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  • The Origins and Development of Chinese Heavy Ink Painting

    Sackler Building, Lower Level 485 Broadway, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    Speaker: Lan Zhenghui, Visiting Scholar, Harvard University CAMLab This talk will take place in Mandarin.In this lecture, Lan Zhenghui will delve into the fundamental concepts of contemporary ink art, including its origins, structural expression, contextual relationships, East-West connections, and techniques such as splashing and surface expression. He will also share his decades-long journey and fruitful

  • Critical Issues Confronting China series featuring Xi Lian — Christian Social Activism in Contemporary China

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

    Speaker: Xi Lian, David C. Steinmetz Distinguished Professor of World Christianity, Duke University Divinity School; Visiting Scholar, Harvard Divinity School Discussant: James Robson, James C. Kralik and Yunli Lou Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard College Professor, Harvard University; Director, Harvard-Yenching Institute In his Asian tour in 1920, Bertrand Russell noted the prominence

  • Film Screening — Invisible Nation, followed by Q&A with Director Vanessa Hope

    Hall C, Science Center 1 Oxford St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    Speaker: Vanessa Hope, DirectorDiscussant: Ya-Wen Lei, Professor, Department of Sociology, Harvard University Invisible Nation follows the story of Taiwan’s first female president, Tsai Ing-wen, and explores themes of resilience, identity, and freedom, while shedding light on Taiwan's complex history and its ongoing struggle in the international society. The 90-minute documentary will be followed by a

  • Peter Dutton

    Taiwan Workshop featuring Peter Dutton — What is the Legal Status of Taiwan and Why Does it Matter?

    CGIS South, Room S153 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    Speaker: Peter Dutton, Senior Research Fellow, Paul Tsai China Center; Professor Emeritus, U.S. Naval War College Discussants: Alastair Iain Johnston, Professor, Government Department, Harvard UniversityWilliam P. Alford, Jerome A. and Joan L. Cohen Professor of Law; Director, East Asian Legal Studies Program; Chair, Harvard Law School Project on Disability, Harvard Law School Taiwan’s political status

  • Mediated Populism and Capital Justice in China

    WCC 1015, Wasserstein Hall 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    Speaker: Michelle Miao, Associate Professor of Law, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Social media function not merely as communication conduits but as active agents shaping public discourses central to judicial matters and political life. This talk examines how public discussions of high-profile capital homicide cases are transmitted through social media algorithms. Drawing on mediated

  • Be Water: Collective Improvisation and the 2019 Hong Kong Protests

    CGIS South Room S250 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    Speaker: Ming-sho Ho, Distinguished Professor, Department of Sociology, National Taiwan University How do ordinary citizens organize to push back against creeping authoritarianism in the wake of increased technological surveillance by government?  What happens when these protest efforts falter?  Drawing on an analysis of over 1700 events events and 189 interviews tied to Hong Kong’s 2019

  • HYI Annual Roundtable — Gender, Class, and Youth: The Formation of Civic Democracy in Asia in the Post-Developmental State Era

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

    Panelists:Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal, Harvard Divinity School Fellow, Publisher, and Democracy ActivistMing-sho Ho, Professor, Department of Sociology, National Taiwan UniversityEleana Kim, Professor, Anthropology and Asian American Studies, University of California, IrvineHyun Mee Kim, Professor, Department of Cultural Anthropology, Yonsei UniversityAnthony J. Spires, Professor, Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies, The University of MelbourneKiyoteru Tsutsui, Director, Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research

  • Urban China Lecture Series Featuring Su Xiaobo — State Venturism and the Financialization of Urban Development in China

    Presented via Zoom

    Speaker: Su Xiaobo, University of Oregon Financialization has become a central force to reshape urban development. This paper explores one specific mechanism of financialization—state-led venture capital (SVC)—to elucidate an emergent trend in which governments act as equity investors to support startups and scaleups. Such investments are not necessarily aimed at ownership, but rather at fostering

  • Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Jennifer Lind — Can China’s Smart Authoritarianism Model Win?

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

    Speaker: Jennifer Lind, Associate Professor of Government, Dartmouth University Discussant: Meg Rithmire, James E. Robison Professor of Business Administration, Business, Government, and International Economy Unit, Harvard Business SchoolGreat power competition requires countries to be technological leaders, but an influential literature holds that autocracies, which suppress creativity and information flows, stifle innovation. Many observers of China's

  • From Copycat to Technology Innovator: China’s Use of IP as Strategic Governance 

    WCC 2004, Wasserstein Hall 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    Speaker: Haochen Sun, Professor of Law, The University of Hong Kong What role have state-orchestrated intellectual property policies played in China’s emergence as a major technology innovator? This talk discusses two interrelated transformations that have taken place in China over the past two decades: the rise and fall of the shanzai (copycat) culture movement and China’s

  • Technology and Society in/through Global China: New Reflections, New Visions

    Room S030, CGIS South 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    Situated at a complex intersection where economic imperatives, socio-cultural transformations, and geopolitical shifts converge, technological trajectories within the orbit of “global China” have emerged as a pivotal force reconfiguring domestic fabrics and the international order. To navigate this complexity, the workshop transcends traditional disciplinary silos. We foster an interdisciplinary dialogue by bringing macro-level political economy