The Founding Generation: A Celebration of the Publication of Dr. Nongji Zhang’s Book on the People’s Republic of China’s First Generation of Legal Scholars, 1949-1992
WCC 2036 Milstein East A, Harvard Law SchoolSpeaker: Nongji Zhang, Librarian for East Asian Law, Harvard Law School LibraryPanelists: William P. Alford, Jerome A. and Joan L. Cohen Professor of Law, Director, East Asian Legal Studies Program, Harvard Law SchoolGuo Rui, Associate Professor, Renmin University of ChinaMargaret Woo, Professor of Law, Northeastern University School of Law Cosponsored by East Asian Legal Studies, Harvard […]
Urban China Series featuring Toby Lincoln – Out of the Rubble of World War II: Reconstruction in China in Comparative Perspective
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Toby Lincoln, Associate Professor of Chinese Urban History, Centre for Urban History, University of Leicester.This paper explores urban reconstruction in China after WWII, and argues that this was more successful than is normally thought, especially when compared with other countries similarly devastated by war. With a particular focus on Changsha, which probably suffered more […]
Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Kelly Sims Gallagher – The Global Race for Leadership in Clean Energy: China Versus the United States
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesIn conversation with: Michael McElroy, Gilbert Butler Professor of Environmental Studies, Harvard University Speaker: Kelly Sims Gallagher, Academic Dean and Founding Director, Climate Policy Lab, The Fletcher School, Tufts University In conversation with: Michael McElroy, Gilbert Butler Professor of Environmental Studies, Harvard University How China is Winning the Race for Clean Energy Technology With the […]
The United States Indo-Pacific Strategy: A Conversation with Assistant Secretary of State Daniel J. Kritenbrink
Malkin Penthouse, Littauer Building 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Daniel J. Kritenbrink, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Please join the Asia-Pacific Initiative and Future of Diplomacy Project for a conversation with Daniel J. Kritenbrink, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs. The Assistant Secretary will deliver remarks on the Biden Administration's Indo-Pacific Strategy, followed by a […]
Annabelle Pitkin – Renunciation and the Practice of Care: Himalayan Buddhist Embodiments of Longing and Devotion
Barker Center, Thompson Room 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MASpeaker: Annabella Pitkin, Assistant Professor of Buddhism and East Asian Religions, Lehigh UniversityDevotion plays a central role in Tibetan and Himalayan Buddhist accounts of guru-disciple relationship, part of an ideal of indivisible connection between gurus and disciples. This theme of devotional connection intersects in complex ways with another influential Buddhist ideal, that of renunciation. Tibetan narratives […]
CAMLab Cave Opening Celebration
Sackler Building Auditorium 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA, United StatesCAMLab Cave opens following two years of renovation. It serves as a hub of innovative forms of knowledge production, pedagogy, and sensorial media practice. The Opening Celebration features projects that will materialize as immersive installations this fall. Based upon multi-year interdisciplinary research on the Buddhist culture of dance in Dunhuang, Cave Dancerecovers and animates dance […]
China Humanities Seminar featuring Kaijun Chen – Materiality is Uncertainty: Furniture, Hairpins and Fireworks in Jin Ping Mei
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Kaijun Chen, Assistant Professor, Department of East Asian Studies, Brown University This project responds to a candid question I had while reading Jin Ping Mei. The novel is packed with luxurious things, but why do the characters show little attachment to them? This lack of attachment refers to both the alienable qualities of material […]
Yi Li – Building Chinese City-Regions Under State Entrepreneurialism
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Yi Li, Associate Professor, School of Public Administration/National Research Center for Resettlement (NRCR), Hohai University The past decade has witnessed a variety of city-regional projects across the world, such as the formulation of city-regional plans, the establishment of inter-regional organizations, and the construction of region-wide infrastructure. For some, city-regions are seen as a geopolitical […]
Chia-Ling Wu – Making Multiple Babies: The Anticipatory Governance of Assisted Reproduction in Japan and Taiwan
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Chia-Ling Wu, Professor, National Taiwan University Venue
Kenneth Rogoff in conversation with Yuanchen Yang and David Yang – China’s Housing Conundrum
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Kenneth Rogoff, Maurits C. Boas Chair of International Economics, Harvard University In Conversation With:Yuanchen Yang, Economist in the Macro-Policy Division of the Strategy, Policy, and Review Department, International Monetary Fund, andDavid Yang, Assistant Professor of Economics, Harvard University Kenneth Rogoff is Maurits C. Boas Chair of International Economics at Harvard University. From 2001–2003, Rogoff served as […]
Tarun Khanna – Making Meritocracy: Lessons from China and India,from Antiquity to the Present
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Tarun Khanna, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor, Strategy Unit, Harvard Business School; Director, The Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute, Harvard UniversityDiscussant: Alisha Holland, Chair, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Business and Government. Associate Professor, Department of Government, Harvard UniversityChair: Erez Manela, Acting Center Director (2022–2023); Director, Graduate Student Programs. Professor of History, Department of […]
Debt and Financial Risk from China’s Real Estate Sector: Michael Pettis and Hui Shan
Presented via ZoomSpeakers:Michael Pettis, Professor of Finance, Peking UniversityHui Shan, Managing Director and Chief China Economist, Goldman Sachs Concluding Remarks:William Overholt, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School Moderators:Richard Yarrow and Jinlin Li, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School Real estate has had a vast influence on China's economy. In particular, real […]