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  • China Humanities Seminar featuring Zhuming Yao —The Early Chinese Lyric “I”: Between Poetics and Hermeneutics

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

    Speaker: Zhuming Yao, Assistant Professor of Chinese & Comparative Literature at Boston University Many poems in the Shijing 詩經 feature a lyric “I,” a first-person voice speaking about intense emotions. Yet, who those “Is” are has never been clear. After two millennia of commentarial writings, we are no more certain than the first critics of

  • Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Jeffrey Wasserstrom — Hong Kong 2025: Competing Visions of a City’s Past, Present, and Future

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

    Speaker: Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Distinguished Professor of History, UC IrvineDiscussant: Moira Weigel, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University In 2015, a group of Hong Kong filmmakers made an anthology film called "Ten Years," made up of dystopian vignettes set in a dramatically transformed city one decade in the future. Now that 2025 has arrived, while everyone

  • Film Screening: “Made in Ethiopia” 

    Boston University Howard Thurman Center, First Floor 808 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, Massachusetts, United States

    Filmed over four years with singular access, “Made in Ethiopia” lifts the curtain on China’s historic but misunderstood impact on Africa, and explores contemporary Ethiopia at a moment of profound crisis. The film immerses viewers in two colliding worlds: a booming industrial powerhouse driven by profit and progress, and a disappearing countryside where life is

  • CLA x Lambda Panel on LGBTQIA+ Advocacy in China

    WCC 1015, Wasserstein Hall 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    Speakers:Yanhui Peng, LGBTQIA+ rights litigation advocate in ChinaMingyue Gao, Partner, Guantao Law Firm, ChinaYing Xin, Program Manager, Global LGBTQI+ Human Rights Program, HKS Carr-Ryan Center; Former Director, Beijing LGBT CenterJoin CLA and Lambda for a panel discussion on LGBTQIA+ activism and advocacy in China! Lunch will be provided at the event. RSVP(https://forms.gle/JZNxYivSGfTVxmFL9). Questions: Zeqing Li

  • The U.S. Cultural Relations Program towards China and the Emergence of Transpacific Intellectual Networks (1942-1947)

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

    Speaker: Ruiheng Wang, Associate Professor, Nanjing University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2025-26Chair/Discussant: William C. Kirby, T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies, Harvard University; Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School Between 1942 and 1947, the U.S. Department of State launched a cultural relations program to provide “cultural assistance” to wartime China and promote

  • Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Zenobia Chan — The Influence Game: What Does China Really Want?

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

    Speaker: Zenobia T. Chan, Assistant Professor, Department of Government, Georgetown UniversityMore information coming soon! Professor Chan is a researcher in international relations, focusing on economic statecraft, as well as influence and information operations. I also develop machine learning methods for estimating heterogeneous treatment effects in experimental and observational data. Her book project Alms and Influence examines when

  • Zhongjie Lin— New Town Utopias: Lessons from China’s 21st-Century Urban Experiments

    Presented via Zoom

    Speaker: Zhongjie Lin, Benjamin Z. Lin Presidential Professor of Urban Design, Weitzman School of Design, University of PennsylvaniaAmid groundbreaking political reforms and the largest mass migration in human history, China created over 3,800 new towns to house its burgeoning urban population and sustain rapid economic growth. Driven by marketization, global trade, inter-city competition, and an

  • Wanlin Li — Appropriation or Dialogue — and Why It Matters: The Poetics and Politics of Transcultural Adaptation

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

    Speaker: Wanlin Li, Associate Professor, Peking University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2025-26Chair/Discussant: Karen Thornber, Harry Tuchman Levin Professor in Literature, Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University; Richard L. Menschel Faculty Director of the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, Harvard College Adaptation studies has long occupied an uneasy position between literary, film,

  • Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring David Yang — Laboratories of Autocracy: How China’s Re-centralization Impacted Economic Growth

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

    Speaker: David Yang, Yvonne P. L. Lui Professor of Economics, Harvard UniversityDiscussant: Anthony Saich, Daewoo Professor of International Affairs; Director, Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia, Harvard Kennedy School David Y. Yang is a Professor in the Department of Economics at Harvard University and Director of the Center for History and Economics at Harvard. David is

  • Kwan-Chi Wang — Food, Memories, and Agri-Science in Action: Reconsidering Food Regimes in Asia — Appropriation or Dialogue — and Why It Matters: The Poetics and Politics of Transcultural Adaptation

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

    Speaker: Kuan-Chi Wang, Associate Research Fellow, Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, Academia Sinica; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2025-26Chair/Discussant: Victor Seow, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences, Harvard University This talk examines how agricultural practices, food crops, and related knowledge have influenced food regimes operated in Asia throughout periods of imperialism, the

  • Digital China Initiative GenAI Workshop

    Room 202, 61 Kirkland St. 61 Kirkland St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    This workshop is designed for anyone interested in using generative artificial intelligence in Chinese Studies.  The workshop will cover the following topics:1. Basic concepts of generative artificial intelligence;2. How to create a chatbot to answer queries based on your own data;3. How to equip a chatbot with tools to complete research tasks beyond simple question-answering. 

  • China Humanities Seminar featuring Lili Xia — Geocultural “Northernness” of Jurchen-Ruled China

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

    Speaker: Lili Xia, Assistant Professor, Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures, Barnard College. The geocultural significance of the “North” was crucial to the competing claims to China between the Jurchen Jin (1115–1234) and Southern Song (1127–1279) dynasties. This talk examines the contemporary conception of “northernness,” arguing that Jurchen-ruled North China was at once a