Events
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Farewell to Grand Narratives: The Cultural Psychology of China’s Younger Generation (告别宏大叙事：当代中国年轻一代的文化心理)
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Xu Jilin (许纪霖), Professor of History, East China Normal UniversityCo-Chair: Yedong Sh-Chen, Visiting Assistant Teaching Professor in Chinese, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Wellesley College***This talk will
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The Ideological Origins of Modern Chinese Revolution: The Noble Spirit of the late Qing Revolutionaries – 近代中国革命的思想起源： 晚清一代革命者的志士精神
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Xu Jilin, Professor, Department of History, East China Normal UniversityChair/Discussant: Elizabeth J. Perry, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government, Harvard University This talk will be conducted in Chinese. 清末世纪之交，在读书人中间，分化出一批激进的革命者。这些边缘知识人抛弃了儒家的意识形态，思想深处的虚无主义、破坏主义，与无政府主义的激进乌托邦与反满的族群意识结合，再加上唯意志论的催化，形成了视死如归的志士精神。20世纪中国的思想源头，大半渊源于晚清这一代革命者的志士精神。 华东师范大学特聘教授、历史系博士生导师、中国现代思想文化研究所副所长，兼任中国史学会理事、香港《二十一世纪》杂志编委，主要从事二十世纪中国思想史与知识分子的研究以及当代中国文化研究。主要著作有：《中国知识分子十论》（复旦大学出版社，2003）、《启蒙如何起死回生》（北京大学出版社，2011）、《当代中国的启蒙与反启蒙》（社会科学文献出版社，2011）、《家国天下：现代中国的个人、国家与世界认同》（上海人民出版社，2017）、《安身立命：大时代中的知识人》（上海人民出版社，2019）、《脉动中国：许纪霖的50堂传统文化课》（上海三联书店，2021）、《一个民族的精神史》（香港三联书店，2019）、《中国时刻？从富强到文明崛起的历史逻辑》（香港城市大学出版社2019）、《左冲右突：现代政治激流中的中国知识分子》（香港城市大学出版社2021）、Rethinking
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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