Past Events

May 30–31
National University of Singapore, Singapore

Changing Role of State in Asia II: Comparative Perspective

Organized by the Asia Research Institute and Office of Deputy President at the National University of Singapore, and the Harvard-Yenching Institute

May 21 9:30am–5:30pm
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge

The Emergence of Social Rights in East Asia: Transplantation, Legislation and Implementation

A workshop sponsored by the Harvard-Yenching Institute and organized by Prof. Wu Chuan-feng.

May 15–16
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge

Chinese Literary Migration in Asia: Three Kingdoms from Translation to Local Culture Construction

A workshop sponsored by the Harvard-Yenching Institute; organized by Dr. Lan T. Nguyen.

May 8 12:00–1:30pm
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge

The Chinese Model in Vietnam under the Nguyen Reign (1802-1945) from the Vietnamese Dramatic Adaptation (Tuồng) of the Three Kingdoms

Nguyen To Lan (Researcher, Institute of Sino-Nom Studies, Vietnamese Academy of Social Sciences; HYI Visiting Scholar)
Chair and Discussant: Karen Thornber (Professor of Comparative Literature and Professor, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University)

May 6 11:30am–1:00pm
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge

The Tongwenguan (同文馆) Translation of Gray's Anatomy and the exchange of medical knowledge between China and the West

Gao Xi (Professor of History and Medical History, Department of History, Fudan University; Associate, Harvard-Yenching Institute)
Chair and Discussant: Shigehisa Kuriyama (Reischauer Institute Professor of Cultural History, EALC, Harvard University)

May 1 12:00–1:30pm
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge

Local Administrators and the Nguyễn Dynasty’s Suppression of Christianity during the Reign of Minh Mạng, 1820–1841

Makino Motonori (Chief Curator, Toyo Bunko Museum; Senior Research Fellow, Toyo Bunko; HYI Visiting Scholar)
Chair and Discussant: Hue-Tam Ho Tai (Kenneth T. Young Professor of Sino-vietnamese History, Department of History, Harvard University)

Apr 26 9:00am–5:30pm
1550, William James Hall, Cambridge

Law as Living Language

A workshop sponsored by the Harvard-Yenching Institute; organized by Prof. Janny Leung.

Apr 25–26
CGIS, Harvard University, Cambridge

Unpacking China: An International Symposium

Sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, the Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation, and the Harvard-Yenching Institute.

Apr 22 12:00–1:00pm

What did Confucians do in a Changing Society? A Study of Confucian Cultural Practices in South Vietnam, 1955-1975

Nguyen Tuan Cuong (Department of Literature, Vietnam National University-Hanoi; HYI Visiting Scholar)
Chair and Discussant: Hue-Tam Ho Tai (Kenneth T. Young Professor of Sino-vietnamese History, Department of History, Harvard University)

Apr 16 12:00–1:30pm
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge

How to do things with “rituals” in Byans, Far Western Nepal

Nawa Katsuo (Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, the University of Tokyo; HYI Visiting Scholar)
Chair and Discussant: Michael Puett (Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History, EALC, Harvard University)

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