China Economy Lecture Series featuring Chang-Tai Hsieh – Special Deals from Special Investors: The Rise of State-Connected Private Owners in China
https://youtu.be/-Uvi0veG_4w https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/special-deals-from-special-investors-with-chang-tai-hsieh?in=fairbank-center/sets/public-lecture-series-fairbank Speaker: Chang-Tai Hsieh, Phyllis and Irwin Winkelried Professor of Economics and PCL Faculty Scholar, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business We use administrative registration records with […]
Panel Discussion – Advancing Justice: Responses to Anti-Asian Racism in the U.S.
Moderator: Vivian Shaw, College Fellow, Department of Sociology, Harvard University; Co-Principal Investigator, AAPI COVID-19 Project Panelists: Han Lu, Senior Policy Analyst, National Employment Law Project christina ong, PhD Student, Department of Sociology, […]
Winter Pasture: A Writer’s Journey to Altay, Northern Xinjiang — A Conversation with Li Juan
This event will be conducted in Mandarin. 冬牧場：一個作家的邊地之旅 與李娟對話 Panelists: Li Juan David Der-wei Wang, Harvard University Mingwei Song, Wellesley College Kyle Shernuk, Yale University Bilingual reading from Winter Pasture: […]
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 […]