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  • 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 […]

  • Karl Eikenberry – The Military Dimension of Sino-American Strategic Competition

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

    Read event summary here Speaker: Karl Eikenberry, Stanford University Karl Eikenberry is Director of the U.S.-Asia Security Initiative and faculty member at the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, faculty member of the Center for International Security and Cooperation, and Professor of Practice at Stanford University. He is also an affiliate with the FSI Center for Democracy, […]

  • Lu Pin – Finding a Voice: A Conversation on China’s Feminist Voices

    Speaker: Lu Pin, Chinese journalist and feminist activist Chair: Julian Gewirtz, Lecturer, Department of History; Academy Scholar, Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, Harvard University Discussant: Moira Weigel, Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows Asia Center Seminar Series. Sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center; cosponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies

  • Li Jie – Maoist Cinema as a Spirit Medium

    Speaker: Li Jie, EALC, Harvard University As a scholar of literary, film, and cultural studies, Jie Li’s research interests center on the mediation of memories in modern China. Her first book, Shanghai Homes: Palimpsests of Private Life (Columbia, 2014), excavates a century of memories embedded in two alleyway neighborhoods destined for demolition. Her second monograph, Utopian Ruins: A […]

  • Terry Sicular – Rural Secondary Education During the Cultural Revolution: The Untold Story

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

    Speaker: Terry Sicular, Professor of Economics, The University of Western Ontario Terry Sicular is a leading North American specialist on the Chinese economy. She has written extensively on household incomes, inequality, poverty, and the rural economy in China. She is a co-editor of and contributor to several books including Rising Inequality in China:  Challenges to […]

  • Wei Shang – “The Story of the Stone” and the Visual Culture of the Manchu Court 

    Speaker: Wei Shang, Columbia University This talk addresses The Story of the Stone (otherwise known as Dream of the Red Chamber, Honglou meng 紅樓夢), authored by Cao Xueqin (ca. 1715--ca. 1763), with special focus on its recurrent theme as captured in Chapter 1: “Truth becomes fiction when fiction is true; real becomes not-real where the […]

  • Paul Clifford – Huawei Technologies: World-Class Company or State Agent?

    Starr Auditorium, Belfer Building, Floor 2.5, Harvard Kennedy School 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Paul Clifford, Ash Center Nonresident Senior Fellow Moderator: Anthony Saich, Ash Center Director and Daewoo Professor of International Affairs China has come a long way from relying on imports to support its telecommunications sector. Today, telecommunications companies in China not only fulfill that nation’s growing needs but have a global reach. In this context, how […]