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Harvard-Yenching Institute Annual RoundtablePreserving Asia's Colonial and Modern Architectural HeritageMardi 26 mars 201916h15-18h15Korea Institute, Harvard UniversityTsai Auditorium, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge MA 02138&#160;Panelists:Prof. Fu Chao-Ching, Emeritus, Department of Architecture, National Cheng Kung University, TaiwanProf. Kim Hyon-sob, Department of Architecture, Korea University, South KoreaProf. Liu Chen, School of Architecture, Tsinghua University, China; HYI Visiting Scholar 2018-19Dr. Thant Myint-U, Writer, Historian, and Founder and Chairman of the Yangon Heritage TrustModerator:Prof. Andrew Gordon, Harvard University/Acting Director, Harvard-Yenching Institute&#160;This year’s HYI roundtable will present an exchange of ideas about current issues of architectural preservation in Asian cities. Our panelists will focus on architecture of modern times, and in particular of the colonial era.  What are the challenges, and the opportunities, facing those interested to preserve the architecture of this era and make its importance known to the present and posterity? These challenges and opportunities have political, economic, and cultural dimensions. Panelists will address the topic from one or more of these perspectives.