Sino-Japanese Relations: What Went Wrong after 1992
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Ezra Vogel, Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus, Harvard University. Moderator: Susan Pharr, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics and Director, WCFIA Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University.
Critical Issues Confronting China Series – The Progression of Repression: Online Censorship and Physical Repression in China Today
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesEvent Summary Speaker: Mary Gallagher, University of Michigan Mary Gallagher is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan, where she is also the Director of the Center for Chinese Studies, and a faculty associate at the Center for Comparative Political Studies at the Institute for Social Research. Her research areas are Chinese politics, comparative politics […]
Poetry Reading
Speaker: Dang Zi, Translator: Eleanor Goodman Zang Di, who has been honored three times as one of China’s top ten poets, is a featured poet at the Princeton Poetry Festival on October 5-6, 2017. His new collection, The Roots of Wisdom, translated by award-winning translator Eleanor Goodman, will be published at the same time by […]
The Revolutionary Ethic and the Spirit of Factionalism in the Chinese Cultural Revolution
William James Hall, Room 1550 33 kirkland st, cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Guobin Yang, Grace Lee Boggs Professor of Communication and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania From 1966 to 1968, youth in urban China were embroiled in factional battles in what many of them believed to be a revolution of a lifetime. Based on the recently published book The Red Guard Generation and Political Activism in […]
An Ethics of Observation. Four Films by Wang Bing
Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center 24 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesThree Sisters (San zimei) September 9, 7:00 pm September 30, 4:00 pm France/Hong Kong 2016, DCP, color, 153 min. Mandarin with English subtitles High in the remote Yunnan Mountains live three sisters, ages ten, six and four, abandoned by their mother and left largely alone by a father who must travel vast distances in search […]
The New Political Landscape in East Asia
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Buddhist Studies Forum – Tantric Buddhist Communities and Seeking Patronage at Medieval Indian Courts
Speaker: Péter-Dániel Szántó, All Souls College, University of Oxford The talk will share some thoughts backed by evidence about how medieval Indian tantric communities were organized socially and economically. It will also present some passages dealing with tantric Buddhist gurus' various strategies for dealing with royal punishment and patronage.
Book Talk – The Futility of Law and Development: China and the Dangers of Exporting American Law
Austin Hall Room 308 1515 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Jedidiah J. Kroncke
Critical Issues Confronting China Series – China Policy Under Trump
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesRead event summary here Dr. Jeffrey Bader, Senior Fellow, John L. Thornton China Center, Brookings Institution Jeffrey Bader is a senior fellow in the John L. Thornton China Center at the Brookings Institution. From 2009 until 2011, Bader was special assistant to the president of the United States for national security affairs at the National […]
China’s Anthropogenic Methane Emissions: A Review of Current Bottom-Up Inventories
Pierce Hall 100F 29 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Prof. Zhang Bo, Visiting Scholar, Harvard-China Project; Associate Professor, State Key Laboratory of Coal Resources and Safe Mining, China University of Mining & Technology (Beijing) Methane (CH4) is the second ranking anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG), with a global warming potential (GWP) 28 times greater than that of carbon dioxide (CO2) on a mass basis. In contrast […]
Infinite Interfusion: The Visible and the Invisible in Liao Pagodas
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Youn-mi Kim, Ewha Womans University The shamanistic Khitan people were exposed to Buddhism −the Indian religion that reached these nomads mediated by the Han Chinese sedentary culture− when they suddenly rose to power and founded the Liao Empire (907-1125). By exploring the pagodas from the Liao Empire, this lecture discusses how the synthesis of these […]
Critical Issues Confronting China Series – Behind the Headlines: Rebuilding Fiscal Foundations for Xi Jinping’s Governance Reform
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesEvent Summary Speaker: Professor Christine Wong, Director, Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies, University of Melbourne Professor Wong is a leading authority on China's public finance. Her work on public finance, central-local relations and their implications for governance, economic development and welfare in China are widely cited, including several major World Bank studies for which Professor […]