• Workshop – Everything Digital: An Essential Guide to Digital Tools for East Asian Studies

    Room 212, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, MA, United States

    Registration Deadline:  By October 4, Friday to  http://bit.ly/DigitalEA Lunch will be provided Are you wondering what digital tools might be useful for your research?  Join us for an informal lunch session as we share recommendations and useful shortcuts to help you get off to a running start and make the most of your time at […]

  • 2nd Annual “Destination: World,” Powered by PechaKucha

    CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United States

    From studying Hong Kong to walking Cape Town, come learn how international experiences shape the lives of Harvard undergraduates. Nine students take center stage in the Tsai Auditorium stage to share their inspirational stories about global engagement, intellectual exploration and personal discovery made possible through experiences abroad. The event will be followed by an international food […]

  • Chong Ja Ian – How Hedging Made US-China Tensions Worse: Order, Strategic Competition, and Aggregated Security Dilemmas in Asia and the Pacific

    Speaker: Chong Ja Ian, Associate Professor, National University of Singapore; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2019-20 Chair/discussant: M. Taylor Fravel, Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology https://harvard-yenching.org/events/how-hedging-made-us-china-tensions-worse-order-strategic-competition-and-aggregated-security

  • Michael Enright – The Greater Bay Area, Regional Integration, and the Future of China

    CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United States

    Read event summary here Speaker: Michael Enright, University of Hong Kong China’s Outline Development Plan for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area is a landmark in China’s regional development strategy as well as an attempt to foster integration of the Hong Kong and Macao Special Administrative Regions into the rest of the PRC. However, the GBA […]

  • Jane Sun, CEO of CTrip, in conversation with Michael Szonyi

    Hall D, Science Center 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Jane Sun, CEO, Ctrip Moderator/Discussant: Michael Szonyi, Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Cosponsored by: Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Harvard College China Forum Harvard Business School Greater China Club

  • Shelley Rigger – Taiwan’s Tumultuous “normal election”

    CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United States

    Read event summary here Speaker: Shelley Rigger, Davidson College Shelley Rigger, is the Brown Professor of East Asian Politics at Davidson College in Davidson, North Carolina. She has a PhD in Government from Harvard University and a BA in Public and International Affairs from Princeton University. She has been a visiting researcher at National Chengchi […]

  • Cobus van Staden – China’s Belt and Road Initiative in Africa: Lessons for Central Asia

    CGIS South Room S354 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Cobus van Staden, Senior Researcher on China-Africa relations, South African Institute of International Affairs. Before the Belt and Road Initiative became the heart of Chinese foreign engagement, China was already active in Africa. The lessons it learned in building railways, ports, and diplomatic networks on the continent helped to shape Beijing’s global rollout of […]

  • Sun Ren – Artist Talk

    Sackler Building Auditorium 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Sun Ren The Harvard Chinese Art Media Lab (CAMLab) is thrilled to present an artist talk by actor, playwright, and ceramics pioneer Sun Ren as part of a week-long series on contemporary Chinese art. Exploring themes of medium, materiality, and history, the series investigates how contemporary artists are engaging with China’s millenia-long pottery tradition. Reserve a spot […]

  • John Kamm – Counterrevolution in One Country: Tiananmen 1989

    CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: John Kamm, Chairman and Executive Director, The Dui Hua Foundation Drawing on recently available materials, the speaker will examine how courts dealt with counterrevolutionary offenses and hooliganism in the aftermath of Tiananmen.