This public discussion will highlight key challenges of racism, misogyny and other discrimination faced by our Asian and Asian-American community, the responses of local organizations who have long sought to address such challenges, and what more needs to be done in our own communities. Speakers represent perspectives from the Harvard Kennedy School’s staff, faculty and student groups, as well as leading local non-profits.
Speakers include:
Anisha Asundi, Research Fellow: Gender Specialist, Harvard Kennedy School Women and Public Policy Program...
You are invited to the annual S.T. Lee Lecture on Military History, Strategy, and Policymaking for “China Inside Out: A Conversation with Professor Susan Shirk.” Professor Shirk, who serves as Chair of the 21st Century China Center at the University of California San Diego will argue that it is not possible to assess the external dynamics of contemporary China unless one fully understands the internal situation of the country. Tony Saich, Daewoo Professor of International Affairs and Director of the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, will moderate.... Read more about China Inside Out: A Conversation with Professor Susan Shirk
Join the Ash Center and Harvard-Yenching Institute for their annual roundtable discussion. An interdisciplinary panel of distinguished scholars from China, India, Japan, Korea and Vietnam will explore the record of successful and unsuccessful efforts at rural development in their own countries. Why have some programs succeeded in increasing productivity, improving infrastructure and public services, alleviating poverty, and ameliorating social and economic inequality, whereas others proved much less successful? What have Asian countries learned from these achievements and...
Jack Ma has become the global face of Chinese entrepreneurship and represents the growing influence of private business and capital in China. Yet the decision by Chinese regulators to halt the IPO of his latest venture, the Ant Group, as well as subsequent investigations into the company has raised questions about why Beijing seems to have suddenly tried to exert greater control over the fintech giant. Join Wall Street Journal reporter Lingling Wei...
This final session is titled, "China and BRI: Analysis and Implications" and will feature Ash Center Fellow Shirley Yu.
China Study Student Group: Voices and Analysis from the Field
This study group, held on six Fridays 11am-12pm to accommodate the widest range of time zones globally, engages HKS degree students to understand China’s rise and its role in the world moving forward. Led by...
Join the Ash Center and the SOAS China Institute for a talk at 12:00 PM ET (5:00 PM GMT) with Ash Center Director Tony Saich about the different explanations for the continued resilience of CCP rule. While the Chinese party-state can employ coercion and threaten those individuals and groups it deems to be a danger, it is inconceivable that it could retain sufficient authority over the long-term through the threat of force alone. This talk will consider the shift from the CCP’s use of charismatic authority and the importance of ideology to its manipulation of nationalism, historical...
This fifth session is titled, "What does doing business in China tell us about Chinese politics – the ICT sector" and will feature Ash Center Senior Fellow Paul Clifford.
China Study Student Group: Voices and Analysis from the Field
This study group, held on six Fridays 11am-12pm to accommodate the widest range of time zones globally, engages HKS degree students to understand China...
China Study Student Group: Voices and Analysis from the Field
This fourth session will be led by students with relevant experience, along with Professors Saich and Cunningham, to focus on the practical and broader implications of current US-China tensions.
This study group, held on six Fridays 11am-12pm to accommodate the widest range of time zones globally, engages HKS degree students to understand China’s rise and its role in the world moving forward. Led by Professors Tony Saich and Edward Cunningham, who...
Value Clashes, Power Competition & Community Trust: Why An NGO's Earthquake Recovery Program Faltered in Rural China
Join the Ash Center, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, and Harvard-Yenching Institute (HYI) for a discussion with Deng Yanhua, Professor, School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Nanjing University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2020-21. Anthony Saich, Daewoo Professor of International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School, will...
