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SUMMARY:Subversion and Seduction: China’s Economic Statecraft
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Audrye Wong\, Senior Fellow\, American Enterprise InstituteChair: Rana Mitter\, S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations\, Harvard Kennedy School \n\n\n\nEven as the Chinese government intensifies supply-chain coercion\, it continues to deepen the trade and investment linkages that sustain its global economic centrality. Audrye Wong’s new book\, Subversion and Seduction: China’s Economic Statecraft\, explores an underemphasized aspect of China’s economic influence: positive inducements. Through six case studies\, extensive field research\, and a survey experiment\, Dr. Wong’s book explores what kinds of inducement strategies succeed at achieving Beijing’s foreign policy goals and under what conditions. \n\n\n\nUnderstanding the mechanisms\, successes\, and limitations of China’s economic statecraft will be critical for leaders in the United States and abroad as they navigate a world where China increasingly wields its economic clout for geopolitical influence. Join Professor Rana Mitter and Dr. Audrye Wong for a discussion on this essential new book. \n\n\n\nAudrye Wong is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute\, where her work focuses on China’s foreign policy\, economic statecraft\, propaganda and disinformation campaigns\, and foreign influence operations. Previously\, Dr. Wong was a professor at the University of Southern California and postdoctoral fellow at the Grand Strategy\, Security\, and Statecraft joint program of the Harvard Kennedy School and Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Security Studies Program. She has also held affiliations with Harvard’s Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, the Wilson Center\, the Brookings Institution\, and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She is fluent in Mandarin.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/subversion-and-seduction-chinas-economic-statecraft/
LOCATION:Fainsod Room (324)\, Littauer Building\, 79 JFK St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Urban China Lecture Series featuring Wang Mengqi — Anxious Homes: Inflexible Demand and China’s Housing Market
DESCRIPTION:zoom meeting link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Mengqi Wang\, Assistant Professor of Anthropology\, Duke Kunshan University  \n\n\n\nThis talk presents the vernacular concept of inflexible demand\, known as 刚需/gangxu in Chinese\, that people in contemporary urban China draw on to refer to—and construct—an absolute need for homeownership for all city dwellers. Drawing on fieldwork conducted in a gangxu development at the urban periphery of east Nanjing from 2013 to 2015\, this talk argues that the concept of “inflexible demand” works as an empty signifier bridging diverse value-making projects that are constitutive of China’s housing market. It argues that homeownership\, in China\, suggests not independence but a further inclusion of citizens within the state. The talk ends with a reflection on how recent changes of the market have rendered homeownership both a promise and a trap for migrants in urban China. The talk is developed from a new book titled Anxious Homes: Inflexible Demand and China’s Housing Market (Cornell University Press 2026). \n\n\n\nMengqi Wang is a cultural and economic anthropologist specialized in the study of housing and the urban environment. She is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Duke Kunshan University with fields of research covering economic anthropology\, political economy\, human geography\, and critical infrastructure studies. Her book\, Anxious Homes: Inflexible Demand and China’s Housing Market (Cornell University Press\, 2026)\, is an ethnographic monograph charting the discursive formation of the housing market at East Nanjing’s urban periphery from 2012 to 2015. Her research articles have appeared in journals such as Positions: Asia Critique\, the Journal of Cultural Economy\, and Urban Studies. \n\n\n\nZoom Meeting Link: https://mit.zoom.us/j/94120080608 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/urban-china-lecture-series-featuring-wang-mengqi-anxious-homes-inflexible-demand-and-chinas-housing-market/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Urban China Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260909T190000
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SUMMARY:Fairbank Center Student Welcome Night
DESCRIPTION:Find out about China-related activities at Harvard and hear about opportunities available to students who join the Fairbank Center Student Network. Fun Chinese snacks will be served!This event is open only to Harvard students. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/fairbank-center-student-welcome-night/
LOCATION:Riverview Commons\, 10th Floor Smith Campus Center\, 1350 Mass Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260922T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260922T171500
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SUMMARY:China Economy Lecture featuring Yeling Tan — China’s Economic Security Growth Model\, and the US-China Security Dilemma
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Yeling Tan\, Professor of Public Policy\, Blavatnik School of Government\, University of OxfordTraditional conceptions of export- or domestic investment–led growth no longer appropriately capture the dynamics shaping the Chinese economy. Rather\, China has adopted a model in which national security logic increasingly underpins economic policy. This talk will outline the main components of this growth model\, and then identify potential implementation challenges and tensions emerging from such a growth strategy. Finally\, it will discuss the ways these tensions might deepen the US-China security dilemma.  \n\n\n\nYeling Tan is Professor of Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government. She is also a non-resident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. \n\n\n\nHer research focuses on the political economy of globalisation\, development\, and policymaking\, with a focus on China and the Asian region. She holds a PhD in Public Policy and an MPA in International Development from Harvard University\, and a BA in International Relations and Economics from Stanford University. Prior to joining Oxford\, Professor Tan was an assistant professor of political science at the University of Oregon and a postdoctoral research fellow at Princeton University. She has also worked in the public and non-governmental sectors on a range of issues including economic development\, international security policy\, global governance and governance innovations.  \n\n\n\nProfessor Tan’s latest book is Disaggregating China\, Inc: State Strategies in the Liberal Economic Order (Cornell University Press Studies in Political Economy)\, which has been awarded the Peter Katzenstein book prize and the Georgetown Joseph S. Lepgold book prize. Her articles have been published in Comparative Political Studies\, the Review of International Organizations\, International Studies Quarterly\, the China Journal\, Governance\, and Global Policy. Professor Tan’s earlier books include China Experiments: from Local Innovations to National Reform (Brookings Institution Press) and Asia’s Role in Governing Global Health (Routledge).Professor Tan has also written for Foreign Affairs\, Foreign Policy and Bloomberg Opinion. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-economy-lecture-featuring-yeling-tan-chinas-economic-security-growth-model-and-the-us-china-security-dilemma/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S250\, 1730 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:China Economy Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260923T120000
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SUMMARY:Performing Enlightenment: Buddhism and Theater in Early Modern China
DESCRIPTION:Register for zoom webinar\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Mengxiao Wang\, Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures\, University of Southern CaliforniaModerator: Thomas P. Kelly\, Assistant Professor\, East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nIn early modern China\, a major revival of Buddhism coincided with a surging fascination with theater. Buddhist monastics and laypeople increasingly participated in viewing\, discussing\, and writing plays. Far from merely serving as a medium for conveying religious teachings and practices\, drama became a source of deep concern for Buddhists due to the perceived tension between spiritual discipline and worldly entertainment. \n\n\n\nIn Performing Enlightenment\, Mengxiao Wang examines how Buddhist clerics and laity engaged with and drove innovations in theater during the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. Drawing on an extensive range of sources—including clerical sermons\, scriptural commentaries\, temple gazetteers\, morality books\, literati prose\, and dramatic texts and paratexts—Wang argues that Ming-Qing Buddhists resolved the conflict between religion and entertainment by transforming theater into a creative mode of devotional practice. Consequently\, playwriting\, stage performance\, and theatergoing all emerged as legitimate pathways to spiritual enlightenment. This interdisciplinary work provides fresh insights into Chinese studies\, Buddhist studies\, and theater studies while offering a comparative perspective on the complex interplay between religion\, literature\, and performance across cultures.Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_YdUlq3BDRaiOMqGl8fN9iA#/registration \n\n\n\nCo-sponsored by the Harvard-Yenching Insitute and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard University. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/performing-enlightenment-buddhism-and-theater-in-early-modern-china/
LOCATION:Zoom\, Registration Required
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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SUMMARY:Christian Kaps — Charging Fast and Slow: Quantifying the Real-Life Value of EV Charging for Users\, OEMs\, and the Grid
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Christian Kaps\, Assistant Professor of Business Administration\, Technology and Operations Management (TOM) Unit\, Harvard Business School \n\n\n\nManaging electricity demand is critical for lowering the cost of electrified products\, integrating intermittent renewables\, and reducing grid expansion needs. With its often flexible demand\, electric vehicle (EV) charging has long been considered a promising candidate\, yet many managed charging programs have not scaled. We analyze why this is the case and identify several challenges to existing programs\, focusing on two business models: smart electricity consumption (V1G) and demand response (DR). After grounding the analysis in a stylized model\, we leverage a longitudinal dataset of over 20\,000 EVs and 1.5 million charging events across the U.S. to empirically study managed charging. We find that V1G with time-of-use pricing saves EV owners up to $300 annually but increases the utility’s wholesale generation cost\, a misalignment that in 75% of markets cannot be costs-effectively eliminated by paying owners to adjust charge timing. For DR\, the top 10% of customers provide 5.2 times the average vehicle’s value\, and only 9.4% of vehicles can be profitably enrolled. We identify which charging behaviors predict profitable DR customers and how this interacts with utilities’ prices. We further analytically show when V1G and DR may be misaligned\, and show empirically that V1G participation cannibalizes 16-46% of DR returns\, highlighting challenges with stacking value streams. Our findings help EV manufacturers decide which programs to offer\, in which markets\, and which customers to target or behaviors to incentivize. We highlight where utilities and regulators should adjust tariffs to better align EV owners’ incentives with market outcomes. \n\n\n\nClick Here to Register  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/christian-kaps-charging-fast-and-slow-quantifying-the-real-life-value-of-ev-charging-for-users-oems-and-the-grid/
LOCATION:Pierce Hall 100F\, 29 Oxford St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260924T160000
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SUMMARY:Modern China Lecture Series featuring Xiaobo Lü — Domination and Mobilization: The Rise and Fall of Political Parties in China’s Republican Era
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Xiaobo Lü\, Associate Professor\, Department of Political Science\, University of California\, Berkeley \n\n\n\nExamining the miraculous rise of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the surprising downfall of the Kuomintang (KMT) in the early twentieth century\, I reveal that domination and mobilization are key for authoritarian parties to seize state power\, challenging the prevailing wisdom on power-sharing and emphasizing the importance of dominant party leaders for organizational strength and resource mobilization. I argue that the CCP’s mass mobilization infrastructure\, initially seen as a disadvantage before the Sino-Japanese War\, became a powerful asset during the war and led to its victory. The KMT’s elite mobilization infrastructure\, conversely\, was decimated by the war\, and its lack of a strong leader prevented a successful shift in party-building strategy. Party building subsequently played a pivotal role in shaping the successes and failures of resource mobilization for both parties. The book sheds new light on the origins of the CCP and the inner workings of revolutionary parties\, making in a landmark study in Chinese politics.Xiaobo Lü is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of California\, Berkeley. His research explores the relationships between fiscal policies\, party-building\, and state-society relations in authoritarian regimes\, particularly in China. He is particularly interested in the formation and functioning of political parties and institutions in authoritarian regimes across both historical and contemporary contexts. Xiaobo Lü earned his Ph.D. in Political Science from Yale University in 2011. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/modern-china-lecture-series-featuring-xiaobo-lu-domination-and-mobilization-the-rise-and-fall-of-political-parties-in-chinas-republican-era/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Room S050\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:FCCS Modern China,Modern China Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260925T122000
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SUMMARY:Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) at 10: Legal Innovation in Multilateral Development Banks
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Natalie Lichtenstein JD ’78\, AIIB Inaugural General Counsel (retired) \n\n\n\nDiscussant: Alastair Iain Johnston\, The Governor James Albert Noe and Linda Noe Research Professor of China in World Affairs\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nWhen the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) was launched in 2016\, many wondered how this new multilateral development bank (MDB) would be different. China was its leading proponent and continues as its largest shareholder; developing countries in Asia and around the world have substantial stakes\, as does Europe. \n\n\n\nTen years later\, AIIB’s founding lawyer takes a look at AIIB in the context of MDB genealogy. Her new research spans the early 20th century roots of the World Bank Charter\, through the mid-century development of the principal regional MDBs. How does AIIB’s 21st century charter reflect its heritage\, and what new features were added? Concluding reflections will touch on how these features developed in AIIB’s first decade. \n\n\n\nThe talk is based on the newly published second edition of Ms. Lichtenstein’s book\, A Comparative Guide to the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (Oxford University Press\, 2025). \n\n\n\nA light lunch will be provided. Please register here.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/asian-infrastructure-investment-bank-aiib-at-10-legal-innovation-in-multilateral-development-banks/
LOCATION:WCC 3019\, Wasserstein Hall\, 1585 Mass. Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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