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SUMMARY:Jae-Jung Suh - Diatribes and Dialogues over the Past: “History Problems” and Regional Orders in Northeast Asia
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Jae-Jung Suh\, Professor\, Department of Politics and International Studies\, International Christian University; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2022-23 \n\n\n\nChair/Discussant: Paul Y. Chang\, Associate Professor of Sociology\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nIn this talk\, I propose to re-analyze the history of the historical contentions in Northeast Asia as that of the regional actors’ attempts to manage their differences over national identities and their relationships in the context of the region’s shifting power balance. On the one hand\, the states and civil society actors in the region have been held together by a shared past salient and meaningful to all of them\, jointly creating a common transnational discursive sphere among themselves—a regional order. On the other hand\, they have been molding and remolding that regional order in different shapes by endowing their common past with sometimes convergent\, and sometimes contradictory\, meanings. I postulate that the regional actors’ perception of others’ legitimacy and their framework of meaning may be combined in four possible ways to shape the nature of the region’s order—nationalist spheres\, parallel national spheres\, contentious regional sphere\, and regional public sphere—and that Northeast Asia’s regional order has since the end of the Asia Pacific War evolved from parallel national spheres to a regional public sphere to a contentious regional sphere. \n\n\n\nMore info: https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/diatribes-and-dialogues-over-the-past-history-problems-and-regional-orders-in-northeast-asia/ \n\n\n\nIn-person talk – Seating is limited. Masks are required for audience members. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/jae-jung-suh-diatribes-and-dialogues-over-the-past-history-problems-and-regional-orders-in-northeast-asia/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221013T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221013T123000
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SUMMARY:Zhang Changdong - Taxation and State Building Contradiction: Grassroots State Reconfiguration under Tax State Transition in Rural China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Zhang Changdong\, Peking University; HYI Visiting Scholar 2022-23Chair/discussant: Elizabeth J. Perry\, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government at Harvard University; Director of the Harvard-Yenching Institute. \n\n\n\nTaxation is regarded as an important dynamic in state building\, and plays a crucial role in driving the process of bureaucratization. However\, this process could be contradictory under certain circumstances. Through an in-depth examination of taxation and state building in rural China\, we find that the state strategically uses different institutional building strategies in different periods to penetrate the rural society for different purposes. We develop a two by two matrix by combining concentration and centralization\, as a typology of micro institutional building strategies\, to describe the evolution of institutional strategies and cadre’s roles. Specifically\, we find that after the market transition in 1980s and 1990s\, the tax state transition\, especially the abolition of agricultural taxes in early 2000s\, marks a transition from penetration for extraction to non-penetration with non-extraction. Using unique datasets which combines individual\, village and county/province level data\, we focus on the dynamic on the role of village cadres which reflects the evolution of institutional strategies. We test the hypotheses of village cadres’ income (dis)advantage before and after abolition of agriculture taxes which depended on village or upper-level government fiscal conditions\, respectively. We find that before the tax state transition village cadres as tax farmers had income advantages over ordinary peasants regardless the village and county fiscal conditions. But after the transition they turned to semi-bureaucrats and lost their income advantage in most regions all over China. They only held advantages in those fiscally-rich regions. This research indicates that the state building in rural China is associated with the ending of taxation power rather than a development of taxation capacity which led to state involution. This study contributes to taxation and state building literature by revealing this contradiction\, and complement to the market transition debate by bringing taxation back in. \n\n\n\nIn-person talk – Seating is limited. Masks are required for all audience members. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/zhang-changdong-taxation-and-state-building-contradiction-grassroots-state-reconfiguration-under-tax-state-transition-in-rural-china/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221014T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221015T173000
DTSTAMP:20260504T184451
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SUMMARY:Navigating Asia: Interdisciplinary Conversations in Honor of Ezra Vogel
DESCRIPTION:This conference is organized to honor and celebrate the late Professor Ezra Vogel’s role as the inaugural Director of the Harvard Asia Center and his commitment to transnational scholarship.  \n\n\n\nDay 1: Friday\, October 14\, 2022 \n\n\n\n4:00-5:00pm Welcome:James Robson (Victor and William Fung Director\, Harvard Asia Center; James C. Kralik and Yunli Lou Professor\, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University)Opening Remarks:Neil Rudenstine (President Emeritus\, Harvard University\, 1991-2001)Keynote:“Why America Needs an Ezra Vogel for Southeast Asia” Professor Chan Heng Chee (Ambassador-at-Large\, Singapore’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs\, former Singaporean Ambassador to the United States 1996-2012; Singapore’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations; Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute; Chair of Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities\, Singapore University of Technology and Design)Reception to follow5:00-6:00pmDay 2: Saturday\, October 15\, 20228:15-8:45am Coffee and Continental Breakfast 8:45-9:00am Opening Comments by Arthur Kleinmen (Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology\, Professor of Medical Anthropology in Global Health and Social Medicine\, Professor of Psychiatry\, Harvard Medical School; Former Director of the Asia Center\, Harvard University) \n\n\n\n9:00-10:30am Panel 1: Governance and LeadershipModerator: Elizabeth J. Perry (Director\, Harvard-Yenching Institute; Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government\, Former Director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard University)Panelists:Christina L. Davis (Director\, Program on US-Japan Relations\, Harvard University; Professor\, Department of Government\, Harvard University)Cheng Li (Director\, John L. Thornton China Center and Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy\, Brookings Institute)Eun Mee Kim (President\, Ewha Woman’s University; Professor\, Graduate School of International Studies; former Dean\, Graduate School of International Studies; and former Director\, Institute for Development and Human Security)Nakano Koichi (Professor\, Sophia University)Doreen Lee (Professor of Anthropology; Acting Director\, Asia and the World Program\, Northeastern University)10:30-10:45am Coffee Break10:45am-12:15pmPanel 2: Regional RelationsModerator: Arunabh Ghosh (Professor\, Department of History\, Harvard University) and Carter Eckert (Yoon Se Young Professor of Korean History\, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University)Panelists:Selina Ho (Assistant Professor and Co-Director of the Centre on Asia and Globalisation\, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy\, National University of Singapore)Andrew Mertha (Inaugural Director\, SAIS China Global Research Center; George and Sadie Hyman Professor of China Studies\, John’s Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies)Hirano Kenichiro (Professor Emeritus Tokyo University and Waseda University; Executive Director\, Toyo Bunko)Li Tingjiang (Professor\, Faculty of Law\, Chuo University\, Japan; Director\, Center for Japanese Studies\, Tsinghua University\, Beijing)John D. Ciorciari (Associate Dean for Research and Policy Engagement; Professor of Public Policy; Director\, International Policy Center and Weiser Diplomacy Center\, University of Michigan)12:15-1:15pm Lunch  \n\n\n\n1:15-2:45pmPanel 3: Political Economy and MarketsModerator: Mark Wu (Director of Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies; Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law\, Harvard University)Panelists:William Overholt (Senior Research Fellow\, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government\, Harvard Kennedy School)Kristen Looney (Assistant Professor of Asian Studies and Government\, Georgetown University)Meg Rithmire (F. Warren MacFarlan Associate Professor in the Business\, Government\, and International Economy Unit\, Harvard Business School)Steven Vogel (Il Han New Professor of Asian Studies; Professor of Political Science and Political Economy; Director\, Political Economy Program\, University of California\, Berkeley)2:45-3:00pm Coffee Break 3:00-4:30pmPanel 4: Asia in a Global ContextModerator: Sugata Bose (Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs\, Harvard University)Panelists: Manjari Chatterjee Miller (Senior Fellow for India\, Pakistan\, and South Asia\, Council on Foreign Relations; Associate Professor of International Relations; Director of the Rising Powers Initiative\, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies\, Boston University)Aniket De (Ph.D. student in History\, Harvard University)Engseng Ho (Professor of Cultural Anthropology\, Duke University; Muhammad Alagil Distinguished Visiting Professor in Arabia Asia Studies\, Asia Research Institute\, National University of Singapore)Ambassador Shyam Saran (President of India International Centre; Former Foreign Secretary of India; Indian Ambassador to Myanmar\, Nepal\, and Indonesia)Karen L. Thornber (Harry Tuchman Levin Professor in Literature\, Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations; Interim Chair\, Regional Studies East Asia\, Former Director of the Asia Center\, Harvard University) \n\n\n\n4:30-5:30pmPanel 5: Reflecting on Ezra Vogel and His LegacyModerator: James Robson (Victor and William Fung Director\, Harvard Asia Center; James C. Kralik and Yunli Lou Professor\, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University)Panelists:Charlotte Ikels (Professor Emerita of Anthropology\, Case Western Reserve University)Richard E.  Dyck (Owner and President\, TGK-Japan)Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good (Professor Emerita of Global Health and Social Medicine\, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine\, Harvard Medical School)Mary C. Brinton (Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology; Director\, Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies\, Harvard University)Chunli Li (Director\, International Center for Chinese Studies; Professor\, Faculty of Economics\, Aichi University) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/navigating-asia-interdisciplinary-conversations-in-honor-of-ezra-vogel/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221019T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221019T171500
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SUMMARY:The United States Indo-Pacific Strategy: A Conversation with Assistant Secretary of State Daniel J. Kritenbrink
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Daniel J. Kritenbrink\, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs \n\n\n\nPlease join the Asia-Pacific Initiative and Future of Diplomacy Project for a conversation with Daniel J. Kritenbrink\, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs. The Assistant Secretary will deliver remarks on the Biden Administration’s Indo-Pacific Strategy\, followed by a conversation moderated by Chris Li (Director of the Asia-Pacific Initiative) and Erika Manouselis (Manager of the Future of Diplomacy Project). \n\n\n\nAdvance registration is required\, and attendance is limited to current Harvard affiliates (students\, staff\, faculty\, fellows). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-united-states-indo-pacific-strategy-a-conversation-with-assistant-secretary-of-state-daniel-j-kritenbrink/
LOCATION:Malkin Penthouse\, Littauer Building\, 79 JFK St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221027T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221027T103000
DTSTAMP:20260504T184451
CREATED:20220927T141058Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221005T135810Z
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SUMMARY:Debt and Financial Risk from China's Real Estate Sector: Michael Pettis and Hui Shan
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers:Michael Pettis\, Professor of Finance\, Peking UniversityHui Shan\, Managing Director and Chief China Economist\, Goldman Sachs \n\n\n\nConcluding Remarks:William Overholt\, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government\, Harvard Kennedy School \n\n\n\nModerators:Richard Yarrow and Jinlin Li\, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government\, Harvard Kennedy School \n\n\n\nReal estate has had a vast influence on China’s economy. In particular\, real estate has taken a massive role across China’s financial system — accounting for an estimated 70 percent of Chinese households’ assets\, 30 percent of local governments’ revenues\, and almost 30 percent of all outstanding bank loans before the pandemic. \n\n\n\nAs China’s real estate sector faces a sharp crisis\, what are the implications for the financial system and the financial health of China’s broader economy? What are China’s debt risks as real estate prices plateau or fall? \n\n\n\nPlease join experts on China’s financial sector for this discussion. This event is the second in a series on China’s real estate sector and its broader economic effects. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/debt-and-financial-risk-from-chinas-real-estate-sector-michael-pettis-and-hui-shan/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221027T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221027T132000
DTSTAMP:20260504T184451
CREATED:20221012T134007Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221026T171519Z
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SUMMARY:LGBTQ Rights Advocacy in China: Status and Challenges
DESCRIPTION:RSVP now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers:Yanhui Peng\, Former Director\, LGBT Rights Advocacy ChinaZhijun Hu\, Founder\, China’s Parents\, Family\, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG)Wei Wei\, Professor of Sociology\, East China Normal University; Visiting Scholar\, Harvard-Yenching Institute \n\n\n\nIf 5% of the population are members of the LGBTQ community\, China’s LGBTQ population reaches at least 70 million. Over the past two decades\, the LGBTQ community in China has become increasingly visible and diverse. Meanwhile\, the community\, civil society\, and scholars also face unique challenges as they seek to provide social services\, conduct queer studies\, and disseminate queer theory in higher education institutions in China. \n\n\n\nThis panel features three activists/scholars sharing their insights into China’s LGBTQ movement over the past 20 years\, ongoing challenges\, and future prospects of the movement. \n\n\n\nLunch will be provided. RSVP at: tinyurl.com/HLSChinaLGBTQ. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/lgbtq-rights-advocacy-in-china-status-and-challenges/
LOCATION:Wasserstein Hall 1019\, Harvard Law School\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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