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  • He Zhaohui – The Bookwheel: A Cross-Cultural Story

    Presented via Zoom

    Topics: Speaker: He Zhaohui, Professor, Institute for Advanced Confucian Studies, Shandong University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2021-2022 Chair/Discussant: Ann Blair, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor, Harvard UniversityMore Info: https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/the-bookwheel-a-cross-cultural-story/ Venue

  • Chen Long and Yang Yuanchen – China’s Real Estate Sector: Bubble, Bail-Out, or Further Growth?

    Presented via Zoom

    Topics: Speakers:CHEN Long, Co-Founder and Partner, PlenumYANG Yuanchen, Economist, International Monetary Fund Moderators:Jinlin Li and Richard Yarrow, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School Chinese businesses employing tens of millions of people rely on property development— from steel to construction to banking. China’s property sector faced a crisis this past year, with talk

  • Advanced Institute for Global Chinese Studies Launch Ceremony

    Presented via Zoom

    Join Lingnan University in Hong Kong as it celebrates the launch of its Advanced Institute for Global Chinese Studies (AIGCS). AIGCS’s mission is to foster in-depth scholarly exchanges among institutions and scholars in Chinese studies throughout the world in ways that enhance Lingnan’s international prominence for integrating the finest Chinese and Western liberal arts education.

  • Jun Jing – Meaningful Dying and End of Life Care in China

    Presented via Zoom

    Topics: Improving end of life care in China represents one particularly important opportunity to enhance the well-being of the country’s older adult population as they enter their final phase of life. Designing effective end of life care policies and programs for Chinese communities necessitates asking fundamental questions about the factors that enable people to die meaningfully, including: Does

  • Lessons for East Asia from Eastern Europe’s Institutional Changes and Governing Challenges

    Presented via Zoom

    Speakers:Bojan Bugarič, Professor at the University of Sheffield and former Deputy Interior Minister of SloveniaLance Liangping Gore, Senior Research Fellow at the NUS East Asian InstituteJacques Rupnik, Professor at CERI-Sciences Po and former advisor to President Vaclav Havel and to the European Commission Moderated by: Richard Yarrow, Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School and Visiting Fellow

  • Lessons for East Asia from Eastern Europe’s Economic Challenges and Transformation

    Presented via Zoom

    Speakers:Lajos Bokros, Professor at Central European University and former Minister of Finance of HungaryMarcin Piatkowski, Professor at Kozminski University, author of Europe’s Growth Champion, and former visiting scholar at Harvard’s Center for European StudiesDwight Perkins, Professor Emeritus in the Harvard Economics Department, former Director of the Fairbank Center and the Harvard Institute for International Development Moderated

  • In Search for a New Architecture for New China— Zhang Kaiji and Chinese Modern Architecture in the 1950s

    Presented via Zoom

    Topics: Organizer:Harvard CAMLab Academic Convenor:Jeffrey W. CODYFormer Senior Project Specialist, Building & Sites Department, Getty Conservation Institute WU JiangFormer Vice-President of Tongji UniversityAcademician of the French Academy of Architecture Panelist:FAN SizhengTeaching Professor, College of Technology, Architecture and Applied Engineering, Bowling Green State University CHENG LizhenAssociate Professor, School of Architecture and Design, Beijing Jiaotong UniversityAuthor of

  • Youth Political Mobilization & Socialization in Contemporary China: The Centenary of the Communist Youth League

    2022 marks the 100th anniversary of the official establishment of the Chinese Communist Youth League (中国共产主义青年团, CYL), one of the largest youth political organizations in the world. As the Chinese Communist Party’s assistant and reserve force, the CYL is the Party’s main channel to socialize youth in the official political discourse and practices, and mobilize

  • Christine Wong – Local Finance Under Siege: Unpacking the Paralysis of Fiscal Policy on the Eve of the 20th Party Congress

    Speaker: Christine Wong, National University of Singapore Local finances are under stress.  In the first seven months of 2022 tax revenues were down 14%, and land revenues 32%, yet payroll and other expenditures have to be met, including the Covid-related bills for mass testing and other containment measures.  Since 2021 social media has been flooded

  • Panel Discussion – Making Meritocracy: Lessons from China and India, from Antiquity to the Present

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

    Speakers:Tarun Khanna, Jorge Paolo Lemann Professor at Harvard Business School; Faculty Director of the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute, Harvard University Michael Szonyi, Frank Wen-Hsiung Wu Memorial Professor of Chinese History, Harvard University Ajantha Subramanian, Mehra Family Professor of South Asian Studies and Professor of Anthropology and South Asian Studies; Chair of the

  • Chinese Politics and Foreign Policy Workshop featuring Fiona Cunningham – China’s Search for Coercive Leverage in the Information Age: Past, Present, Future

    CGIS South, Room S050 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    Speaker: Fiona Cunningham, University of Pennsylvania Fiona Cunningham is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. She is also a Faculty Fellow at Perry World House and affiliated with the Center for the Study of Contemporary China and the Christopher H.. Browne Center for International Politics at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research interests

  • Victor Fan – The Insight-Image: Illuminating the Reality of Deleuze’s Time-Image

    Barker Center, Thompson Room 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA

    Speaker: Victor Fan, King's College London      In Zen Buddhism, the notion of here and now is the key to attain––or return to––paññā/prajñā (insight). On a day-to-day basis, we live each moment with a preoccupation of the past and an anticipation for the future. Our retrospection and expectation produce afflictions such as avarice, anger and frustration, as