Film Screening: Wang Bing’s Youth Trilogy – Youth (Homecoming) Qingchun: Gui
Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center 24 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesMore than two decades after making his monumental West of the Tracks (2002), documentary auteur Wang Bing (b. 1967) has released a new cinematic fresco of Chinese workers. Whereas his […]
Chen Chunxiao — Settlements and Activities of Chinese Immigrants in West Asia during the Mongol Era
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Chen Chunxiao, Associate Professor, Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2024-25 Chair/Discussant: Mark Elliott , Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner […]
Urban China Lecture Series Featuring Qiao Shitong — Neighborhood Democratization in Urban China
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Qiao Shitong, Professor of Law and Ken Young-Gak Yun and Jinah Park Yun Research Scholar, Duke University Based on six-year fieldwork across China including over 200 in-depth interviews, this book […]
Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Chenggang XU — How Will China’s Institutional Problems Cripple its Economy?
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Chenggang XU, Senior Research Scholar, Stanford Center on China's Economic and Institutions; Visiting Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University; Visiting Professor, Department of Finance, Imperial College London Discussant: Robert Ross, […]
Lin Chen — Contested Sociocultural Spaces of Aging in Rural China: From Older Adults’ Lived Experiences
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Lin Chen, Associate Professor, Department of Social Work, Fudan University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2024-25 Chair/Discussant: Arthur Kleinman, Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University HYI Visiting Scholar […]
China Economy Lecture featuring Christine Wong
CGIS South Room S250 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Christine Wong, Visiting Research Professor, East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore More information coming soon. Venue
Public Matters: Intellectuals and Political Life in China: A Symposium in honor of Merle Goldman (1931-2023)
Room G-08, Larson Hall 14 Appian Way, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesPlease join us at the Fairbank Center for a day-long workshop in honor of the work of Merle Goldman, a leading figure at the center and a foremost scholar of […]
Daisy Yan Du – Chinese Animation: Multiplicities in Motion
Room S030, CGIS South 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Daisy Yan Du, Associate Professor, Division of Humanities, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Moderator: Alexander Zahlten, Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University Registration appreciated for planning purposes. Chinese Animation: […]
China Humanities Seminar featuring Tamara Chin — How to Do Things with Loanwords: Premodern Sino-Xenic Language Contact in Modern Philology, Linguistics, and Politics, 1870-1970
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Tamara Chin, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Brown University The study of ancient language contact traditionally lacked prestige in both Confucian classical studies and European philology. This changed somewhat in […]
Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Li Zhang — Anxious China: Rethinking Therapeutic Governing Before and After the Pandemic
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Li Zhang, Professor of Anthropology, University of California-Davis Discussant: Arthur Kleinman, Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology; Professor of Medical Anthropology in Social Medicine; Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard […]
Modern China Lecture featuring Joseph Ho — Developing Mission: Photography, Filmmaking, and American Missionaries in Modern China
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Joseph Ho, Associate Professor of History, Albion College, Michigan; Center Associate, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan Developing Mission is a transnational cultural history of US and […]
Urban China Lecture Series Featuring Mark Baker
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Mark Baker, University of Manchester This event series is sponsored by the MIT Sustainable Urbanization Lab, the University of British Columbia’s School of Community and Regional Planning, and the […]