China
Cultivating community in Shanghai
Kate McFarlin, president of the Harvard Club of Shanghai, wears her dual enthusiasms for Harvard and China on her sleeve.
Tags: Alumni, Alvin Powell, China, Class of 2003, East Asian Languages and Cultures, Global Harvard, Harvard Club of Shanghai, Harvard College, International, Kate McFarlin, National & World Affairs, Shanghai, Winthrop House
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Steps against poverty
Delivering the Asia Center’s annual Tsai Lecture, the World Bank Group’s president, Jim Yong Kim, described the bank’s bold push to end world poverty.
Tags: China, Harvard University Asia Center, International, Jim Yong Kim, Judy Rakowsky, Korea Institute, National & World Affairs, Partners In Health, Tsai Lecture, WHO, World Bank Governors, World Health Organization
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Holistically Crimson
Shaw Chen, treasurer of the Harvard Club of Shanghai, learned a lot from the College’s East Asian studies classes, but got plenty of experience outside the classroom as well.
Tags: Alumni, Alvin Powell, China, Chinese, Class of 1999, Class of 2000, East Asian Studies, Finance, Harvard, Harvard Club of Shanghai, Harvard College, Harvard Crimson, Harvard-Yenching, International, Jay Chen, Kate McFarlin, National & World Affairs, Peking University, Shanghai, Shaw Chen, Taiwanese
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With nature in mind
Kongjian Yu, who received a doctor of design degree from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design in 1995, espouses an environmental design ethic that considers natural processes on a site first. Since 2010, he has guided GSD students through the problems related to China’s rapid urbanization.
Tags: Alvin Powell, China, Global Harvard, Graduate School of Design, Houtan Park, International, Kongjian Yu, Landscape Architecture, National & World Affairs, Shanghai
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The seeds of anthropology
Zongze Hu, who received his doctorate in anthropology from Harvard in 2009, has wasted little time fostering the discipline in his native China, establishing new graduate and undergraduate programs at Shandong University.
Tags: Alvin Powell, Anthropology, Arthur Kleinman, China, Global Harvard, International, James Watson, Jie Liu, Jinan, Michael Herzfeld, National & World Affairs, Shandong University, Tianshu Pan, Xinru Li, Zongze Hu
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Invading Inner Mongolia’s painful past
Harvard graduate student Sakura Christmas is drawn to a tumultuous time in the history of northern China, when invasion, migration, and culture change altered the lives of traditional people forever.
Tags: Alvin Powell, cattle, China, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Farming, Global Harvard, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Han, Herding, History Department, Ian Miller, Inner Mongolia, International, Japan, Land, land tenure, licorice, Manchukuo, Manchuria, Mark Elliott, Mengjiang, Mongol, Mongolia, National & World Affairs, pasture, Sakura Christmas
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A taste of Harvard in Shanghai
Harvard Center Shanghai provides programming support, local expertise, and meeting space for Harvard researchers, students, and alumni in one of the world’s most dynamic cities.
Tags: Alvin Powell, China, Global Harvard, Harvard Business School, Harvard Center Shanghai, Harvard China Fund, International, Jeffrey Williams, Kate McFarlin, Michael Sandel, National & World Affairs, Shanghai, William Kirby
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Stability amid revolution
Daniel Koss, a doctoral student in Harvard’s Government Department, has spent nearly a year in China, studying how such a large, diverse nation could remain intact through decades of warfare, revolution, and unrest, and emerge to wield growing influence on the global stage.
Tags: Alvin Powell, Asia, Bureaucracy, China, Cultural Revolution, Daniel Koss, Doctoral student, Elizabeth Perry, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Global Harvard, Government Department, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, International, Jinan, National & World Affairs, People’s Republic of China, Shandong University
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Senior named Churchill Scholar
Harvard senior Tony Feng will use the award to study theoretical mathematics with a special interest in analysis, differential geometry, and physics.
Tags: Awards, Campus & Community, China, Churchill Scholar, Harvard College Association for U.S.-China Relations, Harvard Summit for Young Leaders in China, HAUSCR, Jennifer Doody, Mathematics, Sciences, Tony Feng ’13, University of Cambridge
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Harvard-Asia: Ties deep and broad
Harvard President Drew Faust’s coming trip to South Korea and Hong Kong is framed against a long history of Harvard’s engagement with Asia’s many nations.
Tags: Alvin Powell, Arnold Arboretum, Asia, China, Drew Faust, Edwin Reischauer, edX, Elizabeth Perry, Ewha Women’s University, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Global Harvard, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard Center Shanghai, Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum, Hong Kong, India, International, Japan, John Fairbank, Jorge Dominguez, Joseph Rock, Ko K’un-hua, Mumbai, Museum of Comparative Zoology, National & World Affairs, Nitin Nohria, Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Shanghai, Singapore, South Asia Institute, South Korea, Tokyo, Venkatesh Narayanamurti, Xiao-Li Meng
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