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  • 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

  • Taiwan: The Politics of Difference

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

    Speaker: Anthony Hao Yeh, National Chengchi UniversityModerator: David Der-wei Wang, Harvard University Venue

  • Taiwan Workshop featuring Thung-Hong Lin — Stormy Seas: Taiwan’s Democratic Resilience under China’s Sharp Power

    CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Thung-Hong Lin, Research Fellow, Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. How can a small democracy resist the influence of a powerful authoritarian neighbor? Taiwan is often praised for its successful economic development and peaceful democratic transition, yet it faces substantial challenges from both internal political divisions and external geopolitical pressures. Taiwan’s political landscape is

  • Sinophone South Studies: A Dialogue

    Plimpton Room (133), Barker Center 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speakers: Chia-rong Wu, University of CanterburyKyle Shernuk, Georgetown UniversityModerator: David Der-wei Wang, Harvard University Venue

  • Taiwan Studies+ 2.0 Symposium

    Yenching Auditorium 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    As Taiwan finds itself reentering into the global conversation today, where does the field of Taiwan Studies find itself in this historical moment? From the origins of capitalism to the threat of nuclear pollution, from soundscapes in the authoritarian era to contemporary video games, from indigenous identities to Cold War activism, and from geopolitical competition

  • Revisiting the Wasteocene: Shifting Circular Economies of Human Manure in Early 20th-Century China

    Presented via Zoom

    Speaker: Gonçalo Santos, University of Coimbra Present-day climate and environmental disruptions are connected to the workings of a global capitalist order that generates ever-growing amounts of waste. Emerging scholarship on what has come to be known as the Wasteocene has highlighted how waste in the age of global capitalism is never simply about matter; it is

  • Navigating Economic Lawfare: Multinational Firms in U.S.–China Competition

    WCC 5044, Wasserstein Hall 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts

    Speakers:Mitch Presnick, Founder of Super 8 Hotels ChinaMatthew Bock Esq. LCB, Bock Trade LawJoin us for this timely and important lunch talk on how U.S.–China economic competition is reshaping the legal and business landscape for multinational firms. We are honored to welcome distinguished speakers with deep expertise in cross-border business and trade law: Mitch Presnick