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Speaker: Nathan Vedal, Assistant Professor, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Toronto; Former Fairbank Center Graduate Student Associate This talk, introducing a forthcoming monograph (Translation, Emulation, and Manchu Literary Culture), will consider the institution of a civil service translation examination during the Qing dynasty, as well as the Manchu translation program in the elite |
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Speakers:Andrew Collier, Senior Fellow, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy SchoolKellee Tsai, Dean, College of Social Sciences and Humanities, Northeastern UniversityDavid Bulman, Jill McGovern and Steven Muller Assistant Professor of China Studies and International Affairs, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) Moderator: Meg Rithmire, James E. Robison Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business
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Speaker: Ruike Lyu, Visiting Student Research Collaborator (VSRC) at ZERO Lab, Princeton University; Ph.D Candidate in Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University In many countries, declining demand in energy-intensive industries (EIIs) such as cement, steel, and aluminum is leading to industrial overcapacity. Although industrial overcapacity is traditionally envisioned as problematic and resource-wasteful, it could unlock EIIs’ flexibility |
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The Sinographic compound (山水), denoting “mountain and water,” is widely shared across many Asian contexts, with different regional traditions and approaches. As shanshui in China, sansui in Japan, and sansu in Korea, the term has historically referred to creative artistic and philosophical visions of the natural world, combining the vital elements of a fully dynamic landscape. With climate change underway, what
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Speaker: Wu Jieh-min, Distinguished Research Fellow, Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan; Co-founder, Center for Contemporary China, National Tsing Hua University Moderator: Ya-Wen Lei, Professor, Department of Sociology, Harvard University The “Silicon Shield” is often treated as a Taiwan-centered, overly-fixed concept that emphasizes Taiwan’s technological indispensability as a rationale for its defense. This talk challenges
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Speaker: Lei LI, Associate Professor, School of Foreign Studies, Nankai University; BC Ricci Institute–HYI Joint Visiting Researcher Fellowship Program, 2025-26 Chair: M. Antoni J. Ucerler, S. J., Associate Professor, History, Boston College; Director, Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History Discussant: Elizabeth J. Perry, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government, Harvard University This presentation explores how the
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Speaker: Jedidiah Kroncke, Associate Professor of Law, The University of Hong Kong The life of Chinese legal scholar Wu Jingxiong has long attracted attention given his diverse intellectual interests and high profile in Chinese judicial politics and constitutional reform during the 1930s and 1940s. Like many of his generation, Wu’s education combine traditional Confucian schooling |
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Speaker: Yu Wang, Cornell University This talk is a condensed, selected presentation of my forthcoming book, Sonic Socialism: Radio and the Technopolitics of Listening in China, 1940-1976. In the book, I explore how radio unleashed its potential and limits in a series of engagements with the auditory sense and the production of reality during the |
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Speaker: KAKINUMA Yohei, Professor, Faculty of Letters, Arts, and Sciences, Waseda University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2025-26 Chair/Discussant: David Yang, Yvonne P. L. Lui Professor of Economics, Harvard University This talk has examined some aspects of people’s perceptions of paper currency in the early Ming period, drawing on the questions and excellent answers from the provincial |
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The Harvard East Asia Society (HEAS) Graduate Student Conference is an annual two-day event that provides an interdisciplinary forum for graduate students to exchange ideas and discuss current research on topics related to Asia. This year, we are excited to host twelve panels featuring Harvard faculty and participants from around the world, as well as |
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Speaker: Fan Dai, Assistant Professor, International Climate Policy, Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, BerkeleyDiscussant: Henry Lee, Jassim M. Jaidah Family Director of the Environment and Natural Resources Program; Co-Chair, Arctic Initiative, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy SchoolMore information coming soon.Fan Dai is an Assistant Professor in International Climate
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Speaker: Rana Mitter, ST Lee Chair in US–Asia Relations, Harvard Kennedy SchoolGuest filmmaker (via Zoom Q&A):Zhang Yuan, Director of Beijing Bastards “Rock music was the only way young people could express what they were feeling.” —Zhang Yuan Join us for a special screening of Beijing Bastards (北京杂种, 1993), Zhang Yuan’s raw, unflinching, and influential portrait of China’s underground rock |
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Speaker: Courtney Fung, Associate Professor, School of International Studies, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia Please note the different day and time for this Critical Issues talk.China presents itself as a supporter of ‘true multilateralism,’ with the United Nations as a bedrock institution of global governance. The United Nations’ truly global reach, China’s UN Security Council veto, |
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Speaker: Xiaobo Lü, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of California, BerkeleyXiaobo Lü is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. His research explores the relationships between fiscal policies, party-building, and state-society relations in authoritarian regimes, particularly in China. He is particularly interested in the formation
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Speaker: Song Niansheng, Tsinghua UniversityWhat can one neighborhood reveal about the making of a modern nation? This talk deciphers the unexpected significance of Xita, a half-square-mile quarter in Shenyang, in Northeast China. It shows that over nearly four centuries, Xita has been shaped and reshaped by empire, war, migration, and urban transformation. The history of |
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Speaker: Gangzhen She, Visiting Scholar, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs; Director, Center for Overseas Security and Associate Professor Department of International Relations, Tsinghua University, China Discussant: Robert Ross, Professor of Political Science, Boston University; Fairbank Center Associate Venue
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Speaker: Micah Muscolino, Professor and Paul G. Pickowicz Endowed Chair in Modern Chinese History, University of California San Diego From the 1940s to the 1960s, soil and water conservation measures remade both the arid, erosion-prone landscape of China’s Loess Plateau and the lives of rural people. Drawing from his recent book, Micah Muscolino discusses how |
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