Generative AI for Chinese Studies – Advanced Workshop
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesDigital China Initiative is organizing two workshops on how to apply generative AI for Chinese studies. The workshop on 5 April will cover how to use open-source large language models on local […]
Film Screening: Mahjong (Ma jiang)
Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center 24 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesMahjong is a game for four players, and the one who first collects winning sets of tiles wins. But the real game lies not in these rectangular pieces per se, […]
Film Screening: The Terrorizers (Kong bu fen zi)
Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center 24 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesCharacterized as “Yang’s most difficult, intellectually provocative, and structurally challenging film” (John Anderson), Edward Yang’s third feature-length film is a puzzle with immense reverberatory power. The Terrorizers depicts the intertwining of love […]
Urban China Lecture Series featuring Cole Roskam – Planning Exchange: Ideas, People, and Cities in Circulation During China’s Opening and Reform Era
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Cole Roskam, Professor of Architectural History, Department of Architecture, University of Hong Kong Beginning in the 1970s and intensifying during the 1980s, the People’s Republic of China initiated international […]
Dreams from China’s Past: Visions of the Future in Popular Science and Literature Magazines, 1927–1949
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Aaron William Moore, Professor of Asian Studies and Handa Chair of Japanese-Chinese Relations, University of Edinburgh More information: https://scholar.harvard.edu/seow/STinAsia Venue
2024 China Town Hall Featuring Kurt Campbell and Rana Mitter
L-332 DELAND, Littauer Building 79 JFK St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeakers:Kurt Campbell, Deputy U.S. Secretary of StateRana Mitter, ST Lee Chair in US-Asia Relations, Harvard Kennedy SchoolJoin the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations and the Greater China Society at HKS on April 9th for the 2024 CHINA Town Hall (CTH), a two-part […]
Yeshes Vodgsal Atshogs — Does the Sino-Tibetan Language Family Exist?: A Fresh Exploration of the Historical Relationship Between Tibetan, Chinese, and Surrounding Languages
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Yeshes Vodgsal Atshogs, Professor, Linguistics, Nankai University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2023-24 Discussant: Kevin Ryan, Professor, Linguistics, Harvard University Venue
Critical Issues Confronting China featuring Keith Bradsher – An Industrial Surge Amidst China’s Slowdown
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Keith Bradsher, Beijing Bureau Chief, The New York Times China’s economy is slowing, dragged down by real estate troubles, but its industrial sector has never been stronger. That poses […]
Environment in Asia Series featuring Jesse Rodenbiker – Ecological States: Politics of Science and Nature in Urbanizing China
CGIS South Room S250 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Jesse Rodenbiker, Associate Research Scholar, Princeton University; Assistant Teaching Professor of Geography, Rutgers University-New Brunswick Discussant: Stevan Harrell, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Environmental and Forest Sciences, University of Washington; […]
Arbitrary Detention in Xinjiang: A Survivor’s Story
WCC 1015, Wasserstein Hall 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeakers:Rayhan Asat, Uyghur Lawyer, HLS LLM ‘16Mihrigul Tursun, Uyghur Activist, Former Detainee and Camp Survivor In 2015, Mihrigul Tursun was imprisoned in a re-education camp in Xinjiang by the Chinese […]
The Asian Security Order: Views from the Region
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeakers:Selina Ho, Assistant Professor in International Affairs; Co-Director of the Centre on Asia and Globalisation, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of SingaporeLi Chen, Renmin University of […]
China: The Rise and Fall of the EAST – How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology Brought China Success, and Why They Might Lead to its Decline
Building 66, 110 25 Ames St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Yasheng Huang, Epoch Foundation Professor of Global Economics and Management, MIT Sloan School of Management; Faculty Director, MIT-China Program, Center for International Studies. Discussant: Will Knight, Senior Writer, Wired Magazine More information: […]