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Legitimating State Power and Social Policies: A Comparative Study of Early Modern England, Tokugawa Japan, and Qing China
Speaker: Prof. He Wenkai (Division of Social Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; HYI-Radcliffe Visiting Scholar) Chair/discussant: Prof. Daniel Ziblatt (Government, Harvard University) This talk employs comparative historical […]
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A New Asia: How China Shaped the Postwar Global Order
Loeb House 17 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesThe 2016 S.T. Lee Lecture will be presented by Rana Mitter, professor of history and politics of modern China and fellow of St Cross College, University of Oxford. Established in […]
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Xi Jinping: The Three Problems and the Two Issues
Speaker: Professor Joseph Fewsmith, Department of Political Science, Boston University Critical Issues Confronting China Seminar Series; co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Harvard University Asia Center
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Tourism, Homeland, and Imaginaries: the percolating role of a Yi Jia Le family in a Sani Yi village in southwest China
Tourism has increasingly become a force that propels economic and social change in a wide range of ethnic villages in China. For the local ethnic minorities, engaging in the business of tourism means not only learning new livelihood skills but also adjusting the community’s imaginaries of their own homeland to outside tourist imaginaries.
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Du Fu (712-770): China’s Greatest Poet: A Conference in Honor of the Library of Chinese Humanities
The symposium brings together over twenty scholars in premodern and modern Chinese literary studies from North America and East Asia. The discussions will focus on four aspects: Rethinking Du Fu […]
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Book Talk: The Last Days of Stalin
Lewis 241A 1557 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Joshua Rubenstein. staff member of Amnesty International USA from 1975 to 2012 and associate at Harvard University’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies.
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The Dictator’s Dilemma: The Chinese Communist Party’s Strategy for Survival
Speaker: Professor Bruce J. Dickson, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs; Director, Sigur Center for Asian Studies, Elliott School of International Affairs, The George Washington University Critical Issues Confronting […]
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Taiwan in Transition? Initial Impressions of the Tsai Ing-wen Administration
Taiwan Studies Workshop 9:45am - Introductory Remarks: Hon. Stanley Kao, Representative, Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the United States. 10:15am - Shelley Rigger, Davidson College 11:15am - Scott Kennedy, Center for […]
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The Future of Sino-EU Relations After Brexit
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesPhilippe Le Corre, Visiting Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center on the United States and Europe, The Brookings Institution Co-sponsored by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Program on Transatlantic Relations […]
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Learning Community Organizing in Japan and China
CGIS South Room S354 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeakers: Dr. Marshall Ganz, Senior Lecturer in Public Policy, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School Kanoko Kamata, Executive Director, Community Organizing Japan Iris Hu, Leadership Trainer […]
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Fantasies of the Self: Multiples, Illusions and Poems in the Photographic Culture of Modern China
Speaker: Prof. Shengqing Wu (Division of Humanities, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2016-17) Chair/discussant: Prof. David Wang (EALC, Harvard University) This talk investigates the visual […]
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Unparalleled Momentum: A Review of China-U.S. Economic and Trade Relations Under President Obama
Dr. Xiang Yu, Visiting Scholar, Harvard University Asia Center; Director of the Division of American Economy Studies, Institute of American Studies, China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations (CICIR); Research Fellow […]
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