Episodes
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Can We Live with China? 2019 Neuhauser Memorial Lecture with Susan Thornton
Susan Thornton was Acting Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs at the Department of State during the first 18 months of the Trump administration. Prior to her departure, Thornton led East Asia policy-making amid crises with North Korea, escalating trade tensions with China, and…
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Chinese Investment: State-Owned Enterprises Stop Globalizing, for the moment, with Dereck Scissors
Speaker: Derek Scissors – American Enterprise Institute Derek M. Scissors is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where he focuses on the Chinese and Indian economies and on US economic relations with Asia. He is concurrently chief economist of the China Beige Book. Dr....
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New Exhibitions and China's Cultural Revolution, with Denise Y. Ho
Denise Y. Ho is assistant professor of twentieth-century Chinese history at Yale University, and the author of "Curating Revolution: Politics on Display of Mao’s China" (2018). Using a wide variety of primary sources, including Shanghai’s municipal and district archives and oral history…
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The Taiwan Elections of 2018: Implications for the Future
A panel discussion at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University, on Taiwan's 2018 election. Panelists: Ming-sho Ho, National Taiwan University Chang-ling Huang, National Taiwan University Steven Goldstein, Sophia Smith Professor of Government, Emeritus, Smith College
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The Feminist Awakening in China, with Leta Hong Fincher
On the eve of International Women’s Day in 2015, the Chinese government arrested five feminist activists and jailed them for 37 days. The Feminist Five became a global cause célèbre, with Hillary Clinton speaking out on their behalf, and activists inundating social media with #FreetheFive…
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Part 1: Flavors of Truth and Claims of Authority | 2018 Annual Reischauer Lecture with Stephen Owen
Speaker: Stephen Owen, Harvard University Stephen Owen is a sinologist specializing in premodern literature, lyric poetry, and comparative poetics. Much of his work has focused on the middle period of Chinese literature (200-1200), however, he has also written on literature of the early period…
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Part 2: Su Dongpo and Ink Bamboo | 2018 Annual Reischauer Lecture with Stephen Owen
Speaker: Stephen Owen, Harvard University Stephen Owen is a sinologist specializing in premodern literature, lyric poetry, and comparative poetics. Much of his work has focused on the middle period of Chinese literature (200-1200), however, he has also written on literature of the early period…
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Recent Developments in Xinjiang, with Adrian Zenz
Speaker: Adrian Zenz, Lecturer in social research methods, European School of Culture & Theology, Germany. Dr. Zenz is author of the recently published paper, '"Thoroughly Reforming Them Towards a Healthy Heart Attitude" - China's Political Re-Education Campaign in Xinjiang,' (Central Asian…
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The End of Concern: Maoist China, Activism, and Asian Studies Panel Discussion
Panelists: Fabio Lanza, University of Arizona Ellen Schrecker, Yeshiva University Andrew Gordon, Harvard University Joseph Esherick, University of California San Diego Sugata Bose, Harvard University Lien-Hang Nguyen, Columbia University Bruce Cumings, University of Chicago Moderator: Karen...
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Strongman Politics in the 21st Century
As the role of “strongman” leaders on the world stage appears to be on the rise, this panel examines “strongman politics” in a comparative context. In May 2018, Time Magazine proclaimed in an article that “The ‘Strongmen Era’ Is Here” (Time, May 3, 2018). Highlighting Vladimir Putin and Xi...
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China's Great Gamble, with Barry Naughton
Xi Jinping is consolidating power just as China has embarked on an unprecedented push to become a global and technological power. Xi’s followers are fashioning an economic and administrative system that they hope can achieve these ambitious goals. Some parts of this multi-stranded program will...
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An Environmental Drama in Northern Song China, with Ling Zhang
In the drama of Chinese history, the environment - and the Yellow River (Huang He) in particular - plays a major role. The river's breaching of its northern banks in the year 1048, for example, precipitated an environmental catastrophe that caused political and economic turmoil in the Northern…
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Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides Trap? With Graham Allison
Graham Allison, Douglas Dillon Professor of Government at Harvard Kennedy School, asks how America and China can escape future conflict. Discussed by Roderick MacFarquhar, Leroy B. Williams Professor of History at Harvard University, and Oriana Skylar Mastro, Assistant Professor of Security…
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Metaphor, Myth, and “Dividing up the Chinese Melon,” with Rudolf Wagner
China's leaders often invoke the "century of humiliation" at the hands of foreigners as a means to promote national unity and garner public support for China's return to great power status. An historical metaphor for outside intervention is the vivid image of foreigners "dividing China up like a...
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Revolution and Factionalism in China’s Cultural Revolution, with Guobin Yang
From 1966 to 1968, youth in urban China were embroiled in factional battles in what many of them believed to be a revolution of a lifetime. Guobin Yang explores how this factional violence was the result of the enactment of China's earlier revolutionary tradition, and how echoes of this tradition...
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Law, Labor, and Online Censorship in China, with Mary Gallagher
Mary Gallagher is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan, where she is also the Director of the Center for Chinese Studies. Professor Gallagher researches the relationships between capitalism, law and democracy, which she examines in her latest book, “Authoritarian…
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My Life as a Chinese Rock Star, with Kaiser Kuo
Kaiser Kuo is a household name among China watchers as host of the Sinica Podcast with Jeremy Goldkorn, a current affairs podcast that invites prominent China journalists and China-watchers to participate in uncensored discussions about Chinese political and economic affairs. Before launching the...
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U.S. Foreign Policy, Trump, and China, with Nicholas Burns
As President Trump returns from his first visit to China as Commander-in-Chief, how is U.S. foreign policy reacting to a new administration in Washington and a new rising power in Beijing? The Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation...
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How to Survive as an Authoritarian Regime, with Martin Dmitrov
The collapse of communist regimes at the end of the Cold War led to a “third wave” of democratization across the world. Despite this, five nominally communist regimes still survive, including the ruling Chinese Communist Party, and today a rising number of nation states appear to be embracing...
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The Rise of Xi Jinping, with Roderick MacFarquhar
Roderick MacFarquhar, Leroy B. Williams Professor of History and Political Science and former Director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, explores the rise of Xi Jinping. Hosted by Ezra F Vogel at Harvard University's Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies.
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An Instant Analysis of China's 19th Party Congress
The Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation present a panel discussion with exclusive insight and opinions on China’s 19th Party Congress. Moderator: Mark Elliott, Vice Provost of International Affairs and Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese...
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Black and Red Revolution: Cultural Revolution "Dazibao" and Woodcuts from 1960s China
The Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies presents a panel discussion to celebrate the launch of our world-debut exhibition of Cultural Revolution-era artworks. This is the first time that these works, including "dazibao" (or “big-character posters”), have been publicly displayed since the Cultural...
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Embracing Sovereignty: China, the U.S., and the Future of World Order, 2017 Neuhauser Lecture
James Steinberg, University Professor of Social Science, International Affairs, and Law at Syracuse University, presents the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies' 2017 Neuhauser Lecture. In the past year, the leaders of China and the United States laid out their respective visions for future peace...
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How to Teach Digital Methods for Chinese Studies, with Donald Sturgeon
Digital methods are a developing field in the humanities and social sciences that is still little understood by many in the academy. Dr. Donald Sturgeon is a former Fairbank Center An Wang Postdoctoral Fellow, founder of the Chinese Text Project, and currently teaching digital methods at Harvard...
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How should we assess engagement with China? With Orville Schell
The U.S. has maintained a policy of engagement with the People’s Republic of China since Richard Nixon normalized relations with Mao Zedong in 1972. But how is 'engagement' actually understood in Washington and Beijing? And has engagement changed under the new Trump administration? Orville Schell...
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Are Bugs the Answer to China's Urban Waste Crisis? With Amy Zhang
How could bugs and insects be used to process urban waste in an environmentally-conscious way? Amy Zhang - An Wang Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard's Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and Assistant Professor of Anthropology at New York University - talks to the "Harvard on China" podcast about…
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How to Censor a Billion People, with Gary King
Gary King, Weatherhead University Professor at Harvard University and Director of Harvard's Institute for Quantitative Social Science, talks to the "Harvard on China" podcast about his latest research into online censorship in China. Professor King is the co-author of a 2017 article, "How the...
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Teaching Global Community in An Age of Anti-Immigration, with Eileen Chow
What role is there for storytelling and roleplay in teaching about Chinatowns and Chinese diasporas? The "Harvard on China" podcast talks to Eileen Chow (Duke University), the author of the forthcoming “Chinatown States of Mind,” as well as the co-translator with Carlos Rojas of Yu Hua’s…
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China's Banking Transformation, with James Stent
Pundits have been predicting the impending collapse of the Chinese banking system. The collapse has not happened, so what have these pundits been missing? James Stent is the former director of two Chinese banks from 2003 to 2016, and the author of the “China’s Banking Transformation: the Untold...
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The Souls of China: Religion after Mao, with Ian Johnson
Ian Johnson is a Pulitzer Prize winning writer, journalist, and reviewer of China’s society, religion, and history. His writing appears regularly in leading publications such as the New York Times, The New Yorker, National Geographic, and the New York Review of Books. This year, he was awarded…
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Same-Sex Marriage in Taiwan: Politics, LGBT Rights, and International Reputation, with George Yin
On May 24, 2017, a court in Taipei struck down Taiwan’s ban on same-sex marriage. This ruling, the result of years of campaigning by LGBT-rights activists in Taiwan combined with recent political support, opens the doors for Taiwan to become the first place in Asia to recognize same-sex unions.…
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Corruption in China on the Eve of the 19th Party Congress, with Michael Forsythe
Michael Forsythe is a New York Times journalist who is well known for his detailed reports on the links between money and politics in China. The "Harvard on China" podcast spoke to Michael Forsythe on the eve of China's 19th Party Congress, an important political event where Chinese President Xi...
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Reporting From China, with Pulitzer Prize winner David Barboza
In 2004, David Barboza became the New York Times' Shanghai correspondent, where he began researching a story that would fundamentally change the relationship between Western journalists and the Chinese government. The story involved the former Prime Minister of China, Wen Jiabao, and his billions...
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Chinese Reformers, Western Economists, and "Unlikely Partners," with Julian Gewirtz
China has a long and complex history of interacting with foreign thinkers. After Mao's death in 1976, the Chinese leadership solicited foreign economists in order to curate China’s path towards market reforms and the economic boom that continues today. These little-understood partnerships between...
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What Bamboo Slips teach us about Ancient Chinese Philosophy, with Sarah Allan
Today’s guest on the “Harvard on China” podcast is Sarah Allan, the Burlington Northern Foundation Professor of Asian Studies at Dartmouth College, and Chair of the Society for the Study of Early China. Professor Allan's research explores previously undiscovered Chinese philosophical texts from…
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Rural Women under Mao: Oral Histories of China with Gail Hershatter
Today’s guest on the Harvard on China podcast is Gail Hershatter, Distinguished Professor of History at the University of California Santa Cruz. Her research spans the history of China’s long twentieth century. She re-examines the immense societal changes of China's communist past through oral...
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Trump Meets Xi: the Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom with John Pomfret
This week, President Donald Trump meets Chinese President Xi Jinping for the first time. Will their meeting herald a new era in U.S.-China relations? Probably not, and in fact we may see a lot of short term instability between Washington and Beijing. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't be…
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Taiwan Calling: Why is the Trump-Tsai phone call so important? With Steven Goldstein
President-elect Donald Trump broke diplomatic protocol by receiving a call from Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen. Why is this phone call so important, why shouldn’t Trump have taken the call, and why are the foreign policy establishment seemingly split on the issue? We spoke with Steven Goldstein,...
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How Should We Use the Chinese Past? With Leigh Jenco
In the West, we often consider Western philosophical discourse to have a degree of universality. This is not always the case, however, when we think about Chinese thought. Why does Chinese philosophy not hold a similar degree of universal applicability that is assigned to thinkers such as Plato,...
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Sino-Japanese Relations Through Kanzo Uchiyama And Lu Xun, with Joshua Fogel
Sino-Japanese relations are often portrayed as a rivalry hindered by historical grievances. Joshua Fogel, Canada Research Chair at York University, Toronto, explores a different side of China’s relationship with Japan. Fogel is the author of many books on Sino-Japanese relations, with his latest...
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Chinese Investment in Post-Brexit Europe, with Philippe Le Corre
Europe’s post-2008 financial crises have provided opportunities for Chinese overseas investment in cash-strapped European states. From infrastructure investments in a high-speed rail line between Serbia and Hungary, to developing Greece’s port of Piraeus, becoming majority shareholders in…
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U.S.-China Relations in the Obama Administration, with Evan Medeiros
The 2016 presidential election pushed the U.S-China relationship to the forefront of public debates. In both foreign policy and domestic politics, China loomed large as politicians threw accusations against Beijing's apparent currency manipulation, damage to American competitiveness, or even...
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Trump And Asia: Business As Usual?
The Asia-related centers at Harvard University continue our new “Trump and Asia” series with a panel on international business and trade between the U.S. and Asia in the age of Trump. Speakers: William Kirby T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies; Spangler Family Professor of Business...
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What Next? Trump and Asia
Sponsored by the Harvard University Asia-related Centers, this event is the first in a new series on the Asia-Pacific during Trump’s presidency. Speakers: Joseph Nye, University Distinguished Service Professor, Harvard University Ezra Vogel, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences…
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“Sinophone Writers Forum” | Sinophone Studies: New Directions??????????
Please note that this recording is in Mandarin ????????. Hosted by Professor David Der-wei Wang ???, this panel of Chinese-language writers explores authors’ perspectives of the Sinophone, featuring Ge Fei ?? (Writer; Tsinghua University), Ha Jin ?? (Writer; Boston University), LO Yi-chin ???...
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???, ??????????? | NG Kim Chew: Sinophone Studies: New Directions
??????????? | Malaysian writer Ng Kim Chew ???presents the keynote speech at the Sinophone Studies: New Directions conference???????????. Please note that this recording is in Mandarin ????????. Listen to more public events from Harvard's Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies on our Soundcloud page.
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The Birth of Chinese Feminism | Lydia Liu, Rebecca Karl, Dorothy Ko, Ellen Rooney, Ellen Widmer
Professors Lydia Liu, Rebecca Karl and Dorothy Ko examine the origins of feminism in contemporary China through translations of He-Yin Zhen, a feminist theorist during China’s Republican Era. This talk is moderated by Professors Ellen Rooney and Ellen Widmer. Listen to more public events from...
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"Rethinking China Under Xi Jinping,” Elizabeth Economy presents Harvard's 2015 Neuhauser Lecture
Elizabeth Economy, C.V. Starr senior fellow and director for Asia studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, presents "Rethinking China under Xi Jinping: Politics at Home and Abroad” for the Fairbank Center's 2015 Charles Neuhauser Memorial Lecture. Listen to more public events from Harvard's...
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U.S.-China relations in historical context | Mark Elliott and William Kirby at Brookings
On September 21, the John L. Thornton China Center at the Brookings Institution hosted a panel discussion that helped illuminate the historical context of the U.S.-China relationship. Three leading China historians, including Fairbank Center Director Mark Elliott and Harvard China Fund Director...
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