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  • Film Screening: Wansei Back Home

    After Japan was defeated in World War II, nearly 350,000 Japanese civilians living in Taiwan were repatriated. Among those numbers, more than half consisted of wansei, or Taiwan-born Japanese subjects. Directed by Huang Ming-cheng, this documentary draws on 12 years of research, focusing on the experiences of 8 wansei. Interviews with these subjects reveal stories […]

  • India and Japan, India and China

    Speaker: Tarun Das,  former Director-General and Chief Mentor of the Confederation of Indian Industries Chair: Sugata Bose, Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs, Harvard University Asia Center Seminar Series; co-sponsored with the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, and the South Asia Institute, Harvard University

  • China’s Evolving Vulnerability to Climate Change Impacts: A Spatial Analysis of its Infrastructure System

    Pierce Hall 100F 29 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker:  Xi (Sisi) HU, Ph.D. Candidate, Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford; Visiting Fellow, China Project Sponsored by the China Project, Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. To learn more about our seminar series, visit our website: https://chinaproject.harvard.edu/seminars You can also subscribe to our mailing list by emailing tiffanychan@seas.harvard.edu 

  • The Anti-rightist Campaign as Media Event: Censorship, Political Dissent, and Media in 1950s China

    Zhang Naiqi, the Minister of Food and democratic party leader, was denounced as one of the three leading "rightists" during the Anti-Rightist Campaign (1957-58) in China. Accusations against Zhang by other intellectuals were actively publicized through the news media. Intriguingly, rather than simply censoring "rightist voices," the CCP allowed the news media to publicize Zhang's contestation against the accusation, even when the CCP had the capacity to completely censor Zhang's rebuttal. The CCP by the early 1950s monopolized the ability to construct publicity and public opinion on party policies and political affairs by gaining tight media control through nationalizing the media and establishing a relatively effective censorship system. Thus, the CCP's effective media control itself does not fully explain Zhang's vulnerability to the accusation. Ultimately, Zhang was unsuccessful in contesting the public accusation, and was ultimately purged from most of his public positions.

  • Critical Issues Confronting China Series: Cross-Strait Dilemmas

    Speakers: Professor Syaru Shirley Lin, Chinese University of Hong Kong Professor Harry Harding, University of Virginia Critical Issues Confronting China Seminar Series; co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Harvard University Asia Center

  • Modern China Lecture: Varieties of Chinese Utopianism, 1900-1940

    Speaker: Peter Zarrow, University of Connecticut Utopianism was a major motif in early twentieth century Chinese political thought.  Utopianism was not only widespread, it became constitutive of political thought.  Utopianism did so in the form of the utopian impulse rather than full-fledged utopianism.  The “utopian impulse” is revealed in the context of generally non-utopian ideas.  While not […]

  • Legitimating State Power and Social Policies: A Comparative Study of Early Modern England, Tokugawa Japan, and Qing China

    Speaker: Prof. He Wenkai (Division of Social Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; HYI-Radcliffe Visiting Scholar) Chair/discussant: Prof. Daniel Ziblatt (Government, Harvard University) This talk employs comparative historical analysis to examine a crucial linkage between the legitimation of state power and the adoption of social policies in three early modern states, England (1550-1700), […]

  • A New Asia: How China Shaped the Postwar Global Order

    Loeb House 17 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    The 2016 S.T. Lee Lecture will be presented by Rana Mitter, professor of history and politics of modern China and fellow of St Cross College, University of Oxford. Established in 2001, the Lee Lecture focuses on military history, strategy, and policy making. RSVP to arrd_events@hks.harvard.edu

  • Xi Jinping: The Three Problems and the Two Issues

    Speaker: Professor Joseph Fewsmith, Department of Political Science, Boston University Critical Issues Confronting China Seminar Series; co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies  and the Harvard University Asia Center

  • Tourism, Homeland, and Imaginaries: the percolating role of a Yi Jia Le family in a Sani Yi village in southwest China

    Tourism has increasingly become a force that propels economic and social change in a wide range of ethnic villages in China. For the local ethnic minorities, engaging in the business of tourism means not only learning new livelihood skills but also adjusting the community’s imaginaries of their own homeland to outside tourist imaginaries.