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  • Wen-Chin Wu – How does China’s Foreign Aid Undermine the Effectiveness of US Foreign Policy? —Evidence from UN General Assembly Voting Data

    Speaker: Wen-Chin Wu, Assistant Research Fellow, Institute of Political Science, Academia Sinica; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2019-20 Chair/discussant: Christina Davis, Professor of Government, Harvard University; Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor, Radcliffe Institute The economic rise of China is inspiring a burgeoning literature on how China uses its economic power to influence other countries’ domestic […]

  • Kent Calder – Super Continent: BRI and the Emergence of an Integrated Eurasia

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

    Read event summary here Speaker: Kent Calder, Johns Hopkins University Kent Calder serves as Vice Dean for Faculty Affairs and International Research Cooperation at JHU. He is also Director of the Edwin O. Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies, and served from 2016-2018 as Director of Asia Programs. Before arriving at Johns Hopkins SAIS in […]

  • Kwok-leong Tang – Digital China Lab: Web Scraping without Coding

    Registration Form: https://d.pr/SgidPR This workshop will introduce tools and basic skills to extract and collect data from web pages. It is intended for participants who have no familiarity with programming and coding. Participants will use two Chrome extensions to parse information from websites and learn basic knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. In order to […]

  • Daniel Koss – Where the Party Rules: The Rank and File of China’s Communist Party

    Speaker: Daniel Koss, Lecturer, EALC, Harvard University In most non-democratic countries, today governing forty-four percent of the world population, the power of the regime rests upon a ruling party. Contrasting with conventional notions that authoritarian regime parties serve to contain elite conflict and manipulate electoral-legislative processes, this book presents the case of China and shows […]

  • Dirk van der Kley – Less is More…The New BRI in Central Asia

    Speaker: Dirk van der Kley, Program Director for Policy Research, China Matters Xi Jinping’s Belt and Road Initiative has changed significantly in Central Asia in the last few years. In particular, direct Chinese government lending through Eximbank to Central Asian states has completely dried up. Instead the focus has shifted to smaller investment projects that […]

  • Jude Blanchette – What’s Communist about the Communist Party of China?

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

    Read event summary here Speaker: Jude Blanchette - Center for Strategic and International Studies The speaker will explore the extant ideological and institutional legacies of socialism and Marxism within the current day CCP.

  • Xi Yang – China’s Coal-to-Gas Policy for Residential Heating: Between the Shadow and the Light

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

    Speaker: Xi Yang, Visiting Researcher, Harvard-China Project; Associate Professor, China University of Petroleum Beijing Under the pressure of improving its environmental governance, China has strengthened its coal substitution policy known as “coal-to-gas” in residential heating in Northern region. This bold policy sets strict gas replacement targets for “26 + 2” key cities. However, China suffered […]

  • Exhibition – Elegy to a Uyghur Dreamscape

    Japan Friends of Harvard Concourse, CGIS South, Lower Level 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United States

    Photographs by Lisa Ross Sponsored by the Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and Harvard Asia Center Arts Initiative; with support from the Provostial Fund Committee, Office of the Dean of Arts and Humanities

  • Zhai Shaodong – Ground Stone Tool Production: A Forsaken Craft During Early Urbanization in China

    Speaker: Zhai Shaodong, Associate Professor, Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2019-20 Chair/discussant: Rowan Flad, John E. Hudson Professor of Archaeology, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University In China, ground stone tools emerged during the transition period from the Paleolithic to the Neolithic time. However, they did not take the place […]