Geremie R. Barmé – Tales from Two Chinese Cities: Resistance in the 2019 Year of Anniversaries
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesRead event summary here Speaker: Geremie R. Barmé, Editor, China Heritage From late 2018, China has marked a series of major anniversaries and commemorations. A century of political, cultural and social upheaval has been brought into sharp focus by tumultuous contemporary events. Today, the past is living in to the present in ways that are […]
Workshop: Law and Empire in the Sino-Asian Context
Austin Hall Room 308 1515 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA, United StatesCo-hosted by International Society for Legal History , American Society for Legal History, The International Society for Chinese Law and History, and the Harvard Law School Program in East Asian Legal Studies Graduate Student Panel 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM Chair: Tahirih Lee (FSU) Yue Jiang (Stanford) Commentator: Michael Szonyi (Harvard) Gender, Property, and Lineage in […]
Pan Weilin – Dialectics of Waste: Recycling Campaigns in Socialist China, 1949-1978
Speaker: Pan Weilin, Assistant Professor, Institute of China Studies, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2019-20 Chair/discussant: Elizabeth Perry, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government, Harvard University; Director, Harvard-Yenching Institute This talk will examine how the national system of China’s waste recovery and recycling took shape through the mass movements during the heydays of […]
Hsin-Hsin Pan – Foreign Visits and the Image of National Security Defender: An Analysis of Voter Attitudes in Taiwan
Speaker: Hsin-Hsin Pan, Post-doctoral research fellow at the Center for Humanities and Social Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan Discussant: Chong Ja Ian, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, National University of Singapore This paper looks into the effect of foreign visits to major powers on an image of national security defenders for politicians of minor […]
American Factory: Film Screening and Discussion with Directors
Klarman Hall, Harvard Business School Kresge Way, Boston, MA, United StatesSpeakers: Julia Reichert, Director Steven Bognar, Director Meg Rithmire, F. Warren McFarlan Associate Professor of Business Administration Kris Rondeau, Director of AFSCME New England The film profiles the launch of the Fuyao Glass factory in Moraine, Ohio, sited in a former General Motors plant. To launch the factory, Fuyao brought in hundreds of experienced Chinese […]
Michelle Miao – Relational Justice: Reconciling Murder in China
Speaker: Michelle Miao, Assistant Professor, Chinese University of Hong Kong; HYI Visiting Scholar Chair/discussant: William Alford, Jerome A. and Joan L. Cohen Professor of Law, Harvard Law School This talk […]
Urban Rusnak – Energy Connectivity and Investment Disputes in Eurasia
Speaker: Urban Rusnák, Secretary General, Energy Charter Secretariat Moderator: Mark Wu, Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law, Harvard Law School Opening remarks: Rawi Abdelal, Herbert F. Johnson Professor of International Management, Harvard Business […]
Zheng Jiyong – North Korea’s Social-Economy Development and China’s North Korea Policy
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesRead event summary here Speaker: Zheng Jiyong, Director & Professor, Center for Korean Studies, Fudan University
Elizabeth Ingleson – Making Made In China: Race, Labor, and Politics in U.S.-China Trade 1971-1980
History Department Conference Room, Robinson Hall 35 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Elizabeth Ingleson, Southern Methodist University Interested attendees should e-mail marinoauffant@gmail.com for a copy of the pre-circulated paper. Part of the Harvard International & Global History Seminar (HIGHS) series, a forum […]
Robert Spengler III – Fruit from the Sands: The Silk Road Origins of the Foods We Eat
Hunnewell Building, Arnold Arboretum 125 Arborway, Jamaica Plain, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Robert Spengler III From almonds and apples to tea and rice, many foods that we consume today have histories that can be traced out of prehistoric Central Asia along […]
Jin Ping Mei and the World: Translation and Transculturation — A Symposium in Honor of David Roy (1933-2016)
The Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University will convene a symposium on Jin Ping Mei (The Plum in the Golden Vase) in honor of David Tod Roy (1933 – 2016), Professor Emeritus of the University of Chicago, on December 5, 2019, at Harvard University. For more information, visit https://scholar.harvard.edu/jpm
Carma Hinton – From Goddess to Demon? Musings on the Transformation of Female Imagery in Paintings of Central Asia and China from the Late Tang to the Song Dynasties
CGIS South Room S354 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Carma Hinton, Asia Center Visiting Scholar; Clarence J. Robinson Professor of Visual Culture and Chinese Studies, George Mason University Chair: Jie Li, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University Asia Center Fellows Seminar