Cross-posted from the Harvard China Fund. Michael A. Szonyi is the Frank Wen-Hsiung Wu Memorial Professor of Chinese History at Harvard University. I arrived in China in August 2023 after […]
Anthropology
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
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.
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
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
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