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PRC @ 75 Series – Symposium: The People’s Republic of China at 75

CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United States

Speakers: Joseph Fewsmith, Professor of International Relations, Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston UniversityElizabeth Perry, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government, Harvard UniversityAnthony Saich, Director, Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia; Daewoo Professor of International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy SchoolYuhua Wang, Professor of Government, Harvard University Moderator:Mark Wu, Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies; Henry L. Stimson Professor of […]

PRC @ 75 Series – Film Screening – Remembering the 1980s: The Documentary Series Tiananmen, featuring an introduction by Yuhua Wang & Q+A with Rowena Xiaoqing He and Shi Jian

CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United States

Introduction: Yuhua Wang, Professor of Government, Harvard UniversityQ+A Discussion: Rowena Xiaoqing He, Senior Research Fellow, University of Texas Austin; author of Tiananmen Exiles: Voices of the Struggle for Democracy in ChinaProgrammer: Sam Maclean, Communications Manager, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Followed by a Zoom Q+A with filmmaker Shi Jian, co-director of Tiananmen The eight-part documentary series Tiananmen, about life […]

PRC @ 75 Series — Bao Pu — An Insider’s View of Mao’s Reign: The Life of Bao Tong, Communist Reformer

CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United States

Speaker: Bao Pu, Founder, New Century Press, Hong Kong Discussant: Michael Puett, Director, Harvard University Asia Center; Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History and Anthropology, Harvard University  Mao Zedong’s 26-year reign profoundly shaped the People's Republic of China. And yet while there have been numerous social, political, and economic analyses of the PRC, the […]

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 States

Speaker: 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 […]

PRC @ 75 – Film Screening – The Dreamers Revisited: Bumming in Beijing (Original Extended Version), featuring an introduction by Eugene Yuejin Wang & Q+A with Wu Wenguang and Dingru Huang

CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United States

Introduction: Eugene Yuejin Wang, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art; Founding Director of Harvard FAS CAMLab, Harvard University.
Q+A Discussion: Dingru Huang, Rumsey Family Junior Professor in the Humanities and the Arts, Department of International Literary and Cultural Studies, Tufts University; former Fairbank Center associateProgrammer: Sam Maclean, Communications Manager, Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesFollowed by a Zoom Q+A […]

PRC @ 75 – Memory as Resistance: From Tiananmen to Hong Kong featuring Rowena Xiaoqing He

Hall A, Science Center 1 Oxford St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Speaker: Rowena Xiaoqing He (何曉清), Senior Research Fellow, University of Texas Austin; author, Tiananmen Exiles: Voices of the Struggle for Democracy in ChinaDiscussant: Anthony Saich, Daewoo Professor of International Affairs; Director, Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia, Harvard Kennedy School This talk is grounded in over two decades of fieldwork on the preservation of historical memory […]