Harvard Fairbank Center For Chinese Studies

In 2004, David Barboza became the New York Times' Shanghai correspondent, where he began researching a story that would fundamentally change the relationship between Western journalists and the Chinese government. The story involved the former Prime Minister of China, Wen Jiabao, and his billions of hidden assets in stocks, companies, and through family and close friends. By confirming rumors that indicated corruption at the highest levels of the Chinese government, David Barboza's report was explosive, and received the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting. The scandalizing nature of his report did not go unnoticed by Beijing, however, and the New York Times website remains blocked in China to this day. The "Harvard on China" podcast sat down with David Barboza while he was in residence at Harvard's Nieman Foundation for Journalism in 2016. This interview is the inaugural conversation in the Fairbank Center’s “Communicating China” project, where we examine how China is communicated in public di

China has a long and complex history of interacting with foreign thinkers. After Mao's death in 1976, the Chinese leadership solicited foreign economists in order to curate China’s path towards market reforms and the economic boom that continues today. These little-understood partnerships between foreign economists and China's leaders are the subject of Julian Gewirtz’s new book “Unlikely Partners: Western Economists, and the Making of Global China" from Harvard University Press. This project developed out of Julian's senior thesis here at Harvard, supervised by the Fairbank Center’s own Professor Erez Manella in 2013. Julian is currently a Rhodes Scholar and DPhil Candidate in history at the University of Oxford. The "Harvard on China" podcast is hosted by James Evans at Harvard's Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. Listen to more podcasts at the Fairbank Center's SoundCloud page.

Today’s guest on the “Harvard on China” podcast is Sarah Allan, the Burlington Northern Foundation Professor of Asian Studies at Dartmouth College, and Chair of the Society for the Study of Early China. Professor Allan's research explores previously undiscovered Chinese philosophical texts from the Warring States period (475-221 BCE) written on bamboo slips and buried in tombs in rural China. The "Harvard on China" podcast is hosted by James Evans at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. Listen to more podcasts at the Fairbank Center's SoundCloud page.

Today’s guest on the Harvard on China podcast is Gail Hershatter, Distinguished Professor of History at the University of California Santa Cruz. Her research spans the history of China’s long twentieth century. She re-examines the immense societal changes of China's communist past through oral histories of rural women. While Mao Zedong's mass campaigns for collectivization, anti-intellectualism and ideological purity raged in China’s coastal cities, did these rural women experience the same messages as their urban counterparts? The "Harvard on China" podcast is hosted by James Evans at Harvard's Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. Listen to more podcasts at the Fairbank Center's SoundCloud page.

This week, President Donald Trump meets Chinese President Xi Jinping for the first time. Will their meeting herald a new era in U.S.-China relations? Probably not, and in fact we may see a lot of short term instability between Washington and Beijing. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't be optimistic about the future of this vital relationship. The "Harvard on China" podcast spoke with John Pomfret - former Beijing bureau chief for the Washington Post from 1996 to 2003, and author of "The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom: America and China, 1776 to the Present" - about how he sees the Trump-Xi meeting in the historical context of U.S.-China relations. The "Harvard on China" podcast is hosted by James Evans at Harvard's Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. Listen to more podcasts at the Fairbank Center's SoundCloud page.

President-elect Donald Trump broke diplomatic protocol by receiving a call from Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen. Why is this phone call so important, why shouldn’t Trump have taken the call, and why are the foreign policy establishment seemingly split on the issue? We spoke with Steven Goldstein, Fairbank Center Associate, organizer of the Center’s Taiwan Studies Workshop, and Sophia Smith Professor of Government, Emeritus at Smith College. The "Harvard on China" podcast is hosted by James Evans at Harvard's Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. Listen to more podcasts at the Fairbank Center's SoundCloud page.

In the West, we often consider Western philosophical discourse to have a degree of universality. This is not always the case, however, when we think about Chinese thought. Why does Chinese philosophy not hold a similar degree of universal applicability that is assigned to thinkers such as Plato, Aristotle, and Kant? Can China’s past be conceptualized as a global heritage beyond individuals who are considered Chinese? Leigh Jenco is an Associate Professor in Political Theory at the London School of Economics. Her research examines Chinese political thought and linkages in political theory between East Asia and the West, and she is the author of the forthcoming Changing Referents: Learning Across Time and Space in China and the West, from Oxford University Press. The "Harvard on China" podcast is hosted by James Evans at Harvard's Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. Listen to more podcasts at the Fairbank Center's SoundCloud page.

Sino-Japanese relations are often portrayed as a rivalry hindered by historical grievances. Joshua Fogel, Canada Research Chair at York University, Toronto, explores a different side of China’s relationship with Japan. Fogel is the author of many books on Sino-Japanese relations, with his latest book, Japanese for Sinologists, forthcoming from University of California Press. The Harvard on China podcast talks to Joshua Fogel about his recent research on Kanzo Uchiyama—the founder of Shanghai’s Uchiyama Bookstore and close friend of Chinese literary giant Lu Xun—about how this deep friendship fostered a personal connection between China and Japan and provides grounds for further research on Sino-Japanese relations. The "Harvard on China" podcast is hosted by James Evans at Harvard's Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. Listen to more podcasts on the Fairbank Center's SoundCloud page.

Europe’s post-2008 financial crises have provided opportunities for Chinese overseas investment in cash-strapped European states. From infrastructure investments in a high-speed rail line between Serbia and Hungary, to developing Greece’s port of Piraeus, becoming majority shareholders in France’s Toulouse airport, and developing business parks in Belarus, China’s continent-wide investments are altering economic and political realities across Europe. In the wake of Britain’s decision to leave the European Union (Brexit), how will Chinese investment continue to change realpolitik in the Old Continent? The Harvard on China podcast talks with Phillipe Le Corre, a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institute, former advisor at France’s Ministry of Defense, and former fellow at Harvard’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. Le Corre is the author of “China Offensive in Europe” from Brookings Institution Press. The "Harvard on China" podcast is hosted by James Evans at Harvard's Fairbank Center for Chinese

The 2016 presidential election pushed the U.S-China relationship to the forefront of public debates. In both foreign policy and domestic politics, China loomed large as politicians threw accusations against Beijing's apparent currency manipulation, damage to American competitiveness, or even stealing of American jobs. So how do these accusations affect arguably the most important relationship in the world? The Fairbank Center talks to Evan Medeiros, former Senior Director for Asian Affairs at the National Security Council and special assistant to President Obama, about the foundations of U.S.-China relations during the Obama Administration, as well as lessons for the next administration. The "Harvard on China" podcast is hosted by James Evans at Harvard's Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies.

The Asia-related centers at Harvard University continue our new “Trump and Asia” series with a panel on international business and trade between the U.S. and Asia in the age of Trump. Speakers: William Kirby T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies; Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration; Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor; Director of the Harvard China Fund; former Director of the Fairbank Center Mireya Solis Senior Fellow – Foreign Policy, Center for East Asia Policy Studies, and Philip Knight Chair in Japan Studies at the Brookings Institute Mark Wu Assistant Professor of Law, Harvard Law School Moderated by Tarun Khanna Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at the Harvard Business School, Director of Harvard University South Asia Institute Chaired by Andrew Gordon Victor and William Fung Acting Director of the Harvard University Asia Center; Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History Listen to more public events from Harvard's Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies on our Sound

Sponsored by the Harvard University Asia-related Centers, this event is the first in a new series on the Asia-Pacific during Trump’s presidency. Speakers: Joseph Nye, University Distinguished Service Professor, Harvard University Ezra Vogel, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus, Harvard University Lynn Kuok, Visiting Scholar, East Asian Legal Studies, Harvard Law School; Nonresident Fellow at Brookings Institution Sung-Yoon Lee, Kim Koo-Korea Foundation Professor in Korean Studies and Assistant Professor at The Fletcher School, Tufts University Moderated by Susan Pharr, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics, Harvard University Listen to more public events from Harvard's Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies on our Soundcloud page.

Please note that this recording is in Mandarin 此演讲以汉语进行. Hosted by Professor David Der-wei Wang 王德威, this panel of Chinese-language writers explores authors’ perspectives of the Sinophone, featuring Ge Fei 格非 (Writer; Tsinghua University), Ha Jin 哈金 (Writer; Boston University), LO Yi-chin 駱以軍 (writer), NG Kim Chew 黃錦樹 (Writer; National Chi Nan University), Shu Ching SHIH 施叔青 (writer), Kamloon WOO 胡⾦金倫 (publisher, Linking Publishing Company, Taiwan). Listen to more public events from Harvard's Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies on our Soundcloud page.

境外南⽅華⽂文學共和國 | Malaysian writer Ng Kim Chew 黃錦樹presents the keynote speech at the Sinophone Studies: New Directions conference華語語系研究：新⽅方向. Please note that this recording is in Mandarin 此演讲以汉语进行. Listen to more public events from Harvard's Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies on our Soundcloud page.

Professors Lydia Liu, Rebecca Karl and Dorothy Ko examine the origins of feminism in contemporary China through translations of He-Yin Zhen, a feminist theorist during China’s Republican Era. This talk is moderated by Professors Ellen Rooney and Ellen Widmer. Listen to more public events from Harvard's Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies on our Soundcloud page.