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  • South China Sea: Hague and Aftermath

    Boston University School of Education Auditorium 2 Silber Way, Boston, MA, United States

    Speakers: Andrew Loewenstein, Partner, Foley Hoag Peter Dutton, Naval War College Michael McDevitt, CNA Strategic Studies Taylor Fravel, MIT

  • To Ransom Destiny: The Daoist Search for Deliverance in Medieval China

    CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Franciscus Verellen a former director of the Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient (2004-2014), where he also holds the chair in History of Daoism and currently serves as head of the EFEO Hong Kong Center.

  • Inventing Nana Hsu: Creativity in Academic Writing

    Room 212 2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA, United States

    In the fall of 1948, a young woman in Shanghai left behind her high school Chinese literature textbook just as Communist forces made their way into the city and the Nationalists beat a hasty retreat to Taiwan. That textbook then moldered on some dank and dingy shelf for more than sixty years, with a mysterious […]

  • The Historical Geographic Background of the Silk Road

    Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall Boylston Hall, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker:  Ge Jianxiong, Professor of the Institute of Historical Geography, Fudan University, as well as the Librarian of Fudan University.  

  • The Mining Industry, Caravan Transportation and Ethnic Mobilization in southwest China from the 17th to 19th Century

    Speaker: Prof. Ma Jianxiong (Hong Kong U. of Science and Technology; HYI Visiting Scholar) Chair/discussant: Prof. Michael Szonyi (Director, Harvard University Fairbank Center) Harvard-Yenching Institute Lunchtime Talk This talk will review the history of silver and copper mines on the borderland between Yunnan and Burma, in particular the social organization of miners in remote mountainous […]

  • Working with Looted Manuscripts: A Vindication of the Peking University Han Bamboo Strips

    Over the last two decades, remarkable collections of Warring States, Qin and Han manuscripts have been purchased on the behalf of major academic institutions in China, offering exciting new materials that have the potential to dramatically impact the study of early China. By the same token, these collections also present a great risk to our […]

  • The World of Universities in the 21st Century – Two Case Studies: UC-Berkeley & Hong Kong University

    Lower Level Library, Robinson Hall 35 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    William Kirby, Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School; T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies, Harvard University Commentators: Charles S. Maier, Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History, Harvard University Sugata Bose, Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History, Harvard University Aniket De, PhD Candidate in History, Harvard University

  • Unlikely Partners: Chinese Reformers, Western Economists, and the Making of Global China

    CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Julian Gewirtz '13  Julian Gewirtz will discuss his forthcoming book, Unlikely Partners: Chinese Reformers, Western Economists, and the Making of Global China, which Harvard University Press will publish in January. Writing for the New Yorker, Evan Osnos summarizes: "The book tells the little-known story of how Chinese intellectuals and leaders, facing a ruined economy at […]

  • The Exile and Diplomacy of the 13th Dalai Lama (1904-1912): Tibet’s Encounters with the US and Japan

    Speaker: Prof. Kobayashi Ryosuke (Toyo Bunko; HYI Visiting Scholar) Chair/discussant: Prof. Leonard van der Kuijp (Harvard University) Harvard-Yenching Institute Lunch Talk This talk will show how Tibet attempted to participate in the international community around the demise of the Qing Dynasty in 1912 by focusing on its relationships with the US and Japan. The sojourns of […]

  • Beijing Faces its Periphery: Update on Hong Kong and Taiwan

    Speaker: Dr. Richard Bush, Brookings Institution: Senior Fellow, the Richard H. Armacost Chair, the Chen-Fu and Cecilia Yen Koo Chair in Taiwan Studies,  Director of  the Center for East Asia Policy Studies, and Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, John L. Thornton China Center;  former Chairman and Managing Director of the American Institute in Taiwan Critical Issues […]

  • What Next? Trump and Asia

    CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Join the Harvard University Asia-related Centers for the first in a new series on the Asia-Pacific during Trump's presidency.