Events

Michael Beeman — Walking Out: America’s New Trade Policy in the Asia-Pacific and Beyond

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

Speaker: Michael Beeman, Visiting Scholar, Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, Stanford UniversityModerator: Mark Wu, Henry L. Stimson Professor, Harvard Law School; Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Also via Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIldeyrqzsvHt1-rpjNby98mM_q0kt89fUF#/registration Venue

The Role of Long-Duration Storage in Decarbonizing China’s Power Sector

Pierce Hall Room 301 29 Oxford St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Speaker: Haiyang Jiang, Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard-China Project The increasing integration of renewable energy sources introduces significant long-term uncertainty to power systems, creating challenges for maintaining energy balance over extended periods. Traditionally, coal-fired generation has provided the flexibility needed to address these imbalances. However, as coal-fired generation is phased out, long-duration storage emerges as a promising solution […]

Du Ying – The Cinematic Cold War Between the US and the PRC: Hong Kong, 1950s–1960s

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

Speaker: Du Ying, Professor, Chinese Literature, East China Normal University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2024-25Chair/Discussant, David Wang, Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature, Harvard University This talk examines the policies and strategies of the United States and the People’s Republic of China in controlling cinematic production and access in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia during […]

Andrew Collier — The Decline of China’s Property Market and the Global Economy

Room L-163, Littauer Building 79 JFK St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Speaker: Andrew Collier, Senior Fellow, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School From 1992 until the boom ended in 2021, Chinese home property sales grew at an average rate of 25 percent per year. China was awash in new construction — often in the middle of empty fields far from city centers. In […]

Modern China Lecture featuring Tong Lam — Let the Ore Speak: Extractivism and China’s Early Cold War Mobilization

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

Speaker: Tong Lam, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Toronto From Chairman Mao’s “receiving” of an ore in Zhongnanhai to the nationwide mapping of mineral resources and the mass movement for sighting and reporting minerals, the 1950s marked the beginning of what could be described as China’s age of extractivism. The intensifying interactions between […]

Symposium: “Vision for Tomorrow: Law, Technology, and Prosperity for a Thriving Global Community,”

WCC, Harvard Law School 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Join us at the Harvard Law School China Law Association’s annual China Law Symposium, “Vision for Tomorrow: Law, Technology, and Prosperity for a Thriving Global Community,” in celebration of the Lantern Festival. This three-day event features six engaging panels with lunch/dinner provided, and concludes with a festive Lantern Festival Social.SCHEDULE OF EVENTSFEBRUARY 10, 202512:15 – 1:30 PMNavigating […]

Urban China Lecture Series Featuring Bruce Pang — China’s Property Market: Navigating the Evolving Landscape

Presented via Zoom

Speaker: Bruce Pang, Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) Greater China For the past three decades, the real estate sector has been a cornerstone of China’s economic growth, social development, and urbanization. Commercial real estate, in particular, has thrived due to vigorous domestic growth and seamless integration into the global marketplace, resulting in a mature, diverse, and thriving […]

Beijing’s Multiple Facets from the Qing to the Present (1644-2025)

Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University 121 Bay State Rd, Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Speakers:XU Yamin, Department of History, Lemoyne College Eugenio Menegon, Department of History, Boston UniversityDaigengna Duoer, Department of Religion, Boston UniversityCathy Yeh, World Languages and Literatures, Boston UniversityMA Zhao, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Washington University in St. LouisMin Ye, Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston UniversityJorge Heine, Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University Presentations followed by Q&A and conversations on the history of Beijing, […]

China Initiative: Impacts and Implications – Law, Science, and U.S.-China Relations 

WCC 2012, Wasserstein Hall 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Speakers: Patrick Toomey, National Security Project Deputy Director, ACLUGang Chen, Professor, MIT Mechanical EngineeringYasheng Huang, Professor, MIT Sloan SchoolEdgar Chen, Special Advisor, National Asian Pacific American Bar Association  The China Initiative, launched under the Trump administration, led to the wrongful prosecution of Chinese American scientists, including MIT Professor Gang Chen. With discussions of its possible revival, […]

The 28th Annual Harvard East Asia Society Conference — Flow: A Symposium

CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United States

The Harvard East Asia Society (HEAS) Graduate Student Conference is an annual event that provides an interdisciplinary forum for graduate students to exchange ideas and discuss current research on topics related to Asia. The conference invites young scholars to present their research to their peers and renowned scholars in relevant fields. Participants will also meet […]

Weixin XU — Ukraine Every Day: An Artist’s Diary of 1,090 Digital Drawings

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

Artist Weixin XU has been working on his art project “Ukraine Every Day” since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Xu has completed almost 700 works using an iPad application. The portfolio includes portraits of soldiers, political figures, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, as well as scenes of the war. These images give […]