The Digital China Initiative welcomes applications for a two-week in-person workshop on methods of digital scholarship
Introducing Harvard’s leading Digital China project.
This book explains how China’s farm economy historically responded to the demands of a rising population.
Author: Lawrence C. Reardon
About the Book
From 1949 to 1978, communist elites held clashing visions of China’s economic development. Mao Zedong advocated the “first way” of semi-autarchy characteristic of revolutionary Stalinism (1929–34), while Zhou Enlai adapted bureaucratic Stalinism (1934–53) to promote …
The dramatic growth of ethno-nationalism in China and India is a driving force behind their current border tensions.
Ya-wen Lei examines how Taiwan as a democratic developmental and welfare state managed to contain the outbreak of Coronavirus.
A new photography exhibition at Harvard University depicts everyday life in Xinjiang, China’s westernmost region.
A catalogue of online China Studies events from around the world
In spring 2020, as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, China Studies around the world moved online. One unanticipated consequence of this unfortunate situation is that it is now possible …
Jennifer Altehenger asks how the early People’s Republic of China popularized basic legal knowledge
About the book
The popularization of basic legal knowledge is an important and contested technique of state governance in China today. Its roots reach back to the early …
World-first Exhibition at Harvard displays “big character posters” from China’s Cultural Revolution
Fifty years ago, China entered one of the darkest phases of its modern history, the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, a period of terrible violence that scarred a generation of …