Fabio Lanza – Liberation through Labor? The Urban Commune Experiment in Beijing
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Fabio Lanza, University of Arizona In the years between 1958 and 1962, the Urban Commune movement was promoted as a radical effort to change the daily lives of city residents. By inserting women into the “productive” life of factory work, the movement also aimed at achieving a new form of everyday, based on a true equality of gender relationships, one […]
China’s Anti-Poverty Miracle?
JFK Jr. Forum, Harvard Kennedy School 79 John F. Kennedy St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesPanelists: Lu Mai Secretary General, China Development Research Foundation Rohini Pande Rafik Hariri Professor of International Political Economy, Harvard Kennedy School Anthony Saich Daewoo Professor of International Affairs and Director, […]
Panel Discussion – Strongman Politics in the 21st Century
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeakers: Elsa Clavé, Harvard University Asia Center Ayşe Kadıoğlu, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University Joseph Fewsmith, Boston University Valerie Sperling, Clark University Moderator: Thomas Vallely, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School Listen again on Soundcloud: As the role of "strongman" leaders on the world stage appears to be […]
Wen-Yi Huang – Families Divided: Migration and Those Left Behind in Fifth- and Sixth-Century China
Speaker: Wen-Yi Huang, An Wang Post-Doctoral Fellow, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University In this talk I explore the impact of migration on family members left behind, particularly those whose parents, children, siblings, and spouses were forcibly moved to the Northern Wei (386-534 CE) from four successive southern states of Eastern Jin (317-420 CE), Liu-Song (420-479 […]
Tansen Sen – India, China, and the World: A Connected History
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Tansen Sen, New York University Shanghai By focusing on the early material exchanges, transmissions of knowledge and technologies between ancient India and ancient China; the networks of exchange during the colonial period; and some of the less-known facets of interactions between the Republic of India and the People’s Republic of China, this presentation argues […]
William Alford – Learn from the Past to Appreciate the Present, That is What Makes One a Teacher 溫故而知新,可以為師矣: Confucius, Cohen (s) and Contemporary China
Milstein West, Wasserstein Hall 1585 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: William P. Alford, Jerome A. and Joan L. Cohen Professor of East Asian Legal Studies, Harvard University Dean John F. Manning invites you to join the Harvard Law School […]
Jerome A. Cohen – Law and Power in China and in Its Foreign Relations
Room 111 Austin West, Harvard Law School 1515 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Jerome A. Cohen, Professor of Law, NYU School of Law; Of Counsel, Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison; Founding Director, East Asian Legal Studies Program East Asian Legal Studies Lunchtime Talk Series
Su-Bing Chang – Taiwan Biographical Database: An Introduction
Speaker: Su-bing Chang, Professor, National Taiwan University; Visiting Scholar, Fairbank Center Please RSVP to Feng-en Tu (hyl.eadh@gmail.com)
Tony Saich – Xi’s Policy Challenges: Some Questions for Discussion
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesRead the event summary here Speaker: Tony Saich, Harvard Kennedy School
Anna Sun – Turning Ghosts into Ancestors: Ritual, Gender, and the Afterlife in Contemporary Urban China
Andover Hall, Braun Room 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Anna Sun, Kenyon College, Visiting Associate Professor of Women’s Studies and East Asian Religions Lunch will be provided.
Ho Ming-Sho – Standoff and Improvisation in Eventful Protests: Taiwan’s Sunflower Movement and Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement
Speaker: Ho Ming-Sho, National Taiwan University, HYI Visiting Scholar Chair/discussant: Paul Chang, Harvard University Taiwan's Sunflower Movement and Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement of 2014 belong to an unusual case of "eventful […]
The Complex India-China Strategic Relationship: Can the Two Asian Powers Rise Peacefully?
Speaker: Professor Arjun Subramaniam, Visiting Professor, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University; former Visiting Scholar, Harvard University Asia Center Chair: Arne Westad, S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia […]