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Visiting Scholar Presentation featuring Andrew Erickson — China’s Naval Leadership: Corruption and Capabilities
CGIS South, Room S050 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Andrew Erickson, Professor of Strategy, China Maritime Studies Institute, U.S. Naval War College Regarding China’s ability to seize Taiwan or achieve other top-level military objectives, does corruption matter? Since
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China Humanities Seminar featuring Tamara Chin — How to Do Things with Loanwords: Premodern Sino-Xenic Language Contact in Modern Philology, Linguistics, and Politics, 1870-1970
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Tamara Chin, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Brown University The study of ancient language contact traditionally lacked prestige in both Confucian classical studies and European philology. This changed somewhat in
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Urban China Lecture Series Featuring Cecilia Chu — Building Colonial Hong Kong: The Production of Space in a Speculative City
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Cecilia Chu, Associate Professor in Architecture, The Chinese University of Hong Kong This talk will explore three central aspects of urban development in colonial Hong Kong: the advent of
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Indigenous Narrative: The Dynamic Biographies of gShen-rab Mi-bo, Founder of the Tibetan Bon Religion
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Konchok Tsering, Assistant Professor, School for Tibetan Studies, Minzu University of China; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2024-25 Chair/Discussant: Janet Gyatso, Hershey Professor of Buddhist Studies, Harvard University This talk delves into
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Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Li Zhang — Anxious China: Rethinking Therapeutic Governing Before and After the Pandemic
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Li Zhang, Professor of Anthropology, University of California-Davis Discussant: Arthur Kleinman, Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology; Professor of Medical Anthropology in Social Medicine; Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard
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Rethinking Taiwan Workshop – New Interpretations of Taiwan History and Identity
CGIS South, Room S153 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeakers:Chia-Chiun Shih Chen (陳嘉君), 2024-25 Visiting Fellow of Practice; Chairperson, Shih Ming-Te Cultural FoundationSarah Plovnick, 2024-25 Hou Family Post-Doctoral Fellow in Taiwan Studies, Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesHardy Stewart, 2024-25
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What is China? New Perspectives in New Eras — An International Symposium
Yenching Auditorium 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesKeynote Speaker: Ge Zhaoguang 葛兆光, Fudan UniversitySpeakers:April 18, 2-5:30pm, Yenching AuditoriumMark C. Elliot, Harvard UniversityJames Robson, Harvard UniversityPeter K. Bol, Harvard UniversityRonald C. Po, London University of Economics Kung Ling-wei, Academia
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Visiting Scholar Presentation featuring Shih-Diing Liu — Who’s Afraid of Gender? Revisiting Engendering China 31 Years On
Room K354, CGIS Knafel 1737 Cambridge St, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Shih-Diing Liu (刘世鼎), Professor of Communication and Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Advanced Studies, University of MacauDiscussant: Susan Greenhalgh, Professor of Anthropology; John King and Wilma Cannon Fairbank Professor
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Modern China Lecture featuring Joseph Ho — Developing Mission: Photography, Filmmaking, and American Missionaries in Modern China
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Joseph Ho, Associate Professor of History, Albion College, Michigan; Center Associate, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan Developing Mission is a transnational cultural history of US and
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Economic Conjunctures: Planners, Residents, and Chinese-Led Urban Development in Nairobi
CGIS South, Room S153 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Elisa Tamburo, Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, Anthropology Department, Harvard University; School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford Moderator: Michael Puett, Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History and Anthropology;
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Urban China Lecture Series Featuring Mark Baker — Pivot of China: Spatial Politicsand Inequality in Modern Zhengzhou
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Mark Baker, University of Manchester This event series is sponsored by the MIT Sustainable Urbanization Lab, the University of British Columbia’s School of Community and Regional Planning, and the
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Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Suisheng Zhao — The Dragon Roars Back: Xi’s Power Concentration and Foreign Policy Implications
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Suisheng Zhao, Suisheng Zhao, Professor and Director, Center for China-US Cooperation, Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver Discussant: Robert Ross, Professor of Political Science, Boston College;
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