Events

Exhibit: Dunhuang and Beyond

Sackler Building, Lower Level 485 Broadway, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

A major milestone and world-renowned heritage site within Silk Road networks, Dunhuang preserves more than 400 embellished Buddhist cave shrines in present-day northwest China. Dunhuang’s cave shrines date from the […]

Household Registration: A Tale of Two Cities

Presented via Zoom

Speaker: Anthony Saich, Director of the Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia and Daewoo Professor of International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy SchoolDiscussant: Rana Mitter, S.T. Lee Professor of US-Asia Relations, Harvard Kennedy School The household registration system […]

Jeongsoo Shin — Can Korean Calligraphers Write Like Wang Xizhi? The Mujangsa Stele and its Reception in a Sino-Korean Context

Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Speaker: Jeongsoo Shin, Associate Professor, Korean Cultural Studies, The Academy of Korean Studies; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2024-25Chair/Discussant: Sun Joo Kim, Harvard-Yenching Professor of Korean History, Harvard University From the late eighteenth century, […]

Urban China Lecture Series featuring Liu Zhi

Presented via Zoom

Speakers:  Liu Zhi, Peking University-Lincoln InstituteMore information coming soon. This event series is sponsored by the MIT Sustainable Urbanization Lab, the University of British Columbia’s School of Community and Regional Planning, […]

Mark Baker — 𝘗𝘪𝘷𝘰𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘢: 𝘚𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘗𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘐𝘯𝘦𝘲𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘔𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘯 𝘡𝘩𝘦𝘯𝘨𝘻𝘩𝘰𝘶

Presented via Zoom

Speaker: Mark Baker, Lecturer (Assistant Professor) of East Asian History at the University of Manchester, UK. Moderator: Xiang Zhou, Professor of Sociology, Harvard University  Pivot of China (Harvard Asia Center, 2024) examines spatial inequality […]

Urban China Lecture Series featuring  Philipp Demgenski

Presented via Zoom

Speakers:   Philipp Demgenski, Zhejiang UniversityMore information coming soon. This event series is sponsored by the MIT Sustainable Urbanization Lab, the University of British Columbia’s School of Community and Regional Planning, and […]