Critical Issues Confronting China series featuring John Haigh
Speaker: John Haigh, Co-Director, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government; Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy SchoolModerator: William Overholt, Senior Research Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School John Haigh is Co-Director of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government and Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. He teaches a seminar on business and government interactions […]
Contemporary Chinese Society Lecture Series featuring Eli Friedman – The Urbanization of People: The Politics of Development, Labor Markets, and Education in the Chinese City
Speaker: Eli Friedman, Chair and Associate Professor, Department of International and Comparative Labor, ILR School, Cornell University Presented via Zoom Also streaming on YouTube Transcript: Download Transcript
Wendy Leutert – The Reform & Global Expansion of Chinese State-Owned Enterprises
Speaker: Wendy Leutert, Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures, Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, Indiana University Bloomington. Discussant: Meg Rithmire, F. Warren MacFarlan Associate Professor in Business, Government, and International Economy, Harvard Business School. Hosted by the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School Presented via Zoom Register at: […]
Chinese Religions Seminar featuring Vincent Goossaert – Social Networks of the Gods in Late Imperial Spirit-Writing Altars
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Vincent Goossaert, Professor of Daoism and Chinese Religions, École Pratique des Hautes Études Chinese social life is saturated with interactions with entities other than living humans - ancestors, suffering souls, gods, animal spirits... A wide repertoire of ritual techniques regulates these interactions; some of them, aim at limiting those with dangerous entities, but this […]
Kazuyuki Motohashi – Japan’s High-Tech Competitiveness in an Era of U.S.-China Decoupling
Presented via ZoomTopics: Speaker: Kazuyuki Motohashi, Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, University of Tokyo. Moderator: Christina L. Davis, Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Professor of Government; Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University. Venue
Contemporary Chinese Society featuring Bin Xu – Chairman Mao’s Children: Generation and the Politics of Memory in China
Speaker: Bin Xu, Associate Professor of Sociology, Emory University Presented via Zoom Also streaming on YouTube Transcript: Download Transcript
China Humanities Seminar featuring Yiqun Zhou – A Book for Hard Times: Wu Mi and Dream of the Red Chamber
Speaker: Yiqun Zhou, Stanford University This talk examines the role that Dream of the Red Chamber played in the life and work of Wu Mi 吳宓 (1894-1978), a pioneer in the study of Comparative Literature in China and a cultural conservative known for his staunch resistance to the prevailing New Culture Movement. Long condemned to infamy and […]
Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Hanming Fang – Population Aging, Pension System, and Retirement Income Security in China
Speaker: Hanming Fang, Joseph M. Cohen Term Professor of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania. Professor Fang, is an applied microeconomist with broad theoretical and empirical interests focusing on public economics, including topics such as discrimination, social insurance, and welfare reform, health insurance markets, and population aging. In 2008, Professor Fang was awarded the 17th […]
Taiwan Studies Workshop Featuring Lev Nachman – Why is Unification So Unpopular in Taiwan? It’s the PRC Political System, Not Just Culture
Presented via ZoomTopics: Speaker: Lev Nachman, Hou Family Fellow in Taiwan Studies, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard UniversityLev Nachman received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Irvine. His dissertation Movement Parties in Contested States: Taiwan’s Post- Sunflower Movement Parties focuses on contested states, examining why some flourish while others decline.Also Streaming on YouTube Transcript: Download […]
The Legacy of Koxinga in South East Asia: Chia Joo-ming and Nanyang Narrative
Presented via ZoomSpeakers:Chia Joo-ming, Writer, Sinagpore Ko Chia-cian, National Taiwan University Liu Hsiu-mei, National Dong-hwa University Organizer: David Der-wei Wang, Harvard University Venue
2022 Harvard Law School China Law Symposium: Charting a New Course through Uncertainties
Presented via ZoomTopics: The Harvard Law School China Law Association (CLA) will host its annual China Law Symposium, “Charting a New Course through Uncertainties,” from Monday, March 28th to Thursday, March 31st. The Symposium brings together prominent legal scholars and practitioners to shed light on major developments in US-China relations. Attendees will have the opportunity to hear […]
Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Iza Ding – The Performative State: Public Scrutiny and Environmental Governance in China
Speaker: Iza (Yue) Ding, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Pittsburgh Moderator: Michael Szonyi, Frank Wen-Hsiung Wu Memorial Professor of Chinese History and Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University What does the state do when public expectations exceed its governing capacity? The Performative State shows how the state can shape public perceptions […]