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SUMMARY:Huang Chang-Ling - Fighting for Seats: The Politics of Gender Quotas in East Asia
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Huang Chang-Ling\, Professor of Political Science\, National Taiwan University; HYI Visiting Scholar and Radcliffe Fellow\, 2018-19\nChair/discussant: Mona Lena Krook\,  Professor\, Department of Political Science\, Rutgers University \nThe level of women’s political representation varies in East Asia. Taiwan is the leader with 38 percent of its national legislature comprised of women\, much higher than China’s 23 percent\, South Korea’s 17 percent and Japan’s 10 percent. Taiwan also has the earliest and clearest legal stipulations of gender quotas in politics while Japan has none\, South Korea has had them since the mid-2000s\, and China has quota policies but no laws. Gender quotas as an institution challenges the liberal idea that emphasizes geographical representation and downplays the importance of social representation. This project explores the variations of quota adoption experience within East Asia from a regional history perspective\, especially within the context of the three wars against socialism–the Chinese Civil War\, the Korean War\, and the Cold War–hence to explore the discourses regarding social representation in this region over the past decades. \nhttps://harvard-yenching.org/events/fighting-seats-politics-gender-quotas-east-asia
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/huang-chang-ling-fighting-for-seats-the-politics-of-gender-quotas-in-east-asia/
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SUMMARY:Yi Na - Seeing and Being Seen: The Cultural Roles of Tibetan Thangka
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Yi Na\, Associate Professor\, Institute of Ethnic Literature\, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; HYI Visiting Scholar 2018-19\nChair/discussant: Gregory Nagy\, Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature\, Harvard University \n*Please note early (10 am) start time* \nThangka originally is a kind of scroll painting depicting Tibetan Buddhism images on textile. There are always contradictions that seem impossible to reconcile in contemporary Thangka art caused by differentiated cultural roles of Thangka. Thangka’s cultural meaning and role are disparate for different people: In the eyes of ordinary art admirers\, Thangka is a painting full of Tibetan characteristics. In the eyes of traditional Thangka artists\, Thangka’s drawing process is the practice procedure\, and finished product and placement environment forms a religious setting. Commonly\, people will concentrate on how to “see” Thangka\, as well as how to understand what Thangka “say.” However\, the leadoff meaning of Thangka includes the coexistence and symbiosis of seeing and being seen. Through the eyes of Buddhas\, we can observe how the viewed field is constructed by these two. \nhttps://harvard-yenching.org/events/seeing-and-being-seen-cultural-roles-tibetan-thangka
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/yi-na-seeing-and-being-seen-the-cultural-roles-of-tibetan-thangka/
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SUMMARY:Playing by the Informal Rules: Why the Chinese Regime Remains Stable despite Rising Protests
DESCRIPTION:Join the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation for a discussion with Yao Li\, China Public Policy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Ash Center\, author of Playing by the Informal Rules: Why the Chinese Regime Remains Stable despite Rising Protests. Elizabeth Plantan\, China Public Policy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Ash Center\, will serve as a respondent. Anthony Saich\, Ash Center Director\, Daewoo Professor of International Affairs\, HKS\, will moderate. \n\n\n\nGrowing protests in non-democratic countries are often seen as signals of regime decline. China\, however\, has remained stable amid surging protests. Playing by the Informal Rules highlights the importance of informal norms in structuring state-protester interactions\, mitigating conflict\, and explaining regime resilience. Drawing on a nationwide dataset of protest and multi-sited ethnographic research\, this book presents a bird’s-eye view of Chinese contentious politics and illustrates the uneven application of informal norms across regions\, social groups\, and time. Through examinations of protests and their distinct implications for regime stability\, Li offers a novel theoretical framework suitable for monitoring the trajectory of political contention in China and beyond. Overall\, this study sheds new light on political mobilization and authoritarian resilience and provides fresh perspectives on power\, rules\, legitimacy\, and resistance in modern societies.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/playing-by-the-informal-rules-why-the-chinese-regime-remains-stable-despite-rising-protests/
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SUMMARY:Shirley Yu - The Belt and Road Initiative: A Discussion of China's Vision and Strategy
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Shirley Yu\, Harvard Kennedy School’s Ash Center Fellow\nModerator: Anthony Saich\, Ash Center Director\, Daewoo Professor of International Affairs\n \nThe Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)\, the signature foreign policy by Xi Jinping has served as China’s grand strategy since 2013\, when the idea first arose\, and it will remain relevant until around 2050\, when China is predicted to reach “modernity.” If successfully carried out\, by the second half of the Century\, the ambition is that China would return to its ancient Middle Kingdom status as the center of all nations\, equivalent to a Pax-Sinica.  \nThe BRI is conceptualized as a two-pronged strategy. One is “to maximize engagement with China’s economic growth and power\,” and the other is to build a “community of common destiny for humanity.” One vision is clearly economic\, and the other\, political. The success of the BRI is contingent upon the cohesion and the achievement of both visions in its entirety. The first vision can be empirically achievable. The prevalence of authoritarianism and flawed democracies in the BRI region essentially provides China with the ideal political incubator to expand its model of authoritarian capitalism. The second BRI vision\, a world community built upon a moral order prescribed by Confucianism and communism\, is challenging and important to elucidate by the liberal West\, as this set of defining values will illuminate the fundamental systemic challenges to liberal market capitalism and liberal political order. This talk aims to demystify the two-pronged BRI strategy and its sustainability.   \n 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/shirley-yu-the-belt-and-road-initiative-a-discussion-of-chinas-vision-and-strategy/
LOCATION:Land Lecture Hall\, 4th Floor\, Belfer Building\, Harvard Kennedy School\, 79 JFK St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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