The Edwin O. Reischauer Lectures is a series of lectures at
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of high ...
sponsored by the
John King Fairbank Center
The Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University is a post-graduate research center promoting the study of modern and contemporary China from a social science perspective. The center hosts and organizes academic activities, provides re ...
established in 1986 to be given annually in memory of
Edwin O. Reischauer
Edwin Oldfather Reischauer (; October 15, 1910 – September 1, 1990) was an American diplomat, educator, and professor at Harvard University. Born in Tokyo to American educational missionaries, he became a leading scholar of the history and cul ...
. The lectures are then published by
Harvard University Press
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.
List of lectures
* 2015
Kären Wigen
Kären Esther Wigen (born December 29, 1958) is an American historian, geographer, author and educator. She is the Frances and Charles Field Professor of history at Stanford University.
Early life and education
Wigen was born in East Lansing, M ...
, "Where in the World? Mapmaking at the Asia-Pacific Margin, 1600-1900"
* 2014
Nancy S. Steinhardt
Nancy may refer to:
Places France
* Nancy, France, a city in the northeastern French department of Meurthe-et-Moselle and formerly the capital of the duchy of Lorraine
** Arrondissement of Nancy, surrounding and including the city of Nancy
...
, '"East Asian Internationalism and Beyond: The Sixth Century"
* 2013
Shigehisa Kuriyama is a Japanologist and historian of medicine. He is the Reischauer Institute Professor of Cultural History at Harvard University..
Early life and education
Kuriyama was born in Marugame, Japan. After his family moved for a time to the US, he stud ...
, "What Truly Matters?"
* 2012
Donald S. Lopez, Jr.
Donald Sewell Lopez Jr. (born 1952) is the Arthur E. Link Distinguished university professor of Buddhist and Tibetan Studies at the University of Michigan, in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures.
Life
Lopez was born in Washington, D. ...
, "The White Lama Ippolito
Video* 2011
Benjamin A. Elman
Benjamin A. Elman (born 1946) is Gordon Wu '58 Professor of Chinese Studies, Princeton University. His teaching and research fields include Chinese intellectual and cultural history, history of science and history of education in late imperial Ch ...
, ''Undoing/Redoing Modern Sino-Japanese Cultural and Intellectual History'' (2011
links to videos of lectures
* 2010
Timothy Brook
Timothy James Brook ( Chinese name: 卜正民; born January 6, 1951) is a Canadian historian, sinologist, and writer specializing in the study of China (sinology). He holds the Republic of China Chair, Department of History, University of British ...
. "For What It’s Worth: Prices and Values in Ming China"
* 2009
Dwight H. Perkins,
East Asian Development: Foundations and Strategies' (2013
* 2008
Susan Greenhalgh,
Cultivating Global Citizens: Population in the Rise of China' ( 2010
* 2007
Joshua A. Fogel,
Articulating the Sinosphere: Sino-Japanese Relations in Space and Time' (2009
* 2006
Leonard Blussé
Leonard Blussé (born 23 July 1946 in Rotterdam) is a Dutch historian concerned with the field of Asian-European relations. Blussé has a prolific written output in his field, having authored, co-authored or edited more than twenty books since 20 ...
,
Visible Cities: Canton, Nagasaki, and Batavia and the Coming of the Americans' (2008
* 2001
Alexander Woodside,
Lost Modernities: China, Vietnam, Korea, and the Hazards of World History' (2006
* 2000
Warren I. Cohen,
The Asian American Century' (2002
* 1999
G. William Skinner
George William Skinner (; February 14, 1925 – October 26, 2008) was an American anthropologist and scholar of China. Skinner was a proponent of the spatial approach to Chinese history, as explained in his Presidential Address to the Associat ...
, "Family and Reproduction in East Asia: A Tale of Three Cultures"
* 1997
Gungwu Wang, ''The Chinese Overseas: From Earthbound China to the Quest for Autonomy'' (2002
* 1993
James Cahill (art historian), James Cahill,
The Lyric Journey: Poetic Painting in China and Japan' (1996
* 1990
Ezra F. Vogel,
The Four Little Dragons: The Spread of Industrialization in East Asia' (1993
* 1989
Akira Iriye
is a historian of diplomatic history, international, and transnational history. He taught at University of Chicago and Harvard University until his retirement in 2005.
In 1988 he served as president of the American Historical Association, the ...
,
China and Japan in the Global Setting' (1998
* 1988
Robert A. Scalapino
Robert Anthony Scalapino (19 October 1919 – 1 November 2011) (Chinese name: 施樂伯) was an American political scientist particularly involved in East Asian studies. He was one of the founders and first chairman of the National Committee on ...
,
Politics of Development: Perspectives on Twentieth-Century Asia' (1998
* 1988
Marius Jansen, Marius B. Jansen,
China in the Tokugawa World' (1992
DeGruyter 2014)
* 1986
Wm. Theodore de Bary,
East Asian Civilizations: A Dialogue in Five Stages' (1991
References
The Edwin O. Reischauer Lectures
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Lecture series
Harvard University Press books