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SUMMARY:Painting into Being: Underground Art during China’s Cultural Revolution
DESCRIPTION:zoom registration\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Aihe Wang\, Former Wuming Artist; Honorary Associate Professor at the School of Chinese\, The University of Hong Kong \n\n\n\nModerator: Michael Puett\, Victor and William Fung Foundation Director\, Harvard University Asia Center; Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History and Anthropology\, FAS; Harvard College Professor \n\n\n\nAmid the political turmoil of China’s Cultural Revolution\, a small group of painters in Beijing defied state control\, creating art in secrecy that challenged the ideological constraints of their time. Painting into Beingis the first in-depth study of underground art during this period\, focusing on the Wuming (No Name) Painting Group\, active from 1972 to 1981\, in conjunction with other clandestine cultural movements. Aihe Wang brings a singular perspective to this history as both a former Wuming artist and a Harvard-trained historian and anthropologist. Analyzing nearly one hundred oil paintings against sophisticated theoretical frameworks and intricate historical narratives\, she examines how underground artists cultivated individual agency\, forged collective solidarity\, and subtly resisted authoritarianism. This book also illustrates how Wuming aesthetically engaged with both modern Western art and traditional Chinese art in creating a distinct form of Chinese modernism. \n\n\n\nInterweaving history\, theory\, and lived experience\, Painting into Being expands our understanding of modern Chinese history\, global modernism\, and the power of creative expression within repressive regimes. \n\n\n\nBook talk registrants can purchase the book at a 30% discount for a limited time at https://www.hup.harvard.edu/. Please use code ASI30 at checkout to receive the discount—the offer is valid through mid-December 2026. To join the webinar\, register here.  \n\n\n\nOrganized by the Harvard University Asia Center; Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard University.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/painting-into-being-underground-art-during-chinas-cultural-revolution/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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SUMMARY:Everyday Occupation: American Soldiers and Chinese Civilians after World War II
DESCRIPTION:zoom registration\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Chunmei Du\, Professor\, Department of History\, Lingnan University\, Hong Kong; Associate\, Harvard University Asia Center  \n\n\n\nIn this rich history of everyday encounters between US soldiers and Chinese civilians\, Chunmei Du explores their entangled relations from the end of World War II to the founding of the People’s Republic of China. Drawing upon official\, popular and personal accounts from both countries\, Du examines the sensorial\, material\, and symbolic exchanges that took place between GIs and ordinary Chinese people-stall vendors\, pedestrians\, rickshaw pullers\, “Jeep girls\,” and suspected thieves. Through the conceptual lens of the everyday\, this book reveals how interactions such as traffic accidents\, sexual relations\, theft\, and black-market dealings\, impacted larger political dynamics during this pivotal era. Du shows how mundane struggles made imperialism and sovereignty tangible\, fueling anti-American sentiment. Meanwhile\, these encounters fostered informal diplomacy\, shaping identities and forging new bonds that left a lasting imprint on both countries. \n\n\n\nProfessor Du’s talk will be based on her book Everyday Occupation: American Soldiers and Chinese Civilians after World War II\, published by Cambridge University Press (2026). This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core. \n\n\n\nTo join the webinar\, register here. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/everyday-occupation-american-soldiers-and-chinese-civilians-after-world-war-ii/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261202T163000
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SUMMARY:Traversing the Belt and Road: The World According to China and China According to the World
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers:Min Ye\, Professor of International Relations\, Pardee School of Global Studies\, Boston UniversityJorge Heine\, Core Faculty in Diplomacy & Governance\, Rising Powers Initiative\, Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future; Research Professor\, Pardee School of Global Studies\, Boston UniversityGrant Rhode\, Research Fellow\, Center for the Study of Asia\, Boston University Andrew Wilson\, John A. van Beuren Chair of Asia-Pacific Studies and Professor of Strategy & Policy\, United States Naval War College \n\n\n\nIs China’s signature global strategy a boon to world development or a channel for control? Traversing the Belt and Road brings together leading voices from China and across the globe to examine the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) a decade after its launch. Spanning Asia\, Europe\, Latin America\, and Africa\, these essays highlight the diverse patterns and evolving dynamics across both the land-based and maritime Silk Roads. The volume’s findings—that while the BRI has facilitated development convergence in many regions\, it has also intensified geopolitical competition and posed new governance challenges—are both encouraging and sobering. \n\n\n\nEngaging with key debates in world development and great-power rivalry\, this book unpacks the BRI’s adaptive nature and highlights its shift toward green and digital globalization. The wide range of methods employed—including comparative case studies\, historical inquiry\, statistical modeling\, and field-based research—show how local agency\, institutional variation\, and global dynamics have shaped outcomes on the ground. An indispensable resource for scholars\, students\, and policy analysts\, Traversing the Belt and Road offers a timely and empirically grounded perspective on China’s global ambitions—and the roadblocks in its path. \n\n\n\nBook talk registrants can purchase the book at a 30% discount for a limited time at https://www.hup.harvard.edu/. Please use code ASI30 at checkout to receive the discount—the offer is valid through mid-December 2026. \n\n\n\nOrganized by the Harvard University Asia Center; Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard University.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/traversing-the-belt-and-road-the-world-according-to-china-and-china-according-to-the-world/
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SUMMARY: The Presence of Peach Spring: Daoism\, Ritual\, and Locality
DESCRIPTION:zoom registration\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Mark R. E. Meulenbeld\, Associate Professor\, School of Chinese\, The University of Hong Kong \n\n\n\nThe Presence of Peach Spring radically breaks with conventional interpretations of medieval luminary Tao Qian’s famous “Record of Peach Blossom Spring” by connecting the tale to its stated geographical location in northern Hunan Province (PRC) and focusing on the Daoist lore that surrounds it. Drawing on more than two decades of fieldwork\, Mark R. E. Meulenbeld uncovers the presence of Peach Spring as a site with a history of more than fifteen hundred years\, locally embedded within a complex network of ritual referents that define the landscape as inherently sacred. Rather than a primarily textual analysis\, Meulenbeld offers a more historically grounded and environmentally situated interpretation that engages with the religious manifestations of Peach Spring: on domestic altars\, through spirit-mediums\, at Daoist institutions\, and\, ultimately\, as a source of transcendence. Meulenbeld shows that the category of the sacred offers a crucial framework for understanding traditional texts\, even if they do not immediately seem to belong to any religious sphere. When read in the context of its native region\, the tale of Peach Spring affords readers access to a sacred site\, sacred objects\, and the enduring traditions of Daoist ritual that continue to maintain its presence within a sacred ecology. \n\n\n\nOrganized by the Harvard University Asia Center; Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard UniversityTo join the webinar\, register here.  \n\n\n\nBook talk registrants can purchase the book at a 30% discount for a limited time at https://www.hup.harvard.edu/. Please use code ASI30 at checkout to receive the discount—the offer is valid through mid-December 2026. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-presence-of-peach-spring-daoism-ritual-and-locality/
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