• Arthur Kroeber – Is China Ready For “Strategic Competition” with the US?

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

    Read event summary here Speaker: Arthur Kroeber, Managing Director, Dragonomics Arthur co-founded the China-focused research service Dragonomics in Beijing in 2002 and is the editor-in-chief of China Economic Quarterly. Since Dragonomics' 2011 merger with Gavekal Research he has been head of research for the combined operation. Before founding Dragonomics, he was from 1987 to 2002 a journalist […]

  • Ong Chang Woei – The Limits of “Civilization” in the Late Northern Song

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

    Speaker: Ong Chang Woei, National University of Singapore Wang Anshi’s New Policies included hotly debated military reforms, but little is known about how the new military system functioned in different regions. The Khara-Khoto manuscripts discovered in the early 20th century allow us to explore how military reforms transformed territorial administration in Shaanxi from their initial […]

  • Ying Zhu – Trump’s Trade War and Sino-Hollywood Negotiation

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

    Read event summary here Speaker: Ying Zhu, City University of New York; Hong Kong Baptist University Ying Zhu is a Professor of Cinema Studies at the City University of New York and Director of the Center for Film and Moving Image Research at the Academy of Film, Hong Kong Baptist University. She has published eight […]

  • Panel Discussion – Archival and Private Collection in Modern China

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

    Read and download the transcript of the event here. Speakers: Katherine Alexander, Assistant Professor of Chinese, University of Colorado at Boulder Riley Brett-Roche, The Mellon International Dissertation Research Fellow (2018); PhD Candidate in History, Stanford University Xiaosong Gao, Director, The Za Library; Associate at the Department of EALC, Harvard University Michael Szonyi, Frank Wen-Hsiung Wu Memorial […]

  • Kyle Jaros – China’s Urban Champions: The Politics of Spatial Development

    Wiener Auditorium, Taubman Building 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Kyle Jaros, author of China's Urban Champions: The Politics of Spatial Development; Associate Professor in the Political Economy of China Respondent: Meg Rithmire, F. Warren McFarlan Associate Professor of Business of Administration, Harvard Business School Moderator: Tony Saich, Daewoo Professor of International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School This is a brown bag lunch event, refreshments will […]

  • Christian de Pee – Losing the Way in the City: Cities and Intellectual Crisis in Eleventh-Century China

    Speaker: Christian de Pee, University of Michigan During the eleventh century, literati endeavored for the first time to write the commercial streetscape. Literati of previous centuries had written the city in the past tense, in tales of dissolute youth and in memoirs about capitals destroyed, but had otherwise hidden urban streets behind a generic blur of […]

  • Chen Jian – A Flawed Giant: Zhou Enlai and China’s Prolonged Rise

    JFK Jr. Forum, Harvard Kennedy School 79 John F. Kennedy St., Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Chen Jian, Distinguished Global Network Professor of History, New York University and NYU-Shanghai Moderator: Fred Logevall, Laurence D. Belfer Professor of International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School of Government https://ash.harvard.edu/event/st-lee-lecture-flawed-giant-zhou-enlai-and-china%E2%80%99s-prolonged-rise

  • Philippe Le Corre – China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Impact and Perceptions in Europe

    Malkin Penthouse, Littauer Building 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Philippe Le Corre, Research Associate, HKS Ash Center Moderator: Tony Saich, Ash Center Director, Daewoo Professor of International Affairs When China started promoting its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in 2013, Europe was always going to be a key destination for both the "Belt" and the "Maritime Road" with an open goal of targeting the […]