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Speaker: Yuhang Li, University of Wisconsin-Madison In 1770, with the purpose of presenting an unusual surprising gift to his mother Empress Dowager Chongqing (1692-1777) for her eightieth birthday, Emperor Qianlong (1711-1799) ordered the imperial architectural department to construct a Buddhist compound named jile shijie or blissful land on the northern shore of imperial Beihai Park next |
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Regrettably, this event has been postponed and will be rescheduled for a future date. Speaker: Xingxing Wang, Professor& Director, Research Center for Strategy of Korean Peninsula, School of International Relations and Public Affairs, Shanghai International Studies UniversityModerator: William Overholt, Senior Research Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School Over the last decade, Dr. Wang has conducted research at the |
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The Indigenous languages of Taiwan feature two patterns of morphological discrepancy. First, only some possess a symmetrical morphological paradigm associated with a phenomenon known as ‘noun-verb homophony'. Second, only a handful of the languages allow the Proto-Austronesian stative affix ma- to be used in a transitive clause. This talk addresses how these two foci of variation inform our understanding of the Austronesian diaspora and further explains how new comparative data on these phenomena offers a simpler answer to two ongoing debates in the field. |
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Speakers Late Ming and Early Qing was a period during which China underwent a transformation both on intellectual thoughts and society life, influenced with Western natural science (more precisely, natural philosophy) and Catholicism transmitted by European Jesuits. In the course of cultural exchange, the interpretations of “heaven” were manifested in different intellectual levels, including philosophy, |
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Speaker: David Mozina, Author, Knotting the Banner More information coming soon! |
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Speaker: John Haigh, Co-Director, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government; Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy SchoolModerator: William Overholt, Senior Research Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School John Haigh is Co-Director of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government and Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. He teaches a seminar on business and government interactions
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Speaker: Eli Friedman, Chair and Associate Professor, Department of International and Comparative Labor, ILR School, Cornell University Presented via Zoom Also streaming on YouTube Transcript: Download Transcript |
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Speaker: Wendy Leutert, Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures, Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, Indiana University Bloomington. Discussant: Meg Rithmire, F. Warren MacFarlan Associate Professor in Business, Government, and International Economy, Harvard Business School. Hosted by the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School Presented via Zoom Register at: |
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Speaker: Vincent Goossaert, Professor of Daoism and Chinese Religions, École Pratique des Hautes Études Chinese social life is saturated with interactions with entities other than living humans - ancestors, suffering souls, gods, animal spirits... A wide repertoire of ritual techniques regulates these interactions; some of them, aim at limiting those with dangerous entities, but this
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Topics: Speaker: Kazuyuki Motohashi, Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, University of Tokyo. Moderator: Christina L. Davis, Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Professor of Government; Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University. Venue |
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Speaker: Bin Xu, Associate Professor of Sociology, Emory University Presented via Zoom Also streaming on YouTube Transcript: Download Transcript
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Speaker: Yiqun Zhou, Stanford University This talk examines the role that Dream of the Red Chamber played in the life and work of Wu Mi 吳宓 (1894-1978), a pioneer in the study of Comparative Literature in China and a cultural conservative known for his staunch resistance to the prevailing New Culture Movement. Long condemned to infamy and |
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Speaker: Hanming Fang, Joseph M. Cohen Term Professor of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania. Professor Fang, is an applied microeconomist with broad theoretical and empirical interests focusing on public economics, including topics such as discrimination, social insurance, and welfare reform, health insurance markets, and population aging. In 2008, Professor Fang was awarded the 17th |
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Topics: Speaker: Lev Nachman, Hou Family Fellow in Taiwan Studies, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard UniversityLev Nachman received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Irvine. His dissertation Movement Parties in Contested States: Taiwan’s Post- Sunflower Movement Parties focuses on contested states, examining why some flourish while others decline.Also Streaming on YouTube Transcript: Download
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Speakers:Chia Joo-ming, Writer, Sinagpore Ko Chia-cian, National Taiwan University Liu Hsiu-mei, National Dong-hwa University Organizer: David Der-wei Wang, Harvard University Venue |
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Topics: The Harvard Law School China Law Association (CLA) will host its annual China Law Symposium, “Charting a New Course through Uncertainties,” from Monday, March 28th to Thursday, March 31st. The Symposium brings together prominent legal scholars and practitioners to shed light on major developments in US-China relations. Attendees will have the opportunity to hear |
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Speaker: Iza (Yue) Ding, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Pittsburgh Moderator: Michael Szonyi, Frank Wen-Hsiung Wu Memorial Professor of Chinese History and Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University What does the state do when public expectations exceed its governing capacity? The Performative State shows how the state can shape public perceptions
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Topics: Speaker: Michael B. McElroy, Gilbert Butler Professor of Environmental Studies at Harvard University; Chair of the Harvard-China Project on Energy, Economy and Environment India, the second most populous country on the planet, has enormous energy demands. It is investing billions in renewable power, with the goal of generating 50 percent of its energy requirement
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Topics: Speaker: Marites D. Vitug, Author, Rock Solid: How the Philippines Won Its Maritime Case Against China; Chair Emeritus of the Board, Journalism for Nation Building Foundation; Editor-at-Large, Rappler Chair: James Robson, James C. Kralik, and Yunli Lou Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations; Harvard College Professor; Victor and William Fung Director, Asia Center, Harvard |
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Topics: Speaker: Victor Seow, Assistant Professor of the History of Science, Harvard University Discussants:Megan A. Black, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyConevery Bolton Valencius, Boston CollegeGabriela Soto Laveaga, Harvard UniversityModerator: Shigehisa Kuriyama, Harvard University You may choose to attend this event in person, or register for the Zoom link using the button above. Venue |
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