His Excellency Cui Tiankai Speaks on U.S. – China Relations
Harvard Law School, Austin North (Room 100) 1515 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, United StatesThis Event begins at 12:15pm. Speaker: Cui Tiankai, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People's Republic of China to the United States of America. His Excellency Cui Tiankai, Ambassador of the […]
Liu Zhenya – The Art of Energy Revolution: From Ultra High Voltage Power Grids to Global Energy Interconnection
Milstein East B/C, Wasserstein Hall 1585 Mass Ave., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Liu Zhenya, Former Chairman and President of State Grid Corporation of China; Chairman of Global Energy Interconnection Development and Cooperation Organization (GEIDCO) Mr. Liu formerly served as the Chairman […]
Edward Cunningham – Elite Philanthropy in the US and China: What Does the Data Tell Us?
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesRead event summary here Speaker: Dr. Edward A. Cunningham, Harvard Kennedy School Edward Cunningham is Director of Ash Center China Programs and of the Asia Energy and Sustainability Initiative at Harvard Kennedy School. He is also […]
Nathan Sivin – Why Some Comparisons Make More Difference than Others
Boylston Hall Room 203 Boylston Hall, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Nathan Sivin, University of Pennsylvania In his talk, ‘Why Some Comparisons Make More Difference than Others,’ Professor Sivin will explore motivations for East-West and other comparative studies, as well as […]
Graham Allison – Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’ Trap?
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Graham Allison, Douglas Dillon Professor of Government, Harvard Kennedy School Discussants: Roderick MacFarquhar, Leroy B. Williams Professor of History, Harvard University Oriana Skylar Mastro, Assistant Professor of Security Studies, Edmund A. […]
The Belt and Road Initiative and Authoritarian Spillovers
One of the Fairbank Center's Visiting Scholars, Maria Adele Carrai, will be giving a presentation on Friday, April 20 from 2-4 in CGIS S153 on her paper “The Belt and […]
Symposium on Asia at the World’s Fairs: An Online Exhibition of Cultural Exchange
Boston University Hillel House, 213 State Road 213 Bay State Road, Boston, MA, United StatesDirector and Project Curator: Catherine V. Yeh Web-designer: Janet Liu Co-curators: Janet Liu, Robert Murowchick, Alice Tseng, and Wen-hao Tien Please join us for the celebratory opening of our exciting […]
Victor Shih – Protective Umbrella: How Factional Ties Attenuated the Impact of an Anti-Corruption Campaign in China
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Victor Shih, University of California San Diego Do stricter enforcement of the law and sudden intensification of corruption investigation always lead to better economic outcomes in the medium term? […]
Wang Jianping – Upholding the Faith in an Atheistic Land: Flourishing Unofficial Islamic Publications in Contemporary China
Speaker: Wang Jianping, Professor of Islamic Studies (retired), Shanghai Normal University; HYI Library Research Grant recipient Chair: James Cheng, Librarian of the Harvard-Yenching Library, Harvard University https://harvard-yenching.org/events/upholding-faith-atheistic-land-flourishing-unofficial-islamic-publications-contemporary-china
Wu Xinbo – Managing growing and expanding competition between China and the U.S.
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesRead event summary here Speaker: Wu Xinbo, Professor & Director Center for American Studies Dean Institute of International Studies Fudan University Dr. Wu is Professor and Dean, Institute of International Studies, […]
Liu Shuguang – Cultural Heritage in China: Present and Future
Speaker: Liu Shuguang, Deputy Administrator, State Administration of Cultural Heritage (SACH), People's Republic of China This talk will focus on the distinctive features of cultural heritage in China, the formation […]
Victor Seow – Energy Transitions amidst Regime Change: Mining Coal in the Early People’s Republic of China
Pierce Hall 100F 29 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Victor Seow, Assistant Professor, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University The decade after the revolution of 1949 witnessed a China that was being made anew. The material […]