Events
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Beyond Tariffs and Subsidies: Toward a New Framework for U.S. Industrial Policy
WCC 3016, Wasserstein Hall 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Y.S. Lee, West Virginia University College of Law The United States has returned to tariffs and subsidies with renewed force, seeking to rebuild domestic manufacturing, promote strategic industries, and
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China Economy Lecture featuring Jazmin Sierra
CGIS South Room S250 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Jazmin Sierra, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Kellogg Institute Faculty Fellow, University of Notre DameMore info coming soon Venue
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Modern China Lecture Series featuring Xu Guoqi — What do we mean by “China?”
CGIS South Room S354 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Xu Guoqi, David H. Y. Chang Professor of Chinese History; Founding Director, Institute of Transnational History of China, University of Hong Kong Professor Xu Guoqi was born in China
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China Humanities Seminar featuring Huan Jin — Modularity and Vernacular Knowledge: The Career of “Tao” 套, 11th–17th Centuries
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Huan Jin, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Emerging at the turn of the eleventh century out of contact with non-Han people, "tao" 套 (set/module) shows the
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Urban China Lecture Series featuring Treng X. Ta — Scenes of Affliction and Cruel Circumstances in Urban China
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Treng X. Ta, University of Maryland Baltimore County In most instances there is a lone, tragic-looking figure with head bowed before an accompanying sign making a silent public appeal.
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Trans-generational Transmission of War Memories in China
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: ISHII Yumi, Associate Professor, Tohoku University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2026-27Chair/Discussant: Andrew Gordon, Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History, Harvard University https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/trans-generational-transmission-of-war-memories-in-china/ Venue
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Emergent Visions Film Screening & Discussion — New Moon Chapter One (新月一章)
Carpenter Center Theater 24 Quincy St, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesFilmmaker Xinyue Li in conversation with Jie Li, Ford Foundation Professor of East Asian Studies, Harvard College Professor, Director of Graduate Studies, Harvard University. This film is part of a
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Emergent Visons Film Screening & Discussion — Self-Portrait: 47 KM 2020 (自画像：47 KM 2020)
Carpenter Center Theater 24 Quincy St, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesFilmmaker ZHANG Mengqi in conversation with Jie Li, Ford Foundation Professor of East Asian Studies, Harvard College Professor, Director of Graduate Studies, Harvard University, and Lucien Castaing-Taylor, John Cowles Professor
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Urban China Lecture Series featuring Zhu Jin
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Zhu Jin, Hong Kong University More information coming soon! Zoom meeting link: https://mit.zoom.us/j/94120080608 Venue
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Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Jean Oi
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Jean Oi, William Haas Professor in Chinese Politics, Department of Political Science; Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI), Stanford University. More information coming soon. Jean C. Oi
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Structuring Chinese History: Diwang Tu 帝王圖, Nianbiao 年表, “Chinese Dynasties” Charts, and Paradigmatic Crisis in Chinese Historiography
CGIS South, Room S050 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: James Millward, Georgetown UniversityPeriodization by “Chinese dynasties” is a structural foundation of the historiography of continental eastern Eurasia, but even those passingly familiar with the field know the idea
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Emergent Visons Film Screening — Zhuang Wei’s Witness: Return of the Survivor (庄炜的见证：幸存者归来)
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesFollowed by a Q+A with filmmaker ZHUANG Wei. This film is part of a three-part series presenting documentaries from China’s Caochangdi Workstation, a collective of documentary filmmakers and performance artists