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Jennifer Altehenger – A History of Legal Lessons: law, propaganda, and the state in socialist China
Jennifer Altehenger – A History of Legal Lessons: law, propaganda, and the state in socialist China
Speaker: Jennifer Altehenger, King's College London In 2016, the PRC embarked on the seventh five-year plan for the popularization of law. Today, the dissemination of basic legal knowledge is an established part of CCP governance, closely associated with the extensive legal reforms that followed the death of Mao Zedong in 1976. Yet people learned about […]
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David Barboza – Business and the State
David Barboza – Business and the State
Read event summary here Speaker: David Barboza - The New York Times
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Rob Efird – Nature for Nurture: Environmental Education, Nature Experience, and the Healthy Chinese Child
Rob Efird – Nature for Nurture: Environmental Education, Nature Experience, and the Healthy Chinese Child
Speaker: Robert Efird, Professor of Anthropology and Asian studies, Seattle University For the past 15 years, the Chinese Ministry of Education’s attempt to promote environmental education in public schools has faced nearly insurmountable structural obstacles. By contrast, there is a growing popular embrace of the value of nature exposure for children’s health and well-being. Drawing […]
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Tony Saich and Jesse Turiel – Polling China: Understanding Public Opinion Across China
Tony Saich and Jesse Turiel – Polling China: Understanding Public Opinion Across China
Speakers: Tony Saich, Ash Center Director, and Jesse Tureil, PhD candidate, Boston University Join us for a conversation with Ash Center Director and Daewoo Professor of International Affairs Tony Saich […]
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Leta Hong Fincher – The Feminist Awakening in China
Leta Hong Fincher – The Feminist Awakening in China
Read the event summary here Speaker: Leta Hong Fincher, Author Listen to Leta Hong Fincher's podcast interview with the Fairbank Center's "Harvard on China" podcast: Read and download the transcript for this podcast here. Leta Hong Fincher 洪理达 is author of the book Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China (Verso 2018). On the eve of International […]
Jing-Bao Nie – In search of a Benevolent Polity: Eldery Suicide in China and a Confucian Socio-Ethical Vision of Eldercare
Jing-Bao Nie – In search of a Benevolent Polity: Eldery Suicide in China and a Confucian Socio-Ethical Vision of Eldercare
Speaker: Professor Jing-Bao Nie, University of Otago, New Zealand Chair: Professor Arthur Kleinman, Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University; Professor of Medical Anthropology and Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical […]
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China’s War on Smuggling: Law, Economic Life, and the Making of the Modern State, 1842–1965
China’s War on Smuggling: Law, Economic Life, and the Making of the Modern State, 1842–1965
Speaker: Professor Philip Thai, Assistant Professor of History, Northeastern University Chair: Professor Arunabh Ghosh, Assistant Professor of History, Harvard University Asia Center Seminar Series
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East Asian Legal Studies Open House
East Asian Legal Studies Open House
An opportunity to meet EALS Faculty, Staff, Research Fellows, and the 2018-2019 Visiting Scholars Remarks at 3:00 p.m. Light refreshments will be served.
Panel Discussion: The End of Concern: Maoist China, Activism, and Asian Studies
Panel Discussion: The End of Concern: Maoist China, Activism, and Asian Studies
Panelists: Fabio Lanza, University of Arizona Ellen Schrecker, Yeshiva University Andrew Gordon, Harvard University Joseph Esherick, University of California San Diego Sugata Bose, Harvard University Lien-Hang Nguyen, Columbia University Bruce Cumings, University of Chicago Moderator: Karen Thornber, Harvard University Asia Center Organized by: Arunabh Ghosh, Harvard University Co-Sponsored by: Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Harvard University Asia Center Reischauer Institute […]
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Frank Lavin – Is China ready for the international major leagues?
Frank Lavin – Is China ready for the international major leagues?
Read the event summary here Speaker: Ambassador Frank Lavin, CEO of Export Now
Fabio Lanza – Liberation through Labor? The Urban Commune Experiment in Beijing
Fabio Lanza – Liberation through Labor? The Urban Commune Experiment in Beijing
Speaker: Fabio Lanza, University of Arizona In the years between 1958 and 1962, the Urban Commune movement was promoted as a radical effort to change the daily lives of city residents. By inserting women into the “productive” life of factory work, the movement also aimed at achieving a new form of everyday, based on a true equality of gender relationships, one […]
China’s Anti-Poverty Miracle?
China’s Anti-Poverty Miracle?
Panelists: Lu Mai Secretary General, China Development Research Foundation Rohini Pande Rafik Hariri Professor of International Political Economy, Harvard Kennedy School Anthony Saich Daewoo Professor of International Affairs and Director, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School Graham Allison (Moderator) Douglas Dillon Professor of Government, Harvard Kennedy School
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Panel Discussion – Strongman Politics in the 21st Century
Panel Discussion – Strongman Politics in the 21st Century
Speakers: Elsa Clavé, Harvard University Asia Center Ayşe Kadıoğlu, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University Joseph Fewsmith, Boston University Valerie Sperling, Clark University Moderator: Thomas Vallely, Ash Center […]
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Wen-Yi Huang – Families Divided: Migration and Those Left Behind in Fifth- and Sixth-Century China
Wen-Yi Huang – Families Divided: Migration and Those Left Behind in Fifth- and Sixth-Century China
Speaker: Wen-Yi Huang, An Wang Post-Doctoral Fellow, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University In this talk I explore the impact of migration on family members left behind, particularly those whose parents, children, siblings, and spouses were forcibly moved to the Northern Wei (386-534 CE) from four successive southern states of Eastern Jin (317-420 CE), Liu-Song (420-479 […]
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Tansen Sen – India, China, and the World: A Connected History
Tansen Sen – India, China, and the World: A Connected History
Speaker: Tansen Sen, New York University Shanghai By focusing on the early material exchanges, transmissions of knowledge and technologies between ancient India and ancient China; the networks of exchange during the colonial period; and some of the less-known facets of interactions between the Republic of India and the People’s Republic of China, this presentation argues […]
William Alford – Learn from the Past to Appreciate the Present, That is What Makes One a Teacher 溫故而知新,可以為師矣: Confucius, Cohen (s) and Contemporary China
William Alford – Learn from the Past to Appreciate the Present, That is What Makes One a Teacher 溫故而知新,可以為師矣: Confucius, Cohen (s) and Contemporary China
Speaker: William P. Alford, Jerome A. and Joan L. Cohen Professor of East Asian Legal Studies, Harvard University Dean John F. Manning invites you to join the Harvard Law School […]
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Su-Bing Chang – Taiwan Biographical Database: An Introduction
Su-Bing Chang – Taiwan Biographical Database: An Introduction
Speaker: Su-bing Chang, Professor, National Taiwan University; Visiting Scholar, Fairbank Center Please RSVP to Feng-en Tu (hyl.eadh@gmail.com)
Jerome A. Cohen – Law and Power in China and in Its Foreign Relations
Jerome A. Cohen – Law and Power in China and in Its Foreign Relations
Speaker: Jerome A. Cohen, Professor of Law, NYU School of Law; Of Counsel, Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison; Founding Director, East Asian Legal Studies Program East Asian Legal Studies Lunchtime Talk Series
Tony Saich – Xi’s Policy Challenges: Some Questions for Discussion
Tony Saich – Xi’s Policy Challenges: Some Questions for Discussion
Read the event summary here Speaker: Tony Saich, Harvard Kennedy School
Anna Sun – Turning Ghosts into Ancestors: Ritual, Gender, and the Afterlife in Contemporary Urban China
Anna Sun – Turning Ghosts into Ancestors: Ritual, Gender, and the Afterlife in Contemporary Urban China
Speaker: Anna Sun, Kenyon College, Visiting Associate Professor of Women’s Studies and East Asian Religions Lunch will be provided.
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