Special Series: The People’s Republic of China at 75
Political scientists, historians, journalists, and a diplomat will join a series of panel discussions, talks, and documentary screenings to explore the history of Communist China, from Mao Zedong to Xi Jinping.
Speakers: Joseph Fewsmith, Professor of International Relations and Political Science, Boston University; Elizabeth J. Perry, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government, Harvard University; Anthony Saich, Daewoo Professor of International Affairs; Director, Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia, Harvard University; Yuhua Wang, Professor of Government, Harvard University.
Moderator: Mark Wu, Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law; Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University
Speaker: Yuhua Wang, Professor of Government, Harvard University. Q+A Discussion: Rowena Xiaoqing He, Senior Research Fellow, University of Texas Austin; Author: Tiananmen Exiles: Voices of the Struggles for Democracy in China; and Shi Jian, co-director of Tiananmen.
Speaker: Kevin Rudd, Australia’s Ambassador to the United States and Former Prime Minister of Australia
Moderators: Graham Alison, Douglas Dillon Professor of Government, Harvard University; Mark Wu, Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law; Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University.
Speaker: Edward Wong, New York Times diplomatic correspondent; author: At the Edge of Empire: A Family’s Reckoning With China
Discussant: Mark C. Elliott, Vice Provost for International Affairs; Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History; former Director of the Fairbank Center 2010-2011 (Acting), 2013-2015.
Speaker: Eugene Yuejin Wang, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art; Founding Director of Harvard FAS CAMLab, Harvard University. Q+A Discussion: Dingru Huang, Rumsey Family Junior Professor in the Humanities and the Arts, Department of International Literary and Cultural Studies, Tufts University; former Fairbank Center associate; and Wu Wenguang, director of Bumming in Beijing.
Speaker: Rowena Xiaoqing He, Senior Research Fellow, University of Texas Austin; author of Tiananmen Exiles: Voices of the Struggles for Democracy in China.
