Free Thinkers: Islamic Reform and Ahmadi Thought in China During the Republican Period
Speaker: Dr. Z. Hale Eroglu Sager, IAAS '16 - Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
Picturing the World: Asian Maps After Mercator
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Professor Timothy Brook, University of British Columbia; author of Mr. Selden’s Map of China Chair: Andrew Gordon, Acting Director, Harvard Asia Center; Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor, Harvard University Reception to follow in the Asian Centers’ Lounge, 1st Floor, CGIS South Asia Center Seminar Series
Hidden Air: Urbanization, the Built Environment, and Indoor Air Quality in China
Pierce Hall 100F 29 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Gary Adamkiewicz, Assistant Professor of Environmental Health and Exposure Disparities, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health China’s recent economic growth and rate of urbanization are unprecedented […]
The People’s Liberation Army: Perspectives from the United States and Japan
Speaker: Gen. Yoshikazu Watanabe, Asia Center Fellow; Researcher, Fujitsu System Integration Laboratories, LTD.; Eastern Army Commanding General (Ret.), Japan Ground Self Defense Force Chair: Dr. Andrew S. Erickson, Professor of […]
Ma Ying-jeou: From Harvard Law School to the Presidential Office
Harvard Law School, Austin North (Room 100) 1515 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, United StatesSpeaker: Ma Ying-jeou, S.J.D.‘81, Former President of the Republic of China (Taiwan) Co-sponsored by the East Asian Legal Studies program at the Harvard Law School.
Lawyer Activism in Authoritarian Contexts: The Case of China
Room 102, Pound Hall 1563 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Sida Liu, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Toronto; Faculty Fellow, American Bar Foundation
Doubts about the Chinese current of “doubting antiquity” and its critics
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Rudolf G. Wagner Fairbank Center Associate at Harvard University, and Cluster Asia and Europe Associate at Heidelberg University, Germany. This is a study of the background, impact, and cost of the “doubting antiquity,” or yigu, current associated with the Gushi bian collection that followed a strong political agenda of undoing the authority of the orthodox view […]
The Poetics of Communication: Social and Cultural Functions of the Traditional Song Fair of the Bai Ethnic People in Southwest China
Speaker: Zhu Gang (Associate Research Fellow, Institute of Ethnic Literature, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; HYI Visiting Scholar) Chair/Discussant: Gregory Nagy (Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature and Professor of […]
The Elastic Ceiling: Gender and Professional Career in Chinese Courts
Morgan Courtroom, Austin Hall 1515 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Sida Liu, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Toronto; Faculty Fellow, American Bar Foundation
Critical Issues Confronting China Series: China Reshapes the Balance of Power: Seeking Peace and Security
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Professor Robert Ross, Professor of Political Science at Boston College; Associate, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Harvard University Asia Center
China Humanities Seminar: Perceptions of China’s Sexual Economy
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Harriet Zurndorfer Abstract: This lecture focuses on men and women engaged in China’s sexual economy, which is dominated by the exchange between wealthy and politically influential men and unmarried […]
Modern China Lecture Series: The Significance of the Frontier in Twentieth Century Chinese History
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Shellen Wu, University of Tennessee, Knoxville The 1890s set off an unprecedented rush for the last remaining unclaimed lands around the world. Developments in the preceding century saw the social sciences and disciplines like geography and agronomy connecting Europe, the Americas, and Asia. The educated elite from around the world increasingly spoke a common […]