Urban China Lecture Series Featuring Amy Zhang
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Amy Zhang, New York University This event series is sponsored by the MIT Sustainable Urbanization Lab, the University of British Columbia’s School of Community and Regional Planning, and the […]
Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Admiral James Stavridis, USN (Ret.) — Crisis Scenario: Imagining U.S.-China Relations and War in the Pacific
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Admiral James Stavridis, USN (Ret.), Partner and Vice Chair, Global Affairs, The Carlyle Group; Chair of the Board of Trustees, Rockefeller Foundation Admiral James Stavridis is Partner and Vice […]
Li Miao — Retaining Desire for Social Mobility Within and Beyond Schooling: A Longitudinal Ethnography of Migrant Youth in China
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Li Miao, Professor, Department of Sociology, Shandong University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2024-25Chair/Discussant: Emily Hannum, Professor of Sociology and Education; Associate Dean, School of Arts & Sciences, University of Pennsylvania […]
Modern China Lecture Series Featuring Yixin Chen — Famine and Rebellion: The Counterrevolutionary Case of the Chinese People’s Life-Saving Army in the Wester Stream Villages, 1959-1960.
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Yixin Chen, Professor of History, University of North Carolina Wilmington. This talk explores why numerous cases of counterrevolutionary groups emerged in rural China during the Great Leap Forward famine […]
Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Jeremy Daum — Unchained Watchdog: How China’s Supervision Commission Escapes Legal Bounds
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Jeremy Daum, Senior Research Scholar in Law and Senior Fellow, Paul Tsai China Center, Yale University Jeremy Daum is a Senior Research Scholar in Law and Senior Fellow at […]
Border of Water and Ice: The Yalu River and Japan’s Empire in Korea and Manchuria
CGIS South, Room S050 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Joseph Seeley, Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of VirginiaChair: Victor Seow, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences, Harvard University Border of Water and Ice explores the significance of […]
Urban China Lecture Series Featuring Zhao Yawei
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Zhao Yawei, University of Manchester This event series is sponsored by the MIT Sustainable Urbanization Lab, the University of British Columbia’s School of Community and Regional Planning, and the […]
HYI Annual Roundtable — Authoritarianism in Hong Kong
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesPanelists:John P. Burns, Emeritus Professor and Honorary Professor of Politics and Public Administration, the University of Hong KongMichael C. Davis, Global Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; Senior Research […]
Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Martin Whyte and Scott Rozelle — Getting Ahead in Today’s China: From Optimism to Pessimism
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeakers:Martin K. Whyte, John Zwaanstra Professor of International Studies and Sociology, Emeritus; Former Acting Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies 2007-2008, Harvard UniversityScott Rozelle, Helen F. Farnsworth Senior Fellow and […]
Margarita Estévez-Abe — Citizenship and Multiculturalism in East Asia: A Comparative Study of Marriage Migration in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Margarita Estévez-Abe, Associate Professor, Political Science Department, Syracuse University Moderator: Susan Pharr, Edwin O. Reischauer Research Professor of Japanese Politics; Senior Advisor, Program on US-Japan Relations, Harvard University Also via Zoom. […]
Urban China Lecture Series Featuring Samantha Vortherms
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Samantha Vortherms, University of California, Irvine This event series is sponsored by the MIT Sustainable Urbanization Lab, the University of British Columbia’s School of Community and Regional Planning, and the […]
Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Wang Feng — The End of the Miracle: How a Shrinking Population Impacts China’s Future
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Feng Wang, Professor, Sociology, UC Irvine China’s spectacular economic growth of the past four decades is a happy outcome of numerous historical junctures and opportunism. One pivotal factor was […]