Discussion of Technology and Innovation in China
CGIS South Room S250 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States***THIS EVENT HAS REACHED CAPACITY, ONLY PRE-REGISTERED ATTENDEES WILL BE ADMITTED*** Speakers:Bo An, 2023-24 An Wang Postdoctoral Fellow, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Andrew Kennedy, Associate Professor, Crawford School of Public […]
Critical Issues Confronting China featuring Thomas J. Christensen – Thomas Schelling, the United States, and China’s Rise
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Thomas J. Christensen, James T. Shotwell Professor of International Relations, Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs *PLEASE NOTE DAY AND TIME CHANGE FROM OUR REGULAR CRITICAL ISSUES TALKS* […]
Rethinking China’s International Relations: China and the World Program 20th Annual Conference
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesThe Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies is proud to present the Columbia-Harvard China and the World Program's 20th Annual Conference, Rethinking China's International Relations, which will convene a roster of […]
Urban China Lecture Series featuring Zhang Qinghua – From Government to Governance: Evidence from District Border Adjustments in China
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Zhang Qinghua, Peking University This talk delves into the impact of within-city administrative border adjustments on individual firm productivity and local economic development. Employing a unique quasi-natural experiment conducted in […]
Racing to Be a Better Race: A Longue Durée History of China’s Toilet Revolution
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Nicole Barnes, Associate Professor of History, Duke University More information: https://scholar.harvard.edu/seow/STinAsia Venue
Liu Qing – How the Idea of Tianxia Can Help Us to Reimagine the Global Order
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Liu Qing, Zijiang Distinguished Professor, East China Normal University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2023-24 Discussant: Peter K. Bol, Charles H. Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University […]
Critical Issues Confronting China featuring Susan Greenhalgh – The Hidden Life and Agenda of the Three-Child Policy
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Susan Greenhalgh, John King and Wilma Cannon Fairbank Professor of Chinese Society Emerita, Harvard University After years of rapid fertility decline, China is facing plummeting birth rates, a shrinking work force, […]
Taiwan Conference: Tension in the Taiwan Strait: The Role of U.S. Allies
Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University 121 Bay State Rd, Boston, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeakers:Akio Takahara, Professor of Contemporary Chinese Politics, Graduate School of Law and Politics, University of TokyoJa-Ian Chong, Associate Professor of Political Science, National University of SingaporeSatu Limaye, Vice President, East-West Center; […]
Jedidiah Korncke – Thomas Jefferson, Carsun Chang and A Lost Era of U.S.-China Constitutional Engagement
Morgan Courtroom, Austin Hall 1515 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Jedidiah Kroncke, Associate Professor of Law, University of Hong Kong Professor Kroncke’s study recovers a lost era of Sino-American constitutional imagination surrounding the drafting of the 1946 Republic of […]
Community Viewing Event – Portraits of Freedom: The Womxn Driving our Freedom Movements
Cabot Library Discovery Bar 1 Oxford St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesJoin us in browsing and reflecting upon Portraits of Freedom: The Womxn Driving our Freedom Movements at our Community Viewing Event at the Cabot Library Discovery Bar from 6:30-8PM on Friday, March 29th. Uyghur laghman noodles […]
Film Screening: Yi Yi (A One and a Two …), with introduction by Kalli Peng
Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center 24 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesEdward Yang’s cinematic swan song, released at the turn of the millennium, is a moving tapestry that weaves together the dissolution and reconstitution of the fragile subjectivities in an increasingly […]
Film Screening: A Brighter Summer Day (Guling jie shaonian sharen shijian), with introduction by Kalli Peng
Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center 24 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSimilar to Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s A City of Sadness (1989), A Brighter Summer Day also traces the experiences of a large family during a critical historical epoch in Taiwan. Set in the early 1960s, against the backdrop […]