New highlight video clips and other content will be released on our microsite every week.
The Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies has launched a Critical Issues Confronting China microsite featuring full video lectures, short highlight videos translated into Chinese, and additional insights from Harvard scholars and other experts about contemporary China.
The initiative aims to reach a broader audience for the topics covered in the Critical Issues Confronting China lecture series with engaging content for English- and Chinese-speaking audiences. Since it was founded in 2015 by the late Professor Ezra Vogel, Professor Emeritus William Hsiao, and the late scholar William Overholt, the lecture series has featured many of the leading China thinkers talking about the challenges faced by the world’s rising power.
Our microsite has initially launched three “topic” pages—Political Governance, Economy, and International Trade—which feature interviews with Fairbank Center professors in addition to the Critical Issues Confronting China lecture videos, blog posts, and highlight video clips. More pages will be launched in the future and cover other topics, such as society and social tensions, technology and innovation gaps, geopolitical pressures, and the environmental challenges.
The highlight videos appearing on the Political Governance, Economy, and International Trade pages this week excerpt Critical Issues Confronting China lectures given over the last year by Anne Stevenson-Yang (J Capital); Eyck Freymann (Stanford) and Hugo Bromley (Cambridge); Jeremy Daum (Yale); and Suisheng Zhao (University of Denver), as well as excerpts from an interview by Fairbank Center Director Mark Wu with Ambassador Robert E. Lighthizer.
This microsite initiative aims to deepen understanding of China’s complexities and highlight expert analysis of long-term issues and challenges behind the headlines.
Watch our new trailer for the Critical Issues Confronting China project below. And visit our microsite: www.criticalissuesconfrontingchina.com