Meaningful Ageing: Shaping a Better Future for China’s Elderly
Monday, June 21, 2021 - 8:30-10:30 PM EDT Tuesday, June 22, 2021 - 8:30-10:30 AM EDT The challenges presented by the ageing of China’s population are vast and complex. Not only does ageing have major impacts on labor supply, savings, economic growth and social and family relationships, ageing also necessitates re-imagining social systems—such as healthcare, […]
Arjun Subramaniam – A Military History of India Since 1972: Full Spectrum Operations and the Changing Contours of Modern Conflict
Speaker: Arjun Subramaniam, Retired Air Vice Marshal, IAF; President's Chair of Excellence in National Security, India’s National Defence College Discussant: M. Taylor Fravel, Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science; Director, Security Studies Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Chair/Moderator: James Robson, James C. Kralik and YunliLou Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations; Victor and William Fung […]
Special Event – The State of Taiwan Studies: A Roundtable Discussion on Methods and Directions
https://youtu.be/IZH0o9q_Wdc https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/the-state-of-taiwan-studies-a-roundtable-discussion-on-methods-and-directions?in=fairbank-center/sets/public-lecture-series-fairbank Read the transcript of the event here. PanelistsJaw-Nian Huang, Assistant Professor, Graduate Institute of Development Studies, National Chengchi University, TaiwanLawrence Zi-Qiao Yang, Assistant Professor, Institute of Social Research and Cultural Studies, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, TaiwanKevin Wei Luo, Doctoral Fellow, Hou Family fellow in Taiwan Studies, Harvard UniversityLev Nachman, PhD in […]
Pivoting to a New Research Topic
Speakers: Michael Collins, Yenching Academy (currently Council on Foreign Relations) Bill Figueroa, University of Pennsylvania Yi Ci Lo, UC Irvine Tullia Fraser, Durham University (currently University of Hong Kong) Emily […]
Aging in China: Labor Participation, Retirement, Pension and Long-term Care Insurance
China’s population is ageing rapidly at a rate that surpasses most of its Asian neighbors and advanced economies in the West. In 2015, 10.5% of the population was aged 65+, […]
Archives, Libraries, and Databases in Taiwan
Speakers: Feng-yuan Hsu, National Archives Administration Shiuon Chu, Academia Sinica, Institute of Modern History Hsi-yuan Chen, Academia Sinica, Institute of History and Philology and Academia Sinica Center for Digital Cultures […]
Historical Network Research in Chinese Studies
Friday July 23 - Satuday, July 24, 2021 | 9:00 - 11:30 AM EDT Friday July 30 - Satuday, July 31, 2021 | 9:00 - 11:30 AM EDT For more […]
Nancy Steinhardt – Convergence and Entanglement: Reconsidering the Mongol Architectural Narrative
Speaker: Nancy Steinhardt, Professor of East Asian Art and Curator of Chinese Art, University of Pennsylvania Among approximately four hundred buildings that survive in China from the period of Mongolian […]
Historical Network Research in Chinese Studies
Friday July 23 - Satuday, July 24, 2021 | 9:00 - 11:30 AM EDT Friday July 30 - Satuday, July 31, 2021 | 9:00 - 11:30 AM EDT For more […]
Academic Jobs Outside of the United States
Speakers: Rowena He, Chinese University of Hong Kong Taomo Zhou, Nanyang Technological University Mary Brazelton, Cambridge University Charles Chang, Duke Kunshan Emily Baum (University of California, Irvine) and Denise Y. […]
Modern China Lecture Series featuring Jeremy Brown and Louisa Lim – Reassessing June Fourth: New Approaches and Sources on the Tiananmen Protests and Beijing Massacre
Speakers:Jeremy Brown, Professor, Department of History, Simon Fraser UniversityLouisa Lim, Journalist and Lecturer, University of Melbourne Part of the Modern China lecture series https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Evla4wWSkKI&list=PLdMj8AtCCOREyCyE0QZzx7AOnzHnNOgJe&index=9&t=2s https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/reassessing-june-fourth-with-jeremy-brown-and-louisa-lim How significant were the […]
Film Screening – Happy Together
Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center 24 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesDirector: Wong Kar Wai One of the most searing romances of the 1990s, Wong Kar Wai’s emotionally raw, lushly stylized portrait of a relationship in breakdown casts Hong Kong superstars […]