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  • Critical Issues Confronting China Series – China Policy Under Trump

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

    Read event summary here Dr. Jeffrey Bader, Senior Fellow, John L. Thornton China Center, Brookings Institution Jeffrey Bader is a senior fellow in the John L. Thornton China Center at the Brookings Institution. From 2009 until 2011, Bader was special assistant to the president of the United States for national security affairs at the National […]

  • China’s Anthropogenic Methane Emissions: A Review of Current Bottom-Up Inventories

    Pierce Hall 100F 29 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Prof. Zhang Bo, Visiting Scholar, Harvard-China Project; Associate Professor, State Key Laboratory of Coal Resources and Safe Mining, China University of Mining & Technology (Beijing) Methane (CH4) is the second ranking anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG), with a global warming potential (GWP) 28 times greater than that of carbon dioxide (CO2) on a mass basis. In contrast […]

  • Infinite Interfusion: The Visible and the Invisible in Liao Pagodas

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

    Speaker: Youn-mi Kim, Ewha Womans University The shamanistic Khitan people were exposed to Buddhism −the Indian religion that reached these nomads mediated by the Han Chinese sedentary culture− when they suddenly rose to power and founded the Liao Empire (907-1125). By exploring the pagodas from the Liao Empire, this lecture discusses how the synthesis of these […]

  • Critical Issues Confronting China Series – Behind the Headlines: Rebuilding Fiscal Foundations for Xi Jinping’s Governance Reform

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

    Event Summary Speaker: Professor Christine Wong, Director, Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies, University of Melbourne Professor Wong is a leading authority on China's public finance. Her work on public finance, central-local relations and their implications for governance, economic development and welfare in China are widely cited, including several major World Bank studies for which Professor […]

  • Modular Construction: Building Decorated Tombs in Song and Jin North China

    Speaker: Deng Fei, Associate Professor, National Institute of Advanced Humanistic Studies, Fudan University; HYI Visiting Scholar Chair/discussant: Eugene Wang, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art, Department of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University https://harvard-yenching.org/events/popularized-landscapes-pictures-landscape-tombs-yuan-china-1271-1368

  • Critical Issues Confronting China Series – China’s Complex Health Care Reform

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

    Read event summary here Speaker: Winnie Yip, Harvard University Dr. Winnie Yip is Professor of Global Health Policy and Economics in the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and also Director of the school wide China Health Partnership. Dr. Yip was previously a Professor of Health Policy […]

  • From Mandala to Palace: Transforming Space and Site at Qutan Monastery

    Speaker: Aurelia Campbell, Boston College Moderator: Eugene Wang, Harvard University The lecture concentrates on Qutan Monastery, a Buddhist temple located in an isolated mountainous region near Ledu, Qinghai province, at the Sino-Tibetan frontier. The temple was founded by an influential Tibetan Buddhist lama named Sanggyé Trashi (d. 1414), who, in 1393, traveled to the Ming […]

  • Embodied Virtue: How Was Loyalty Edited and Performed in Late Imperial China?

    Speaker: Chiung-yun Evelyn Liu, Associate Research Fellow, Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica; HYI Visiting Scholar Chair/discussant: Wai-yee Li, Professor of Chinese Literature, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University https://harvard-yenching.org/events/layered-knowledge-layered-sentiment-encyclopedic-writing-after-fall-dynasty

  • Neuhauser Lecture – Embracing Sovereignty: China, the U.S., and the Future of World Order

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

    Speaker: James Steinberg, University Professor of Social Science, International Affairs, and Law, Syracuse University In the past year, the leaders of China and the United States laid out their respective visions for future peace and prosperity in widely noted speeches at Davos (President Xi) and the UN (President Trump). What do those speeches tell us about […]

  • China’s Future Leadership: An Instant Analysis of China’s 19th Party Congress

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

    Join the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation for a panel discussion where experts weigh in with exclusive insight and opinions on China's 19th Party Congress. Watch this panel on YouTube: Listen again to this panel on Soundcloud:     Moderator: Mark Elliott, Vice Provost of International Affairs […]

  • China Humanities Seminar – Huaben and the Mind

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

    Speaker: Tina Lu, Yale University As a genre, huaben are relentlessly experimental. Sometimes these stories come close to stream of consciousness (especially in their depiction of dreams), and it is easy to lapse into habits of reading that consider those experiments proto-modernist. Tina Lu would like to take a step back and consider the ways […]