Events Series
Critical Issues Confronting China Series
We are tremendously grateful to Mr. Lee Folger for generously supporting this event series since its inception in fall of 2013.
Critical Issues Confronting China is a weekly seminar series that was inaugurated in the fall of 2013. It is organized by opens in a new windowProfessor Ezra F. Vogel, opens in a new windowProfessor William Hsiao, and opens in a new windowDr. William Overholt and co-sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. The purpose of the series is to consider the complex issues China is presently facing and to view them in a comprehensive manner, including political, economic, and social perspectives. In addition, invited speakers will examine the issues in a broader cultural and historical setting and look at the range of choices Chinese leaders might make to respond to the challenges and opportunities they confront.
Spring 2020
China's Air Quality and Climate Change: The Known and the Unknown
May 13, 2020
Speaker: Chris Nielsen, Harvard China Project
Can Sino-Russian Territorial Dispute Settlement be an Example for Russia and Japan?
May 6, 2020
Speaker: Alexander Lukin and Olga Puzanova, Higher School of Economics, Moscow
China and the Global Commons: Antarctica, the High Seas, and Outer Space
April 29, 2020
Speaker: Carla Freeman, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced Studies
Beyond Espionage: IP Theft, Talent Programs, and Cyber Conflict with China
April 22, 2020
Speaker: James Mulvenon, SOSi Intelligence Solutions Group
China-U.S.: The New Game
April 15, 2020
Speaker: William Overholt, Harvard Kennedy School of Government
Among Great Powers: Sino-Russian Relations in Recent Years
March 4, 2020
Speaker: David Wolff, Hokkaido University
Lessons from China: The World's Largest Education System
February 26, 2020
Speaker: Lenora Chu, Christian Science Monitor
What's Communist about the Communist Party of China?
February 19, 2020
Speaker: Jude Blanchette, Center for Strategic and International Studies
Super Continent: BRI and the Emergence of an integrated Eurasia
February 12, 2020
Speaker: Kent Calder, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced Studies
Fall 2019
North Korea's Social-Economic Development and China's North Korea Policy
December 4, 2019
Speaker: Jiyong Zheng, Fudan University
Tales from Two Chinese Cities: Resistance in the 2019 Year of Anniversaries
November 20, 2019
Speaker: Geremie Barmé, China Heritage
On the Trail of Xi Jinping: A New York Times Correspondent on Reporting in China
November 13, 2019
Speaker: Jane Perlez, The New York Times
Revisiting China's Social Volcano: Attitudes toward Inequality and Political Trust
November 6, 2019
Speaker: Ya-Wen Lei, Harvard University
China's Secret World of Shadow Banking
October 30, 2019
Speaker: Lucy Hornby, Harvard University
Taiwan's Tumultuous "Normal Election"
October 23, 2019
Speaker: Shelley Rigger, Davidson College
The Greater Bay Area, Regional Integration, and the Future of China
October 16, 2019
Speaker: Michael Enright, University of Hong Kong
Hard-won Confucian: Encountering China 1971-2019
October 9, 2019
Speaker: John Holden, McLarty Associates
Trump's Trade War and Sino-Hollywood Negotiation
October 2, 2019
Speaker: Ying Zhu, City University of New York, College of Staten Island
Is China Ready for "Strategic Competition" with the U.S.?
September 25, 2019
Speaker: Arthur Kroeber, Dragonomics
Rebranding China International Affairs
September 18, 2019
Speaker: Xiaoyu Pu, University of Nevada, Reno
Pier Competitor: China's Global Port Expansion
September 11, 2019
Speaker: Isaac Kardon, U.S. Naval War College
Spring 2019
opens in a new windowTrump as China's Friend?
May 8, 2019
Speaker: Henny Sender, Financial Times
opens in a new windowWhy Law Matters in Taiwan
May 1, 2019
Speaker: Margaret K. Lewis, Seton Hall University School of Law
opens in a new windowChina and Europe: Potential Partners of Systemic Rivals?
April 24, 2019
Speaker: Philippe Le Corre, Harvard Kennedy School
opens in a new windowThe Military Dimension of Sino-American Strategic Competition
April 17, 2019
Speaker: Karl Eikenberry, Stanford University
opens in a new windowManaging Local Cadres
April 10, 2019
Speaker: Jessica Teets, Middlebury College
opens in a new windowXi Jinping's Anticorruption Campaign
April 3, 2019
Speaker: Melanie Manion, Duke University
opens in a new windowChina's Middle Class Families: Catching up with the West
March 27, 2019
Speaker: Terry Sicular, Western University
opens in a new windowThe State Strikes Back: The End of Economic Reform in China?
March 13, 2019
Speaker: Nicholas Lardy, Peterson Institute for International Economics
opens in a new windowTechnological Innovation: Exploring Chinese Models
March 6, 2019
Speaker: Yu Zhou, Vasser College
opens in a new windowChina's Pursuit of Soft Power in the Era of Donald Trump and Xi Jinping
February 27, 2019
Speaker: Stanley Rosen, University of Southern California
opens in a new windowWho will Lead? China and the World of Universities in the 21st Century
February 20, 2019
Speaker: William Kirby, Harvard Business School
opens in a new windowFeeding the Poor: Food and Welfare in the PRC
February 13, 2019
Speaker: Nara Dillon, Harvard University
opens in a new windowThe Rise of the Chinese Navy: What it means for East Asia and the United States
February 6, 2019
Speaker: Robert Ross, Boston College
Fall 2018
opens in a new windowA Few Questions As We Barrel Toward the Brink: Has the United States Thought Through its Competition with China?
December 12, 2018
Speaker: Robert Daly, Director, Wilson Center’s Kissinger Institute on China and the United States
opens in a new windowLiving with the U.S.: What Would Fairbank Advise?
December 5, 2018
Speaker: Paul Evans, University of British Columbia
opens in a new windowTHE POWER OF CHINA’S BUREAUCRACY: THROUGH THE HEALTH SECTOR LENS
November 28, 2018
Speaker: William Hsiao, K.T. Li Research Professor of Economics in Department of Health Policy and Management and Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard University T.H. Chan School of Public Health
opens in a new windowA NEW ERA IN US-CHINA RELATIONS: MALICIOUS COEXISTENCE AMIDST A PHONY PEACE?
November 14, 2018
Speaker: Amb. Chas W. Freeman, Jr., Chair, Projects International, Inc.
opens in a new windowTRADE WAR AND CHINA’S NEW PHASE OF DEVELOPMENT
November 7, 2018
Speaker: Fan Gang, professor at the Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) and at the Peking University HSBC Business School, as well as the director of China’s National Economic Research Institute (NERI).
opens in a new windowCORPORATE GOVERNANCE WITH CHINESE CHARACTERISTICS
October 31, 2018
Speaker: Jeffrey R. Williams, Harvard Kennedy School
opens in a new windowCONSUMING BELIEF: HAN CHINESE PRACTITIONERS OF TIBETAN BUDDHISM IN THE PRC
October 24, 2018
Speaker: John Osburg, University of Rochester
opens in a new windowMYTHS IN SINO-AMERICAN RELATIONS
October 17, 2018
Speaker: William Overholt, President, Fung Global Institute; Senior Research Fellow Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
opens in a new windowEXTERNALIZING FRAGMENTED AUTHORITARIANISM: USING HISTORY TO ANTICIPATE CHALLENGES FOR BELT AND ROAD
October 10, 2018
Speaker: Andrew Mertha, George and Sadie Hyman Professor and Director of China Studies at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University
opens in a new windowXI’S POLICY CHALLENGES: SOME QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION
October 3, 2018
Speaker: Tony Saich, Harvard Kennedy School
opens in a new windowIS CHINA READY FOR THE INTERNATIONAL MAJOR LEAGUES?”
September 26, 2018
Speaker: Ambassador Frank Lavin, CEO of Export Now
opens in a new windowTHE FEMINIST AWAKENING IN CHINA
September 19, 2018
Speaker: Leta Hong Fincher, Author
opens in a new windowBUSINESS AND THE STATE
September 12, 2018
Speaker: David Barboza, The New York Times
2013-2018
From 2013-2017 the Critical Issues Confronting China series was run by the opens in a new windowHarvard University Asia Center. Below are the series summaries, published each year by the Asia Center.
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Modern China History Series
Focusing on the post-1949 history of China, scholars present their latest research on a range of historical topics. Organized by opens in a new windowProfessor Arunabh Ghosh.
Spring 2019
Vast Ocean, Small People: The Aborigines of Taiwan
May 7, 2019
Speaker: Wen-hsin Yeh, University of California at Berkeley
Chinese Trade Wars in Historical Perspective— No Great Wall: Trade, Tariffs, and Nationalism in Republican China, 1927-1945
April 23, 2019
Speaker: Felix Boecking, University of Edinburgh
Navigating Semi-Colonialism: Shipping, Sovereignty, and Nation-Building in China 1860-1937
March 26, 2019
Speaker: Anne Reinhardt, Williams College
Transnational Science in Modern China: From May Fourth to the Cold War and Beyond
February 13, 2019
Speaker: Zuoyue Wang, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Fall 2018
New Exhibitions and China’s Cultural Revolution: Rethinking Class, Material, Culture, and Propaganda
November 13, 2018
Speaker: Denise Ho, Yale University
India, China, and the World: A Connected History
October 2, 2018
Speaker: Tansen Sen, New York University Shanghai
Liberation through Labor? The Urban Commune Experiment in Beijing
September 26, 2018
Speaker: Fabio Lanza, University of Arizona
The End of Concern: Maoist China, Activism, and Asian Studies
September 25, 2018
Speakers: Fabio Lanza, University of Arizona; Ellen Schrecker, Yeshiva University; Andrew Gordon, Harvard University; Joseph Esherick, University of California San Diego; Sugata Bose, Harvard University; Lien-Hang Nguyen, Columbia University; Bruce Cumings, University of Chicago
A History of Legal Lessons: Law, Propaganda, and the State in Socialist China
September 11, 2018
Speaker: Jennifer Altehenger, King's College London
Spring 2017
Can Computation Change the Study of Chinese Culture and History?
May 8, 2017
Speaker: Richard Jean So, University of Chicago
Ryōdōraku (良導絡) in New China: Sino-Japanese Medical Exchange in the 1950s and the Role of Machines in East Asian Medical Modernity
April 18, 2017
Speaker: Ruth Rogaski, Vanderbilt University
Governing the Souls of Chinese Modernity
April 10, 2017
Speaker: Andrew Kipnis, The Australian National University
The Significance of the Frontier in Twentieth Century Chinese History
March 21, 2017
Speaker: Shellen Wu, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Doubts About the Chinese Current of “Doubting Antiquity” and its Critics
March 7, 2017
Speaker: Rudolf G. Wagner, Fairbank Center Associate at Harvard University, and Cluster Asia and Europe Associate at Heidelberg University, Germany
Collecting and Using Diaries and the Writing of PRC History
February 14, 2017
Speaker: Fan Shitao, Beijing Normal University
Fall 2016
The First World War and the Idea of “China”
November 16, 2016
Speaker: Xu Guoqi, University of Hong Kong
Varieties of Chinese Utopianism, 1900-1940
October 20, 2016
Speaker: Peter Zarrow, University of Connecticut
China Economy Series
This new lecture series aims to further the Fairbank Center community’s understanding of key influences in contemporary Chinese economics and business. Organized by opens in a new windowProfessor Meg Rithmire.
Fall 2019
US-China Trade Negotiations: No Perpetual Friends or Enemies, Only Perpetual Interests
September 11, 2019
Speaker: Craig Allen, President of US-China Business Council
Spring 2019
Rural Secondary Education During the Cultural Revolution: The Untold Story
April 22, 2019
Speaker: Terry Sicular, The University of Western Ontario
The Future of US-China Technology Competition
April 4, 2019
Speaker: Adam Segal, Council of Foreign Relations
The State Strikes Back: The End of Economic Reform in China?
March 13, 2019
Speaker: Nicholas Lardy, Peterson Institute for International Economics
Chinese Investment: State-Owned Enterprises Stop Globalizing, for the Moment
February 19, 2019
Speaker: Derek Scissors, American Enterprise Institute
Fall 2018
40 Years of Economic Reform and Opening: Achievements and Challenges
November 8, 2018
Speakers: Li Shi, Beijing Normal University; Tao Ran, Renmin University of China; Qin Qianhong, Wuhan University
Trade War and China’s New Phase of Development
November 7, 2018
Speaker: Fan Gang, Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the Peking University HSBC Business School
40 Years of Opening and Reform: A Comprehensive View – Politics, Law, Thought, Culture, Society
November 5, 2018
Speakers: Ren Jiantao, Tsinghua University; He Weifang, Peking University; Xiao Gongqin, Shanghai Normal University; Rong Jian, Independent Scholar
Corporate Governance with Chinese Characteristics
October 31, 2018
Speaker: Jeffrey R. Williams, Harvard Kennedy School
Is China Ready for the International Major Leagues?
September 26, 2018
Speaker: Frank Lavin, CEO of Export Now
Spring 2018
opens in a new windowPROTECTIVE UMBRELLA: HOW FACTIONAL TIES ATTENUATED THE IMPACT OF AN ANTI-CORRUPTION CAMPAIGN IN CHINA
April 24, 2018
Speaker: Victor Shih, University of California San Diego
opens in a new windowCHINA’S GREAT GAMBLE
March 29, 2018
Speaker: Barry Naughton, University of California San Diego
Fall 2017
opens in a new windowChina's Venture Capital Industry: Examining its Role in Funding Start-Ups
December 12, 2017
Speaker: Yasheng Huang, International Program Professor in Chinese Economy and Business and Professor of Global Economics and Management, MIT Sloan School of Management
Gender Studies Workshop
China scholars in various disciplines and time periods examine the significance of gender in social, cultural, economic, and political contexts. Organized by Center Associate, opens in a new windowProfessor Ellen Widmer, Wellesley College.
Spring 2020
GENDER AND PERFORMANCE
April 24, 2020
Spring 2019
IMAGES, OBJECTS, AND GENDER IN CHINA
April 26, 2019
12:45-1 p.m. Welcoming remarks
First Panel
Moderator: Catherine Vance Yeh
1-1:30p.m. Jeehee Hong, “ ‘Gender’ and Affect in Song Faces”
1:30-2p.m. Mao Wen-Fang, “The Object and the Beauty in Painting: the Metaphorical Viewing and Lyrical Interpretations of Portrait Texts in the Modes of ‘San hao三好’ (three good things) and ‘Lang yu li郎與麗’ (gentleman and beauty) of Ming-Qing Times”
2-2:30p.m. Daisy Yiyou Wang, “Portraying Chinese Women: Gender and Ethnicity in Nineteenth-Century Photography”
2:30-3p.m. Discussion
3-3:30p.m. Break
Second Panel
Moderator: Wai-yee Li
3:30-4p.m. Man Xu, “ Sedan Chairs, Carriages, and Veils: Women’s Use of Vehicles in the Song Dynasty”
4-4:30p.m. Judith T. Zeitlin, “Pipa vs Qin: Contesting the Gender of Musical Instruments in Seventeenth-Century China”
4:30-5p.m. Yulian Wu, “Jade Thumb Ring: Object, Skill, and Manchu Masculinity in Eighteenth-Century China”
5-5:30p.m. Discussion
Spring 2018
GENDER AND FRIENDSHIP IN CHINA
May 4, 2018
First Panel:
Moderator: Wai-yee Li, Harvard University
Zhou Yiqun, Stanford University
Hu Ying, University of California Irvine
Ellen Widmer, Wellesley College
Second Panel:
Moderator: Xu Man, Tufts University
Haiyan Lee, Stanford University
Catherine Vance Yeh, Boston University
Eileen Chow, Duke University
The Birth of Chinese Feminism
Rebecca E. Karl, New York University
Dorothy Ko, Barnard College
Lydia H. Liu, Columbia University
Ellen Rooney, Brown University
Ellen Widmer, Wellesley College
Rice Queens, Snakeheads, and Green Cards: HIV and Gay Male Subjectivity in NYC Chinatowns
Katherine A. Mason, Brown University
Gender and Hybridity: Shanghai Eurasians in the 1920s and 1930s
Emma Teng, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Political Reform as National Pastime: Staging Peking Opera’s New Tragic Heroines
Catherine Yeh, Boston University
Wai-yee Li, Harvard University
Spring 2017
WOMEN AND FRIENDSHIP IN DYNASTIC CHINA
April 28, 2017
Participants:
Beverly Bossler, University of California, Davis
Ron Egan, Stanford University
Grace Fong, McGill University
Eileen Chow, Duke University
Maram Epstein, University of Oregon
Xu Man, Tufts University
Organized by:
Wai Yee Li, Harvard University
Ellen Widmer, Wellesley College
AGENDA
12:45-1:00 p.m. Welcoming remarks
First Panel
Chair: Wai-yee Li
Discussant: Xu Man
1:00-1:30 p.m. Beverly Bossler, “Terms of Endearment: Expressions of Love and Affection in Song China”
1:30-2:00 p.m. Ronald Egan, “Friendship in Li Qingzhao’s Writings”
2:00-2:30 p.m. Ellen Widmer, “A Friend and a Patron: Hu Zixia’s Contribution to the Life and Work of Wang Duanshu”
2:30-3:00 p.m. Discussion
3:00-3:30 p.m. Break
Second Panel
Chair: Ellen Widmer
Discussant: Eileen Chow
3:30-4:00 p.m. Grace Fong, “In the Absence of Discourse: Articulations of Female Friendship in Late Imperial China”
4:00-4:30 p.m. Maram Epstein, “Women’s Routes to Personhood in Nineteenth Century Chinese Fiction: Friendship, Filial Piety, and Daoist Transcendence”
4:30-5:00 p.m. Wai-yee Li, “Friendship in the World of Late Ming Courtesans”
5:00-5:30 p.m. Discussion
China Humanities Seminar
This seminar series addresses Chinese literature, history, philosophy, religion, art history, and the performing arts. Organized by Professors Waiyee Li, opens in a new windowJames Robson, and Xiaofei Tian.
Fall 2019
Losing the Way in the City: Cities and Intellectual Crisis in Eleventh-Century China
October 7, 2019
Speaker: Christian de Pee, University of Michigan
The Anomaly of Tang Zhongzong 唐中宗 (r. 684 and 705-710) and the Dynamics of Tang History
September 30, 2019
Speaker:Anthony DeBlasi, University at Albany, State University of New York
Postimperial Metageographies of Early Medieval China
September 16, 2019
Speaker: Jon Felt, Brigham Young University
Spring 2019
“THE STORY OF THE STONE” AND THE VISUAL CULTURE OF THE MANCHU COURT
April 22, 2019
Speaker: Wei Shang, Columbia University
THE VISION TO RESTORE THE EMPIRE: MANUFACTURING MONARCHY AND EMPIRE IN THE EARLY 4TH CENTURY
April 1, 2019
Speaker: Matthew Wells, University of Kentucky
Fall 2018
FAKE NEWS, GENUINE WORDS: THE POWER DYNAMIC OF LITERATURE IN EARLY MEDIEVAL CHINA
November 26, 2018
Speaker: Meow Hui Goh, Ohio State University
THE RESISTANT SOUTH: SKETCHING A HISTORY OF THE WU PEOPLE IN THE FIRST MILLENNIUM CE
November 12, 2018
Speaker: Andrew Chittick, Eckerd College
RETHINKING THE STRUCTURE AND TYPOLOGY OF LITURGICAL TEXTS FROM DUNHUANG
October 29, 2018
Speaker: Hao Chunwen, Senior Professor, Capital Normal University
THE EXAMINED SUBJECT AND THE NATURAL SELF IN THE EIGHT-LEGGED ESSAY
October 15, 2018
Speaker: Alex des Forges, University of Massachusetts – Boston
FAMILIES DIVIDED: MIGRATION AND THOSE LEFT BEHIND IN FIFTH- AND SIXTH-CENTURY CHINA
October 1, 2018
Speaker: Wen-Yi Huang, An Wang Post-Doctoral Fellow, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University
Spring 2018
opens in a new windowSEEKING PATTERNS: CLOSE AND DISTANT READINGS OF TWO COLLECTIONS OF TANG 唐 (618-907) DYNASTY ANECDOTES
May 7, 2018
Speaker: Amelia Ying Qin, An Wang Post Doctoral Fellow, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
opens in a new windowTHINKING SMALL IN THE LITERARY COSMOS
March 26, 2018
Speaker: Jing Tsu, Yale University
opens in a new windowWHEN FANTASTIC NARRATIVE ENCOUNTERS EMPIRICAL KNOWLEDGE: IMAGINING THE WORLD IN “THE EUNUCH SANBAO’S VOYAGE TO THE WESTERN OCEAN”
March 19, 2018
Speaker: Evelyn (Chiung-yun) Liu, Academia Sinica, HYI Visiting Scholar
opens in a new windowREPENTANCE IN THE FORMATION OF CHINESE BUDDHISM
March 5, 2018
Speaker: Eric Greene, Yale University
opens in a new windowPersonal Moments in Medieval Chinese Poetry
January 29, 2018
Speaker: Paul W. Kroll, University of Colorado
opens in a new windowEnchanting Huashan in the Global Spiritual Circuit: Intersecting Modes of Making Sacred Space
November 17, 2017
Speaker: David Palmer, University of Hong Kong; Elijah Siegler, College of Charleston
opens in a new windowHuaben and the Mind
October 23, 2017
Speaker: Tina Lu, Yale University
Emergent Visions in Independent Chinese Cinema
The Emergent Visions series introduces compelling independent documentary films. The films evince a distinct cinematic vision and share a commitment to serve as witness to the rapid changes taking place in China today. Organized by opens in a new windowProfessor Jie Li
Fall 2019
Film Screening and Panel Discussion – “One Child Nation”
November 5, 2019
Panel Discussion: Jialing Zhang, Co-Director of "One Child Nation"; Mable Chan, Founder of China Personified; Susan Greenhalgh, Harvard University; Jie Li, Harvard Univeristy; Karen Thornber, Harvard University
Spring 2019
Film Screening and Discussion with Director Hu Jie – The Spark
April 9, 2019
Speaker: Hu Jie, Director
Film Screening – The Stormy Night by Zhu Shouju
March 2, 2019
Speaker: Shi Chuan of The Shanghai Theater Academy, Shanghai Film Association, and Shanghai Film Museum
Spring 2018
opens in a new windowFILM SCREENING of AN ELEPHANT SITTING STILL
May 1, 2018
opens in a new windowFILM SCREENING and Discussion of KNIFE IN THE CLEAR WATER
April 6, 2018
Speaker: Peng Hai, Ph.D. Candidate in Chinese Film History at Harvard
opens in a new windowChina's Van Goghs
March 20, 2018
Kiki Tianqi Yu, Producer and Director. Moderated by Benny Shaffer, PhD Candidate in Media Anthropology
Fall 2017
opens in a new windowFilm Screening of "Plastic China" and Q&A with Director Wang Jiuliang
November 28, 2017
Speaker: Wang Jiuliang, Director
opens in a new windowFilm Screening and In-Person Discussion with the Director - We the Workers
November 17, 2017
Speaker: Wen Hai, Director
opens in a new windowNew Noir: Chinese Crime Films
November 12-15, 2017
opens in a new windowFILM SCREENING: “VANISHED ARCHIVES”
October 27, 2017
Taiwan Studies Workshop
Guest speakers address the politics, society, and history of Taiwan by bringing together scholars and practitioners who work closely with Taiwan and cross-strait issues. Organized by Center Associate, opens in a new windowProfessor Steven Goldstein, Smith College.
Spring 2019
The Taiwan Relations Act at Forty
April 15, 2019
Speaker: Douglas Paal, Distinguished Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Fall 2018
The Taiwan Elections of 2018: Implications for the Future
December 6, 2018
Panelists:
Ming-sho Ho, National Taiwan University
Chang-ling Huang, National Taiwan University
Steven Goldstein, Sophia Smith Professor of Government, Smith College
Spring 2018
opens in a new windowSTALEMATE ACROSS THE TAIWAN STRAIT: A TRIP REPORT
March 5, 2018
Speakers:
Michael Szonyi, Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
Steven Goldstein, Sophia Smith Professor of Government, Emeritus, Smith College
Robert Ross, Professor of Political Science, Boston College
Taiwan’s Evolving Position on the South China Sea: Daylight Between Taiwan and China?
Lynn Kuok, Brookings Institution
Spring 2017
Taiwan Studies: New Directions and Connections
April 7-8, 2017
Discussants: David der-wei Wang, Michelle Yeh, Michael Berry, Mei Chia-ling
Cross-Strait Relations in the Trump Era
February 7, 2017
Speakers:
Joseph Fewsmith, Fairbank Center Associate, Professor of International Relations and Political Science at Boston University
Steven Goldstein, Fairbank Center Associate, Sophia Smith Professor Emeritus, Smith College
Alan Romberg, Distinguished Fellow and the Director of the East Asia program at Stimson Center
Robert S. Ross, Fairbank Center Associate, Professor of Political Science at Boston College
Environment in Asia Series
The Fairbank Center sponsors a lecture series focusing on the myriad issues affecting Asia's changing environment.
Environment and Asia Event
Spring 2019
Symbolic Legitimacy and Chinese Environmental Reform
February 25, 2018
Speaker: Alex Wang, UCLA
Environmental Geographies of the Mongol Empire
February 8, 2019
Speaker: Christopher Atwood, University of Pennsylvania
Fall 2018
The Natural and Unnatural History of the Yellow River
December 3, 2018
Speaker: Ruth Mostern, University of Pittsburgh
Nature for Nurture: Environmental Education, Nature Experience, and the Healthy Chinese Child
September 13, 2018
Speaker: Robert Efird, Seattle University
Spring 2018
Chinese Food: Culture, Economy, and Ecology
April 27-28, 2018
Organizers: Ling Zhang, Boston College; Elizabeth Lord, Harvard University
Speakers:
E. N. Anderson, University of California, Riverside
Abigail Coplin, Yale University
Robban Toleno, Columbia University
Peter Perdue, Yale University
Mindi Schneider, Erasmus Graduate School of Social Sciences and the Humanities
Mark Frank, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Brendan A. Galipeau, Rice University
Elizabeth Lord, Harvard University
Alexander F. Day, Occidental College
Ellen Oxfeld, Middlebury College
Miranda Brown, University of Michigan
Caroline Merrifield, Yale University
Jin Feng, Grinnell College
Benny Shaffer, Harvard University
Eileen Chow, Duke University
opens in a new windowThose Waters Giving Way
March 7, 2018
Speaker: Michael Cherney (Qiu Mai)
Fall 2017
opens in a new windowCHINA’S DAIRY CENTURY – MAKING, DRINKING AND DREAMING OF MILK
November 6, 2017
Speaker: Thomas DuBois, Modern China Historian
Spring 2017
Ecologies of Enclosure: Reconfiguring the Black Soldier Fly for Urban Waste Management in Guangzhou
April 28, 2017
Speaker: Amy Zhang, Fairbank Center, An Wang Postdoctoral Fellow
Layer upon Layer: Experience, Ecology, Engineering, Heritage, and (most of all) History in the Making of China’s Agricultural Terraces
April 17, 2017
Speaker: Sigrid Schmalzer, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Ancestral Halls: Their Life After Death
March 21, 2017
Speaker: Joseph McDermott, University of Cambridge
On the Rare Earth Frontier: How and Where We Acquire the Elements of our Possible Futures
February 6, 2017
Speaker: Julie Klinger, Boston University
Fairbank Center Lectures
The Fairbank Center additionally sponsors occasional presentations by scholars outside of our established lecture series.
Hainan Airlines and the Global Expansion of Chinese Businesses
Chen Feng, HNA Group; Sponsored by the Harvard China Fund
Film Screening: “Mr. Deng Goes to Washington”
Fu Hongxing
The Cultural Revolution: A People’s History, 1962–1976
Frank Dikötter, University of Hong Kong
‘Not So Fast, Thucydides!’ Reasons to be Cheerful About the South China Sea
Bill Hayton, BBC News
Identifying with a ‘Rising China’? Overseas Chinese Student Nationalism
Rowena Xiaoqing He, Saint Michael’s College
The Limits of Chinese Influence in East Asia: Status Seeking and Rising Power Stagnation
Björn Jerdén, Stockholm University
Going Global, The ‘Wanda’ Way
Wang Jianlin, Dalian Wanda Group
John Birch, China, and the Cold War
Terry Lautz, Syracuse University
Influential Trends and Developments in the Study of Imperial China
Research Institute for Chinese Historical Studies
Beijing Normal University
A roundtable discussion with a delegation of scholars
New Research Findings on the Great Leap Forward Famine: Understanding Mao’s Great Famine through the Voices of Survivors in Anhui Province
Ralph A. Thaxton, Jr., Brandeis University
Sun Feiyu, Beijing University
Lu Huilin, Beijing University
China’s Turning Point: The Ichigo Campaign of 1944
Hans van de Ven, University of Cambridge
Xi Jinping Briefing
Ezra Vogel, Mark Elliott, Meg Rithmire, Ya-Wen Lei, and William Kirby
The Free Flow of Communication Between High and Low: The Shenbao as Platform for Yangwu Discussions on Political Reform 1872–1895
Rudolf Wagner, University of Heidelberg