Events
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Urban China Lecture Series featuring Zhang Qingyong — No Waste for the State, No Loss for Farmers: The Evolution of Rural Land Takings in Contemporary China (国家不浪费与农民不吃亏：当代中国农村土地征收制度变迁)
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Zhang Qingyong, Renmin University This talk will be given in Mandarin.In this talk I will report on my ongoing research into the evolution of China’s land takings system since
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Modern China Lecture Series featuring Fei-Hsien Wang — Modernization Theory and Historical Knowledge in Cold War Taiwan
Room K354, CGIS Knafel 1737 Cambridge St, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Fei-Hsien Wang, Associate Professor, Department of History, Indiana University Bloomington In 1973, the Institute of Modern History (IMH) at Academia Sinica launched an ambitious collaborative project to examine late
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Urban China Lecture Series featuring Susan Whiting — Illiberal Law and Development: Property Rights and Conflict over Land in China
Presented via ZoomSpeaker:Susan Whiting, University of Washington In Illiberal Law and Development, Susan H. Whiting advances institutional economic theory with original survey and fieldwork data, addressing two puzzles in Chinese political economy:
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Financing China’s Strategic Ambitions
Wexner W-434 A.B 19 Eliot St, Cambridge, United StatesSpeakers:Zoe Liu, Maurice R. Greenberg Senior Fellow for China Studies, Council on Foreign RelationsRana Mitter, S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations, Harvard Kennedy School Join us on for a lunchtime
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Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Lynette Ong — Outsourcing Surveillance: Online Opinion Management in China
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Lynette Ong, Distinguished Professor of Chinese Politics, University of Toronto; Director, China Governance Lab, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public PolicyDigital technology facilitates information sharing among activists; however,
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Sea Charts in the Eastern Half of Asia
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Yannan DING, Associate Professor, Historical Geography, Fudan University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2026-27Chair/Discussant: Peter K. Bol, Charles H. Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University Venue
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China Economy Lecture featuring ZHU Ning
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Ning Zhu, Chair Professor of Finance, Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance (SAIF), Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityMore information coming soon.Dr. Ning Zhu is a Chair Professor of Finance at the
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Urban China Lecture Series featuring Zhao Miaoxi — Mismatched Industrial Land Lease Terms: Urban Land Vacancy Induced by Business Turnover
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Zhao Miaoxi, South China University of Technology In China's system of public land ownership, industrial land leases often extend beyond the relatively short lifespan of enterprises. Consequently, formulating land
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China Humanities Seminar featuring Kerstin Storm — Old Age and Aging in Medieval Chinese Poetry
CGIS South Room S354 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Kerstin Storm, University of Münster***Please note the different location for this talk in the series.***Perceptions of old age and aging in so-called traditional China are often reduced to two
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Traversing the Belt and Road: The World According to China and China According to the World
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeakers:Min Ye, Professor of International Relations, Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston UniversityJorge Heine, Core Faculty in Diplomacy & Governance, Rising Powers Initiative, Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future; Research
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China Humanities Seminar featuring Wendy Swartz — Literary Creativity and “The Use of the Mind” in Early Medieval China
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Wendy Swartz, Rutgers University This lecture will examine accounts of wen (writing, literary creation) by two of China’s earliest and most innovative literary theorists: “Rhapsody on Writing” by Lu
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The Presence of Peach Spring: Daoism, Ritual, and Locality
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Mark R. E. Meulenbeld, Associate Professor, School of Chinese, The University of Hong Kong The Presence of Peach Spring radically breaks with conventional interpretations of medieval luminary Tao Qian’s