by Wai-yee Li, 1879 Professor of Chinese Literature, Harvard University About the book Canvasing a range of materials that include early tales of exemplarity, medieval song lyrics, Ming-Qing poetry and […]
Gender
April 25 @ 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
This year’s Gender Studies Workshop— The Beauty and the Book: Women, Knowledge, Literature, and Book Culture in Late Imperial China and Beyond— will explore new directions in the study of
Karen L. Thornber is Harry Tuchman Levin Professor in Literature and Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, as well as Richard L. Menschel Faculty Director of the Derek Bok
2024-25 Visiting Scholar; Professor of Communication and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Macau
In the Spring 2024 semester, the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies’ Critical Issues Confronting China series hosted a slate of eight leading scholars and journalists. The series probed at a
China is aging, and its birth rates aren’t keeping up. “More and more, young people do not want to have kids or even marry,” said Susan Greenhalgh, John King and
April 19, 2024 @ 9:00 am - 3:15 pm
9:10 AM: Introductory remarks 9:15 AM: Literature Panel Tina Lu, Yale University – “The Family Romance, Chuanqi, and What Can’t Be Said” Maria Sibau, Emory University – “Inventing Mothers in
Regional Studies East Asia (RSEA), Harvard University
Assistant Teaching Professor of Religion and Philosophy, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2023-24 Graduate Student Associate; Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology at Harvard University