Events

Laikwan Pang – One and All: The Logic of Chinese Sovereignty

Presented via Zoom

Speakers: Laikwan Pang, Chinese University of Hong KongYurou Zhong, University of TorontoHang Tu, National University of SingaporeModerator:David Der-wei Wang, Harvard UniversityCo-Sponsors: East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard UniversityChiang Ching-kuo FoundationFairbank Center for Chinese Studies Presented via Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_jmaBY41-TSS6wjgs6fWQmQ Venue

Sung Eun Kim – Circumventing the Liberal Order: Protectionism with Chinese Characteristics

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

Speaker: Sung Eun Kim, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and International Relations, Korea University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2024-25Chair/Discussant: Stephen Chaudoin, Assistant Professor, Government, Harvard University This talk will explore how China navigates its position as a rising power within the U.S.-led liberal economic order by employing veiled protectionist measures that align with international rules […]

Exhibit: Dunhuang and Beyond

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

A major milestone and world-renowned heritage site within Silk Road networks, Dunhuang preserves more than 400 embellished Buddhist cave shrines in present-day northwest China. Dunhuang’s cave shrines date from the fifth to fourteenth centuries. Each encloses visitors within murals and carved figures that depict Buddhist legends and paradises. Chronicling innumerable exemplary works of Buddhist artmaking […]

JFK Jr. Forum – A Conversation with Ambassador Kevin Rudd

JFK Jr. Forum, Harvard Kennedy School 79 John F. Kennedy St., Cambridge, MA, United States

Speaker: Kevin Rudd, Australia's Ambassador to the United States and Former Prime Minister of Australia Moderators:Graham Alison, Douglas Dillon Professor of Government, Harvard UniversityMark Wu, Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies; Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law  In Rudd’s summary, Xi is "part emperor and part revolutionary socialist." Drawing on his direct experience with Xi, […]

Exhibit: Dunhuang and Beyond

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

A major milestone and world-renowned heritage site within Silk Road networks, Dunhuang preserves more than 400 embellished Buddhist cave shrines in present-day northwest China. Dunhuang’s cave shrines date from the fifth to fourteenth centuries. Each encloses visitors within murals and carved figures that depict Buddhist legends and paradises. Chronicling innumerable exemplary works of Buddhist artmaking […]

Exhibit: Dunhuang and Beyond

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

A major milestone and world-renowned heritage site within Silk Road networks, Dunhuang preserves more than 400 embellished Buddhist cave shrines in present-day northwest China. Dunhuang’s cave shrines date from the fifth to fourteenth centuries. Each encloses visitors within murals and carved figures that depict Buddhist legends and paradises. Chronicling innumerable exemplary works of Buddhist artmaking […]

Rethinking UN Resolution 2758 and Taiwan’s International Participation

124 Mount Auburn Street Suite 200N, Ash Center Seminar Room 225 124 Mt. Auburn St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Speakers:Johnson Sen Chiang, Deputy Representative of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office (TECRO) in the USRyan Hass, Director, Brookings Institution John L. Thornton China Center; Former Director for China, Taiwan, and Mongolian Affairs, White House National Security Council Moderator: Wenchi Yu, International Affairs Journalist, TVBS television, Taiwan; Ash Center Non-Resident Research Fellow Join the […]

Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Edward Wong — The Empire Reborn: China’s Expansion and Nationalism Today

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

Speaker: Edward Wong, Diplomatic Correspondent, The New York Times Moderator: Mark C. Elliott, Vice Provost of International Affairs, Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History, Harvard University From the the earliest days of its rule, the Communist Party poured resources into reconstituting the Qing Empire. Edward Wong talks about his father’s role in the military […]

Chang-Min Yu — The Use of the Modern and Taiwanese Film History

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

Speaker: Chang-Min Yu, Assistant Professor, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Taiwan University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2024-25Chair/Discussant: Alexander Zahlten, Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University This talk will address a fundamental issue in the writing of film history: how do we articulate the relationship between modernity/modernization and film history without determination? […]

PRC @ 75 – Film Screening – The Dreamers Revisited: Bumming in Beijing (Original Extended Version), featuring an introduction by Eugene Yuejin Wang & Q+A with Wu Wenguang and Dingru Huang

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

Introduction: Eugene Yuejin Wang, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art; Founding Director of Harvard FAS CAMLab, Harvard University.
Q+A Discussion: Dingru Huang, Rumsey Family Junior Professor in the Humanities and the Arts, Department of International Literary and Cultural Studies, Tufts University; former Fairbank Center associateProgrammer: Sam Maclean, Communications Manager, Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesFollowed by a Zoom Q+A […]

Digital China Initiative Workshop — Building a Digital Collection with GenAI Tools

Room 202, 61 Kirkland St. 61 Kirkland St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

This workshop focuses on leveraging GenAI tools to create, manage, and analyze digital collections for Literary Sinitic Studies. Participants will learn basic database concepts, use Nocodb for data storage, and explore how GenAI can assist in scraping, cleaning, and classifying data. The workshop will also cover fundamental analysis techniques for the resulting digital collection. Target […]

Exhibit: Dunhuang and Beyond

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

A major milestone and world-renowned heritage site within Silk Road networks, Dunhuang preserves more than 400 embellished Buddhist cave shrines in present-day northwest China. Dunhuang’s cave shrines date from the fifth to fourteenth centuries. Each encloses visitors within murals and carved figures that depict Buddhist legends and paradises. Chronicling innumerable exemplary works of Buddhist artmaking […]