Special Presentation featuring Christopher Rea – From Zhuangzi’s Gourd to Cinderella’s Pumpkin: Gua 瓜 as a Vehicle for the Imagination
CGIS South Room S250 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Christopher Rea, Professor of Chinese, Former Director of the Centre for Chinese Research, University of British ColumbiaModerator: David Der-wei Wang, Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature, Harvard University […]
Critical Issues Confronting China featuring Minxin Pei – Surveillance in a Leninist Party-State: Understanding China’s Preventive Repression
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Minxin Pei, Tom and Margot Pritzker '72 Professor of Government and George R. Roberts Fellow, Claremont McKenna College China’s surveillance state has attracted much attention in the media, but […]
Daniel H. Rosen – Spillover Implications of a China Growing 0-2%
Wex-434ab Conference Room Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK St., Camrbidge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Daniel H. Rosen, Founding Partner, Rhodium Group Educators, policymakers and business leaders need to decide how to respond to the implications of China’s economic slowdown. Options have not been […]
Modern China Lecture Series featuring Fa-Ti Fan – Disaster Governance and Political Participation in China: From the Mao Era to the Present
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Fa-Ti Fan, Professor of History, Binghamton University, State University of New York This talk discusses the modes of disaster governance and crisis management in China from the early Mao […]
Elizabeth Perry – Public Health, National Strength and Regime Legitimacy: China’s Patriotic Health Campaign
Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University 121 Bay State Rd, Boston, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Elizabeth J. Perry, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government, Harvard University; Director, Harvard-Yenching Institute This talk focuses on China's longest-lived mass movement: the Patriotic Health Campaign(PHC). Introduced by Mao Zedong […]
Critical Issues Confronting China featuring Wang Hui – China as a Multi-Ethnic Society: From Empire to Nation State
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Wang Hui, Changjiang Scholar Professor, Department of Chinese Literature and the Department of History, Tsinghua University; Director, Tsinghua Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences Moderator/Discussant: […]
Echoes of the Past, Visions for the Future: The Power of Ideas to Navigate the China- West Divides
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeakers:Tiziana Lippiello, Ca’ FoscariMichael Puett, Harvard UniversityAnna Irene Baka, Harvard University; Ca’ FoscariBryan Van Norden, Vassar CollegeTao Jiang, Rutgers UniversityHsinning Liu, Academia SinicaWen Yu, Boston CollegeBenjamin Gallant, Harvard UniversityKaren Turner, […]
Ma Ran – Un/bounding the Great Wall: Sino-Japanese Documentary Media Connections in the Long 1980s
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Ma Ran, Associate Professor, Cultural Studies and Screen Studies, Nagoya University, Japan; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2023-24 Chair: Jie Li, Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University Spanning […]
Julie Tian Miao – State Inc. And Asian Diasporas in Knowledge Spaces
CGIS South, Room S153 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Julie Tian Miao, Associate Professor in Property and Economic Development, University of Melbourne; Visiting Scholar, Harvard University Asia Center Moderator: Anthony J. Saich, Daewoo Professor of International Affairs; Director, Rajawali Foundation Institute […]
Michelle Miao – Health Code Apps as Social Control in China: Empirical Findings from the Pandemic
Morgan Courtroom, Austin Hall 1515 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Michelle Miao, Associate Professor of Law, Chinese University of Hong Kong; Fellow, Stanford University Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences Michelle Miao is Associate Professor of Law […]
Modern China Lecture Series featuring Christopher Courtney – Heat and the Urban Environment of Modern China
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Christopher Courtney, Associate Professor of Modern Chinese History, Durham University Throughout history, people living in Chinese cities have often had to contend with extreme heat. Although this is natural […]
Big Waves, Great Earthquakes Screening No. 1 – China’s First Environmental Film – Big Tree County, featuring an introduction by Iza Ding
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesIntroduction: Iza Ding, Associate Professor of Political Science, Northwestern UniversityModerator: Sam Maclean, Communications Manager, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies The screening will be followed by a Zoom Q&A with filmmaker Hao Zhiqiang. […]