On March 20th, the Inaugural Harvard-MIT-UBC Urban China Conference took place on Harvard Campus in Cambridge, MA. The conference, themed “Has planning guided China’s urbanization,” featured four panels and 16 speakers and was organized around discussions led by the panel chairs Meg Rithmire (Harvard), Nick Smith (Barnard College), Li Hou (on behalf of the MIT […]

How is China Governed? From Ming Statecraft to Xi’s New Era An international conference held in honour of the work of Dr. Timothy Brook Between September 9 and 11th, 2022, more than forty scholars from around the world gathered in the Room of Many Trees at the Liu Institute for Global Issues—most attending in-person, with […]

​Harvard MIT UBC Urban China Conference 2023: Has planning guided China’s urbanization?  When: Monday, March 20th, 2023 Where: Harvard University Campus, Cambridge, MA Registration Link: https://forms.gle/yBWbEGJMCm2TZmCd9 (Before Dec 15th, 2022) China’s rapid urbanization has come with a stunning assortment of plans: urban plans, land plans, economic plans, demographic planning, and so forth.  At the same time, […]

The Hoover Institution hosted Xi Jinping Makes History: Perspectives on the CCP’s 6th Plenum on Thursday, December 2 from 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. PST. Leading experts unpack the significance of the 6th Plenum (2021) of the Chinese Communist Party’s 19th Congress and what lies ahead for Xi Jinping and China.     ABOUT THE SPEAKERS Timothy Cheek is a professor […]

Webinar Friday, 10 December 2021, 17:00–18:30 PST Voice After Exit: How Transnational Ties Shape Hong Kong Americans’ Political Engagement and Voting Behavior Dr. Maggie Shum and Prof. Victoria Hui, University of Notre Dame via Zoom A City Reassembled event Registration required Dr. Maggie Shum and Prof. Victoria Hui will introduce their on-going project “Hong Kong Voices in the […]

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