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Speakers:Dai Qing, Visiting Fellow, Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia at Harvard Kennedy SchoolRana Mitter, ST Lee Chair in U.S.-Asia Relations, Harvard Kennedy SchoolJoin Dai Qing and Rana Mitter for a conversation about the role of civil society in China and whether it can survive. Drawing on her experiences during China’s reform era, Dai Qing will
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Filmmaker Xinyue Li in conversation with Jie Li, Ford Foundation Professor of East Asian Studies, Harvard University. This film is part of a three-part series presenting documentaries from China’s Caochangdi Workstation, a collective of documentary filmmakers and performance artists whose work explores memory, history, and everyday life through long-term, participatory projects. Director’s statement: “In July |
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Speaker: Curtis J. Milhaupt, William F. Baxter International Professor of Law, Stanford Law School; Senior Fellow, by courtesy, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies Professor Milhaupt will discuss “Networked State Capital in China’s AI Ecosystem,” his current joint project with Liwen Lin, Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia, Allard School of Law. Self-reliance
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Filmmaker ZHANG Mengqi in conversation with Jie Li, Ford Foundation Professor of East Asian Studies, Harvard University, and Lucien Castaing-Taylor, John Cowles Professor of Art and Anthropology, Director of the Sensory Ethnography Lab, Harvard University. This film is part of a three-part series presenting documentaries from China’s Caochangdi Workstation, a collective of documentary filmmakers and |
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Speaker: Jean Oi, William Haas Professor of Chinese Politics, Department of Political Science; Senior Fellow, The Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford UniversityIn the wake of COVID-19 and the property-market collapse, China’s local government financing vehicles (LGFVs)—entities created to borrow and invest on behalf of local governments—had accumulated more than $8 trillion in debt
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Speaker: James Millward, Georgetown UniversityPeriodization by “Chinese dynasties” is a structural foundation of the historiography of continental eastern Eurasia, but even those passingly familiar with the field know the idea is beset with problems: The Chinese dynasties aren’t all “Chinese.” They weren’t all in the same place, but were scattered around geographical China and Inner
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Followed by a Q+A with filmmaker ZHUANG Wei. This film is part of a three-part series presenting documentaries from China’s Caochangdi Workstation, a collective of documentary filmmakers and performance artists whose work explores memory, history, and everyday life through long-term, participatory projects. Director’s Statement: “Returning to the unfamiliar Chaoshan homeland to live, I encountered my |
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Speaker: Aihe Wang, Former Wuming Artist; Honorary Associate Professor at the School of Chinese, The University of Hong Kong Moderator: Michael Puett, Victor and William Fung Foundation Director, Harvard University Asia Center; Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History and Anthropology, FAS; Harvard College Professor Amid the political turmoil of China’s Cultural Revolution, a small group of |
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Speaker: Chunmei Du, Professor, Department of History, Lingnan University, Hong Kong; Associate, Harvard University Asia Center In this rich history of everyday encounters between US soldiers and Chinese civilians, Chunmei Du explores their entangled relations from the end of World War II to the founding of the People's Republic of China. Drawing upon official, popular and
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Speaker: Yunxiao Xiao, University of Washington***THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL THE SPRING SEMESTER*** This talk explores how written information was organized, edited, and transmitted through the ancient media of bamboo and wood. Drawing on excavated manuscripts from the Warring States through the Han, I examine three practices of bookmaking and information management before the |
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Speaker: Zhiyou Han, Visiting Scholar, Harvard University Asia Center; Associate Research Fellow & Conservation Specialist, Department of Conservation Standards of Cultural Heritage, Palace Museum, Beijing Moderator: Jinah Kim, George P. Bickford Professor of Indian and South Asian Art, Department of History of Art & Architecture, Harvard University Paper was far more than a surface for writing
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Speaker: Angela Huyue Zhang, Professor of Law, University of Southern California, Gould School of Law Professor Zhang will discuss “The Platform State: How China Governs Innovation to Achieve Tech Supremacy,” her current joint project with S. Alex Yang, Professor of Management Science and Operations at London Business School. China’s innovation economy presents a puzzle. In
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Speaker: Zhang Qingyong, Renmin University This talk will be given in Mandarin.In this talk I will report on my ongoing research into the evolution of China’s land takings system since 1949. The study draws extensively on a wide range of materials, including drafts, reports and briefing materials from the legislative process, as well as diaries, |
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Speaker: Fei-Hsien Wang, Associate Professor, Department of History, Indiana University Bloomington In 1973, the Institute of Modern History (IMH) at Academia Sinica launched an ambitious collaborative project to examine late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century China through the lens of modernization theory. Over the next sixteen years, seventeen historians participated in “Modernization in China: A Regional
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Speaker:Susan Whiting, University of Washington In Illiberal Law and Development, Susan H. Whiting advances institutional economic theory with original survey and fieldwork data, addressing two puzzles in Chinese political economy: how economic development has occurred despite insecure property rights and weak rule of law and how the Chinese state has maintained political control amid unrest. |
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Speakers:Zoe Liu, Maurice R. Greenberg Senior Fellow for China Studies, Council on Foreign RelationsRana Mitter, S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations, Harvard Kennedy School Join us on for a lunchtime discussion with Maurice R. Greenberg Senior Fellow for China Studies Zongyuan Zoe Liu on China’s efforts to direct finance toward strategic industries and support its |
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Speaker: Lynette Ong, Distinguished Professor of Chinese Politics, University of Toronto; Director, China Governance Lab, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public PolicyDigital technology facilitates information sharing among activists; however, it also affords autocrats new vectors of control, allowing them to surveil and subjugate dissenters. Yet, in China—the world’s most powerful autocratic state where most |
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Speaker: Yannan DING, Associate Professor, Historical Geography, Fudan University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2026-27Chair/Discussant: Peter K. Bol, Charles H. Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University Venue |
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Speaker: Ning Zhu, Chair Professor of Finance, Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance (SAIF), Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityMore information coming soon.Dr. Ning Zhu is a Chair Professor of Finance at the Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance (SAIF) at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Previously, he held the position of Chair Professor at Tsinghua University and was a |
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Speaker: Zhao Miaoxi, South China University of Technology In China's system of public land ownership, industrial land leases often extend beyond the relatively short lifespan of enterprises. Consequently, formulating land use strategies that account for business turnover has emerged as a crucial task for urban planning. This lecture explores urban land vacancy through the primary |
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Speaker: Kerstin Storm, University of Münster***Please note the different location for this talk in the series.***Perceptions of old age and aging in so-called traditional China are often reduced to two extremes: on the one hand, respect for the elderly, commonly associated with the Confucian cardinal virtue of filial piety, and on the other the Daoist |
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Speakers:Min Ye, Professor of International Relations, Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston UniversityJorge Heine, Core Faculty in Diplomacy & Governance, Rising Powers Initiative, Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future; Research Professor, Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston UniversityGrant Rhode, Research Fellow, Center for the Study of Asia, Boston University Andrew Wilson, John A. van Beuren Chair |
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