David Porter, Fairbank Center Graduate Student Associate, asks how two Russian men ended up in a Qing banner garrison in Guangdong in 1778, and their daring escape plan to return to Russia.
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Donald Sturgeon (2015-2017 An Wang Postdoctoral Fellow) explains how to build a digital humanities course. Digital methods have revolutionized many fields of study, not only by offering more efficient ways
Andrew S. Erickson, professor at the U.S. Naval War College’s China Maritime Studies Institute (CMSI) and Fairbank Center Associate in Research, outlines China’s evolving maritime security forces.
The U.S. is losing global leadership. China has a vision of leadership but it is unclear whether it can fulfill that vision.
Graham James Chamness, Ph.D. candidate in East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University and Fairbank Center Graduate Student Associate, examines Confucian ideas of friendship in China’s pre-modern past.
Ian MacCormack explains how replicas of Tibet’s world-famous Potala Palace exemplify Buddhist understandings of what it means to be an “original” or a “copy,” and how one of these copies nearly became the Harvard-Yenching Institute.
Jannis Jizhou Chen presents a short story inspired by his summer trip to Berlin, funded by the Fairbank Center’s Summer Grant.
Jane Zhang, MDes ’17 in Urbanism, Landscape, Ecology candidate at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, explores how food and changing tastes impact landscape in China’s Zhejiang Province.