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SUMMARY:David Cheng Chang - Escaping From the Communists and Then From the Anti-Communists: A Prisoner’s Odyssey From Southwest China to Korea\, India\, and Argentina
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: David Cheng Chang\, Division of Humanities\, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; HYI-Radcliffe Institute Fellow\, 2021-22\nChair/discussant: Arunabh Ghosh\,  Associate Professor of History\, Harvard University \nBy the end of the Korean War\, only 88 out of more than 150\,000 Chinese and North Korean prisoners of war (POWs) refused to return to either side of their divided countries; instead\, they sought asylum in neutral nations. Using oral history interviews and archival documents from the United States\, Taiwan\, and India\, this talk charts the life history of Cheng Liren: from his education as a police academy cadet during the civil war and his first job as a police officer in his home province Guizhou in the final days of the Nationalist regime\, to his desperate enlistment in the Communist army\, desertion in Korea\, rise and fall as an anti-Communist POW leader on Koje and Cheju Islands\, his daring escape from fellow anti-Communist POWs at Panmunjom\, to his two-year sojourn in India\, and his final settlement and business success in Argentina. \nPresented via Zoom\nRegistration Required\nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJItd-qurD8rGNJBFrr8tS6X1695eSvlSswX \nMore info: https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/escaping-from-the-communists-and-then-from-the-anti-communists-a-prisoners-odyssey-from-southwest-china-to-korea-india-and-argentina/
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/david-chen-chang-escaping-from-the-communists-and-then-from-the-anti-communists-a-prisoners-odyssey-from-southwest-china-to-korea-india-and-argentina/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Jie Li — Socialist Hot Noise: Loudspeakers and Open-Air Cinema in Mao’s China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Li Jie\, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities\, Harvard University \nAs a scholar of literary\, film\, and cultural studies\, Jie Li’s research interests center on the mediation of memories in modern China. Her first book\, Shanghai Homes: Palimpsests of Private Life (Columbia\, 2014)\, excavates a century of memories embedded in two alleyway neighborhoods destined for demolition. Her second monograph\, Utopian Ruins: A Memorial Museum of the Mao Era (Duke University Press\, 2020)\, explores contemporary cultural memories of the 1950s to the 1970s through textual\, audiovisual\, and material artifacts\, including police files\, photographs\, documentary films\, and museums. Li has co-edited a volume entitled Red Legacies: Cultural Afterlives of the Communist Revolution (Harvard Asia Center\, 2016). Her current book project\, Cinematic Guerrillas: Maoist Propaganda as a Spirit Medium explores film exhibition and reception in socialist China\, including movie theatres and open-air screenings\, projectionists and audiences\, as well as memories of revolutionary and foreign films. Her other research projects include a transnational film history of Manchuria and a cultural history of noise in modern China. \nPresented via Zoom\nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMtf-ypqDIqH9XHuHa5_h4qWkMI_Rlu1N1W
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/jie-li-socialist-hot-noise-loudspeakers-and-open-air-cinema-in-maos-china/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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SUMMARY:Workers and Change in China: Resistance\, Repression\, Responsiveness
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\nManfred Elfstrom\, Assistant Professor of Political Science\, University of British Columbia.\nYao Li\, Assistant Professor\, Department of Sociology and Criminology and Law\, University of Florida \nModerator: Anthony Saich\, Director\, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation; Daewoo Professor of International Affairs\, Harvard Kennedy School of Government \nStrikes\, protests\, and riots by Chinese workers have been rising over the past decade. The state has addressed a number of grievances\, yet has also come down increasingly hard on civil society groups pushing for reform. Why are these two seemingly clashing developments occurring simultaneously? Manfred Elfstrom uses extensive fieldwork and statistical analysis to examine both the causes and consequences of protest. The book adopts a holistic approach\, encompassing national trends in worker–state relations\, local policymaking processes and the dilemmas of individual officials and activists. Instead of taking sides in the old debate over whether non-democracies like China’s are on the verge of collapse or have instead found ways of maintaining their power indefinitely\, it explores the daily evolution of autocratic rule. While providing a uniquely comprehensive picture of change in China\, this important study proposes a new model of bottom-up change within authoritarian systems more generally. \nPresented via Zoom\nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/9016334418370/WN_kJ-DOLoORpel9R4nqRf0sg
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/manfred-elfstrom-workers-and-change-in-china-resistance-repression-responsiveness/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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SUMMARY:Connecting the World-Island: What will China’s PEACE cable bring to Pakistan and East Africa?
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\nMotolani Agbebi\, University teacher\, Faculty of Management and Business\, University of Tampere (Finland)\nTayyab Safdar\, Post-Doctoral Researcher\, East Asia Centre & Department of Politics\, University of Virginia\nRoxana Vatanparast\, Affiliate\, Center on Global Legal Transformation\, Columbia Law School \nModerators:\nNargis Kassenova\, Senior Fellow\, Program on Central Asia\, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies\nJames Gethyn Evans\, Communications Officer\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies; Ph.D. Candidate\, Department of History\, Harvard University \nChina’s Hengtong Group—leading a consortium of telecom companies from Hong Kong\, Pakistan\, and East Africa—will soon complete installation of the Pakistan East Africa Connecting Europe (PEACE) cable. Spanning the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea\, this cable will connect the three most populous continents of Asia\, Europe and Africa\, or what Halford Mackinder described as the “World Island.” The cable aims to provide these previously under-serviced regions with the shortest latency between routes and high-quality Internet\, but what are China’s aims with the project and what benefits will it bring to partners in South Asia and Africa? This roundtable will discuss the technical\, economic\, and geopolitical implications of this flagship project of China’s Belt and Road Initiative. \nPresented via Zoom\nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_OCG6SSfGQFKmBk-_edjqzw \nCo-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/connecting-the-world-island-what-will-chinas-peace-cable-bring-to-pakistan-and-east-africa/
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