Speaker: Michael J. Hathaway, Professor of Anthropology and Director of the David Lam Center for Asian Studies, Simon Fraser University This talk introduces the second book in an academic trilogy […]
Speaker: Victor Seow, Assistant Professor of the History of Science, Harvard UniversityModerator/discussant: Ling Zhang, Boston College In this session, Victor Seow, Assistant Professor of the History of Science, Harvard University, will
A recent study published by a Harvard-China Project postdoc, Shaojie Song, on the chemistry of fine air particles contributing to severe air pollution episodes in China during winter, shows why we should be concerned about things that we cannot perceive.
This article by Chris P. Nielsen, China Project Executive Director, and Mun S. Ho, China Project Senior Economist, originally appeared in China US Focus on October 12, 2018.
When the combination of a vehicle restriction policy in Beijing and the Chinese superstition about the number 4 led to just such a phenomenon, Harvard-China Project affiliate Professor Jing Cao and her fellow collaborators seized the opportunity to study the health effects of air pollution in Beijing.
Jennifer Lind and Daryl G. Press argue that China is employing strategic logic to improve the country’s energy security.
Elizabeth Lord’s research seeks to understand the relationship between China’s changing environment and the production of environmental knowledge.
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.
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.
Ian Teh explains how otherworldly scenes of the Chinese industrial hinterland inspire his photographs, and tell a story of environmental exploitation and material desires.
