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Last fall, the Urban China Lecture Series welcomed sociologist Lik Sam Chan, a Lecturer at the University of Sydney, to discuss his book The Politics of Dating Apps: Gender, Sexuality, and Emergent Publics in Urban China (The MIT Press, 2021). Rather than treating…

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Every summer, the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies supports graduate students as they set off to pursue research interests across the world. The Fairbank Center’s Summer Research Grants are open to students across Harvard’s many graduate schools, helping to broaden the reach of China studies on the…

Jerome A. Cohen, a trailblazer in the study of the modern Chinese legal system who taught as a tenured member of the law faculty at Harvard University from 1964 to 1979, passed away on September 22, 2025. He was 95…

Wilma Cannon Fairbank was already an accomplished artist when she accompanied her fiancé, John King Fairbank, to Beijing in 1935. During the couple’s years in China, its was Wilma’s work as a painter—and the friendships forged with Chinese intellectuals—which opened…