Paul Evans – Living with the U.S.: What Would Fairbank Advise?
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesRead the event summary here Speaker: Paul Evans, University of British Columbia
Sheena Greitens – Information, Prevention, and Authoritarian Stability: Local Coercive Capacity in China
Conference Room, Cotting House Soliders Field Road, Boston, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Sheena Greitens, University of Missouri
Panel Discussion – The Taiwan Elections of 2018: Implications for the Future
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesListen again: Panelists: Ming-sho Ho, National Taiwan University Chang-ling Huang, National Taiwan University Steven Goldstein, Sophia Smith Professor of Government, Emeritus, Smith College
Wang Zhen — An undesigned nuclear triangle of the U.S., China and India?
Speaker: Wang Zhen, Associate Professor of International Studies, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences Chair/discussant: Steven E. Miller, Director, International Security Program, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School https://harvard-yenching.org/events/undesigned-nuclear-triangle-us-china-and-india
Robert Daly – A Few Questions As We Barrel Toward the Brink: Has the United States Thought Through its Competition with China?
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesRead the summary here Speaker: Robert Daly, Director, Wilson Center’s Kissinger Institute on China and the United States Robert Daly has served as a U.S. diplomat in Beijing; as an interpreter for Chinese and U.S. leaders, including President Carter and Secretary of State Kissinger; as head of China programs at Johns Hopkins, Syracuse, and the […]
Jianping Ye – Rural Land Tenure System in China: History and Current Reform
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy 13 Brattle St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesOverview: China's rural land tenure system has experienced continuous reforms since 1978, but has faced new challenges amid rapid urbanization. The institutional structure of the system is complicated and evolving. In this seminar, Professor Ye will trace the history of institutional and policy changes in China's rural land tenure system, and discuss the current reform […]
Exhibition Opening – Eye Eye Nose Mouth: Art, Disability, and Mental Illness in Nanjing, China and Shiga-ken, Japan
Japan Friends of Harvard Concourse, CGIS South, Lower Level 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesThis exhibition at the Harvard University Asia Center explores the intersections of art, disability, and mental health by displaying original works on paper and sculptures created by ten groundbreaking, self-taught artists from China and Japan. Their compelling, formally innovative works come in a wide range of styles and media, from gestural abstractions to proliferating figurations, from […]
Chen Wei – How well has China’s family planning policy worked?
Speaker: Chen Wei, Professor, School of Sociology and Population Studies, Renmin University of China; HYI Visiting Scholar 2018-19 Chair/discussant: Mary Brinton, Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Harvard University Demography is destiny. China’s economic success has been importantly driven by its demographic changes which might also determine China’s future. At the center of the demographics […]
David Wang – A New Literary History of Modern China
Speaker: David Wang, Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature and of Comparative Literature, Harvard University Harvard-Yenching Library Book Talk Series
Eric Taglicozzo and Tansen Sen – Borders in Modern Asia: Concepts and Cases
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesBorders in Modern Asia Seminar Series Eric Tagliacozzo, Professor of History, Cornell University Tansen Sen, Professor of History, NYU Shanghai Chaired by Sugata Bose and Sunil Amrith
Xiaofei Tian – The Halberd at Red Cliff: Jian’an and the Three Kingdoms
Speaker: Xiaofei Tian, Professor of Chinese Literature; Chair of Regional Studies East Asia (RSEA), Harvard University
Robert Ross – The Rise of the Chinese Navy: What it Means for East Asia and the United States
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesRead the event summary here Speaker: Robert Ross, Boston College Robert S. Ross is Professor of Political Science at Boston College and Associate, John King Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University in 1984. He has taught at Columbia University and at the University of […]