Events
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CBDB Annual Conference 2026: Research in Chinese Studies in the Age of AI
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesProgram Panel 1 (1:55–2:55 PM): Between Print Culture, Literature, and Politics Panel 2 (3:05–4:05 PM): From a Local Perspective Panel 3 (4:15–5:00 PM): Another Look at Historiography Venue
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Pop-Up Exhibition — Resonant Interval: Beyond Seven Strings and Tablature
Sackler Building, Lower Level 485 Broadway, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesThe history of the guqin, the Chinese zither, reflects how a civilization sustains itself amid change. Its tablature preserves fingering while leaving rhythm and expressive proportion to the performer. Each
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China Humanities Seminar featuring Huan Jin — Modularity and Vernacular Knowledge: The Career of “Tao” 套, 11th–17th Centuries
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Huan Jin, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Emerging at the turn of the eleventh century out of contact with non-Han people, "tao" 套 (set/module) shows the
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Urban China Lecture Series featuring Trang X. Ta — Scenes of Affliction and Cruel Circumstances in Urban China
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Trang X. Ta, University of Maryland Baltimore County In most instances there is a lone, tragic-looking figure with head bowed before an accompanying sign making a silent public appeal.
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Between Cinema and Experience: War-Related Dreams and the Intergenerational Transmission of Memory in China
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: ISHII Yumi, Associate Professor, Tohoku University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2026-27Chair/Discussant: Andrew Gordon, Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History, Harvard University https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/trans-generational-transmission-of-war-memories-in-china/ Venue
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Emergent Visions Film Screening & Discussion — New Moon Chapter One (新月一章)
Carpenter Center Theater 24 Quincy St, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesFilmmaker Xinyue Li in conversation with Jie Li, Ford Foundation Professor of East Asian Studies, Harvard College Professor, Director of Graduate Studies, Harvard University. This film is part of a
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Networked State Capital in China’s AI Ecosystem
WCC 3019 Wasserstein Hall, 1585 Mass. Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Curtis J. Milhaupt, William F. Baxter International Professor of Law, Stanford Law School; Senior Fellow, by courtesy, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies Professor Milhaupt will discuss “Networked State
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Emergent Visons Film Screening & Discussion — Self-Portrait: 47 KM 2020 (自画像：47 KM 2020)
Carpenter Center Theater 24 Quincy St, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesFilmmaker ZHANG Mengqi in conversation with Jie Li, Ford Foundation Professor of East Asian Studies, Harvard College Professor, Director of Graduate Studies, Harvard University, and Lucien Castaing-Taylor, John Cowles Professor
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Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Jean Oi — China’s New Venture Capitalists? The Transformation of Local Government Financing Vehicles
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Jean Oi, William Haas Professor of Chinese Politics, Department of Political Science; Senior Fellow, The Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford UniversityIn the wake of COVID-19 and the
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Structuring Chinese History: Diwang Tu 帝王圖, Nianbiao 年表, “Chinese Dynasties” Charts, and Paradigmatic Crisis in Chinese Historiography
CGIS South, Room S050 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: James Millward, Georgetown UniversityPeriodization by “Chinese dynasties” is a structural foundation of the historiography of continental eastern Eurasia, but even those passingly familiar with the field know the idea
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Emergent Visons Film Screening — Zhuang Wei’s Witness: Return of the Survivor (庄炜的见证：幸存者归来)
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesFollowed by a Q+A with filmmaker ZHUANG Wei. This film is part of a three-part series presenting documentaries from China’s Caochangdi Workstation, a collective of documentary filmmakers and performance artists
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Painting into Being: Underground Art during China’s Cultural Revolution
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Aihe Wang, Former Wuming Artist; Honorary Associate Professor at the School of Chinese, The University of Hong Kong Moderator: Michael Puett, Victor and William Fung Foundation Director, Harvard University Asia