Events
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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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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:
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Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Lynette Ong — Outsourcing Surveillance: Online Opinion Management in China
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Lynette Ong, Distinguished Professor of Chinese Politics, University of Toronto; Director, China Governance Lab, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public PolicyDigital technology facilitates information sharing among activists; however,
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Sea Charts in the Eastern Half of Asia
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Yannan DING, Associate Professor, Historical Geography, Fudan University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2026-27Chair/Discussant: Peter K. Bol, Charles H. Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University Venue
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Urban China Lecture Series featuring Zhao Miaoxi — Mismatched Industrial Land Lease Terms: Urban Land Vacancy Induced by Business Turnover
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Zhao Miaoxi, South China University of Technology In China's system of public land ownership, industrial land leases often extend beyond the relatively short lifespan of enterprises. Consequently, formulating land
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China Humanities Seminar featuring Kerstin Storm — Old Age and Aging in Medieval Chinese Poetry
CGIS South Room S354 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Kerstin Storm, University of Münster***Please note the different location for this talk in the series.***Perceptions of old age and aging in so-called traditional China are often reduced to two
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Traversing the Belt and Road: The World According to China and China According to the World
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeakers:Min Ye, Professor of International Relations, Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston UniversityJorge Heine, Core Faculty in Diplomacy & Governance, Rising Powers Initiative, Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future; Research