Jointly with East Asian Legal Studies (EALS) of Harvard Law School (HLS), the China Project has long supported visiting scholars and occasional research projects in environmental law (e.g., Alford and Shen 1998; Alford and Liebman 2001).

In 2008-2009, the Project and EALS are jointly hosting visiting scholar Dr. YUAN Zhibin, of the Institute for Policy and Management of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, to research environmental science and technology policy. In 2007, the two programs co-hosted Ms. HU Yuan of the School of Law of Shanghai Jiaotong University, researching implementation of voluntary agreements for energy efficiency in China, now published in Energy Policy (Hu 2007).

Robert Weller (Boston University, Department of Anthropology) is the author of Discovering Nature: Globalization and Environmental Culture in China and Taiwan (2006, Cambridge University Press). Weller developed Discovering Nature in part from two past China Project studies he co-led: an inquiry with Peter K. Bol (Harvard East Asian Languages and Civilization) into the cultural history of environment in China (Weller and Bol 1998), and an interdisciplinary investigation of contemporary environment and policy in rural Anhui province, conducted with colleagues in law, political science, economics, and public health (Alford, Weller, et al. 2002).

The China Project also supports occasional visiting scholars and student research projects in other social science fields including political science, urban and regional planning, and education.