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Speaker: Péter-Dániel Szántó, All Souls College, University of Oxford The talk will share some thoughts backed by evidence about how medieval Indian tantric communities were organized socially and economically. It will also present some passages dealing with tantric Buddhist gurus' various strategies for dealing with royal punishment and patronage. |
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Read event summary here Dr. Jeffrey Bader, Senior Fellow, John L. Thornton China Center, Brookings Institution Jeffrey Bader is a senior fellow in the John L. Thornton China Center at the Brookings Institution. From 2009 until 2011, Bader was special assistant to the president of the United States for national security affairs at the National […]
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Speaker: Prof. Zhang Bo, Visiting Scholar, Harvard-China Project; Associate Professor, State Key Laboratory of Coal Resources and Safe Mining, China University of Mining & Technology (Beijing) Methane (CH4) is the second ranking anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG), with a global warming potential (GWP) 28 times greater than that of carbon dioxide (CO2) on a mass basis. In contrast […]
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Speaker: Youn-mi Kim, Ewha Womans University The shamanistic Khitan people were exposed to Buddhism −the Indian religion that reached these nomads mediated by the Han Chinese sedentary culture− when they suddenly rose to power and founded the Liao Empire (907-1125). By exploring the pagodas from the Liao Empire, this lecture discusses how the synthesis of these […] |
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Event Summary Speaker: Professor Christine Wong, Director, Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies, University of Melbourne Professor Wong is a leading authority on China's public finance. Her work on public finance, central-local relations and their implications for governance, economic development and welfare in China are widely cited, including several major World Bank studies for which Professor […] |
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Speaker: Deng Fei, Associate Professor, National Institute of Advanced Humanistic Studies, Fudan University; HYI Visiting Scholar Chair/discussant: Eugene Wang, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art, Department of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University https://harvard-yenching.org/events/popularized-landscapes-pictures-landscape-tombs-yuan-china-1271-1368 |
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Symposium Organized by Harvard University and the Museum of Fine Arts RSVP: https://symposium-8-brokens.app.rsvpify.com/ |
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Read event summary here Speaker: Winnie Yip, Harvard University Dr. Winnie Yip is Professor of Global Health Policy and Economics in the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and also Director of the school wide China Health Partnership. Dr. Yip was previously a Professor of Health Policy […]
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Speaker: Aurelia Campbell, Boston College Moderator: Eugene Wang, Harvard University The lecture concentrates on Qutan Monastery, a Buddhist temple located in an isolated mountainous region near Ledu, Qinghai province, at the Sino-Tibetan frontier. The temple was founded by an influential Tibetan Buddhist lama named Sanggyé Trashi (d. 1414), who, in 1393, traveled to the Ming […] |
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Speaker: Chiung-yun Evelyn Liu, Associate Research Fellow, Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica; HYI Visiting Scholar Chair/discussant: Wai-yee Li, Professor of Chinese Literature, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University https://harvard-yenching.org/events/layered-knowledge-layered-sentiment-encyclopedic-writing-after-fall-dynasty
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Speaker: James Steinberg, University Professor of Social Science, International Affairs, and Law, Syracuse University In the past year, the leaders of China and the United States laid out their respective visions for future peace and prosperity in widely noted speeches at Davos (President Xi) and the UN (President Trump). What do those speeches tell us about […] |
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Join the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation for a panel discussion where experts weigh in with exclusive insight and opinions on China's 19th Party Congress. Watch this panel on YouTube: Listen again to this panel on Soundcloud: Moderator: Mark Elliott, Vice Provost of International Affairs […]
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Speaker: Tina Lu, Yale University As a genre, huaben are relentlessly experimental. Sometimes these stories come close to stream of consciousness (especially in their depiction of dreams), and it is easy to lapse into habits of reading that consider those experiments proto-modernist. Tina Lu would like to take a step back and consider the ways […] |
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Speaker: John Delury, Associate Professor of Chinese Studies. Yonsei University Graduate School of International Studies Professor Delury will discuss his research on the extraordinary case of Jack Downey, who flew into Mao’s China in 1952 as part of a CIA project to support a “Third Force” resistance against the Communist government. Downey’s plane was shot down, and he […]
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China Town Hall: Local Connections, National Reflections Join 80+ communities across the United States in a national conversation on China. Featuring an interactive webcast with former UN Ambassador Susan Rice, and on-site discussion with Jeremy Goldkorn. Ambassador Susan E. Rice served President Barack Obama as national security advisor and U.S. permanent representative to the United […] |
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Event Summary Speaker: Richard McGregor, author of Asia's Reckoning: China, Japan, and the Fate of U.S. Power in the Pacific Century and The Party: The Secret World of China’s Communist Rulers; former Washington and Beijing Bureau Chief for The Financial Times |
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A UNESCO World Heritage Site filled with magnificently carved Buddhist caves, the Longmen Grottoes are renown throughout the world for their enduring legacy to Chinese art. Join experts from the Longmen Grottoes Research Academy and leading scholars for a day of cutting-edge research, archaeological findings, preservation work, and a special viewing of the Longmen Digital Retrieval […] |
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The 1967 riots are a watershed in Hong Kong history and some would say the starting point for the development of Hong Kong consciousness. Yet the official records of this critical period today are sadly incomplete. What information can be found online is hard to verify and authenticate. Documentary film director Connie Lo Yan-wai spent four years […] |
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Speaker: Nguyen Ngoc Tho, Advanced Researcher, Faculty of Cultural Studies, University of Social Science and Humanities, Vietnam National University-Ho Chi Minh City; HYI Visiting Scholar Chair/discussant: Robert Weller, Professor, Department of Anthropology, Boston University There are around 823,000 ethnic Chinese in Vietnam, of which 95% are living in southern Vietnam. Due to historical and social backgrounds, the […] |
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Event Summary Speaker: David Rank, former Deputy Chief of Mission, U.S. Embassy, Beijing
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Speaker: Guan ChengHe, Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard-China Project; Research Fellow, Harvard Graduate School of Design Sustainable urban form that encourages low-carbon travel can help respond to the environmental challenges associated with urbanization. Non-motorized transport (NMT) effectively reduces the per capita carbon footprint of city dwellers. From the concept of compact cities to smart growth policies, many have […] |
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Speaker: Hsu Hui-Lin, Associate Professor, Department of Chinese Literature, National Taiwan University; HYI Visiting Scholar Chair/discussant: Karen Thornber Professor of Comparative Literature and of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University Sentiment has been viewed as a major force of modernization. Studies in the past decade are inclined to understand modern sentiment in early 1900s China […] |
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Speakers: Peter K. Bol, Vice Provost, and Dr. Amelia Ying Qin The workshop will cover design, data population, and search functions of the China Biographical Database in relation to sample research questions. Sample Database query results will be analyzed through Social Network Analysis. Part of the Digital China Initiative Workshop Series 24-seat limit. Light refreshments served. […] |