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Michael Beeman — Walking Out: America’s New Trade Policy in the Asia-Pacific and Beyond
Michael Beeman — Walking Out: America’s New Trade Policy in the Asia-Pacific and Beyond
Speaker: Michael Beeman, Visiting Scholar, Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, Stanford UniversityModerator: Mark Wu, Henry L. Stimson Professor, Harvard Law School; Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Also via Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIldeyrqzsvHt1-rpjNby98mM_q0kt89fUF#/registration Venue
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The Role of Long-Duration Storage in Decarbonizing China’s Power Sector
The Role of Long-Duration Storage in Decarbonizing China’s Power Sector
Speaker: Haiyang Jiang, Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard-China Project The increasing integration of renewable energy sources introduces significant long-term uncertainty to power systems, creating challenges for maintaining energy balance over extended periods. Traditionally, coal-fired generation has provided the flexibility needed to address these imbalances. However, as coal-fired generation is phased out, long-duration storage emerges as a promising solution […]
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Du Ying – The Cinematic Cold War Between the US and the PRC: Hong Kong, 1950s–1960s
Du Ying – The Cinematic Cold War Between the US and the PRC: Hong Kong, 1950s–1960s
Speaker: Du Ying, Professor, Chinese Literature, East China Normal University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2024-25Chair/Discussant, David Wang, Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature, Harvard University This talk examines the policies and strategies of the United States and the People’s Republic of China in controlling cinematic production and access in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia during […]
Andrew Collier — The Decline of China’s Property Market and the Global Economy
Andrew Collier — The Decline of China’s Property Market and the Global Economy
Speaker: Andrew Collier, Senior Fellow, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School From 1992 until the boom ended in 2021, Chinese home property sales grew at an average rate of 25 percent per year. China was awash in new construction — often in the middle of empty fields far from city centers. In […]
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Modern China Lecture featuring Tong Lam — Let the Ore Speak: Extractivism and China’s Early Cold War Mobilization
Modern China Lecture featuring Tong Lam — Let the Ore Speak: Extractivism and China’s Early Cold War Mobilization
Speaker: Tong Lam, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Toronto From Chairman Mao’s “receiving” of an ore in Zhongnanhai to the nationwide mapping of mineral resources and the mass movement for sighting and reporting minerals, the 1950s marked the beginning of what could be described as China’s age of extractivism. The intensifying interactions between […]
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Symposium: “Vision for Tomorrow: Law, Technology, and Prosperity for a Thriving Global Community,”
Join us at the Harvard Law School China Law Association’s annual China Law Symposium, “Vision for Tomorrow: Law, Technology, and Prosperity for a Thriving Global Community,” in celebration of the Lantern Festival. This three-day event features six engaging panels with lunch/dinner provided, and concludes with a festive Lantern Festival Social.SCHEDULE OF EVENTSFEBRUARY 10, 202512:15 – 1:30 PMNavigating […]
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Urban China Lecture Series Featuring Bruce Pang — China’s Property Market: Navigating the Evolving Landscape
Urban China Lecture Series Featuring Bruce Pang — China’s Property Market: Navigating the Evolving Landscape
Speaker: Bruce Pang, Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) Greater China For the past three decades, the real estate sector has been a cornerstone of China’s economic growth, social development, and urbanization. Commercial real estate, in particular, has thrived due to vigorous domestic growth and seamless integration into the global marketplace, resulting in a mature, diverse, and thriving […]
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Beijing’s Multiple Facets from the Qing to the Present (1644-2025)
Beijing’s Multiple Facets from the Qing to the Present (1644-2025)
Speakers:XU Yamin, Department of History, Lemoyne College Eugenio Menegon, Department of History, Boston UniversityDaigengna Duoer, Department of Religion, Boston UniversityCathy Yeh, World Languages and Literatures, Boston UniversityMA Zhao, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Washington University in St. LouisMin Ye, Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston UniversityJorge Heine, Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University Presentations followed by Q&A and conversations on the history of Beijing, […]
China Initiative: Impacts and Implications – Law, Science, and U.S.-China Relations
China Initiative: Impacts and Implications – Law, Science, and U.S.-China Relations
Speakers: Patrick Toomey, National Security Project Deputy Director, ACLUGang Chen, Professor, MIT Mechanical EngineeringYasheng Huang, Professor, MIT Sloan SchoolEdgar Chen, Special Advisor, National Asian Pacific American Bar Association The China Initiative, launched under the Trump administration, led to the wrongful prosecution of Chinese American scientists, including MIT Professor Gang Chen. With discussions of its possible revival, […]
Peking Opera, Shanghai Style: From Mei Lanfang to Shi Yihong海上京劇:從梅蘭芳到史依弘
Peking Opera, Shanghai Style: From Mei Lanfang to Shi Yihong海上京劇:從梅蘭芳到史依弘
Speaker: Shi Yihong, Shanghai Jingju Theatre CompanyModerator: David Der-wei Wang, Harvard University Sponsors:East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard UniversityFairbank Center for Chinese StudiesChiang Ching-kuo Foundation Venue
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The 28th Annual Harvard East Asia Society Conference — Flow: A Symposium
The Harvard East Asia Society (HEAS) Graduate Student Conference is an annual event that provides an interdisciplinary forum for graduate students to exchange ideas and discuss current research on topics related to Asia. The conference invites young scholars to present their research to their peers and renowned scholars in relevant fields. Participants will also meet […]
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Weixin XU — Ukraine Every Day: An Artist’s Diary of 1,090 Digital Drawings
Weixin XU — Ukraine Every Day: An Artist’s Diary of 1,090 Digital Drawings
Artist Weixin XU has been working on his art project “Ukraine Every Day” since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Xu has completed almost 700 works using an iPad application. The portfolio includes portraits of soldiers, political figures, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, as well as scenes of the war. These images give […]
Urban China Lecture Series Featuring Koji Hirata — Local Governments and Central SOEs: Historical Evidence from Angang
Urban China Lecture Series Featuring Koji Hirata — Local Governments and Central SOEs: Historical Evidence from Angang
Speaker: Koji Hirata, Monash University This presentation examines the city of Anshan in Liaoning Province as a case study to explore the interactions between large state-owned enterprises and local governments in Mao-era China. Anshan was home to China's largest steel enterprise at the time, Anshan Iron and Steel Works (Angang). Although Angang was primarily controlled […]
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Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Jianbo Huang — Can China Live Without Religion?
Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Jianbo Huang — Can China Live Without Religion?
Speaker: Jianbo Huang, Professor of Anthropology, East China Normal University China is often labeled as the least religious nation in the world, yet its people express a rich tapestry of spirituality. This talk reveals that Chinese citizens engage with a broad spectrum of religious and spiritual traditions—frequently in informal settings and beyond traditional institutional boundaries. These […]
China Economy Lecture Featuring Heng Wang — How is China Affecting the International Economic Order?
China Economy Lecture Featuring Heng Wang — How is China Affecting the International Economic Order?
Speaker: Heng Wang, Professor, Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management UniversityModerator: Mark Wu, Henry Stimson Professor of Law, Harvard Law School; Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies China’s practices, such as those under the extra-regional Belt and Road Initiative, are selectively reshaping international economic order. More recently, China's role in the international economic […]
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Taiwan Studies+
Taiwan Studies+
Speakers: Moira Weigel, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University Sarah Plovnick, Hou Family Postdoctoral Fellow in Taiwan Studies, Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesYedong Sh-Chen, Ph.D. Candidate in East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard UniversityChang-Min Yu, Associate Professor, National Taiwan UniversityHardy Stewart, Hou Family Predoctoral Fellow in Taiwan Studies, Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesChia-wei Lai, Ph.D. Candidate […]
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Film Screening: This Woman (這個女人)
Film Screening: This Woman (這個女人)
Directed by Alan Zhang (China, 2023, 90 min.). Mandarin with English subtitles. In her striking debut feature, filmmaker Alan Zhang explores the life of a 35-year-old woman who, after losing her decade-long job during the COVID-19 pandemic, returns to her hometown from Beijing. As she works to support herself, her parents, and her child, she […]
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Esther Hu — Soong Mayling and Wartime China, 1937-1945: Deploying Words as Weapons
Esther Hu — Soong Mayling and Wartime China, 1937-1945: Deploying Words as Weapons
Speaker: Esther Hu, Research Affiliate, Boston University Center for the Study of Asia, Pardee School of Global StudiesChair: William Kirby, T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies; Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration; Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor; Director, Harvard China Fund Soong Mayling and Wartime China, 1937-1945: Deploying Words as Weapons focuses on the First […]
Hang Tu — 𝘚𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘙𝘦𝘱𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤: 𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘦 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘢𝘰𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘗𝘢𝘴𝘵
Hang Tu — 𝘚𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘙𝘦𝘱𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤: 𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘦 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘢𝘰𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘗𝘢𝘴𝘵
Speaker: Hang Tu, Assistant Professor of Chinese Studies, National University of SingaporeModerator: David Wang, Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University How does emotion shape the landscape of public intellectual debate? In Sentimental Republic, Hang Tu proposes emotion as a new critical framework to approach a post-Mao cultural controversy. As […]
Urban China Lecture Series Featuring Amy Zhang – Circular Ecologies: Environmentalism and Waste Politics in Urban China
Urban China Lecture Series Featuring Amy Zhang – Circular Ecologies: Environmentalism and Waste Politics in Urban China
Speaker: Amy Zhang, New York University After four decades of reform and development, China is confronting a domestic waste crisis. Starting in the early 2000s, Chinese policymakers came to see waste management as an object of environmental governance central to the creation of “modern” cities. China’s cities started experiments with the circular economy, in which […]
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Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Admiral James Stavridis, USN (Ret.) — Crisis Scenario: Imagining U.S.-China Relations and War in the Pacific
Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Admiral James Stavridis, USN (Ret.) — Crisis Scenario: Imagining U.S.-China Relations and War in the Pacific
Speaker: Admiral James Stavridis, USN (Ret.), Partner and Vice Chair, Global Affairs, The Carlyle Group; Chair of the Board of Trustees, Rockefeller Foundation Admiral James Stavridis is Partner and Vice Chair, Global Affairs of The Carlyle Group and Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Rockefeller Foundation, following five years as the 12th Dean […]
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Trump 2.0: Journalistic Insights on U.S. – Asia Relations
Trump 2.0: Journalistic Insights on U.S. – Asia Relations
Panelists:Steven L Herman, Broadcast Journalist, Voice of AmericaJosh Rogin, Columnist, The Washington PostEdward Wong, Diplomatic Correspondent, The New York Times Moderator: James Robson, James C. Kralik and Yunli Lou Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations; Harvard College Professor; Director, Harvard-Yenching Institute This discussion will explore the impact of President Trump’s second term on Asia, examining […]
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Li Miao — Retaining Desire for Social Mobility Within and Beyond Schooling: A Longitudinal Ethnography of Migrant Youth in China
Li Miao — Retaining Desire for Social Mobility Within and Beyond Schooling: A Longitudinal Ethnography of Migrant Youth in China
Speaker: Li Miao, Professor, Department of Sociology, Shandong University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2024-25Chair/Discussant: Emily Hannum, Professor of Sociology and Education; Associate Dean, School of Arts & Sciences, University of Pennsylvania Based on the results of China’s seventh national population census in 2020, 71.09 million children of migrant-peasant workers have participated in rural-urban migration for family […]
Fu Hualing in Conversation With Bill Alford
Fu Hualing in Conversation With Bill Alford
Speaker: Professor Fu Hualing, Dean of the Faculty of Law; Warren Chan Professor in Human Rights and Responsibilities, University of Hong Kong Discussant: Bill Alford, Jerome A. and Joan L. Cohen Professor of Law, Harvard Law School Fu Hualing is Professor of Law and holder of the Warren Chan Professorship in Human Rights and Responsibilities at […]