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  • Digital China Series – Long Live the Digital Scholarship Project!

    https://youtu.be/LAi1v3xUTNk https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/long-live-the-digital-scholarship-project Read the transcript for the event here. Presenters: Peter Bol, Harvard University, China Biographical Database Grace Fong, McGill University, Ming-Qing Women’s Writings Andrew Gordon, Harvard University, Japan Disasters Digital Archive Project Helen Hardacre, Harvard University, Constitutional Revision Research Project It is difficult to start a digital scholarship project. Maintaining it for decades is […]

  • Ann Heirman – Protecting Insects in Medieval Chinese Buddhism: Daoxuan’s Vinaya Commentaries

    Speaker: Ann Heirman, Ghent University Buddhist texts generally prohibit the killing of all sentient beings. This is certainly the case in vinaya (disciplinary) texts, which contain strict guidelines on the preservation of all human and animal life. When these vinaya texts were translated into Chinese, they formed the core of Buddhist behavioural codes, influencing both monastic […]

  • Jinying Li – Walled Media, Mediating Walls

    Speaker: Jinying Li, Brown University As the global digital network promises boundless access to limitless information, we are facing increasing layers of mounting walls in digital media: the Great Firewall (GFW), the Facebook Walls, the virtual walls in virtual realities…. The existence of the walls shatters the myth of an infinitely open, borderless digital space, […]

  • Critical Issues Confronting China Series Featuring Jorge Heine – China and the Global South: From Debt Diplomacy to Dependency?

    https://youtu.be/pQ-2N-J47wE https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/china-and-the-global-south-from-debt-diplomacy-to-dependency-with-jorge-heine Read the transcript of the event here. Speaker: Jorge Heine, Research Professor, Boston University; Former Ambassador of Chile to China (2014-2017), to India (2003-2007) and to South Africa ( 994-1999), and Cabinet Minister in the Chilean Government Part of the Critical Issues Confronting China Series Presented via Zoom Webinar

  • Nicolas Tackett – The Mechanics of Cultural Change in China in a Period of Disunity

    Speaker: Nicolas Tackett, University of California Berkeley Situated at the epicenter of the “Tang-Song Transition,” the tenth-century interregnum between the Tang and Song dynasties was a period of rapid change. This talk will focus on the dramatic evolution of Chinese political culture, as reflected in new political ideals, new ideas of Chinese space, and a […]

  • Critical Issues Confronting China Series Featuring Rosemary Foot – China, the UN, and Human Protection: Beliefs, Power, Image

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUGul3_tUiw https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/china-the-un-and-human-protection-with-rosemary-foot Read the transcript of the event here. Speaker: Rosemary Foot, Senior Research Fellow in International Relations at the University of Oxford; Emeritus Fellow of St Antony’s College; Research Associate of Oxford’s China Centre Part of the Critical Issues Confronting China Series Presented via Zoom Webinar

  • COVID and Telemedicine: Experience from China, India, and the U.S.

    Panelists: Hongqiao Fu, Assistant Professor in Health Economics and Policy in School of Public Health, Peking University Ajay Nair, CEO, Swasth Digital Health Foundation Atveev Mehrotra, Associate Professor of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School Moderator: Winnie Chi-Man Yip, Professor of Global Health Policy and Economics, Harvard School of Public Health; Director, Harvard China Health Partnership; […]

  • Modern China Lecture Series Featuring Gina Anne Tam – Dialect and the Making of Modern China: From Republican Revolutionaries to Hong Kong Protesters

    https://youtu.be/30Q6tcBlH-g https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/dialect-and-the-making-of-modern-china-with-gina-anne-tam Read the transcript for the event here. Speaker: Gina Anne Tam, Assistant Professor of History, Trinity University Taking aim at the conventional narrative that standard, national languages transform 'peasants' into citizens, this talk will trace the history of the Chinese nation and national identity on fangyan - languages like Shanghainese, Cantonese, and dozens […]

  • Critical Issues Confronting China Series Featuring Suisheng Zhao – China Re-examines Global Governance

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GITQiqguWIo https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/china-re-examines-global-governance-with-suisheng-sam-zhao Read the transcript of the event here. Speaker: Suisheng (Sam) Zhao, Professor and Executive Director of the Center for China-US Cooperation at Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver Part of the Critical Issues Confronting China Series Presented via Zoom Webinar

  • 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 this meeting: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0pdO-grz4pG9ch-VhtIx9tM_Bncj7GvyLt After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

  • 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 of Tajikistan Moderator: Nargis Kassenova, Senior Fellow, Program on Central Asia, Davis Center Around 5,000-10,000 individuals from post-Soviet Eurasia traveled to Syria and Iraq to join […]

  • 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 can seem discouragingly heterogenous. My guide is intended to overcome that, seeking to facilitate productive (and even potentially transformative) encounters with the text. It is […]