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  • Farewell to Grand Narratives: The Cultural Psychology of China’s Younger Generation (告别宏大叙事：当代中国年轻一代的文化心理)

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

    Speaker: Xu Jilin (许纪霖), Professor of History, East China Normal UniversityCo-Chair: Yedong Sh-Chen, Visiting Assistant Teaching Professor in Chinese, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Wellesley College***This talk will be in Chinese*** Venue

  • 近代中国革命的思想起源： 晚清一代革命者的志士精神 (The Ideological Origins of Modern Chinese Revolution: The Noble Spirit of the late Qing Revolutionaries)

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

    Speaker: Xu Jilin, Professor, Department of History, East China Normal UniversityChair/Discussant: Elizabeth J. Perry, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government, Harvard University This talk will be conducted in Chinese. 清末世纪之交，在读书人中间，分化出一批激进的革命者。这些边缘知识人抛弃了儒家的意识形态，思想深处的虚无主义、破坏主义，与无政府主义的激进乌托邦与反满的族群意识结合，再加上唯意志论的催化，形成了视死如归的志士精神。20世纪中国的思想源头，大半渊源于晚清这一代革命者的志士精神。 华东师范大学特聘教授、历史系博士生导师、中国现代思想文化研究所副所长，兼任中国史学会理事、香港《二十一世纪》杂志编委，主要从事二十世纪中国思想史与知识分子的研究以及当代中国文化研究。主要著作有：《中国知识分子十论》（复旦大学出版社，2003）、《启蒙如何起死回生》（北京大学出版社，2011）、《当代中国的启蒙与反启蒙》（社会科学文献出版社，2011）、《家国天下：现代中国的个人、国家与世界认同》（上海人民出版社，2017）、《安身立命：大时代中的知识人》（上海人民出版社，2019）、《脉动中国：许纪霖的50堂传统文化课》（上海三联书店，2021）、《一个民族的精神史》（香港三联书店，2019）、《中国时刻？从富强到文明崛起的历史逻辑》（香港城市大学出版社2019）、《左冲右突：现代政治激流中的中国知识分子》（香港城市大学出版社2021）、Rethinking China’s Rise: A Liberal Critique (Cambridge University Press, 2018)、《普遍的価値を求める: 中国現代思想の新潮流 (叢書・ウニベルシタス 1121， 日本法政大学出版局2020) 。2004年被广东《南方人物周刊》评为50位中国公共知识分子之一，2025年被广东《南风窗》杂志评为年度学者。《中国知识分子十论》一书2005年获得首届中国国家图书馆文津图书奖，《中国时刻？》一书被香港《亚洲周刊》评为2019年中文十大好书之首。 Venue

  • Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Andrew Erickson — Are Rampant Removals of Admirals and Generals Harming or Helping China’s Naval & Military Advancement?

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

    Speaker: Andrew S. Erickson, Visiting Scholar, Harvard University Asia Center; Professor, Founding Member, and Former Research Director, China Maritime Studies Institute, US Naval War College Are rampant removals of top officials from China’s Navy and other services, as well as the defense industry supporting them, decapitating its military advancement? Or do the benefits somehow exceed the

  • Beyond Tariffs and Subsidies: Toward a New Framework for U.S. Industrial Policy

    WCC 3016, Wasserstein Hall 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    Speaker: Y.S. Lee, West Virginia University College of Law The United States has returned to tariffs and subsidies with renewed force, seeking to rebuild domestic manufacturing, promote strategic industries, and counter geopolitical rivals such as China. This resurgence of industrial policy marks a sharp departure from the rule-based international trade order under the General Agreement

  • China Economy Lecture featuring Jazmin Sierra — Going Out to Catch Up: China and the Globalization of State-Led Development

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

    Speaker: Jazmin Sierra, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Kellogg Institute Faculty Fellow, University of Notre DameChina’s rise is often told as a story of opening to foreign capital and becoming the workshop of the world. But opening up also set in motion a less familiar transformation: China began to globalize state-led development itself. Rather than confining

  • Modern China Lecture Series featuring Xu Guoqi — What do we mean by “China?”

    CGIS South Room S354 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Xu Guoqi, David H. Y. Chang Professor of Chinese History; Founding Director, Institute of Transnational History of China, University of Hong Kong Professor Xu Guoqi was born in China and taught both in Asia and the USA before joining the University of Hong Kong’s History Department. He writes and has published widely in both

  • China Humanities Seminar featuring Huan Jin — Modularity and Vernacular Knowledge: The Career of “Tao” 套, 11th–17th Centuries

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

    Speaker: Huan Jin, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Emerging at the turn of the eleventh century out of contact with non-Han people, "tao" 套 (set/module) shows the productiveness of cross-cultural interactions. Rooted in empirical knowledge and everyday life that is not dominated by aristocrats and cultural elites, it is a category that

  • Urban China Lecture Series featuring Trang X. Ta — Scenes of Affliction and Cruel Circumstances in Urban China

    Presented via Zoom

    Speaker: Trang X. Ta, University of Maryland Baltimore County In most instances there is a lone, tragic-looking figure with head bowed before an accompanying sign making a silent public appeal. However, to stand out in the midst of urban activity, narration has increasingly included accouterments—boomboxes, microphones, printed posters, photographs, and a moving repertoire that weaves

  • Between Cinema and Experience: War-Related Dreams and the Intergenerational Transmission of Memory in China

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

    Speaker: ISHII Yumi, Associate Professor, Tohoku University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2026-27Chair/Discussant: Andrew Gordon, Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History, Harvard University https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/trans-generational-transmission-of-war-memories-in-china/ Venue

  • Emergent Visions Film Screening & Discussion — New Moon Chapter One (新月一章)

    Carpenter Center Theater 24 Quincy St, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    Filmmaker Xinyue Li in conversation with Jie Li, Ford Foundation Professor of East Asian Studies, Harvard College Professor, Director of Graduate Studies, Harvard University. This film is part of a three-part series presenting documentaries from China’s Caochangdi Workstation, a collective of documentary filmmakers and performance artists whose work explores memory, history, and everyday life through

  • Networked State Capital in China’s AI Ecosystem

    WCC 3019 Wasserstein Hall, 1585 Mass. Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    Speaker: Curtis J. Milhaupt, William F. Baxter International Professor of Law, Stanford Law School; Senior Fellow, by courtesy, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies Professor Milhaupt will discuss “Networked State Capital in China’s AI Ecosystem,” his current joint project with Liwen Lin, Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia, Allard School of Law. Self-reliance

  • Emergent Visons Film Screening & Discussion — Self-Portrait: 47 KM 2020 (自画像：47 KM 2020)

    Carpenter Center Theater 24 Quincy St, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    Filmmaker ZHANG Mengqi in conversation with Jie Li, Ford Foundation Professor of East Asian Studies, Harvard College Professor, Director of Graduate Studies, Harvard University, and Lucien Castaing-Taylor, John Cowles Professor of Art and Anthropology, Director of the Sensory Ethnography Lab, Harvard University. This film is part of a three-part series presenting documentaries from China’s Caochangdi