Panel Discussion – The Diaries of Chiang Kai-shek and Chiang Ching-kuo: Historical Reflections
Presented via ZoomTopics: Speakers:Wayne Chiang 蔣萬安, Member of Legislative Yuan, TaiwanHsiao-ting Lin, Stanford UniversitySteven Goldstein, Sophia Smith Professor of Government, Emeritus, Smith College; Fairbank Center AssociateModerator:Michael Szonyi, Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies; Frank Wen-Hsiung Wu Memorial Professor of Chinese History, Harvard University Venue
Panel Discussion – How Will the War in Ukraine Impact China’s Engagement in Eastern Europe?
Presented via ZoomTopics: Speakers:Jinghan Zeng, Professor of China and International Studies, Lancaster University; Academic Director of China Engagement and Director of Lancaster University Confucius Institute Una Aleksandra Bērziņa-Čerenkova, Head, China Studies Centre, Riga Stradins University; Head, Asia Program, Latvian Institute of International Affairs Jeremy Garlick, Director, J. Masaryk Centre of International Studies; Associate Professor of International Relations […]
Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Bert Hofman – A Broad Assessment of the Growth Outlook for China—Will it Meet Xi Jinping’s Goals, Will China Overtake the US? How Will China Seek to Achieve this?
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Bert Hofman, Director, East Asian Institute; Professor in Practice, Lee Kuan Yew School, National University Singapore Bert Hofman, a Dutch national, is the director of the East …
Liu Wenjin – Voice and Salvation: Listening to Ba Jin’s Random Thoughts (《随想录》）
Presented via ZoomTopics: Speaker: Liu Wenjin, Professor, Department of Chinese Language and Literature, East China Normal University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2021-2022Chair/Discussants: David Wang, Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature, Harvard UniversityJie Li, John L. Loeb Associate Professor Of The Humanities, Harvard University Ba Jin (1904-2005), who called himself “the son of the May 4th movement,” is a giant […]
Wang Shu-Li – The Heritage Complex in China
Presented via ZoomTopics: Speaker: Wang Shu-Li, Assistant Research Fellow, Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2021-2022Chair/Discussant: William Fash, Bowditch Professor of Central American and Mexican Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University More Info: https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/the-heritage-complex-in-china/ Venue
He Zhaohui – The Bookwheel: A Cross-Cultural Story
Presented via ZoomTopics: Speaker: He Zhaohui, Professor, Institute for Advanced Confucian Studies, Shandong University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2021-2022 Chair/Discussant: Ann Blair, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor, Harvard UniversityMore Info: https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/the-bookwheel-a-cross-cultural-story/ Venue
Chen Long and Yang Yuanchen – China’s Real Estate Sector: Bubble, Bail-Out, or Further Growth?
Presented via ZoomTopics: Speakers:CHEN Long, Co-Founder and Partner, PlenumYANG Yuanchen, Economist, International Monetary Fund Moderators:Jinlin Li and Richard Yarrow, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School Chinese businesses employing tens of millions of people rely on property development— from steel to construction to banking. China’s property sector faced a crisis this past year, with talk […]
Advanced Institute for Global Chinese Studies Launch Ceremony
Presented via ZoomJoin Lingnan University in Hong Kong as it celebrates the launch of its Advanced Institute for Global Chinese Studies (AIGCS). AIGCS’s mission is to foster in-depth scholarly exchanges among institutions and scholars in Chinese studies throughout the world in ways that enhance Lingnan’s international prominence for integrating the finest Chinese and Western liberal arts education. […]
Jun Jing – Meaningful Dying and End of Life Care in China
Presented via ZoomTopics: Improving end of life care in China represents one particularly important opportunity to enhance the well-being of the country’s older adult population as they enter their final phase of life. Designing effective end of life care policies and programs for Chinese communities necessitates asking fundamental questions about the factors that enable people to die meaningfully, including: Does […]
Lessons for East Asia from Eastern Europe’s Institutional Changes and Governing Challenges
Presented via ZoomSpeakers:Bojan Bugarič, Professor at the University of Sheffield and former Deputy Interior Minister of SloveniaLance Liangping Gore, Senior Research Fellow at the NUS East Asian InstituteJacques Rupnik, Professor at CERI-Sciences Po and former advisor to President Vaclav Havel and to the European Commission Moderated by: Richard Yarrow, Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School and Visiting Fellow […]
Lessons for East Asia from Eastern Europe’s Economic Challenges and Transformation
Presented via ZoomSpeakers:Lajos Bokros, Professor at Central European University and former Minister of Finance of HungaryMarcin Piatkowski, Professor at Kozminski University, author of Europe’s Growth Champion, and former visiting scholar at Harvard’s Center for European StudiesDwight Perkins, Professor Emeritus in the Harvard Economics Department, former Director of the Fairbank Center and the Harvard Institute for International Development Moderated […]
In Search for a New Architecture for New China— Zhang Kaiji and Chinese Modern Architecture in the 1950s
Presented via ZoomTopics: Organizer:Harvard CAMLab Academic Convenor:Jeffrey W. CODYFormer Senior Project Specialist, Building & Sites Department, Getty Conservation Institute WU JiangFormer Vice-President of Tongji UniversityAcademician of the French Academy of Architecture Panelist:FAN SizhengTeaching Professor, College of Technology, Architecture and Applied Engineering, Bowling Green State University CHENG LizhenAssociate Professor, School of Architecture and Design, Beijing Jiaotong UniversityAuthor of […]