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1 event,Organized by: Yong Han Poh, Harvard College ’20 Exhibition Reception: Thursday, February 6, 2020; 4:15 p.m. Asian Centers’ Lounge, 1st Floor, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge Sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, the Harvard University Asia Center, and the Mahindra Humanities Center with additional support from Migrant Writers Singapore and Migrant Workers […] |
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Speaker: Paize Keulemans, Princeton University What are the ludic attractions of a fifteenth-century novel? What role is played by historical narrative in a twenty-first-century game? How is a character developed in text and in pixels, in words, painting, or on a (computer) screen? And how is the noise and confusion of a third-century battle digitally reproduced […] |
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Speaker: Qu Tongli, Associate Professor in Archaeology, Peking University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2019-20 Chair/discussant: Amy Clark, College Fellow - Archaeology, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University China has been the focus of discussion on modern human origins. Human fossils found recently in South China show that modern humans emerged in China in the early Late Pleistocene […] |
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Speaker: Wang Xiying, Professor, Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2019-20 Chair/discussant: Susan Greenhalgh, John King and Wilma Cannon Fairbank Research Professor of Chinese Society, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University This talk focuses on understanding the daily lives of women living with HIV/AIDS (WLHA) and their coping strategies of the illness within […]
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Watch this event on YouTube: Listen to this event on Soundcloud: Read and download the transcript for this event here. Speaker: Samantha Power U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations, 2013-2017 Anna Lindh Professor of the Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School of Government William D. Zabel Professor of Practice in […] |
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Speaker: Lan Yan, Vice Chairman of Investment Banking, Lazard; Chairman and CEO, Lazard of Greater China
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Speaker: Kwok-Leong Tang, Digital China Fellow, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University Digital China Lab is a series of workshops on data collecting and wrangling, which will be offered by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies this semester. Kwok-leong will talk about the difficulties faced by humanities students in engaging with digital methodologies and explain […] |
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You're invited to a panel discussion on Taiwan's January 11th presidential and parliamentary elections with Alice Chen MPA/ID 2022 and Joseph Fewsmith, Professor of International Relations and Political Science at Boston University and a fellow at Harvard's Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. This discussion will be moderated by Ash Center Director and Daewoo Professor of International Affairs […] |
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Speaker: Yong Han Poh, Harvard College, ’20 Chair: Nicole Newendorp, Lecturer on Social Studies; Assistant Director of Undergraduate Studies, Harvard University |
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Speaker: Wen-Chin Wu, Assistant Research Fellow, Institute of Political Science, Academia Sinica; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2019-20 Chair/discussant: Christina Davis, Professor of Government, Harvard University; Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor, Radcliffe Institute The economic rise of China is inspiring a burgeoning literature on how China uses its economic power to influence other countries’ domestic […] |
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Speaker: Sean Sylvia, Assistant Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill |
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Read event summary here Speaker: Kent Calder, Johns Hopkins University Kent Calder serves as Vice Dean for Faculty Affairs and International Research Cooperation at JHU. He is also Director of the Edwin O. Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies, and served from 2016-2018 as Director of Asia Programs. Before arriving at Johns Hopkins SAIS in […] |
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Registration Form: https://d.pr/SgidPR This workshop will introduce tools and basic skills to extract and collect data from web pages. It is intended for participants who have no familiarity with programming and coding. Participants will use two Chrome extensions to parse information from websites and learn basic knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. In order to […] |
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Speaker: Daniel Koss, Lecturer, EALC, Harvard University In most non-democratic countries, today governing forty-four percent of the world population, the power of the regime rests upon a ruling party. Contrasting with conventional notions that authoritarian regime parties serve to contain elite conflict and manipulate electoral-legislative processes, this book presents the case of China and shows […] |
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Speaker: Dirk van der Kley, Program Director for Policy Research, China Matters Xi Jinping’s Belt and Road Initiative has changed significantly in Central Asia in the last few years. In particular, direct Chinese government lending through Eximbank to Central Asian states has completely dried up. Instead the focus has shifted to smaller investment projects that […] |
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Read event summary here Speaker: Jude Blanchette - Center for Strategic and International Studies The speaker will explore the extant ideological and institutional legacies of socialism and Marxism within the current day CCP.
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Speakers: Mark Elliott, Vice Provost for International Affairs; Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History, Harvard University Kirsten Weld, Professor of History, Harvard University |
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Speaker: Xi Yang, Visiting Researcher, Harvard-China Project; Associate Professor, China University of Petroleum Beijing Under the pressure of improving its environmental governance, China has strengthened its coal substitution policy known as “coal-to-gas” in residential heating in Northern region. This bold policy sets strict gas replacement targets for “26 + 2” key cities. However, China suffered […] |
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Speaker: Zvi Ben-Dor Benite, New York University Taking a small comment by the young Mao Zedong in his "Classroom Notes" as its point of departure, this talk revisits the very early days after the fall of the last dynasty. It ties them to events in post-revolutionary France and the late Han period. It ends and begins […] |
3 events,Photographs by Lisa Ross Sponsored by the Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and Harvard Asia Center Arts Initiative; with support from the Provostial Fund Committee, Office of the Dean of Arts and Humanities
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Speaker: Zhai Shaodong, Associate Professor, Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2019-20 Chair/discussant: Rowan Flad, John E. Hudson Professor of Archaeology, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University In China, ground stone tools emerged during the transition period from the Paleolithic to the Neolithic time. However, they did not take the place […]
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Speakers: Jessica Brandt, Head of Policy and Research, Alliance for Securing Democracy; Fellow, The German Marshall Fund of the United States Torrey Taussig, Research Director, Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship, Harvard Kennedy School Chair: Sebastián Royo, Professor of Government, Suffolk University; Visiting Scholar 2019-2020, Local Affiliate and Seminar Co-chair, CES, Harvard University https://ces.fas.harvard.edu/events/2020/02/china-russia-europe-authoritarian |
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Read event summary here Speaker: Lenora Chu - International Correspondent, Christian Science Monitor; Author, Little Soldiers Based on journalistic research as well as her own experiences as a parent navigating the Chinese education system, Lenora will illuminate the impact of culture on education and global competitiveness, discuss differences between Chinese and Western systems, and detail […] |
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Registration Form: https://d.pr/SgidPR This workshop will introduce tools and basic skills to extract and collect data from web pages. It is intended for participants who have no familiarity with programming and coding. Participants will use two Chrome extensions to parse information from websites and learn basic knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. In order to […] |
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Watch again on YouTube: Listen again on Soundcloud: Read and download the transcript for this event here. Speakers: Barry Bloom, Joan L. and Julius H. Jacobson Research Professor of Public Health, Harvard Chan School of Public Health Howard Markel, George E. Wantz Distinguished Professor of the History of Medicine; Director, Center for the History of […] |