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Domee Shi — Drawing from Life: Storytelling, Heritage, and Turning the Personal into the Universal
Radcliffe Knafel Center 10 Garden St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Domee Shi, Academy Award–Winning Director, Writer, and Storyteller; Creative Vice President, PixarDiscussant: Ju Yon Kim, Patsy Takemoto Mink Professor of English, Harvard University Join the Academy Award–winning director, animator, and filmmaker Domee Shi for an engaging conversation about creative expression and empathetic storytelling. A self-described “film nerd,” Shi will be joined by Ju Yon Kim, the Patsy Takemoto
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Aaron Halegua — Fighting Forced Labor on U.S. Soil: Litigation on Behalf of Chinese Workers
WCC 3008, Wasserstein Hall 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Aaron Halegua, Lead Counsel for Plaintiffs, Wang v. Gold Mantis Construction and Liu v. Wellmade Industries Aaron Halegua leads a boutique litigation firm in New York City focused on labor and employment litigation, with particular experience representing human trafficking and forced labor victims. In 2021, he won $6.9 million for seven Chinese construction workers trafficked to build a
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Chuncheng Liu — Metricocracy: The Data and Symbolic Politics of a Chinese Social Credit System
William James Hall, Room 1550 33 kirkland st, cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Chuncheng Liu, Assistant Professor of Communication Studies, Northeastern University Numbers have become the universal language of modern governance. What happens when an authoritarian state attempts to quantify the moral worth of its citizens? Drawing from my fieldwork inside China's social credit system bureaucracy, this talk reveals how a quantification system designed to enhance state
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Weila Gong — Implementing a Low-Carbon Future: Climate Leadership in Chinese Cities
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Weila Gong, University of California-San Diego Why are some Chinese cities more successful than others in initiating and implementing low-carbon policy actions? Despite being the world’s largest carbon emitter, China has committed to peak carbon emissions before 2030 and to achieving carbon neutrality by 2060. Since the early 2010s, Beijing has selected over one hundred
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Zong-Rong Lee — Kinship, Business Elite and the Market in Contemporary Taiwan
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Zong-Rong LEE, Research Fellow, Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2025-26Chair/Discussant: Frank Dobbin, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences, Harvard University In the fields of history and anthropology, kinship has long been regarded as a crucial factor in shaping the economic organization, political authority, and social mobility of East
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Fairbank Center Visiting Scholar Presentations: Culture Wars and Philosophical Debates in East Asia and China
CGIS South Room S250 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesFeaturing presentations by two Fairbank Center Visiting Scholars who will share current research. Each short talk will be followed by Q and A discussion. The Cultural Cold War: Moral Re-Armament Movement in East Asia Speaker: Hok Yin Chan, Professor of Chinese and History, City University of Hong Kong; 2025 Visiting Scholar, Fairbank Center for Chinese
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U.S.-China Cooperation on Climate Change and Clean Energy: A China Energy Dialogue with John Holdren
Room 230, Littauer Building 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MassachusettsSpeaker: John Holdren, Teresa and John Heinz Research Professor of Environmental Policy, Harvard Kennedy SchoolIn this inaugural China Energy Dialogue, John Holdren will give a talk on the history of collaboration between scholars at the Belfer Center, Tsinghua University, and other Chinese institutions to identify pathways and challenges to China's goals to peak carbon emissions
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From Balancing to Coalition-Building: The US, Taiwan, & Asia’s Grand Reshuffling
Malkin Penthouse, Littauer Building 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeakers:Steve Yates, Former Deputy National Security Advisor; Senior Fellow, Heritage FoundationTony Saich, Daewoo Professor of International Affairs, at the Harvard Kennedy School; Director, Rajawali Foundation Institute for AsiaEdward Cunningham, Director, Ash Center China Programs and the Asia Energy and Sustainability Initiative, Harvard Kennedy School As the Indo-Pacific enters a period of intensified strategic competition, alliances and partnerships across
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Fairbank @ 70 — Witnesses to the Birth of Modern China: The Fairbanks and Liangs, 1932-1949
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeakers:Holly Fairbank, Executive Director, Maxine Greene Institute for Aesthetic Education and Social ImaginationWilliam Kirby, T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies, Harvard University; Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business SchoolRana Mitter, ST Lee Chair in US-Asia Relations, Harvard Kennedy School Wang Ruiheng, Associate Professor of History, Nanjing University; Visiting Scholar, Harvard-Yenching InstituteAbraham Zamcheck, Assistant
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China Humanities Seminar featuring Nathan Vedal — The Art of (Tested) Translation: Manchu Exams in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Nathan Vedal, Assistant Professor, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Toronto; Former Fairbank Center Graduate Student Associate This talk, introducing a forthcoming monograph (Translation, Emulation, and Manchu Literary Culture), will consider the institution of a civil service translation examination during the Qing dynasty, as well as the Manchu translation program in the elite
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China Economy Lecture Series Panel Discussion — Can China Pay for its Technological Ambitions?
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeakers:Andrew Collier, Senior Fellow, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy SchoolKellee Tsai, Dean, College of Social Sciences and Humanities, Northeastern UniversityDavid Bulman, Jill McGovern and Steven Muller Assistant Professor of China Studies and International Affairs, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) Moderator: Meg Rithmire, James E. Robison Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business
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Can Industrial Overcapacity Enable Seasonal Flexibility in Electricity Use? A Case Study of Aluminum Smelting in China
Pierce Hall 100F 29 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Ruike Lyu, Visiting Student Research Collaborator (VSRC) at ZERO Lab, Princeton University; Ph.D Candidate in Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University In many countries, declining demand in energy-intensive industries (EIIs) such as cement, steel, and aluminum is leading to industrial overcapacity. Although industrial overcapacity is traditionally envisioned as problematic and resource-wasteful, it could unlock EIIs’ flexibility
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