Maria Adele Carrai’s research examines how China’s legal history affects the country’s foreign policy.
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Rujing Huang 黃儒菁 , Ph.D. Candidate in Ethnomusicology at Harvard University, explores the musical roots of “harmony” in Chinese history.
The Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies presents a visual guide to China’s leadership after the “Two Meetings” of March 2018, and the new leaders’ ties to Xi Jinping.
Lu Kou, Ph.D. Candidate at Harvard University, describes how sixth-century diplomats were expected to be apt at verbal confrontation and witty rebuttals to achieve their diplomatic missions.
Steven Goldstein, Director of the Fairbank Center’s Taiwan Studies Workshop, reports back from the group’s recent trip to Taiwan and the Mainland.
Together with a team from AidData and Heidelberg University, Austin M. Strange has been tracking China’s international aid and state financing, which presents a more complex view of Chinese aid than was previously thought.
Ziliang Liu, a Ph.D. Candidate in the History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University, describes his close encounter with a unique Confucius Dressing Mirror once owned by the Marquis of Haihun during his summer research at a Jiangxi archaeological base.
The past year marked an important milestone for the Fairbank Center: the 60th anniversary of its founding as Harvard’s Center for East Asian Research.
Tyler Jost, Ph.D. Candidate in Government at Harvard University and Graduate Student Associate at the Fairbank Center, examines the Trump Administration’s shifting position on U.S.-China relations.
Xiaoqian Hu, a Graduate Student Associate at Harvard’s Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and a S.J.D. Candidate at Harvard Law School, describes how Chinese farmers mitigate conflicts between their livelihoods and the environmental concerns of local governments.