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Du Fu (712-770): China’s Greatest Poet: A Conference in Honor of the Library of Chinese Humanities
The symposium brings together over twenty scholars in premodern and modern Chinese literary studies from North America and East Asia. The discussions will focus on four aspects: Rethinking Du Fu in the context of the medieval world and poetics Dimensions of Du Fu’s works less explored in Du Fu studies, such as Buddhism, humor, self-exegesis, […]
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Book Talk: The Last Days of Stalin
Book Talk: The Last Days of Stalin
Speaker: Joshua Rubenstein. staff member of Amnesty International USA from 1975 to 2012 and associate at Harvard University’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies.
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The Dictator’s Dilemma: The Chinese Communist Party’s Strategy for Survival
The Dictator’s Dilemma: The Chinese Communist Party’s Strategy for Survival
Speaker: Professor Bruce J. Dickson, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs; Director, Sigur Center for Asian Studies, Elliott School of International Affairs, The George Washington University Critical Issues Confronting China Seminar Series; co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Harvard University Asia Center
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Taiwan in Transition? Initial Impressions of the Tsai Ing-wen Administration
Taiwan in Transition? Initial Impressions of the Tsai Ing-wen Administration
Taiwan Studies Workshop 9:45am - Introductory Remarks: Hon. Stanley Kao, Representative, Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the United States. 10:15am - Shelley Rigger, Davidson College 11:15am - Scott Kennedy, Center for Strategic and International Studies 1:00pm - Kuen-da (Dalton) Lin, Georgia Institute of Technology 2:00pm - Alan Romberg, Stimson Center
The Future of Sino-EU Relations After Brexit
The Future of Sino-EU Relations After Brexit
Philippe Le Corre, Visiting Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center on the United States and Europe, The Brookings Institution Co-sponsored by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Program on Transatlantic Relations For years China’s international investment interests focused on a search for natural resources in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Recently China’s focus has shifted to […]
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Learning Community Organizing in Japan and China
Learning Community Organizing in Japan and China
Speakers: Dr. Marshall Ganz, Senior Lecturer in Public Policy, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School Kanoko Kamata, Executive Director, Community Organizing Japan Iris Hu, Leadership Trainer and Coach, Harvard SEED for Social Innovation Moderator: Professor Andrew Gordon, Acting Director, Harvard Asia Center; Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor, Harvard University S354, […]
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Fantasies of the Self: Multiples, Illusions and Poems in the Photographic Culture of Modern China
Fantasies of the Self: Multiples, Illusions and Poems in the Photographic Culture of Modern China
Speaker: Prof. Shengqing Wu (Division of Humanities, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2016-17) Chair/discussant: Prof. David Wang (EALC, Harvard University) This talk investigates the visual configurations, rhetorical conventions, and fundamental concepts underlying China’s portrait photography in the early twentieth century. By surveying pictorial magazines, photo albums of courtesans, and poems […]
Unparalleled Momentum: A Review of China-U.S. Economic and Trade Relations Under President Obama
Unparalleled Momentum: A Review of China-U.S. Economic and Trade Relations Under President Obama
Dr. Xiang Yu, Visiting Scholar, Harvard University Asia Center; Director of the Division of American Economy Studies, Institute of American Studies, China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations (CICIR); Research Fellow and Associate Professor, CICIR Chair: Dr. William Overholt, Asia Center Senior Fellow
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Living With A China Made Great Again
Living With A China Made Great Again
Speaker: Ambassador Chas W. Freeman, Jr.; Senior Fellow, Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University; former Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs; former U. S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia; former Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs; former Deputy Chief of Mission and Chargé d'affaires in the American embassies in Bangkok […]
China’s National Cap-and-Trade Program: the Promise and the Reality
China’s National Cap-and-Trade Program: the Promise and the Reality
Speaker: WANG Pu, Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School Co-sponsored by the China Project, Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and the Environment and Natural Resources Program, Harvard Kennedy School. China’s national cap-and-trade program is regarded as a cornerstone of its climate policy outlined in the 13th Five-year plan (2016-2020), published right after the […]
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The Securitization of Management of Foreign NGOs and Foundations in China: What We Know So Far
The Securitization of Management of Foreign NGOs and Foundations in China: What We Know So Far
Speaker: Mark Sidel, Law Professor, University of Wisconsin; Consultant (Asia), International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL); Charles Stewart Mott Foundation Visiting Chair in Community Foundations, Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, Indiana University (2016-2017)
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Workshop: The Artist’s Hand—Technology in Practice
This workshop is an international event jointly sponsored by the Harvard History of Art and Architecture Dept., the China Academy of Art, and the Rhode Island School of Design. It is designed to unite practicing artists and art historians in an exploration of the role of the Artist’s Hand and traditional technique in contemporary artistic […]
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Film Screening and Discussion: Mr. Deng Goes to Washington
Film Screening and Discussion: Mr. Deng Goes to Washington
Mr. Deng Goes to Washington tells the story of Deng Xiaoping’s, China’s paramount leader, historic visit to the United States in 1979 that changed the trajectory of world history. This dramatic story is told through first-hand experiences of those people from both countries who made the normalization of relations possible–politicians, diplomats, and one former U.S. […]
The Master Branches Out: Images of Confucius in Contemporary China
The Master Branches Out: Images of Confucius in Contemporary China
As Confucius (551-479 BCE) has returned to political favor in recent years, his image has become ubiquitous in mainland China and increasingly used abroad to symbolize Chinese culture. Represented in a great variety of media, both traditional and modern, depictions of the ancient teacher serve new purposes and address a much wider audience than ever […]
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Film Screening: “Song of the Reed”
Film Screening: “Song of the Reed”
In 1998, the Taiwan Women’s Rescue Foundation (TWRF) made a groundbreaking documentary that revealed the existence of Taiwanese comfort women. More than 15 years later, the same organization filmed a second documentary, Song of the Reed. Following the later years of six former comfort women, Song of the Reed focuses on the therapy that the […]
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Can China Back Down? Crisis De-escalation in the Shadow of Popular Opposition
Can China Back Down? Crisis De-escalation in the Shadow of Popular Opposition
Speaker: Professor Alastair Iain Johnston, Governor James Albert Noe and Linda Noe Laine Professor of China in World Affairs, Government Department, Harvard University Critical Issues Confronting China Seminar Series; co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Harvard University Asia Center
The First World War and the Idea of “China”
The First World War and the Idea of “China”
This lecture will focus on the meaning of the First World War to China and China's role in the Great War. It will pay special attention to the issue how the Great War and its aftermath provided a momentum for the Chinese and the world to think about the ideas of China and Chineseness. Most importantly, this talk will explain why and how the Chinese seized the Great […]
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South China Sea: Hague and Aftermath
South China Sea: Hague and Aftermath
Speakers: Andrew Loewenstein, Partner, Foley Hoag Peter Dutton, Naval War College Michael McDevitt, CNA Strategic Studies Taylor Fravel, MIT
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To Ransom Destiny: The Daoist Search for Deliverance in Medieval China
To Ransom Destiny: The Daoist Search for Deliverance in Medieval China
Franciscus Verellen a former director of the Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient (2004-2014), where he also holds the chair in History of Daoism and currently serves as head of the EFEO Hong Kong Center.
Inventing Nana Hsu: Creativity in Academic Writing
Inventing Nana Hsu: Creativity in Academic Writing
In the fall of 1948, a young woman in Shanghai left behind her high school Chinese literature textbook just as Communist forces made their way into the city and the Nationalists beat a hasty retreat to Taiwan. That textbook then moldered on some dank and dingy shelf for more than sixty years, with a mysterious […]
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The Historical Geographic Background of the Silk Road
The Historical Geographic Background of the Silk Road
Speaker: Ge Jianxiong, Professor of the Institute of Historical Geography, Fudan University, as well as the Librarian of Fudan University.
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The Mining Industry, Caravan Transportation and Ethnic Mobilization in southwest China from the 17th to 19th Century
The Mining Industry, Caravan Transportation and Ethnic Mobilization in southwest China from the 17th to 19th Century
Speaker: Prof. Ma Jianxiong (Hong Kong U. of Science and Technology; HYI Visiting Scholar) Chair/discussant: Prof. Michael Szonyi (Director, Harvard University Fairbank Center) Harvard-Yenching Institute Lunchtime Talk This talk will review the history of silver and copper mines on the borderland between Yunnan and Burma, in particular the social organization of miners in remote mountainous […]
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The World of Universities in the 21st Century – Two Case Studies: UC-Berkeley & Hong Kong University
The World of Universities in the 21st Century – Two Case Studies: UC-Berkeley & Hong Kong University
William Kirby, Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School; T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies, Harvard University Commentators: Charles S. Maier, Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History, Harvard University Sugata Bose, Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History, Harvard University Aniket De, PhD Candidate in History, Harvard University
Working with Looted Manuscripts: A Vindication of the Peking University Han Bamboo Strips
Working with Looted Manuscripts: A Vindication of the Peking University Han Bamboo Strips
Over the last two decades, remarkable collections of Warring States, Qin and Han manuscripts have been purchased on the behalf of major academic institutions in China, offering exciting new materials that have the potential to dramatically impact the study of early China. By the same token, these collections also present a great risk to our […]
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Unlikely Partners: Chinese Reformers, Western Economists, and the Making of Global China
Unlikely Partners: Chinese Reformers, Western Economists, and the Making of Global China
Speaker: Julian Gewirtz '13 Julian Gewirtz will discuss his forthcoming book, Unlikely Partners: Chinese Reformers, Western Economists, and the Making of Global China, which Harvard University Press will publish in January. Writing for the New Yorker, Evan Osnos summarizes: "The book tells the little-known story of how Chinese intellectuals and leaders, facing a ruined economy at […]
The Exile and Diplomacy of the 13th Dalai Lama (1904-1912): Tibet’s Encounters with the US and Japan
The Exile and Diplomacy of the 13th Dalai Lama (1904-1912): Tibet’s Encounters with the US and Japan
Speaker: Prof. Kobayashi Ryosuke (Toyo Bunko; HYI Visiting Scholar) Chair/discussant: Prof. Leonard van der Kuijp (Harvard University) Harvard-Yenching Institute Lunch Talk This talk will show how Tibet attempted to participate in the international community around the demise of the Qing Dynasty in 1912 by focusing on its relationships with the US and Japan. The sojourns of […]
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Beijing Faces its Periphery: Update on Hong Kong and Taiwan
Beijing Faces its Periphery: Update on Hong Kong and Taiwan
Speaker: Dr. Richard Bush, Brookings Institution: Senior Fellow, the Richard H. Armacost Chair, the Chen-Fu and Cecilia Yen Koo Chair in Taiwan Studies, Director of the Center for East Asia Policy Studies, and Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, John L. Thornton China Center; former Chairman and Managing Director of the American Institute in Taiwan Critical Issues […]
Competing Air Quality and Water Conservation Co-Benefits from Power Sector Decarbonization in China
Competing Air Quality and Water Conservation Co-Benefits from Power Sector Decarbonization in China
Speaker: PENG Wei, Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School Co-sponsored by the China Project, Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and the Environment and Natural Resources Program, Harvard Kennedy School
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