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Mai Jia – The Art and Politics of the Espionage Novel in Contemporary China
Speaker: Mai Jia, Chinese novelist and President of the Zhejiang Writers' Association This lecture will be given in Chinese.
Mareike Ohlberg and Kristin Shi-Kupfer – Ideas and Ideologies Competing for China’s Future
Speakers: Mareike Ohlberg, Research Associate, Mercator Institute for China Studies; former An Wang Post-Doctoral Fellow, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Kristin Shi-Kupfer, Head of Research on Politics, Society, and the Media, Mercator […]
Paul Harrison – Mañjuśrī’s Residence on China’s Wutai Shan: The View from Distant India
Plimpton Room (133), Barker Center 12 Quincy St., CambridgeSpeaker: Paul Harrison, George Edwin Burnell Professor of Religious Studies, Stanford University The Buddhist practice of replicating sacred sites in multiple locations is a well-known feature of the history of the religion, as is the readiness of Buddhists to keep finding new places blessed by the presence of Buddhas, bodhisattvas and other such beings. Thus in China, […]