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Yu-Yueh Tsai – Indigenous DNA as A Metaphor: Scientific Debate on the Rediscovery of Taiwanese Ancestry and Nation-Building
Yu-Yueh Tsai – Indigenous DNA as A Metaphor: Scientific Debate on the Rediscovery of Taiwanese Ancestry and Nation-Building
Speaker: Yu-Yueh Tsai, Associate Research Fellow, Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2022-23Chair: Sheila Jasanoff, Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies, Harvard Kennedy School The development of genealogical science in the twenty-first century has important implications for national and racial/ethnic construction. In Taiwan, genetic research on the origins of Taiwanese has involved […]
Critical Issues Confronting China featuring Isaac Kardon – China’s Maritime Power and the Law of the Sea
Critical Issues Confronting China featuring Isaac Kardon – China’s Maritime Power and the Law of the Sea
Read our blog post on the event: China’s New Maritime “Rules” in Asia Could Lead to Conflict Speaker: Isaac Kardon, Senior Fellow, Asia Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Discussant: Takuhiro Ikeda, Senior Fellow, Harvard University Asia Center; Former Vice Admiral, Japan Maritime Self Defense Force Who makes "the rules" of international order? The international […]
2023 China Law Symposium: Reacquainting with China through Common Interests – Collaborating on Climate Change
2023 China Law Symposium: Reacquainting with China through Common Interests – Collaborating on Climate Change
2023 China Law Symposium: Reacquainting with China through Common InterestsThe Harvard Law School China Law Association (CLA) will host its annual China Law Symposium, “Reacquainting with China through Common Interests,” over the first two weeks of April. This year, we are highlighting topics of common interest to China and the United States, ranging across the […]
Mikael Bauer – Under the Gaze of Jion: Kōfukuji’s Heian Period Internal Ritual Network
Mikael Bauer – Under the Gaze of Jion: Kōfukuji’s Heian Period Internal Ritual Network
Speaker: Mikael Bauer, McGill University Venue
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Liu Shouying – What is Chinese-Style Modernization? Interpreting the Key Concept from the 20th Party Congress
Liu Shouying – What is Chinese-Style Modernization? Interpreting the Key Concept from the 20th Party Congress
Speaker: Liu Shouying, Dean, School of Economics, Renmin University of China Also via Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_kWAxH7BoQ8q90TVUW8NOWQ Venue
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Urban China Series featuring Zhang Jipeng – Hukou Reform, Return Migration,and Implications for Urban Development in China
Urban China Series featuring Zhang Jipeng – Hukou Reform, Return Migration,and Implications for Urban Development in China
Speaker: Zhang Jipeng, Shandong University In recent years, China has made remarkable progress in Hukou reform. Based on government policy documents and our fieldwork, we construct a quantitative measure of Hukou registration barriers in Chinese cities. First-tier and some second-tier cities set high criteria for local Hukou registration that have become more stringent over time, […]
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Xinyu Chen – Power Market Reform Coupled with Carbon Neutral Transition in China: Status and Prospects
Xinyu Chen – Power Market Reform Coupled with Carbon Neutral Transition in China: Status and Prospects
Speaker: Xinyu Chen, Professor, Huazhong University of Science and Technology; Alumnus (Postdoctoral Fellow and Research Associate) and Associate, Harvard-China Project Presented via Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcrcuyqrDMrHdxuBhSsoM_QkFET4OUq2wX7. Venue
The Future of the U.S.-Philippines Alliance: A Conversation with Martin Romualdez, Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Philippines
The Future of the U.S.-Philippines Alliance: A Conversation with Martin Romualdez, Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Philippines
Speaker: Martin Romualdez, Speaker of the House of Representatives of the PhilippinesPlease join the Asia-Pacific Initiative and the Defense Project for a conversation with Martin Romualdez, Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Philippines. The Speaker will deliver remarks on the future of the U.S.-Philippines alliance, the foreign and defense policy of the Philippines under President Marcos, and evolving […]
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An Introduction to Generative AI for East Asian Studies
An Introduction to Generative AI for East Asian Studies
This workshop introduces the use of generative AI. Generative AI refers to a category of artificial intelligence algorithms that generate new outputs based on data. Unlike traditional AI systems that recognize patterns and make predictions, generative AI can create new content in the form of texts as well as images and audio. It enables one […]
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China Humanities Seminar featuring Meimei Zhang – Immortalizing the Ephemeral: Qin Inscriptions from the Song Dynasty (960-1279)
China Humanities Seminar featuring Meimei Zhang – Immortalizing the Ephemeral: Qin Inscriptions from the Song Dynasty (960-1279)
Speaker: Meimei Zhang, Occidental College This paper examines the Song dynasty literati’s ming 銘 inscriptions on the qin 琴, a seven-string plucked instrument that is also known as zither or guqin. The tradition of inscribing musical instruments can be traced back to bronze bells and chime stones in the Shang and Zhou dynasties, which bore pithy messages primarily functioning as historiographical and musicological records. From […]
Urban China Series featuring Leif Johnson – Building infrastructure, building the urban: Migrant labor in a Shanghai fiber-optic reconstruction project
Urban China Series featuring Leif Johnson – Building infrastructure, building the urban: Migrant labor in a Shanghai fiber-optic reconstruction project
Speaker: Leif Johnson, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University While scholars have long tracked China’s rapid infrastructural development, the everyday labor of migrant workers in infrastructural construction has often been rendered as a natural and uncomplicated aspect of rural-urban migration. In response, I trace the development of a long-term telecommunications infrastructure reconstruction project in Shanghai from the perspective […]
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Asia and the Russia’s War on Ukraine
Asia and the Russia’s War on Ukraine
In-person attendees, register at https://forms.gle/zntgppbURiWLKch87Remote attendees via Zoom, register at https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_i1W35PQSRoGfeMlV-Maizg#/registration How does Asia respond to Russia’s war in Ukraine? And what are the implications for Asian security and stability? While Japan and South Korea have sided with the West and supported Ukraine, China, and North Korea are deepening ties with Russia. China’s strategic alignment with Russia […]
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Emily Baum – From Cold War to COVID-19: Acupuncture as Soft Power in the PRC
Emily Baum – From Cold War to COVID-19: Acupuncture as Soft Power in the PRC
Speaker: Emily Baum Presented via Zoom. Register at: https://scholar.harvard.edu/seow/STinAsia Venue
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The Tormented Alliance: American Servicemen and the Occupation of China, 1941–1949
The Tormented Alliance: American Servicemen and the Occupation of China, 1941–1949
Speaker: Zach Fredman, Duke Kunshan University Commentator: Jesus Solis, Harvard University This session will take place in person, with an option for remote access. Please register in advance to receive the paper and the Zoom link: https://forms.gle/6Akw4qqVYAxeNYZX7 Venue
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2023 Gender Studies Workshop – The Chinese Family Romance
2023 Gender Studies Workshop – The Chinese Family Romance
Speakers:Emma Jinhua Teng, MITTing Guo, The Chinese University of Hong KongYangyang Cheng, Yale UniversityCarlos Rojas, Duke UniversityEileen Cheng-yin Chow, Duke UniversityJie Li, Harvard UniversityTina Lu, Yale UniversityOrganizers:Eileen Cheng-yin Chow, Duke UniversityWai-Yee Li, Harvard UniversityEllen Widmer, Wellesley CollegeXu Man, Tufts UniversityCatherine Yeh, Boston University Schedule of Events 9:00-9:15 “The Chinese Family Romance” – opening remarks by Eileen Cheng-yin Chow9:15-9:45 Emma Jinhua Teng (MIT)“Transnational […]
Asia and Russia’s War on Ukraine: A Conversation with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine
Asia and Russia’s War on Ukraine: A Conversation with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine
Speaker: The Honorable Dmytro Kuleba, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Moderator: Yaena Kwon, Fellow, Harvard University Asia Center; TV Journalist at ZDF and WDR Co-sponsored by the Asia Center; Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies; Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute; Korea Institute; Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute; Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, WCIA; and Reischauer Institute for Japanese […]