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SUMMARY:David Mervart - The Missing Colonial Empire: Reading European Histories from within the Sinosphere
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: David Mervart\, Associate Professor in Japanese History\, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM)\, Spain\nModerator: David Howell\, Robert K. and Dale J. Weary Professor of Japanese History and Chair\, Dept. of East Asian Languages and Civilizations (EALC)\, Harvard University \nThis talk proposes to take stock of the conceptual vocabulary which early Japanese observers and commentators resorted to when trying to describe and understand the historical trajectory of what we now so self-evidently perceive as an ‘imperial’ expansion of the western powers’ dominion around the world. \nBy the late eighteenth century\, there existed a well-established convention to translate western modes of universal sovereignty (Kayzer\, Caesar\, Tsar\, Imperator) into the equally universalist nomenclature of the post-classical Chinese political theology. By extension\, it had become perfectly possible to speak of an ‘emperor-land’ (Ch: diguo; J: teikoku) as a general type of polity. Yet\, despite these conditions of translatability by means of such comparative political vocabulary\, curiously\, the expansion of European powers over the globe was not described in the language of Sino-Japanese equivalent of ‘empire’. \nGiven that Japanese commentators did not see the conquest and settlement of the non-European world as an instance of empire\, what conceptual vocabulary did they use? Which is really to ask: What class of known historical events serving as a general precedent did they suggest the exploits of the Occidentals to be an intuitive instance of? Querying a range of primary sources from the 1790s–1840s\, this talk will try to offer some answers while sketching an alternative\, historically documented way of articulating the ‘age of empire’. \nReischauer Institute Japan Forum Lecture Series \nPresented via Zoom\nRegistration Required\nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAuc-GorDMuHNOzItWEpM9zgGBqDpUMMhVq
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/david-mervart-the-missing-colonial-empire-reading-european-histories-from-within-the-sinosphere/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Reischauer Lecture Series featuring Rana Mitter — New Eras\, Old Stories: From May Fourth and Meiji to the Twenty-First Century “New Era” - Defining East Asia in the Age of Novelty\, Emotion and Purpose
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies · How New is the New Era? 2021 Annual Reischauer Lecture with Rana Mitter\, Part 1\nSpeaker: Rana Mitter\, Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China\, St. Cross College\, University of Oxford\n \nDiscussant: Odd Arne Westad\, Elihu Professor of History and Global Affairs\, Yale University \nLecture 1 of 3: How New is the New Era?\nChina’s leaders speak today of a “new era” – but East Asia has seen a range of “new eras” in the modern age\, defined by Japan\, China\, and outsiders who encountered both.  What defines that novelty and how familiar are the elements that form part of it?  The mid-twentieth century saw war\, social change and changing global encounters defined as moments when both China and Japan entered a “new” or “special” era in a global context.  What continuities and contrasts are there between the past and the present\, and what defines that “newness”? \nRana Mitter is Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China\, and a Fellow of St Cross College at the University of Oxford. He is the author of several books\, including China’s War with Japan: The Struggle for Survival\, 1937-1945 (Penguin\, 2013)\, [US title: Forgotten Ally] which won the 2014 RUSI/Duke of Westminster’s Medal for Military Literature\, and was named a Book of the Year in the Financial Times and Economist. His latest book is China’s Good War: How World War II is Shaping a New Nationalism (Harvard\, 2020). His recent documentary on contemporary Chinese politics “Meanwhile in Beijing” is available on BBC Sounds.  He is co-author\, with Sophia Gaston\, of the report “Conceptualizing a  UK-China Engagement Strategy” (British Foreign Policy Group\, 2020).  He won the 2020 Medlicott Medal for Service to History\, awarded by the Historical Association.  He is a Fellow of the British Academy and an Officer of the Order of the British Empire. \nThe Annual Reischauer Lecture Series is co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Korea Institute\, Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies\, and Harvard University Asia Center. \nListen to parts two and three of this three-part lecture below: \n \nHarvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies · An Era of Emotion? 2021 Annual Reischauer Lecture with Rana Mitter\, Part 2\n \nHarvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies · A Sense of Purpose? 2021 Annual Reischauer Lecture with Rana Mitter\, Part 3
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/rana-mitter-fairbank-center-annual-reischauer-lecture-series-night-one/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Special Event
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SUMMARY:Qing Yang - A Ready-to-Implement Carbon-Negative Option to Help China Achieve Carbon Neutrality: Biochar with Biofuels
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Qing Yang\, Professor\, Department of New Energy Science and Engineering\, School of Energy and Power Engineering\, Huazhong University of Science and Technology \nQing Yang is a Professor in the Department of New Energy Science and Engineering\, School of Energy and Power Engineering\, Huazhong University of Science and Technology. She is also an Alumna (Visiting Scholar) and Collaborator of the Harvard-China Project. Her forthcoming paper in Nature Communications explores biochar as a contributing factor in attaining China’s renewable energy goals and carbon reduction. Her research interests include renewable energy systems\, and their implications on ecological and environmental systems. She studies greenhouse gas emissions and fossil fuel consumption for renewable energy derived processes. Professor Yang earned her Ph.D. from Peking University where she focused on energy systems analysis. \nSponsored by the Harvard-China Project on Energy\, Economy\, and Environment\, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. \nPresented via Zoom\nRegistration Required\nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAodeurpjorGtWM_8QLxMZQEsvQ7Xe_su3L
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/qing-yang-a-ready-to-implement-carbon-negative-option-to-help-china-achieve-carbon-neutrality-biochar-with-biofuels/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Environment,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210322T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210322T133000
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SUMMARY:Reischauer Lecture Series featuring Rana Mitter — New Eras\, Old Stories: From May Fourth and Meiji to the Twenty-First Century “New Era” - Defining East Asia in the Age of Novelty\, Emotion and Purpose
DESCRIPTION:  \nHarvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies · An Era of Emotion? 2021 Annual Reischauer Lecture with Rana Mitter\, Part 2\nSpeaker: Rana Mitter\, Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China\, St. Cross College\, University of Oxford \nDiscussant: Jie Li\, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities\, Harvard University \nLecture 2 of 3: An Era of Emotion?\nOne factor that defines Chinese engagement with the world today is its highly emotional character\, in terms of self-presentation that can move from saccharine to shrill at remarkable speed.  But emotion is not new – the use of the registers from exhilaration to depression defines the way that China\, Japan and the Koreas have chosen to present themselves over the past century\, whether through (often highly gendered) lenses of Asianism\, revolution\, martiality\, discourses of “national humiliation\,” or of global citizenship.  How much of this draws on emotional registers defined by modernity\, and how much from a repertoire shaped by a culture with much longer roots? \nRana Mitter is Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China\, and a Fellow of St Cross College at the University of Oxford. He is the author of several books\, including China’s War with Japan: The Struggle for Survival\, 1937-1945 (Penguin\, 2013)\, [US title: Forgotten Ally] which won the 2014 RUSI/Duke of Westminster’s Medal for Military Literature\, and was named a Book of the Year in the Financial Times and Economist. His latest book is China’s Good War: How World War II is Shaping a New Nationalism (Harvard\, 2020). His recent documentary on contemporary Chinese politics “Meanwhile in Beijing” is available on BBC Sounds.  He is co-author\, with Sophia Gaston\, of the report “Conceptualizing a  UK-China Engagement Strategy” (British Foreign Policy Group\, 2020).  He won the 2020 Medlicott Medal for Service to History\, awarded by the Historical Association.  He is a Fellow of the British Academy and an Officer of the Order of the British Empire. \nThe Annual Reischauer Lecture Series is co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Korea Institute\, Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies\, and Harvard University Asia Center. \nListen to parts one and three of this three-part lecture below: \n \nHarvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies · How New is the New Era? 2021 Annual Reischauer Lecture with Rana Mitter\, Part 1\n \nHarvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies · A Sense of Purpose? 2021 Annual Reischauer Lecture with Rana Mitter\, Part 3
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/rana-mitter-fairbank-center-annual-reischauer-lecture-series-night-two/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210329T100000
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SUMMARY:Northern Europe’s Response to China’s Belt and Road Initiative
DESCRIPTION:Reading the transcript of the event here. \n \n \nHarvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies · Northern Europe’s Response to China’s Belt and Road Initiative\nRead the transcript of the event here. \nUna Aleksandra Bērziņa-Čerenkova\, Head\, China Studies Centre\, Riga Stradins University; Head\, New Silk Road Program\, Latvian Institute of International Affairs\nBjörn Jerdén\, Director\, Knowledge Centre on China \, Swedish Institute of International Affairs\nLuke Patey\, Senior Researcher\, Foreign Policy and Diplomacy\, Danish Institute for International Studies \nModerators:\nNargis Kassenova\, Senior Fellow\, Program on Central Asia\, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies\nJames Evans\, Communications Officer\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies; Ph.D. Candidate\, Department of History\, Harvard University \nNordic and Baltic countries have struggled to develop well-calibrated approaches to cooperation with China and its flagship Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Economic incentives or disincentives\, human rights\, the EU dynamics\, security arrangements\, and global governance consideration have pulled the agendas of Northern European states in different directions. This panel will discuss the current state of affairs and the prospect of a coordinated Nordic-Baltic policy with regard to the BRI. \nCo-sponsored by the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies\, the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, and the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/northern-europes-response-to-chinas-belt-and-road-initiative/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210329T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210329T133000
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SUMMARY:Reischauer Lecture Series featuring Rana Mitter — New Eras\, Old Stories: From May Fourth and Meiji to the Twenty-First Century “New Era” - Defining East Asia in the Age of Novelty\, Emotion and Purpose
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies · A Sense of Purpose? 2021 Annual Reischauer Lecture with Rana Mitter\, Part 3\nRead the transcript of the event here. \nSpeaker: Rana Mitter\, Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China\, St. Cross College\, University of Oxford \nDiscussant: Arunabh Ghosh\, Associate Professor of History\, Harvard University \nLecture 3 of 3: A Sense of Purpose?\nSome states have always maintained a sense that they have a mission in the world well beyond the maintenance of domestic order\, the United States\, France and Britain among them. Japan\, China and the Koreas also inherited a strong sense of purpose in the modern era\, from Meiji modernization to Mao’s “Three Worlds” and the Belt and Road Initiative\, ideas drawing on the longer past – yet the definition of that purpose has been in constant flux. What defines East Asia’s sense of purpose today\, can we speak of it in regional terms\, and how does it relate to its long history of aspiration to be an intellectual and moral exemplar? \nRana Mitter is Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China\, and a Fellow of St Cross College at the University of Oxford. He is the author of several books\, including China’s War with Japan: The Struggle for Survival\, 1937-1945 (Penguin\, 2013)\, [US title: Forgotten Ally] which won the 2014 RUSI/Duke of Westminster’s Medal for Military Literature\, and was named a Book of the Year in the Financial Times and Economist. His latest book is China’s Good War: How World War II is Shaping a New Nationalism (Harvard\, 2020). His recent documentary on contemporary Chinese politics “Meanwhile in Beijing” is available on BBC Sounds.  He is co-author\, with Sophia Gaston\, of the report “Conceptualizing a  UK-China Engagement Strategy” (British Foreign Policy Group\, 2020).  He won the 2020 Medlicott Medal for Service to History\, awarded by the Historical Association.  He is a Fellow of the British Academy and an Officer of the Order of the British Empire. \nThe Annual Reischauer Lecture Series is co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Korea Institute\, Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies\, and Harvard University Asia Center. \nListen to parts one and two of this three-part lecture below. \n \nHarvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies · How New is the New Era? 2021 Annual Reischauer Lecture with Rana Mitter\, Part 1\n \nHarvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies · An Era of Emotion? 2021 Annual Reischauer Lecture with Rana Mitter\, Part 2
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/rana-mitter-fairbank-center-annual-reischauer-lecture-series-night-three/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Special Event
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