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  • China Economy Lecture featuring Stephen Kaplan – Globalizing Patient Capital: The Political Economy of Chinese Finance in the Americas

    Speaker: Stephen Kaplan, Associate Professor of Political Science and Economic Affairs, George Washington UniversityDiscussant: Laura Alfaro, Warren Alpert Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School This book explores how China’s state-led capitalism affects national level governance. China, as the world’s largest saver, has more than doubled its overseas banking presence since the 2008 global financial

  • Environment in Asia Series – Greening East Asia: The Rise of the Eco-Developmental State

    Speakers:Ashley Esarey, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of AlbertaJoanna Lewis, Distinguished Associate Professor of Energy and Environment and Director of the Science, Technology and International Affairs Program (STIA),Georgetown UniversityMary Alice Haddad, John E. Andrus Professor of Government, Chair and Professor of East Asian Studies, and Professor of Environmental Studies, Wesleyan UniversityStevan Harrell, Professor

  • Wang Junyang – The State’s Handling of Petitioners through the Judiciary since the Abolition of Re-education through labor system in China

    Speaker: Wang Junyang, Associate Professor, School of Political Science and Public Administration, Shandong University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2021-22 Chair/discussant: Yuhua Wang, Frederick S. Danziger Associate Professor of Government, Harvard University Harvard-Yenching Institute Visiting Scholar talk Presented via Zoom Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUrdumuqzsoG9XHE9HvJVHOv09wnZ3-zQ6d

  • Association for Asian Studies New England Regional Conference

    The 2021 Association of Asian Studies New England Regional Conference is hosted by Harvard University's Asia-related centers, including: Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University Asia Center, Harvard-Yenching Institute, Korea Institute, Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, and Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies Presented via

  • Uyghur Culture Fest and Call to Action

    Barker Center, Thompson Room 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA

    The Harvard Human Rights Working Group is hosting a Uyghur culture fest and call to action together with members of Boston’s Uyghur community on Monday, December 6 from 6:00-7:15 pm, featuring Uyghur music, food, and art. This event will include opportunities to learn Uyghur calligraphy and dance, to hear a reading from a Uyghur poet,

  • Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Cheng Li – Forecasting Personnel Changes at the 20th Party Congress

    Speaker: Cheng Li, Director, John L. Thornton China Center, Brookings InstitutionModerator/Discussant: Elizabeth J. Perry, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government and Director of the Harvard-Yenching Institute, Harvard University Cheng Li is the director of the John L. Thornton China Center and a senior fellow in the Foreign Policy program at Brookings. He is also a director

  • Mengmeng Yang – The Syntax of “NP zhi (之) VP” in Old Chinese

    Speaker: Mengmeng Yang, Associate Research Professor, Institute of Linguistics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2021-22 Chair/discussant: C.-T. James Huang, Professor of Linguistics, Harvard University This talk focuses on the syntax of the “NP zhi VP” (主之谓) structure (eg. 皮之不存,毛将安附?), which is one of the most typical and frequently used structures in Old Chinese.

  • Art Study Center Seminar at Home, with Hong Chun Zhang

    Speakers: Hong Chun Zhang, Artist Jerrica Li, Harvard College Class of ’22, founder, The Wave magazine, Harvard University Sarah Laursen, Alan J. Dworsky Associate Curator of Chinese Art, Division of Asian and Mediterranean Art, Harvard Art Museums In her work, Kansas-based Chinese artist Hong Chun Zhang reimagines the world around her as enveloped in hair.

  • Japan, the U.S., and Economic and Security Policy Linkages in the Taiwan Strait

    Panelists: Tain Jy Chen, Professor of Economics, Taipei School of Economics and Political Science; Professor Emeritus, National Taiwan UniversitySadamasa Oue, Senior Fellow, Asia Pacific Initiative; Lt. Gen. (retired), Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF)Shelley Rigger, Brown Professor of Political Science, Davidson CollegeDaniel Russel, Vice President, International Security and Diplomacy, Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI)Moderator: Christina L. Davis, Director,

  • Yang Lichao – Children’s Dimensions of Poverty: Qualitative Studies in Urban China

    Speaker: Yang Lichao. Associate Professor, Chinese Academy of Social Management/School of Sociology, Beijing Normal University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2021-22 Chair/discussant: Nicole Newendorp, Lecturer on Social Studies, Harvard University Poverty is multidimensional but with disagreement as to the most important dimensions. This is especially true of child poverty partly because children are seldom asked systematically to describe

  • Harvard Film Archive Film Screening – Tabooed Initiation: Two Early Films by Mou Tun-Fei

    I Didn't Dare Tell You / Bugan gen ni jiang, 78 minutes, Taiwan, 1969. Mandarin with English subtitles. The End of the Track / Pao Dao Zhongdian, 90 minutes, Taiwan, 1970. Mandarin with English subtitles. Recently discovered by the Taiwan Film & Audiovisual Institute, I Didn’t Dare Tell You and The End of the Track debuted at the