Alexis Brown – Time and Narrative in the Rasavāhinī: A Literary Theoretical Approach to Reading a Theravada Buddhist Text
Barker Center, Thompson Room 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MASpeaker: Alexis Brown, Harvard University Venue
How Soy Sauce Shapes Modern China: The Power of an Everyday Food – 2023 Fairbank Center Reischauer Lecture Series featuring Angela KC Leung, Night Three, “Soy Sauce in Crisis: China’s First Engagement with Technoscience”
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesRead our blog post on this series of lectures: What Soy Sauce Can Tell Us About History, Politics—and Chinese Identity The lecture series examines the cultural and political meaning of soy sauce by tracing its long trajectory from an obscure elite condiment to a mundane, everyday food in the modern period. The condiment acquired in […]
China Economy Lecture featuring Henry Gao – China, State Capitalism and the World Trading System
CGIS South Room S250 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Henry Gao, Professor of Law, Singapore Management University; Senior Fellow, CIGI Henry Gao is Professor of Law at Singapore Management University and Senior Fellow at CIGI. With law degrees from three continents, he started his career as the first Chinese lawyer at the WTO Secretariat. He has been an advisor on trade issues to […]
2023 China Law Symposium: Reacquainting with China through Common Interests – Discussing Disability Law in China
WCC 2012, Wasserstein Hall 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States2023 China Law Symposium: Reacquainting with China through Common InterestsThe Harvard Law School China Law Association (CLA) will host its annual China Law Symposium, “Reacquainting with China through Common Interests,” over the first two weeks of April. This year, we are highlighting topics of common interest to China and the United States, ranging across the […]
Film Screening: “The Schools Out of City,” Featuring Discussion with Executive Director (PEER), Hong Liu and Co-producer, Xinran Liang
CGIS South, Room S050 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeakers:Hong Liu, Executive Director of PEER, an NGO dedicated to promoting educational equity in rural China Xinran Liang, Co-producer of the documentary Menghan Shen, Associate Professor of Government, Sun Yat-Sen University; […]
Urban China Series featuring Cai Meina – Legal Discrimination, Contention Pyramid, and Land Takings in China
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Cai Meina, University of Connecticut How do land-dispossessed villagers protect their interests in a context where the legal framework discriminates against them? Contrary to the existing research that focuses on protests, this research identifies negotiations as a strategy of the dispossessed to engage with local governments and improve their compensation arrangement. Negotiations are more […]
Jacob Eyferth – Agrarian Taylorism: Reorganizing the Rural Labor Process in Collective-Era China
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Jacob Eyferth Presented via Zoom. Register at: https://scholar.harvard.edu/seow/STinAsia Venue
2023 China Law Symposium: Reacquainting with China through Common Interests – Antitrust in China: Debunking the Myth and Unravelling the Intricacies
WCC 2012, Wasserstein Hall 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States2023 China Law Symposium: Reacquainting with China through Common InterestsThe Harvard Law School China Law Association (CLA) will host its annual China Law Symposium, “Reacquainting with China through Common Interests,” […]
Adrian Zenz – Xinjiang Update: What New Documents Tell Us About Beijing’s Evolving Internment Policy
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesRead our blog post on the event: Xinjiang Update: Beijing’s Evolving Internment Policy Speaker: Adrian Zenz, Senior Fellow and Director in China Studies, Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation Moderator: Mark […]
2023 China Law Symposium: Reacquainting with China through Common Interests – Double Reduction Policy in China: An Educational Double-Edged Sword?
WCC 1015, Wasserstein Hall 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States2023 China Law Symposium: Reacquainting with China through Common InterestsThe Harvard Law School China Law Association (CLA) will host its annual China Law Symposium, “Reacquainting with China through Common Interests,” […]
Wangdao and Leadership: A Zoom Talk by Stan Shih
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Stan Shih, Co-founder & Honorary Chairman, Acer Group Presented via Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_1rO8EfocTC27eSYbRM7jaA Venue
Chu Xiaobai – Jesus and Modernity in Republican China
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Chu Xiaobai, Professor, Department of Chinese Literature and Culture, East China Normal University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2022-23 Discussant: Chloë Starr, Professor of Asian Christianity and Theology, Yale Divinity School […]