The Lifestyles in the Tang Dynasty under the Influence of Manuscript Culture
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Zhao Shuyang, Nanjing University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2023-24Chair/Discussant: Prof. Xiaofei Tian, Harvard University The physical form of books plays a crucial role in human’s daily life. Prior to the advent of woodblock printing in ancient China, the manuscript era prevailed, in which all books were laboriously copied by hand. This unique method of production …
The Lifestyles in the Tang Dynasty under the Influence of Manuscript Culture
Yan Fei – Factions in Flux: Intergroup Collaboration and Conflict in the Red Guard Movement
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Yan Fei, Associate Professor, Sociology, Tsinghua University; HYI-Radcliffe Institute Joint Fellow, 2023-24Discussant: Yuhua Wang, Professor of Government, Harvard University Students of social movements and collective action have traditionally concentrated on the structural factors influencing group formation during social mobilization. This conventional model depicts members of opposing factions as pursuing collective interests that are predetermined …
Yan Fei – Factions in Flux: Intergroup Collaboration and Conflict in the Red Guard Movement
Japan, China, and Global Economic Orders
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeakers:Tsuyoshi Kawase, Visiting Scholar, Program on US-Japan Relations, Harvard University; Professor, Sophia UniversityJi Miao, Visiting Scholar, Program on US-Japan Relations, Harvard University; Associate Professor & Senior Research Fellow, China Foreign Affairs UniversityMasako Suginohara, Visiting Scholar, Program on US-Japan Relations, Harvard University; Professor, Ferris University Discussant: Kristin Vekasi, Associate Professor, School of Policy & International Affairs, University …
China Humanities Seminar featuring Xiaoqiao Ling – Rethinking Early Huaben Stories: Miscellanies and Literary Ecologies
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Xiaoqiao Ling, Associate Professor of Chinese, Arizona State University This paper investigates ways in which the proximity of texts in literary environments complicate our understanding of invention and creation in the late Ming narrative tradition. Early vernacular short stories (huaben) are typically dismissed as haphazard patchworks of disparate textual segments. Pioneering scholars such as …
Xiao Xiaoyan – Life Histories and Collective Memory of Deaf People in a Chinese Social Welfare Factory
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Xiao Xiaoyan, Professor, College of Foreign Languages and Cultures, Xiamen University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2023-24Discussant: Kathryn Davidson, Professor of Linguistics, Harvard University This study reports an on-going project attempting to record life histories of Deaf individuals and construct the collective memory of Deaf workers in Chinese social welfare factories since 1958. After 1949, as …
Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Keyu Jin – China’s New Playbook
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Keyu Jin, Professor of Economics, London School of Economics and Political ScienceModerator: David Yang, Professor, Department of Economics; Director, Center for History and Economics, Harvard University Jin Keyu is a tenured professor of economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is an academic member of the China Finance 40 Group …
Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Keyu Jin – China’s New Playbook
Jihon Kim – Heritage Wars: Legacies of Colonial Rule and Wartime Memories in East Asia for UNESCO Nominations
CGIS South Room S354 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Jihon Kim, Fulbright Visiting Scholar, Harvard Asia Center; Chief of International Cooperation, Korean National Commission for UNESCO; Research Fellow, Institute of International Studies, Seoul National University Chair: Andrew Gordon, Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Department of History, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences Since 2015, conflicts …
He Wenkai – Book talk: Public Interest and State Legitimation: Early Modern England, Japan, and China
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: He Wenkai, Associate Professor, Division of Social Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; HYI Visiting Scholar 2016-17 In this book, Public Interest and State Legitimation: Early Modern England, Japan, and China (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023), Wenkai He examines the connections between state capacity, state legitimation and the expansion of political participation. He demonstrates …
Hou Zhe – Between Ideals and Reality: The Working Class‘s Role in China’s Education Revolution
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Hou Zhe, Assistant Professor, Institute of China Studies, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2023-24 Chair/Discussant: Elizabeth Perry, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government, Harvard University; Director, Harvard-Yenching Institute The assertion that “the working class must lead everything” was a fundamental tenet in the ideological framework of the education revolution during Mao’s era …
Hou Zhe – Between Ideals and Reality: The Working Class‘s Role in China’s Education Revolution
Taiwan Studies Workshop Panel Discussion – Elections in Taiwan: Time for a Change?
Presented via ZoomSpeakers:Lev Nachman, National Cheng-chih UniversitySarah Newland, Smith CollegeTsai Chia-hung, National Cheng-chih University Moderator: Steven Goldstein, Taiwan Studies Workshop Director, Harvard University Fairbank Center Presented via Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_wtZbw7TYQXqu39XnL6pU_A Venue