Events
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Community Viewing Event – Portraits of Freedom: The Womxn Driving our Freedom Movements
Cabot Library Discovery Bar 1 Oxford St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesJoin us in browsing and reflecting upon Portraits of Freedom: The Womxn Driving our Freedom Movements at our Community Viewing Event at the Cabot Library Discovery Bar from 6:30-8PM on Friday, March 29th. Uyghur laghman noodles
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Film Screening: Yi Yi (A One and a Two …), with introduction by Kalli Peng
Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center 24 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesEdward Yang’s cinematic swan song, released at the turn of the millennium, is a moving tapestry that weaves together the dissolution and reconstitution of the fragile subjectivities in an increasingly
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Film Screening: A Brighter Summer Day (Guling jie shaonian sharen shijian), with introduction by Kalli Peng
Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center 24 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSimilar to Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s A City of Sadness (1989), A Brighter Summer Day also traces the experiences of a large family during a critical historical epoch in Taiwan. Set in the early 1960s, against the backdrop
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Film Screening: A Confucian Confusion (Du li shi dai)
Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center 24 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesA satirical comedy with biting wit and a romance that is equally suspicious of and hopeful about love, this film ambitiously negotiates the coexistence of Confucianism with capitalism and democracy. In what
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China Humanities Seminar featuring John Kieschnick – MSG, Vegan Soap, Karma and Tofu: Chinese Vegetarianism in the Early 20th Century
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: John Kieschnick, Robert H.N. Ho Family Foundation Professor of Buddhist Studies, Stanford University Drawing on newspapers, essays, memoirs, correspondence and Buddhist journals, this talk will outline the major trends
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Urban China Lecture Series featuring Margaret Hillenbrand – On the Edge: Feeling Precarious in China
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Margaret Hillenbrand, Professor of Modern Chinese Literature and Culture; Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford University On the evening of November 18th, 2017, a blaze broke out in a two-story
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Rethinking Taiwan and the World: Presentations by the Fairbank Center’s 2023-24 Fellows in Taiwan Studies
CGIS South Room S250 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeakers:Shinyi Hsieh, Hou Family Postdoctoral Fellow in Taiwan Studies, Fairbank Center; PhD, History of Health Sciences Program, Dept of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of California-San Francisco - Navigating Geomedical Borders:
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Critical Issues Confronting China featuring Angela Huyue Zhang – Can Regulation Revive China’s Sagging Economy?
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Angela Huyue Zhang, Associate Professor of Law, University of Hong Kong; Director, Philip K. H. Wong Center for Chinese Law China’s economy is at a crossroads, facing its most
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The Future of US-Taiwan Relations: A conversation with Alexander Tah-ray Yui, Taiwan’s Representative to the US
Nye Conference Center, Taubman Building 5th Floor 79 JFK St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Alexander Tah-ray Yui, Taiwan Representative to the United States Harvard-ID holders are invited to join us for a discussion with Alexander Tah-ray Yui, Taiwan’s Representative to the United States,
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Modern China Lecture featuring Uluğ Kuzuoğlu – Codes of Modernity: Chinese Scripts in the Global Information Age
CGIS South, Room S050 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Uluğ Kuzuoğlu, Assistant Professor of History, Washington University in St. Louis In the late nineteenth century, Chinese reformers and revolutionaries believed that there was something fundamentally wrong with the
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U.S. – China Relations Today
L-332 DELAND, Littauer Building 79 JFK St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeakers:Da Wei, Director, Center for International Security and Strategy (CISS); Professor of Department of International Relations, School of Social Science, Tsinghua University.Rana Mitter, ST Lee Chair in US-Asia Relations, Harvard
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Glen S. Fukushima – U.S. Trade Policy, Japan, and China
Morgan Courtroom, Austin Hall 1515 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Glen S. Fukushima, Vice Chair, Securities Investor Protection Corporation; Former Deputy Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Japan and China Glen S. Fukushima was nominated by President Joseph R. Biden