• Living With A China Made Great Again

    Speaker: Ambassador Chas W. Freeman, Jr.;  Senior Fellow, Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University; former Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs;  former U. S. Ambassador to Saudi […]

  • China’s National Cap-and-Trade Program: the Promise and the Reality

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

    Speaker: WANG Pu, Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School Co-sponsored by the China Project, Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and the Environment and Natural Resources Program, Harvard Kennedy […]

  • Workshop: The Artist’s Hand—Technology in Practice

    Deknatel Hall 32 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA, United States

    This workshop is an international event jointly sponsored by the Harvard History of Art and Architecture Dept., the China Academy of Art, and the Rhode Island School of Design. It […]

  • Film Screening and Discussion: Mr. Deng Goes to Washington

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

    Mr. Deng Goes to Washington tells the story of Deng Xiaoping’s, China’s paramount leader, historic visit to the United States in 1979 that changed the trajectory of world history.  This […]

  • The Master Branches Out: Images of Confucius in Contemporary China

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

    As Confucius (551-479 BCE) has returned to political favor in recent years, his image has become ubiquitous in mainland China and increasingly used abroad to symbolize Chinese culture.  Represented in […]

  • Film Screening: “Song of the Reed”

    In 1998, the Taiwan Women’s Rescue Foundation (TWRF) made a groundbreaking documentary that revealed the existence of Taiwanese comfort women. More than 15 years later, the same organization filmed a […]

  • The First World War and the Idea of “China”

    CGIS Knafel, K050 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    This lecture will focus on the meaning of the First World War to China and China's role in the Great War. It will pay special attention to the issue how the Great War and its aftermath […]

  • South China Sea: Hague and Aftermath

    Boston University School of Education Auditorium 2 Silber Way, Boston, MA, United States

    Speakers: Andrew Loewenstein, Partner, Foley Hoag Peter Dutton, Naval War College Michael McDevitt, CNA Strategic Studies Taylor Fravel, MIT

  • To Ransom Destiny: The Daoist Search for Deliverance in Medieval China

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

    Franciscus Verellen a former director of the Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient (2004-2014), where he also holds the chair in History of Daoism and currently serves as head of the EFEO Hong Kong Center.

  • Inventing Nana Hsu: Creativity in Academic Writing

    Room 212 2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA, United States

    In the fall of 1948, a young woman in Shanghai left behind her high school Chinese literature textbook just as Communist forces made their way into the city and the […]