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 […]
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October 23, 2024 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Speaker: Sheng Liu, Assistant Professor, School of Architecture, Southwest Jiaotong University; Visiting Scholar, Harvard-China Project (SEAS) and Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) Dr. Sheng Liu is currently an Assistant Professor in the
In an article in The Wire China, Winnie Yip, Professor of the Practice of Global Health Policy and Economics, notes that China’s hospitals are incentivized to expand and increase profits. Yip,
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
March 19, 2024 @ 12:20 pm - 1:20 pm
Speaker: Michelle Miao, Associate Professor of Law, Chinese University of Hong Kong; Fellow, Stanford University Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences Michelle Miao is Associate Professor of Law
There is a growing case to be made that, of the world’s major economies, China’s is most heavily exposed to climate risks. This talk—part of the Fairbank Center’s Environment in
2023-24 Hou Family Postdoctoral Fellow in Taiwan Studies; PhD University of California, San Francisco
As soon as travel restrictions were lifted, Prof. Winnie Yip quickly made plans to return to China to resume her dialogue with Chinese scientists, doctors, and health officials. In April, Yip traveled to Yunnan for a meeting of the Tsinghua-Lancet Commission on Health and Poverty Alleviation in China.
Professor Winnie Yip maps out her concerns that China’s slowing economy and ever expanding hospitals will hamper much-needed healthcare reform.
Guanchi Zhang and Changxin Xu argue that gated residential communities are key to understanding both the success and demise of China’s zero-COVID lockdown policies.