Nara Dillon – Feeding the Poor: Food Welfare in the PRC
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesRead event summary here Speaker: Nara Dillon, Harvard University Nara Dillon’s research interests include globalization and the politics of welfare, charity, and inequality in China. In addition to contemporary Chinese social policy, her research examines its origins in the Mao and the pre-revolutionary Republican periods. Her publications include At the Crossroads of Empires: Middlemen, Social Networks, […]
Zuoyue Wang – Transnational Science in Modern China: From May Fourth to the Cold War and Beyond
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Zuoyue Wang, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona How have transnational exchanges, especially with the United States, in science and technology shaped and reshaped modern China in the last century since the May Fourth Movement of 1919? This talk explores key players and events in this history from the Science Society of China during the […]
Derek Scissors – Chinese Investment: State-Owned Enterprises Stop Globalizing, for the Moment
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Derek Scissors - American Enterprise Institute Derek M. Scissors is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where he focuses on the Chinese and Indian economies and on US economic relations with Asia. He is concurrently chief economist of the China Beige Book. Dr. Scissors is the author of the China Global Investment […]
Workshop: The Birth of the Chinese Population
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Malcolm Thompson, An Wang Postdoctoral Fellow Discussant: Gail Hershatter, Professor of History, UC–Santa Cruz Abstract: What kind of problem is "the population problem" in China? That it would be a problem, or at least an issue, seems clear, but this tells us little about how, or why, it was specifically problematized there for the […]
Wen Chen – China’s Healthcare Reform: Does Restructuring Government Functions Matter?
Harvard Chan School, Building 1, Room 1208 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Wen Chen, Professor of Health Economics, Fudan University Professor CHEN received his M.D. degree in social medicine and health management from Shanghai Medical University in 1998 and completed a research fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health from August 2000 to May 2001. Currently, he serves as Director of PuDong […]
William Kirby – Who Will Lead? China and the World of Universities in the 21st Century
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesRead event summary here Speaker: William Kirby, Harvard Business School William C. Kirby is Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies at Harvard University. He is a University Distinguished Service Professor. Professor Kirby serves as Chairman of the Harvard China Fund, the University's academic […]
Playing by the Informal Rules: Why the Chinese Regime Remains Stable despite Rising Protests
Join the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation for a discussion with Yao Li, China Public Policy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Ash Center, author of Playing by the Informal Rules: Why the Chinese Regime Remains Stable despite Rising Protests.
By Land and By Sea: China’s Belt and Road in Europe
Speakers: Kevin Gallagher, Boston University Philippe Le Corre, Harvard University Thomas Berger, Boston University Grant Rhode, Boston University and U.S. Naval War College Min Ye, Boston University Vesko Garcevic, Boston University Georgios Dimitrakopoulos, former Member of European Parliament Robert Ross, Boston College and Harvard University More Information: https://www.bu.edu/asian/2019/01/23/by-land-and-by-sea-chinas-belt-and-road-in-europe-feb-21-2019/
Shirley Yu – The Belt and Road Initiative: A Discussion of China’s Vision and Strategy
Land Lecture Hall, 4th Floor, Belfer Building, Harvard Kennedy School 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Shirley Yu, Harvard Kennedy School's Ash Center Fellow Moderator: Anthony Saich, Ash Center Director, Daewoo Professor of International Affairs The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), the signature foreign policy by Xi Jinping has served as China’s grand strategy since 2013, when the idea first arose, and it will remain relevant until around 2050, when China is predicted to reach […]
Alex Wang – Symbolic Legitimacy and Chinese Environmental Reform
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Alex Wang, UCLA At the heart of debates over Chinese rule of law is the question of state legitimacy. Critics argue that legitimacy requires liberal democratic rule of law. Chinese leaders have long relied on performance legitimacy – economic development and maintenance of social stability – as the core basis of their rule. Western […]
Stanley Rosen – China’s Pursuit of Soft Power in the Era of Donald Trump and Xi Jinping
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesRead the event summary here Speaker: Stanley Rosen, University of Southern California Professor Stanley Rosen teaches political science, specializing in Chinese politics and society. He was the Faculty Master of University Residential College at Bimkrant, an honors college for USC’s best incoming students, from 2011-2017. Rosen lived on campus for 29 years as a resident […]
Tu Chuanfei and Liu Feng – Resistance of the Weak: the Invention of Dragon Dance Performance in a Chinese Village in the Process of Urbanization
Speakers: Tu Chuanfei and Liu Feng, Jiangxi University