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  • Yu Zhou – Technological Innovation: Exploring Chinese Models

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

    Read the event summary here Speaker: Yu Zhou, Vassar College China’s technological ambition and trajectory have become a central concern for the US-China Trade War and will likely to define US-China relations for a long time to come.  This talk traces the evolution of Chinese policies on technological innovation.  Based on case studies on ten […]

  • China and Asia in a Changing Climate: Natural Science for the Non-Scientist

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

    Speakers: John Holdren, Teresa and John Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy, Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University; Co-Director of  Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, HKS; former Science Advisor to President Barack Obama and former Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Peter Huybers, Department of […]

  • Yanfei Sun – Religious Toleration in Premodern Empires

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

    Speaker: Yanfei Sun, Zhejiang University Yanfei Sun is associate professor of sociology at Zhejiang University. Her research interests include sociology of religion and political sociology. In addition to religious changes in modern China, she also researches on religious movement, global expansion of Christianity, religious toleration, religious nationalism, and ethno-religious violence.

  • Panel Discussion – Revisiting the Wilsonian Moment in Asia, 1919

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

    Speakers: Carter Eckert, Yoon Se Young Professor of Korean History; Interim Director, Korea Institute, Harvard University Arunabh Ghosh, Assistant Professor of History, Harvard University Andrew Gordon, Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History, Harvard University; Acting Director, Harvard-Yenching Institute Erez Manela, Professor of History, Harvard University Heather Streets-Salter, Chair and Professor of History, Northeastern University Chair: Karen L. Thornber, Professor […]

  • Susan Greenhalgh – Coca-Cola in China: the Role of Foreign Industry Funding in China’s Health Science and Policy

    Harvard Chan School, Building 1, Room 1208 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, United States

    Susan Greenhalgh is the John King and Wilma Cannon Fairbank Research Professor of Chinese Society in the Anthropology Department at Harvard University. She is an author, anthropologist, and specialist on contemporary China. Greenhalgh’s work has been recognized by several life-time career achievement awards. The BMJ recently published her article titled “Making China Safe for Coke: How Coca-Cola Shaped Obesity Science and Policy […]

  • Nicholas Lardy – The State Strikes Back: The End of Economic Reform in China?

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

    Read the event summary here Speaker: Nicholas Lardy, Peterson Institute for International Economics Nicholas R. Lardy is the Anthony M. Solomon Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. He joined the Institute in March 2003 from the Brookings Institution, where he was a senior fellow from 1995 until 2003. Before Brookings, he served at […]

  • Başak Bilecen – Chinese International Students’ Networks at Elite Universities: A Comparative Study of Germany and the US

    Adolphus Busch Hall 27 Kirkland St., Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Başak Bilecen, Rosalind Franklin Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Groningen Chair: Muriel Rouyer, Adjunct Professor of Public Policy, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School; Local Affiliate, CES, Harvard University  In migration scholarship, the role of social networks has been well-established in people's decisions on whether to migrate and where […]

  • Jenny So – Rare and Beautiful Objects, New and Unexpected Findings: Revisiting Harvard’s Early Chinese Jades

    Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Jenny So, Chinese University of Hong Kong Jenny So will highlight the exciting discoveries she made while preparing a new catalogue of the ancient Chinese jades in the Harvard Art Museums collections. Free admission, but seating is limited. Tickets will be distributed beginning at 5:30pm at the museums’ Broadway entrance. One ticket per person. […]

  • Lyu Peng – Animal transition and subsistence strategy on an ancient Chinese island: A zooarchaeological study of the Xiaozhushan Site

    Speaker: Lyu Peng, Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; HYI Visiting Scholar 2018-19 Chair/discussant: Richard Meadow, Senior Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University https://harvard-yenching.org/events/animal-transition-and-subsistence-strategy-ancient-chinese-island-zooarchaeological-study

  • Allan Layug – Order in International Thought: Unpacking China’s Concept of World Order

    Speaker: Allan Layug, PhD Candidate, University of Queensland; Associate, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Discussant: Robert Ross, Professor of Political Science, Boston College How do we conceptualize China’s world order? What are its defining characteristics? Whose ideas matter in conceptualizing it—and why? And how do the different conceptions affect the Chinese world-ordering projects in the 21st […]

  • Felix Wemheuer – Rebels in Power: Factionalism in Shandong during China’s Cultural Revolution (1966-1969)

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

    Speaker: Felix Wemheuer, Chair Professor of Modern China Studies, University of Cologne During the early Cultural Revolution (1966-1969), factional conflicts inside the CCP (Communist Party of China) and within the society resulted in civil war and the almost collapse of the party-state. Wemheuer will present Shandong Province as a case study for the development of factional conflicts at […]

  • Anne Reinhardt – Navigating Semi-Colonialism: Shipping, Sovereignty, and Nation-Building in China 1860-1937

    Speaker: Anne Reinhardt, Williams College China’s status in the world of expanding European empires of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries has long been under dispute.  Its unequal relations with multiple powers, secured through a system of treaties rather than through colonization, has invited debated over the degree and significance of outside control and local sovereignty.  […]