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The Implications of Taiwan’s Presidential Election
The Implications of Taiwan’s Presidential Election
Speakers:Wenchi Yu, Nonresident Research Fellow and international affairs journalist with Taiwan-based TVBS televisionEric Huang, Former spokesperson for the opposition KMT party, Mid-Career Masters of Public Affairs student, Harvard Kennedy School Moderator: Anthony Saich, Rajawali Institute Director and Daewoo Professor of International Affairs Join the Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia and the Fairbank Center for […]
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Urban China Lecture Series featuring Jesse Rodenbiker – Ecological States: Politics of Science and Nature in Urbanizing China
Urban China Lecture Series featuring Jesse Rodenbiker – Ecological States: Politics of Science and Nature in Urbanizing China
Speaker: Jesse Rodenbiker, Associate Research Scholar, Princeton University; Assistant Teaching Professor of Geography, Rutgers University. Rodenbiker's new book Ecological States critically examines ecological policies in the People's Republic of China to show how campaigns of scientifically based environmental protection transform nature and society. While many point to China's ecological civilization programs as a new paradigm […]
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Feng Song – Progress in China’s Electricity Market Reform and Assessing Its Impact on Generation Efficiency
Feng Song – Progress in China’s Electricity Market Reform and Assessing Its Impact on Generation Efficiency
Speaker: Feng Song, Associate Professor, School of Economics, Renmin University of China; Visiting Scholar, Harvard-China Project. Venue
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2024 Harvard China Law Symposium – Longevity: Building Resilient Bridges
Join the Harvard Law School China Law Association’s annual China Law Symposium, “Longevity: Building Resilient Bridges,” celebrating the Lunar New Year. This three-day event features lunch & dinner panels, concluding with a festive Lunar New Year social. For more information, including a detailed agenda, visit https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/cla/china-law-symposium/ Venue
2024 Charles Neuhauser Memorial Lecture featuring Ambassador Robert Lighthizer — China and the Trade Trap
2024 Charles Neuhauser Memorial Lecture featuring Ambassador Robert Lighthizer — China and the Trade Trap
Speaker: Amb. Robert Lighthizer, 18th United States Trade Representative (2017-2021) The American government and public increasingly doubt the benefits of our economic relations with the People's Republic of China. Since 2018, the United States has raised tariffs on Chinese imports, imposed restrictions on the export of high-tech American goods to Chinese firms, and limited Chinese […]
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Yu Dong – Exploration of Food Resources by a Neolithic Community in Northern China: Perspectives from Stable Isotope Analysis
Yu Dong – Exploration of Food Resources by a Neolithic Community in Northern China: Perspectives from Stable Isotope Analysis
Speaker: Yu Dong, Professor, Institute of Cultural Heritage, Shandong University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2023-24 Chair/Discussant: Noreen Tuross, Landon T. Clay Professor of Scientific Archaeology, Harvard University Venue
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Critical Issues Confronting China featuring Ji Li – How Rising Geopolitical Tensions are Impacting Chinese Firms Overseas
Critical Issues Confronting China featuring Ji Li – How Rising Geopolitical Tensions are Impacting Chinese Firms Overseas
Speaker: Ji Li, John & Marilyn Long Professor of US-China Business and Law, University of California - Irvine Rising geopolitical tensions have significantly amplified the risk of international trade and investment for Chinese firms. How do they cope with it? What is the role of law? How do their coping strategies implicate US-China relations? These […]
Mingwei Song – Fear of Seeing: A Poetics of Chinese Science Fiction
Mingwei Song – Fear of Seeing: A Poetics of Chinese Science Fiction
Speaker: Mingwei Song, Wellesley College Special Guests:Mu Ming, Science Fiction WriterYan Feng, Fudan University Cohosts:David Der-wei Wang, Harvard UniversityJie Li, Harvard Univeristy Presented via Zoom. Register: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_5kFBIXkeQdSBPFNyJkoEAg#/registration Venue
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Craig Allen – China’s Economic Development Model: Implications for US-Japan Relations
Craig Allen – China’s Economic Development Model: Implications for US-Japan Relations
Speaker: Craig Allen, President, US-China Business CouncilModerator: Christina L. Davis, Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics, Department of Government, Harvard University Venue
The China Challenge and America’s Future
The China Challenge and America’s Future
Join us for a special conversation with Mike Gallagher and Raja Krishnamoorthi, the Chairman and Ranking Member of the Select Committee on the Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party. This conversation will be moderated by former Assistant Secretary of Defense and Douglas Dillon Professor of Government Graham Allison, and Director of the Belfer Center […]
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Jiajun Zou – Is Examination Success the Result of Geographical Luck? New Ming Provincial Examination Dataset and Its Macro Social and Historical Implications
Jiajun Zou – Is Examination Success the Result of Geographical Luck? New Ming Provincial Examination Dataset and Its Macro Social and Historical Implications
Speaker: Jiajun Zou, Ph.D. Candidate in History, Emory University Jiajun Zou introduces a fresh perspective to Ming dynasty studies with his pioneering dataset of 92,000 juren profiles. In his presentation, Zou will share his journey in assembling this comprehensive dataset, utilizing a mix of CBDB resources, computational techniques, and prompt engineering via ChatGPT. He will […]
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Critical Issues Confronting China featuring Meg Rithmire – Can the Chinese Financial System be Effective?
Critical Issues Confronting China featuring Meg Rithmire – Can the Chinese Financial System be Effective?
Speaker: Meg Rithmire, F. Warren McFarlan Associate Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business SchoolModerator: Daniel Koss, Associate Senior Lecturer on East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University The last 25 years have been turbulent ones for the PRC’s financial system. Efforts at liberalization in the early 2000s accelerated early in Xi Jinping’s tenure, only to […]
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Harvard East Asia Society Conference 2024 – Knots: Complex Legacies and Imagined Futures of East Asia
The Harvard East Asia Society (HEAS) Graduate Student Conference is an annual event which provides an interdisciplinary forum for graduate students to exchange ideas and discuss current research on topics related to Asia. The conference allows young scholars to present their research to both their peers and to renowned scholars in relevant fields. All panels […]
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Transport and Communication in Late Imperial China: Routes and Costs
Transport and Communication in Late Imperial China: Routes and Costs
Speaker: Ruoran Cheng, Ph.D. candidate at the London School of Economics. Ruoran Cheng will introduce his work on transport routes and costs in the Ming and Qing dynasties. Using techniques from geographic information science and data from historical route books, he has proposed a more accurate and comprehensive account of transport routes. Based on this […]
Special Presentation – China-Russia Relations Two Years into Putin’s Ukraine War: How Strong, For How Long?
Special Presentation – China-Russia Relations Two Years into Putin’s Ukraine War: How Strong, For How Long?
Speakers:Andrew S. Erickson, Professor of Strategy, U.S. Naval War College (NWC) China Maritime Studies Institute (CMSI); Visiting Professor, Government Department, Harvard University; Associate in Research, Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesJulia Famularo, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesVitaly Kozyrev, Distinguished Professor of Political Science & International Studies, Endicott CollegeAlexandra Vacroux, Executive Director, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard […]
Urban China Lecture Series featuring Shaun SK Teo – Two Experiments in Theorizing (with) Urban China
Urban China Lecture Series featuring Shaun SK Teo – Two Experiments in Theorizing (with) Urban China
Speaker: Shaun SK Teo, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, National University of Singapore Is Chinese urbanization unique? What can we learn from Chinese urbanization? How might cases in urban China be integrated into global discussions on urban governance and transformation? This talk addresses these burning questions. Chinese urbanization presents rich cases for an engaged pluralism […]
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Sophie Ling-chia Wei – A Sage Embellished with Elements of “Chinoiserie”: The Making of Jesus in the Jesuit Figurist Translations of Chinese Classics
Sophie Ling-chia Wei – A Sage Embellished with Elements of “Chinoiserie”: The Making of Jesus in the Jesuit Figurist Translations of Chinese Classics
Speaker: Sophie Ling-chia Wei, Associate Professor, Department of Translation, Chinese University of Hong Kong; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2023-24Chair/Discussant: James Robson, James C. Kralik and Yunli Lou Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University When Christianity was introduced to China in the Ming and Qing dynasties, translations of sacred texts and stories of biblical […]
Generative AI for Chinese Studies – Introductory Workshop
Generative AI for Chinese Studies – Introductory Workshop
Digital China Initiative is organizing two workshops on how to apply generative AI for Chinese studies. The first workshop, on 23 Feb 2024, will introduce basic GenAI concepts, writing prompts, and examples of domain-specific tasks (language learning, data extraction, etc.). The second workshop, on 5 April, will cover how to use open-source large language models on local devices, […]
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China Humanities Seminar featuring Michelle Wang – Terrestrial Diagrams in Early China
China Humanities Seminar featuring Michelle Wang – Terrestrial Diagrams in Early China
Speaker: Michelle H. Wang, Associate Professor of Art History and Humanities, Reed College In The Art of Terrestrial Diagrams in Early China (University of Chicago Press, 2023), Michelle H. Wang explores the diagrammatic tradition of rendering space in early China. The book centers on maps (ditu) excavated from three tombs that date from the fourth […]
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Special Presentation featuring Christopher Rea – From Zhuangzi’s Gourd to Cinderella’s Pumpkin: Gua 瓜 as a Vehicle for the Imagination
Special Presentation featuring Christopher Rea – From Zhuangzi’s Gourd to Cinderella’s Pumpkin: Gua 瓜 as a Vehicle for the Imagination
Speaker: Christopher Rea, Professor of Chinese, Former Director of the Centre for Chinese Research, University of British ColumbiaModerator: David Der-wei Wang, Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature, Harvard University The Daoist philosopher Zhuangzi tells us that one remedy for a lack of imagination is to take your gourd for a ride. Confucius makes a […]
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Critical Issues Confronting China featuring Minxin Pei – Surveillance in a Leninist Party-State: Understanding China’s Preventive Repression
Critical Issues Confronting China featuring Minxin Pei – Surveillance in a Leninist Party-State: Understanding China’s Preventive Repression
Speaker: Minxin Pei, Tom and Margot Pritzker '72 Professor of Government and George R. Roberts Fellow, Claremont McKenna College China’s surveillance state has attracted much attention in the media, but there is little serious research on its organization, scope, and operational tactics. Evidence gathered from hundreds of local yearbooks and police gazettes shows that the […]
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Daniel H. Rosen – Spillover Implications of a China Growing 0-2%
Daniel H. Rosen – Spillover Implications of a China Growing 0-2%
Speaker: Daniel H. Rosen, Founding Partner, Rhodium Group Educators, policymakers and business leaders need to decide how to respond to the implications of China’s economic slowdown. Options have not been adequately considered because the extent of the slowdown has not been understood and acknowledged. Even today international organizations, governments, and prominent public intellectuals endorse rosy […]
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