William C. Kirby argues that ‘Science with Chinese characteristics’ is a threat to China and a loss to the world.
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Yuan-Heng Mao describes how cultural elites shared ideas and “went viral” during the Yuan Dynasty.
The Digital China Initiative welcomes applications for a two-week in-person workshop on methods of digital scholarship
Introducing Harvard’s leading Digital China project.
Wilt Idema, Professor of Chinese Literature Emeritus at Harvard University, introduces his translation of the Precious Scroll of the Rat Epidemic (鼠溫寶卷 Shuwen baojuan), published in Shanghai in 1911.
The dramatic growth of ethno-nationalism in China and India is a driving force behind their current border tensions.
Ya-wen Lei examines how Taiwan as a democratic developmental and welfare state managed to contain the outbreak of Coronavirus.
A catalogue of online China Studies events from around the world In spring 2020, as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, China Studies around the world moved online. One unanticipated …
Introducing the International Chinese Studies Virtual Events Clearing-House
Steven M. Goldstein reports on the Fairbank Center’s visit to Taiwan and mainland China in January 2019.
Andrew S. Erickson, Professor at the U.S. Naval War College’s China Maritime Studies Institute (CMSI) and Associate in Research at the Fairbank Center, assesses how strong China’s armed forces are and why that matters.