Xiconomics: What China’s Dual Circulation Strategy Means for Global Business
WCC 2009, Wasserstein Hall 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MassachusettsSpeakers:Andrew Cainey, Founding Director of the UK National Committee on China; Senior Fellow, Royal United Services InstituteMark Wu, Henry L. Stimson Professor, Harvard Law School; Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Join us for an illuminating dialogue between Andrew Cainey, founding director of the UK National Committee on China and senior fellow at the Royal […]
Urban China Series Featuring Yuan Qifeng: Cross-Border Competition and Governance in the Greater Bay Area of Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macau
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Yuan Qifeng, Professor, School of Architecture, South China University of Technology This talk will be conducted in Mandarin. The concept of the Greater Bay Area of Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macau signifies a national strategic focus on the governance of one country with two systems, three customs zones, and across eleven urban regions. However, […]
Modern China Lecture Series Featuring Jennifer Altehenger – When Folding Chairs Became Bestsellers: The Revolutionary Roots of China’s Furniture Exports
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Jennifer Altehenger, Jessica Rawson Fellow in Modern Asian History, Associate Professor of Chinese History, Merton College, Oxford The People’s Republic of China is one of the world’s leading furniture producers, and international media frequently report on its furniture exports. Descriptions of how goods from China came to furnish homes and workplaces across the world […]
China Economy Lecture Featuring Arthur Kroeber – Has China’s Economy Hit the Wall?
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Arthur Kroeber, Founding Partner and Head of Research, Gavekal Dragonomics As China emerged from Covid lockdowns early this year, many expected that its economy would enjoy a roaring recovery. Instead, it has stalled out. Is this just a short term problem? Or is it a sign that China's economy is headed for the "middle […]
The Chinese Surveillance Technology Industry and its Reception in African Countries
Morgan Courtroom, Austin Hall 1515 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Bulelani Jili, Meta Ph.D. Research Fellow, Harvard University Bulelani Jili's research seeks to offer insights into how China’s domestic surveillance market and cyber capability ecosystem operate, especially given the limited number of systematic studies that have analyzed its industry objectives. For the Chinese government, investment in surveillance technologies advances both its ambitions of becoming […]
China Humanities Seminar featuring Charles Hartman – Structures of Governance in Song Dynasty China
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Charles Hartman, University at Albany, Emeritus This lecture will introduce my recent book, Structures of Governance in Song Dynasty China 960-1279 CE (Cambridge, 2023). Together with its historiographical prelude, The Making of Song Dynasty History: Sources and Narratives (Cambridge, 2021), Structures of Governance seeks to go beyond the static organizational charts of the official […]
Daniel A. Bell – China’s Struggle between Communism and Confucianism
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Daniel A. Bell, Professor, Chair of Political Theory with the Faculty of Law, University of Hong KongDiscussants: Peter Bol, Charles H. Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, […]
Lung Yingtai – My Life in an Indigenous Village
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Lung Yingtai, Writer, Former Minister of Culture of TaiwanChair: Elizabeth J. Perry, Director, Harvard-Yenching Institute; Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government, Harvard University Since Lung Yingtai relocated to an indigenous village in eastern Taiwan three years ago, she sought to comprehend the elements that comprise her life, including the journey of her daily water supply […]
Ian Johnson – Sparks: China’s Underground Historians
Harvard Book Store 1256 Massachusetts Ave.,, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Ian Johnson, Senior Fellow for China Studies, Council on Foreign RelationsDiscussant: Annie Jieping Zhang, Reporter, Columnist, and Entrepreneur Harvard Book Store welcomes Ian Johnson — journalist whose work has […]
Wei Hai Min and Her Personae: Jingju in Our Time
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Wei Hai Mun, Awardee of the Plum Blossom Award and the National Award for Arts in TaiwanDiscussant: David Der-wei Wang, Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature, Harvard University Co-sponsored by:East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard UniversityFairbank Center for Chinese StudiesAsian Cultural Council Taiwan FoundationChiang Ching-kuo Foundation Venue
Environment in Asia Series Panel Discussion – Stevan Harrell’s “An Ecological History of Modern China”
Presented via ZoomPanelists: Stevan Harrell, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Environmental and Forest Sciences, University of Washington Peter Perdue, Professor Emeritus of History at Yale University Jesse Rodenbiker, Assistant Professor of Geography, Rutgers University Robert Weller, Professor of Anthropology, Boston University Organizer: Ling Zhang, Associate Professor of History, Boston College Presented via Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_BOeCcyb9RL2LQMD8zQwg9A Venue
Urban China Series Featuring Li Zhigang: China’s New Experiments of Urban Neighborhood Governance
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Li Zhigang, Professor of Urban Studies and Planning, School of Urban Design, Wuhan University, China ***This talk will be in Mandarin*** China faces significant challenges in neighborhood governance, particularly […]