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…
Three Fairbank Center Faculty Reactions to the Third Plenum
On July 18, the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) concluded the Third Plenum of the 20th Party Congress. The Third Plenum traditionally has tackled economic issues, with several past Third Plenums leading to roll outs of major…
From Shanghai to Cambridge and Back Again: Spotlight on Jie Li
Jie Li, Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and Fairbank Center Faculty Affiliate, uses a range of media approaches to teach her undergraduate students at Harvard. Her most popular course, East Asian Cinema, enrolled as many as 170 students…
“Stabilizing Pills” for Chinese private enterprises in the post-pandemic era: Real stimulus or just a placebo?
Han Cheng is a Master’s student in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. All eyes are on the Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China — which begins today in Beijing and…
Summer Reading 2024: Our Community Recommendations
We asked our Visiting Scholars and Visiting Fellows of Practice, Postdoctoral and Predoctoral Fellows, and Graduate Student Associates to offer up their recommended reading for curious minds over the summer break. We gave no more instruction than that — new…
Tiananmen @ 35: Rowena He shares her recollections of Spring 1989
On the 35th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protests, we invited Rowena He (何曉清), a Non-Resident Associate in Research of the Fairbank Center, to share her reflections on the era. Professor He currently serves as a Senior Research Fellow at the…
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….