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Nation & World
Meet Harvard’s 2022 Beijing Olympians
The University will be well-represented by six athletes at the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, beginning Friday in Beijing. Under the flags of Canada, Switzerland, and the United States, as…
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China’s response to the Taliban’s takeover
Tony Saich on how Beijing views the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.
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A look at the future as Beijing seeks more influence over Hong Kong
With the National Party Congress, China’s annual legislative session, concluded, the Ash Center sat down with Director Anthony Saich, Daewoo Professor of International Affairs, to discuss a new security law that could define the future of Beijing’s relationship with Hong Kong.
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No cookie-cutter fixes on air pollution
A Nobel Prize-winning chemist has called for additional research into the air pollution blanketing the world’s megacities, saying that solutions found in the developed world’s cities are not likely to apply in other places.
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Harvard in Beijing
During a historic visit to Beijing, Harvard President Drew Faust delivered the Tsinghua Global Vision Lecture, “Universities and the Challenge of Global Climate Change,” to faculty and students at Tsinghua…
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A celebration in Beijing
Harvard President Drew Faust joined more than 430 alumni, faculty, and friends in Beijing on Sunday to celebrate the University’s long and growing ties to China.
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The rising in Hong Kong
Harvard Kennedy School’s Anthony Saich explains the uprising sparked by a pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong.
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Creator of skyscrapers
Harvard College and Graduate School of Design alumnus Paul Tange is changing skylines across Asia through the work of his Tokyo-based architecture firm, Tange Associates.
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Symposium held on ‘Olympic’ architecture
The Olympics are never just about sport. This summer’s Beijing Olympics have been emphatically about architecture, too. In preparation for the games this August, the Chinese capital is undergoing an urban transformation unprecedented in recent history.
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Beijing restrictions offer case study in emissions of key atmospheric gases
The Chinese government’s restrictions on Beijing motorists during a three-day conference last November — widely viewed as a dress rehearsal for efforts to slash smog and airborne pollutants during the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing — succeeded in cutting the city’s emissions of one important class of atmospheric gases by an impressive 40 percent.