Last fall, the Urban China Lecture Series welcomed sociologist Lik Sam Chan, a Lecturer at the University of Sydney, to discuss his book The Politics of Dating Apps: Gender, Sexuality, and Emergent Publics […]
Sociology
Following a recent talk co-presented by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation, we asked two of its featured speakers—Yun Fu, Professor at the Harvard Graduate
November 21, 2025 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Speaker: Chuncheng Liu, Assistant Professor of Communication Studies, Northeastern University Numbers have become the universal language of modern governance. What happens when an authoritarian state attempts to quantify the moral
If you’ve ever strolled through a public square in a Chinese city, chances are you’ve encountered the vibrant, music-filled gatherings of the so-called “dancing grannies” (广场舞大妈). But what lies behind
April 2, 2025 @ 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm
Speaker: Feng Wang, Professor, Sociology, UC IrvineDiscussant: Xiang Zhou, Professor of Sociology, Harvard University China’s spectacular economic growth of the past four decades is a happy outcome of numerous historical
Profiling Recipients of Summer Research Grantsfrom the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies This summer, Harvard Graduate School of Design student Robin Albrecht spent two weeks traveling the Taiwan countryside with
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.
Zak Dychtwald argues that China’s youth, accustomed to rapid change and rising prosperity, are looking for freedom from society’s expectations.
On March 7, 2023, the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies convened the first Big Questions Forum with a panel of experts to explore “The Stories We Tell: The Politics of History in the United States and China.”
Urban experts convened to examine social, political and economic issues around China’s rapidly growing cities