The Asian Security Order: Views from the Region
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeakers: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 StatesSpeaker: 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
Thinking through Performance in China – A Workshop on Chinese theories of Acting, Singing, and Theater (c.1200–1850)
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesThis workshop reconsiders the significance of critical writings about acting, singing, and theatrical performance in China (c.1200–1850). How did artists, intellectuals, and critics reflect on experiences of watching or listening […]
Curatorial Chat: Central Asian Chronicles Echoes of the Silk Road in Manuscripts and Imagery
Houghton Library Quincy Street & Harvard Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesJoin 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 StatesPanelists: 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 StatesSpeaker: 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? […]
Film Screening: That Day, on the Beach (Hai tan de yi tian)
Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center 24 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesA renowned young pianist, Tan Ching-Ching (Terry Hu) comes back to Taipei for the first time in thirteen years to give a performance. An old friend, Lin Jia-li (Sylvia Chang), […]
Urban China Lecture Series featuring Zhu Fangsheng – Families, Schools, and Cities
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Zhu Fangsheng, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Duke Kunshan University This talk will trace the origins and consequences of how contemporary Chinese cities govern public school admissions. School districts became the central device in public school admissions in China, despite their absence of fiscal or administrative foundations. I argue that cities repurposed school districts to […]
Environment in Asia Series featuring Timothy Brook – The Price of Collapse: The Little Ice Age and the Fall of Ming China
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeakers:Timothy Brook, The University of British Columbia, Professor EmeritusClark Alejandrino, Trinity CollegeYan Gao, University of MemphisIan M. Miller, St John’s University Series Convener:Ling Zhang, Boston College In 1644, after close to three centuries of relative stability and prosperity, the Ming dynasty collapsed. Many historians attribute its demise to the Manchu invasion of China, but the […]
Borders in Motion: New Paradigms of East Asian Comparative Literature – an online book launch forum
Presented via ZoomSpeakers:Satoru Hashimoto, Johns Hopkins UniversityXiaolu Ma, Hong Kong University of Science and TechnologyMiya Qiong Xie, Dartmouth College Hosts:Karen Thornber, Harvard UniversityDavid Der-wei Wang, Harvard University Venue
Contextual Annotation in Textual and Visual Media: COMARKUS and IMMARKUS
CGIS South, Room S153 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Hilde De Weerdt, Professor of Chinese and Early Modern Global History, KU Leuven Hilde De Weerdt joined the Early Modern History Research Group, KU Leuven in March 2022 as Professor of Chinese and Early Modern Global History. Professor De Weerdt is broadly interested in intellectual, social, and political history, both within an East Asian context, and […]
Special Presentation featuring Stephen MacKinnon – History as Biography: Chen Hansheng 陈翰笙 (1897-2004)
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Stephen MacKinnon, Emeritus Professor of History; Former Director of Center for Asian Studies, Arizona State UniversitySteven MacKinnon, author of Chen Hansheng: China’s Last Romantic Revolutionary, will discuss the remarkable life of one of most important economic researchers on the Chinese rural economy over a career that spanned the 1930s to his death at 107 […]