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  • Fairbank Center Visiting Scholar Presentations

    CGIS South, Room S153 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    Please join us for research presentations by two Fairbank Center Visiting Scholars: Tommy Tse, Associate Professor in the Department of Media Studies, University of AmsterdamChina as data colonizer? Rethinking cultural production, cultural mediation, and consumer agency on Kenyan and Chinese e-commerce platforms Is China becoming a new “data coloniser” in the Global South? As Chinese digital

  • Harvard Asia Law Conference II

    WCC, Wasserstein Hall 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts

    Please join us for HALS 2026 Conference, which will take place at the WCC on Harvard Law School Campus April 1st & 2nd. This year, panels will feature topics like AI regulations across Asia, the future of US-China trade relations, practicing in-house at multinational companies, and more. Please click here for details on the full agenda, panel

  • China Economy Lecture featuring Panle Jia Barwick — From Free Rider to Innovator: The Rise of China’s Drug Development

    CGIS South Room S250 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    Speaker: Panle Jia Barwick, Todd E. and Elizabeth H. Warnock Distinguished Chair Professor, Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison This paper examines China’s transition from pharmaceutical “free rider” to global innovator over the last decade. In 2010, China accounted for less than 8% of global clinical trials; by 2020, it had surpassed the US in

  • China Humanities Seminar featuring Natasha Heller — What is Ecology for a Chan Monk?

    Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    Speaker: Natasha Heller, University of VirginiaThe “ecocritical turn” has reached premodern studies and Asian humanities, but both contexts present significant challenges. Although the nonhuman world and the experience of it would have been different in meaningful ways a millennium ago, can we understand “green readings” of Buddhist literature? Is it possible to recover “environmental thought”

  • Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Dongsheng Zang — China’s Great Leap Forward to AI Supremacy

    CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Dongsheng Zang, Professor of Law, University of Washington School of LawModerator: Feng Zhu, MBA Class of 1958 Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business SchoolThe talk aims to provide a framework in understanding China's industrial policy on artificial intelligence (AI) in the last decade, 2016-2026. It examines the AI policy from the perspective of state-industry

  • What Would a Rational and Effective U.S.-China Trade Policy Look Like? Is One Still Possible?

    WCC B015, Wasserstein Hall 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts

    Speaker: Katherine Tai, U.S. Trade Representative (2021-2025) Ambassador Katherine C. Tai served as the 19th United States Trade Representative. As a member of President Biden’s Cabinet, Ambassador Tai was the principal trade advisor, negotiator, and spokesperson on U.S. trade policy from March 2021 to January 2025. Prior to her unanimous Senate confirmation, Ambassador Tai spent

  • Discovering History in China: Remembering Paul Cohen

    Lower Level Conference Center Rooms 4-5, Gutman Library 6 Appian Way, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    We hope you will join us for a symposium and celebration of the late Paul Cohen, a longtime Fairbank Center Associate and the Edith Stix Wasserman Professor of History and Asian Studies Emeritus at Wellesley College. Opening Remarks: Michael Szonyi, Former Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Frank Wen-Hsiung Wu Memorial Professor of Chinese History,

  • The OpenClaw Paradox: AI Agents, Labor Anxiety, and Radical Pragmatism in China

    M-RCBG Conference Room B-102 79 JFK St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    Speaker: Lihui Zhang, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government Senior Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School In this study group, led by M-RCBG Senior Fellow Lihui Zhang, we will explore how Chinese society demonstrates a distinctive duality in its approach to emerging technologies like AI, combining both enthusiastic adoption and underlying anxiety. While American and European companies

  • Li Xiaojiang: Feminism and the Question of Affect in Contemporary China

    CGIS Knafel K450 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Shih-Diing Liu, 2024-25 Visiting Scholar; Professor of Communication and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies, University of MacauModerator: David Der-wei Wang, Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature, Harvard University Shih-Diing Liu (刘世鼎) is Professor of Communication and a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Macau. Liu’s

  • Critical Issues Confronting China series featuring Ian Johnson — Reclaiming Historical Memory and the Struggle for China’s Future

    CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Ian Johnson, Author; Founder, China Unofficial Archives Discussant: Michael Szonyi, Frank Wen-Hsiung Wu Memorial Professor of Chinese History; Former Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University Ian Johnson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author, teacher, and researcher. He has been engaged with China for the past thirty-five years, writing on the country’s search