Events

Nara Dillon – Feeding the Poor: Food Welfare in the PRC

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

Read 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 […]

Workshop: The Birth of the Chinese Population

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

Speaker: 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 […]

By Land and By Sea: China’s Belt and Road in Europe

Speakers: Kevin Gallagher, Boston University Philippe Le Corre, Harvard University Thomas Berger, Boston University Grant Rhode, Boston University and U.S. Naval War College Min Ye, Boston University Vesko Garcevic, Boston University Georgios Dimitrakopoulos, former Member of […]

Shirley Yu – The Belt and Road Initiative: A Discussion of China’s Vision and Strategy

Land Lecture Hall, 4th Floor, Belfer Building, Harvard Kennedy School 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA, United States

Speaker: Shirley Yu, Harvard Kennedy School's Ash Center Fellow Moderator: Anthony Saich, Ash Center Director, Daewoo Professor of International Affairs The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), the signature foreign policy by Xi Jinping has […]

Alex Wang – Symbolic Legitimacy and Chinese Environmental Reform

CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

Speaker: Alex Wang, UCLA At the heart of debates over Chinese rule of law is the question of state legitimacy. Critics argue that legitimacy requires liberal democratic rule of law. […]