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Film Screening and Discussion: Caught by the Tides
Film Screening and Discussion: Caught by the Tides
Directed by Zhangke JiaStarring Tao Zhao, Zhubin LiCaught by the Tides (风流一代) is an ambitious, genre-blending film from acclaimed Chinese director Jia Zhangke. Spanning over two decades, the film interlaces newly shot scenes with archival footage, fragments from Jia’s earlier films, and documentary-style material to create a haunting portrait of love, memory, and transformation in modern China.The
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The Enduring Legacies of World War II in East Asia: Reflections 80 Years Later
The Enduring Legacies of World War II in East Asia: Reflections 80 Years Later
Speakers: Thomas Berger, Professor of International Relations, Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston UniversityMark Caprio, Professor Emeritus, Rikkyo University, Tokyo; Kim Koo Visiting Professor of Korean Studies, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard UniversityRana Mitter, ST Lee Chair in US-Asia Relations, Harvard Kennedy School Moderator: Christina Davis, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese
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How Should We Study China? A Discussion with Fairbank Center Faculty
How Should We Study China? A Discussion with Fairbank Center Faculty
As the Fairbank Center celebrates its 70th Anniversary, a select panel of Fairbank Center Faculty will discuss how we've studied China in the past, and how we should move forward into the future. Join us for this insightful discussion.More information about our panelists coming soon! Venue
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Taiwanese Politics and US-China-Taiwan Relations Under Trump 2.0
Taiwanese Politics and US-China-Taiwan Relations Under Trump 2.0
Speaker: S. Philip Tsu, National Taiwan UniversityThis talk will examine this following aspects of the US-Taiwan-China relations: 1. How Taiwan society views the US and China, and the main developments in Taiwan's party politics/democratic governance since President Lai was inaugurated in 2024; 2. The implications of US foreign policy under Trump 2.0 for the trilateral
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Is Authoritarian Constitutionalism an Oxymoron?
Is Authoritarian Constitutionalism an Oxymoron?
Speaker: Mark Tushnet, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law, Emeritus, Harvard Law School; Co-editor, Oxford Handbook of Law and Authoritarianism Professor Tushnet, who graduated from Harvard College and Yale Law School and served as a law clerk to Justice Thurgood Marshall, specializes in constitutional law and theory, including comparative constitutional law. His research includes studies
Taiwan Travelogue: A Dialogue with Author Yang Shuang-zi and Translator Lin King
Taiwan Travelogue: A Dialogue with Author Yang Shuang-zi and Translator Lin King
Speakers:David Der-Wei Wang, Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature, Harvard UniversityFu Yun, Harvard Graduate School of DesignWendy Wang, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University Venue
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China Humanities Seminar featuring Zhuming Yao —The Early Chinese Lyric “I”: Between Poetics and Hermeneutics
China Humanities Seminar featuring Zhuming Yao —The Early Chinese Lyric “I”: Between Poetics and Hermeneutics
Speaker: Zhuming Yao, Assistant Professor of Chinese & Comparative Literature at Boston University Many poems in the Shijing 詩經 feature a lyric “I,” a first-person voice speaking about intense emotions. Yet, who those “Is” are has never been clear. After two millennia of commentarial writings, we are no more certain than the first critics of
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Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Jeffrey Wasserstrom — Hong Kong 2025: Competing Visions of a City’s Past, Present, and Future
Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Jeffrey Wasserstrom — Hong Kong 2025: Competing Visions of a City’s Past, Present, and Future
Speaker: Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Distinguished Professor of History, UC IrvineDiscussant: Moira Weigel, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University In 2015, a group of Hong Kong filmmakers made an anthology film called "Ten Years," made up of dystopian vignettes set in a dramatically transformed city one decade in the future. Now that 2025 has arrived, while everyone
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Film Screening: “Made in Ethiopia”
Film Screening: “Made in Ethiopia”
Filmed over four years with singular access, “Made in Ethiopia” lifts the curtain on China’s historic but misunderstood impact on Africa, and explores contemporary Ethiopia at a moment of profound crisis. The film immerses viewers in two colliding worlds: a booming industrial powerhouse driven by profit and progress, and a disappearing countryside where life is
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