A museum of Tang Dynasty stelae in Xian shows how post-Tang scholars rewrote history, choosing to focus on traditional Confucian values.
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In an indepth Q&A with The Wire’s Kristina Northrup, Meg Rithmire, F. Warren McFarlan Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, talks about China’s real estate bubble; if China …
March 7 @ 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Speakers:Jill Lepore, David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History and Affiliate Professor of Law, Harvard University; Staff Writer, The New YorkerWen YU, Visiting Assistant Professor of History, Boston College …
The Stories We Tell: The Politics of History in China and the United States
April 4 @ 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Adrian Zenz – Xinjiang Update: What New Documents Tell Us About Beijing’s Evolving Internment Policy
Speaker: Adrian Zenz, Senior Fellow and Director in China Studies, Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation Since the start of Beijing’s campaign of interning Uyghurs and other ethnic groups in its …
Adrian Zenz – Xinjiang Update: What New Documents Tell Us About Beijing’s Evolving Internment Policy
Editors: Nancy Hearst and Joseph Fewsmith The series, Mao’s Road to Power, consisting of translations of Mao Zedong’s writings from 1912 to 1949, provides abundant documentation in his own words on …
October 17, 2022 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Speaker: Toby Lincoln, Associate Professor of Chinese Urban History, Centre for Urban History, University of Leicester. This paper explores urban reconstruction in China after WWII, and argues that this was …
November 3, 2022 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Speaker: Taisu Zhang, Professor of Law and History, Yale University How states develop the capacity to tax is a question of fundamental importance to political science, legal theory, economics, sociology, …
November 29, 2022 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Speaker: Linh Vu, Assistant Professor, Arizona State University This talk focuses on (1) the politics of martyr commemoration in Republican China (1911–1949) and (2) the governance of the posthumous identities of …
November 17, 2022 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Speaker: Benno Weiner, Associate Professor, Carnegie Mellon University Through much of the 1950s, the Chinese Communist Party considered disunity between ethnocultural groups (minzu)primarilyto be a product of “great nationality chauvinism,” …
September 20, 2022 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Speakers:Tarun Khanna, Jorge Paolo Lemann Professor at Harvard Business School; Faculty Director of the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute, Harvard University Michael Szonyi, Frank Wen-Hsiung Wu Memorial Professor …
Panel Discussion – Making Meritocracy: Lessons from China and India, from Antiquity to the Present