Events
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Electric Vehicle–Power System Interactions: Potential, Impacts, and Economics
Pierce Hall 100F 29 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: ZHAO Yang, Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences RSVP Required EV-grid integration (VGI) has the potential to manage the power demand from EVs and utilize
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How to Cultivate a Moral Human: A Conversation with Michael Puett and Amy Zhang
CGIS South, Room S153 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeakers:Michael Puett, Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History; Director, Harvard University Asia CenterAmy Zhang, Master's Student, Harvard Graduate School of EducationWhat can ancient Confucian philosophy offer for how we
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Film Screening and Discussion: Daughter of the Light with the Filmmaker
Hall A, Science Center 1 Oxford St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Khashem Gyal, Filmmaker; Adjunct Assistant Professor, School of the Arts, and Asia in Action Fellow, Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University Daughter of the Light is a deeply moving
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Subversion and Seduction: China’s Economic Statecraft
Fainsod Room (324), Littauer Building 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Audrye Wong, Senior Fellow, American Enterprise InstituteChair: Rana Mitter, S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations, Harvard Kennedy School Even as the Chinese government intensifies supply-chain coercion, it continues to
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Urban China Lecture Series featuring Wang Mengqi — Anxious Homes: Inflexible Demand and China’s Housing Market
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Mengqi Wang, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Duke Kunshan University This talk presents the vernacular concept of inflexible demand, known as 刚需/gangxu in Chinese, that people in contemporary urban China
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Performing Enlightenment: Buddhism and Theater in Early Modern China
Zoom Registration RequiredSpeaker: Mengxiao Wang, Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Southern CaliforniaModerator: Thomas P. Kelly, Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University In early modern
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Everyday Occupation: American Soldiers and Chinese Civilians after World War II
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Chunmei Du, Professor, Department of History, Lingnan University, Hong Kong; Associate, Harvard University Asia Center In this rich history of everyday encounters between US soldiers and Chinese civilians, Chunmei Du
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Modern China Lecture Series featuring Xiaobo Lü — Domination and Mobilization: The Rise and Fall of Political Parties in China’s Republican Era
CGIS South, Room S050 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Xiaobo Lü, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley Examining the miraculous rise of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the surprising downfall of the Kuomintang
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Benjamin Ho — After Liberalism? Political Myths, Order-Building and The Return of History in East Asia
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Benjamin Ho, Assistant Professor and Coordinator, China Programme; S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), SingaporeModerator: Mark Wu, Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law, Harvard Law School; Director, Fairbank
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Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Laikwan Pang — A Sense of Justice: The Struggle with Laws in Hong Kong
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Laikwan Pang, Choh-Ming Li Professor of Cultural & Religious Studies, Chinese University of Hong KongDiscussant: Li Jie, Ford Foundation Professor of East Asian Studies, Harvard College Professor, Director of
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Uncanny Beliefs: Superstition in Modern Chinese History
Presented via ZoomSpeakers: Emily Baum, Professor of History, University of California, IrvineAlbert Wu, Associate Research Fellow, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan Chair: Michael Puett, Victor and William Fung
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Modern China Lecture Series featuring Xu Guoqi — What do we mean by “China?”
CGIS South Room S354 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Xu Guoqi, David H. Y. Chang Professor of Chinese History; Founding Director, Institute of Transnational History of China, University of Hong Kong Professor Xu Guoqi was born in China