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  • Taiwan Studies Workshop Featuring Lev Nachman – Why is Unification So Unpopular in Taiwan? It’s the PRC Political System, Not Just Culture

    Presented via Zoom

    Topics: Speaker: Lev Nachman, Hou Family Fellow in Taiwan Studies, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard UniversityLev Nachman received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Irvine. His dissertation Movement Parties in Contested States: Taiwan’s Post- Sunflower Movement Parties focuses on contested states, examining why some flourish while others decline.Also Streaming on YouTube Transcript: Download

  • 2022 Harvard Law School China Law Symposium: Charting a New Course through Uncertainties

    Presented via Zoom

    Topics: The Harvard Law School China Law Association (CLA) will host its annual China Law Symposium, “Charting a New Course through Uncertainties,” from Monday, March 28th to Thursday, March 31st. The Symposium brings together prominent legal scholars and practitioners to shed light on major developments in US-China relations. Attendees will have the opportunity to hear

  • Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Iza Ding – The Performative State: Public Scrutiny and Environmental Governance in China

    Speaker: Iza (Yue) Ding, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Pittsburgh Moderator: Michael Szonyi, Frank Wen-Hsiung Wu Memorial Professor of Chinese History and Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University What does the state do when public expectations exceed its governing capacity? The Performative State shows how the state can shape public perceptions

  • Michael McElroy – Decarbonizing India’s Economy

    Presented via Zoom

    Topics: Speaker: Michael B. McElroy, Gilbert Butler Professor of Environmental Studies at Harvard University; Chair of the Harvard-China Project on Energy, Economy and Environment India, the second most populous country on the planet, has enormous energy demands. It is investing billions in renewable power, with the goal of generating 50 percent of its energy requirement

  • Marites V. Detug – Philippine Presidential Election and the South China Sea: Navigating Maritime Dispute with China

    Presented via Zoom

    Topics: Speaker: Marites D. Vitug, Author, Rock Solid: How the Philippines Won Its Maritime Case Against China; Chair Emeritus of the Board, Journalism for Nation Building Foundation; Editor-at-Large, Rappler Chair: James Robson, James C. Kralik, and Yunli Lou Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations; Harvard College Professor; Victor and William Fung Director, Asia Center, Harvard

  • Victor Seow – Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia

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

    Topics: Speaker: Victor Seow, Assistant Professor of the History of Science, Harvard University Discussants:Megan A. Black, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyConevery Bolton Valencius, Boston CollegeGabriela Soto Laveaga, Harvard UniversityModerator: Shigehisa Kuriyama, Harvard University You may choose to attend this event in person, or register for the Zoom link using the button above. Venue

  • China Humanities Seminar featuring Yuri Pines – The Great Unity (da yitong 大一統) Ideal: The Key to China’s Imperial Longevity?

    Speaker: Yuri Pines, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem One of the most notable features of imperial China is the exceptional durability of the imperial political system. Having been formed in the aftermath of Qin 秦 unification (221 BCE), this system lasted intact for 2132 years, until the abdication of the child emperor Puyi 溥儀 on February 12,

  • Environment in Asia Lecture Series featuring Victor Seow — How to Write a History of Energy in Modern East Asia

    Speaker: Victor Seow, Assistant Professor of the History of Science, Harvard UniversityModerator/discussant: Ling Zhang, Boston College In this session, Victor Seow, Assistant Professor of the History of Science, Harvard University, will be introducing his recently published book, Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022). Centered on the history of what was

  • Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Joseph Nye – US-China Strategy and the Lessons of History

    Presented via Zoom

    Topics: Speaker: Joseph S. Nye, Jr., University Distinguished Service Professor, Emeritus and former Dean, Harvard Kennedy School of Government Moderator: William Overholt, Harvard Kennedy School Joseph Nye received his bachelor's degree summa cum laude from Princeton University, won a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University, and earned a PhD in political science from Harvard. He has

  • Roselyn Hsueh – Micro-Institutional Foundations of Capitalism: Sectoral Pathways to Globalization in China, India, and Russia

    Speaker: Roselyn Hsueh, Associate Professor of Political Science, Temple University Hsueh will discuss how her book’s Strategic Value Framework shows that the perceived strategic value orientation of state elites rooted in significant phases of internal and external pressures shape dominant patterns of market governance, which vary by country and sector within country. Specifically, Hsueh’s research

  • Nitasha Kaul – ‘Inbetween’ India and China: Bhutan’s International Relations

    CGIS South Room S250 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    Topics:  Speaker: Nitasha Kaul, University of WestminsterModerator: Arunabh Ghosh, Harvard University The antagonistic relationship between India and China is marked by a high mutual threat perception, frequent hostilities along their shared border across the Himalayas and a demonstrable ineffectiveness of big power diplomacy in bringing about conciliatory understandings in spite of increasing volumes of trade