An initiative to promote the adoption of digital tools and practices in all fields of Chinese studies has received a five-year, $1.5 million grant from the Harvard Global Institute....

In April, the China Institute for International Strategic Studies (CIISS) joined the Belfer Center’s Cyber Project in hosting their second working group meeting, a Track II dialogue to facilitate discussions between the U.S. and China  on the risks of cyber conflict. The meeting, which included representatives from both countries’ tech sectors, explored existing and new tools for mitigating these risks and looking into possible areas for collaboration.

“The U.S. and China have a tremendous amount of power in cyber, and without appropriate dialogue there is a heightened...

Harvard-China Project on Energy, Economy and Environment, recipient of the HGI grant “China 2030/2050: Energy and Environmental Challenges for the Future,” published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) on a strategy for China to move towards carbon-negative electricity generation. Findings may help the country mitigate air pollution and meet its Paris Agreement goals....

In his first international trip as president of Harvard University, Lawrence S. Bacow's visit to China included a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, as well as a speech at Peking University in Beijing, in which he mentioned Harvard Global Institute as part of Harvard's engagement with China. ...

Lead author Harvard College junior Drew Pendergrass, and co-authors of Harvard’s Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), Lu L. Shen, Professor Daniel J. Jacob, and Loretta J. Mickley, published HGI-funded research in Geophysical Research Letters. The paper discusses developing a statistical model relating the probability of extreme pollution events in Beijing to local weather variables. The full paper is available at: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/...

The Harvard Global Institute (HGI) is now accepting expressions of interest for its fifth grant cycle. HGI provides funding for research that targets problems of global significance, with an eye to developing creative thinking and innovative solutions to the world's most pressing challenges. As in previous years, large and small grants will be available to support interdisciplinary collaborations and collaborative projects in any field; to be eligible for consideration, projects must include some component that incorporates research in China or with Chinese scholars or institutions. Brief expressions of interest are due Tuesday, January 22, 2019 through the Harvard University Funding Portal.

As part of their 2017 HGI grant award, Peter Bol, Charles H. Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, and James Hankins, Professor of History, hosted a conference on "Political Meritocracy in Comparative Historical Perspective" at the Edmund J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University on November 1-2, 2018. The conference brought together Chinese and Western experts in political theory and the history of political thought to discuss how to improve the moral and intellectual qualities of governing elites and how better to...

"A group of Harvard undergraduates spent the summer in China, working on solutions to an array of environmental problems ranging from examining ozone pollution's effects on crops to analyzing household electricity demand to studying ways to remediate arsenic contamination of groundwater... The internships were jointly sponsored by the Harvard China Project and the Harvard Global Institute."

On November 7, 2017, HGI will host a symposium on “Finding Solutions: Climate Change Economics, Policy, and Implications for Business” at the Harvard Center Shanghai. Forest L. Reinhardt, John D. Black Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, and Robert N. Stavins, A. J. Meyer Professor of Energy & Economic Development at the Harvard Kennedy School, will share their perspectives in a panel discussion.