Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies

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 Soundcloud page.

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.

Elizabeth Economy, C.V. Starr senior fellow and director for Asia studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, presents "Rethinking China under Xi Jinping: Politics at Home and Abroad” for the Fairbank Center's 2015 Charles Neuhauser Memorial Lecture. Listen to more public events from Harvard's Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies on our Soundcloud page.

On September 21, the John L. Thornton China Center at the Brookings Institution hosted a panel discussion that helped illuminate the historical context of the U.S.-China relationship. Three leading China historians, including Fairbank Center Director Mark Elliott and Harvard China Fund Director William Kirby, presented accounts of U.S.-China relations during different periods in history, shedding valuable light on how historical perspective can help guide relations in a challenging time and in the long-term. With the state visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping approaching, headlines in the United States about China have been dominated by concerns about China’s economic expansion and stock market volatility, cyberespionage, reclamation activities in the South China Sea, and—most critically—China’s reemergence as a global power. However, this prevalent narrative tends to mask the important history of both the enduring issues and profound changes in the bilateral relationship—a history that can help provide the context for actions taken by both countries today and prevent misunderstandings and policy mistakes that could shake the world community.