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  • Gao Xiaosong – The Story of a Private Library in Contemporary China

    Speaker: Gao Xiaosong,  Director, Za Library, Beijing, China Moderator: Xiaofei Tian,  Professor of Chinese Literature, EALC, Harvard Mr. Gao Xiaosong 高曉松, director of Za shu guan 雜書館, will speak on the Za Library, one of the largest private libraries open to the public in China.

  • Dwight Perkins – How to Measure China’s Economic Reform

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

    Read event summary here Speaker: Dwight Perkins, Harvard University Dwight H. Perkins is the Harold Hitchings Burbank Research Professor of Political Economy of Harvard University, where he joined the faculty in 1963. Previous positions at Harvard include Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy, 1963-2006; Associate Director of the Fairbank Center, 1973-1977; chairman of the […]

  • Hongtu Chen – The Aging Population in China and the Development of the Care Workforce

    Speaker: Dr. Hongtu Chen, Associate, Harvard University Asia Center; Assistant Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School Chair: Professor Arthur Kleinman, Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University; Professor of Medical Anthropology and Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School Asia Center Seminar Series; co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies

  • Chinese Ecologies – An International Symposium on the Environment and Indigeneity

    CGIS South CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United States

    April 6 Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street 13:00-13:10                Welcome Remarks 13:10-14:25               Panel 1: Articulating the Polemics of the Anthropocene Chair:  Karen Thornber (Harvard University) Haiyan Lee (Stanford University): Through Thick and Thin: The Romance of the Species in the Anthropocene Christopher Coggins (Bard College at Simon’s Rock): […]

  • Knife in the Clear Water

    Brattle Theater 40 Brattle St, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Free screening and discussion! Co-presented by Crows & Sparrows and the Emergent Visions Series of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard, in conjunction with the Harvard Yenching Indigeneity and Environment Symposium. Winner of the New Currents Award at the 2016 Busan International Film Festival and based on the story by Shi Shuqing (who […]

  • Manoranjan Mohanty – China’s Transformation: The Success Story and the Success Trap

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

    Speaker: Prof. Manoranjan Mohanty, Council for Social Development, New Delhi Chair: Prof. Elizabeth Perry, Harvard University/Harvard-Yenching Institute The book provides insights into the economic and social transformation that China has undergone from 1979 to the present. Based on the author’s research in China for over three decades, China’s Transformation: The Success Story and the Success Trap shows how its ‘reform and […]

  • William Overholt – Book Talk: “China’s Crisis of Success”

    Harvard Coop 1400 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: William Overholt, Senior Fellow, Harvard University Asia Center China's Crisis of Success provides new perspectives on China's rise to superpower status, showing that China has reached a threshold where success has eliminated the conditions that enabled miraculous growth. Continued success requires re-invention of its economy and politics. The old economic strategy based on exports […]

  • Diana Fu: Mobilizing Without the Masses

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

    Read event summary here Speaker: Dr. Diana Fu, University of Toronto Diana Fu is assistant professor of Asian politics. Her research examines the relationship between popular contention, state power, and civil society in contemporary China.  She is the author of  “Mobilizing Without the Masses: Control and Contention in China,” (Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics Series and Columbia University’s […]

  • Eugenio Menegon and Elisa Frei – Calamity from Within? Jesuits, Papal Legates, and Chinese Imperial Envoys in the Eighteenth Century

    John J. Burns Library, Boston College 140 Commonwealth Ave., Chestnut Hill, MA, United States

    Speakers: Eugenio Menegon, Department of History, Boston University & Collaborative Scholar, Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies Elisa Frei, Fellow, Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies, Boston College Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies Colloquium, Boston College More information: https://www.bc.edu/centers/iajs/Programs/institute-colloquium-.html