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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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 […]
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What Next? Trump and Asia
What Next? Trump and Asia
Join the Harvard University Asia-related Centers for the first in a new series on the Asia-Pacific during Trump's presidency.
The Buddha and the Dragon Princess in the Lotus Sutra — for deciphering the Devadatta frontispiece in the Heike Tokyo set
The Buddha and the Dragon Princess in the Lotus Sutra — for deciphering the Devadatta frontispiece in the Heike Tokyo set
Speaker: Ryūichi Abé, Harvard University The Heike Nokyo is a sumptuously produced set of Buddhist scriptural handscrolls that was commissioned by the Heike military aristocratic clan and offered to the Goddess of Itsukushima, the clan’s tutelary divinity, in the mid-twelfth century. The set is arguably the most sublime example of illustrated and decorated Buddhist scriptures in Japanese history. The Heike […]
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The East-Asian Peace: Can it Last?
The East-Asian Peace: Can it Last?
Speaker: The Honorable Börje Ljunggren, Former Asia Center Fellow; former Swedish Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China and Vietnam Critical Issues Confronting China Seminar Series; co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Harvard University Asia Center
Long-Term Trend and Spatial Pattern of PM2.5-Induced Premature Mortality in China
Long-Term Trend and Spatial Pattern of PM2.5-Induced Premature Mortality in China
Speaker: WANG Haikun, Associate Professor, School of Environment, Nanjing University Sponsored by the China Project, Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. With rapid economic growth, China has witnessed increasingly frequent and severe haze and smog episodes over the past decade, posing serious health impacts to the Chinese population, especially those in densely populated […]
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The Indian Yogācāra Scholar Sthiramati and the Works Attributed to Him
The Indian Yogācāra Scholar Sthiramati and the Works Attributed to Him
Speaker: Jowita Kramer, Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich This paper focuses on the scriptural corpus of Sthiramati, a pivotal scholar in the development of Indian Yogācāra thought in the 6th century. So far […]
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