Speakers:Jeremy Brown, Professor, Department of History, Simon Fraser UniversityLouisa Lim, Journalist and Lecturer, University of Melbourne Part of the Modern China lecture series https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Evla4wWSkKI&list=PLdMj8AtCCOREyCyE0QZzx7AOnzHnNOgJe&index=9&t=2s https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/reassessing-june-fourth-with-jeremy-brown-and-louisa-lim How significant were the events of June 1989 in the broader span of recent Chinese history? How does the aftermath of the Beijing massacre help to explain events since […]
Director: Wong Kar Wai One of the most searing romances of the 1990s, Wong Kar Wai’s emotionally raw, lushly stylized portrait of a relationship in breakdown casts Hong Kong superstars […]
Speaker: Laurence Coderre, Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies, New York University https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLGKB-fPGXc&t=96s https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/the-future-is-now-on-newborn-socialist-things-with-laurence-coderre?in=fairbank-center/sets/public-lecture-series-fairbank Read the transcript of the event here. Whereas the contemporary era in China is often depicted […]
Speaker: Zhang Meng, Assistant Professor of History, Vanderbilt University Part of the Environment in Asia lecture series https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXEB2NB7vhk&t=109s https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/timber-and-forestry-in-qing-china-with-zhang-meng?in=fairbank-center/sets/public-lecture-series-fairbank In the Qing period, China's population tripled, and the flurry of new development generated unprecedented demand for timber. Standard environmental histories have often depicted this as an era of reckless deforestation. The reality was more complex: […]
Panelists: Sarah Bauerle-Danzman, Assistant Professor, Department of International Studies, Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, Indiana University Bloomington Sophie Meunier Aitsahalia, Senior Research Scholar, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs; Co-Director, European Union Program at Princeton, Princeton University Kristin Vekasi, Academic Associate, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University; Associate Professor, Department of […]
Speaker: Yangyang Cheng, Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale Law School; Columnist at SupChina. From the last Chinese empire to the current People's Republic, generations of politicians and intellectuals have sought advanced science and technology to build a strong China. They pondered the relationship between East and West, tradition and modernity, national allegiance and cosmopolitan ideals. Their efforts […]
https://youtu.be/gvHLF-1zjc0 https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/how-great-is-the-risk-of-war-over-taiwan-with-bonnie-glaser There is an intense debate among experts over the likelihood of a near-term Chinese invasion of Taiwan. Senior US military officers have warned that a PRC military action could take place in the next six years. Such dire predictions are largely based on estimates of PLA capabilities. But even if China can […]
Speakers: Andrey Kortunov, Director General, Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) Yun Sun, Senior Fellow and Co-Director of the East Asia Program and Director of the China Program, Stimson Center Zuhra Halimova, Independent Consultant, Dushanbe, Tajikistan Akram Umarov, Center for Governance and Markets at the University of Pittsburgh; Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow, University of World Economy […]
https://youtu.be/6RwE94ZhjFo https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/transnational-aging-in-the-chinese-diaspora Panel Participants:Sara L. Friedman, Professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies, Indiana UniversityRussell King, Professor of Geography, University of SussexSarah Lamb, Barbara Mandel Professor of Humanistic Social Sciences and Professor of Anthropology, Brandeis UniversityAndrea Louie, Professor of Anthropology, Michigan State UniversityNicole Newendorp, Associate Director and Lecturer, Social Studies, Harvard UniversityKen Chih-Yan Sun, Assistant […]