Harvard-Yenching Institute Annual Roundtable: Modernizing Asia’s Countryside
Panelists: Han Do-Hyun, Professor of Sociology, Academy of Korean Studies Nguyen Thi Phuong Cham, Director, Cultural Studies Institute, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences Nishikawa Kunio, College of Agriculture, Ibaraki University […]
Buddhist Studies Forum Featuring Matthew King – Ocean of Milk, Ocean of Blood: A Mongolian Monk in the Ruins of the Qing Empire
Speaker: Matthew King, Associate Professor of Transnational Buddhism and Director, Asian Studies Program, University of California, Riverside After the fall of the Qing empire, amid nationalist and socialist upheaval, Buddhist […]
Lin Chaochao – Rethinking the Making of the Chinese Working Class after 1949
Speaker: Lin Chaochao, Department of History, Fudan University; HYI Visiting Scholar Chair/discussant: Elizabeth Perry, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government, Harvard University; Director, Harvard-Yenching Institute The year 1949 marked a watershed […]
Li Zheng – Decarbonization Pathways of China’s Power Sector
Speaker: Li Zheng, Executive Vice President, Institute for Climate Change and Sustainable Development, Tsinghua University; Professor, Department of Energy and Power Engineering, Tsinghua University Presented via Zoom Registration Required Register […]
Free Ekpar: Commemorating Five Years of the Unjust Detention of Ekpar Asat
Speakers: Sophie Richardson, Human Rights Watch Thor Halvorssen, President, Human Rights Foundation Irwin Cotler, Raoul Wallenberg Center Gregory Niemeyer, University Of California, Berkeley Chris Coons, US Senator, Delaware Martha Minow, […]
Critical Issues Confronting China Lecture Series featuring David Dollar – China’s Economy Faces Domestic and External Challenges
https://youtu.be/y_V_PGvMy7w https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/chinas-economy-faces-domestic-and-external-challenges-with-david-dollar?in=fairbank-center/sets/public-lecture-series-fairbank Speaker: David Dollar, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Global Economy and Development, John L. Thornton China Center, Brookings Institution China has gotten COVID-19 under control and is poised to […]
Sarah Laursen – The Invisible Outsider: Non-Chinese “Chinese” Art in the Harvard Art Museums
Speaker: Sarah Laursen, Alan J. Dworsky Associate Curator of Chinese Art, Harvard Art Museum The Harvard Art Museums’ database identifies over 6,600 objects in the collection as “Chinese.” But are […]
East Asian Digital Scholarship Series featuring Matthias Kaun – An Introduction to CrossAsia
Speaker: Matthias Kaun, Director of the East Asia Department, Berlin State Library (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin) Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin (Berlin State Library) has been developing and running the platform CrossAsia (https://crossasia.org) […]
Fairbank Center Director’s Seminar Featuring Tyler Jost: Institutional Origins of Miscalculation in Chinese Foreign Policy
Speaker: Tyler Jost, Assistant Professor of Political Science, International & Public Affairs and Watson Institute Assistant Professor of China Studies, Brown University Moderator: Elizabeth J. Perry, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government and […]
China Humanities Seminar featuring Wu Hung – Unearthing Wu Daozi (c. 686 – c. 760)
Speaker: Wu Hung, University of Chicago Worshipped by later folk artists as the God of Painting, Wu Daozi (c. 686 – c. 760) was also praised by Tang art historian […]
Modern China Lecture Series featuring Taomo Zhou – Leveraging Liminality: Shenzhen and the Origins of China’s Reform and Opening
https://youtu.be/dPpcJSF2k4w https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/leveraging-liminality-shenzhen-and-the-origins-of-chinas-reform-and-opening-with-taomo-zhou?in=fairbank-center/sets/public-lecture-series-fairbank Speaker: Taomo Zhou, Assistant Professor of History, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Immediately north of Hong Kong, Shenzhen is China’s most successful Special Economic Zone (SEZ). Commonly known as […]
Critical Issues Confronting China Lecture Series featuring Eswar Prasad – China’s Role in Global Finance
https://youtu.be/UdZOGL87u3s https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/chinas-role-in-global-finance-with-eswar-prasad?in=fairbank-center/sets/public-lecture-series-fairbank Read the transcript of the event here. Speaker: Eswar Prasad, Tolani Senior Professor of Trade Policy, Cornell University; Senior Fellow and New Century Chair in International Economics, Brookings […]