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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190401T120000
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SUMMARY:Richard Weitz: Russia\, China\, and the United States as Great-Power Competitors: Implications for Nuclear Security and Conflict
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Richard Weitz\, Senior Research Fellow\, Hudson Institute \n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/richard-weitz-russia-china-and-the-united-states-as-great-power-competitors-implications-for-nuclear-security-and-conflict/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S354\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190403T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190403T133000
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SUMMARY:Huang Xiangchun - The Art of Keeping Appropriate Distance: Practicing “Ethnicity” of the “Dan” (蜑) on the Margins Through Time
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Huang Xiangchun\, Associate Professor of Anthropology\, Xiamen University; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2018-19|\nChair/discussant: Robert Weller\, Professor\, Department of Anthropology\, Boston University \nWhat does  “ethnicity” mean in late imperial and modern China? How is it practiced in local society and to what extent does it shape local society and culture? This talk reflects on and responds to these questions by interpreting stories of the “Dan” (蜑\, boat people) from Fuzhou. In the local society and culture of Fuzhou and its water-land ecosystems\, the Dan were a historical “ethnic group” and a “base and marginalized community.” But “Dan” also represented a lifestyle\, a field of social action\, a status discourse\, and a cultural identifying label. The Dan played a number of roles that broke classifactory boundaries\, including fishing people\, taxpayer\, pirate\, smuggler\, tenant\, stowaway\, as well as people of base status (贱民) and barbarian. These roles reflect the fact that the existence of the Dan as an “ethnic” group was a product of deliberate strategy: keeping “appropriate distance” from the state and “decent” society. In this sense\, the Dan occupied a marginal position between “not being governed” and “being governed”. The example of the Dan demonstrates that local society and culture and “ethnicity” were\, to a large extent\, a social-cultural consequence of this historical process of institutionalization. Moreover\, the internalization (or conventionalization) of institutional languages and the appropriation of local symbols (gods and rituals) explains how local Chinese communities could maintain their diversity while sharing in “Chineseness”. \nhttps://harvard-yenching.org/events/art-keeping-appropriate-distance-practicing-ethnicity-dan-margins-through-time
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/huang-xiangchun-the-art-of-keeping-appropriate-distance-practicing-ethnicity-of-the-dan-%e8%9c%91-on-the-margins-through-time/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190408T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190408T133000
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CREATED:20190305T180941Z
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SUMMARY:Li Yinghua - Let Silent Stones Speak: A technological analysis of lithics and examination of cultural homogeneity and diversity in South China and Southeast Asia from 30\,000 to 6\,000 years ago
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Li Yinghua Professor\, School of History\, Wuhan University; HYI Visiting Scholar 2018-19\nChair/discussant: Rowan Flad\, John E. Hudson Professor of Archaeology\, Department of Anthropology\, Harvard University \nhttps://harvard-yenching.org/events/let-silent-stones-speak-technological-analysis-lithics-and-examination-cultural-homogeneity
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/li-yinghua-let-silent-stones-speak-a-technological-analysis-of-lithics-and-examination-of-cultural-homogeneity-and-diversity-in-south-china-and-southeast-asia-from-30000-to-6000-years-ago/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190412T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190413T173000
DTSTAMP:20260617T210641
CREATED:20190401T164143Z
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SUMMARY:May Fourth @ 100: China and the World
DESCRIPTION:An international symposium to celebrate and reflect upon the monumental legacy of China’s May Fourth movement. \nListen to the keynote speeches by Rudolf Wagner (University of Heidelberg) and Chen Pingyuan on Soundcloud: \n \nDownload the transcript of Rudolf Wagner’s keynote speech here: Reconstructing May Fourth Keynote Speech by Rudolf Wagner \n \n  \nSpeakers:\nChan\, Leonard K.K.\nChan\, Hok Yin\nChen Jingling\nChen Pingyuan\nChiu-Duke\, Josephine\nDai Yan\nGe Zhaoguang\nHashimoto\, Satoru\nHill\, Michael\nIovene\, Paola\nIshii Tsuyoshi\nKo Chia-cian\nKo Eitetsu (Huang Ying-che)\nLee\, BoGyeong\nLi Hsiao-t’i\nLi Jie\nLi Wen-ching\nLin\, Carlos Yu-Kai\nLomova\, Olga\nMa Xiaolu\nMei\, Chia-ling\nPark\, Younghwan\nPu Wang\nRodekohr\, Andrew\nRojas\, Carlos\nSong Mingwei\nSong Weijie\nThornber\, Karen\nWang\, David\nWang Xiaojue\nWagner\, Rudolf\nWidmer\, Ellen\nXia Xiaohong\nYeh\, Catherine \nThe event is sponsored by the following institutions: the Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange\, the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University\, the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University\, the Harvard University Asia Center\, and the Harvard-Yenching Institute. \nThis event is open to the public. \nhttps://projects.iq.harvard.edu/may-fourth-at-100
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/may-fourth-100-china-and-the-world/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Conference and Workshops,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190412T120000
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CREATED:20190305T181215Z
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SUMMARY:Lim Jaehwan - The Rise and Decline of Collective Leadership in China: An Institutional Approach
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Lim Jaehwan\, Associate Professor\, Department of International Politics\, Aoyama Gakuin University; HYI Visiting Scholar 2018-19\nChair/discussant: Joseph Fewsmith\, Professor of International Relations and Political Science\, Boston University \nPresident Xi Jinping’s quick and impressive power consolidation has sparked much debate over the current state and future trajectory of the collective leadership in the Chinese Communist Party. Drawing on theories of institutions\, this talk will explore the historical development of collective leadership. Specifically\, with a focus on the post-Mao era\, this talk will trace how the rules and norms about power sharing and leadership transfer within the Party elites have emerged\, developed over time\, and consequently changed the institutional environment in which the current leaders work with each other. \nhttps://harvard-yenching.org/events/political-origin-chinese-military-modernization-cultural-revolution-and-re-building-party
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/lim-jaehwan-the-rise-and-decline-of-collective-leadership-in-china-an-institutional-approach/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190415T161500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190415T180000
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SUMMARY:Dagmar Schafer - Lists\, Local Gazeteers\, and the True Lies of Premodern China's Patterns of Social Mobility
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dagmar Schäfer\, Director of Department III\, “Artefacts\, Action\, and Knowledge\,” Max Planck Institute for the History of Science\, Berlin\nChair: Victor Seow\, Assistant Professor of the History of Science\, Harvard University \nSince the 1950s\, historians of China have researched and praised the possibilities of upward mobility in China’s late imperial meritocratic society. Through the civil service examinations\, merchants\, farmers\, and artisans\, irrespective of cultural origin (if not the occasional woman) could achieve official ranks and rise into social and political power. In this talk\, Dagmar Schäfer introduces how lists and local gazetteers—and a digital humanities approach—may help to reveal “other” historical patterns of social mobility and shed new light on historical China’s “scholarly ways.” She will examine the role of expertise in the 13th-century Yuan dynastic census system that registered households categorized by different “crafts\,” look at the inclusion of these lists into the growing genre of Ming-Qing (14th-19th century) local gazetteers\, and explore their implications for China’s current landscape of crafts.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/dagmar-schafer-lists-local-gazeteers-and-the-true-lies-of-premodern-chinas-patterns-of-social-mobility/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190418T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190418T140000
DTSTAMP:20260617T210641
CREATED:20190409T183349Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190409T183349Z
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SUMMARY:Lu Pin - Finding a Voice: A Conversation on China's Feminist Voices
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Lu Pin\, Chinese journalist and feminist activist \nChair: Julian Gewirtz\, Lecturer\, Department of History; Academy Scholar\, Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies\, Harvard University \nDiscussant: Moira Weigel\, Junior Fellow\, Harvard Society of Fellows \nAsia Center Seminar Series.\nSponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center; cosponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/lu-pin-asia-center-seminar-series/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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