The Urban Transformation of Rural China
Taubman Building, 3rd Floor Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Nick R. Smith, Assistant Professor of Architecture and Urban Studies, Barnard College, Columbia University and author, The End of the VillageModerator: Tony Saich, Director of the Rajawali Foundation Institute […]
Urban China Series Featuring Rosealea Yao – China’s Housing and Construction Industry – 2023 Review and Outlook
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Rosealea Yao , Senior Analyst, Gavekal Dragonomics China’s property-market slump worsened in 2023. The burst of pent-up demand that followed the reopening from Covid containment evaporated by April, and sales […]
Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Julian Gewirtz – The Global China Challenge
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Julian Gewirtz, Deputy Coordinator for Global China Affairs, U.S. Department of State; former Director for China, U.S. National Security Council Moderator: Rana Mitter, S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations, […]
Yang Zhao – Transitioning from Fast to Ultrafast Charging Stations for Electric Vehicles: Insights into Charging Behavior, Grid Load, and Upgrade Costs
Pierce Hall 100F 29 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Yang Zhao, Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard-China Project Abstract: Ultrafast charging for electric vehicles (EVs) could offer a solution for drivers requiring high travel flexibility and raise the prospect of swift replacement […]
Objects of Addiction: The Legacy of the Opium Wars
Harvard Art Museum, Menschel Hall, Lower Level 32 Quincy St, cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeakers:Mark Elliott, Vice Provost for International Affairs; Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History, Harvard UniversityWilliam Kirby, T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies, Harvard University; Spangler Family […]
Seol Paehwan — Man is the Slave of Kindness: A Gift (Sauɤa)-giving Culture and Social, Economic, Political Network in the Mongol Empire
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Seol Paehwan, Associate Professor, Department of History, Chonnam National University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2023-24Chair/Discussant: Christopher P. Atwood, Professor, Mongolian and Chinese Frontier and Ethnic History, University of Pennsylvania Harvard-Yenching Institute Visiting […]
Harvard CAMLab Fall Public Visits
Sackler Building, Lower Level 485 Broadway, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesDuring Public Visits, CAMLab welcomes our audiences to explore immersive installations that stage cultural history with digital technologies. CAMLab Cave Public Visits are guided group tours. Reservations are limited to […]
Harvard CAMLab Fall Public Visits
Sackler Building, Lower Level 485 Broadway, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesDuring Public Visits, CAMLab welcomes our audiences to explore immersive installations that stage cultural history with digital technologies. CAMLab Cave Public Visits are guided group tours. Reservations are limited to […]
China Humanities Seminar featuring Soojung Han – Forging a New Sino-Inner Asian Order: The Brotherly Relations Between the Shatuo Turks and Kitans (907–979)
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Soojung Han, Assistant Professor of History, Southwestern University Following the collapse of the Tang dynasty and before the rise of the Song dynasty, the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms […]
Modern China Lecture Series featuring Kelly Hammond — Chinese Ethnopolitcs and State-Building: The Case of Muslim General Bai Chongxi
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Kelly Hammond, Associate Professor of East Asian History, Department of History, University of Arkansas Bai Chongxi’s life spanned the Late Qing, the founding of the Chinese Republic and its […]
Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Ya-Wen Lei – Techno-Capitalism: Social Challenges and Fissures in Today’s China
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Ya-Wen Lei, Professor, Department of Sociology, Harvard UniversityYa-Wen Lei is Professor in the Department of Sociology at Harvard University. She is also affiliated with the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the […]
Taiwan Studies Workshop Panel Discussion: Elections in Taiwan 2024
Presented via ZoomSpeakers:Richard C. Bush, Nonresident Senior Fellow, Center for East Asia Policy Studies (CEAP), Brookings InstitutionJIA Qingguo, Director and Professor, Institute for Global Cooperation and Understanding, Peking UniversityWei-Ting Yen, Assistant Professor […]