The Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies co-convened Harvard’s first international digital humanities conference, bringing together scholars from China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam, Europe, and North America.
Language and Linguistics
Lu Xun, who is considered one of the greatest writers of 20th Century China, became a sensation in the early 20th century because his writings so sharply criticized traditional Chinese …
October 28, 2022 @ 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Panelists: Eileen Cheng, Pomona CollegeDavid Damrosch, Harvard UniversityTheodore Huters, University of California Los AngelesYing Hu, University of California – Irvine Moderator:David Wang, Harvard University Venue
Senior Lecturer, Dartmouth College
March 3, 2022 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
The Indigenous languages of Taiwan feature two patterns of morphological discrepancy. First, only some possess a symmetrical morphological paradigm associated with a phenomenon known as ‘noun-verb homophony’. Second, only a handful of the languages allow the Proto-Austronesian stative affix ma- to be used in a transitive clause. This talk addresses how these two foci of variation inform our understanding of the Austronesian diaspora and further explains how new comparative data on these phenomena offers a simpler answer to two ongoing debates in the field.
Independent Scholar
Professor of the Practice of Language Pedagogy; Director, Chinese Language Program
2021-22 Visiting Scholar, University of California, Santa Barbara