Fairbank Center New Affiliates 2021-2022

New Affiliates 2021-22 2021-22年的新成員

Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies 費正清中國研究中心

Founded in 1955, the Fairbank Center’s mission is to advance all fields of China Studies at Harvard University and beyond. 費正清中國研究中心成立於1955年， 旨在通過各種渠道，於哈佛大學 推進各個領域的中國研究。

Word from the Director 主任寄語

One of the Fairbank Center’s greatest strengths is its intellectual community of scholars from around the globe. In spite

Fairbank Center Director Michael A. Szonyi 費正清中國研究中心 主任宋怡明

of the challenges arising from COVID-19, we are proud to welcome a new cohort of scholars and affiliates to the Fairbank Center’s vibrant international community.

We are particularly pleased to be able to welcome our community back in person for the first time since spring 2020.

As with many of the Center’s activities, this cohort will continue to experience Harvard and the Fairbank Center differently from those in previous years. While we are welcoming some back to campus in person, others will participate either remotely or via a hybrid combination of the two. Despite the challenges that come with our new pandemicera reality, we are confident that our efforts will encourage our affiliates to be just as engaged and involved in our academic community as those in the past.

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WORD FROM THE DIRECTOR

Our Community of Scholars

Family Fellows for Taiwan Studies: Jaewoong Jeon, Hsuan-Yu Lin, and Lev Nachman. Their

The strength of our community is highlighted

research builds on the Center’s long-established

by the diverse research that the Center

expertise and scholarship on Taiwan.

supports. Our 2021-22 An Wang Postdoctoral Fellows, Claudia Huang and Yusi Aveva Xu,

The Center prides itself as a nexus of

will develop their research on the social impact

international collaboration and interdisciplinary

of aging in China. Together with faculty

research on Greater China. To this end, we

members Winnie Yip and Arthur Kleinman,

welcome twenty-four new In-Resident Visiting

they will collaboratively research the concept

Scholars and six new Non-Resident Associates in

of meaningful ageing, care models, and public

Research. Our Visiting Scholars and Associates

policies that advance eldercare in China.

in Research join us from different universities, research centers, and organizations from across

Thanks to a generous gift from the Hou Family,

the world, as well as from multiple academic

we are excited to again welcome three Hou

disciplines, and they are key components of the Center’s engagement beyond Harvard.

The Center prides itself as a nexus of international collaboration and interdisciplinary research on Greater China. We are pleased to welcome new postdoctoral fellows, visiting scholars, graduate students, and non-resident associates in research to our community of scholars.

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Harvard University

Connecting our Campus Our faculty and staff form the core of our oncampus community at Harvard, and I know they join me in welcoming our new affiliates. We especially hope that our own students, including our eight new graduate student associates, will take full advantage of connecting with our new visiting affiliates to learn about their differing areas of expertise.

Our Staff We encourage our affiliates to make the most of their time here at the Fairbank Center. Whether through attending events in one of our nine public lecture series, visiting our exhibitions, using our world-class library services, collaborating on research projects, or meeting with other members of Harvard’s China Studies community, there are plenty of ways to become involved in the many available activities. We look forward to getting to know all of you over

全體員工

Daniel Murphy 慕浩然 Executive Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and Harvard China Fund Julia Cai 蔡珏 Assistant Director, Harvard China Fund and Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Karen Christopher 卡倫•克里斯 Finance/Administrative Associate

the course of the academic year.

Charlotte Cotter 嚴江雯 Library Assistant

I wish you all success and good health for the

Nick Drake 卓鴻濤 Office and Program Coordinator

academic year.

James Evans 詹艾文 Communications Officer Sarah Gordon 薩拉•戈登 Director of Finance Mark Grady 馬瑞迪 Events Coordinator

Michael A. Szonyi 宋 怡 明 Director of the Fairbank Center, Frank Wen-Hsiung Wu Memorial Professor of Chinese History, Harvard University

費正清中國研究中心主任暨哈佛大學吳文雄講席教授

Nancy Hearst 南希 Librarian, Fairbank Center Collection in the H.C. Fung Library Marian Lee 李博雅 Program Assistant Emmeline Liu 劉夢雪 Program Coordinator, Harvard China Fund Kwok-Leong Tang 鄧國亮 Digital China Fellow

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NEW AFFILIATES 2021-22

Postdoctoral Fellows 博士後研究員 An Wang Postdoctoral Fellows 王安博士後研究員

Claudia Huang 黄畅 California State University, Long Beach ANTHROPOLOGY

Claudia Huang received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from UCLA and currently teaches at California State University,

An Wang Postdoctoral Fellowships are chosen through a competitive selection process and support junior scholars in any discipline. Fellows spend one year at the Fairbank Center working on

Long Beach. Her research on China’s “dancing grannies“ examines how a generation of retired Chinese women cope with diminishing social welfare programs and the loss of traditional family structures through a fulfilling activity. Research Interests: aging, kinship and intergenerational dynamics; gender; state-society relations

either a book manuscript or articles for publication. In addition, they deliver research presentations to the Fairbank Center community.

Yusi Aveva Xu 许宇司 University of Southern California

王安博士後獎學金多年來資助從事中國研

HEALTH

究的各學科初級學者。王安博士後研究員 經過嚴格的篩選，從眾多競爭者中脫穎而

Yusi Xu received her Ph.D. in Health Communication from

作書稿或論文。此外，他們也面向費正清

on the complexities of how socio-structural and cultural

出。他們通常在費正清中心以一年時間寫 中心社群發表研究報告 。

the University of Southern California. Her research focuses contexts impact individuals’ health-related decisions among underserved populations, particularly in China or among Chinese immigrants. Research Interests: gender politics; health communication; structural violence; digital justice; Netnography

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Hou Family Fellows for Taiwan Studies

Jaewoong Jeon 全在雄 University of Chicago HISTORY

Jaewoong Jeon received his Ph.D. from the University of

侯氏家族台灣

Chicago. His research focuses on Taiwan and Korea within

研究員

of capitalism

the global history of capitalism. Research Interests: history

Hsuan-yu Lin 林宣佑 The Hou Family Fellowship

University of Virginia

for Taiwan Studies annually

POLITICAL SCIENCE

sponsors scholars as visiting

Hsuan-yu Lin is a Ph.D. candidate in Politics at the

fellows at the Fairbank

University of Virginia. His research focuses on political

Center to pursue Taiwan-

leaders’ use of social media and its impact on American

related research. 侯氏家族台灣研究獎學金每年

and Taiwanese public opinion on foreign policy. Research Interests: social media; political communication; foreign policyz

資助兩名訪問學者在費正清中 心進行台灣相關研究。

Lev Nachman 南樂 University of California, Irvine POLITICAL SCIENCE

Lev Nachman received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Irvine. His dissertation, “Movement Parties in Contested States: Taiwan’s Post-Sunflower Movement Parties,” focusing on contested states, examines why some states flourish while others decline. Research Interests:

social movements; party politics; political participation in Taiwan and Hong Kong

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VISITING SCHOLARS

Visiting Scholars 訪問學者

Visiting scholars hail from across the world with a commitment to furthering research on Chinese Studies. 費正清中心接受來自世界各地的訪問學者。

Peter Braden 何樹斌

Yuming Cui 崔玉明

University of California, San Diego

Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen

HISTORY

ECONOMICS

Peter Braden received his Ph.D. in History from the University

Yuming Cui is Associate Professor at the Harbin Institute of

of California, San Diego. His research on bovine experiences

Technology, Shenzhen. His research focuses on the Chinese

from 1935-1961 examines how cattle, water buffalo, and yaks

economy, particularly China’s engagement with global

experienced the profound transformations in Chinese society

governance reform. At the Fairbank Center, he will research

during mid-20th century. Research Interests: environmental

China’s role in global economic governance reform.

history; economic development

Research Interests: Chinese economy; labor market; international governance reform

Yi-yang Cheng 鄭奕揚

Xiaotong Feng 冯小桐

University of California, Santa Barbara

Communication University of China

LINGUISTICS

HISTORY

Yi-yang Cheng is a Ph.D. candidate at UC Santa Barbara,

Xiaotong Feng is a Ph.D. candidate at the Communication

where he conducts research on the Austronesian languages

University of China, where he conducts research on the rural

of Taiwan (also known as Formosan languages). His current

history of modern China. At the Fairbank Center, he will be

project examines voice constructions in Kanakanavu, a critically

working on a project that asks “how do ordinary people in

endangered indigenous language spoken in Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

modern China (after 1949) perceive their society?” Research

Research Interests: linguistics; discourse-functional linguistics;

Interests: social history; international relations; public opinion;

linguistic typology; Formosan languages; Taiwan Mandarin

historical anthropology

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Harvard University

Lucy Hornby 韩碧如 Independent Scholar

Nurlan Kenzheakhmet 努尔兰.肯加哈买提

JOURNALISM

Al-Farabi Kazakh National University HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY

Lucy Hornby is an award-winning foreign correspondent, reporting from Asia for the Financial Times, Reuters, and Dow

Nurlan Kenzheakhmet is Professor of History, Archaeology

Jones. She was a 2020 fellow at the Nieman Foundation for

and Ethnology at Al-Farabi Kazakh National University. At

Journalism at Harvard. She is currently researching China’s

the Fairbank Center, he will be working on European-Chinese

post-1978 state-led system. Research Interests: political leaders;

imperial maps and gazetteers related to the Qazaq Khanate

state economy; international capital; foreign policy

and its adjacent regions in the 17th to 19th centuries. Research Interests: archaeology; historical maps; sinology; Central Asia

Poyao Huang 黃柏堯 University of California, San Diego

Berna Kirkulak Uludag

COMMUNICATION

Dokuz Eylül University BUSINESS

Poyao Huang received his Ph.D. in Communication and Science Studies from the University of California, San Diego. His

Berna Kirkulak Uludag is Professor of International Business

research focuses on the contemporary gay man’s sexual health

and Trade at Dokuz Eylül University and a Fulbright Fellow.

and embodied engagement with medicine in the inter-Asian

Her research addresses the emerging markets in the Chinese

context. Research Interests: STS (science and technology studies);

economy, with a focus on the impact of financial development

medical anthropology; media studies

on China’s environmental degradation. Research Interests: Chinese economy; financial development; U.S.-China trade

Hai Jin 金海 Fudan University

Seong-Hyon Lee 李成賢

RELIGION

Sejong Institute JOURNALISM

Hai Jin is a Ph.D. candidate at Fudan University. His research focuses on how contact between Chinese Buddhists and

Seong-hyon Lee received his Ph.D. from Tsinghua University.

Europeans, Americans, and Tibetan and Theravadin Buddhists

He is the former Director of the Center for Chinese Studies

shaped twentieth-century Chinese Buddhism. Research

at the Sejong Institute in South Korea. His research focuses

Interests: Chinese Buddhism with a focus on Buddhist education

on contemporary relations between China and South Korea.

and globalization

Research Interests: contemporary China-South Korea relations

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VISITING SCHOLARS

Qingcheng Li 李庆成

Yi-tang Lin 林意唐

Sichuan Normal University

Swiss National Science Foundation, University of Geneva

HISTORY

HISTORY

Qingcheng Li is Associate Professor in the School of History

Yi-tang Lin is a Post-Doctoral Fellow of modern Chinese

and Tourism of Sichuan Normal University. His research

history. Her research focuses on the activities of international

focuses on U.S.-China relations and U.S.-Taiwan relations

organizations in China in the 20th century. At the Fairbank

during the Cold War period, in particular the interaction among

Center, she will be researching the Rockefeller Foundation’s

Washington, Beijing, and Taipei during the 1970s. Research

Chinese Biology Fellows and agricultural modernization.

Interests: U.S.-China relations; U.S.-Taiwan relations; war

Research Interests: international organizations; public health;

history; diplomatic policy

agricultural studies

Yi-fang Liao 廖宜方

Kevin Luo 羅巍

Academia Sinica

Tsinghua University

HISTORY

POLITICAL SCIENCE

Yi-fang Liao is an Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of

Kevin Luo received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the

History and Philology in the Academia Sinica. His latest book

University of Toronto. His research focuses on large state-

examines the formation of emperor worship in imperial China.

building led by authoritarian regimes and their legacies on

Research Interests: intellectual history of East Asia

authoritarian institutions, with an emphasis on Taiwan, China, and East Asia. Research Interests: state building, authoritarian

Lei Lin 林蕾 Duke Kunshan University HISTORY

regimes & democratization; conflict and security

Anne-Sophie Pratte 安哲 University of Montreal

Lei Lin is Assistant Professor at Duke Kunshan University.

HISTORY

Her research examines the position of the trans-Himalayan region in global history through a framework of comparative imperialism. She is currently completing her first book project on the Qing-Gurkha War (1788-1850). Research Interests: history of late imperial/early modern China; state-building of China under the Qing Empire

Anne-Sophie Pratte is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Montreal. She is currently working on a project entitled “Mapping Qing Mongolia in the 19th Century: Cartography and the Transformation of the Steppe.” Research Interests: Chinese borderland studies; Qing Mongolian cartography; late imperial China

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Harvard University

Tsung-jen Shih 施琮仁

Chin-Po (Bob) Tsen 曾勤博

National Chengchi University

Thanlwin Legal

COMMUNICATION

LAW

Tsungjen Shih is Associate Professor at National Chengchi

Chin-Po (Bob) Tseng received his LL.M. from Northwestern

University. His research addresses public opinion on social

University School of Law. His research centers on foreign direct

issues in Taiwan. Specifically, he focuses on how social media,

investment in Myanmar. Research Interests: Southeast Asian

interpersonal discussions, and individual values shape public

studies; Burma studies

perceptions of these social issues. Research Interests: Taiwan studies; public opinion; social media

Bingxue Wang 王冰雪

Austin Strange 郝思誠

Communication University of Zhejiang FILM AND MEDIA

University of Hong Kong POLITICAL SCIENCE

Bingxue Wang is Associate Professor at Communication Austin Strange is Assistant Professor of International Relations

University of Zhejiang. Her research focuses on film history and

at the University of Hong Kong and a Fellow in the Columbia-

cultural production in contemporary China. At the Fairbank

Harvard China and the World Program. His research examines

Center, she will be working on a project on narrative and urban

historical and contemporary Chinese foreign policy. Research

space in Chinese cinema. Research Interests: cultural memory;

Interests: Chinese foreign policy; international relations;

gender studies; cross-media narrative

international political economy; development

Maosong Wu 吴茂松

Dylan Suher 蘇和

Keio University POLITICAL SCIENCE

University of Hong Kong LITERATURE

Maosong Wu is Associate Professor at Keio University. His Dylan Suher is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Society of Fellows

research examines the development of political modernization

in the Humanities at the University of Hong Kong. His research

in East Asia, particularly the significance of the Weiquan

focuses on contemporary Chinese literature, media ecologies,

movement in China’s political modernization. Research

and ideologies of popular culture. Research Interests: modern

Interests: modernization; democracy; the rights protection

literature; cinema and media studies; popular culture

movement

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VISITING SCHOLARS

Hua Yang 杨华

Yukyung Yeo

Shandong University

Kyung Hee University

HISTORY

POLITICAL SCIENCE

Hua Yang is Associate Professor at the Advanced Institute

Yukyung Yeo is Professor at Kyung Hee University in South

of Confucian Studies of Shandong University. Her research

Korea. Her research focuses on economic coercion and the

focuses on the spread and influence of Western historiography

regional order in East Asia. She examines how increasingly

in Chinese academia and cultural exchanges between China

weaponized markets and resources are influencing the

and the West. Research Interests: American China Studies

remaking of the regional economic order in East Asia. Research Interests: China’s economic coercion and its impacts on the regional order in East Asia

Image: Ke Tang, Harvard University

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Harvard University

Graduate Students 學生研究員 Graduate Student Associates 學生研究員

Fangdai Chen 陳芳代 Department of Comparative Literature LITERATURE

Fangdai Chen works on Chinese/Sinophone literary modernism and

Graduate Student Associates

the avant-garde in the Asia-Euro transcultural context. Her dissertation

are advanced doctoral students

examines the artistic and political significance of Chinese/Sinophone

at Harvard who research China and are affiliated with the Center during one year of their

literary avant-garde practices in dialogue with their Anglo-European counterparts from the early twentieth century to the present. Research Interests: Chinese-language literature; avant-garde

dissertation research and writing. 費正清中心每年在哈佛全校選拔最多

Dingru Huang 黃丁如

行為期一年的博士論文研究與寫作。

LITERATURE

十名高年級博士生作為學生研究員進

Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations

Dingru Huang’s dissertation project, “Between Animal and Machine: Wartime Ecologies, Technologies, and Modernisms in 1930s-40s China,” focuses on how ecological consciousness significantly shaped wartime literature and media in 1930s-40s China. Research Interests: modern Chinese literature; media studies; environmental humanities

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GRADUATE STUDENTS

Kangni Huang 黃康妮

Yiran Zhang 张依然

Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations

Harvard Law School

LITERATURE

LAW

Kangni Huang’s dissertation project examines how drama

Yiran Zhang’s dissertation studies the intersection of care work

and fiction from 16th- to 18th-century China represent literary

and the informal economy in East Asia and the United States.

creation. Research Interests: Chinese literature

It includes three case studies on Filipina care workers, Chinese migrant workers, and the U.S. childcare subsidies. Research Interests: care work; informality; labor migration

Joo-hyeon Oh 吳周炫 Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations HISTORY AND LITERATURE

Joo-hyeon Oh’s dissertation project examines writings on vital

Shanni Zhao 赵姗妮 Department of Anthropology ANTHROPOLOGY

energy (氣), things (物), and the strange (怪) by the 16th-18th centuries late imperial Chinese to reveal a critical mode of thinking about the phenomenal world. Research Interests:

Ming-Qing history; pre-modern Chinese literature

Shanni Zhao’s dissertation project takes state-sponsored matchmaking as a vantage point to study the formation of affective publics in China’s metropolises, and, thereby, the relations between marriage-making and state-making, and between power and attraction. Research Interests: anthropology;

Guanchi Zhang 张冠驰

women, gender, and sexuality studies

Harvard Law School LAW

Guanchi Zhang’s dissertation project examines the massive expansion of Chinese cities and the changing status of the local state. He is also interested in community-based urban redevelopment, school districts, and local emergency power.

Research Interests: law; urban studies; history; political economy

Image: Stephanie Mitchell, Harvard Staff Photographer

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Shum Fellows Shum 研 究 員 The Desmond and Whitney Shum Fellowship supports Harvard graduate students undertaking social science research projects in China. 沈棟與段偉紅研究員基金支持哈佛大學研究生在中國進行社 會科學的研究研究項目。

Zelda Hanyu Zhao 趙寒玉 Department of Government POLITICAL SCIENCE

Zelda Zhao’s dissertation tackles the puzzle of bureaucratic overload in grassroots governance in China today. Her research develops in-depth knowledge of the operations of the Chinese party-state at the grassroots to better understand the institutional and organizational logic of the Chinese bureaucratic system.

She will travel to China for a year of intensive fieldwork. Her research approach combines a structural-institutional perspective and an agent-behavioral perspective. For her project, she will collect quantitative data, conduct interviews, and hold focus group discussions. Research Interests: authoritarianism; Chinese politics; bureaucracy and governance

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Non-Resident Associates in Research 非常駐進合作研究員 The Center’s Non-Resident Associates in Research are China Studies scholars who come to Harvard to use Center resources and participate in Center activities. The work of the

Charles Hartman University at Albany, State University of New York HISTORY

affiliates covers a wide range of fields, including

Charles Hartman’s is Professor at University at Albany,

anthropology, religion, political science,

State University of New York. His research focuses on the

economics, history, and literature. Together with

political history and historiography of the Chinese Song

the Center’s Visiting Scholars and Postdoctoral Fellows, the Non-Resident Associates in Research create a lively community for

dynasty (960-1279) and, more broadly, on middle period Chinese political culture. Research Interests: political

history and historiography of the Chinese Song dynasty; middle period Chinese political culture

interdisciplinary exchange. 費正清中心非常駐合作研究員從事中國研究的學

者。除利用本中心所提供的研究資源外，他們也參 與本中心舉辦的各項活動。非常駐合作研究員的研 究涉及多個領域，包括人類學、宗教學、政治學、

Daryl Ireland 艾德恩 Boston University THEOLOGY

經濟學、歷史學和文學。他們與本中心的訪問學者 和博士後研究人員一起，形成了生機勃勃的跨學科 交流社群。

Daryl Ireland is Research Assistant Professor at Boston University. His research focuses on Chinese propaganda posters produced in China between 1927-1951, which reveal how Christians competed with Communist and Nationalist messages on how to save the nation. Research

Interests: late Qing and Republican era in Chinese history; Protestant missions and indigenous Chinese Christian

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Haihong Li 李海鸿 Independent Scholar SOCIAL STUDIES

Haihong Li is an independent scholar. Her research focuses on the complicated relations between Asian/Chinese Americans and White Americans, and between Asian/Chinese Americans and other minorities in the U.S. Research Interests: anti-Asian/ Chinese violence

Richard Marino 理查德 Independent Scholar ECONOMICS

Richard “Rich” Marino is an independent scholar of Chinese economics and former Senior Vice-President, New York Region, for Morgan Stanley, Inc. Research Interests: Chinese economy; U.S.-China trade war; the economics of the Belt and Road Initiative

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Kyle Shernuk 佘仁強

Qin Zhang

Queen Mary University of London

Independent Scholar

LITERATURE

ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY

Kyle Shernuk is Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at Queen Mary

Qin Zhang’s research focuses on architects who graduated

University of London. His research focuses on the tension

from U.S. universities during the 1920s and 1930s. In particular,

between the ideas of ethnicity and Chineseness in Sinographic

she examines these architects’ impacts on Chinese cities and

literature. Research Interests: Chinese literature; comparative

Chinese architectural education. Research Interests: architects;

literature; Sinophone Studies; ethnicity and gender

Chinese cities; Chinese architectural education

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Our Community in Numbers 2020-21 2020-21年度 本所成員構成

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Harvard University faculty members affiliated with the Fairbank Center 位費正清中心的哈佛教授成員

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Fairbank Center affiliates from around the world 位世界各地的費正清中心成員

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Harvard University

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Speakers at our public events and conferences 位本中心公眾活動及學術 會議演講者

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Public events, plus an additional 58 co-sponsored events with 25 other centers and organizations 場 公 眾 活 動 ，及 與 全 校 2 5 個 研 究 中心聯合舉辦的58場校內活動

Over Sixty Years of China Studies at Harvard 六十餘載哈佛中國研究 About the Fairbank Center

關於費正清中國研究中心

The Fairbank Center was founded in 1955 by Professor John King Fairbank, a leading scholar in modern and contemporary China Studies.

Originally the Center for East Asian Research, the Center was renamed the Fairbank Center in honor of Professor Fairbank’s signal contributions to China Studies through his teaching and publications. Under Professor Fairbank’s leadership, the Center took an active role in promoting the study of modern and contemporary

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China from a social science perspective. Today, the Fairbank Center advances scholarship in all fields of China Studies at Harvard and beyond.

Faculty-led seminar series in the humanities and social sciences 堂由本中心教員主導的人文 及社會科學系列討論課

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