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  • Elizabeth Ingleson – Making Made In China: Race, Labor, and Politics in U.S.-China Trade 1971-1980

    History Department Conference Room, Robinson Hall 35 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Elizabeth Ingleson, Southern Methodist University Interested attendees should e-mail marinoauffant@gmail.com for a copy of the pre-circulated paper. Part of the Harvard International & Global History Seminar (HIGHS) series, a forum for cutting-edge work in the fields of international and global history.

  • Robert Spengler III – Fruit from the Sands: The Silk Road Origins of the Foods We Eat

    Hunnewell Building, Arnold Arboretum 125 Arborway, Jamaica Plain, MA, United States

    Speaker: Robert Spengler III From almonds and apples to tea and rice, many foods that we consume today have histories that can be traced out of prehistoric Central Asia along the tracks of the Silk Road to kitchens in Europe, America, China, and elsewhere in East Asia. The exchange of goods, ideas, cultural practices, and […]

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  • Carma Hinton – From Goddess to Demon? Musings on the Transformation of Female Imagery in Paintings of Central Asia and China from the Late Tang to the Song Dynasties

    CGIS South Room S354 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Carma Hinton, Asia Center Visiting Scholar; Clarence J. Robinson Professor of Visual Culture and Chinese Studies, George Mason University Chair: Jie Li, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University Asia Center Fellows Seminar

  • Justin Lin – Seventy Years of China’s Economic Development: Reflections on Modern Economics

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

    Listen to this event on our podcast: Read and download the transcript for this event here. Speaker: Justin Yifu Lin, World Bank Chief Economist, 2008-2012 Dean, Institute of New Structural Economics Dean, Institute for South-South Cooperation and Development Professor and Honorary Dean National School of Development Peking University Co-sponsored by: Harvard College Association of U.S.-China […]

  • Jane Perlez – The Cultural Revolution Revisited: 1967-2019

    Taylor Seminar Room, Lippman House 1 Francis Ave., Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Jane Perlez, 2019 Joan Shorenstein Center Fellow, Beijing Bureau Chief for The New York Times. Moderator: Lucy Hornby, 2020 Nieman Fellow, Deputy Beijing Bureau Chief for the Financial Times. Long before she was Beijing bureau chief for The New York Times, Jane Perlez was an accidental tourist at the peak of China's Cultural Revolution. […]

  • Exhibition – Life in Singapore: Views from Migrant Workers

    Asian Centers Lounge 1730 Cambridge St. First Floor, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Organized by: Yong Han Poh, Harvard College ’20 Exhibition Reception: Thursday, February 6, 2020; 4:15 p.m. Asian Centers’ Lounge, 1st Floor, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge Sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, the Harvard University Asia Center, and the Mahindra Humanities Center with additional support from Migrant Writers Singapore and Migrant Workers […]

  • Paize Keulemans – Acoustic Immersion and Iconic Extraction in Three Kingdoms History, Fiction, and Videogames

    Speaker: Paize Keulemans, Princeton University What are the ludic attractions of a fifteenth-century novel?  What role is played by historical narrative in a twenty-first-century game?  How is a character developed in text and in pixels, in words, painting, or on a (computer) screen?  And how is the noise and confusion of a third-century battle digitally reproduced […]

  • Qu Tongli – Emergence of Modern Humans in China: Behavioral Perspectives

    Speaker: Qu Tongli, Associate Professor in Archaeology, Peking University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2019-20 Chair/discussant: Amy Clark, College Fellow - Archaeology, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University China has been the focus of discussion on modern human origins. Human fossils found recently in South China show that modern humans emerged in China in the early Late Pleistocene […]

  • Wang Xiying – Intimacy, Desire, and Reproduction: Women Living with HIV/AIDS in Beijing

    Speaker: Wang Xiying, Professor, Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2019-20 Chair/discussant: Susan Greenhalgh, John King and Wilma Cannon Fairbank Research Professor of Chinese Society, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University This talk focuses on understanding the daily lives of women living with HIV/AIDS (WLHA) and their coping strategies of the illness within […]