Events
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Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Andrew Erickson — Are Rampant Removals of Admirals and Generals Harming or Helping China’s Naval & Military Advancement?
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Andrew S. Erickson, Visiting Scholar, Harvard University Asia Center; Professor, Founding Member, and Former Research Director, China Maritime Studies Institute, US Naval War College Are rampant removals of top officials
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Beyond Tariffs and Subsidies: Toward a New Framework for U.S. Industrial Policy
WCC 3016, Wasserstein Hall 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Y.S. Lee, West Virginia University College of Law The United States has returned to tariffs and subsidies with renewed force, seeking to rebuild domestic manufacturing, promote strategic industries, and
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China Economy Lecture featuring Jazmin Sierra — Going Out to Catch Up: China and the Globalization of State-Led Development
CGIS South Room S250 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Jazmin Sierra, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Kellogg Institute Faculty Fellow, University of Notre DameChina’s rise is often told as a story of opening to foreign capital and becoming the
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Modern China Lecture Series featuring Xu Guoqi — What do we mean by “China?”
CGIS South Room S354 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Xu Guoqi, David H. Y. Chang Professor of Chinese History; Founding Director, Institute of Transnational History of China, University of Hong Kong Professor Xu Guoqi was born in China
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CBDB Annual Conference 2026: Research in Chinese Studies in the Age of AI
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesProgram Panel 1 (1:55–2:55 PM): Between Print Culture, Literature, and Politics Panel 2 (3:05–4:05 PM): From a Local Perspective Panel 3 (4:15–5:00 PM): Another Look at Historiography Venue
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Pop-Up Exhibition — Resonant Interval: Beyond Seven Strings and Tablature
Sackler Building, Lower Level 485 Broadway, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesThe history of the guqin, the Chinese zither, reflects how a civilization sustains itself amid change. Its tablature preserves fingering while leaving rhythm and expressive proportion to the performer. Each
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China Humanities Seminar featuring Huan Jin — Modularity and Vernacular Knowledge: The Career of “Tao” 套, 11th–17th Centuries
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Huan Jin, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Emerging at the turn of the eleventh century out of contact with non-Han people, "tao" 套 (set/module) shows the
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Urban China Lecture Series featuring Trang X. Ta — Scenes of Affliction and Cruel Circumstances in Urban China
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Trang X. Ta, University of Maryland Baltimore County In most instances there is a lone, tragic-looking figure with head bowed before an accompanying sign making a silent public appeal.
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Between Cinema and Experience: War-Related Dreams and the Intergenerational Transmission of Memory in China
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: ISHII Yumi, Associate Professor, Tohoku University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2026-27Chair/Discussant: Andrew Gordon, Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History, Harvard University https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/trans-generational-transmission-of-war-memories-in-china/ Venue
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Journalist Dai Qing and Deng Xiaoping in 1989: A Conversation between Ms. Dai Qing and Professor Rana Mitter
124 Mount Auburn Street Suite 200N, Ash Center Seminar Room 225 124 Mt. Auburn St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeakers:Dai Qing, Visiting Fellow, Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia at Harvard Kennedy SchoolRana Mitter, ST Lee Chair in U.S.-Asia Relations, Harvard Kennedy SchoolJoin Dai Qing and Rana Mitter for a
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Emergent Visions Film Screening & Discussion — New Moon Chapter One (新月一章)
Carpenter Center Theater 24 Quincy St, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesFilmmaker Xinyue Li in conversation with Jie Li, Ford Foundation Professor of East Asian Studies, Harvard University. This film is part of a three-part series presenting documentaries from China’s Caochangdi
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Networked State Capital in China’s AI Ecosystem
WCC 3019 Wasserstein Hall, 1585 Mass. Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Curtis J. Milhaupt, William F. Baxter International Professor of Law, Stanford Law School; Senior Fellow, by courtesy, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies Professor Milhaupt will discuss “Networked State