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Past Events: public talk
Li Weidong, visiting scholar to Columbia University, will speak about anti-corruption and political reform in China.
The Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University presents a talk "Challenges of Higher Education Reform: China and India Compared" by Elizabeth Perry Wednesday, September 24, 2014, 12:30pm to 1:50pm.
China has gone through an extraordinary transformation in the past 25 years since Tiananmen Square. Chinese consumerism is soaring and a new opulent wealthy class has emerged. Dr. Perry Link joins Asia Society Texas Center to discuss the recent Chinese boom and what has transpired since Tiananmen Square. Is it a result of government policies or is it the actual Chinese people responsible for the changing face of China?
The Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University presents a talk "Death Ritual as a Site of Subject Formation: Religious Variations on Socialist Funeral Ritual in Shanghai, China" by Huwy-min Lucia Liu on Tuesday, September 23, 2014, 12:15pm to 1:30pm.
The Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University presents a talk "Creating and Discarding Symbols: The Case of Mao Zedong's Golden Mangoes" by Alfreda Murck Monday, September 22, 2014, 4:00pm to 5:30pm.
The Joy of Kung Fu and USC Pacific Asia Museum present a panel discussion and demonstrations with Kung Fu masters.
The Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University presents a talk "Digital Approaches to Late Imperial Chinese Literature: Exploring Quasi-historical Texts" by Paul Vierthaler on Friday, September 19, 2014, 12:15pm to 1:30pm.
This talk focuses on two unprecedented surges in poetry on the subject of “xiangyan” 香豔 (fragrant and bedazzling) and related themes, each at the turn of century, the 17th century from the late Ming to the early Qing and the 19th century from the late Qing to early Republican China.
Please join the USC U.S.-China Institute for a discussion with Professor Enze Han of the University of London on the way five major ethnic minority groups - Uyghurs, Chinese Koreans, Dai, Mongols, and Tibetans - in China negotiate their national identities with the Chinese nation-state.
The Yale council on East Asian Studies presents David Der-wei Wang - Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature, Harvard University & Director of CCK Foundation Inter-University Center for Sinological Studies