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Yangyang Cheng – Empires and Exiles: On Writing About Science and Technology Between China and the United States
Yangyang Cheng – Empires and Exiles: On Writing About Science and Technology Between China and the United States
Speaker: Yangyang Cheng, Research Scholar in Law and Fellow, Paul Tsai China Center, Yale Law SchoolModerator: Victor Seow, Associate Professor of the History of Science, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University Dr. Yangyang Cheng is a Research Scholar in Law and Fellow at Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center, where her work […]
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Wei Ran – Latin American Travelers and Revolutionary China in the Global 1960s: A Story of (Dis)encounters
Wei Ran – Latin American Travelers and Revolutionary China in the Global 1960s: A Story of (Dis)encounters
Speaker: Wei Ran, Associate Professor, Institute of Foreign Literature, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2023-24Discussant: Mariano Siskind, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of Comparative Literature, Harvard University In the Global 1960s, many Latin American leading intellectuals, such as Pablo Neruda, José Venturelli, Eduardo Galeano and Ricardo Piglia, visited Maoist China, […]
Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Yasheng Huang – China’s Long March: From Politics to Economics and From Economics to Politics
Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Yasheng Huang – China’s Long March: From Politics to Economics and From Economics to Politics
Speaker: Yasheng Huang, Epoch Foundation Professor of Global Economics and Management, MIT Sloan School of Management Professor Yasheng Huang is Epoch Foundation professor of global economics and management at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. From 2013 to 2017, he served as an associate dean in charge of MIT Sloan’s global partnership programs and its action […]
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The Lifestyles in the Tang Dynasty under the Influence of Manuscript Culture
The Lifestyles in the Tang Dynasty under the Influence of Manuscript Culture
Speaker: Zhao Shuyang, Nanjing University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2023-24Chair/Discussant: Prof. Xiaofei Tian, Harvard University The physical form of books plays a crucial role in human’s daily life. Prior to the advent of woodblock printing in ancient China, the manuscript era prevailed, in which all books were laboriously copied by hand. This unique method of production […]
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Japan, China, and Global Economic Orders
Japan, China, and Global Economic Orders
Speakers:Tsuyoshi Kawase, Visiting Scholar, Program on US-Japan Relations, Harvard University; Professor, Sophia UniversityJi Miao, Visiting Scholar, Program on US-Japan Relations, Harvard University; Associate Professor & Senior Research Fellow, China Foreign Affairs UniversityMasako Suginohara, Visiting Scholar, Program on US-Japan Relations, Harvard University; Professor, Ferris University Discussant: Kristin Vekasi, Associate Professor, School of Policy & International Affairs, University […]
China Humanities Seminar featuring Xiaoqiao Ling – Rethinking Early Huaben Stories: Miscellanies and Literary Ecologies
China Humanities Seminar featuring Xiaoqiao Ling – Rethinking Early Huaben Stories: Miscellanies and Literary Ecologies
Speaker: Xiaoqiao Ling, Associate Professor of Chinese, Arizona State University This paper investigates ways in which the proximity of texts in literary environments complicate our understanding of invention and creation in the late Ming narrative tradition. Early vernacular short stories (huaben) are typically dismissed as haphazard patchworks of disparate textual segments. Pioneering scholars such as […]
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Xiao Xiaoyan – Life Histories and Collective Memory of Deaf People in a Chinese Social Welfare Factory
Xiao Xiaoyan – Life Histories and Collective Memory of Deaf People in a Chinese Social Welfare Factory
Speaker: Xiao Xiaoyan, Professor, College of Foreign Languages and Cultures, Xiamen University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2023-24Discussant: Kathryn Davidson, Professor of Linguistics, Harvard University This study reports an on-going project attempting to record life histories of Deaf individuals and construct the collective memory of Deaf workers in Chinese social welfare factories since 1958. After 1949, as […]
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Jihon Kim – Heritage Wars: Legacies of Colonial Rule and Wartime Memories in East Asia for UNESCO Nominations
Jihon Kim – Heritage Wars: Legacies of Colonial Rule and Wartime Memories in East Asia for UNESCO Nominations
Speaker: Jihon Kim, Fulbright Visiting Scholar, Harvard Asia Center; Chief of International Cooperation, Korean National Commission for UNESCO; Research Fellow, Institute of International Studies, Seoul National University Chair: Andrew Gordon, Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Department of History, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences Since 2015, conflicts […]
Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Keyu Jin – China’s New Playbook
Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Keyu Jin – China’s New Playbook
Speaker: Keyu Jin, Professor of Economics, London School of Economics and Political ScienceModerator: David Yang, Professor, Department of Economics; Director, Center for History and Economics, Harvard University Jin Keyu is a tenured professor of economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is an academic member of the China Finance 40 Group […]
International Mitigation Finance: Carbon Mitigation, Welfare, and Optimal Recipient Design
International Mitigation Finance: Carbon Mitigation, Welfare, and Optimal Recipient Design
Speaker: Naixin Huang, Ph.D. Candidate in Economics, Tsinghua University; Harvard-China Project Fellow International mitigation finance is a primary way in global climate cooperation to limit fast-growing carbon emissions of developing countries. Using a multi-country-multi-sector quantitative trade model, we take the year 2017 as an example to estimate carbon mitigation and welfare effects from mitigation finance and […]
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He Wenkai – Book talk: Public Interest and State Legitimation: Early Modern England, Japan, and China
He Wenkai – Book talk: Public Interest and State Legitimation: Early Modern England, Japan, and China
Speaker: He Wenkai, Associate Professor, Division of Social Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; HYI Visiting Scholar 2016-17 In this book, Public Interest and State Legitimation: Early Modern England, Japan, and China (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023), Wenkai He examines the connections between state capacity, state legitimation and the expansion of political participation. He demonstrates […]
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Hou Zhe – Between Ideals and Reality: The Working Class‘s Role in China’s Education Revolution
Hou Zhe – Between Ideals and Reality: The Working Class‘s Role in China’s Education Revolution
Speaker: Hou Zhe, Assistant Professor, Institute of China Studies, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2023-24 Chair/Discussant: Elizabeth Perry, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government, Harvard University; Director, Harvard-Yenching Institute The assertion that “the working class must lead everything” was a fundamental tenet in the ideological framework of the education revolution during Mao’s era […]
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Yan Fei – Factions in Flux: Intergroup Collaboration and Conflict in the Red Guard Movement
Yan Fei – Factions in Flux: Intergroup Collaboration and Conflict in the Red Guard Movement
Speaker: Yan Fei, Associate Professor, Sociology, Tsinghua University; HYI-Radcliffe Institute Joint Fellow, 2023-24Discussant: Yuhua Wang, Professor of Government, Harvard University Students of social movements and collective action have traditionally concentrated on the structural factors influencing group formation during social mobilization. This conventional model depicts members of opposing factions as pursuing collective interests that are predetermined […]
Business in China’s “New Era”: Roundtable Discussion with Fairbank Center Visiting Fellows of Practice
Business in China’s “New Era”: Roundtable Discussion with Fairbank Center Visiting Fellows of Practice
Visiting Fellows Brendan Li, Shujun Li, Tony Liu, and Mitch Presnick will explore the role of business in Xi Jinping’s “new era,” from technology to finance, manufacturing to services, as well as opportunities for collaboration between Chinese and American enterprises. This is an in-person event open to Harvard community members. The discussion will not be […]
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Taiwan Studies Workshop Panel Discussion – Elections in Taiwan: Time for a Change?
Taiwan Studies Workshop Panel Discussion – Elections in Taiwan: Time for a Change?
Speakers:Lev Nachman, National Cheng-chih UniversitySarah Newland, Smith CollegeTsai Chia-hung, National Cheng-chih University Moderator: Steven Goldstein, Taiwan Studies Workshop Director, Harvard University Fairbank Center Presented via Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_wtZbw7TYQXqu39XnL6pU_A Venue
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