Nicholas Burns – U.S. Foreign Policy, Trump, and China
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesAs President Trump returns from his first visit to China as Commander-in-Chief, how is U.S. foreign policy reacting to a new administration in Washington and a new rising power in Beijing? Join Ambassador and Harvard Kennedy School Professor Nicholas Burns in conversation with Jeeyang Rhee Baum, Ezra Vogel, and Odd Arne Westad, moderated by Michael […]
Mediating Religion: Text and Object in Chinese Religion
CGIS South Room S354 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United States9:30 AM Workshop Opens 9:45-10:45 Playing with Corpses: Assembling Bodies for the Dead in Southwest China Speaker: Erik Mueggler, University of Michigan This paper describes the ritualization of death in a “minority” community in Yunnan Province, China, called Júzò in the local Tibeto-Burman language. Here, people are heir to an extraordinary range of resources […]
Yasheng Huang – China’s Venture Capital Industry: Examining Its Role in Funding Start-ups
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Yasheng Huang, International Program Professor in Chinese Economy and Business and Professor of Global Economics and Management, MIT Sloan School of Management
Kevin O’Brien – China’s Disaffected Insiders
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesEvent Summary Speaker: Professor Kevin O’Brien, Walter and Elise Haas Professor of Asian Studies; Alann P. Bedford Professor of Asian Studies; Professor of Political Science; Director, Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Paul W. Kroll – Personal Moments in Medieval Chinese Poetry
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Paul W. Kroll, University of Colorado Medieval Chinese poetry, like most self-consciously traditional literature, embraces learning, presumption, and intertextuality with ardor. Scholarship delights to roam in these fields which provide rich fare for the mind. But those moments that suddenly engage the heart (a somewhat neglected organ in the postmodern era) affect us at […]
Liao Yang – When Buddha *Tejaprabha Came to Yunnan: Regional Characteristics and His Place in the Local Pantheon
Speaker: Liao Yang (Professor, Institute of Ethnology & Anthropology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Visiting Scholar, Harvard-Yenching Institute) Chair/discussant: Eugene Wang (Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art, Department of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University) Harvard-Yenching Institute lunch talk https://harvard-yenching.org/events/when-buddha-tejaprabha-came-yunnan-regional-characteristics-and-his-place-local-pantheon
A roundtable discussion on “Encountering China: Michael Sandel and Chinese Philosophy”
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesParticipants: Michael Sandel (Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government, Harvard University) Joseph C.W. Chan (Professor, Department of Politics and Public Administration, University of Hong Kong) Chaibong Hahm (President, The Asan Institute for Policy Studies, Korea) Tatsuo Inoue (Professor, Graduate Schools for Law and Politics, University of Tokyo, Japan) Hongmei Qu (Professor, Department of Philosophy, Jilin University, China) Chaired by Elizabeth Perry […]
Colin P.C. Jones – Searching for a Social Order: The Sociology and Afterlives of Law in Japanese-Occupied China
Speaker: Colin P.C. Jones, Reischauer Institute Postdoctoral Fellow (Ph.D. Japanese History, Columbia 2017) Moderator: Andrew Gordon, Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History, Harvard University This talk connects the legal history of the Japanese empire to the broader history of legal and social thought in the twentieth century. It examines the design, execution, and […]
Fu Gang 傅剛 – A Study of the Western Han Bamboo Slip Text, “Fan yin,” in the Collection of Peking University 北京大學藏西漢竹簡《反淫》的整理與研究
Speaker: Fu Gang, 傅剛, Peking University Moderator: Xiaofei Tian, EALC, Harvard University The talk will be given in Chinese.
Deborah Davis – China’s Changing Families
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesRead event summary here Speaker: Dr. Deborah Davis, Yale University Deborah S. Davis' primary teaching interests are inequality and stratification, contemporary Chinese society, and methods of fieldwork. In addition to teaching at Yale, she runs a summer fieldwork seminar where Yale students work collaboratively with students from Hong Kong and China. Davis is currently a Trustee […]
Jennifer Rudolph and Michael Szonyi – The Coop Event Series/ “The China Questions” Book Launch
Harvard Coop 1400 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA, United StatesJoin the editors and contributors to The China Questions for a book launch at the Harvard Coop's Event Series. Many books offer information about China, but few make sense of what is […]
Xu Lanjun – Leftist Print Culture and New Notions of “Chineseness”: Hu Yuzhi, Shanghai Book Co., and Overseas Chinese Youth in Cold War Southeast Asia
Speaker: Xu Lanjun (Associate Professor of Chinese Studies, the National University of Singapore; Visiting Scholar, Harvard-Yenching Institute Chair/discussant: David Wang (Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature, Department of East […]