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Film Screening of “Plastic China” and Q&A with Director Wang Jiuliang
Film Screening of “Plastic China” and Q&A with Director Wang Jiuliang
After the screening, Director Wang Jiuliang will attend via Skype for a Q&A with the audience moderated by Professor Zhang Ling of Boston College and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. The discussion will be interpreted by Canaan Morse, a Ph.D. candidate in Chinese Literature at Harvard. About the Film: As the world’s biggest plastic waste importer, […]
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Mark Gillette – Security Implications of a More Assertive China
Mark Gillette – Security Implications of a More Assertive China
Event Summary Speaker: Mark Gillette, Deputy Director for Strategic Planning and Policy, U.S. Pacific Command; formerly Defense Attaché-China, Defense Intelligence Agency
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Xu Jian – The Legendary Yelang State in Southwest China, What, Where and by Whom? Rethinking the roles of historical writing and archaeology in reconstructing ancient history
Xu Jian – The Legendary Yelang State in Southwest China, What, Where and by Whom? Rethinking the roles of historical writing and archaeology in reconstructing ancient history
Speaker: Xu Jian, Professor of Archaeology and Art history, Department of History, Sun Yat-sen University; HYI Visiting Scholar Chair/discussant: Rowan Flad, John E. Hudson Professor of Archaeology, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University For decades, Chinese archaeologists have searched extensively in current Guizhou and northeastern Yunnan for remains of the legendary state Yelang, which is still out of […]
Jie Li – Gained in Translation: The Reception of Foreign Films in the Mao Era
Jie Li – Gained in Translation: The Reception of Foreign Films in the Mao Era
Speaker: Jie Li, Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University Discussant: Professor Carter Eckert, Yoon Se Young Professor of Korean History, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University Sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center, Korea Insitute, Lakshmi Mittal South Asia Insitute, and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University. Although […]
Asia Responds to Trump in Asia
Asia Responds to Trump in Asia
Listen again on the Fairbank Center's podcast: Chair: Karen Thornber, Victor and William Fung Director, Harvard University Asia Center; Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and of Comparative Literature, Harvard University Moderator: Andrew Gordon, Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History, Harvard University Ronak Desai, Associate, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, India […]
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CANCELED: Jing Tsu – Key Strokes: What Made the Chinese Script Revolution?
CANCELED: Jing Tsu – Key Strokes: What Made the Chinese Script Revolution?
Speaker: Jing Tsu, Yale University It is tempting to understand the Chinese script revolution of the modern era as part of a familiar narrative of vengeance. The Chinese language was idealized then disparaged by the Europeans, on this view, banished then revived only to play a mere prop in different fantasies about the Orient. That Chinese […]
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Meg Rithmire – State-Business Relations Under Xi Jinping: The End of an Era?
Meg Rithmire – State-Business Relations Under Xi Jinping: The End of an Era?
Event Summary Professor Meg Rithmire, F. Warren McFarlan Associate Professor of Business of Administration, Harvard Business School
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Nicholas Burns – U.S. Foreign Policy, Trump, and China
Nicholas Burns – U.S. Foreign Policy, Trump, and China
As President Trump returns from his first visit to China as Commander-in-Chief, how is U.S. foreign policy reacting to a new administration in Washington and a new rising power in Beijing? Join Ambassador and Harvard Kennedy School Professor Nicholas Burns in conversation with Jeeyang Rhee Baum, Ezra Vogel, and Odd Arne Westad, moderated by Michael […]
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Mediating Religion: Text and Object in Chinese Religion
Mediating Religion: Text and Object in Chinese Religion
9:30 AM Workshop Opens 9:45-10:45 Playing with Corpses: Assembling Bodies for the Dead in Southwest China Speaker: Erik Mueggler, University of Michigan This paper describes the ritualization of death in a “minority” community in Yunnan Province, China, called Júzò in the local Tibeto-Burman language. Here, people are heir to an extraordinary range of resources […]
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Yasheng Huang – China’s Venture Capital Industry: Examining Its Role in Funding Start-ups
Yasheng Huang – China’s Venture Capital Industry: Examining Its Role in Funding Start-ups
Speaker: Yasheng Huang, International Program Professor in Chinese Economy and Business and Professor of Global Economics and Management, MIT Sloan School of Management
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Kevin O’Brien – China’s Disaffected Insiders
Kevin O’Brien – China’s Disaffected Insiders
Event Summary Speaker: Professor Kevin O’Brien, Walter and Elise Haas Professor of Asian Studies; Alann P. Bedford Professor of Asian Studies; Professor of Political Science; Director, Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley
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