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  • 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

  • Chinese Immigrant Lawyers in the United States: Challenges and Adaptation

    WCC 3009, Wasserstein Hall 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    Speakers:Ji Li, John & Marilyn Long Professor of US-China Business and Law, UC Irvine School of Law William Lee, Partner, WilmerHaleEli Goldston, Visiting Lecturer on Law, Harvard Law School Tiezheng Li, Assistant China Representative, International Law Institute David B. Wilkins, Lester Kissel Professor of Law, Harvard Law SchoolJoin the Harvard Law and International Development Society

  • China Humanities Seminar featuring Rebecca Doran — Dress Regulation, Dynastic Image-Building, and Geopolitical Competition in Early Medieval China

    Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    Speaker: Rebecca Doran, University of Miami The various regimes that emerged during third through sixth centuries grappled from different perspectives with the establishment of dynastic dress regulations, meant to promote hierarchical order at home and project legitimacy and strength abroad. This form of conveying authority was complicated by geopolitical developments, including regime changes and tensions

  • Critical Issues Confronting China series featuring Robert Suettinger — Factional Politics in the CCP: Is Change in the Air?

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

    Speaker:Robert Lee Suettinger, Former National Intelligence Officer for East Asia, National Intelligence Counsel Discussant: Arunabh Ghosh, Professor of History, Harvard UniversityOver the past year, Robert Suettinger has spent much time monitoring domestic politics in the People’s Republic of China, much as he did as an apprentice political-military analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency fifty years

  • International Security and What’s Next for U.S. Strategy in the Indo-Pacific: A Discussion with Dr. Ely Ratner

    Malkin Penthouse, Littauer Building 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Ely Ratner, Principal, The Marathon Initiative; Senior Advisor, Clarion Strategies; Assistant Secretary of Defense for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs, 2021-2025 Respondent: Mark Wu, Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law, Harvard Law School; Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesModerator: Edward Cunningham, Director of Ash Center China Programs and the Asia Energy and Sustainability Initiative. The Rajawali Foundation Institute