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Announcing Our 2024 Graduates
New PhDs who were affiliated with the Fairbank Centerduring their dissertation fieldwork and completion Each year, the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies awards the Desmond and Whitney Shum Fellowship to a graduate student embarking on an extensive period of fieldwork in…
Announcing Our 2024-25 An Wang and Hou Family Fellows
The Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2024-25 An Wang Postdoctoral Fellowships and Hou Family Fellowships in Taiwan Studies. Our incoming An Wang Fellows are Shengqiao Lin and David Qihang Wu. Our new Hou Family Fellows…
Columbia-Harvard China and the World Program Convenes 20th Annual Conference
In March, the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies hosted the 20th annual conference of the Columbia-Harvard China and the World Program (CWP). Founded in 2004, CWP is committed to integrating the advanced study of China’s foreign relations into the field…
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Faculty Spotlight
Jie Li, Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, is having a busy year: Her latest book, Cinematic Guerrillas, won the 2024 Kraszna-Krausz Moving Image Book Award; she was named a Harvard College Professor and a Walter Channing Cabot Fellow; and she’s taken on the role as Faculty Director of the new, six-week Harvard Summer School Program in China..
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From Shanghai to Cambridge and Back Again: Spotlight on Jie Li
Jie Li, Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and Fairbank Center Faculty Affiliate, uses a range of media approaches to teach her undergraduate students at Harvard. Her most popular course, East Asian Cinema, enrolled as many as 170 students…
“Stabilizing Pills” for Chinese private enterprises in the post-pandemic era: Real stimulus or just a placebo?
Han Cheng is a Master’s student in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. All eyes are on the Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China — which begins today in Beijing and…
Norbu Ketaka: An AI Journey Through Ancient Tibetan Manuscripts
“Norbu ketaka,” Tibetan for “cleansing jewel,” refers to a gem said to possess the magical power to purify murky waters. The name encapsulates this project’s mission: to cleanse obscure and error-laden texts, to restore digitized Tibetan manuscripts’ pristine clarity and…
Summer Reading 2024: Our Community Recommendations
We asked our Visiting Scholars and Visiting Fellows of Practice, Postdoctoral and Predoctoral Fellows, and Graduate Student Associates to offer up their recommended reading for curious minds over the summer break. We gave no more instruction than that — new…
Tiananmen @ 35: Rowena He shares her recollections of Spring 1989
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 He currently serves as a Senior Research Fellow at the…
Digital China
Digital China is a new initiative promoting the adoption of digital tools and practices in Chinese studies.
