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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260311T160000
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SUMMARY:From Copycat to Technology Innovator: China’s Use of IP as Strategic Governance -- Haochen Sun
DESCRIPTION:East Asian Legal Studies Talk\nCo-sponsored with the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society \nHaochen Sun LLM ’06\nProfessor of Law\, The University of Hong Kong\nFounding Director\, HKU Program on AI and the Law \nWhat role have state-orchestrated intellectual property policies played in China’s emergence as a major technology innovator? This talk discusses two interrelated transformations that have taken place in China over the past two decades: the rise and fall of the shanzai (copycat) culture movement and China’s ascent as a tech superpower since 2015. In analyzing these transformations\, the talk explains how China has deployed IP as a tool of strategic governance and statecraft. \nProfessor Haochen Sun specializes in intellectual property\, technology law\, and Chinese law. His wide-ranging scholarship has delved into areas such as the legal status of artificial intelligence creations\, access to patented medicines and vaccines\, intellectual property rights owners’ responsibilities\, and the trademark protection of luxury brands. He is currently working on two new research projects. The first one aims to develop a new ethical framework for regulating AI creativity\, while the second one critically examines the epic transformations that have taken place in China’s regulation of technologies. He recently founded the Program on Artificial Intelligence and the Law\, a research hub for studying the impact of AI on the legal system. \nCoffee and light snacks will be provided. Please register here. \nA Harvard ID is required in order to enter Harvard Law School buildings. If you have questions\, please contact eals@law.harvard.edu in advance of the event.
URL:https://eals.law.harvard.edu/event/haochen-sun-2026/
LOCATION:WCC 2004
CATEGORIES:EALS Event,Talk/Panel
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260306T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260306T121500
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SUMMARY:What is the Legal Status of Taiwan and Why Does it Matter?
DESCRIPTION:Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Taiwan Workshop \nSpeaker: Peter Dutton\, Senior Research Fellow\, Paul Tsai China Center; Professor Emeritus\, U.S. Naval War College \nDiscussant: Alastair Iain Johnston\, Professor\, Government Department\, Harvard University \nTaiwan’s political status often dominates headlines. Yet its legal status — the foundation of U.S. policy — remains underdiscussed. At this event\, Paul Tsai China Center Senior Fellow Dr. Peter Dutton will trace Taiwan’s territorial status from the Qing Dynasty to the present day\, shedding light on the legal principles and historical developments that define its position in the world. \nPeter Dutton is a senior research fellow at the Paul Tsai China Center and Professor Emeritus at the U.S. Naval War College. Before coming to Yale\, Dutton served the U.S. Navy for more than 40 years in active duty and civilian capacities. He has advised a series of Pacific Fleet Commanders\, Secretaries of Defense\, Chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff\, and other government offices on policies in the Asia-Pacific region and testified before the Senate and the House on a variety of China-related issues. He was also a professor of international law and China studies at the U.S. Naval War College\, where he directed the China Maritime Studies Institute and served as dean of the Center for Naval Warfare Studies. \nEvent details on the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies website.
URL:https://eals.law.harvard.edu/event/peter-dutton-2026/
LOCATION:CGIS South S153
CATEGORIES:Event of Interest,Talk/Panel
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251117T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251117T163000
DTSTAMP:20260506T151937
CREATED:20251112T143230Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251118T180615Z
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SUMMARY:Once Burned\, Twice Shy: A Conversation on U.S.- China Trade -- Ambassador Katherine Tai
DESCRIPTION:Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Special Event \nSpeaker: Ambassador Katherine C. Tai\, U.S. Trade Representative (2021-2025)\nModerator: Mark Wu\, Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law\, Harvard Law School; Director\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard University \nJoin us for a conversation with Ambassador Katherine C. Tai\, U.S. Trade Representative (2021-2025) on U.S.- China trade relations\, moderated by Professor Mark Wu\, Director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. Ambassador Tai will examine the longstanding issues in the trade relationship\, dating back to her days as the Chief Counsel for China Trade Enforcement in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative\, and the harms to U.S. communities and interests arising out of the “China Shock.”  She will also assess the ongoing trade conflict and the likelihood of further challenges ahead as the world’s two largest economies navigate a complicated and contentious relationship with immense economic\, strategic\, and social consequences. \nEvent details on the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies website.
URL:https://eals.law.harvard.edu/event/katherine-tai-2025/
LOCATION:Hall D\, Science Center
CATEGORIES:Conversation/Fireside Chat,Event of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251031T122000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251031T132000
DTSTAMP:20260506T151937
CREATED:20250925T153018Z
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SUMMARY:Where is the "Next China"? It's Still China— But It Will Require a Different Playbook -- Joe Ngai
DESCRIPTION:[Location Change: This event will now be held in WCC B015 (previously WCC 3018).] \nEast Asian Legal Studies Talk: \nFairbank Center for Chinese Studies China Economy Lecture: \nJoe Ngai JD ‘99 \nSenior Partner and Chairman of Greater China Offices\, McKinsey & Company \nJoe Ngai is a senior partner at McKinsey & Company and chairman of its Greater China offices in Beijing\, Hong Kong\, Shanghai\, Shenzhen\, and Taipei. In the past two decades\, he has led large-scale transformations for Chinese and multinational organizations and advises many corporate leaders in the region. Mr. Ngai has been named one of the 2023 and 2024 Forbes China “100 Most Influential Chinese” and one of the 2022 “CEOs of the Year for Multinational Corporations in China” by Jiemian News. He holds an AB\, JD\, and MBA from Harvard University. \n\nJoe will share his observations of the opportunities ahead for businesses in China\, especially in the context of increasingly complex geopolitics\, slowdown in the China macro-economy\, a rapidly aging society and the emergence of AI. What is the new playbook required for businesses to succeed? What does this mean for lawyers? \nA light lunch will be provided. Please register here. \n*Location note: In past years\, EALS talks were generally in Morgan Courtroom (Austin 308)\, but due to the construction project currently underway next to Austin Hall\, we will hold most EALS talks in Wasserstein Hall during the 2025-2026 academic year. \nCo-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies.
URL:https://eals.law.harvard.edu/event/joe-ngai-2025/
LOCATION:WCC B015 (Basement of Wasserstein Hall)
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Event,EALS Event,Talk/Panel
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250305T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250305T174500
DTSTAMP:20260506T151937
CREATED:20250226T165240Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250306T194811Z
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SUMMARY:Unchained Watchdog: How China’s Supervision Commission Escapes Legal Bounds
DESCRIPTION:Fairbank Center Critical Issues Confronting China Series \nJeremy Daum\nSenior Research Scholar in Law and Senior Fellow\nPaul Tsai China Center\, Yale Law School \nModerator:\nWilliam Alford\nJerome A. and Joan L. Cohen Professor of Law\nDirector\, East Asian Legal Studies Program \nJeremy Daum is a Senior Research Scholar in Law and Senior Fellow at the Paul Tsai China Center. He is based in Beijing\, and has more than a decade of experience working in China on collaborative legal reform projects. His principal research focus is criminal procedure law\, with a particular emphasis on the protection of vulnerable populations such as juveniles and the mentally ill in the criminal justice system. He is also an authority on China’s “social credit system.” Jeremy has spoken about these issues at universities throughout China and the United States and has co-authored a book on U.S. capital punishment jurisprudence for Chinese readers. He is the founder and contributing editor of the collaborative translation and commentary site Chinalawtranslate.com\, dedicated to improving mutual understanding between legal professionals in China and abroad. \nSponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies.
URL:https://eals.law.harvard.edu/event/jeremy-daum-2025/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)
CATEGORIES:Event of Interest,Talk/Panel
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240507T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240507T100000
DTSTAMP:20260506T151937
CREATED:20240429T174515Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250125T072440Z
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SUMMARY:Rightscaling Cities: The Political Economy of City Territory in China
DESCRIPTION:Fairbank Center Urban China Lecture Series \nZhang Guanchi (S.J.D. 2023)\nAssistant Professor of Law\, Vermont Law and Graduate School \n \nHow has the rescaling of the city territories interacted with China’s political and economic transformation? During the country’s rapid industrialization and urbanization\, Chinese cities have exhibited a relatively low degree of territorial fragmentation. This study examines the institutional experiments that have reclassified\, redivided\, and recombined local government territory in the People’s Republic of China since 1949. I argue that the constant rescaling of cities is a distinctive and underestimated mechanism in the Chinese state’s steering of economic transformation. \nThrough extensive fieldwork and archival research\, I find that the question of city scale has been integral to China’s economic modernization for the last seven decades. The constant tensions between the metropolitan center and periphery have driven various territorial reforms\, both before and after the market-oriented reform. These reforms have profoundly shaped the state’s economic development projects. I argue that\, over time\, metropolitan governments emerge as the primary scale for inter-local competition and coordination. While this particular territorial choice has contributed to China’s economic rise\, its entrenchment has ramifications for the country’s current challenges. \nGuanchi Zhang is an Assistant Professor of Law at Vermont Law and Graduate School. His research interests lie at the intersection of law\, urban studies\, and political economy. His current research projects focus on two primary areas of inquiry: the rise and fall of efforts to rightscale cities in China and the United States\, and the role of housing and zoning laws in the context of growing geographic disparities. \nEvent details and Zoom registration link on Fairbank Center website (will open in a new tab). \nSponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies.
URL:https://eals.law.harvard.edu/event/guanchi-zhang-2024/
LOCATION:Online (Zoom)
CATEGORIES:Event of Interest,Talk/Panel
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240403T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240403T131500
DTSTAMP:20260506T151937
CREATED:20240313T183658Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250125T073425Z
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SUMMARY:Can Regulation Revive China’s Sagging Economy?
DESCRIPTION:Fairbank Center Critical Issues Confronting China Series \nAngela Huyue Zhang\nAssociate Professor of Law and Director\, Philip K.H. Wong Centre for Chinese Law\, University of Hong Kong\nProfessor of Law\, University of Southern California (in fall 2024) \nChina’s economy is at a crossroads\, facing its most significant challenges in recent memory. Amidst this economic turmoil\, a fierce debate has emerged among experts: Is the current economic downturn a result of ingrained structural issues\, recent policy shifts\, or escalating geopolitical tensions? \nIn this talk\, Professor Angela Zhang will offer a fresh perspective\, steering the conversation towards the impact of law on the Chinese economy. Drawing insights from her latest book\, “High Wire: How China Regulates Big Tech and Governs Its Economy\,” Professor Zhang will introduce the “Dynamic Pyramid Model” to demystify China’s regulatory governance. Through this lens\, she will explain the consistent regulatory pattern in some of the biggest policy challenges China has faced in recent years\, including tech regulation\, the covid-19 pandemic control\, the energy crisis in 2021\, the ongoing property crack down and China’s demographic crisis. This discussion aims to shed light on the political logic underpinning China’s regulatory policies\, while also identifying potential pathways toward economic revival. \nAngela Zhang is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Hong Kong and Director of the Philip K. H. Wong Center for Chinese Law. Widely recognized as a leading authority on China’s tech regulation\, Angela has written extensively on this topic. She is the author of “Chinese Antitrust Exceptionalism: How the Rise of China Challenges Global Regulation” (Oxford\, 2021)\, which was named one of the Best Political Economy Books of 2021 by ProMarket. Angela’s second book\, “High Wire: How China Regulates Big Tech and Governs Its Economy\,” was released by Oxford University Press in March 2024. In fall 2024\, Angela will join the University of Southern California as a Professor of Law. For more information\, please visit her website at AngelaZhang.net\, and follow her on Twitter @AngelaZhangHK. \nEvent details on the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies website (will open in a new tab). \nSponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies.
URL:https://eals.law.harvard.edu/event/angela-zhang-2024/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room
CATEGORIES:Event of Interest,Talk/Panel
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231011T122000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231011T134500
DTSTAMP:20260506T151937
CREATED:20240419T234849Z
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SUMMARY:Law and Political Economy in China: The Role of Law in Corporate Governance and Market Growth
DESCRIPTION:East Asian Legal Studies Book Launch & Panel Discussion \nAuthor: \n\nTamar Groswald Ozery\, Assistant Professor\, Department of Asian Studies\, Hebrew University of Jerusalem\n\nPanelists: \n\nWilliam P. Alford (moderator)\, Jerome A. and Joan L. Cohen Professor of Law\, Director of East Asian Legal Studies\, Chair of the Harvard Law School Project on Disability\, Harvard Law School\nRui Guo\, Visiting Scholar\, East Asian Legal Studies\, Harvard Law School\nNicholas C. Howson\, Pao Li Tsiang Professor of Law\, University of Michigan Law School\nMariana Pargendler\, Professor\, Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) Law School; Professor of Law\, Harvard Law School (effective July 2024)\nMeg Rithmire\, F. Warren MacFarlan Associate Professor\, Business\, Government\, and International Economy Unit\, Harvard Business School\n\nIn her new book\, Law and Political Economy in China: The Role of Law in Corporate Governance and Market Growth (Cambridge University Press\, 2023)\, Tamar Groswald Ozery takes a law & political economy approach to deconstruct the role of law in China’s market development since 1978. \nPlease join us for a book launch event featuring a panel of international corporate governance and China law experts. Professor Groswald Ozery\, Professor Rithmire\, and Dr. Guo will join Professor Alford in person. Professor Howson and Professor Pargendler will participate via Zoom. \nDiscussion will mainly focus on the role of formal law in governing markets during the “Legalized Politicization Era” (2010–present)\, the present era of market development in China. Covered extensively in the book\, the present era reveals a shift in China’s political–economic equilibrium. The authorities over governing markets are being reconfigured to handle the consequences of prior era state capitalism. Such reconfiguration of market governance is achieved through the mobilization of legal institutions in two main directions: intensifying the presence of the regulatory state in the market and shifting substantial market governance powers directly to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). \nBoxed lunch will be provided. \nLearn about the book on the Cambridge University Press website (public site).\nAccess the complete e-book on Cambridge Core through the Harvard Library (Harvard login required). \nAuthor Profile:\nTamar Groswald Ozery is an Assistant Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem\, Israel. Previously\, she was a Grotius Fellow (Michigan Law)\, a Research & Teaching Fellow (Harvard Law)\, and the editor of the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance. Her published scholarly works focus on Chinese corporate governance\, cross-border investments\, and party-state market relations. She is a frequent commentator on China’s legal system\, political economy\, and global economic integration; and has testified before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission. Prior to academia\, she spearheaded the China department of a leading Israeli law firm. \nPanelist Profiles:\nWilliam P. Alford (J.D. 1977) is Jerome A. and Joan L. Cohen Professor of Law at Harvard Law School\, where he is also Director of East Asian Legal Studies\, Chair of the Harvard Law School Project on Disability\, and Senior Advisor for Graduate and International Legal Studies. His work on law and legal history in East Asia includes To Steal a Book is an Elegant Offense: Intellectual Property Law in Chinese Civilization; Raising the Bar: The Emerging Legal Profession in East Asia; 残疾人法律保障机制研究 (A Study of Legal Mechanisms to Protect Persons with Disabilities); Prospects for the Professions in China; Taiwan and International Human Rights; and An Oral History of the Special Olympics in China. \nRui Guo (S.J.D. 2013) is a Visiting Scholar at the East Asian Legal Studies program at Harvard Law School. His research centers on the rise of Chinese State-owned Enterprises (SOEs) and their intricate economic\, social\, and political implications. He earned his S.J.D. from Harvard Law School and holds both an L.L.B and L.L.M from the China University of Political Science and Law in Beijing. Alongside his interests in corporate law\, he also explores various legal education subjects in the United States and China\, including disability law and AI ethics. \nNicholas C. Howson is the Pao Li Tsiang Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School. He is a former partner of Paul\, Weiss\, Rifkind\, Wharton & Garrison LLP who worked out of the firm’s New York\, Paris\, London\, and Beijing offices\, and as a managing partner of the firm’s Asia Practice based in the Chinese capital. Professor Howson has spent many years living in the People’s Republic of China (PRC)\, both as a scholar and as a practicing lawyer based in Beijing. Professor Howson writes and lectures widely on Chinese law topics\, focusing on Chinese corporate law and securities regulation\, the Chinese capital markets\, Chinese legal history\, and the development of constitutionalism in Greater China. He acts as a Chinese law expert or party advocate in U.S. and international litigation and/or U.S. government enforcement actions. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations\, and a designated foreign arbitrator for both the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission in Beijing and the Shanghai International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission. \nMariana Pargendler will join Harvard Law School as a Professor of Law\, effective July 1\, 2024. She is currently a professor at FGV Sao Paulo Law School\, where she coordinates the Nucleus of Law\, Economics\, and Governance (NuDEG)\, and is also Global Associate Professor of Law at New York University (NYU) School of Law. Professor Pargendler received a J.S.D. from Yale Law School\, where she was a fellow researcher at the Olin Center for Studies in Law\, Economics\, and Public Policy as well as a research fellow at the Millstein Center for Corporate Governance and Performance at the Yale School of Management. Her academic research focuses on the areas of contract law\, corporate law\, and corporate governance\, from an economic and comparative perspective. Her papers have been published in renowned national and international journals\, and she is co-author of the third edition of the book The Anatomy of Corporate Law: A Comparative and Functional Approach (Oxford University Press\, 2017)\, which has been translated into several languages. \nMeg Rithmire is the F. Warren MacFarlan associate professor in the Business\, Government\, and International Economy Unit at Harvard Business School. Professor Rithmire holds a Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University\, and her primary expertise is in the comparative political economy of development with a focus on China and Asia. Her first book\, Land Bargains and Chinese Capitalism (Cambridge University Press\, 2015)\, examines the role of land politics\, urban governments\, and local property rights regimes in the Chinese economic reforms. Her new book investigates the relationship between capital and the state and globalization in Asia\, comparing China\, Malaysia\, and Indonesia from the early 1980s to the present. The book\, Precarious Ties: Business and the State in Authoritarian Asia (Oxford University Press\, 2023)\, examines how governments attempt to discipline business and\, second\, how business adapts to different methods of state control. Her work also focuses on China’s role in the world\, including Chinese outward investment and lending practices and economic relations between China and other countries\, especially the United States. \nSponsored by the East Asian Legal Studies program at Harvard Law School\, the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University\, and the Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia at Harvard Kennedy School.
URL:https://eals.law.harvard.edu/event/tamar-groswald-ozery-2023/
LOCATION:WCC Milstein East A (2nd floor of Wasserstein Hall)
CATEGORIES:Book Talk,EALS Event,Talk/Panel
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190225T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190225T180000
DTSTAMP:20260506T151937
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SUMMARY:Symbolic Legitimacy and Chinese Environmental Reform
DESCRIPTION:Fairbank Center Environment in Asia Lecture Series \nAlex Wang\nProfessor of Law\, UCLA School of Law \nAt the heart of debates over Chinese rule of law is the question of state legitimacy. Critics argue that legitimacy requires liberal democratic rule of law. Chinese leaders have long relied on performance legitimacy — economic development and maintenance of social stability — as the core basis of their rule. Western scholarship on modern Chinese law and politics has\, to a significant degree\, critiqued the ability of China’s current institutions to perform as claimed. \nBut apart from any actual results that Chinese governance may generate\, the entire project of governance reform can be structured in a way that influences public impressions of state legitimacy. The process of reform is not only about attaining performance goals\, but is itself a kind of performance. This act of “performing performance” also signals competence\, commitment to the people\, tradition\, nationalist strength\, and a host of other positive values to citizens and other audiences. \nThis talk explores the symbolic aspects of Chinese environmental reform and potential implications\, drawing on case studies in air pollution\, climate change\, and China’s Belt & Road Initiative. \n\n\n\nAlex Wang is Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law\, and a leading expert on environmental law and the law and politics of China. His research focuses on the social effects of law\, and the interaction of law and institutions in China and the United States. His previous research has examined\, among other things\, the institutional design of environmental law and policy\, environmental bureaucracy\, public interest litigation\, information disclosure\, and environmental courts. His work has addressed air pollution\, climate change\, and other environmental issues. \n  \nEvent details on the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies website (opens in a new tab). \nSponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. Co-sponsored by East Asian Legal Studies.
URL:https://eals.law.harvard.edu/event/symbolic-legitimacy-and-chinese-environmental-reform/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Event,Talk/Panel
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181009T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181009T173000
DTSTAMP:20260506T151937
CREATED:20240423T235341Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250127T154627Z
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SUMMARY:Recent Developments in Xinjiang
DESCRIPTION:Adrian Zenz\nEuropean School of Culture & Theology\, Germany \nModerator: Mark C. Elliott\nVice Provost\, International Affairs\nProfessor of Chinese and Inner Asian History\, Harvard University \nAdrian Zenz is faculty member in social research methods at the European School of Culture and Theology\, Korntal\, Germany. His research focus is on China’s ethnic policy and public recruitment in Tibet and Xinjiang. He is author of “Tibetanness under Threat” and co-editor of the “Mapping Amdo” series of the Amdo Tibetan Research Network. \nEvent details on the Fairbank Center website (opens in a new tab). \nCo-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies\, EALS and the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program.
URL:https://eals.law.harvard.edu/event/recent-developments-in-xinjiang/
LOCATION:Belfer Case Study Room S020\, CGIS South S20
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Event,Talk/Panel
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SUMMARY:His Excellency Cui Tiankai Speaking on U.S.-China Relations
DESCRIPTION:His Excellency Cui Tiankai\nAmbassador of the People’s Republic of China to the United States \nModerator: Professor Michael Szonyi \nDirector\, Fairbank Center For Chinese Studies\nProfessor of Chinese History\, Harvard University \nCo-sponsored by the Fairbank Center For Chinese Studies\, the Harvard University Asia Center\, and EALS.
URL:https://eals.law.harvard.edu/event/his-excellency-cui-tiankai-speaking-on-us-china-relations/
LOCATION:Austin Hall 100
CATEGORIES:EALS Event,Talk/Panel
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