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Visiting Scholars Present
Visiting Scholars Present
Fairbank Center Scholars will share current research on China-North Korea relations, Taiwan identity and history, and land rights in China. Each short presentation will be followed by Q & A discussion. Please join us for all or part of the workshop!If attending by Zoom, register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0lfuuqqD8jGtVqgJrijXeU-EDRc_Av2elO 12:30 pm - Lunch12:50 pm - Welcome1:00 pm - Dr. […]
East Asian Ghost Stories Gathering
East Asian Ghost Stories Gathering
Join us for Halloween goodies and spooky stories. Bring your favorite creepy tale to share, or just come listen! All Harvard students, faculty, & staff welcome. RSVP and direct questions to naia_poyer@fas.harvard.edu. Hosted by the East Asian Studies Undergraduate Concentration Venue
2 events,
Critical Issues Confronting China featuring Winston Ma – Blockchain, Digital Currency, and the Post-20th Party Congress US-China Tech Race
Critical Issues Confronting China featuring Winston Ma – Blockchain, Digital Currency, and the Post-20th Party Congress US-China Tech Race
Blockchain, Digital Currency, and the Post-20th Party Congress US-China Tech Race Speaker: Winston Ma, Author of The Hunt for Unicorns, The Digital War, andBlockchain and Web3；Adjunct Professor, NYU Law School; former MD and Head of North America at China Investment Corporation (CIC), China’s Sovereign Wealth Fund. Unlike many other countries, China takes a bifurcated […]
Jingran Zhang – Characterization and Environmental Impacts of Chinese and Global Aviation Emissions of CO2 and Air Pollutants
Jingran Zhang – Characterization and Environmental Impacts of Chinese and Global Aviation Emissions of CO2 and Air Pollutants
Speaker: Jingran Zhang, Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard-China Project Jingran Zhang studies transportation energy and environmental issues, with a special focus on the global aviation sector. She received her Ph.D. in Environmental Science and Engineering from Tsinghua University. Sponsored by the Harvard-China Project on Energy, Economy, and Environment, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.QUESTIONS? Contact Kellie Nault Venue
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Modern China Lecture Series featuring Taisu Zhang: The Ideological Foundations of Qing Taxation: Belief Systems, Politics, and Institutions
Modern China Lecture Series featuring Taisu Zhang: The Ideological Foundations of Qing Taxation: Belief Systems, Politics, and Institutions
Speaker: Taisu Zhang, Professor of Law and History, Yale UniversityHow states develop the capacity to tax is a question of fundamental importance to political science, legal theory, economics, sociology, and history. Increasingly, scholars believe that China's relative economic decline in the 18th and 19th centuries was related to its weak fiscal institutions and limited revenue. […]
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Guido Goldman Lecture on Germany Featuring Constance Stelzenmüller – The Free World and Its Enemies: What Putin’s War and China’s Global Ambitions Mean For Us
Guido Goldman Lecture on Germany Featuring Constance Stelzenmüller – The Free World and Its Enemies: What Putin’s War and China’s Global Ambitions Mean For Us
Speaker: Constanze Stelzenmüller, Director and Fritz Stern Chair, Center on the United States and Europe, The Brookings Institution Russia is at war with Ukraine—but also with the West. Will Germany’s Zeitenwende reforms be enough to help protect Europe in an age of permanent disruption? ** Please note that seating for this event is limited. To register for this […]
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Karina Simonson – Representations of Africa and Asia in Soviet Lithuanian Children’s Visual Culture
Karina Simonson – Representations of Africa and Asia in Soviet Lithuanian Children’s Visual Culture
Speaker: Karina Simonson, Assistant Professor at the Institute of Asian and Transcultural Studies, Vilnius University, and Postdoctoral fellow at Vilnius Academy of Arts, Lithuania In this presentation, Karina Simonson will provide an overview of her postdoctoral book project, starting with a daring initial research idea, discussing its aims and tasks, facing an unexpectedly vast amount […]
China Humanities Seminar Featuring Jeffrey Riegel – Further Reflections on an ‘Unmoved Heart’: Mengzi 2A2 Revisited
China Humanities Seminar Featuring Jeffrey Riegel – Further Reflections on an ‘Unmoved Heart’: Mengzi 2A2 Revisited
Speaker: Jeffrey Riegel, University of California Berkeley, Emeritus Mengzi 2A2 consists of Master Meng’s answers to questions put to him by a follower named Gongsun Chou. The first few of these replies relate to bu dong xin, “unmoved heart,”—i.e., mental quietude and equanimity in the face of humiliation or disappointment as well as excitement or […]
Minhua Ling – Containerization of Migrant Housing on Shanghai’s Edge
Minhua Ling – Containerization of Migrant Housing on Shanghai’s Edge
Speaker: Minhua Ling, Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study China’s escalated infrastructural and real estate development has gradually erased urban villages and reduced affordable living space for rural-to-urban migrants. This talk showcases the emerging practice of container housing among low-income migrants who live in removable cargo containers or prefabricated metal shelters on the urban fringe of […]
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Panel Discussion – China’s New Politics: What have we learned from the 20th Party Congress
Panel Discussion – China’s New Politics: What have we learned from the 20th Party Congress
Speakers:Joseph Fewsmith, Professor of International Relations and Political Science, Boston University Pardee School of Global StudiesLucy Hornby, Visiting Scholar, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Former Beijing correspondent, Financial TimesAnthony Saich, Director of the Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia and Daewoo Professor of International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy SchoolYuhua Wang, Professor of Government, Harvard University Moderator: Mark Wu, […]
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Li Zhiying – Tibet as Told by the Early Qing Emperors
Li Zhiying – Tibet as Told by the Early Qing Emperors
Speaker: Li Zhiying, Associate Professor, Centre for Tibetan Studies, Sichuan University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2022-23Chair/discussant: Leonard van der Kuijp, Professor of Tibetan and Himalayan Studies, Harvard UniversitySeating is limited. Masks are required for all audience members. How did the official narrative about the Qing-Tibetan relationship come into being? This talk focuses on the different narratives […]
Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Lingling Wei – How China’s Private Business is Responding to Xi Jinping’s State Capitalism
Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Lingling Wei – How China’s Private Business is Responding to Xi Jinping’s State Capitalism
Speaker: Lingling Wei, Senior China Correspondent, The Wall Street Journal Lingling Wei is a senior China correspondent for The Wall Street Journal. She covers China's political economy, focusing on Beijing's policy-making process and its key decision makers. Born and raised in China, she has a M.A. in journalism from N.Y.U. and got her start covering […]
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Chinese Kinesthetic Forms
Topics: Movement has a distinctively rich tradition in China. Chinese Kinesthetic Forms considers movement as an organizing principle across myriad media and cultural forms—from dance and music, to painting and calligraphy, to theater and martial arts. The conference explores how movement, as both expression and object of perception, opens experiential dimensions, even beyond the corporeal. […]
Seung Wha Chang – An Arbitration Model for Resolving International Economic/Public Disputes: A (Korean) WTO Appeal Arbitrator’s View
Seung Wha Chang – An Arbitration Model for Resolving International Economic/Public Disputes: A (Korean) WTO Appeal Arbitrator’s View
Speaker: Seung Wha Chang, Chairman of Korea Trade Commission & Professor of Seoul National University Venue
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Youqin Hang – Families in Transition: Living Arrangements, Intergenerational Support, and Subjective Wellbeing in 21st Century China
Youqin Hang – Families in Transition: Living Arrangements, Intergenerational Support, and Subjective Wellbeing in 21st Century China
Speaker: Youqin Huang, Professor of Geography and Planning, Research Associate of the Center for Social and Demographic Analysis, University at Albany, State University of New YorkThis paper examines whether the Chinese family is undergoing a Western process of modernization and an associated reduction in previously very high rate of parent-adult child co-residence, and how this […]
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Taiwan Studies Workshop – Taiwan Elections 2022: The Politicians’ Perspective
Taiwan Studies Workshop – Taiwan Elections 2022: The Politicians’ Perspective
On November 26, Taiwan will be holding elections for nine local jurisdictions ranging from mayors of special municipalities such as Taipei to county magistrates down to the village chiefs. As the 2024 Presidential election approaches, this so-called “Nine in One Election” will be carefully watched for clues to the relative strength of Taiwan’s parties. On […]
Chan Chi-Keung – Pure Sentiment and Strained Reasoning: An Exploration of Neo-Confucian Liu Jishan’s Moral Psychology
Chan Chi-Keung – Pure Sentiment and Strained Reasoning: An Exploration of Neo-Confucian Liu Jishan’s Moral Psychology
Speaker: Chan Chi-Keung, Associate Professor of Philosophy, National Taiwan University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2022-23Chair/discussant: Michael Puett, Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History and Anthropology, Harvard University Seating is limited. Masks are required for all audience members. This talk attempts to examine the contribution made by late Ming Neo-Confucianist Liu Jishan (1578-1645) in producing lasting […]
China Economy Lecture featuring Jonas Nahm – Collaborative Advantage: Forging Green Industries in the New Global Economy
China Economy Lecture featuring Jonas Nahm – Collaborative Advantage: Forging Green Industries in the New Global Economy
Speaker: Jonas Nahm, Assistant Professor of Energy, Resources, and Environment, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)Nahm's new book examines the development of wind and solar industries in China, Germany, and the United States as a window into the political economy of innovation and economic development in highly globalized industries. The book argues that new possibilities for collaboration […]
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Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Jessica Chen Weiss – How to Avert a Crisis Over Taiwan and Stabilize US-China Tensions
Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Jessica Chen Weiss – How to Avert a Crisis Over Taiwan and Stabilize US-China Tensions
Speaker: Jessica Chen Weiss, Michael J. Zak Professor for China and Asia-Pacific Studies, Cornell University Jessica Chen Weiss is the Michael J. Zak Professor for China and Asia-Pacific Studies in the Department of Government at Cornell University. From August 2021 to July 2022, she served as senior advisor to the Secretary's Policy Planning Staff at […]
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Taiwan Studies Workshop – Taiwan Elections 2022: The Analysts’ Perspective
Taiwan Studies Workshop – Taiwan Elections 2022: The Analysts’ Perspective
On November 26, Taiwan will be holding elections for nine local jurisdictions ranging from mayors of special municipalities such as Taipei to county magistrates down to the village chiefs. As the 2024 Presidential election approaches, this so-called “Nine in One Election” will be carefully watched for clues to the relative strength of Taiwan’s parties. On […]
Modern China Lecture Series featuring Benno Weiner – This Absolutely is not a Hui Rebellion! The Ethnopolitics of Great Nationality Chauvinism in Early-Maoist China
Modern China Lecture Series featuring Benno Weiner – This Absolutely is not a Hui Rebellion! The Ethnopolitics of Great Nationality Chauvinism in Early-Maoist China
Speaker: Benno Weiner, Associate Professor, Carnegie Mellon UniversityThrough much of the 1950s, the Chinese Communist Party considered disunity between ethnocultural groups (minzu)primarilyto be a product of “great nationality chauvinism,” which refered to exploitation committed in the past by the Han majority against “minority nationalities.” In parts of China’s Northwest, however, the Party identified Hui Muslim […]
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Eva Nga Shan Ng – Trials Heard by a Foreign Ear: A Study of Chinese Jurors’ Comprehension of English Trials in Hong Kong
Eva Nga Shan Ng – Trials Heard by a Foreign Ear: A Study of Chinese Jurors’ Comprehension of English Trials in Hong Kong
Speaker: Eva Nga Shan Ng, Assistant Professor, Translation Programme, School of Chinese, the University of Hong Kong; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2022-23Chair/discussant: Nicholas Harkness, Modern Korean Economy and Society Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University Studies in jury comprehension have hitherto mainly explored Anglo-American courts and focused on examining English-speaking jurors’ ability to understand legal discourse, particularly […]
Performing the Ecological Fix Under State Entrepreneurialism in China
Performing the Ecological Fix Under State Entrepreneurialism in China
Speaker: Fangzhu Zhang, University College London This talk examines the recent green turn in China by investigating a large-scale urban greenway project—'Greenways of Paradise’ in Chengdu. Using the perspective of the socio-ecological fix, we demonstrate that the local state has seized the opportunity provided by the central state’s ‘ecological civilisation’ to carry out green infrastructure development […]
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Modern China Lecture Series Featuring Linh Vu – The Politics of Martyr Commemoration in Modern China and Contemporary Taiwan
Modern China Lecture Series Featuring Linh Vu – The Politics of Martyr Commemoration in Modern China and Contemporary Taiwan
Speaker: Linh Vu, Assistant Professor, Arizona State University This talk focuses on (1) the politics of martyr commemoration in Republican China (1911–1949) and (2) the governance of the posthumous identities of the Nationalist Chinese dead in contemporary Taiwan. The Chinese Republic laid the foundation for the modern nation-state through the governance of these millions of war dead. […]
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Jane Lim – Faking Origins: Imitating China in Eighteenth-Century English Literature
Jane Lim – Faking Origins: Imitating China in Eighteenth-Century English Literature
Speaker: Jane Lim | Associate Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, Seoul National University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2022-23Chair/discussant: Deidre Shauna Lynch, Harvard College Professor; Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature, Harvard University Harvard-Yenching Institute Visiting Scholar talk Seating is limited. Masks are required for all audience members. Venue
Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Jia Qingguo – How China Will Respond to the Renewed Liberal Alliance
Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Jia Qingguo – How China Will Respond to the Renewed Liberal Alliance
Speaker: Jia Qingguo, Professor, School of International Studies, Peking University; Payne Distinguished Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford UniversityModerator: Michael Szonyi, Frank Wen-Hsiung Wu Memorial Professor of Chinese History and former Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University Jia Qingguo is professor of the School of International Studies of Peking University. Currently, […]
Chinese Politics and Foreign Policy Workshop featuring Junyan Jiang – From Kins to Comrades: Rural Clan Society and the Rise of Communism in China
Chinese Politics and Foreign Policy Workshop featuring Junyan Jiang – From Kins to Comrades: Rural Clan Society and the Rise of Communism in China
Speaker: Junyan Jiang, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Columbia University A key paradox of social revolutions of the 20th century is that despite their radical, modernist claims, success often hinges on effective mobilization of the peasantry, who are typically conservative and inward-looking. This paper studies how traditional networks and cleavages within rural society can be […]
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The Chip War: China, The US, and Europe
The Chip War: China, The US, and Europe
Speakers:John Haigh, Co-Director, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy SchoolChris Miller, Associate Professor of International History, The Fletcher School, Tufts University; author of The Chip War. Moderator: Edoardo Campanella, M-RCBG Senior Fellow This is a hybrid event. Zoom registration: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ZxRp90CRRHiaDcFMLJrYWw Venue
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