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  • Exhibition Reception – Calligraphy • China Gene : Ronghua Jing

    Gutman Library 6 Appian Way, Camrbidge, MA, United States

    "One brush reveals all" is the secret of calligraphy and the key of decoding aesthetics of traditional Chinese art. This exhibition consists of ten calligraphies and ten Chinese paintings, including Chinese landscape paintings and Chinese bird paintings. The connotation of Twin Ten, 十全十美 (Ten in Whole, Ten in Beauty) implies perfection in Chinese culture. In […]

  • Pauline Yu – ’A New Day is Upon Us’: Building the Field of Chinese Studies

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

    Speaker: Pauline Yu, President Emeritus, American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Pauline Yu served as President of the American Council of Learned Societies from 2003-19 and was previously Dean of Humanities at UCLA, Founding Chair of the Department of East Asian Languages and Literature at UC-Irvine, and professor at Columbia University and the University of Minnesota.  Her […]

  • Celebration of Professor Roderick MacFarquhar

    Memorial Church 1 Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Roderick MacFarquhar 1930-2019 The Fairbank Community is Invited to Attend a Celebration on Saturday, September 7, 2019 at 2:00 PM, at the Memorial Church of Harvard University With Tributes from Family, Colleagues, and Friends Reception to follow at the Harvard Faculty Club The Family of Rod Mac Farquhar together with the Fairbank Center for Chinese […]

  • Wilt L. Idema – A Second Look at the Precious Scroll of the Red Gauze (Hongluo Baojuan 紅羅寶卷): Some Considerations on the Development of the Genre

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

    Speaker: Wilt L. Idema, Professor of Chinese Literature Emeritus, Harvard University When the Precious Scroll of the Red Gauze was first introduced to the academic world, it was presented as the earliest work in the genre, as its edition was believed to date from the Yuan dynasty (1260-1368). By now it is acknowledged that this […]

  • Ezra Vogel – China and Japan: Facing History

    CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Ezra Vogel, Author; Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus, Harvard University Read and download the transcript of this event here. With brief presentations by: Richard Dyck, former President, Teredyne, Japan Paula Harrell, School of Continuing Studies, Georgetown University Moderator: Elizabeth Perry, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government; Director, Harvard-Yenching Institute Sponsored by […]

  • Isaac Kardon – Pier Competitor: China’s Global Port Expansion

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

    Read event summary here Speaker: Isaac Kardon, US Naval War College Isaac B. Kardon (孔适海) is assistant professor in the Strategic and Operational Research Department’s China Maritime Studies Institute (CMSI). Dr. Kardon researches and writes on maritime disputes, Indo-Pacific maritime security and commerce, China-Pakistan relations, and the law of the sea. He teaches classes on […]

  • Craig Allen – US-China Trade Negotiations: No Perpetual Friends or Enemies, Only Perpetual Interests

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

    Speaker: Craig Allen, President, US-China Business Council Read and download the transcript of the event here. On July 26, 2018, Craig Allen began his tenure in Washington, DC, as the sixth President of the United States-China Business Council (USCBC), a private, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization representing over 200 American companies doing business with China. Prior to joining […]

  • Jeffrey Ding – Law, Technology, and China’s AI Dream

    Room 100, Pound Hall 1563 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Jeffrey Ding,  Researcher, Center for Governance of AI, Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxford and Creator of AI Newsletter East Asian Legal Studies Lunchtime Talk

  • Jon Felt -Postimperial Metageographies of Early Medieval China

    Speaker: Jon Felt,  Brigham Young University For a long time the imperial metageography has been the dominance spatial framework though which people have studied the history of China. This metageography exaggerates the unity and centrality of the imperial court in China and of China in the world—hence the popular idea of “the Middle Kingdom.” The […]

  • Xiaoyu Pu – Rebranding China in International Affairs

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

    Read event summary here Speaker: Xiaoyu Pu, University of Nevada, Reno Xiaoyu Pu is an associate professor of political science at the University of Nevada, Reno. He is a Public Intellectuals Program fellow with the National Committee on United States-China Relations and a non-resident senior fellow with the Inter-American Dialogue in Washington, D.C. He received […]