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  • Film Screening and Discussion: Daughter of the Light with the Filmmaker

    Hall A, Science Center 1 Oxford St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    Speaker: Khashem Gyal, Filmmaker; Adjunct Assistant Professor, School of the Arts, and Asia in Action Fellow, Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University  Daughter of the Light is a deeply moving feature documentary about thirteen-year-old Metok Karpo who lives in a Tibetan boarding school for orphans. The film follows Metok as she navigates the emotional complexities

  • Subversion and Seduction: China’s Economic Statecraft

    Fainsod Room (324), Littauer Building 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Audrye Wong, Senior Fellow, American Enterprise InstituteChair: Rana Mitter, S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations, Harvard Kennedy School Even as the Chinese government intensifies supply-chain coercion, it continues to deepen the trade and investment linkages that sustain its global economic centrality. Audrye Wong’s new book, Subversion and Seduction: China’s Economic Statecraft, explores an underemphasized aspect

  • Urban China Lecture Series featuring Wang Mengqi — Anxious Homes: Inflexible Demand and China’s Housing Market

    Presented via Zoom

    Speaker: Mengqi Wang, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Duke Kunshan University This talk presents the vernacular concept of inflexible demand, known as 刚需/gangxu in Chinese, that people in contemporary urban China draw on to refer to—and construct—an absolute need for homeownership for all city dwellers. Drawing on fieldwork conducted in a gangxu development at the urban

  • Fairbank Center Student Welcome Night

    Riverview Commons, 10th Floor Smith Campus Center 1350 Mass Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    Find out about China-related activities at Harvard and hear about opportunities available to students who join the Fairbank Center Student Network. Fun Chinese snacks will be served!This event is open only to Harvard students. Venue

  • China Economy Lecture featuring Yeling Tan — China’s Economic Security Growth Model, and the US-China Security Dilemma

    CGIS South Room S250 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    Speaker: Yeling Tan, Professor of Public Policy, Blavatnik School of Government, University of OxfordTraditional conceptions of export- or domestic investment–led growth no longer appropriately capture the dynamics shaping the Chinese economy. Rather, China has adopted a model in which national security logic increasingly underpins economic policy. This talk will outline the main components of this

  • Performing Enlightenment: Buddhism and Theater in Early Modern China

    Zoom Registration Required

    Speaker: Mengxiao Wang, Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Southern CaliforniaModerator: Thomas P. Kelly, Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University In early modern China, a major revival of Buddhism coincided with a surging fascination with theater. Buddhist monastics and laypeople increasingly participated in viewing, discussing, and writing plays.

  • Christian Kaps — Charging Fast and Slow: Quantifying the Real-Life Value of EV Charging for Users, OEMs, and the Grid

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

    Speaker: Christian Kaps, Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Technology and Operations Management (TOM) Unit, Harvard Business School Managing electricity demand is critical for lowering the cost of electrified products, integrating intermittent renewables, and reducing grid expansion needs. With its often flexible demand, electric vehicle (EV) charging has long been considered a promising candidate, yet many managed

  • Modern China Lecture Series featuring Xiaobo Lü — Domination and Mobilization: The Rise and Fall of Political Parties in China’s Republican Era

    CGIS South, Room S050 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    Speaker: Xiaobo Lü, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley Examining the miraculous rise of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the surprising downfall of the Kuomintang (KMT) in the early twentieth century, I reveal that domination and mobilization are key for authoritarian parties to seize state power, challenging the prevailing wisdom

  • Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) at 10: Legal Innovation in Multilateral Development Banks

    WCC 3019 Wasserstein Hall, 1585 Mass. Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    Speaker: Natalie Lichtenstein JD '78, AIIB Inaugural General Counsel (retired) Discussant: Alastair Iain Johnston, The Governor James Albert Noe and Linda Noe Research Professor of China in World Affairs, Harvard University When the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) was launched in 2016, many wondered how this new multilateral development bank (MDB) would be different. China

  • Benjamin Ho — After Liberalism? Political Myths, Order-Building and The Return of History in East Asia 

    CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Benjamin Ho, Assistant Professor and Coordinator, China Programme; S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), SingaporeModerator: Mark Wu, Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law, Harvard Law School; Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard UniversityIn recent years, questions have been posed regarding the durability of the current rules-based (liberal) international order and what this

  • Developing the Philippine-U.S. Alliance’s Integrated Deterrence through the CADC: Preparing for a Taiwan Contingency

    Rajen Kilachand Center for Integrated Life Sciences & Engineering, Boston University 610 Commonwealth Ave,, Boston, Massachusetts, United States

    Speaker: Renato Cruz de Castro, De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines The lecture will examine the Philippines’ grand strategy, the Comprehensive Archipelagic Defense Concept (CADC), and how it enables the Philippines to develop the necessary military capabilities to respond to a possible Taiwan contingency. In conclusion, the talk will argue that the AFP’s growing military

  • Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Laikwan Pang — A Sense of Justice: The Struggle with Laws in Hong Kong

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

    Speaker: Laikwan Pang, Choh-Ming Li Professor of Cultural & Religious Studies, Chinese University of Hong KongDiscussant: Li Jie, Ford Foundation Professor of East Asian Studies, Harvard College Professor, Director of Graduate Studies, Harvard UniversityCan a state maintain a sense of justice among its citizenry even as it tightens the legal apparatus of social control?  This