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  • Building Energy Efficiency Regulations in China: Policies and Trends

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

    Speaker: Barbara Finamore, Senior Attorney and Asia Director, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) Abstract: Energy used in buildings is responsible for 30% of China’s CO2 emissions, a percentage that is expected to grow as China continues to urbanize and transition to a service economy. China has developed a variety of policy tools designed to reduce building energy consumption

  • Film Screening: The Eagle Huntress

    Harvard Art Museum, Menschel Hall, Lower Level 32 Quincy St, cambridge, MA, United States

    Free admission Cosponsored by the Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies at Harvard University and the Harvard Art Museums

  • Critical Issues Confronting China Series: China – A Bullish Case

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

    Speaker: Chen Zhao, recently retired as Co-Head of Macro Research, Brandywine Global Investment Management; former Partner, Managing Editor and Chief Global Strategist at BCA Research Group Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Harvard University Asia Center

  • Critical Issues Confronting China Series: The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom

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

    Speaker: John Pomfret, Author of The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom: America and China, 1776 to the Present and Chinese Lessons; former Washington Post correspondent Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Harvard University Asia Center

  • Reporting from China: A Conversation with New York Times Correspondent David Barboza

    Speaker: David Barboza, New York Times reporter and 2016 Knight Visiting Nieman Fellow at Harvard's Nieman Foundation Join David Barboza for a discussion about the challenges and opportunities of reporting from China. Prior to his selection as Knight Visiting Fellow, Barboza most recently served as Shanghai bureau chief for the Times. Ash Center Director and Daewoo Professor of International

  • Unpacking China’s Belt and Road Initiative and Its Energy and Environmental Implications

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

    Speaker: Weidong Liu, Professor in Economic Geography, Assistant Director, and Chair of the Center for the Belt and Road Initiative, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Science In 2013, China’s President, Xi Jinping, proposed the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), sometimes alternatively labeled "One Belt, One Road." The State Council authorized the

  • Establishing the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank: The Lawyer’s View

    Speaker: Natalie Lichtenstein, Adjunct Professor of China Studies, Johns Hopkins University; Inaugural General Counsel, AIIB (retired) Chair: Ezra Vogel, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus, Harvard University Asia Center Seminar Series; co-sponsored with the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies

  • Chinese Religions Seminar: Illness, Healing, and Ritual in Chinese Religion

    Participants: Jessey Choo, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey TJ Hinrichs, Cornell University Antje Richter, University of Colorado Stephen Teiser, Princeton University Organizers: Michael Puett, Harvard University Robert Weller, Boston University Schedule: 10:00-11:15:  Stephen Teiser, “Deceptively Simple Acts of Healing in Chinese Buddhism.” 11:15-11:30: Coffee Break 11:30-12:45: Antje Richter  “Illness Narratives in Early Medieval

  • Modern China Lecture: Governing the Souls of Chinese Modernity

    Speaker: Andrew Kipnis, Professor of Anthropology in the College of Asia and the Pacific at The Australian National University Philippe Descola argues that human societies can be categorized by the ways in which they utilize broad assumptions about interiority and physicality, where interiority refers to something similar to what Edward Tyler and James Frazer meant by

  • History in Images, History in Words: In Search of Facts in Documentary Filmmaking

    Boston University Photonics Center 8 St. Mary's Street, 9th Floor, Boston, MA, United States

    Speaker: Carma Hinton, Robinson Professor of Visual Culture and Chinese Studies, George Mason University Comments by: Gerald Peary, Suffolk University Sponsored by the BU’s Pardee School of Global Studies Center for the Study of Asia, Center for the Humanities, BU Arts Initiative, the Institute for the Study of Muslim Societies & Civilizations, the Department of World Languages & Literatures, and