miami The various regimes that emerged during third through sixth centuries grappled from different perspectives with the establishment of dynastic dress regulations, meant to promote
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Critical Issues Confronting China series featuring Robert Suettinger — Factional Politics in the CCP: Is Change in the Air?
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker:Robert Lee Suettinger, Former National Intelligence Officer for East Asia, National Intelligence Counsel Discussant: Arunabh Ghosh, Professor of History, Harvard UniversityOver the past year, Robert Suettinger has spent much time
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International Security and What’s Next for U.S. Strategy in the Indo-Pacific: A Discussion with Dr. Ely Ratner
Malkin Penthouse, Littauer Building 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Ely Ratner, Principal, The Marathon Initiative; Senior Advisor, Clarion Strategies; Assistant Secretary of Defense for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs, 2021-2025 Respondent: Mark Wu, Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law, Harvard Law
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How US Internet Optimism Turned to AI Alarm with China
WCC 3013, Wasserstein Hall 1585 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Graham Webster, Stanford University US thinkers once looked to the future of Internet technology in China with dreams of liberalization. China and the US co-built and jointly profited from
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The Death of Strategic Ambiguity: Middle Power Survival in the New U.S.-China Cold War
CGIS South, Room S050 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Seong-Hyon Lee, Senior Fellow, George H. W. Bush Foundation for U.S.-China Relations; Associate, Harvard University Asia Center Moderator: Andrew Erickson, Visiting Scholar, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University;
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Rethinking the Global Order: Latin America, China, and the U.S. Amid Transforming Economic and Political Paradigms
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesKeynote: Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuéllar, President, Carnegie Endowment for International PeaceModerator: Marisol Argueta de Barillas, Head of Latin America; Member of the Executive Committee, World Economic Forum Panelists:Enrique Dussel Peters, Professor,
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Against Erasure: Uyghur Poems, Imprisoned Souls, and the Act of Resistance
CGIS South, Room S050 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Aziz Isa Elkun, University of London In the face of the Chinese government1s systemic efforts to silence the Uyghur people, the written word becomes a profound act of resistance.
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Urban China Lecture featuring Chris Courtney — Defrosting the Deep History of Chinese Cold Chains
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Chris Courtney, Associate Professor of Modern Chinese History, University of Durham, UK.Cold chains are a vital component of modern cities. Most histories trace their origins to the advent of
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Butchered Rooms: Precarity, Resilience, and the Politics of Informal Housing in Post-Handover Hong Kong
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Ruby YS LAI, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Social Policy, Lingnan University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2025-26Chair/Discussant: Ya-Wen Lei, Professor of Sociology, Harvard University In the past decades, the growing housing crisis
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Fairbank Center Visiting Scholar Presentations
CGIS South, Room S153 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesPlease join us for research presentations by two Fairbank Center Visiting Scholars: Tommy Tse, Associate Professor in the Department of Media Studies, University of AmsterdamChina as data colonizer? Rethinking cultural