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 […]
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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.
Harvard University’s Michael Szonyi writes in Foreign Policy that reforms must go further than replacing one misguided policy with another.