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 […]
Speaker: Stephanie Balkwill, Assistant Professor, Buddhist Studies, UCLA Northern Wei 北魏 (386–534 CE) Empress Dowager Ling 靈 (d. 529) is commonly regarded as the last independent ruler of her dynasty, which descended into terminal internecine war during her regency. As a ruler, she inherited a deeply divided state. The move of the capital from Pingcheng […]
https://youtu.be/Vu34m6CeK5w https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/how-china-escaped-shock-therapy-with-isabella-weber Speaker: Isabella Weber, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst China has become deeply integrated into the world economy. Yet, gradual marketization has facilitated the country's rise without leading to its wholesale assimilation to global neoliberalism. This book uncovers the fierce contest about economic reforms that shaped China's path. In the […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6G7NarElPM https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/what-does-us-business-really-want-from-china-with-jeffrey-lehman Speaker: Jeffrey Lehman, Vice Chancellor and Professor of Law, NYU Shanghai Jeffrey Lehman is the Vice Chancellor of NYU Shanghai, where he oversees all academic and administrative operations. Lehman is an internationally acclaimed leader in higher education, having served as dean of the University of Michigan Law School, the 11th president of […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6YwbP_roXE https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/disaggregating-china-inc-with-yeling-tan Speaker: Yeiling Tan, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Oregon Professor Yeling Tan discusses her book, Disaggregating China, Inc: State Strategies in the Liberal Economic Order. […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zztJsHgONFA https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/economic-sovereignty-in-contemporary-china-with-pang-laikwan?in=fairbank-center/sets/public-lecture-series-fairbank Speaker: Pang Laikwan, Professor of Cultural Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong This paper focuses on the wide popularity of the meme and buzzword jiucai, garlic chives, on […]
Speaker: Weixia Gu, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong For more details, including a Zoom link, please visit http://www.law.harvard.edu/programs/eals/events.html.
Speaker: David Cheng Chang, Division of Humanities, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; HYI-Radcliffe Institute Fellow, 2021-22 Chair/discussant: Arunabh Ghosh, Associate Professor of History, Harvard University By the end of the Korean War, only 88 out of more than 150,000 Chinese and North Korean prisoners of war (POWs) refused to return to either side of […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OR4Z30g7gA https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/the-yellow-river-a-natural-and-unnatural-history-with-ruth-mostern?in=fairbank-center/sets/public-lecture-series-fairbank Speaker: Ruth Mostern, University of Pittsburgh This talk showcases Ruth Mostern’s new book: The Yellow River: A Natural and Unnatural History (Yale University Press, 2021). The Yellow River explains how environmentally transformative human activity has shaped the whole watershed and constituted the relationship between people and the river since Neolithic times. […]
Speakers: Maria Adele Carrai, Assistant Professor of Global China Studies, NYU Shanghai; Associate, Harvard University Asia Center Folashadé Soulé, Senior Research Associate, Global Economic Governance Programme, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford Lina Benabdallah, Assistant Professor, Politics and International Affairs Department, Wake Forest University Moderator: Emmanuel K. Akyeampong, Ellen Gurney Professor of History and Professor […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tw8Qrq8D1uw Speaker: Fang Xiaoping, Assistant Professor of History, School of Humanities, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. During the 1961-1965 period, a cholera pandemic ravaged the southeastern coastal areas of Mao’s China which was already suffering from lingering starvation, class struggles, political campaigns and geopolitical challenges of the Cold War. This lecture focuses on the first […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUxKgh7eN9Q Speaker: Kellee Tsai, Dean of Humanities and Social Science and Chair Professor of Social Science, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology The structural transformation of China over the past several decades has given rise to a fundamental tension between the pursuit of social stability and authoritarian resilience. On the one hand, repressive […]
Speaker: Scott Pearce, Western Washington University All textual traditions are based on their own particular sets of assumptions and preoccupations. This was the case of the Chinese classical tradition as well, which having taken full shape under the Han empire, continued to be used as the only available language of written record by the very […]
Speaker: Aaron Proffitt, Assistant Professor of Japanese Studies, University at Albany-SUNY The recitation of the name of a buddha (nenbutsu) is often associated with deathbed practices and traditions commonly grouped under the rubric Pure Land Buddhism. In this talk, Professor Aaron Proffitt will consider this widely popular practice as understood by practitioners of mantra, focusing […]
Speaker: Li Jie, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University As a scholar of literary, film, and cultural studies, Jie Li’s research interests center on the mediation of memories in modern China. Her first book, Shanghai Homes: Palimpsests of Private Life (Columbia, 2014), excavates a century of memories embedded in two alleyway neighborhoods destined […]
Speaker: David Cheng Chang, Associate Professor of Humanities; Associate Director, Global China Center, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. In this lecture, Professor Chang will talk about the use […]
Speaker: Bill Bikales, Principal and Lead Economist, Kunlun Associates Bill is a Harvard-trained economist and Asia specialist and has worked at the most senior level of government in Mongolia on comprehensive fiscal reform and restructuring insolvent bank and power sectors, and at grass roots level in rural China on increasing poor women's uptake of maternal […]
Speaker: Ma Shaoling, Assistant Professor of Humanities, Yale-NUS College Authors often talk about their books via the introduction or the conclusion, and sidestep what lies in the middle. The title […]
Speakers: Manfred Elfstrom, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of British Columbia. Yao Li, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminology and Law, University of Florida Moderator: Anthony Saich, Director, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation; Daewoo Professor of International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School of Government Strikes, protests, and riots by Chinese workers have […]
Speakers: Motolani Agbebi, University teacher, Faculty of Management and Business, University of Tampere (Finland) Tayyab Safdar, Post-Doctoral Researcher, East Asia Centre & Department of Politics, University of Virginia Roxana Vatanparast, Affiliate, Center on Global Legal Transformation, Columbia Law School Moderators: Nargis Kassenova, Senior Fellow, Program on Central Asia, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies […]
Read the summary of the event here. Panelists:Elizabeth Perry, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government at Harvard University and Director of the Harvard-Yenching InstituteDenise Ho, Assistant Professor of 20th Century Chinese History, Yale UniversityRobert Weller, Professor of Anthropology, Boston UniversityYuen Yuen Ang, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Michigan Moderator: Michael Szonyi, Frank Wen-Hsiung […]
Speaker: Eugenia Lean, Professor of History and East Asian Languages and Cultures; Director, Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University By examining two early legal cases featuring the alleged counterfeiting of Xiangmao Honey Soap, this talk shows how the Chinese language and linguistic practices in Chinese commercial culture often stymied Western manufacturers and import companies’ attempts […]
Speakers: Heather Inwood, Cambridge University Nakamura Akinori, Ritsumeikan University Deng Jian, Peking University Special Guest: Zhu Jiayin, Founder/Editor of Chuapp Organizers: David Der-wei Wang, Harvard University Yedong Sh-Chen, Harvard University This panel is co-sponsored by the Harvard Provostial Fund for the Arts and Humanities and the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation. It is a part of the […]
Speaker: Ying Jia Tan, Assistant Professor of History and East Asian Studies, Wesleyan University In Recharging China in War and Revolution, 1882–1955 (Cornell University Press, 2021), Ying Jia Tan argues that, even in times of peace, the Chinese economy operated as though still at war, constructing power systems that met immediate demands but sacrificed efficiency […]