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Urban China Series featuring Adam Liu: Small Banks, Big Politics: The Cause and Consequences of Bank Proliferation in China
Urban China Series featuring Adam Liu: Small Banks, Big Politics: The Cause and Consequences of Bank Proliferation in China
Speaker: Adam Liu, National University of Singapore The Henan bank protest, the Evergrande crisis, and the perennial local government debt issue in China all point to one thing: there’s something wrong with the country’s banking system and Beijing needs to fix it. In particular, it needs to better regulate the numerous small banks that are now so intimately […]
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How Soy Sauce Shapes Modern China: The Power of an Everyday Food—2023 Fairbank Center Reischauer Lecture Series featuring Angela KC Leung, Night One, “Becoming an Everyday Food: Soy Sauce in the High Qing Period”
How Soy Sauce Shapes Modern China: The Power of an Everyday Food—2023 Fairbank Center Reischauer Lecture Series featuring Angela KC Leung, Night One, “Becoming an Everyday Food: Soy Sauce in the High Qing Period”
Read our blog post on this series of lectures: What Soy Sauce Can Tell Us About History, Politics—and Chinese Identity The lecture series examines the cultural and political meaning of soy sauce by tracing its long trajectory from an obscure elite condiment to a mundane, everyday food in the modern period. The condiment acquired in […]
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Critical Issues Confronting China – Challenges Confronting China’s Healthcare System Post-COVID: A conversation between Winnie Yip and William Hsiao
Critical Issues Confronting China – Challenges Confronting China’s Healthcare System Post-COVID: A conversation between Winnie Yip and William Hsiao
Read our blog post on the event: How a Slowing Economy—and Big Hospitals—Are Challenging Healthcare Reform in China Speaker: Winnie Chi-Man Yip, Professor of the Practice of Global Health Policy and Economics, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Discussant: William Hsiao, K.T. Li Professor of Economics, Emeritus, in […]
How Soy Sauce Shapes Modern China: The Power of an Everyday Food—2023 Fairbank Center Reischauer Lecture Series featuring Angela KC Leung, Night Two, “The Power of a Malleable Everyday Food: Soy Sauce in Modern China”
How Soy Sauce Shapes Modern China: The Power of an Everyday Food—2023 Fairbank Center Reischauer Lecture Series featuring Angela KC Leung, Night Two, “The Power of a Malleable Everyday Food: Soy Sauce in Modern China”
Read our blog post on this series of lectures: What Soy Sauce Can Tell Us About History, Politics—and Chinese Identity The lecture series examines the cultural and political meaning of soy sauce by tracing its long trajectory from an obscure elite condiment to a mundane, everyday food in the modern period. The condiment acquired in […]
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How Soy Sauce Shapes Modern China: The Power of an Everyday Food – 2023 Fairbank Center Reischauer Lecture Series featuring Angela KC Leung, Night Three, “Soy Sauce in Crisis: China’s First Engagement with Technoscience”
How Soy Sauce Shapes Modern China: The Power of an Everyday Food – 2023 Fairbank Center Reischauer Lecture Series featuring Angela KC Leung, Night Three, “Soy Sauce in Crisis: China’s First Engagement with Technoscience”
Read our blog post on this series of lectures: What Soy Sauce Can Tell Us About History, Politics—and Chinese Identity The lecture series examines the cultural and political meaning of soy sauce by tracing its long trajectory from an obscure elite condiment to a mundane, everyday food in the modern period. The condiment acquired in […]
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China Economy Lecture featuring Henry Gao – China, State Capitalism and the World Trading System
China Economy Lecture featuring Henry Gao – China, State Capitalism and the World Trading System
Speaker: Henry Gao, Professor of Law, Singapore Management University; Senior Fellow, CIGI Henry Gao is Professor of Law at Singapore Management University and Senior Fellow at CIGI. With law degrees from three continents, he started his career as the first Chinese lawyer at the WTO Secretariat. He has been an advisor on trade issues to […]
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2023 China Law Symposium: Reacquainting with China through Common Interests – Discussing Disability Law in China
2023 China Law Symposium: Reacquainting with China through Common Interests – Discussing Disability Law in China
2023 China Law Symposium: Reacquainting with China through Common InterestsThe Harvard Law School China Law Association (CLA) will host its annual China Law Symposium, “Reacquainting with China through Common Interests,” over the first two weeks of April. This year, we are highlighting topics of common interest to China and the United States, ranging across the […]
Film Screening: “The Schools Out of City,” Featuring Discussion with Executive Director (PEER), Hong Liu and Co-producer, Xinran Liang
Film Screening: “The Schools Out of City,” Featuring Discussion with Executive Director (PEER), Hong Liu and Co-producer, Xinran Liang
Speakers:Hong Liu, Executive Director of PEER, an NGO dedicated to promoting educational equity in rural China Xinran Liang, Co-producer of the documentary Menghan Shen, Associate Professor of Government, Sun Yat-Sen University; Research Fellow, HKS Rural China. Mysterious, distant, silent. What does it mean to address rural-urban educational inequality in China as an individual and a volunteer? […]
Urban China Series featuring Cai Meina – Legal Discrimination, Contention Pyramid, and Land Takings in China
Urban China Series featuring Cai Meina – Legal Discrimination, Contention Pyramid, and Land Takings in China
Speaker: Cai Meina, University of Connecticut How do land-dispossessed villagers protect their interests in a context where the legal framework discriminates against them? Contrary to the existing research that focuses on protests, this research identifies negotiations as a strategy of the dispossessed to engage with local governments and improve their compensation arrangement. Negotiations are more […]
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Jacob Eyferth – Agrarian Taylorism: Reorganizing the Rural Labor Process in Collective-Era China
Jacob Eyferth – Agrarian Taylorism: Reorganizing the Rural Labor Process in Collective-Era China
Speaker: Jacob Eyferth Presented via Zoom. Register at: https://scholar.harvard.edu/seow/STinAsia Venue
2023 China Law Symposium: Reacquainting with China through Common Interests – Antitrust in China: Debunking the Myth and Unravelling the Intricacies
2023 China Law Symposium: Reacquainting with China through Common Interests – Antitrust in China: Debunking the Myth and Unravelling the Intricacies
2023 China Law Symposium: Reacquainting with China through Common InterestsThe Harvard Law School China Law Association (CLA) will host its annual China Law Symposium, “Reacquainting with China through Common Interests,” over the first two weeks of April. This year, we are highlighting topics of common interest to China and the United States, ranging across the […]
Adrian Zenz – Xinjiang Update: What New Documents Tell Us About Beijing’s Evolving Internment Policy
Adrian Zenz – Xinjiang Update: What New Documents Tell Us About Beijing’s Evolving Internment Policy
Read our blog post on the event: Xinjiang Update: Beijing’s Evolving Internment Policy Speaker: Adrian Zenz, Senior Fellow and Director in China Studies, Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation Moderator: Mark C. Elliott, Vice Provost for International Affairs, Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History, Harvard University Since the start of Beijing’s campaign of […]
2023 China Law Symposium: Reacquainting with China through Common Interests – Double Reduction Policy in China: An Educational Double-Edged Sword?
2023 China Law Symposium: Reacquainting with China through Common Interests – Double Reduction Policy in China: An Educational Double-Edged Sword?
2023 China Law Symposium: Reacquainting with China through Common InterestsThe Harvard Law School China Law Association (CLA) will host its annual China Law Symposium, “Reacquainting with China through Common Interests,” over the first two weeks of April. This year, we are highlighting topics of common interest to China and the United States, ranging across the […]
Wangdao and Leadership: A Zoom Talk by Stan Shih
Wangdao and Leadership: A Zoom Talk by Stan Shih
Speaker: Stan Shih, Co-founder & Honorary Chairman, Acer Group Presented via Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_1rO8EfocTC27eSYbRM7jaA Venue
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Chu Xiaobai – Jesus and Modernity in Republican China
Chu Xiaobai – Jesus and Modernity in Republican China
Speaker: Chu Xiaobai, Professor, Department of Chinese Literature and Culture, East China Normal University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2022-23 Discussant: Chloë Starr, Professor of Asian Christianity and Theology, Yale Divinity School Harvard-Yenching Institute Visiting Scholar Talk Seating is limited. Masks are required for all in-person audience members. Venue
Critical Issues Confronting China featuring Yan Xuetong – US-China Competition in the Coming Decade
Critical Issues Confronting China featuring Yan Xuetong – US-China Competition in the Coming Decade
Speaker: Yan Xuetong, Dean, Institute of International Relations, Tsinghua University Discussant: Stephen M. Walt, Robert and Renée Belfer Professor of International Relations, Harvard University Also available on Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_H0JzdYljR3i0m2jLjBgakQ Venue
Robert Ross: Wedge Strategies and Alliance Politics: Chinese Coercion and the U.S.-Philippine Alliance
Robert Ross: Wedge Strategies and Alliance Politics: Chinese Coercion and the U.S.-Philippine Alliance
Speaker: Robert S. Ross, Professor of Political Science, Boston CollegeModerator: 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 University This talk examines China’s wedge strategy toward the U.S.-Philippine alliance during the presidency of Benigno Aquino III. Although the […]
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2023 China Law Symposium: Reacquainting with China through Common Interests – Blockchain from a Chinese Perspective
2023 China Law Symposium: Reacquainting with China through Common Interests – Blockchain from a Chinese Perspective
2023 China Law Symposium: Reacquainting with China through Common InterestsThe Harvard Law School China Law Association (CLA) will host its annual China Law Symposium, “Reacquainting with China through Common Interests,” over the first two weeks of April. This year, we are highlighting topics of common interest to China and the United States, ranging across the […]
China Humanities Seminar featuring Nicholas Standaert – The Chinese Gazette in European Sources: Joining the Global Public in the Early Qing Dynasty
China Humanities Seminar featuring Nicholas Standaert – The Chinese Gazette in European Sources: Joining the Global Public in the Early Qing Dynasty
Speaker: Nicolas Standaert, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium) The Chinese gazette as a publicly available government publication was distributed in a variety of formats since the twelfth century. Little is known, however, about its form and content before 1800. By looking at European sources, this presentation shows how they offer a unique way of expanding the […]
Urban China Series featuring Su Xiaobo: Urbanization and the Political Economy of Border Control in China
Urban China Series featuring Su Xiaobo: Urbanization and the Political Economy of Border Control in China
Photo by 瑞丽江的河水 - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=70263825 (License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Speaker: Su Xiaobo, University of Oregon Border cities in hinterland China have been reshaped as hotbeds of investment ever since the implementation of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). They have become new economic centers to facilitate cross-border flows between China and neighboring […]
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Chinese Politics and Foreign Policy Series featuring Tyler Jost – Authoritarian Arming: Domestic Threats and the Origins of China’s Military Modernization
Chinese Politics and Foreign Policy Series featuring Tyler Jost – Authoritarian Arming: Domestic Threats and the Origins of China’s Military Modernization
Speaker: Tyler Jost, Assistant Professor of Political Science, International & Public Affairs and Watson Institute Assistant Professor of China Studies, Brown University. Since the late 1980s, China has transformed the People’s Liberation Army by expanding its budget. Existing scholarship tends to attribute the expanding defense budget to China's economic growth and external threats. This project instead […]
Beijing Olympiad: First Time as Mass Spectacle, Second Time as Digital Ornament
Beijing Olympiad: First Time as Mass Spectacle, Second Time as Digital Ornament
Speaker: Cassandra Xin Guan, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology The opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympics was notable for its spectacular deployment of the mass human ornament. In 2022, a second Olympic opening ceremony took place amidst a global pandemic and rising geopolitical tension between China and the US. This time […]
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Yu-Yueh Tsai – Indigenous DNA as A Metaphor: Scientific Debate on the Rediscovery of Taiwanese Ancestry and Nation-Building
Yu-Yueh Tsai – Indigenous DNA as A Metaphor: Scientific Debate on the Rediscovery of Taiwanese Ancestry and Nation-Building
Speaker: Yu-Yueh Tsai, Associate Research Fellow, Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2022-23Chair: Sheila Jasanoff, Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies, Harvard Kennedy School The development of genealogical science in the twenty-first century has important implications for national and racial/ethnic construction. In Taiwan, genetic research on the origins of Taiwanese has involved […]
Critical Issues Confronting China featuring Isaac Kardon – China’s Maritime Power and the Law of the Sea
Critical Issues Confronting China featuring Isaac Kardon – China’s Maritime Power and the Law of the Sea
Read our blog post on the event: China’s New Maritime “Rules” in Asia Could Lead to Conflict Speaker: Isaac Kardon, Senior Fellow, Asia Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Discussant: Takuhiro Ikeda, Senior Fellow, Harvard University Asia Center; Former Vice Admiral, Japan Maritime Self Defense Force Who makes "the rules" of international order? The international […]
2023 China Law Symposium: Reacquainting with China through Common Interests – Collaborating on Climate Change
2023 China Law Symposium: Reacquainting with China through Common Interests – Collaborating on Climate Change
2023 China Law Symposium: Reacquainting with China through Common InterestsThe Harvard Law School China Law Association (CLA) will host its annual China Law Symposium, “Reacquainting with China through Common Interests,” over the first two weeks of April. This year, we are highlighting topics of common interest to China and the United States, ranging across the […]
Mikael Bauer – Under the Gaze of Jion: Kōfukuji’s Heian Period Internal Ritual Network
Mikael Bauer – Under the Gaze of Jion: Kōfukuji’s Heian Period Internal Ritual Network
Speaker: Mikael Bauer, McGill University Venue
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Liu Shouying – What is Chinese-Style Modernization? Interpreting the Key Concept from the 20th Party Congress
Liu Shouying – What is Chinese-Style Modernization? Interpreting the Key Concept from the 20th Party Congress
Speaker: Liu Shouying, Dean, School of Economics, Renmin University of China Also via Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_kWAxH7BoQ8q90TVUW8NOWQ Venue
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Urban China Series featuring Zhang Jipeng – Hukou Reform, Return Migration,and Implications for Urban Development in China
Urban China Series featuring Zhang Jipeng – Hukou Reform, Return Migration,and Implications for Urban Development in China
Speaker: Zhang Jipeng, Shandong University In recent years, China has made remarkable progress in Hukou reform. Based on government policy documents and our fieldwork, we construct a quantitative measure of Hukou registration barriers in Chinese cities. First-tier and some second-tier cities set high criteria for local Hukou registration that have become more stringent over time, […]
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An Introduction to Generative AI for East Asian Studies
An Introduction to Generative AI for East Asian Studies
This workshop introduces the use of generative AI. Generative AI refers to a category of artificial intelligence algorithms that generate new outputs based on data. Unlike traditional AI systems that recognize patterns and make predictions, generative AI can create new content in the form of texts as well as images and audio. It enables one […]
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China Humanities Seminar featuring Meimei Zhang – Immortalizing the Ephemeral: Qin Inscriptions from the Song Dynasty (960-1279)
China Humanities Seminar featuring Meimei Zhang – Immortalizing the Ephemeral: Qin Inscriptions from the Song Dynasty (960-1279)
Speaker: Meimei Zhang, Occidental College This paper examines the Song dynasty literati’s ming 銘 inscriptions on the qin 琴, a seven-string plucked instrument that is also known as zither or guqin. The tradition of inscribing musical instruments can be traced back to bronze bells and chime stones in the Shang and Zhou dynasties, which bore pithy messages primarily functioning as historiographical and musicological records. From […]
Urban China Series featuring Leif Johnson – Building infrastructure, building the urban: Migrant labor in a Shanghai fiber-optic reconstruction project
Urban China Series featuring Leif Johnson – Building infrastructure, building the urban: Migrant labor in a Shanghai fiber-optic reconstruction project
Speaker: Leif Johnson, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University While scholars have long tracked China’s rapid infrastructural development, the everyday labor of migrant workers in infrastructural construction has often been rendered as a natural and uncomplicated aspect of rural-urban migration. In response, I trace the development of a long-term telecommunications infrastructure reconstruction project in Shanghai from the perspective […]
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Emily Baum – From Cold War to COVID-19: Acupuncture as Soft Power in the PRC
Emily Baum – From Cold War to COVID-19: Acupuncture as Soft Power in the PRC
Speaker: Emily Baum Presented via Zoom. Register at: https://scholar.harvard.edu/seow/STinAsia Venue
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2023 Gender Studies Workshop – The Chinese Family Romance
2023 Gender Studies Workshop – The Chinese Family Romance
Speakers:Emma Jinhua Teng, MITTing Guo, The Chinese University of Hong KongYangyang Cheng, Yale UniversityCarlos Rojas, Duke UniversityEileen Cheng-yin Chow, Duke UniversityJie Li, Harvard UniversityTina Lu, Yale UniversityOrganizers:Eileen Cheng-yin Chow, Duke UniversityWai-Yee Li, Harvard UniversityEllen Widmer, Wellesley CollegeXu Man, Tufts UniversityCatherine Yeh, Boston University Schedule of Events 9:00-9:15 “The Chinese Family Romance” – opening remarks by Eileen Cheng-yin Chow9:15-9:45 Emma Jinhua Teng (MIT)“Transnational […]
Asia and Russia’s War on Ukraine: A Conversation with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine
Asia and Russia’s War on Ukraine: A Conversation with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine
Speaker: The Honorable Dmytro Kuleba, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Moderator: Yaena Kwon, Fellow, Harvard University Asia Center; TV Journalist at ZDF and WDR Co-sponsored by the Asia Center; Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies; Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute; Korea Institute; Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute; Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, WCIA; and Reischauer Institute for Japanese […]
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