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  • Chen Chunxiao — Chinese Migrants in the Middle East during the Mongol-Yuan Period: Settlements and Activities

    Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    Speaker: Chen Chunxiao, Associate Professor, Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2024-25 Chair/Discussant: Mark Elliott , Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History; Vice Provost for International Affairs, Harvard University HYI Visiting Scholar Talk Venue

  • Urban China Lecture Series Featuring Qiao Shitong — Neighborhood Democratization in Urban China

    Presented via Zoom

    Speaker: Qiao Shitong, Professor of Law and Ken Young-Gak Yun and Jinah Park Yun Research Scholar, Duke University Based on six-year fieldwork across China including over 200 in-depth interviews, this book provides an ethnographic account of how hundreds of millions of Chinese homeowners practice democracy in and beyond their condominium complexes. Using interviews, survey data, and

  • Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Chenggang XU — How Will China’s Institutional Problems Cripple its Economy?

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

    Speaker: Chenggang XU, Senior Research Scholar, Stanford Center on China's Economic and Institutions; Visiting Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University; Visiting Professor, Department of Finance, Imperial College London Discussant: Meg Rithmire, James E. Robison Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School Chenggang Xu is a Senior Research Scholar at the Stanford Center on China's Economic and

  • Film Screening + Discussion – River Elegy (河殇), Episodes 1 & 2 featuring Rana Mitter and Yasheng Huang

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

    Rana Mitter, ST Lee Chair in US-Asia Relations, Harvard Kennedy SchoolYasheng Huang, Epoch Foundation Professor of Global Economics and Management, MIT Sloan School of ManagementModerator: Dorinda (Dinda) Elliott, Executive Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University "It may have been the most important television program ever broadcast in the history of the world."—Rana Mitter,

  • China Economy Lecture featuring Christine Wong — From Growth Engine to Fiscal Drag: Rethinking China’s Local Government Finance

    CGIS South Room S250 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    Speaker: Christine Wong, Visiting Research Professor, East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore China’s local governments drive 85% of public spending and over 80% of infrastructure investment, yet their finances are in crisis. A long-term fiscal erosion, collapsing land revenues, and soaring debt have left them struggling to meet obligations. These challenges stem from deeper

  • Public Matters: Intellectuals and Political Life in China: A Symposium in honor of Merle Goldman (1931-2023)

    Room G-08, Larsen Hall 14 Appian Way, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    Co-sponsored by the Harvard-Yenching InstitutePlease join us at the Fairbank Center for a day-long workshop in honor of the work of Merle Goldman, a leading figure at the center and a foremost scholar of her generation who pioneered the study of contemporary Chinese intellectuals. In a full day of panel presentations and discussions, an interdisciplinary

  • Daisy Yan Du – Chinese Animation: Multiplicities in Motion

    CGIS South, Room S153 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    Speaker: Daisy Yan Du, Associate Professor, Division of Humanities, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology  Moderator: Alexander Zahlten, Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University  Registration appreciated for planning purposes.  Chinese Animation: Multiplicities in Motion is the first edited volume that explores the multiple histories, geographies, industries, technologies, media, and transmedialities of Chinese animation, from early animated special

  • Art of Journeys: From Ape Tales to the Monkey King Wukong

    Sackler Building, Lower Level 485 Broadway, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    The launch of the hit game, “Black Myth: Wukong,” in August 2024 has sparked renewed interests in the many historical sites that inspired its stunning visuals. In fact, the role that players take on in the game—an anthropomorphic monkey with supernatural abilities—also has many previous incarnations in the history of Chinese and East Asian art

  • Andrew S. Erickson

    Visiting Scholar Presentation featuring Andrew Erickson — China’s Naval Leadership: Corruption and Capabilities

    CGIS South, Room S050 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    Speaker: Andrew Erickson, Professor of Strategy, China Maritime Studies Institute, U.S. Naval War College Regarding China’s ability to seize Taiwan or achieve other top-level military objectives, does corruption matter? Since assuming power in 2012, paramount leader Xi Jinping has officially purged seven sitting and retired members of the Central Military Commission (CMC), including two Vice

  • China Humanities Seminar featuring Tamara Chin — How to Do Things with Loanwords: Premodern Sino-Xenic Language Contact in Modern Philology, Linguistics, and Politics, 1870-1970

    Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    Speaker: Tamara Chin, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Brown University The study of ancient language contact traditionally lacked prestige in both Confucian classical studies and European philology.  This changed somewhat in the early twentieth century.  The discovery of multilingual manuscript archives in and around Dunhuang coincided with the internationalization of Western-style linguistics, prompting both scientific and political interest

  • Urban China Lecture Series Featuring Cecilia Chu — Building Colonial Hong Kong: The Production of Space in a Speculative City

    Presented via Zoom

    Speaker: Cecilia Chu, Associate Professor in Architecture, The Chinese University of Hong Kong This talk will explore three central aspects of urban development in colonial Hong Kong: the advent of modern planning closely entwined with early British segregation policies; the role of property investment in the shaping of building forms; and the emergence of a