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  • Adam Segal – The Future of US-China Technology Competition

    CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Adam Segal, Council on Foreign Relations Adam Segal is the Ira A. Lipman chair in emerging technologies and national security and director of the Digital and Cyberspace Policy Program at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). An expert on security issues, technology development, and Chinese domestic and foreign policy, Segal was the project director […]

  • Li Yinghua – Let Silent Stones Speak: A technological analysis of lithics and examination of cultural homogeneity and diversity in South China and Southeast Asia from 30,000 to 6,000 years ago

    Speaker: Li Yinghua Professor, School of History, Wuhan University; HYI Visiting Scholar 2018-19 Chair/discussant: Rowan Flad, John E. Hudson Professor of Archaeology, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University https://harvard-yenching.org/events/let-silent-stones-speak-technological-analysis-lithics-and-examination-cultural-homogeneity

  • Julie Zhu – Life under Mao: the Cultural Revolution and the “Barefoot Doctors”

    Harvard Chan School, Building 1, Room 1208 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, United States

    Speaker: Julie Zhu Up through the early 1970s, the "Barefoot Doctor" initiative in China brought primary care to rural China through a cadre of village health workers affectionately referred to as the "Barefoot Doctors." Julie Zhu was one of them. She was sent to the countryside after high school and worked under the most famous […]

  • Jessica Teets – Managing Local Cadres

    CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United States

    Read event summary here Speaker: Jessica Teets, Middlebury College Jessica C. Teets is an Associate Professor in the Political Science Department at Middlebury College, and Associate Editor of the Journal of Chinese Political Science.  Her research focuses on governance and policy diffusion in authoritarian regimes, specifically the role of civil society.  She is the author […]

  • Workshop – Sinophone Humanities in Southeast Asia

    SCHEDULE 10.15am – 10.30am: Welcome Remarks by David Wang 10.30am – 12pm: Panel A: The Geopolitics of Southeast Asian Space, Memory and History Chair: Huang Ying-che (Aichi University) Ko Chia-cian (National Taiwan University): 漢詩世界裡的華夷風 Tee Kim Tong (National Sun Yat-sen University): 馬華文學、吉隆坡與文學／記憶現場 Liew Zhou Hau (Harvard University): Staging Resettlement: The Re-engineering of Rural History and […]

  • May Fourth @ 100: China and the World

    CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United States

    An international symposium to celebrate and reflect upon the monumental legacy of China’s May Fourth movement. Listen to the keynote speeches by Rudolf Wagner (University of Heidelberg) and Chen Pingyuan on Soundcloud: Download the transcript of Rudolf Wagner's keynote speech here: Reconstructing May Fourth Keynote Speech by Rudolf Wagner   Speakers: Chan, Leonard K.K. Chan, […]

  • EU-China Trade and Investment Relations: A Vehicle for Cooperation or a Path to Competition?

    Adolphus Busch Hall 27 Kirkland St., Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speakers: Jonathan Brookfield, Tufts University Yasheng Huang, MIT Philippe LeCorre, Harvard Kenned School The trade and investment ties between the European Union (EU) and China run very deep. The EU is China's biggest trading partner, and China is the EU's second biggest. Yet, European concerns over a lack of transparency, protection of intellectual property rights, and […]

  • Lim Jaehwan – The Rise and Decline of Collective Leadership in China: An Institutional Approach

    Speaker: Lim Jaehwan, Associate Professor, Department of International Politics, Aoyama Gakuin University; HYI Visiting Scholar 2018-19 Chair/discussant: Joseph Fewsmith, Professor of International Relations and Political Science, Boston University President Xi Jinping’s quick and impressive power consolidation has sparked much debate over the current state and future trajectory of the collective leadership in the Chinese Communist […]

  • Douglas Paal – The Taiwan Relations Act at Forty

    CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Douglas Paal, Distinguished Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Former Director, American Institute in Taiwan

  • Dagmar Schafer – Lists, Local Gazeteers, and the True Lies of Premodern China’s Patterns of Social Mobility

    CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Dagmar Schäfer, Director of Department III, "Artefacts, Action, and Knowledge," Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin Chair: Victor Seow, Assistant Professor of the History of Science, Harvard University Since the 1950s, historians of China have researched and praised the possibilities of upward mobility in China’s late imperial meritocratic society. Through the […]

  • Panel Discussion – China and the Middle East in the 21st Century

    CMES Room 102 38 Kirkland St., Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speakers: Ezra F. Vogel, Harvard University Robert S. Ross, Boston College Bruce Rutherford, Colgate University Degang Sun, Shanghai International Studies University Chair: Lenore S. Martin, Emmanuel College and Harvard University

  • Paul Cohen – A Path Twice Traveled: My Journey as a Historian of China

    CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United States

    Listen again on Soundcloud: Read and download the transcript for this event here. Speaker: Paul Cohen, Fairbank Center Associate In his memoir Paul Cohen, one of the West’s preeminent historians of China, traces the development of his work from its inception in the early 1960s to the present, offering fresh perspectives that consistently challenge us […]