Events

2024 China Town Hall Featuring Kurt Campbell and Rana Mitter

L-332 DELAND, Littauer Building 79 JFK St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Speakers:Kurt Campbell, Deputy U.S. Secretary of StateRana Mitter, ST Lee Chair in US-Asia Relations, Harvard Kennedy SchoolJoin the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations and the Greater China Society at HKS on April 9th for the 2024 CHINA Town Hall (CTH), a two-part program that provides a snapshot of the current U.S.-China relationship and examines how that relationship reverberates at the local level – in our towns, states, […]

Critical Issues Confronting China featuring Keith Bradsher – An Industrial Surge Amidst China’s Slowdown

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

Speaker: Keith Bradsher, Beijing Bureau Chief, The New York Times China’s economy is slowing, dragged down by real estate troubles, but its industrial sector has never been stronger. That poses dilemmas for trade partners in sectors from steel to solar panels to electric cars. Venue

Environment in Asia Series featuring Jesse Rodenbiker – Ecological States: Politics of Science and Nature in Urbanizing China

CGIS South Room S250 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Speaker: Jesse Rodenbiker, Associate Research Scholar, Princeton University; Assistant Teaching Professor of Geography, Rutgers University-New Brunswick Discussant: Stevan Harrell, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Environmental and Forest Sciences, University of Washington; author of An Ecological History of Modern China Ecological States critically examines ecological policies in the People's Republic of China to show how campaigns of scientifically […]

Arbitrary Detention in Xinjiang: A Survivor’s Story

WCC 1015, Wasserstein Hall 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Speakers:Rayhan Asat, Uyghur Lawyer, HLS LLM ‘16Mihrigul Tursun, Uyghur Activist, Former Detainee and Camp Survivor In 2015, Mihrigul Tursun was imprisoned in a re-education camp in Xinjiang by the Chinese authorities. Rayhan Asat’s brother, Ekpar, has been detained for right years and counting. Join Harvard Law School Advocates for Human Rights for a discussion with […]

The Asian Security Order: Views from the Region

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

Speakers:Selina Ho, Assistant Professor in International Affairs; Co-Director of the Centre on Asia and Globalisation, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of SingaporeLi Chen, Renmin University of […]

China: The Rise and Fall of the EAST – How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology Brought China Success, and Why They Might Lead to its Decline

Building 66, 110 25 Ames St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Speaker: Yasheng Huang, Epoch Foundation Professor of Global Economics and Management, MIT Sloan School of Management; Faculty Director, MIT-China Program, Center for International Studies. Discussant: Will Knight, Senior Writer, Wired Magazine More information: https://bit.ly/RiseFallChina Venue

Curatorial Chat: Central Asian Chronicles Echoes of the Silk Road in Manuscripts and Imagery

Houghton Library Quincy Street & Harvard Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Join co-curators Dr. Gülnar Eziz, Preceptor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University, and Isa Youshe, PhD Student, Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies at Harvard University, for a 30-minute guided tour of the Central Asian Chronicles: Echoes of the Silk Road in Manuscripts and Imagery exhibition currently on display in Houghton's Amy Lowell Room.  This will include discussion of the rich […]

Symposium – Thinking Between/Through Historic and Modern China

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

Panelists: Mark C. Elliott, Vice Provost for International Affairs, Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History, Harvard UniversityJoseph W. Esherick, Professor Emeritus, History Department, University of California San DiegoJames A. Millward, Professor of Inter-societal History, Georgetown University School of Foreign ServiceModerator: Madeleine Yue Dong, Vincent Y. C. Shih Professor of Chinese History and […]

Joseph Esherick – Rethinking the Chinese Revolution

CGIS South Room S250 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Speaker: Joseph Esherick, Professor Emeritus of History, University of California, San Diego Moderator: Elizabeth Perry, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government, Harvard University; Director, Harvard-Yenching Institute. Was the Chinese Revolution inevitable? […]