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Lik Sam Chan — The Politics of Dating Apps in Urban China
Lik Sam Chan — The Politics of Dating Apps in Urban China
Speaker: Lik Sam Chan, Lecturer, University of SydneyMomo, Blued, Aloha, Rela, Lesdo. These were, once upon a time, some of the most popular mobile dating apps in China. In this book talk, Lik Sam Chan dissects how urban life and dating apps shape each other in the context of southern China. The narratives explored include straight
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Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Yanmei Lin — The Fire Alarm and the Iron Hand: Civil Society’s Place in China’s Environmental Rule of Law
Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Yanmei Lin — The Fire Alarm and the Iron Hand: Civil Society’s Place in China’s Environmental Rule of Law
Speaker: Yanmei Lin, Professor of Law, Vermont Law and Graduate SchoolDiscussant: William P. Alford, Jerome A. and Joan L. Cohen Professor of East Asian Legal Studies; Director of East Asian Legal Studies; Chair, Harvard Law School Project on Disability, Harvard Law School Over the past decade, Chinese NGOs gained formal roles in environmental governance through
Taiwan Studies Workshop featuring Andrew Erickson — Taiwan’s Security: What’s at Risk and What’s at Stake?
Taiwan Studies Workshop featuring Andrew Erickson — Taiwan’s Security: What’s at Risk and What’s at Stake?
Speaker: Andrew S. Erickson, Visiting Scholar, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies; Professor of Strategy, China Maritime Studies Institute, U.S. Naval War CollegeThis presentation addresses the subject of Taiwan’s security—not from a political or policy standpoint, but rather from a geographical, historical, military operational, and strategic perspective. It explicates Taiwan’s geostrategic position and surveys the military aspects
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Wang Haiyan — Intellectuals, Influencers, and the Reshaping of Chinese Nationalism
Wang Haiyan — Intellectuals, Influencers, and the Reshaping of Chinese Nationalism
Speaker: Wang Haiyan, Associate Professor, Department of Communication, University of Macau; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2025-26Chair/Discussant: Wai-yee Li, 1879 Professor of Chinese Literature, Harvard University Intellectuals have historically played a central role in the development of Chinese nationalism since the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In the 21st century, however, their roles and practices have
Joe Ngai — Where is the “Next China”? It’s Still China — But It Will Require a Different Playbook
Joe Ngai — Where is the “Next China”? It’s Still China — But It Will Require a Different Playbook
Speaker: Joe Ngai, Senior Partner and Chairman of Greater China Offices, McKinsey & CompanyLocation Change: This event will now be held in WCC B015 (previously WCC 3018). Joe will share his observations of the opportunities ahead for businesses in China, especially in the context of increasingly complex geopolitics, slowdown in the China macro-economy, a rapidly
Nicholas Morrow Williams — Dialogues in the Dark: Interpreting “Heavenly Questions” Across Two Millennia
Nicholas Morrow Williams — Dialogues in the Dark: Interpreting “Heavenly Questions” Across Two Millennia
Speaker: Nicholas Morrow Williams, Professor of Chinese, Arizona State University Moderator: Michael Puett, Victor and William Fung Foundation Director, Harvard University Asia Center; Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History and Anthropology; Harvard College Professor Presented online via Zoom. To join, register here. Dialogues in the Dark traces how Chinese readers and scholars since the Han dynasty have variously interpreted
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Antje Richter — Health and the Art of Living: Illness Narratives in Early Medieval Chinese Literature
Antje Richter — Health and the Art of Living: Illness Narratives in Early Medieval Chinese Literature
Speaker: Antje Richter, Associate Professor of Chinese, University of Colorado, Boulder Moderator: Xiaofei Tian, Ford Foundation Professor of East Asian Studies, Harvard University Registration appreciated for planning purposes. Health and the Art of Living offers reflections on health and illness in early medieval Chinese literature (ca. 200–ca. 600). Surveying a range of literary sources—essays, prefaces, correspondence, religious scriptures, and
China Humanities Seminar featuring Matthias Richter — Early Chinese Texts Between Oral Instruction and Written Literature
China Humanities Seminar featuring Matthias Richter — Early Chinese Texts Between Oral Instruction and Written Literature
Speaker: Matthias L. Richter, Associate Professor of Chinese, University of Colorado at Boulder Audiences in early China were probably more aware of technicalities in texts than we are today, since they had first-hand experience of a predominantly oral textual culture and the management of cognitive load it required. Conventions of structuring texts rooted in this
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Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Anthony Saich — Through the Past Darkly: Culture and Practice of the Chinese Communist Party
Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Anthony Saich — Through the Past Darkly: Culture and Practice of the Chinese Communist Party
Speaker: Anthony Saich, Daewoo Professor of International Affairs; Director, Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia, Harvard Kennedy SchoolDiscussant: Rana Mitter, ST Lee Chair in US-Asia Relations, Harvard Kennedy School Little could the founders of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) have known that they were setting in motion one of history’s greatest revolutionary movements. While much has
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Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Yi Lu — Garbage Time of History? Chinese Archives in the Era of Xi Jinping
Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Yi Lu — Garbage Time of History? Chinese Archives in the Era of Xi Jinping
Speaker: Yi Lu, Assistant Professor of History, Dartmouth CollegeDiscussant: Daniel Koss, Associate Senior Lecturer on East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University The Chinese internet has recently been captivated by a meme: “the garbage time of history.” The phrase evokes the Soviet Union’s final, suffocating decades to suggest that China, too, has entered an era
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Asia and Asians at Harvard Conference
Harvard’s enduring engagement with Asia has shaped scholarly inquiry, public policy, and campus life—within the University and across the region. This two-day conference convenes faculty, students, alumni, and institutional partners from across Schools and disciplines to examine the evolving relationship between Harvard and Asia from the late nineteenth century to the present and to consider
Ma Xinrong — Migration Pathway, Precariousness and Migration Control: the Case of Irregular Migrants From the Philippines and Myanmar to China
Ma Xinrong — Migration Pathway, Precariousness and Migration Control: the Case of Irregular Migrants From the Philippines and Myanmar to China
Speaker: MA Xinrong, Associate Professor, Sun Yat-sen University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2025-26Chair/Discussant: Meg Rithmire, James E. Robison Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School China, emerging as a new destination for international migration, has been receiving an increasing number of labor migrants from neighboring countries. Except for limited pilot schemes in border areas, Chinese authorities
Films from the Film Study Center: Screening and Conversation
Films from the Film Study Center: Screening and Conversation
Please join us, in partnership with ArtsThursdays, for a special screening of short films by Darol Olu Kae, Kendra McLaughlin, Tiff Rekem, and Svetlana Romanova—current fellows at the Film Study Center at Harvard. Following the screening, the filmmakers will participate in a conversation with Dennis Lim, Artistic Director of the New York Film Festival. Tiff Rekem :
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Wang Junqi — The Evolution of Iconography Associated with the Great Compassion Mantra
Wang Junqi — The Evolution of Iconography Associated with the Great Compassion Mantra
Speaker: WANG Junqi, Research Fellow, Institute for the Study of Buddhism and Religious Theory; Associate Professor, School of Philosophy, Renmin University of China; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2025-26Chair/Discussant: Parimal Patil, Professor of Religion and Indian Philosophy, Harvard University The Great Compassion Mantra (大悲呪) is one of the most widely recited mantras in Chinese Buddhism, often accompanied
Once Burned, Twice Shy: A Conversation on U.S.- China Trade with Ambassador Katherine Tai
Once Burned, Twice Shy: A Conversation on U.S.- China Trade with Ambassador Katherine Tai
Speaker: Ambassador Katherine C. Tai, U.S. Trade Representative (2021-2025)Moderator: Mark Wu, Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law, Harvard Law School; Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University Join us for a conversation with Ambassador Katherine C. Tai, U.S. Trade Representative (2021-2025) on U.S.- China trade relations, moderated by Professor Mark Wu, Director of the
Domee Shi — Drawing from Life: Storytelling, Heritage, and Turning the Personal into the Universal
Domee Shi — Drawing from Life: Storytelling, Heritage, and Turning the Personal into the Universal
Speaker: Domee Shi, Academy Award–Winning Director, Writer, and Storyteller; Creative Vice President, PixarDiscussant: Ju Yon Kim, Patsy Takemoto Mink Professor of English, Harvard University Join the Academy Award–winning director, animator, and filmmaker Domee Shi for an engaging conversation about creative expression and empathetic storytelling. A self-described “film nerd,” Shi will be joined by Ju Yon Kim, the Patsy Takemoto
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Aaron Halegua — Fighting Forced Labor on U.S. Soil: Litigation on Behalf of Chinese Workers
Aaron Halegua — Fighting Forced Labor on U.S. Soil: Litigation on Behalf of Chinese Workers
Speaker: Aaron Halegua, Lead Counsel for Plaintiffs, Wang v. Gold Mantis Construction and Liu v. Wellmade Industries Aaron Halegua leads a boutique litigation firm in New York City focused on labor and employment litigation, with particular experience representing human trafficking and forced labor victims. In 2021, he won $6.9 million for seven Chinese construction workers trafficked to build a
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Chuncheng Liu — Metricocracy: The Data and Symbolic Politics of a Chinese Social Credit System
Chuncheng Liu — Metricocracy: The Data and Symbolic Politics of a Chinese Social Credit System
Speaker: Chuncheng Liu, Assistant Professor of Communication Studies, Northeastern University Numbers have become the universal language of modern governance. What happens when an authoritarian state attempts to quantify the moral worth of its citizens? Drawing from my fieldwork inside China's social credit system bureaucracy, this talk reveals how a quantification system designed to enhance state
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Weila Gong — Implementing a Low-Carbon Future: Climate Leadership in Chinese Cities
Weila Gong — Implementing a Low-Carbon Future: Climate Leadership in Chinese Cities
Speaker: Weila Gong, University of California-San Diego Why are some Chinese cities more successful than others in initiating and implementing low-carbon policy actions? Despite being the world’s largest carbon emitter, China has committed to peak carbon emissions before 2030 and to achieving carbon neutrality by 2060. Since the early 2010s, Beijing has selected over one hundred
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Zong-Rong Lee — Kinship, Business Elite and the Market in Contemporary Taiwan
Zong-Rong Lee — Kinship, Business Elite and the Market in Contemporary Taiwan
Speaker: Zong-Rong LEE, Research Fellow, Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2025-26Chair/Discussant: Frank Dobbin, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences, Harvard University In the fields of history and anthropology, kinship has long been regarded as a crucial factor in shaping the economic organization, political authority, and social mobility of East
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