Events

Ho Ming-Sho – Standoff and Improvisation in Eventful Protests: Taiwan’s Sunflower Movement and Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement

Speaker: Ho Ming-Sho, National Taiwan University, HYI Visiting Scholar Chair/discussant: Paul Chang, Harvard University Taiwan's Sunflower Movement and Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement of 2014 belong to an unusual case of "eventful protests" for their large-scale and intensive participation as well as radical transformation in consequences, which require new conceptual tools to make sense of their trajectories. […]

Adrian Zenz – Recent Developments in Xinjiang

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

Speaker: Adrian Zenz, Lecturer in social research methods, European School of Culture & Theology, Germany Moderator: Mark Elliott, Vice Provost, International Affairs, Harvard University Co-Sponsored by: Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies East Asian Legal Studies Program, Harvard Law School Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program Listen again on […]

Foreign NGOs, Foundations and Think Tanks in China After Two Years of a New Policy and Legal Framework

Lewis Hall 214A, Harvard Law School 1557 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA, United States

Speaker: Mark Sidel, Doyle-Bascom Professor of Law and Public Affairs, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Consultant (Asia), International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL) East Asian Legal Studies Lunchtime Talk Series Co-sponsored by the Harvard Asia Law Society

Alex des Forges – The Examined Subject and the Natural Self in the Eight-Legged Essay

Speaker: Alex des Forges, University of Massachusetts - Boston This paper inquires into the rhetoric and practice of the individual voice in Ming dynasty examination essays, commonly referred to as shiwen (modern prose) or bagu wen (eight-legged essays). Beginning in the early 1500s, essay criticism and the essays themselves feature a rhetoric of the natural […]

Reischauer Lecture Series – Stephen Owen

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

Listen Again:  Speaker: Stephen Owen, James Bryant Conant University Professor, Emeritus, Harvard University Stephen Owen is a sinologist specializing in premodern literature, lyric poetry, and comparative poetics. Much of his work has focused on the middle period of Chinese literature (200-1200), however, he has also written on literature of the early period and the Qing. […]

Film Screening and Lecture – Dragonfly Eyes

Radcliffe Knafel Center 10 Garden St., Cambridge, MA, United States

The Harvard Film Archive is pleased to present Xu Bing's Dragonfly Eyes on Monday October 15, 2018. Admission is free. Xu Bing will introduce the screening on Monday and will give the 2018-2019 Kim and Judy Davis Dean’s Lecture in the Arts at Radcliffe’s Knafel Center (10 Garden St., Cambridge) Tuesday October 16, at 4:15pm. The lecture is free, but registration […]

William Overholt – Myths in Sino-American Relations

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

Read the event summary here Speaker: William Overholt,  President, Fung Global Institute; Senior Research Fellow Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University Much of U.S. policy toward China is being driven by fundamental misunderstandings of China political structure, the pressures on it, its economic challenges, and the […]

Reischauer Lecture Series – Stephen Owen

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

Listen Again:  Speaker: Stephen Owen, James Bryant Conant University Professor, Emeritus, Harvard University Stephen Owen is a sinologist specializing in premodern literature, lyric poetry, and comparative poetics. Much of his work has focused on the middle period of Chinese literature (200-1200), however, he has also written on literature of the early period and the Qing. […]

Ngoc Tho Nguyen – Taking Root Wherever You Land: The Liturgical Transformation of Popular Cults Among Ethnic Chinese in Vietnam

Speaker: Professor Ngoc Tho Nguyen, Asia Center Visiting Scholar; Associate Professor in East Asian Cultural Studies, Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City Chair: Professor Michael Szonyi, Frank Wen-Hsiung Wu Memorial Professor of Chinese History; Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University Asia Center Fellows Seminar Series; co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies