Film Screening: This Woman (้ๅๅฅณไบบ)
Museum of Fine Arts, Remis Auditorium 465 Huntingon Ave, Boston, Massachusetts, United StatesDirected by Alan Zhang (China, 2023, 90 min.). Mandarin with English subtitles. In her striking debut feature, filmmaker Alan Zhang explores the life of a 35-year-old woman who, after losing her decade-long job during the COVID-19 pandemic, returns to her hometown from Beijing. As she works to support herself, her parents, and her child, she […]
Esther Hu โ Soong Mayling and Wartime China, 1937-1945: Deploying Words as Weapons
CGIS South Room S250 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Esther Hu, Research Affiliate, Boston University Center for the Study of Asia, Pardee School of Global StudiesChair: William Kirby, T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies; Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration; Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor; Director, Harvard China Fund Soong Mayling and Wartime China, 1937-1945: Deploying Words as Weapons focuses on the First […]
Hang Tu โ ๐๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ช๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ข๐ญ ๐๐ฆ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ฃ๐ญ๐ช๐ค: ๐๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ด๐ฆ ๐๐ฏ๐ต๐ฆ๐ญ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ค๐ต๐ถ๐ข๐ญ๐ด ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ข๐ฐ๐ช๐ด๐ต ๐๐ข๐ด๐ต
Presented via ZoomSpeaker:ย Hang Tu, Assistant Professor of Chinese Studies, National University of SingaporeModerator:ย David Wang, Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University How does emotion shape the landscape of public intellectual debate? Inย Sentimental Republic,ย Hang Tu proposes emotion as a new critical framework to approach a post-Mao cultural controversy. As […]
Urban China Lecture Series Featuring Amy Zhang – Circular Ecologies: Environmentalism and Waste Politics in Urban China
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Amy Zhang, New York University After four decades of reform and development, China is confronting a domestic waste crisis. Starting in the early 2000s, Chinese policymakers came to see waste management as an object of environmental governance central to the creation of โmodernโ cities. Chinaโs cities started experiments with the circular economy, in which […]
Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Admiral James Stavridis, USN (Ret.) โ Crisis Scenario: Imagining U.S.-China Relations and War in the Pacific
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Admiral James Stavridis, USN (Ret.), Partner and Vice Chair, Global Affairs, The Carlyle Group; Chair of the Board of Trustees, Rockefeller Foundation Admiral James Stavridis is Partner and Vice Chair, Global Affairs of The Carlyle Group and Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Rockefeller Foundation, following five years as the 12th Dean […]
Trump 2.0: Journalistic Insights on U.S. – Asia Relations
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesPanelists:Steven L Herman, Broadcast Journalist, Voice of AmericaJosh Rogin, Columnist, The Washington PostEdward Wong, Diplomatic Correspondent, The New York Times Moderator:ย James Robson, James C. Kralik and Yunli Lou Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations; Harvard College Professor; Director, Harvard-Yenching Institute This discussion will explore the impact of President Trumpโs second term on Asia, examining […]
Li Miao โ Retaining Desire for Social Mobility Within and Beyond Schooling: A Longitudinal Ethnography of Migrant Youth in China
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Li Miao, Professor, Department of Sociology, Shandong University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2024-25Chair/Discussant: Emily Hannum, Professor of Sociology and Education; Associate Dean, School of Arts & Sciences, University of Pennsylvania Based on the results of Chinaโs seventh national population census in 2020, 71.09 million children of migrant-peasant workers have participated in rural-urban migration for family […]
Fu Hualing in Conversation With Bill Alford
Austin Hall Room 308 1515 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Professorย Fu Hualing, Dean of the Faculty of Law; Warren Chan Professor in Human Rights and Responsibilities, University of Hong Kong Discussant: Bill Alford, Jerome A. and Joan L. Cohen Professor of Law, Harvard Law School Fu Hualing is Professor of Law and holder of the Warren Chan Professorship in Human Rights and Responsibilities at […]
China Humanities Seminar featuring Robert Ashmore โ Song and its Powers: Revisiting the Question of the โMusicalityโ of the Song-poems of Li He ๆ่ณ (790โ816)
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Robert Ashmore, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of California Berkeley Li Heโs own writings, as well as comments from his contemporaries and later critics, persistently note the centrality of song and musical traditions to his distinctiveness as a poetโfrom early on, his works themselves were often referred […]
Modern China Lecture Series Featuring Yixin Chen โ Famine and Rebellion: The Counterrevolutionary Case of the Chinese Peopleโs Life-Saving Army in the Wester Stream Villages, 1959-1960.
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Yixin Chen, Professor of History, University of North Carolina Wilmington. This talk explores why numerous cases of counterrevolutionary groups emerged in rural China during the Great Leap Forward famine of the late 1950s, despite the brutal and large-scale Suppression of Counterrevolutionaries campaigns earlier that decade. Focusing on the case of the โChinese Peopleโs Life-Saving […]
Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Jeremy Daum โ Unchained Watchdog: How China’s Supervision Commission Escapes Legal Bounds
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Jeremy Daum, Senior Research Scholar in Law and Senior Fellow, Paul Tsai China Center, Yale University Jeremy Daum is a Senior Research Scholar in Law and Senior Fellow at the Paul Tsai China Center. He is based in Beijing, and has more than a decade of experience working in China on collaborative legal reform […]
Jishun Zhang โ Revolution in the Lilong and Its Legacy: Revisiting Shanghai Residentsโ Committees in the Mao Zedong Era
CGIS South, Room S153 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Jishun Zhang, 2024-25 Professor Emeritusย ofย the Si-Mian Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities of East China Normal University; Fairbank Center 2024-2025 Visiting Scholar *This talk will be presented in Mandarin* From April to May 2022, Shanghaiโs 61-day COVID-19 lockdown saw the sudden reassertion of the once-dormant Residentsโ Committees. Their resurgence raises critical questions: Is this […]