Taiwan, a vibrant and prosperous democracy of nearly 25 million people, is at the frontline of the Sino-US great power competition. Join the Kennedy School's Ash Center and the National Taiwan University (NTU) Center for China Studies for a discussion of HKS policy research on Taiwan. We will hear from HKS students who have just finished their PAE/SYPA capstones on Taiwan-related topics, followed by an in-depth engagement between the students and faculty members of both the HKS Ash Center and NTU on their policy research....
This event has been rescheduled from Wednesday, February 23rd to Thursday, February 24th at the same time, 9:30-10:30 AM ET.
Join the Ash Center, Harvard Kennedy School China Society, and the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government (M-RCBG) for a discussion on China's impact on "vulnerable" states in Europe with Philippe Le Corre, a research fellow with the Ash Center and M-RCBG. The emergence of China as a major economic and diplomatic player has brought special challenges to many countries. Among those are...
This webinar will be given by Yuen Yuen Ang, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor as part of M-RCBG's weekly Business & Government Series. This event is cosponsored by the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation.
Yuen Yuen Ang is the author of How China Escaped the Poverty Trap (2016) and China's Gilded Age: The Paradox of Economic Boom and Vast Corruption (2020). In 2021, she was named by Apolitical among the Top 100 Most Influential Academics in Government. She is also the inaugural recipient of the Theda Skocpol Prize...
This online study group, held on six Fridays 9:30-10:30 AM ET is designed to engage HKS degree students to understand China’s historical rise, critical current challenges, and its role in the world moving forward. Led by Professors Tony Saich and Edward Cunningham, who combined leverage over 75 years of experience working in and with China, the program will also draw on the expertise of a range of HKS Ash Center China programs postdoctoral fellows, practitioners and others from business, media, and policy analysis. Our goal is to have...
Join the Ash Center and Harvard Kennedy School China Society for a discussion with Paul Clifford, author of The China Paradox: At the Front Line of Economic Transformation. Clifford will be joined in discussion by Wenchi Yu, non-resident research fellow at the Ash Center and an expert in Chinese technology business strategy.
The Ash Center and Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies invite you to a book talk with Manfred Elfstrom, author of Workers and Change in China: Resistance, Repression,& Responsiveness (2021, Cambridge University Press) and Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of British Columbia. Elfstrom will be joined...
The promulgation of the National Security Law by Beijing is a paradigm shift for Hong Kong's legal and political environment. The concept of 'national security' under the People's Republic of China (PRC) law is broad and overarching. In combination with this and other restrictions from Beijing, the National Security Law has created a new environment under which international businesses and NGOs need to understand the risks they face. During this discussion, Dennis Kwok, Senior Fellow at the Ash Center, and Elizabeth Donkervoort, Program...
This online study group, held on six Fridays 9:30-10:30am ET is designed to engage HKS degree students to understand China’s historical rise, critical current challenges, and it’s role in the world moving forward. Led by Professors Tony Saich and Edward Cunningham, who combined leverage over 75 years of experience working in and with China, the program will also draw on the expertise of a range of HKS Ash Center China programs postdoctoral fellows, practitioners and others from business, media, and policy analysis. Our goal is to have students leave the group with a...
The Ash Center invites you to a book talk with Tony Saich, Daewoo Professor of International Affairs, Ash Center Director, and author of the forthcoming From Rebel to Ruler: One Hundred Years of the Chinese Communist Party (Harvard University Press, 2021). Saich will be joined by Elizabeth J. Perry, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government at Harvard University and Director of the ...
