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郝春文 Hao Chunwen – 敦煌寫本齋文的分類、定名及其文本結構 Rethinking the Structure and Typology of Liturgical Texts From Dunhuang
郝春文 Hao Chunwen – 敦煌寫本齋文的分類、定名及其文本結構 Rethinking the Structure and Typology of Liturgical Texts From Dunhuang
This talk will be given in Mandarin Speaker: Hao Chunwen 郝春文, Senior Professor, Capital Normal University This talk gives an overview of recent scholarly thinking on the typology and structure of the liturgical texts found among the Dunhuang manuscripts. We can divide the thousands of liturgical texts found at Dunhuang into two main categories: liturgical protocols […]
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Jeffrey R. Williams – Corporate Governance with Chinese Characteristics
Jeffrey R. Williams – Corporate Governance with Chinese Characteristics
Read the event summary here Speaker: Jeffrey R. Williams, Harvard Kennedy School
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40 Years of Opening and Reform: A Comprehensive View – Politics, Law, Thought, Culture, Society
40 Years of Opening and Reform: A Comprehensive View – Politics, Law, Thought, Culture, Society
Speakers: Ren Jiantao, Tsinghua University He Weifang, Peking University Xiao Gongqin, Shanghai Normal University Rong Jian, Independent Scholar Discussant: Susan Greenhalgh, Harvard University
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Liu Chen – Father and Son: A Neglected Legacy of the Renaissance on Liang Qichao and Liang Sicheng
Liu Chen – Father and Son: A Neglected Legacy of the Renaissance on Liang Qichao and Liang Sicheng
Speaker: Liu Chen, Tsinghua University, HYI Visiting Scholar 2018-19 Discussant: Lino Pertile, Harvard University https://harvard-yenching.org/events/liu-chen-november-7
Fan Gang – Trade War and China’s New Phase of Development
Fan Gang – Trade War and China’s New Phase of Development
Read the summary here Speaker: Fan Gang, professor at the Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) and at the Peking University HSBC Business School, as well as the director of China's National Economic Research Institute (NERI). Co-sponsored by the Unirule Institute of Economics Check back soon for more information!
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40 Years of Economic Reform and Opening: Achievements and Challenges
40 Years of Economic Reform and Opening: Achievements and Challenges
Speakers: Li Shi, Beijing Normal University Tao Ran, Renmin University of China Qin Qianhong, Wuhan University Discussant: Meg Rithmire, Harvard Business School
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Andrew Chittick – The Resistant South: Sketching a History of the Wu People in the First Millennium CE
Andrew Chittick – The Resistant South: Sketching a History of the Wu People in the First Millennium CE
Speaker: Andrew Chittick, Eckerd College The history of East Asia in the first millennium CE is ordinarily framed as the successive “fragmentation” of China under the Han dynasty, and its “reunification” under the Sui and Tang dynasties. This talk develops an alternative perspective, in which mainland East Asia is characterized by many distinct cultural regions, which […]
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Christina Davis – East Asian Trade at a Crossroads: From TPP to China’s State-led Capitalism
Christina Davis – East Asian Trade at a Crossroads: From TPP to China’s State-led Capitalism
Speaker: Christina Davis, Professor of Government and Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University Moderator: Susan Pharr, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics and Director, WCFIA Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University
Hopkins-Nanjing Center Open House
Hopkins-Nanjing Center Open House
The Johns Hopkins University Hopkins-Nanjing Center will hold an information session for students interested in graduate study in China. Students at the HNC take coursework in Chinese in areas including politics, Chinese studies, law, economics, and energy, resources, and the environment. MA and certificate programs are available, with guaranteed funding for all financial aid applicants. […]
Denise Ho – New Exhibitions and China’s Cultural Revolution: Rethinking Class, Material, Culture, and Propaganda
Denise Ho – New Exhibitions and China’s Cultural Revolution: Rethinking Class, Material, Culture, and Propaganda
Speaker: Denise Y. Ho, Yale University Listen to our "Harvard on China" podcast interview with Denise Y. Ho. Download and read the transcript of this podcast interview. Denise Y. Ho is assistant professor of twentieth-century Chinese history at Yale University, and the author of "Curating Revolution: Politics on Display of Mao’s China" (2018). Using a […]
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Chas Freeman – A New Era in US-China Relations: Malicious Coexistence Amidst a Phony Peace?
Chas Freeman – A New Era in US-China Relations: Malicious Coexistence Amidst a Phony Peace?
Read the event summary here Speaker: Amb. Chas W. Freeman, Jr., Chair, Projects International, Inc. Ambassador Freeman is a career diplomat (retired) who was Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs from 1993-94, earning the highest public service awards of the Department of Defense for his roles in designing a NATO-centered post-Cold War European […]
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Zheng Jing – From Asylums to Housing: A Vernacular Architectural Adaptation in Southeastern China
Zheng Jing – From Asylums to Housing: A Vernacular Architectural Adaptation in Southeastern China
Speaker: Zheng Jing, Wuhan University, HYI Visiting Scholar 2018-19 Discussant: Michael Szonyi, Harvard University https://harvard-yenching.org/events/asylums-housing-vernacular-architectural-adaptation-southeastern-china
Meg Rithmire – Unfaithful Friends: State and Business in Developing Asia
Meg Rithmire – Unfaithful Friends: State and Business in Developing Asia
Speaker: Meg Rithmire, F. Warren McFarlan Associate Professor of Business of Administration, Harvard Business School Chair: Ezra Vogel, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences, Emeritus, Harvard University Asia Center Seminar Series; co-sponsored with the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
Chris Leighton – Selling the Revolution: China’s Capitalist Ambassadors, 1949-1966
Chris Leighton – Selling the Revolution: China’s Capitalist Ambassadors, 1949-1966
Speaker: Chris Leighton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Business History Seminar at Harvard Business School Friday, November 16th, at 3:30 in Baker Library/Bloomberg Center Room 101
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Meow Hui Goh – Fake News, Genuine Words: The Power Dynamic of Literature in Early Medieval China
Meow Hui Goh – Fake News, Genuine Words: The Power Dynamic of Literature in Early Medieval China
Speaker: Meow Hui Goh, Ohio State University As we grapple with the consequences of fake news, disseminated across the globe in high-speed internet to impact countries and communities on issues as grave as presidential election, gender discrimination, and ethnic cleansing, it might feel as if our world is treading on unchartered territory. But viral misinformation is […]
Film Screening: The Great Buddha
Film Screening: The Great Buddha
Directed by Huang Hsin-yao. With Cres Chuang, Bamboo Chen, Leon Dai Taiwan 2017, DCP, color & b/w, 102 min. Min Nan with English subtitles https://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa General Admission Tickets $9, $7 Non-Harvard Students, Seniors, Harvard Faculty and Staff. Harvard students free
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Kang Jin-A — Transnational Merchant Diaspora in Modern East Asia: British and Cantonese cooperation in the treaty ports seen through the case of the Tongshuntai Firm
Kang Jin-A — Transnational Merchant Diaspora in Modern East Asia: British and Cantonese cooperation in the treaty ports seen through the case of the Tongshuntai Firm
Speaker: Kang Jin-A, History Department, Hanyang University; HYI Visiting Scholar 2018-19 Chair/discussant: Victor Seow, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University https://harvard-yenching.org/events/transnational-merchant-diaspora-modern-east-asia-british-and-cantonese-cooperation-treaty
William Hsiao – The Power of China’s Bureaucracy: Through the Health Sector Lens
William Hsiao – The Power of China’s Bureaucracy: Through the Health Sector Lens
Read the event summary here Speaker: William Hsiao, K.T. Li Research Professor of Economics in Department of Health Policy and Management and Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard University T.H. Chan School of Public Health
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Xi Lian – Political Dissent in the Name of God: Lin Zhao and Her Legacy in Contemporary China
Xi Lian – Political Dissent in the Name of God: Lin Zhao and Her Legacy in Contemporary China
Speaker: Xi Lian, Professor of World Christianity, Duke Divinity School
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Panel Discussion – Early? Modern? Asia?: Three Perspectives
Panel Discussion – Early? Modern? Asia?: Three Perspectives
Panelists: Professor Carla Nappi, Department of History, University of Pittsburgh Professor Elaine Fisher, Department of Religious Studies, Stanford University Professor Michael Charney, Department of History, SOAS, University of London Chair: Professor David Atherton, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University Early Modern Asia Seminar Series, Harvard University Asia Center
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