Chinese Language Resources
The Harvard-Yenching Library is offering online bibliographic orientation sessions via Zoom to introduce you to the most important resources in Chinese, Japanese and Korean language resources. Register in advance for […]
Repatriation and Reintegration of ISIS Affiliates in Central Asia
Speakers: Vera Mironova, Writer; Center Associate, Davis Center Farukh Chariyev, Project Component Manager, NGO “Barqaror Hayot” Rustam Azizi, Deputy Director, Center for Islamic Studies under the President of the Republic […]
Sonam Kachru – The Questions of Milinda: How To Use a Philosophical Classic and (perhaps) find a Literary Gem.
Speaker: Sonam Kachru, University of Virginia My goal is practical—How shall an intelligent reader make use of the remarkable though forbidding work, The Questions of Milinda (Milindapañha)? The Pāli work […]
Bruce Rusk – Information and Its Objects: Provenancing the Censers of the Xuande Court
Speaker: Bruce Rusk, University of British Columbia This presentation examines the textual existence of material objects in early modern China, arguing that a new concept of the archive refigured the […]
Deng Yanhua – Value Clashes, Power Competition and Community Trust: Why an NGO’s Earthquake Recovery Program Faltered in Rural China
Speaker: Deng Yanhua, Professor, School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Nanjing University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2020-21 Chair/discussant: Anthony Saich, Daewoo Professor of International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School NGOs in rural China cannot […]
Critical Issues Confronting China Series Featuring Wang Gungwu – How Political Heritage and Future Progress Shape the China Challenge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMcGx_Wr7rU https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/how-political-heritage-and-future-progress-shape-the-china-challenge-with-wang-gungwu Read the transcript of the event here. Speaker: Wang Gungwu, University Professor, National University of Singapore Wang Gungwu is University Professor, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National […]
Lyle Goldstein and Vitaly Kozyrev — From a ‘Marriage of Convenience’ to the ‘Axis of Authoritarianism’: Evaluating the Russia-China Relationship in the 21st Century
Speakers: Lyle Goldstein, Research Professor, China Maritime Studies Institute (CMSI), Naval War College Vitaly Kozyrev, Professor, Political Science and International Studies, Endicott College Watch live on YouTube. Examining contemporary Russia-China […]
Environment in Asia Lecture Series Featuring David Fedman and Ian M. Miller – East Asian Forestry and Empires
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucMs2rz71b8&t=2s https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/east-asian-forestry-and-empires-with-david-fedman-and-ian-m-miller-moderated-by-ling-zhang Read the transcript of the event here. Speakers: David Fedman, Assistant Professor of History,University of California, Irvine Ian M. Miller, Assistant Professor of History, St. John's University Moderator: […]
Left-Wing South
Co-hosts: David Der-wei Wang, Harvard University Letty Chen, Washington University in St. Louis Special Guests: Wang Anyi, Fudan University Ng Kim Chew, National Chi Nan University Presenters: Tu Hang, Harvard […]
Modern China Lecture Series Featuring Fei-Hsien Wang – Everybody Loves Qianlong: Vernacular Fantasies, Cultural Consumption, and the “Prosperous Age” in Post-Imperial China
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALs0xHS1uIg https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/everybody-loves-qianlong-with-fei-hsien-wang Read the transcript of the event here. Speaker: Fei-Hsien Wang, Associate Professor, Department of History, Indiana University Bloomington Examining a wide range of cultural products and genres from […]
Arnika Fuhrmann – In the Mood for Texture: Bangkok as a Chinese City
Speaker: Arnika Fuhrmann, Associate Professor, Department of Asian Studies, Cornell University. What does it mean to imagine “Asia” beyond the reductive visions of contemporary policy? This project explores the contemporary […]
Daniel S. Markey and Andrew Small — China’s Western Horizon: Beijing and the New Geopolitics of Eurasia
Speakers: Daniel S. Markey, Senior Research Professor, International Relations, School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), John Hopkins University Andrew Small, Senior Transatlantic Fellow, Asia Program, The German Marshall Fund of the United […]