On the 35th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protests, we invited Rowena He (何曉清), a Non-Resident Associate in Research of the Fairbank Center, to share her reflections on the era. Professor […]
History
May 7, 2024 @ 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm
Qin Hui, public intellectual and historian, will give a talk on Tuesday, May 7, titled “启蒙的异化：五四再反思,” “Alienation of Enlightenment: Rethinking the May 4 Movement.” Professor Yuhua Wang, Professor of Government,
April 22, 2024 @ 4:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Introduction: Carma Hinton, Art historian and Documentary Filmmaker; Robinson Professor of Visual Culture and Chinese Studies, George Mason University (retired) “In The Gate of Heavenly Peace (the literal translation of the
April 23, 2024 @ 4:30 pm - 5:45 pm
Speakers:Dorinda Elliott, Newsweek, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Seth Faison, South China Morning Press, Brunswick Group China Hub Orville Schell, New York Review of Books, Asia Society Center on U.S.-China Relations Katherine Wilhelm, Associated Press, NYU
It was Peony Pavilion — the masterpiece of Ming Dynasty opera, written by Tang Xianzu more than 400 years ago — that made Thomas Kelly, Assistant Professor of Pre-Modern Chinese
April 3, 2024 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Speaker: Uluğ Kuzuoğlu, Assistant Professor of History, Washington University in St. Louis In the late nineteenth century, Chinese reformers and revolutionaries believed that there was something fundamentally wrong with the
Cross-posted from the Harvard China Fund. Michael A. Szonyi is the Frank Wen-Hsiung Wu Memorial Professor of Chinese History at Harvard University. I arrived in China in August 2023 after
Merle Goldman, a huge figure in the field of contemporary Chinese intellectual history who for decades was a central figure at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, died on November 16 at the age of 92.
In late October and November, as part of the initiatives by the Harvard China Fund and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies to reengage activities in China, the China Biographical
In a special talk with Confucian expert Daniel A. Bell, three scholars consider the evolving role of Confucianism in China During the Cultural Revolution, Chairman Mao and his Red Guards