Yangyang Cheng – Empires and Exiles: On Writing About Science and Technology Between China and the United States
CGIS South, Room S050 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Yangyang Cheng, Research Scholar in Law and Fellow, Paul Tsai China Center, Yale Law SchoolModerator: Victor Seow, Associate Professor of the History of Science, Department of the History of […]
Fairbank Center Visiting Scholars Workshop
CGIS South Room S250 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesWhat do gender politics, the Sino-Japanese War, Cold War anxiety, and the Cultural Revolution have in common? Come for lunch and find out on Tuesday, November 28, when Fairbank Center Visiting […]
Wei Ran – Latin American Travelers and Revolutionary China in the Global 1960s: A Story of (Dis)encounters
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Wei Ran, Associate Professor, Institute of Foreign Literature, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2023-24Discussant: Mariano Siskind, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of Comparative Literature, […]
Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Yasheng Huang – China’s Long March: From Politics to Economics and From Economics to Politics
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Yasheng Huang, Epoch Foundation Professor of Global Economics and Management, MIT Sloan School of Management Professor Yasheng Huang is Epoch Foundation professor of global economics and management at MIT’s […]
The Lifestyles in the Tang Dynasty under the Influence of Manuscript Culture
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Zhao Shuyang, Nanjing University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2023-24Chair/Discussant: Prof. Xiaofei Tian, Harvard University The physical form of books plays a crucial role in human’s daily life. Prior to the […]
Japan, China, and Global Economic Orders
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeakers:Tsuyoshi Kawase, Visiting Scholar, Program on US-Japan Relations, Harvard University; Professor, Sophia UniversityJi Miao, Visiting Scholar, Program on US-Japan Relations, Harvard University; Associate Professor & Senior Research Fellow, China Foreign […]
China Humanities Seminar featuring Xiaoqiao Ling – Rethinking Early Huaben Stories: Miscellanies and Literary Ecologies
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Xiaoqiao Ling, Associate Professor of Chinese, Arizona State University This paper investigates ways in which the proximity of texts in literary environments complicate our understanding of invention and creation […]
Xiao Xiaoyan – Life Histories and Collective Memory of Deaf People in a Chinese Social Welfare Factory
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Xiao Xiaoyan, Professor, College of Foreign Languages and Cultures, Xiamen University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2023-24Discussant: Kathryn Davidson, Professor of Linguistics, Harvard University This study reports an on-going project attempting […]
Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Keyu Jin – China’s New Playbook
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Keyu Jin, Professor of Economics, London School of Economics and Political ScienceModerator: David Yang, Professor, Department of Economics; Director, Center for History and Economics, Harvard University Jin Keyu is […]
Jihon Kim – Heritage Wars: Legacies of Colonial Rule and Wartime Memories in East Asia for UNESCO Nominations
CGIS South Room S354 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Jihon Kim, Fulbright Visiting Scholar, Harvard Asia Center; Chief of International Cooperation, Korean National Commission for UNESCO; Research Fellow, Institute of International Studies, Seoul National University Chair: Andrew Gordon, Lee and […]
International Mitigation Finance: Carbon Mitigation, Welfare, and Optimal Recipient Design
Pierce Hall 100F 29 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Naixin Huang, Ph.D. Candidate in Economics, Tsinghua University; Harvard-China Project Fellow International mitigation finance is a primary way in global climate cooperation to limit fast-growing carbon emissions of developing countries. […]
He Wenkai – Book talk: Public Interest and State Legitimation: Early Modern England, Japan, and China
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: He Wenkai, Associate Professor, Division of Social Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; HYI Visiting Scholar 2016-17 In this book, Public Interest and State Legitimation: Early Modern England, […]