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Critical Issues Confronting China Series, Spring 2024 Semester: Economy, Identity, Policy, and More
In the Spring 2024 semester, the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies’ Critical Issues Confronting China series hosted a slate of eight leading scholars and journalists. The series probed at a wide range of political, economic, and sociocultural subjects: China’s extensive…
A Crackdown Comes for Healthcare: Winnie Yip in The Wire China
In an article in The Wire China, Winnie Yip, Professor of the Practice of Global Health Policy and Economics, notes that China’s hospitals are incentivized to expand and increase profits. Yip, who recently traveled across China with a grant from the…
Ya-Wen Lei Wins Bronze in 2024 Axiom Business Book Awards
Ya-Wen Lei, Professor of Sociology and Faculty Affiliate at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, was awarded the 2024 Bronze metal in Axiom Business Book Awards’ International Business / Globalization category for The Gilded Cage: Technology, Development, and State Capitalism in China (Princeton…
Faculty Spotlight
This month (April 12 – 13), Thomas Kelly, Assistant Professor of Pre-Modern Chinese Literature at Harvard University, convened a two-day workshop, Thinking Through Performance in China, gathering together leading scholars of Chinese performance theory from around the world to look at how theatergoers experienced plays during the Ming Dynasty.
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Let Pre-modern China and Theater Sing: Spotlight on Thomas Kelly
It was Peony Pavilion — the masterpiece of Ming Dynasty opera, written by Tang Xianzu more than 400 years ago — that made Thomas Kelly, Assistant Professor of Pre-Modern Chinese Literature at Harvard University, fall in love with Chinese drama….
When China’s Navy Chief Came to Harvard: In Another Time, Admiral Wu Shengli Sought the Academic Gold Standard
Andrew S. Erickson is Visiting Professor, Government Department, Harvard University; Professor of Strategy, U.S. Naval War College (NWC) China Maritime Studies Institute (CMSI); and Fairbank Center Associate in Research. The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and…
China’s New Military Commanders Reflect Xi Jinping’s Naval Ambitions
Andrew S. Erickson is Visiting Professor, Government Department, Harvard University; Professor of Strategy, U.S. Naval War College (NWC) China Maritime Studies Institute (CMSI); and Fairbank Center Associate in Research. The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and…
A Scholar’s Journey Through Rural China’s History: Michael Szonyi reflects on his first trip back to China in four years
Cross-posted from the Harvard China Fund. Michael A. Szonyi is the Frank Wen-Hsiung Wu Memorial Professor of Chinese History at Harvard University. I arrived in China in August 2023 after an almost four-year absence, the longest in my professional career…
Taiwan Elections 2024 Recap: Democracy prevailed, and now the DPP has work to do
Fairbank Center experts weigh in: Michael A. Szonyi, Frank Wen-Hsiung Wu Memorial Professor of Chinese History, Harvard University; Steven M. Goldstein, Director, Taiwan Studies Workshop, Harvard University; Ya-Wen Lei, Professor of Sociology, Harvard University; Wei-Ting Yen, Assistant Professor of Government,…
Digital China
Digital China is a new initiative promoting the adoption of digital tools and practices in Chinese studies.