Highlights from 2008-2009 Events

    
 

 

PRC at 60 Bill Kirby

The People's Republic of China at 60: An International Assesment

Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, May 1-3, 2009
Introduction by William C. Kirby, Harvard University
“Myths and Lessons of Contemporary Chinese History”
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Dwight Perkins

2009 Reischauer Lecture
Economic Transformations in East Asia:
Historical Foundations, Diverse Models, and
China, Vietnam, and the Future

Wednesday, Thursday & Friday, April 15, 16, & 17, 2009
The 2009 Edwin O. Reischauer Lectures given by Dwight Perkins, Harold Hitchings Burbank Research Professor of Political Economy, Harvard University
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Steven Goldstein

Taiwan Studies Conference
30th Anniversary of The Taiwan Relations Act

Friday, April 3, 2009
Organized by Steven M. Goldstein, this conference brought together key diplomats, policy makers, and scholars to discuss the drafting of the Taiwan Relations Act, its implementation, and its future.
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Rewriting Qing History

Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Symposium:
Rewriting Qing History

Friday, December 12, 2008
Chaired by Mark Elliott, Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History, and Director, Graduate Studies, EALC, Harvard University; and Peter Perdue, Professor of History, Yale University

Special presentation by Ma Dazheng, Vice Director, Qing History Compilation Committee, and Professor, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
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Peter Bol

First International Workshop on Biographical
Databases in Chinese Studies

November 21–23, 2008
Organized by Peter Bol, Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and Director of the Center for Geographic Analysis, Harvard University
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The Chinese Art of Enlivenment: A Symposium

October 24-25, 2008
Organized by Eugene Yuejin Wang, Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art, Department of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University
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Douglas Spelman

2008 Neuhauser Memorial Lecture
China's Modernization: Reflections of an Historian Turned Diplomat

October 15, 2008
The 17th annual Neuhauser Memorial Lecture was delivered by Harvard alumnus Douglas G. Spelman, former U.S. Consul General in Shanghai, 2002-2005.
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Wiliam Kirby Photo

Harvard-Berkeley International Forum on Higher Education in Contemporary China

October 10-12, 2008
Co-chairs: William C. Kirby, Chang Professor of Chinese Studies, Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration, and Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies,Harvard University; and Wen-hsin Yeh, Morrison Chair Professor in History, and Director, Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley
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Symposium on Historical Dialogue and Reconciliation in East Asia: Recent Practice and Future Prospects

September 12-13, 2008
Organizers: Andrew Gordon, Folger Fund Professor of History, Harvard University; and Hiroshi Mitani, Professor of History, University of Tokyo
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