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  • Mediating Religion: Text and Object in Chinese Religion

    CGIS South Room S354 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United States

    9:30 AM     Workshop Opens 9:45-10:45     Playing with Corpses: Assembling Bodies for the Dead in Southwest China Speaker: Erik Mueggler, University of Michigan This paper describes the ritualization of death in a “minority” community in Yunnan Province, China, called Júzò in the local Tibeto-Burman language. Here, people are heir to an extraordinary range of resources […]

  • Kevin O’Brien – China’s Disaffected Insiders

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

    Event Summary Speaker: Professor Kevin O’Brien, Walter and Elise Haas Professor of Asian Studies; Alann P. Bedford Professor of Asian Studies; Professor of Political Science; Director, Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley

  • Paul W. Kroll – Personal Moments in Medieval Chinese Poetry

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

    Speaker: Paul W. Kroll, University of Colorado Medieval Chinese poetry, like most self-consciously traditional literature, embraces learning, presumption, and intertextuality with ardor. Scholarship delights to roam in these fields which provide rich fare for the mind. But those moments that suddenly engage the heart (a somewhat neglected organ in the postmodern era) affect us at […]

  • Liao Yang – When Buddha *Tejaprabha Came to Yunnan: Regional Characteristics and His Place in the Local Pantheon

    Speaker: Liao Yang (Professor, Institute of Ethnology & Anthropology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Visiting Scholar, Harvard-Yenching Institute) Chair/discussant: Eugene Wang (Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art, Department of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University) Harvard-Yenching Institute lunch talk https://harvard-yenching.org/events/when-buddha-tejaprabha-came-yunnan-regional-characteristics-and-his-place-local-pantheon

  • A roundtable discussion on “Encountering China: Michael Sandel and Chinese Philosophy”

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

    Participants: Michael Sandel (Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government, Harvard University) Joseph C.W. Chan (Professor, Department of Politics and Public Administration, University of Hong Kong) Chaibong Hahm (President, The Asan Institute for Policy Studies, Korea) Tatsuo Inoue (Professor, Graduate Schools for Law and Politics, University of Tokyo, Japan) Hongmei Qu (Professor, Department of Philosophy, Jilin University, China) Chaired by Elizabeth Perry […]

  • Colin P.C. Jones – Searching for a Social Order: The Sociology and Afterlives of Law in Japanese-Occupied China

    Speaker: Colin P.C. Jones, Reischauer Institute Postdoctoral Fellow (Ph.D. Japanese History, Columbia 2017) Moderator: Andrew Gordon, Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History, Harvard University This talk connects the legal history of the Japanese empire to the broader history of legal and social thought in the twentieth century. It examines the design, execution, and […]

  • Deborah Davis – China’s Changing Families

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

    Read event summary here Speaker: Dr. Deborah Davis, Yale University Deborah S. Davis' primary teaching interests are inequality and stratification, contemporary Chinese society, and methods of fieldwork. In addition to teaching at Yale, she runs a summer fieldwork seminar where Yale students work collaboratively with students from Hong Kong and China. Davis is currently a Trustee […]

  • Jennifer Rudolph and Michael Szonyi – The Coop Event Series/ “The China Questions” Book Launch

    Harvard Coop 1400 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Join the editors and contributors to The China Questions for a book launch at the Harvard Coop's Event Series. Many books offer information about China, but few make sense of what is truly at stake. The questions addressed in this unique volume provide a window onto the challenges China faces today and the uncertainties its meteoric ascent […]

  • Xu Lanjun – Leftist Print Culture and New Notions of “Chineseness”: Hu Yuzhi, Shanghai Book Co., and Overseas Chinese Youth in Cold War Southeast Asia

    Speaker: Xu Lanjun (Associate Professor of Chinese Studies, the National University of Singapore; Visiting Scholar, Harvard-Yenching Institute Chair/discussant: David Wang (Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University) Harvard-Yenching Institute lunch talk https://harvard-yenching.org/events/xu-lanjun-february-8-2018

  • (De)Constructing Boundaries – The 21st Harvard East Asia Society Conference

    CGIS South CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Harvard East Asia Society 21st Annual Conference: (De)Constructing Boundaries Harvard University, February 9-10, 2018 Special Panel: The Art of Narrating China Discussant: Professor Eugene Wang (Harvard University) Location: CGIS S030 Doris and Ted Lee Gathering Room SPECIAL TIME: 3:30 - 5:30 Gu Zheng, Professor and Vice-Director of the Research Center for Visual Culture at Fudan […]