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  • Alex Wang – Symbolic Legitimacy and Chinese Environmental Reform

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

    Speaker: Alex Wang, UCLA At the heart of debates over Chinese rule of law is the question of state legitimacy. Critics argue that legitimacy requires liberal democratic rule of law. Chinese leaders have long relied on performance legitimacy – economic development and maintenance of social stability – as the core basis of their rule. Western […]

  • Stanley Rosen – China’s Pursuit of Soft Power in the Era of Donald Trump and Xi Jinping

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

    Read the event summary here Speaker: Stanley Rosen, University of Southern California Professor Stanley Rosen teaches political science, specializing in Chinese politics and society. He was the Faculty Master of University Residential College at Bimkrant, an honors college for USC’s best incoming students, from 2011-2017. Rosen lived on campus for 29 years as a resident […]

  • Film Screening – The Stormy Night by Zhu Shouju

    Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center 24 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Discussant: Shi Chuan, professor, The Shanghai Theater Academy, Vice President of the Shanghai Film Association, and Chief Curator, Shanghai Film Museum. More than 650 films were reportedly made in China between 1921 and 1931, yet no more than twenty have survived the wars that followed. The serendipitous rediscovery of Zhu Shouju’s 1925 film The Stormy Night gives us a rare […]

  • Neuhauser Lecture featuring Susan Thornton – Can We Live with China? A Roadmap for Co-evolution

    Listen again:  Read and download the transcript for this event here.   Speaker: Susan Thornton, Former Acting Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Susan Thornton was Acting Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs at the Department of State during the first 18 months of the Trump administration. Prior to her departure, […]

  • Fred Hu and Graham Allison – Belfer Center Student and Fellow Session

    Belfer Center Library Room 369, Littauer Center 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA, United States

    The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs will host a Student and Fellow Session with Fred Hu, Chairman of Primavera Capital Group, and Graham Allison, Douglas Dillon Professor of Government and former Director of the Belfer Center. Dr. Hu is Chairman and founder of Primavera Capital Group, a China-based global investment firm. He was […]

  • Data and/in the Humanities

    Speaker: Carol Chiodo, Librarian for Collections and Digital Scholarship, Widener Library, Harvard University

  • Yu Zhou – Technological Innovation: Exploring Chinese Models

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

    Read the event summary here Speaker: Yu Zhou, Vassar College China’s technological ambition and trajectory have become a central concern for the US-China Trade War and will likely to define US-China relations for a long time to come.  This talk traces the evolution of Chinese policies on technological innovation.  Based on case studies on ten […]

  • China and Asia in a Changing Climate: Natural Science for the Non-Scientist

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

    Speakers: John Holdren, Teresa and John Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy, Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University; Co-Director of  Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, HKS; former Science Advisor to President Barack Obama and former Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Peter Huybers, Department of […]

  • Yanfei Sun – Religious Toleration in Premodern Empires

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

    Speaker: Yanfei Sun, Zhejiang University Yanfei Sun is associate professor of sociology at Zhejiang University. Her research interests include sociology of religion and political sociology. In addition to religious changes in modern China, she also researches on religious movement, global expansion of Christianity, religious toleration, religious nationalism, and ethno-religious violence.