Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University

🗓️ Tomorrow, November 12
🕚 12:00 - 1:15 PM
📍1730 Cambridge St. (CGIS South)
Belfer Case Study Room (S020)
🔗 For more info on this and other events: fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events

🗓️ Wednesday, November 5
🕚 12:00 - 1:15 PM
📍1730 Cambridge St. (CGIS South)
Belfer Case Study Room (S020)
🔗 For more info on this and other events: fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events

THE FIRE ALARM AND THE IRON HAND: CIVIL SOCIETY’S PLACE IN CHINA’S ENVIRONMENTAL RULE OF LAW

Featuring: Yanmei Lin (Vermont Law and Graduate School)

🗓️ Wednesday, October 29
🕚 12:00 - 1:15 PM
📍1730 Cambridge St. (CGIS South)
Belfer Case Study Room (S020)
🔗 For more info on this and other events: fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events

Tomorrow! BREAKNECK: CAN CHINA OUTCOMPETE THE U.S. ON INNOVATION?

Featuring: Dan Wang (Hoover Institution)

🗓️ Wednesday, October 22
***Note: Special Time***
🕚 5:30 - 6:45 PM
📍1730 Cambridge St. (CGIS South)
Belfer Case Study Room (S020)
🔗 For more info on this and other events: fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events

This week’s Critical Issues lecture - Zenobia T. Chan: “The Influence Game: What Does China Really Want?”

Wednesday, October 8
🕚 12:00 - 1:15 PM
📍1730 Cambridge St. (CGIS South)
Belfer Case Study Room (S020)
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The Critical Issues Confronting China lecture series returns for the fall 2025 semester! Professor Jeffrey Wasserstrom (UC-Irvine) with discussant Professor Moira Weigel (Harvard University): HONG KONG 2025: COMPETING VISIONS OF A CITY’S PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE.

🗓️ Wednesday, October 1
🕚 12:00 - 1:15 PM
📍1730 Cambridge St. (CGIS South)
Belfer Case Study Room (S020)

🔗 For more info on this and other events: fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events

In this Modern China Lecture Series, Yixin Chen, Professor of History at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, explores why numerous cases of counterrevolutionary groups emerged in rural China during the Great Leap Forward famine of the late 1950s, despite the brutal and large-scale Suppression of Counterrevolutionaries campaigns earlier that decade.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZhrMslYtEc

In this China Humanities Seminar talk, Robert Ashmore, Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Berkeley, constructs an alternative (though perhaps in the end complementary) approach to the question of “Musicality” of the Song-poems of Li He 李賀 (790–816).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAs6oSNPrL0