Remembering Steven M. Goldstein: Taiwan Studies leader, nurturing mentor, friend of the Fairbank Center
Steven M. Goldstein, longtime Associate of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and Director of the Taiwan Studies Workshop, died on Monday, February 10, 2025, at age 84. Steve taught at Smith College as the Sophia Smith Professor of Government…
Heritage Matters: Post-demolition urban redevelopment in China
A Q+A with Anthropologist Philipp Demgenskiand Urban China Seminar co-organizer Li Hou Philipp Demgenski, Assistant Professor in Anthropology in the Department of Sociology at Zhejiang University. Philipp Demgenski, Assistant Professor in Anthropology in the Department of Sociology at Zhejiang University,…
Faculty Spotlight: To Karen Thornber, literature is a vital force in fighting the world’s greatest challenges
Karen L. Thornber is Harry Tuchman Levin Professor in Literature and Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, as well as Richard L. Menschel Faculty Director of the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning at Harvard University. She is…
Meet Our Fellows 2024-25: Jason Chan
We continue our series of Q+As introducing you to the Fairbank Center’s new Fellows with Jason Chan, whose research is being supported by a 2024-25 Desmond and Whitney Shum Fellowship. Jason is a Ph.D. candidate in modern Chinese history at…
Transforming the Work of Literary Sinitic Studies Through Generative AI: A Q+A with the Digital China Initiative’s Kwok-leong Tang
For the great majority of Fridays during this Fall semester, the Digital China Initiative—which studies the impact of digital technologies in the field of China Studies—is offering workshops on Generative AI for Literary Sinitic Studies. Two sessions from the initial…
Support for a New Generation of China Scholars: Spotlight on Yuhua Wang
In 2020, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Yuhua Wang, Professor of Government at Harvard University, and a group of other leading scholars of Chinese politics saw a pressing need: traditional opportunities to attend conferences and receive feedback had been…
Meet Our Fellows 2024-25: Sarah Plovnick
Last week, it was our pleasure to introduce you to Hardy Stewart, the Fairbank Center’s new Hou Family Pre-Doctoral Fellow in Taiwan Studies. We are now happy to introduce you to Sarah Plovnick, our Hou Family Postdoctoral Fellow. Her dissertation, titled “Listening Through the…
Meet Our 2024-25 Fellows: Hardy Stewart
Following profiles on our two An Wang Fellows earlier this month, Shengqiao Lin and David Qihang Wu, we are happy to introduce you to our new Hou Family Fellows in Taiwan Studies. Hardy Stewart is a Ph.D. Candidate in Chinese Language at the University of California, Berkeley, where…
Meet Our 2024-25 Fellows: David Qihang Wu
Earlier this summer, we announced the recipients of our 2024-25 An Wang and Hou Family fellowships. Now, we would like our community to get to know these special scholars a bit better. Like Shengqiao Lin, whose Q&A we published yesterday, David Qihang Wu is a…
Meet Our 2024-25 Fellows: Shengqiao Lin
Earlier this summer, we announced the recipients of our 2024-25 An Wang and Hou Family fellowships. Now, we would like our community to get to know these special scholars a bit better. First, meet Shengqiao Lin, one of our new An Wang Postdoctoral…