Health
2021-22 Visiting Scholar, University of California, San Diego
Joan L. and Julius H. Jacobson Professor of Public Health; Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor
Professor of the Practice of Global Health Policy and Economics, Fairbank Center Acting Director 2020-2021
February 16, 2022 @ 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
Speaker: Guobin Yang, Grace Lee Boggs Professor of Communication and Sociology, Annenberg School for Communication and the Department of Sociology, University of PennsylvaniaModerator/discussant: Nara Dillon, Senior Lecturer on Government, Harvard University …
Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Guobin Yang – Listening to the Wuhan Lockdown
Wilt Idema, Professor of Chinese Literature Emeritus at Harvard University, introduces his translation of the Precious Scroll of the Rat Epidemic (鼠溫寶卷 Shuwen baojuan), published in Shanghai in 1911.
Ya-wen Lei examines how Taiwan as a democratic developmental and welfare state managed to contain the outbreak of Coronavirus.
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.
Annemieke van den Dool examines how public health scandals influence China’s laws, and how prepared China is for a new pandemic.
Professor Karen Thornber, author of Ecoambiguity: Environmental Crises and East Asian Literatures (Michigan 2012) and the upcoming Climate Change and Changing Literature, announces the launch of the Fairbank Center’s collaborative project with the Harvard Global Institute in China.