New Ph.D.’s who were affiliated with the Fairbank Centerduring their dissertation fieldwork and completion Each year, the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies awards the Desmond and Whitney Shum Fellowship to a […]
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Two faculty members of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies were awarded a Harvard College Professorship for excellence in undergraduate teaching: Karen Thornber, Harry Tuchman Levin Professor in Literature and
Victor Seow, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences, has won the American Academy of Arts and Sciences’ Sarton Prize for the History of Science recognizing “exceptional promise
The Digital China Initiative (DCI) has launched the Digital China Worldwide (DCW) chatbot, a groundbreaking aid for finding digital resources related to Chinese studies. The platform offers a centralized repository and directory of
The Association for Asian Studies (AAS) announced that Xin Wen (Ph.D. ’17), Associate Professor of Premodern Chinese History and Director of Undergraduate Studies at Princeton University, has won the Joseph
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The Fung Library announces its new acquisitions for the Fairbank Center Collection.
For the Spring 2025 semester, the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies is pleased to welcome three new Visiting Scholars who are working on issues related to contemporary China. They will join our Fall 2024
Nicholas Burns, the United States Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China from March 2022 to January 2025, will be rejoining the Harvard Kennedy School faculty in April. Upon his
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The Modern Language Association of America recently awarded its thirty-first annual Modern Language Association Prize for a First Book to two recipients: Miya Qiong Xie (Ph.D. ’17), Associate Professor of Chinese
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On November 18, 2024, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Daniel J. Kritenbrink spoke at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. The seminar,