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  • Asia’s Border Conflicts & Indigenous Approaches to Peace and Healing

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

    Panelists: Hana Shams Ahmed, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Social Anthropology, York University, CanadaBinalakshmi Nepram, Fellow, Harvard University Asia Center; Founder-Director, Manipur Women Gun Survivors Network & Global Alliance of Indigenous Peoples, Gender Justice, and PeaceWai Wai Nu, Founder and Executive Director of the Women Peace Network in MyanmarEnghebatu Togochung, Director, Southern Mongolian Human Rights Information Center  Moderator: Sugata Bose, Gardiner Professor

  • Trump’s U.S., Xi’s China, and Our Future: An Evening with the Award-Winning Creators of Face-Off: The U.S. vs China

    Room S030, CGIS South 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    Speakers: Jane Perlez, Former Beijing Bureau Chief, The New York Times Rana Mitter, S.T. Lee Chair in U.S.-Asia Relations, Harvard Kennedy School Mia Lobel, Executive Producer, Face-Off: U.S. vs China Frank Zhou ’26, Associate Producer, Face-Off: U.S. vs China ****THE EVENT VENUE HAS CHANGED TO CGIS S030.**** Curious what China's rise means for you as

  • Urban China Lecture Series Featuring  Samantha Vortherms — Manipulating Authoritarian Citizenship

    Presented via Zoom

    Speaker:   Samantha Vortherms, University of California, Irvine In Manipulating Authoritarian Citizenship, Samantha Vortherms examines the institutions constructing authoritarian citizenship in the crucial case of China—where internal citizenship regimes control who can and cannot become a local citizen through the household registration system (hukou). She highlights how autocrats use internal citizenship regimes to create particularistic membership in citizenship,

  • Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Wang Feng — The End of the Miracle: How a Shrinking Population Impacts China’s Future

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

    Speaker: Feng Wang, Professor, Sociology, UC IrvineDiscussant: Xiang Zhou, Professor of Sociology, Harvard University China’s spectacular economic growth of the past four decades is a happy outcome of numerous historical junctures and opportunism. One pivotal factor was China’s population, particularly its healthy and literate rural population on the eve of the economic take-off. China’s hyper-growth

  • Rong Ma — Powering a Just Transition: The Impacts of Place-Based Solar Expansion in Rural China

    Pierce Hall Room 301 29 Oxford St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    Speaker: Rong Ma, Associate Professor, China Agricultural University; Alumnus (Visiting Fellow) and Collaborator, Harvard-China Project This paper examines a solar subsidy program in China designed to alleviate poverty among rural households in the country’s most impoverished regions through solar resource development. The empirical findings indicate a substantial increase in firm entry in treated villages, accompanied

  • China Economy Lecture featuring Lizhi Liu — From Click to Boom: The Political Economy of E-Commerce in China

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

    Speaker: Lizhi Liu, Assistant Professor, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University In merely two decades, China has transformed from a digital newcomer to the world’s largest e-commerce market, with 800 million users and nearly 50% of global retail sales. In From Click to Boom, Lizhi Liu examines how China’s e-commerce boom is inherently "paradoxical," why it addresses

  • Reading Sinophone Women Writers

    Plimpton Room (133), Barker Center 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speakers: Li Zishu 黎紫書Lu Pin 鹿苹Lin Zhao 林棹Dorothy Tse 謝曉虹Moderators:David Der-wei Wang, Harvard UniversityMingwei Song, Wellesley CollegeDingru Huang, Tufts University Venue

  • Harvard College China Forum 2025 | April 4th – 6th

    Founded in 1997, Harvard College China Forum (HCCF) is dedicated to a constructive dialogue on the challenges, trends, and issues affecting China. The Forum aims to engage leaders in business, academia, and politics in a discourse that offers insights and generates ideas. HCCF is North America’s leading and longest-running student-run conference on China. The annual

  • Film Screening: Wang Bing’s Youth Trilogy – Youth (Spring) Qingchun

    Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center 24 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA, United States

    More than two decades after making his monumental West of the Tracks (2002), documentary auteur Wang Bing (b. 1967) has released a new cinematic fresco of Chinese workers. Whereas his debut work memorializes the declining Socialist industrial complex in Northeast China and its aging employees, the Youth trilogy chronicles the plights of young migrant workers

  • Film Screening: Wang Bing’s Youth Trilogy – Youth (Hard Times) Qingchun: Ku

    Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center 24 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA, United States

    More than two decades after making his monumental West of the Tracks (2002), documentary auteur Wang Bing (b. 1967) has released a new cinematic fresco of Chinese workers. Whereas his debut work memorializes the declining Socialist industrial complex in Northeast China and its aging employees, the Youth trilogy chronicles the plights of young migrant workers

  • Film Screening: Wang Bing’s Youth Trilogy – Youth (Homecoming) Qingchun: Gui

    Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center 24 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA, United States

    More than two decades after making his monumental West of the Tracks (2002), documentary auteur Wang Bing (b. 1967) has released a new cinematic fresco of Chinese workers. Whereas his debut work memorializes the declining Socialist industrial complex in Northeast China and its aging employees, the Youth trilogy chronicles the plights of young migrant workers

  • China’s Future: Navigating Geopolitics in a New Era

    Room L-166, Littauer Building 79 JFK St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    Speakers:David J. Firestein, President and CEO of the George H. W. Bush Foundation for U.S.-China Relations Andrew S. Erickson, Professor of Strategy, U.S. Naval War College China Maritime Studies Institute; Fairbank Center Visiting Scholar Venue