Digital China Initiative Workshop — Beyond Chatbots: RAG and Agent
Room 202, 61 Kirkland St. 61 Kirkland St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesThis workshop delves deeper into advanced applications of Large Language Models (LLMs) beyond simple chatbot interfaces. Participants will explore how to leverage APIs to connect various tools with LLMs, build […]
Amit Prasad — Contestations over Stem Cell Ethics and the US-China Tech War: What Should We Do with Their Orientalist and Colonial Framing?
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Amit Prasad, Associate Professor of History and Sociology, Georgia Tech Part of the Science and Technology in Asia series. Sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center. Co-sponsored by the […]
Urban China Lecture Series featuring Zhang Lei – Urban Planning and Planners in China: Continuity and Change
Presented via ZoomSpeakers: Zhang Lei, Renmin UniversityProfessional planning in China has changed over the past four decades, shifting from a focus on market-oriented reforms to a focus on the environment and people-centered practice. […]
Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring David Zweig — China’s Battle for Talent and Technology
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: David Zweig, Professor Emeritus, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; Distinguished Visiting Professor of Taipei School of Economics and Political Science, National Tsinghua University, Taiwan; Vice President, […]
Zhang Jing — A Modernization Marching to Revolution: Science, Technology, and Diplomacy in Mao’s China
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Zhang Jing, Associate Professor, Department of History, Peking University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2024-25Chair/Discussant, Arunabh Ghosh, Associate Professor of History, Harvard University As a set of terms, “modernization” and its […]
Digital China Initiative Workshop — Beyond Chatbots: RAG and Agent
Room 202, 61 Kirkland St. 61 Kirkland St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesThis workshop delves deeper into advanced applications of Large Language Models (LLMs) beyond simple chatbot interfaces. Participants will explore how to leverage APIs to connect various tools with LLMs, build […]
Exhibit: Dunhuang and Beyond
Sackler Building, Lower Level 485 Broadway, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesA major milestone and world-renowned heritage site within Silk Road networks, Dunhuang preserves more than 400 embellished Buddhist cave shrines in present-day northwest China. Dunhuang’s cave shrines date from the […]
Exhibit: Dunhuang and Beyond
Sackler Building, Lower Level 485 Broadway, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesA major milestone and world-renowned heritage site within Silk Road networks, Dunhuang preserves more than 400 embellished Buddhist cave shrines in present-day northwest China. Dunhuang’s cave shrines date from the […]
Exhibit: Dunhuang and Beyond
Sackler Building, Lower Level 485 Broadway, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesA major milestone and world-renowned heritage site within Silk Road networks, Dunhuang preserves more than 400 embellished Buddhist cave shrines in present-day northwest China. Dunhuang’s cave shrines date from the […]
China Humanities Seminar featuring Shoufu Yin — The China that Could Have Been: Counterfactual Imagination and Political Thought, 1313-1621
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Shoufu Yin, Assistant Professor of History, University of British Columbia What could China—or the entire world—have been? Starting in the fourteenth century, hundreds of thousands of individuals in present-day […]
Modern China Lecture Series featuring Janet Chen – Medium or Message? The Politics of Language in Broadcasting in Taiwan, 1945-1975
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Janet Y. Chen, Professor of Chinese History; Director, East Asian Studies Program, Princeton University At the end of 1975, the KMT government in Taiwan passed the Radio and Television […]
Jim Suk-Fong (Theodora) – Divine Saving in Greek and Chinese Polytheism
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Jim Suk-Fong (Theodora), Associate Professor, Ancient Greek History, The University of Nottingham; HYI Library Research Scholar, 2024Chair/Discussant: Michael Puett, Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History and Anthropology; Director, […]