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Semiconductors and Geopolitics Symposium: The Future of the Global Semiconductor Industry
Semiconductors and Geopolitics Symposium: The Future of the Global Semiconductor Industry
***This event is now at capacity. To add your name to the waitlist, please click the link above. You will be notified by the event organizers if your entry can be confirmed.*** Against a backdrop of rising U.S.-China tensions, both countries have accelerated policies to restrict key exports in technological areas critical to economic competitiveness. […]
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Objects of Addiction: Opium, Empire, and the Chinese Art Trade
Objects of Addiction: Opium, Empire, and the Chinese Art Trade
Speaker: Sarah Laursen, Alan J. Dworsky Associate Curator of Chinese Art, Harvard Art Museums Objects of Addiction explores the entwined histories of the opium trade and the Chinese art market between the late 18th and early 20th centuries. The first section examines the origins of the opium trade in Asia, the participation of Massachusetts merchants, and […]
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Xiconomics: What China’s Dual Circulation Strategy Means for Global Business
Xiconomics: What China’s Dual Circulation Strategy Means for Global Business
Speakers:Andrew Cainey, Founding Director of the UK National Committee on China; Senior Fellow, Royal United Services InstituteMark Wu, Henry L. Stimson Professor, Harvard Law School; Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Join us for an illuminating dialogue between Andrew Cainey, founding director of the UK National Committee on China and senior fellow at the Royal […]
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Urban China Series Featuring Yuan Qifeng: Cross-Border Competition and Governance in the Greater Bay Area of Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macau
Urban China Series Featuring Yuan Qifeng: Cross-Border Competition and Governance in the Greater Bay Area of Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macau
Speaker: Yuan Qifeng, Professor, School of Architecture, South China University of Technology This talk will be conducted in Mandarin. The concept of the Greater Bay Area of Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macau signifies a national strategic focus on the governance of one country with two systems, three customs zones, and across eleven urban regions. However, […]
Modern China Lecture Series Featuring Jennifer Altehenger – When Folding Chairs Became Bestsellers: The Revolutionary Roots of China’s Furniture Exports
Modern China Lecture Series Featuring Jennifer Altehenger – When Folding Chairs Became Bestsellers: The Revolutionary Roots of China’s Furniture Exports
Speaker: Jennifer Altehenger, Jessica Rawson Fellow in Modern Asian History, Associate Professor of Chinese History, Merton College, Oxford The People’s Republic of China is one of the world’s leading furniture producers, and international media frequently report on its furniture exports. Descriptions of how goods from China came to furnish homes and workplaces across the world […]
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China Economy Lecture Featuring Arthur Kroeber – Has China’s Economy Hit the Wall?
China Economy Lecture Featuring Arthur Kroeber – Has China’s Economy Hit the Wall?
Speaker: Arthur Kroeber, Founding Partner and Head of Research, Gavekal Dragonomics As China emerged from Covid lockdowns early this year, many expected that its economy would enjoy a roaring recovery. Instead, it has stalled out. Is this just a short term problem? Or is it a sign that China's economy is headed for the "middle […]
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China Humanities Seminar featuring Charles Hartman – Structures of Governance in Song Dynasty China
China Humanities Seminar featuring Charles Hartman – Structures of Governance in Song Dynasty China
Speaker: Charles Hartman, University at Albany, Emeritus This lecture will introduce my recent book, Structures of Governance in Song Dynasty China 960-1279 CE (Cambridge, 2023). Together with its historiographical prelude, The Making of Song Dynasty History: Sources and Narratives (Cambridge, 2021), Structures of Governance seeks to go beyond the static organizational charts of the official […]
Daniel A. Bell – China’s Struggle between Communism and Confucianism
Daniel A. Bell – China’s Struggle between Communism and Confucianism
Speaker: Daniel A. Bell, Professor, Chair of Political Theory with the Faculty of Law, University of Hong KongDiscussants: Peter Bol, Charles H. Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard UniversityYuhua Wang, Professor of Government, Harvard University During China’s Cultural Revolution, Chairman Mao’s Red Guards denounced Confucius for fostering “bad elements, rightists, monsters, and […]
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Lung Yingtai – My Life in an Indigenous Village
Lung Yingtai – My Life in an Indigenous Village
Speaker: Lung Yingtai, Writer, Former Minister of Culture of TaiwanChair: Elizabeth J. Perry, Director, Harvard-Yenching Institute; Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government, Harvard University Since Lung Yingtai relocated to an indigenous village in eastern Taiwan three years ago, she sought to comprehend the elements that comprise her life, including the journey of her daily water supply […]
Ian Johnson – Sparks: China’s Underground Historians
Ian Johnson – Sparks: China’s Underground Historians
Speaker: Ian Johnson, Senior Fellow for China Studies, Council on Foreign RelationsDiscussant: Annie Jieping Zhang, Reporter, Columnist, and Entrepreneur Harvard Book Store welcomes Ian Johnson — journalist whose work has won numerous prizes for his coverage of China, including a Pulitzer Prize— for a discussion of his new book Sparks: China’s Underground Historians and Their Battle […]
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Wei Hai Min and Her Personae: Jingju in Our Time
Wei Hai Min and Her Personae: Jingju in Our Time
Speaker: Wei Hai Mun, Awardee of the Plum Blossom Award and the National Award for Arts in TaiwanDiscussant: David Der-wei Wang, Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature, Harvard University Co-sponsored by:East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard UniversityFairbank Center for Chinese StudiesAsian Cultural Council Taiwan FoundationChiang Ching-kuo Foundation Venue
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