Events
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Emergent Visons Film Screening & Discussion — Self-Portrait: 47 KM 2020 (自画像：47 KM 2020)
Carpenter Center Theater 24 Quincy St, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesFilmmaker ZHANG Mengqi in conversation with Jie Li, Ford Foundation Professor of East Asian Studies, Harvard University, and Lucien Castaing-Taylor, John Cowles Professor of Art and Anthropology, Director of the
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Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Jean Oi — China’s New Venture Capitalists? The Transformation of Local Government Financing Vehicles
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Jean Oi, William Haas Professor of Chinese Politics, Department of Political Science; Senior Fellow, The Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford UniversityIn the wake of COVID-19 and the
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Structuring Chinese History: Diwang Tu 帝王圖, Nianbiao 年表, “Chinese Dynasties” Charts, and Paradigmatic Crisis in Chinese Historiography
CGIS South, Room S050 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: James Millward, Georgetown UniversityPeriodization by “Chinese dynasties” is a structural foundation of the historiography of continental eastern Eurasia, but even those passingly familiar with the field know the idea
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Emergent Visons Film Screening — Zhuang Wei’s Witness: Return of the Survivor (庄炜的见证：幸存者归来)
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesFollowed by a Q+A with filmmaker ZHUANG Wei. This film is part of a three-part series presenting documentaries from China’s Caochangdi Workstation, a collective of documentary filmmakers and performance artists
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Painting into Being: Underground Art during China’s Cultural Revolution
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Aihe Wang, Former Wuming Artist; Honorary Associate Professor at the School of Chinese, The University of Hong Kong Moderator: Michael Puett, Victor and William Fung Foundation Director, Harvard University Asia
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Everyday Occupation: American Soldiers and Chinese Civilians after World War II
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Chunmei Du, Professor, Department of History, Lingnan University, Hong Kong; Associate, Harvard University Asia Center In this rich history of everyday encounters between US soldiers and Chinese civilians, Chunmei Du
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China Humanities Seminar featuring Yunxiao Xiao — Writing on Bamboo and Wood: Text Technologies in Early China
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Yunxiao Xiao, University of Washington This talk explores how written information was organized, edited, and transmitted through the ancient media of bamboo and wood. Drawing on excavated manuscripts from
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Paper Culture at the Imperial Court of China
CGIS South, Room S153 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Zhiyou Han, Visiting Scholar, Harvard University Asia Center; Associate Research Fellow & Conservation Specialist, Department of Conservation Standards of Cultural Heritage, Palace Museum, Beijing Moderator: Jinah Kim, George P. Bickford
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The Platform State: How China Innovates to Achieve Tech Supremacy
Hauser Hall Room 104 1575 Mass Ave, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Angela Huyue Zhang, Professor of Law, University of Southern California, Gould School of Law Professor Zhang will discuss “The Platform State: How China Governs Innovation to Achieve Tech Supremacy,”
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Urban China Lecture Series featuring Zhang Qingyong — No Waste for the State, No Loss for Farmers: The Evolution of Rural Land Takings in Contemporary China (国家不浪费与农民不吃亏：当代中国农村土地征收制度变迁)
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Zhang Qingyong, Renmin University This talk will be given in Mandarin.In this talk I will report on my ongoing research into the evolution of China’s land takings system since
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Modern China Lecture Series featuring Fei-Hsien Wang — Modernization Theory and Historical Knowledge in Cold War Taiwan
Room K354, CGIS Knafel 1737 Cambridge St, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Fei-Hsien Wang, Associate Professor, Department of History, Indiana University Bloomington In 1973, the Institute of Modern History (IMH) at Academia Sinica launched an ambitious collaborative project to examine late
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Urban China Lecture Series featuring Susan Whiting — Illiberal Law and Development: Property Rights and Conflict over Land in China
Presented via ZoomSpeaker:Susan Whiting, University of Washington In Illiberal Law and Development, Susan H. Whiting advances institutional economic theory with original survey and fieldwork data, addressing two puzzles in Chinese political economy: