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SUMMARY:Japan\, China\, and Global Economic Orders
DESCRIPTION:Register for hybrid zoom attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers:Tsuyoshi Kawase\, Visiting Scholar\, Program on US-Japan Relations\, Harvard University; Professor\, Sophia UniversityJi Miao\, Visiting Scholar\, Program on US-Japan Relations\, Harvard University; Associate Professor & Senior Research Fellow\, China Foreign Affairs UniversityMasako Suginohara\, Visiting Scholar\, Program on US-Japan Relations\, Harvard University; Professor\, Ferris University  \n\n\n\nDiscussant: Kristin Vekasi\, Associate Professor\, School of Policy & International Affairs\, University of Maine \n\n\n\nModerator: Christina L. Davis\, Director\, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics\, Department of Government\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nAlso via Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0qcu-opz4jG9CZCNE8XoULjrk0yWkWzINY#/registration \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/japan-china-and-global-economic-orders/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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SUMMARY:Xiao Xiaoyan - Life Histories and Collective Memory of Deaf People in a Chinese Social Welfare Factory
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Xiao Xiaoyan\, Professor\, College of Foreign Languages and Cultures\, Xiamen University; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2023-24Discussant: Kathryn Davidson\, Professor of Linguistics\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nThis study reports an on-going project attempting  to record life histories of Deaf individuals and construct the collective memory of Deaf workers in Chinese social welfare factories since 1958. After 1949\, as part of the reform in social welfare and relief system\, the Chinese government established state-owned social welfare factories to provide its disabled citizens with a stable job. The presenter has interviewed Deaf employees who have retired from or are still working for the Beijing Sanlu Factory (北京三露厂)\, originally the Beijing Carpet Factory for the Deaf and Mute (北京聋哑人地毯厂)\, one of the very first two welfare factories built in Beijing in 1958 to provide concentrated employment for Deaf and Hard of Hearing people. While most of the earlier welfare factories in China went bankrupt\, Sanlu still survives\, after dramatic reforms and restructuring. Over 800 Deaf people have been employed here. Some of the older Deaf workers were hired since 1958 and have witnessed the ups and downs of the factory throughout the earlier decades\, while younger employees were outsourced to the Johnson & Johnson-bought Dabao (大宝) Makeup Co. Ltd\, the most successful subsidiary and top selling brand of the Sanlu group. Together\, life histories and collective memory of these Deaf workers provide a glimpse into the lives of the world’s biggest Deaf population and a unique perspective to showcase China’s larger political\, economic and social reform and transformation over six decades. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/xiao-xiaoyan-living-history-and-collective-memory-of-deaf-people-in-a-chinese-social-welfare-factory/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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SUMMARY:He Wenkai - Book talk: Public Interest and State Legitimation: Early Modern England\, Japan\, and China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: He Wenkai\,  Associate Professor\, Division of Social Science\, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; HYI Visiting Scholar 2016-17 \n\n\n\nIn this book\, Public Interest and State Legitimation: Early Modern England\, Japan\, and China (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press\, 2023)\, Wenkai He examines the connections between state capacity\, state legitimation and the expansion of political participation. He demonstrates how in each case a public interest-based discourse of state legitimation provided a common platform upon which state and society collaborated to provide public goods such as famine relief and large-scale infrastructural facilities. In this way\, state and society strove to overcome their respective weaknesses in attaining good governance. Moreover\, each discourse of state legitimation entailed ‘passive rights’ that allowed subordinates to justify their demands on the state to redress welfare grievances; these often took the form of collective actions. Conflicts between domestic welfare and other dimensions of public interest\, however\, could instigate cross-regional and cross-sectoral mass petitions for fundamental political reforms that were likewise justified by the state’s proclaimed duty to safeguard the public interest; these mass petitions might ultimately transform the state. Such a political ‘great divergence’ occurred in England (1760s-1780s) and Japan (1870s-1880s)\, but not in China. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/he-wenkai-book-talk-public-interest-and-state-legitimation-early-modern-england-japan-and-china/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Hou Zhe - Between Ideals and Reality: The Working Class‘s Role in China’s Education Revolution
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Hou Zhe\, Assistant Professor\, Institute of China Studies\, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2023-24 \n\n\n\nChair/Discussant: Elizabeth Perry\, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government\, Harvard University; Director\, Harvard-Yenching Institute \n\n\n\nThe assertion that “the working class must lead everything” was a fundamental tenet in the ideological framework of the education revolution during Mao’s era in China. This principle\, along with the beliefs that “education serves proletarian politics” and “education should be combined with productive labor”\, underscored the legitimacy and importance of the working class in this transformative period. This talk aims to delve into the multifaceted role of the working class in shaping the educational landscape during this revolution. It will explore the instrumental role of the Workers’ Mao Zedong Thought Propaganda Teams within the educational systems and the impact of the School Revolutionary Committees within educational institutions. Furthermore\, it will examine the implementation and outcomes of labor education across various types of schools during this era. By doing so\, this discussion seeks to illuminate the complex interplay between class\, politics\, and education within the context of China’s historical and socio-political fabric. \n\n\n\nMore info: www.harvard-yenching.org/events/hou-zhe-between-ideals-and-reality/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/hou-zhe-between-ideals-and-reality-the-working-classs-role-in-chinas-education-revolution/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Yan Fei - Factions in Flux: Intergroup Collaboration and Conflict in the Red Guard Movement
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Yan Fei\, Associate Professor\, Sociology\, Tsinghua University; HYI-Radcliffe Institute Joint Fellow\, 2023-24Discussant: Yuhua Wang\, Professor of Government\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nStudents of social movements and collective action have traditionally concentrated on the structural factors influencing group formation during social mobilization. This conventional model depicts members of opposing factions as pursuing collective interests that are predetermined by their existing social positions\, leading to well-defined political alliances with fixed objectives and unwavering identities. However\, during periods of radical instability\, political ambiguity and contingency often disrupt the rigidity of these established models of mobilization. Drawing from a detailed examination of popular uprisings and factional contention in Guangzhou City and Haifeng County during the years 1966-1968 with the more abundant sources available today\, this study identifies two critical mechanisms—namely\, contextual ambiguity and adaptive choice—that serve as intermediaries in shaping political alignments in moments of radical change. It is argued that within rapidly changing and ambiguous political environments\, the process of group formation is predominantly driven by emerging interests as factional struggles evolve\, rather than being firmly rooted in pre-existing social antagonisms. Throughout this dynamic process\, new political identities emerge\, and political interests are continuously redefined\, often giving rise to violent conflicts of increasing magnitude and influence. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/yan-fei-factions-in-flux-intergroup-collaboration-and-conflict-in-the-red-guard-movement/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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