Robert Ross – The Rise of the Chinese Navy: What it Means for East Asia and the United States
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesRead the event summary here Speaker: Robert Ross, Boston College Robert S. Ross is Professor of Political Science at Boston College and Associate, John King Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, […]
Huang Chang-Ling – Fighting for Seats: The Politics of Gender Quotas in East Asia
Speaker: Huang Chang-Ling, Professor of Political Science, National Taiwan University; HYI Visiting Scholar and Radcliffe Fellow, 2018-19 Chair/discussant: Mona Lena Krook, Professor, Department of Political Science, Rutgers University The level of women’s […]
22nd Annual Harvard East Asia Society Conference – Voice and Silence: Memory in East Asia
CGIS South CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesThe 22nd annual Harvard East Asia Society (HEAS) Conference will take place at Harvard CGIS-South on Friday, February 8 and Saturday, February 9. Organized by a committee of RSEA students, this year's […]
Christopher Atwood: Environmental Geographies of the Mongol Empire
Speaker: Christopher Atwood, Professor, Mongolian and Chinese Frontier & Ethnic History, University of Pennsylvania The European conquest of the Americas, the consequent ecological exchange, massive mortality, and rise of plantation economies […]
Contemporary China Film Screening – Art in Fog: A Conversation with Director Lydia Chen
Discussant: Shelley Drake Hawkes, Middlesex Community College Moderator: Eugenio Menegon, Boston University Directed by Lydia Chen, Art in Smog offers an intimate encounter with four artists and a curator in China, as […]
Yi Na – Seeing and Being Seen: The Cultural Roles of Tibetan Thangka
Speaker: Yi Na, Associate Professor, Institute of Ethnic Literature, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; HYI Visiting Scholar 2018-19 Chair/discussant: Gregory Nagy, Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature and Professor of Comparative […]
Nara Dillon – Feeding the Poor: Food Welfare in the PRC
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesRead event summary here Speaker: Nara Dillon, Harvard University Nara Dillon’s research interests include globalization and the politics of welfare, charity, and inequality in China. In addition to contemporary Chinese […]
Zuoyue Wang – Transnational Science in Modern China: From May Fourth to the Cold War and Beyond
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Zuoyue Wang, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona How have transnational exchanges, especially with the United States, in science and technology shaped and reshaped modern China in the last century […]
Derek Scissors – Chinese Investment: State-Owned Enterprises Stop Globalizing, for the Moment
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Derek Scissors - American Enterprise Institute Derek M. Scissors is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where he focuses on the Chinese and Indian economies and […]
Workshop: The Birth of the Chinese Population
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Malcolm Thompson, An Wang Postdoctoral Fellow Discussant: Gail Hershatter, Professor of History, UC–Santa Cruz Abstract: What kind of problem is "the population problem" in China? That it would be […]
Wen Chen – China’s Healthcare Reform: Does Restructuring Government Functions Matter?
Harvard Chan School, Building 1, Room 1208 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Wen Chen, Professor of Health Economics, Fudan University Professor CHEN received his M.D. degree in social medicine and health management from Shanghai Medical University in 1998 and completed a […]
William Kirby – Who Will Lead? China and the World of Universities in the 21st Century
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesRead event summary here Speaker: William Kirby, Harvard Business School William C. Kirby is Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and T. M. Chang Professor of […]