Modern China Lecture Series featuring Janet Chen – Medium or Message? The Politics of Language in Broadcasting in Taiwan, 1945-1975
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Janet Y. Chen, Professor of Chinese History; Director, East Asian Studies Program, Princeton University At the end of 1975, the KMT government in Taiwan passed the Radio and Television Law, designating Mandarin as the “primary language of broadcasting” and mandating the reduction of dialect. This legislation, which took effect in January 1976, was the […]
China Humanities Seminar featuring Yin Shoufu — The China that Could Have Been: Counterfactual Imagination and Political Thought, 1313/1621
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Shoufu Yin, Assistant Professor of History, University of British Columbia What could China—or the entire world—have been? Starting in the fourteenth century, hundreds of thousands of individuals in present-day China, Korea, and Vietnam were ruminating on this question in their own ways. They began by placing themselves in a moment in Chinese history, composing […]
Jim Suk-Fong (Theodora) – Divine Saving in Greek and Chinese Polytheism
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Jim Suk-Fong (Theodora), Associate Professor, Ancient Greek History, The University of Nottingham; HYI Library Research Scholar, 2024Chair/Discussant: Michael Puett, Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History and Anthropology; Director, Asia Center, Harvard University Contrary to the tendency to study ancient Mediterranean religions in isolation from religions in the Far East, this project brings together […]
Michael C. Davis — Freedom Undone: The Assault on Liberal Values and Institutions in Hong Kong
124 Mount Auburn Street Suite 200N, Ash Center Seminar Room 225 124 Mt. Auburn St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Michael Davis, Global Fellow, Wilson Center; Senior Research Scholar, Weatherhead East Asia Institute; Professor of Law and International Affairs, O.P. Jindal Global University. Discussant: Dennis Kwok, Partner, Elliott Kwok Levine Jaroslaw Neils LLP What happens when liberal constitutional institutions guaranteeing basic freedoms are undone? Can Freedom survive the loss of separation of powers with the […]
Sung Eun Kim – Circumventing the Liberal Order: Protectionism with Chinese Characteristics
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Sung Eun Kim, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and International Relations, Korea University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2024-25Chair/Discussant: Stephen Chaudoin, Assistant Professor, Government, Harvard University This talk will explore how China navigates its position as a rising power within the U.S.-led liberal economic order by employing veiled protectionist measures that align with international rules […]
Digital China Initiative Workshop — Beyond Chatbots: RAG and Agent
Room 202, 61 Kirkland St. 61 Kirkland St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesThis workshop delves deeper into advanced applications of Large Language Models (LLMs) beyond simple chatbot interfaces. Participants will explore how to leverage APIs to connect various tools with LLMs, build private knowledge bases for more accurate and context-specific generation, and utilize agents to expand the capabilities of LLMs in Literay Sinitic Studies. Target Audience: Workshop […]
Urban China Lecture Series featuring Kyle Chan
Presented via ZoomSpeakers: Kyle Chan, Princeton UniversityMore information coming soon. This event series is sponsored by the MIT Sustainable Urbanization Lab, the University of British Columbia’s School of Community and Regional Planning, and the Harvard University Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. Presented via Zoom Meeting.Meeting link: https://mit.zoom.us/j/93343229272 Venue
Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Edward Wong — The Empire Reborn: China’s Expansion and Nationalism Today
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Edward Wong, Diplomatic Correspondent, The New York Times Moderator: Mark C. Elliott, Vice Provost of International Affairs, Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History, Harvard University From the the earliest days of its rule, the Communist Party poured resources into reconstituting the Qing Empire. Edward Wong talks about his father’s role in the military […]
Chang-Min Yu — The Use of the Modern and Taiwanese Film History
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Chang-Min Yu, Assistant Professor, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Taiwan University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2024-25Chair/Discussant: Alexander Zahlten, Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University This talk will address a fundamental issue in the writing of film history: how do we articulate the relationship between modernity/modernization and film history without determination? […]
PRC @ 75 – Film Screening – The Dreamer’s Revisited: Bumming in Beijing (Original Extended Version), featuring an introduction by Eugene Yuejin Wang
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesIntroduction: Eugene Yuejin Wang, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art; Founding Director of Harvard FAS CAMLab, Harvard University. Programmer: Sam Maclean, Communications Manager, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies “I hope I can find a secure place to settle, giving me enough time to create my art freely. That’s not too much to ask, is it?” — painter […]
Digital China Initiative Workshop — Building a Digital Collection with GenAI Tools
Room 202, 61 Kirkland St. 61 Kirkland St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesThis workshop focuses on leveraging GenAI tools to create, manage, and analyze digital collections for Literary Sinitic Studies. Participants will learn basic database concepts, use Nocodb for data storage, and explore how GenAI can assist in scraping, cleaning, and classifying data. The workshop will also cover fundamental analysis techniques for the resulting digital collection. Target […]
China Humanities Seminar featuring Matthias Richter
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Matthias Richter, Associate Professor of Chinese, University of Colorado Boulder More information coming soon. Matthias Richter graduated with a diploma in German and English literature from the University of Jena, then East Germany, in 1985. After working for several years as a private and high school teacher, he studied Sinology, Japanology and Philosophy in […]