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Dan Arnold – Personalism and the Mādhyamika Recuperation of Conventional Truth: Some Heretical Thoughts
Dan Arnold – Personalism and the Mādhyamika Recuperation of Conventional Truth: Some Heretical Thoughts
Speaker: Dan Arnold, University of Chicago Over the years, I have advanced an interpretation of Madhyamaka that frames Nāgārjuna’s arguments in terms suggested by some contemporary debates in philosophy of mind. Nāgārjuna can thus be understood to reject the reductionist elaboration of anātmavāda that was epitomized for him by Ābhidharmika philosophy, and as doing so […]
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Ya-Wen Lei: The Contentious Public Sphere: Law, Media, and Authoritarian Rule in China
Ya-Wen Lei: The Contentious Public Sphere: Law, Media, and Authoritarian Rule in China
Deparment of Sociology Colloquium Series Speaker: Ya-Wen Lei, Harvard University. In this talk, I will situate my book, The Contentious Public Sphere: Law, Media, and Authoritarian Rule in China, in relation to one of the department’s traditions and discuss issues related to disciplinary boundaries. I will then discuss how the book speaks to the relationship between globalization, institutions, […]
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David Dollar – Challenges to China’s Economy: At Home and Abroad
David Dollar – Challenges to China’s Economy: At Home and Abroad
Read event summary here Speaker: David Dollar, Brookings Institution David Dollar is a senior fellow in the John L. Thornton China Center at the Brookings Institution. From 2009 to 2013, Dollar was the U.S. Treasury’s economic and financial emissary to China, based in Beijing, facilitating the macroeconomic and financial policy dialogue between the United States […]
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Paul Clifford: The China Paradox – At the Front Line of Economic Transformation
Paul Clifford: The China Paradox – At the Front Line of Economic Transformation
Speaker: Paul Clifford, Author Respondent: Jie Bae, Harvard Kennedy School Moderator: Tony Saich, Harvard Kennedy School HKS Professor Jie Bae will serve as a respondent, and Tony Saich will moderate. The event will be next Thursday, 3/1, 4:15-5:30 at the Ash Center.
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Stalemate Across the Taiwan Strait: A Trip Report
Stalemate Across the Taiwan Strait: A Trip Report
Speakers: Michael Szonyi, Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Steven Goldstein, Sophia Smith Professor of Government, Emeritus, Smith College Robert Ross, Professor of Political Science, Boston College
Eric Greene – Repentance in the Formation of Chinese Buddhism
Eric Greene – Repentance in the Formation of Chinese Buddhism
Speaker: Eric Greene, Yale University The ritual activity that in China was known as chanhui 懺悔 – often understood to mean “confession” or “repentance” – was without doubt one the central forms of Buddhist practice in medieval China. Despite this, scholars have often disagreed concerning, firstly, what “repentance” even means in the Chinese or Buddhist contexts, as […]
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Wang Liping – More than Affirmative Action: China’s Preferential Policy in Historical and Comparative Perspective
Wang Liping – More than Affirmative Action: China’s Preferential Policy in Historical and Comparative Perspective
Speaker: Wang Liping, Peking University; Visiting Scholar, Harvard-Yenching Institute Chair/discussant: Lei Ya-Wen, Harvard University With the ethical appeal of equality and justice as well as a more cohesive society, affirmative action has been in place for many years around the world. Such measures, going by various names depending on the context and perceived acceptability, have attained […]
Bilahari Kausikan: US-China Competition for Influence in Southeast Asia
Bilahari Kausikan: US-China Competition for Influence in Southeast Asia
Read event summary here Speaker: Bilahari Kausikan, Ambassador-at-Large at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Singapore This event is co-sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center.
Stephen Owen: Translation in its Kinds
Stephen Owen: Translation in its Kinds
Speaker: Stephen Owen, EALC, Harvard University The Poetry of Du Fu: The Complete Poetry of Du Fu presents a complete scholarly translation of Chinese literature alongside the original text in […]
Those Waters Giving Way
Those Waters Giving Way
An overview of Michael Cherney’s artistic process and recent works. The art combines photography with the subject matter, aesthetics, materials and formats traditionally associated with classical Chinese painting, which allows […]
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Joseph Esherick: Bandits and Bolsheviks: the Shaanxi-Gansu Base Area before Mao
Joseph Esherick: Bandits and Bolsheviks: the Shaanxi-Gansu Base Area before Mao
Speaker: Joseph W. Esherick, Professor Emeritus, University of California, San Diego In the fall of 1935, Mao read a newspaper article about a Communist base in Northern Shaanxi. He redirected the Long March to that base, which would become the Yan’an-centered “revolutionary holy land” from which the Chinese Communist Party would rise to power during […]
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The Rise of New Religions in Asia
Speakers: Helen Hardacre, Harvard University Adam Lyons, Harvard University Frank Korom, Boston University Amanda Lucia, University of California Riverside Robert Hefner, Boston University Juliane Schober, Arizona State University Gareth Fisher, Syracuse University Chien-yu Julia Huang, City Colleges of Chicago Wei-ping Lin, National Taiwan University More Info: www.bu.edu/asian/2018/01/03/the-rise-of-new-religions-in-asia/
Gu Zheng – The Body as a Means for Political Mobilization: Portrait Photography between Journalism and Propaganda and Minli Pao’s coverage of the assassination of Song Jiaoren
Gu Zheng – The Body as a Means for Political Mobilization: Portrait Photography between Journalism and Propaganda and Minli Pao’s coverage of the assassination of Song Jiaoren
Speaker: Gu Zheng, Fudan University; Visiting Scholar, Harvard-Yenching Institute Chair/discussant: Eugene Wang, Harvard University Song Jiaoren (Sung Chiao-jen, 1882-1913) was a revolutionist and founder of the Kuomintang (KMT). He was assassinated in March […]
Chinese Popular Culture at the Beginning of the 20th and 21st Centuries
Chinese Popular Culture at the Beginning of the 20th and 21st Centuries
Speakers: Zheng Yanqing, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences: "Popular Culture and the Public Sphere" Shao Yanjun, Peking University: "Internet Fiction and Imagined Community" Christopher Rea, University of British Columbia: "Of Spongers, […]
Evelyn (Chiung-yun) Liu – When Fantastic Narrative Encounters Empirical Knowledge: Imagining the World in “The Eunuch Sanbao’s Voyage to the Western Ocean”
Evelyn (Chiung-yun) Liu – When Fantastic Narrative Encounters Empirical Knowledge: Imagining the World in “The Eunuch Sanbao’s Voyage to the Western Ocean”
Speaker: Evelyn (Chiung-yun) Liu, Academia Sinica, HYI Visiting Scholar The Eunuch Sanbao's Voyage to the Western Ocean, a late-sixteenth century novel loosely based on the historical expeditions commanded by Zheng He (1371-1433), is a peculiar mixture of factual accounts of foreign lands and fantastic narrative. In this work, popular Buddhist and Daoist figures living in a […]
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Film Screening – China’s Van Goghs
Film Screening – China’s Van Goghs
The documentary screening will be followed by a Q&A with Producer and Director Kiki Tianqi Yu via Skype, moderated by Benny Shaffer, PhD Candidate in Media Anthropology. About the film: China’s Van Goghs (Mandarin with English subtitles, 80 min, HD) Until 1989, Dafen Village on the outskirts of Shenzhen, China was little more than a […]
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Kishore Mahbubani – Is the Chinese Government Legitimate?
Kishore Mahbubani – Is the Chinese Government Legitimate?
Read a summary of the event here. Speaker: Kishore Mahbubani, National University of Singapore
Nathan Vedal – Philology as a Discipline in Pre-Modern China
Nathan Vedal – Philology as a Discipline in Pre-Modern China
Speaker: Nathan Vedal, Visiting Fellow, Center for Humanities and Information, Penn State Organizer: Technical Traditions in Greece and Rome: Between Theory and Practice, Harvard University GSAS Workshop
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Jing Tsu – Thinking Small in the Literary Cosmos
Jing Tsu – Thinking Small in the Literary Cosmos
Speaker: Jing Tsu, Yale University More than ten years after Sinophone studies, is it breaking up? This talk begins with a recent skirmish over the fraught term and its export. In the attempt to bring faraway and neglected kins into its fold, Sinophone studies is facing open resistance where writers are choosing not to belong or subscribe. Yet, this talk suggests, […]
Jeff Wasserstrom and Maura Cunningham — China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know
Jeff Wasserstrom and Maura Cunningham — China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know
Speakers: Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom and Maura Elizabeth Cunningham Harvard Coop Book Talk In this fully revised and updated third edition of China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know®, Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom and Maura Elizabeth Cunningham provide cogent answers to urgent questions regarding the world's newest superpower and offer a framework for understanding China's meteoric […]
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I-Mei Hung – Encountering DocuSky: Right Here Right Now
I-Mei Hung – Encountering DocuSky: Right Here Right Now
Speaker: I-Mei Hung, Research Center for Digital Humanities, National Taiwan University Digital China Initiative Workshop Series 我們正在經歷一個橋接的世代，一個從傳統跨越數位的世代。 在2018的春天，孤獨的人文研究之路，綻放了一朵美麗的雲彩–DocuSky。 DocuSky數位人文學術研究平台為著人文學者的研究需要而開發，以數位科技協作人文研究。學者可上傳自己的研究材料，透過各式數位工具，進行文本格式轉換、後設資料整理，憑藉自己之力建置數位資料庫；也能夠對自己掌握的材料進行文本探勘與分析，從多元的視角，挖掘潛藏於材料中的議題線索與脈絡；在傳統的線性觀察之外，以視覺化的呈現，探索文本的時空與計量資訊。 此時此地，讓我們一起來遇見DocuSky~ (此教程由國立臺灣大學數位人文研究中心提供，中英文交互使用) We’re experiencing a ‘bridge generation’, a generation to cross […]
Dennis Blair and Taylor Fravel – China, the U.S., and East Asia’s Maritime Disputes
Dennis Blair and Taylor Fravel – China, the U.S., and East Asia’s Maritime Disputes
Speakers: Admiral Dennis Blair, Chairman of the Board and Distinguished Senior Fellow, Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA; U.S. Director of National Intelligence (2009-10); Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Pacific Command (1999-2002) Taylor Fravel, Associate Professor of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Moderator: Susan Pharr, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics and Director, WCFIA Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, […]
Scott Kennedy – The Fat Tech Dragon: Commercial and Strategic Implications of China’s Hi-Tech Drive
Scott Kennedy – The Fat Tech Dragon: Commercial and Strategic Implications of China’s Hi-Tech Drive
Speaker: Scott Kennedy, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) China’s high-tech drive has drawn both fierce criticism for being unfair and breathless praise for its recent successes. This presentation […]
Asia’s Growing Generation Gap: Causes and Consequences
Asia’s Growing Generation Gap: Causes and Consequences
Harvard-Yenching Institute Annual Roundtable Note: This event will begin at 4:15 pm and conclude at 6:15 pm. Panelists: Cho Haejoang, Emerita, Department of Cultural Anthropology, Yonsei University, Korea Ishida Hiroshi, […]
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Thomas Gold – An ‘Old Youth’ (老青年) Looks at Chinese Youth Today
Thomas Gold – An ‘Old Youth’ (老青年) Looks at Chinese Youth Today
Read event summary here Speaker: Thomas B. Gold, University of California at Berkeley Thomas B. Gold is Professor of Sociology at the University of California. Since 2000 he has also served as Executive Director of the Inter-University Program for Chinese Language Studies (IUP), a consortium of 14 American universities which administers an advanced Chinese language program […]
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Barry Naughton – China’s Great Gamble
Barry Naughton – China’s Great Gamble
Speaker: Barry Naughton, University of California San Diego Xi Jinping is consolidating power just as China has embarked on an unprecedented push to become a global and technological power. Xi’s […]
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Zhang Changhong – A Shift in Buddhist Iconography between the 8th and 12th Century: Rock Carvings and Mandala Murals in Eastern and Western Tibet
Zhang Changhong – A Shift in Buddhist Iconography between the 8th and 12th Century: Rock Carvings and Mandala Murals in Eastern and Western Tibet
Speaker: Zhang Changhong, Palace Museum, Beijing; HYI Coordinate Research Scholar Chair: Leonard van der Kuijp, Harvard University https://harvard-yenching.org/events/shift-buddhist-iconography-between-8th-and-12th-century-rock-carvings-and-mandala-murals
James Palmer – China’s Historical Experience and the Challenge of Covering Chinese Politics Today
James Palmer – China’s Historical Experience and the Challenge of Covering Chinese Politics Today
Speaker: James Palmer, Asia Editor of Foreign Policy and author, The Death of Mao: The Tangshan Earthquake and the Birth of the New China, Moderator: Julian Gewirtz, Fellow in History and […]
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