In late October and November, as part of the initiatives by the Harvard China Fund and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies to reengage activities in China, the China Biographical …
Anthropology
2023-24 Graduate Student Associate; Ph.D. Candidate in Anthropology and Archaeology, Harvard University
2024 Visiting Scholar; Professor and Head of the Department of History, Hong Kong Baptist University
Professor in the Department of Sociology at Tsinghua University
Zak Dychtwald argues that China’s youth, accustomed to rapid change and rising prosperity, are looking for freedom from society’s expectations.
A museum of Tang Dynasty stelae in Xian shows how post-Tang scholars rewrote history, choosing to focus on traditional Confucian values.
November 14, 2022 @ 8:30 pm - 10:00 pm
Speaker: Youqin Huang, Professor of Geography and Planning, Research Associate of the Center for Social and Demographic Analysis, University at Albany, State University of New York This paper examines whether …
November 7, 2022 @ 8:30 pm - 10:00 pm
Speaker: Minhua Ling, Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study China’s escalated infrastructural and real estate development has gradually erased urban villages and reduced affordable living space for rural-to-urban migrants. This talk …
Minhua Ling – Containerization of Migrant Housing on Shanghai’s Edge
September 26, 2022 @ 8:30 pm - 10:00 pm
Speaker: Yang Zhan, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Developers in China’s real estate industry organize temporary workers, or “little bees,” to promote sales. Most developers …
September 20, 2022 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Speakers:Tarun Khanna, Jorge Paolo Lemann Professor at Harvard Business School; Faculty Director of the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute, Harvard University Michael Szonyi, Frank Wen-Hsiung Wu Memorial Professor …
Panel Discussion – Making Meritocracy: Lessons from China and India, from Antiquity to the Present