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This exhibition at the Harvard University Asia Center explores the intersections of art, disability, and mental health by displaying original works on paper and sculptures created by ten groundbreaking, self-taught artists from China and Japan. Their compelling, formally innovative works come in a wide range of styles and media, from gestural abstractions to proliferating figurations, from […] |
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Speaker: Chen Wei, Professor, School of Sociology and Population Studies, Renmin University of China; HYI Visiting Scholar 2018-19 Chair/discussant: Mary Brinton, Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Harvard University Demography is destiny. China’s economic success has been importantly driven by its demographic changes which might also determine China’s future. At the center of the demographics […] |
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Speaker: David Wang, Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature and of Comparative Literature, Harvard University Harvard-Yenching Library Book Talk Series |
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Borders in Modern Asia Seminar Series Eric Tagliacozzo, Professor of History, Cornell University Tansen Sen, Professor of History, NYU Shanghai Chaired by Sugata Bose and Sunil Amrith |
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Speaker: Xiaofei Tian, Professor of Chinese Literature; Chair of Regional Studies East Asia (RSEA), Harvard University |
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Read the event summary here Speaker: Robert Ross, Boston College Robert S. Ross is Professor of Political Science at Boston College and Associate, John King Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University in 1984. He has taught at Columbia University and at the University of […] |
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Speaker: Huang Chang-Ling, Professor of Political Science, National Taiwan University; HYI Visiting Scholar and Radcliffe Fellow, 2018-19 Chair/discussant: Mona Lena Krook, Professor, Department of Political Science, Rutgers University The level of women’s political representation varies in East Asia. Taiwan is the leader with 38 percent of its national legislature comprised of women, much higher than China’s 23 […] |
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The 22nd annual Harvard East Asia Society (HEAS) Conference will take place at Harvard CGIS-South on Friday, February 8 and Saturday, February 9. Organized by a committee of RSEA students, this year's conference offers multiple panels on the theme of Voice and Silence: Memory in East Asia. On Friday, February 8 at 5:30 pm Prof. Xiaofei Tian, Faculty Chair of […]
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Speaker: Christopher Atwood, Professor, Mongolian and Chinese Frontier & Ethnic History, University of Pennsylvania The European conquest of the Americas, the consequent ecological exchange, massive mortality, and rise of plantation economies have been one of the prime topics of environmental history. Less widely understood have been the similar ecological impacts and imperatives of the thirteenth century […] |
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Discussant: Shelley Drake Hawkes, Middlesex Community College Moderator: Eugenio Menegon, Boston University Directed by Lydia Chen, Art in Smog offers an intimate encounter with four artists and a curator in China, as they pursue their dreams over 25 years of rapid change. The pursuit of art takes them from quiet lives in the 1990s to the extremes […] |
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Speaker: Yi Na, Associate Professor, Institute of Ethnic Literature, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; HYI Visiting Scholar 2018-19 Chair/discussant: Gregory Nagy, Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University *Please note early (10 am) start time* Thangka originally is a kind of scroll painting depicting Tibetan Buddhism images on textile. There […]
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Read event summary here Speaker: Nara Dillon, Harvard University Nara Dillon’s research interests include globalization and the politics of welfare, charity, and inequality in China. In addition to contemporary Chinese social policy, her research examines its origins in the Mao and the pre-revolutionary Republican periods. Her publications include At the Crossroads of Empires: Middlemen, Social Networks, […]
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Speaker: Zuoyue Wang, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona How have transnational exchanges, especially with the United States, in science and technology shaped and reshaped modern China in the last century since the May Fourth Movement of 1919? This talk explores key players and events in this history from the Science Society of China during the […] |
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Speaker: Malcolm Thompson, An Wang Postdoctoral Fellow Discussant: Gail Hershatter, Professor of History, UC–Santa Cruz Abstract: What kind of problem is "the population problem" in China? That it would be a problem, or at least an issue, seems clear, but this tells us little about how, or why, it was specifically problematized there for the […]
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Speaker: Derek Scissors - American Enterprise Institute Derek M. Scissors is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where he focuses on the Chinese and Indian economies and on US economic relations with Asia. He is concurrently chief economist of the China Beige Book. Dr. Scissors is the author of the China Global Investment […]
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Speaker: Wen Chen, Professor of Health Economics, Fudan University Professor CHEN received his M.D. degree in social medicine and health management from Shanghai Medical University in 1998 and completed a research fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health from August 2000 to May 2001. Currently, he serves as Director of PuDong […] |
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Read event summary here Speaker: William Kirby, Harvard Business School William C. Kirby is Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies at Harvard University. He is a University Distinguished Service Professor. Professor Kirby serves as Chairman of the Harvard China Fund, the University's academic […] |
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Join the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation for a discussion with Yao Li, China Public Policy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Ash Center, author of Playing by the Informal Rules: Why the Chinese Regime Remains Stable despite Rising Protests.
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Speakers: Kevin Gallagher, Boston University Philippe Le Corre, Harvard University Thomas Berger, Boston University Grant Rhode, Boston University and U.S. Naval War College Min Ye, Boston University Vesko Garcevic, Boston University Georgios Dimitrakopoulos, former Member of European Parliament Robert Ross, Boston College and Harvard University More Information: https://www.bu.edu/asian/2019/01/23/by-land-and-by-sea-chinas-belt-and-road-in-europe-feb-21-2019/ |
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Speaker: Shirley Yu, Harvard Kennedy School's Ash Center Fellow Moderator: Anthony Saich, Ash Center Director, Daewoo Professor of International Affairs The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), the signature foreign policy by Xi Jinping has served as China’s grand strategy since 2013, when the idea first arose, and it will remain relevant until around 2050, when China is predicted to reach […]
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Speaker: Alex Wang, UCLA At the heart of debates over Chinese rule of law is the question of state legitimacy. Critics argue that legitimacy requires liberal democratic rule of law. Chinese leaders have long relied on performance legitimacy – economic development and maintenance of social stability – as the core basis of their rule. Western […] |
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Read the event summary here Speaker: Stanley Rosen, University of Southern California Professor Stanley Rosen teaches political science, specializing in Chinese politics and society. He was the Faculty Master of University Residential College at Bimkrant, an honors college for USC’s best incoming students, from 2011-2017. Rosen lived on campus for 29 years as a resident […] |
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Speakers: Tu Chuanfei and Liu Feng, Jiangxi University |
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Speaker: Gao Xiaofei, Victor and William Fung Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, Asia Center Discussant: Christian Hess, Associate Professor, East Asian History, Sophia University, Tokyo Asia Center Fellows Seminar Series |
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Discussant: Shi Chuan, professor, The Shanghai Theater Academy, Vice President of the Shanghai Film Association, and Chief Curator, Shanghai Film Museum. More than 650 films were reportedly made in China between 1921 and 1931, yet no more than twenty have survived the wars that followed. The serendipitous rediscovery of Zhu Shouju’s 1925 film The Stormy Night gives us a rare […] |