Honghong Tinn – Manufacturing Electronics in Taiwan, 1966-1975: Emulation, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship
Speaker: Honghong Tinn, University of Minnesota Check back soon for more information! Presented via Zoom Registration Required Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUoceChqTgvGNY7dLnS5_mIdbCPifM4qpy1 Part of the Science and Technology in Asia Seminar Series
Modern China Lecture Series Featuring Joan Judge – China’s Mundane Revolution: Vernacularizing Science and Scientizing the Vernacular in the Long Republic, 1894-1955
Speaker: Joan Judge, Professor, Department of History, York University What can we learn from intellectual detritus? Focusing on cheap print, vernacular daily-use knowledge, and common readers in the Long Republic (1895-1955), this talk argues that the books an age discards as slipshod and unscientific, and the readers it disparages as superstitious and ignorant, comprise the […]
Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Xuefei Ren – Governing the Urban in China and India
Speaker: Xuefei Ren, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Michigan State University Xuefei Ren is a comparative urbanist whose work focuses on urban development, governance, architecture, and the built environment in global perspective.She is the author of three award-winning books: Governing the Urban in China and India: Land Grabs, Slum Clearance, and the War on Air Pollution (Princeton University […]
China Economy Lecture featuring Stephen Kaplan – Globalizing Patient Capital: The Political Economy of Chinese Finance in the Americas
Speaker: Stephen Kaplan, Associate Professor of Political Science and Economic Affairs, George Washington UniversityDiscussant: Laura Alfaro, Warren Alpert Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School This book explores how China’s state-led capitalism affects national level governance. China, as the world’s largest saver, has more than doubled its overseas banking presence since the 2008 global financial […]
Environment in Asia Series – Greening East Asia: The Rise of the Eco-Developmental State
Speakers:Ashley Esarey, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of AlbertaJoanna Lewis, Distinguished Associate Professor of Energy and Environment and Director of the Science, Technology and International Affairs Program (STIA),Georgetown UniversityMary Alice Haddad, John E. Andrus Professor of Government, Chair and Professor of East Asian Studies, and Professor of Environmental Studies, Wesleyan UniversityStevan Harrell, Professor […]
Wang Junyang – The State’s Handling of Petitioners through the Judiciary since the Abolition of Re-education through labor system in China
Speaker: Wang Junyang, Associate Professor, School of Political Science and Public Administration, Shandong University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2021-22 Chair/discussant: Yuhua Wang, Frederick S. Danziger Associate Professor of Government, Harvard University Harvard-Yenching Institute Visiting Scholar talk Presented via Zoom Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUrdumuqzsoG9XHE9HvJVHOv09wnZ3-zQ6d
Association for Asian Studies New England Regional Conference
The 2021 Association of Asian Studies New England Regional Conference is hosted by Harvard University's Asia-related centers, including: Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University Asia Center, Harvard-Yenching Institute, Korea Institute, Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, and Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies Presented via […]
Uyghur Culture Fest and Call to Action
Barker Center, Thompson Room 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MAThe Harvard Human Rights Working Group is hosting a Uyghur culture fest and call to action together with members of Boston’s Uyghur community on Monday, December 6 from 6:00-7:15 pm, featuring Uyghur music, food, and art. This event will include opportunities to learn Uyghur calligraphy and dance, to hear a reading from a Uyghur poet, […]
Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Cheng Li – Forecasting Personnel Changes at the 20th Party Congress
Speaker: Cheng Li, Director, John L. Thornton China Center, Brookings InstitutionModerator/Discussant: Elizabeth J. Perry, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government and Director of the Harvard-Yenching Institute, Harvard University Cheng Li is the director of the John L. Thornton China Center and a senior fellow in the Foreign Policy program at Brookings. He is also a director […]
Mengmeng Yang – The Syntax of “NP zhi (之) VP” in Old Chinese
Speaker: Mengmeng Yang, Associate Research Professor, Institute of Linguistics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2021-22 Chair/discussant: C.-T. James Huang, Professor of Linguistics, Harvard University This talk focuses on the syntax of the “NP zhi VP” (主之谓) structure (eg. 皮之不存,毛将安附?), which is one of the most typical and frequently used structures in Old Chinese. […]
Art Study Center Seminar at Home, with Hong Chun Zhang
Speakers: Hong Chun Zhang, Artist Jerrica Li, Harvard College Class of ’22, founder, The Wave magazine, Harvard University Sarah Laursen, Alan J. Dworsky Associate Curator of Chinese Art, Division of Asian and Mediterranean Art, Harvard Art Museums In her work, Kansas-based Chinese artist Hong Chun Zhang reimagines the world around her as enveloped in hair. […]
Japan, the U.S., and Economic and Security Policy Linkages in the Taiwan Strait
Panelists: Tain Jy Chen, Professor of Economics, Taipei School of Economics and Political Science; Professor Emeritus, National Taiwan UniversitySadamasa Oue, Senior Fellow, Asia Pacific Initiative; Lt. Gen. (retired), Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF)Shelley Rigger, Brown Professor of Political Science, Davidson CollegeDaniel Russel, Vice President, International Security and Diplomacy, Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI)Moderator: Christina L. Davis, Director, […]