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 Clin...
30 Nov 201826min
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 o...
18 Okt 20181h 38min
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 o...
18 Okt 20181h 28min
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 Hea...
10 Okt 20181h 32min
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 ...
4 Okt 20182h 3min
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 ...
2 Okt 20181h 39min
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 t...
7 Sep 201823min
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, precip...
25 Juni 201835min
