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  • Li Jin – Interpreting Demons: Armed Resistance and Epistemic Struggle in 1950s Tibet

    CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Li Jin, Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan In the 1950s, Chinese incursion drove Tibetans in Sichuan to launch a guerrilla war. This war led to the exile of the Dalai Lama. Retrospectively assessing this war, Tibet’s monastic leaders have condemned it as a betrayal of the Buddhist virtue of non-violence. This talk seeks […]

  • 改革开放中的中国与世界 | China and the World In the Age of Reform and Opening Up

     9:00 - 10:00am 韩钢 Han Gang, East China Normal University：1980年代中国改革的高层政治格局 China's High-level Political Structures During the Reforms of the 1980s 10:15 - 11:15am: 肖冬连 Xiao Donglian, East China Normal University：农村改革与中国市场的转轨 Rural Reforms and China's Marketization  11:30 - 12:30: Robert S. Ross, Boston College, Fairbank Center Associate: The Origins of the New “Cold War”: U.S.-China Relations, […]

  • Zeb Raft – ‘Echoes’ in the Shishuo Xinyu: Repetition and its Significance in Early Medieval China

    Speaker: Zeb Raft, Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica The Shishuo xinyu, the fifth-century collection of anecdotes, is full of echoes.  Stories can be repeated, in somewhat different form.  Individual entries may juxtapose two accounts that are different, yet similar in certain respects.  Common motifs figure prominently.  How should we interpret this “echo effect”?  This […]

  • Repercussions: The Hong Kong Protests in Context

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

    Chair: James Robson, James C. Kralik and Yunli Lou Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations; Victor and William Fung Director, Harvard University Asia Center Steven Goldstein, Sophia Smith Professor of Government, Emeritus, Smith College; Associate and Organizer, Taiwan Studies Workshop, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Mary Alice Haddad, Professor of Government, East Asian Studies, […]

  • Geremie R. Barmé – Tales from Two Chinese Cities: Resistance in the 2019 Year of Anniversaries

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

    Read event summary here Speaker:  Geremie R. Barmé, Editor, China Heritage From late 2018, China has marked a series of major anniversaries and commemorations.  A century of political, cultural and social upheaval has been brought into sharp focus by tumultuous contemporary events. Today, the past is living in to the present in ways that are […]

  • Workshop: Law and Empire in the Sino-Asian Context

    Austin Hall Room 308 1515 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Co-hosted by International Society for Legal History , American Society for Legal History, The International Society for Chinese Law and History, and the Harvard Law School Program in East Asian Legal Studies Graduate Student Panel 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM Chair: Tahirih Lee (FSU) Yue Jiang (Stanford)    Commentator: Michael Szonyi (Harvard) Gender, Property, and Lineage in […]

  • Pan Weilin – Dialectics of Waste: Recycling Campaigns in Socialist China, 1949-1978

    Speaker: Pan Weilin, Assistant Professor, Institute of China Studies, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2019-20 Chair/discussant: Elizabeth Perry,  Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government, Harvard University; Director, Harvard-Yenching Institute This talk will examine how the national system of China’s waste recovery and recycling took shape through the mass movements during the heydays of […]

  • Hsin-Hsin Pan – Foreign Visits and the Image of National Security Defender: An Analysis of Voter Attitudes in Taiwan

    Speaker: Hsin-Hsin Pan, Post-doctoral research fellow at the Center for Humanities and Social Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan Discussant: Chong Ja Ian, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, National University of Singapore This paper looks into the effect of foreign visits to major powers on an image of national security defenders for politicians of minor […]

  • American Factory: Film Screening and Discussion with Directors

    Klarman Hall, Harvard Business School Kresge Way, Boston, MA, United States

    Speakers: Julia Reichert, Director Steven Bognar, Director Meg Rithmire, F. Warren McFarlan Associate Professor of Business Administration Kris Rondeau, Director of AFSCME New England The film profiles the launch of the Fuyao Glass factory in Moraine, Ohio, sited in a former General Motors plant. To launch the factory, Fuyao brought in hundreds of experienced Chinese […]

  • Michelle Miao – Relational Justice: Reconciling Murder in China

    Speaker: Michelle Miao,  Assistant Professor, Chinese University of Hong Kong; HYI Visiting Scholar Chair/discussant: William Alford, Jerome A. and Joan L. Cohen Professor of Law, Harvard Law School This talk analyzes and theorizes individual behaviors and social practices surrounding offender-victim reconciliation in murder cases in China. It explains that this partially-judicial process was enabled and […]

  • Urban Rusnak – Energy Connectivity and Investment Disputes in Eurasia

    Speaker: Urban Rusnák, Secretary General, Energy Charter Secretariat Moderator: Mark Wu, Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law, Harvard Law School Opening remarks: Rawi Abdelal, Herbert F. Johnson Professor of International Management, Harvard Business School; Director, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Join the Negotiation Task Force for a guest lecture by Urban Rusnák, Secretary General of the Energy Charter […]