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Liang Emlyn Yang – Understanding and Enhancing Climate Resilience in the Mekong Basin
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Liang Emlyn Yang, Senior Researcher/Lecturer, Department of Geography, Chair of Human Geography, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany Dr. Liang Emlyn Yang (杨亮, 字也明) is a geographer studying on
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Eugene Wang – “Bardo” before the Bardo: Is There an ancient Chinese Book of the Dead?
Barker Center, Thompson Room 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MASpeaker: Eugene Wang, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art, Harvard UniversityWhat is it like to be dead? Two Books of Dead dominate our thinking about afterlife and near-death experience.
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Asia-Pacific Practices: A Conversation with Brian Burke of Shearman & Sterling
WCC 1010, Wasserstein Hall 1585 Mass. Ave., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Brian Burke, Partner, Shearman & Sterling. Brian Burke has conducted dozens of investigations across Asia-Pacific and is experienced in FCPA/anti-corruption, economic sanctions, antitrust, shareholder litigation, anti-money laundering, and other
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Gal Gvili and Adhira Mangalagiri – Imagination and Disconnection: New Literary Studies of China-India
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeakers: Gal Gvili, McGill University; Author, Imagining India in Modern ChinaLiterary Decolonization and the Imperial Unconscious, 1895–1962Adhira Mangalagiri, Queen Mary University of London; Author, The China-India Literary Relation in the
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Scott Kennedy – Xi Jinping’s About Face: Implications for China’s Economy, Politics, and Relations With the West
Rubenstein 414AB 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Scott Kennedy, Senior Adviser and Trustee Chair in Chinese Business & Economics, Center for Strategic & International Studies. Lunch will be served for those joining us in person in
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Chinese Politics and Foreign Policy Workshop featuring Daniel Mattingly – The Party and the Gun: How the Military Shapes Elite Conflict in China
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Daniel Mattingly, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Yale University How do authoritarian leaders such as Xi Jinping consolidate political power? In this book, I examine how control over the
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Wei Wei – Family Matters: Chinese Queer Politics Around the Rise of a Family-State
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Wei Wei, Professor of Sociology, East China Normal University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2022-23 Chair/Discussant: Michael Bronski, Professor of the Practice In Media And Activism In Studies Of Women, Gender,
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China Humanities Seminar featuring Xin Wen – Curating a Museum of Stones: The “Forest of Stelae” (Beilin) and the Politics of the Past in Middle Period China
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesRead our blog post on the event: What a Museum of Tang Stones Says About How China Views its Past Speaker: Xin Wen, Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies and
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Urban China Series featuring Eli Friedman – The Urbanization of People: The Politics of Development, Labor Markets, and Schooling in the Chinese City
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Eli Friedman, Cornell University Beginning in 2014 China’s central government began pushing for more people to move to cities, as they believe that increased urbanization will be necessary in
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Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Margaret Pearson – China’s Overseas Economic Push: Influence or Backlash
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesRead our blog post on the event: Why the Narrative on China’s Rising Overseas Economic Influence Might be Inaccurate Speaker: Margaret Pearson, Dr. Horace E. and Wilma V. Harrison Distinguished
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Film Screening: Hidden Letters, featuring discussion with Director Violet Feng
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesViolet Du Feng, Director and Producer A fascinating new documentary, Hidden Letters, introduces NuShu 女书, a secret women’s script developed 400 years ago in China’s Hunan Province to help peasants deal with
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26th Annual Harvard East Asia Society Conference – Mirrors: Contemplating Asia
CGIS South CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesThe 26th Annual Harvard East Asia Society Conference is coming up this week! The HEAS conference will take place in-person at Harvard's CGIS South building on the 17th and 18th (Friday and
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