Join this year's Visiting Scholars as they provide a brief overview of their research and other accomplishments during the past academic year at the Fairbank Center.
The final event of the spring semester for the Emergent Visions film series will be hosted at the Brattle Theatre in Harvard Square. The event is free and open to […]
Read event summary here Speaker: David Shambaugh, George Washington University Professor Shambaugh is an internationally recognized authority and author on contemporary China and the international relations of Asia, with a strong […]
12:45-1 p.m. Welcoming remarks First Panel Moderator: Wai-yee Li, Harvard University 1-1:30p.m. Zhou Yiqun, Stanford University: “Hermits and Their Wives in Early Chinese Texts” 1:30-2p.m. Hu Ying, University of California Irvine: “Strange Friends: Reconceptualizing Gender and Community” 2-2:30p.m. Ellen Widmer, Wellesley College: “Intercultural Mutuality: Mary Hannah Fulton (1854-1927) and Zhang Jujun (1879-1964)” 2:30-3p.m. Discussion 3-3:30p.m. […]
Speaker: Amelia Ying Qin, An Wang Post Doctoral Fellow, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies This study takes two different approaches—close and distant readings—to the hidden patterns in two anecdote collections. The Songchuang zalu 松牕雜錄 (Miscellaneous Notes under the Pine Window) is a small Tang 唐 (618-907) collection of sixteen anecdotes that claims its accounts are both “particularly […]
Surrounded by our Bonsai & Penjing collection, enjoy cocktails and hors d'oeuvres as you view Professor Yin Kaipu's (Chengdu Institute of Biology) photographs which document a century of environmental change. […]
Speaker: Elizabeth Lord, An Wang Postdoctoral Fellow, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies This talk aims to unpack dominant narratives about China’s environment, including the discourse of crisis, the idea that growth brings environmental protection and the potential that China can act as an environmental ‘vanguard’ at the international level. By analyzing how each of these […]