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SUMMARY:Border Conflicts in the Himalayas: Bhutan\, Nepal\, India\, and China
DESCRIPTION:Panelists:\nSudha Ramachandran\, Independent Journalist; Adjunct Faculty\, Asian College of Journalism\, Chennai\nBhaskar Koirala\, Director\, Nepal Institute of Strategic and International Studies\nFrank O’Donnell\, Postdoctoral Scholar in the Rising Power Alliances Project\, Fletcher School\, Tufts University; Nonresident Fellow in the South Asia Program at the Stimson Center\nXiaoyu Pu\, Associate Professor of Political Science\, University of Nevada\, Reno; Public Intellectuals Program Fellow\, National Committee on United States-China Relations;  Non-Resident Senior Fellow\, Inter-American Dialogue\, Washington\, D.C. \nModerator: Arunabh Ghosh\, Associate Professor of History\, Harvard University \nAsia Beyond the Headlines Seminar Series  \nPresented via Zoom\nRegistration Required\nRegister at: https://tinyurl.com/up3zjcvw.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/border-conflicts-in-the-himalayas-bhutan-nepal-india-and-china/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210402T090000
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SUMMARY:Harvard-Yenching Institute Annual Roundtable: Modernizing Asia’s Countryside
DESCRIPTION:Panelists:\nHan Do-Hyun\, Professor of Sociology\, Academy of Korean Studies\nNguyen Thi Phuong Cham\, Director\, Cultural Studies Institute\, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences\nNishikawa Kunio\, College of Agriculture\, Ibaraki University\nMini Sukumar\, Department of Women’s Studies\, University of Calicut\, Kerala\nWen Tiejun\, Professor and Director of the Centre of Rural Reconstruction\, Renmin University of China \nModerator: Elizabeth J. Perry\, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government; Director\, Harvard-Yenching Institute \nThis interdisciplinary panel of distinguished scholars from China\, India\, Japan\, Korea and Vietnam will explore the record of successful and unsuccessful efforts at rural development in their own countries. Why have some programs succeeded in increasing productivity\, improving infrastructure and public services\, alleviating poverty\, and ameliorating social and economic inequality\, whereas others proved much less successful? What have Asian countries learned from these achievements and shortcomings? And\, based on that knowledge\, what lies ahead for 21st-century Asian villages? \nFor more information\, visit: https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/modernizing-asias-countryside/ \nPresented via Zoom Webinar.\nRegistration Required\nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_1DyGQtQ7Q1qrluxYpxn3KA \n  \n 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/harvard-yenching-institute-annual-roundtable-modernizing-asias-countryside/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Special Event
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SUMMARY:Winter Pasture: A Writer’s Journey to Altay\, Northern Xinjiang — A Conversation with Li Juan
DESCRIPTION:This event will be conducted in Mandarin.\n冬牧場：一個作家的邊地之旅\n與李娟對話 \nPanelists:\nLi Juan\nDavid Der-wei Wang\, Harvard University\nMingwei Song\, Wellesley College\nKyle Shernuk\, Yale University \nBilingual reading from Winter Pasture:\nLi Juan\, Talia O’Shea\, Lily Sall \nCo-sponsored by the Wellesley College East Asian Studies Program\, CCK Foundation for Sinology Studies\, and Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies \nPresented via Zoom Webinar\nRegistration Required\nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_DGCIubzqTECYv4miOgPRPQ
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/winter-pasture-a-writers-journey-to-altay-northern-xinjiang-a-conversation-with-li-juan/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210401T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210401T173000
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SUMMARY:Panel Discussion - Advancing Justice: Responses to Anti-Asian Racism in the U.S.
DESCRIPTION:Moderator: Vivian Shaw\, College Fellow\, Department of Sociology\, Harvard University; Co-Principal Investigator\, AAPI COVID-19 Project \n\nPanelists:\nHan Lu\, Senior Policy Analyst\, National Employment Law Project\nchristina ong\, PhD Student\, Department of Sociology\, University of Pittsburgh\nElena Shih\, Manning Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnic Studies\, Brown University \nHan Lu’s work at the National Employment Law Project focuses on how inequalities of nationhood\, carceral punishment\, and the workplace shape one another. Prior to his work at NELP\, Han was a line defender at the Orleans Public Defenders. He is a first-generation college graduate. Prior to law school\, Han worked as a defense investigator for the Louisiana Center for Children’s Rights\, the juvenile public defender in his hometown of New Orleans. \nchristina ong is a PhD student in Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh studying the development of Asian America in the 1960s-1980s through an in-depth case study of New York City’s the Basement Workshop. She also serves as the Project Manager and Qualitative Committee Co-Lead for the AAPI COVID-19 Project\, a multidisciplinary mixed-methods study on how COVID-19 is impacting AAPI lives in the United States. Her research interests span topics related to diaspora\, racial justice\, and transnational feminisms. \nVivian Shaw is a College Fellow in the Department of Sociology at Harvard University and the Lead Researcher (co-PI) for the AAPI COVID-19 Project\, a multi-method investigation into the impacts of the pandemic on the lives of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. She earned her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Texas at Austin with graduate portfolios in Asian American Studies and Women’s & Gender Studies. From 2018-2019\, Vivian was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Weatherhead Center for International Relations’ Program on U.S.-Japan Relations\, also at Harvard. \nElena Shih is the Manning Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnic Studies at Brown University\, where she directs a human trafficking research cluster through Brown’s Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice. Shih’s book project\, “Manufacturing Freedom: Trafficking Rescue\, Rehabilitation\, and the Slave Free Good” (under contract with University of California Press)\, is a global ethnography of the transnational social movement to combat human trafficking in China\, Thailand\, and the United States. Shih is an outreach organizer with Red Canary Song\, a grassroots coalition of massage workers\, sex workers\, and allies in New York City. \nPresented via Zoom\nRegistration Required\nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_vPKMZyIXS6-gJpJ7uk_yqg
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/panel-discussion-advancing-justice-responses-to-anti-asian-racism-in-the-u-s/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210329T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210329T110000
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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:20210322T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210322T133000
DTSTAMP:20260516T060148
CREATED:20201209T135859Z
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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:20210317T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210317T110000
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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:20210315T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210315T133000
DTSTAMP:20260516T060148
CREATED:20201209T135456Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210312T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210312T170000
DTSTAMP:20260516T060148
CREATED:20210309T181314Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210222T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210222T213000
DTSTAMP:20260516T060148
CREATED:20210216T152730Z
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UID:10413-1614024000-1614029400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Symposium: Japanese Economic Statecraft in an Era of U.S.-China Rivalry
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\nTakashi Shiraishi\, Chancellor\, Prefectural University of Kumamoto; President\, Graduate Research Institute of Policy Studies (2011-2017); President\, Institute of Developing Economies-JETRO (2007-2018)\nSaori Katada\, Professor of International Relations\, Department of Political Science and International Relations\, University of Southern California\nDaniel Drezner\, Professor of International Politics\, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy\, Tufts University; Nonresident Senior Fellow\, Brookings Institution\nWilliam Norris\, Associate Professor\, The Bush School of Government and Public Service\, Texas A&M University \nModerator: Christina Davis\, Director\, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Professor of Government; Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor\, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study\, Harvard University \nThis symposium is part of the Special Series on Japanese Economic Statecraft. \nPresented via Zoom\nRegistration Required\nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAqcOyorj0tGtCej8VhG_ljsUW-cOF6EsNp
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/symposium-japanese-economic-statecraft-in-an-era-of-u-s-china-rivalry/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210222T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210222T130000
DTSTAMP:20260516T060148
CREATED:20210203T213319Z
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SUMMARY:Panel Discussion - Iran and China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Between Desirable and Feasible
DESCRIPTION:Read the transcript of the event here. \nSpeakers:Eyck Freymann\, Ph.D. Candidate\, Oxford UniversityNader Habibi\, Professor of Practice\, Brandeis UniversityDina Esfandiary\, Senior Advisor\, International Crisis Group \nModerators:Nargis Kassenova\, Senior Fellow\, Program on Central Asia\, Davis CenterJames Gethyn Evans\, Communications Officer\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies; Ph.D. Candidate\, Department of History\, Harvard University \nExperiencing another downturn in its relations with the West\, Iran has been more actively “looking to the East” to pursue stronger political and economic cooperation with China. Tehran remains an enthusiastic supporter of Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)\, despite the withdrawal of Chinese companies from a number of projects due to U.S. sanctions. Iran still hopes to benefit from investments\, technologies and new connectivity routes promoted under the BRI umbrella. This roundtable will discuss the prospects of Iran becoming a node of the BRI\, and the promises and challenges of Chinese investment in the Iranian economy. \nEyck Freymann is a doctoral candidate at Balliol College\, Oxford. He was previously research assistant to Graham Allison\, Niall Ferguson\, and Shi Zhiqin at Harvard\, Stanford\, and Tsinghua Universities. He holds an MPhil from the University of Cambridge\, where he was a Henry Scholar; an AM in Asian Studies from Harvard University\, where he won the Joseph Fletcher Memorial Prize for best thesis; and an AB in East Asian History with highest honors from Harvard College. His research and commentary have appeared in The New York Times\, The Atlantic\, The Economist\, Foreign Affairs\, and Foreign Policy. He is the author of One Belt One Road: Chinese Power Meets the World (Harvard Asia Center Press\, November 2020). \nNader Habibi is the Henry J. Leir Professor of Practice in the Economics of the Middle East at Brandeis University’s Crown Center for Middle East Studies. Before joining Brandeis University in June 2007\, he served as managing director of economic forecasting and risk analysis for Middle East and North Africa in Global Insight Ltd. Mr. Habibi has worked in academic and research institutions in Iran\, Turkey and the United States since 1987. He earned his PhD in Economics from Michigan State University. His most recent research projects include an analysis of the excess supply of college graduates in Middle Eastern countries\, impact of economic sanctions on Iranian economy and the impact of Arab Spring uprisings on economic conditions of the affected countries. Habibi also served as director of Islamic and Middle East Studies at Brandeis University (August 2014-August 2019). He has published a work of fiction about Middle East geopolitics titled: Three Stories One Middle East (2014). Links to his publications are available at https://naderhabibi.blogspot.com/. \nDina Esfandiary is Senior Advisor in the Middle East and North Africa department of the International Crisis Group (ICG). Previously\, she was a Fellow in the Middle East department of The Century Foundation (TCF)\, an International Security Program Research Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and an Adjunct Fellow in the Center for Strategic and International Studies’ (CSIS) Middle East Program. Prior to this\, she worked at the Centre for Science and Security Studies (CSSS) in the War Studies Department at King’s College London from February 2015\, and in the Non-Proliferation and Disarmament programme of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in London from October 2009. Dina has published widely\, including in Foreign Affairs\, the Atlantic\, The Guardian\, the Washington Post\, International Affairs\, the National Interest\, Arms Control Today\, and The Washington Quarterly. Dina is the co-author of Triple-Axis: Iran’s Relations with Russia and China (I.B Taurus\, 2018)\, and Living on the Edge: Iran and the Practice of Nuclear Hedging (Palgrave Macmillan\, 2016). She holds a PhD in the War Studies department at King’s College London and Masters Degrees from Kings College London and the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies\, and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. \nThis event is part of a new seminar hosted by the Fairbank Center and the Davis Center. This seminar aims to foster vibrant\, comprehensive\, and fruitful discussion about the ongoing transformations in geopolitics and governance resulting from China’s Belt Road Initiative. Co-sponsored by the Program on Central Asia at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies\, and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/panel-discussion-iran-and-chinas-belt-and-road-initiative-between-desirable-and-feasible/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201209T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201209T210000
DTSTAMP:20260516T060148
CREATED:20201113T150212Z
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SUMMARY:Paul Blustein - Schism 2.0: China and America’s Trade Conflict in the Biden Administration
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Paul Blustein\, Senior Fellow\, Centre for International Governance Innovation; Senior Associate (non-resident)\, Simon Chair in Political Economy\, Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) \nModerator: Christina Davis\, Director\, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Professor of Government; and Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor\, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study\, Harvard University \nThis seminar is part of the Special Series on Japanese Economic Statecraft. \nPresented via Zoom\nRegistration Required\nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEsceqgpzkrGNEAFn38qSoW0IPdKOCzWgwZ
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/paul-blustein-schism-2-0-china-and-americas-trade-conflict-in-the-next-u-s-administration/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201207T070000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201208T094500
DTSTAMP:20260516T060148
CREATED:20201130T220533Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201130T220533Z
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SUMMARY:From 30 Million to Zero Malaria Cases in China: Lessons Learned for Malaria- Eliminating Countries in Africa
DESCRIPTION:On December 7–8\, 2020\, Harvard University will partner with National Institute for Parasitic Diseases (NIPD)\, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)\, and the World Health Organization to convene a special scientific symposium titled\, “From 30 Million to Zero Malaria Cases in China: Lessons Learned for Malaria-Eliminating Countries in Africa.” \nParticipants will gain insights on China’s successful integration of sophisticated genetic technologies with ongoing malaria surveillance efforts for improved malaria policy decision-making for eradication and also gain insights as experts discuss the progress and challenges of malaria elimination in middle- to high-burden countries. \nMore information here. \nPresented via Zoom Webinar
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/from-30-million-to-zero-malaria-cases-in-china-lessons-learned-for-malaria-eliminating-countries-in-africa/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201109T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201109T211500
DTSTAMP:20260516T060148
CREATED:20201005T155749Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201005T155749Z
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SUMMARY:Fairbank Center Director's Seminar: Impact of COVID-19 on Mental Health in China\, India\, and the United States
DESCRIPTION:Read the transcript of the event here. \nModerator: Arthur Kleinman\, Professor of Medical Anthropology\, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine\, Harvard Medical School; Professor of Psychiatry\, Harvard Medical School; Rabb Professor\, Department of Anthropology\, Harvard University Faculty of Arts and Sciences. \nPanelists:\nXiao Shuiyuan\, Professor\, Central South University\, Xianya School of Public Health\nYifeng Xu\, President\, Shanghai Mental Health Center; Head & Professor\, Department of Psychiatry\, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine; Director\, WHO/Shanghai Collaborating Center for Research and Training in Mental Health\nVikram Patel\, The Pershing Square Professor of Global Health and Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow\, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine\, Harvard Medical School; Professor\, Department of Global Health and Population\, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Co-Founder and Member of Managing Committee\, Sangath\nCindy Liu\, Director\, Developmental Risk and Cultural Resilience Laboratory\, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Assistant Professor of Pediatrics\, Harvard Medical School \nHost and Commentator: Winnie Yip\, Professor of Global Health Policy and Economics\, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Director\, Harvard China Health Partnership; Acting Director\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies \nSponsored by the Harvard China Health Partnership and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. Cosponsored by the Mittal South Asia Institute. \nPart of the Fairbank Center Director’s Seminar Series \nPresented via Zoom Webinar
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/fairbank-center-directors-seminar-impact-of-covid-19-on-mental-health-in-china-india-and-the-united-states/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Director's Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201105T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201105T090000
DTSTAMP:20260516T060148
CREATED:20201020T130038Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201020T130038Z
UID:9865-1604563200-1604566800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Jie Qiao - Impact of COVID-19 on Maternal and Child Health in China and Its Global Lessons
DESCRIPTION:A RECORDING OF THIS EVENT MAY BE FOUND AT: https://harvard.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=110ef590-303f-41dd-b32d-ac6b00e637fb \nSpeaker: Jie Qiao\, Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering\, Director of Peking University Third Hospital \nDiscussants:\nMichelle Williams\, Dean\, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health\nAna Langer\, Professor of the Practice of Public Health and Coordinator of the Dean’s Special Initiative on Women and Health\, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health\nWinnie Yip\, Professor of the Practice of Global Health Policy and Economics\, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Director\, Harvard China Health Partnership; Acting Director\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies \nWhat can we learn from China’s experience in managing maternal and child care during the COVID-19 pandemic? Join us for a discussion of recent experience\, global lessons\, and potential areas for China-U.S. collaboration. \nJie Qiao is Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering\, Director of Peking University Third Hospital. During the COVID-19 pandemic\, Dr. Qiao lead the Hubei medical aid team of Peking University which was responsible for critical and maternal care\, and as early as February 2020\, she wrote in The Lancet about the impact of COVID-19 on maternal and neonatal health (read here). Her own research focuses on the molecular mechanism of human gametogenesis and embryo development\, infertility pathology and clinical treatments\, the protection and preservation of female fertility\, as well as developing new pre-implantation diagnosis methods. She has led teams to achieve a number of technical and theoretical breakthroughs in the systematic study of human embryonic development and has made many landmark contributions to the development of reproductive medicine. \nThis event is presented by the Harvard China Health Partnership as part of the ongoing series\, China and Global Experience with COVID-19\, and is co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. \nPresented via Zoom Webinar\nRegistration required\nRegister at https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_oafy7vs8TRSxkeZoVmdsgA. 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/jie-qiao-impact-of-covid-19-on-maternal-and-child-health-in-china-and-its-global-lessons/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200922T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200922T203000
DTSTAMP:20260516T060148
CREATED:20200901T184652Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200901T184652Z
UID:9558-1600803000-1600806600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Confronting Disinformation: A Conversation with Audrey Tang
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Audrey Tang\, Taiwan Digital Minister in charge of Social Innovation\nModerator: Joan Donovan\, Research Director\, Shorenstein Center on Media\, Politics and Public Policy\, Harvard University \nAudrey Tang is Taiwan’s Digital Minister in charge of Social Innovation. Audrey is known for revitalizing the computer languages Perl and Haskell\, as well as building the online spreadsheet system EtherCalc in collaboration with Dan Bricklin. In the public sector\, Audrey served on Taiwan national development council’s open data committee and K-12 curriculum committee; and led the country’s first e-Rulemaking project. In the private sector\, Audrey worked as a consultant with Apple on computational linguistics\, with Oxford University Press on crowd lexicography\, and with Socialtext on social interaction design. In the social sector\, Audrey actively contributes to g0v (“gov zero”)\, a vibrant community focusing on creating tools for the civil society\, with the call to “fork the government.” \nDr. Joan Donovan is the Research Director of the Shorenstein Center on Media\, Politics and Public Policy. Dr. Donovan leads the field in examining internet and technology studies\, online extremism\, media manipulation\, and disinformation campaigns. Dr. Donovan leads The Technology and Social Change Project (TaSC). TaSC explores how media manipulation is a means to control public conversation\, derail democracy\, and disrupt society. TaSC conducts research\, develops methods\, and facilitates workshops for journalists\, policy makers\, technologists\, and civil society organizations on how to detect\, document\, and debunk media manipulation campaigns. \nRegistration for this event is required\, details on how to join the webinar will be sent to registered participants before the event.\nRegister here. \nThis event is cosponsored by The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation and The Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. \nQuestions? Contact Allie Henske at allie_henske@hks.harvard.edu
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/confronting-disinformation-a-conversation-with-audrey-tang/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200903T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200903T093000
DTSTAMP:20260516T060148
CREATED:20200821T153142Z
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UID:9525-1599121800-1599125400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Panel Discussion: Maintaining Peace in China-India Relations
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\nKishore Mahbubani\, Distinguished Fellow\, Asia Research Institute\, NUS\nSelina Ho\, Assistant Professor and Program Chair\, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy\, National University of Singapore\nShen Dingli\, Professor\, Institute of International Studies\, Fudan University\nTarun Khanna\, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor\, Harvard Business School; Faculty Director\, Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute\, Harvard University\nKanti Bajpai\, Director\, Centre on Asia and Globlisation and Wilmar Professor of Asian Studies\, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy\, National University of Singapore\nManjari Chatterjee Miller\, Associate Professor of International Relations\, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies\, Boston University \nChairperson: James Crabtree\, Associate Professor in Practice\, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy\, National University of Singapore \nThe China-India relationship is one of the keys to international security\, the future of Asia\, and the well-being of nearly 3 billion people. Since early May 2020\, border tensions between the two powers have underlined the potential for conflict. In 2017\, their armies faced off for 73 days. At the same time\, they have built a system of engagement designed to manage conflict and their larger rivalry. Their leaders meet regularly\, they hold talks on the border quarrel\, they have a series of confidence building measures\, and they trade and invest with each other. They also cooperate multilaterally. \nWhat are the drivers of the relationship? How can they manage conflict and rivalry? Are there cooperative steps forward\, now and looking ahead? Two years ago\, the Centre on Asia and Globalization in the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore\, set out to answer these and other vital questions by working with Routledge UK to produce the Routledge Handbook of China-India Relations. The book was published earlier this year. It assembled experts from China\, India\, Singapore\, other parts of Asia\, Australia\, Brazil\, Europe\, and the United States and has 35 chapters on a range of China-India issues. \nThis is a co-sponsored event hosted by the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore\, the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute\, the Harvard University Asia Center\, and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. \nPresented via Zoom Webinar.\nRegistration Required.\nRegister at https://nus-sg.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Sjly22JCSZWfHPBcMn4ZTQ. 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/panel-discussion-maintaining-peace-in-china-india-relations/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200625T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200625T110000
DTSTAMP:20260516T060148
CREATED:20200603T144445Z
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SUMMARY:Alexander Cooley and Jonathan Hillman - Crony Capitalism along the Silk Road
DESCRIPTION:Watch live on YouTube.\n\nSpeakers: \n\n\nAlexander Cooley\, Director\, Harriman Institute\, Columbia University; Claire Tow Professor of Political Science\, Barnard College\nJonathan E. Hillman\, Senior Fellow\, Simon Chair in Political Economy\, and Director\, Reconnecting Asia Project\, CSIS\nModerator: Nargis Kassenova\, Senior Fellow\, Program on Central Asia\, Davis Center; Associate Professor\, KIMEP University \n  \n\n\nChina’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)\, propelled by the government’s will and the allocation of massive financial resources\, has been changing the political and economic realities in Eurasia. A lot of money is moving around\, creating opportunities for unscrupulous individuals to engage in corrupt schemes. Crony capitalism receives a major boost in the conditions of weak rule of law and lack of transparency and accountability. Thus\, along with the transport\, trade\, investment\, financial and people-to-people connectivity\, fostered by the BRI\, we see the flourishing of connectivity of corrupt elites in China and Eurasia. These networks are not limited to “emerging markets”\, but are part of global arrangements facilitating shady deals and money laundering. The discussion sheds light on the shady side of the BRI in Eurasia\, along with its actors and mechanisms\, and outlines possible ways to improve the governance of investments. \nAlexander Cooley is the Claire Tow Professor of Political Science at Barnard College and Director of Columbia University’s Harriman Institute (2015-present). Professor Cooley’s research examines how external actors—including emerging powers\, international organizations\, multinational companies and NGOs—have influenced the development\, governance and sovereignty of the former Soviet states\, with a focus on Central Asia and the Caucasus. Cooley is the author and/or editor of seven academic books including Great Games\, Local Rules: the New Great Power Contest in Central Asia (Oxford 2012) and Dictators without Borders: Power and Money In Central Asia (Yale 2017)\, co-authored with John Heathershaw. His new book Exit from Hegemony: the Unravelling of the American Global Order has just been published by Oxford University Press in April 2020. \nJonathan E. Hillman is a senior fellow at the Center for  Strategic and International Studies and Director of the Reconnecting Asia Project\, one of the most extensive open-source databases tracking China’s Belt and Road Initiative. Prior to joining CSIS\, Hillman served as a policy adviser at the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative\, where he contributed to the 2015 U.S. National Security Strategy and the President’s Trade Agenda and directed the research and writing process for essays\, speeches\, and other materials explaining U.S. trade and investment policy. He has also worked as a researcher at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs\, the Council on Foreign Relations\, and in Kyrgyzstan as a Fulbright scholar. His book\, The Emperor’s New Road\, will be published by Yale University Press in 2020. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\nCosponsored by the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/alexander-cooley-and-jonathan-hillman-crony-capitalism-along-the-silk-road/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200305T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200305T133000
DTSTAMP:20260516T060148
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SUMMARY:Lin Sheng-chih - Rethinking the Religious Elements in the Tombs of Early Medieval China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Lin Sheng-chih\, Associate Research Fellow\, Institute of History and Philology\, Academia Sinica; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2019-20\nChair/discussant: Eugene Wang\, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art\, Department of History of Art and Architecture\, Harvard University \nThis talk examines religious elements in the tombs of early medieval China (220–589)\, in an effort to gain new perspectives into the art of tombs from this period. To achieve this goal\, this project conceptually refers to recent scholarship on the very idea of religion. In terms of materials\, the project covers sources from Buddhism\, Daoism\, Confucianism\, and Zoroastrianism\, as well as local cults of nomadic tribes. In its central argument\, this project aims to elucidate the religious elements in tombs of the Northern dynasties (386–581) by considering the local cults of nomadic tribes. \nhttps://harvard-yenching.org/events/rethinking-religious-elements-tombs-early-medieval-china
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/lin-sheng-chih-rethinking-the-religious-elements-in-the-tombs-of-early-medieval-china/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200302T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200302T200000
DTSTAMP:20260516T060148
CREATED:20200220T174231Z
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UID:9156-1583172000-1583179200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Panel Discussion - The COVID-19 Outbreak: Local and Global Decisions During Uncertainty
DESCRIPTION:Please click here to watch/listen to our recent panel discussion on COVID-19 (Coronavirus).  \nPanel Discussants:\nGabriel Leung\, Dean\, Faculty of Medicine\, Helen and Francis Zimmern Professor in Population Health\, University of Hong Kong; Member of the World Health Organization expert team on COVID19; and Harvard Chan MPH Alumnus\nBarry Bloom\, Joan L. and Julius H. Jacobson Research Professor of Public Health\nWilliam Hsiao\, K.T. Li Research Professor of Economics\nMarc Lipsitch\, Professor of Epidemiology\nAlex Ng\, Vice President of Tencent Healthcare; Former Deputy Director of China Program\, Head of Health and Innovation\, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; and Harvard Chan MPH Alumnus\nWinnie Yip(Moderator)\, Professor of the Practice of International Health Policy and Economics \nJoin the Harvard China Health Partnership for a special dinner seminar featuring a panel of speakers—from Harvard and Asia—to learn and discuss complex questions such as: \n\nWhat could China have done differently in light of incomplete and uncertain knowledge of the new virus?\nIs China’s response unique to its governance structure or are there global lessons to be drawn?\nWhat did China learn and not learn from SARS in 2003 and why?\nHas ten years of health reform in China\, plus quadrupled government spending on health\, prepared China better for this outbreak?\nWhat is the role of social media and digital health in this outbreak?\n\nhttps://sites.sph.harvard.edu/china-health-partnership/event/chp-seminar-coronavirus/ \n 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/panel-discussion-the-covid-19-outbreak-local-and-global-decisions-during-uncertainty/
LOCATION:Kresge Building\, G2 – bad duplicate\, 677 Huntington Ave\, Boston\, MA\, 02155\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200228T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200228T140000
DTSTAMP:20260516T060148
CREATED:20200212T135124Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200212T135124Z
UID:9130-1582891200-1582898400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Panel Discussion - Going Viral: The Coronavirus and its Regional and Global Implications
DESCRIPTION:Watch again on YouTube: \n \nListen again on Soundcloud: \n \nRead and download the transcript for this event here. \nSpeakers:\nBarry Bloom\, Joan L. and Julius H. Jacobson Research Professor of Public Health\, Harvard Chan School of Public Health\nHoward Markel\, George E. Wantz Distinguished Professor of the History of Medicine; Director\, Center for the History of Medicine\, University of Michigan\nElanah Uretsky\, Assistant Professor\, International and Global Studies\, Brandeis University\nWinnie Chi-Man Yip\, Professor of the Practice of International Health Policy and Economics\, Harvard Chan School of Public Health\n\nModerator: Arthur Kleinman\, Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology; Professor of Medical Anthropology in Global Health and Social Medicine; Professor of Psychiatry\, Harvard Medical School \nAsia Beyond the Headlines Seminar Series\, Harvard University Asia Center.  Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the China Health Partnership\, Harvard Chan School of Public Health
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/panel-discussion-going-viral-the-coronavirus-and-its-regional-and-global-implications/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200225T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200225T133000
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UID:9094-1582632000-1582637400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Zhai Shaodong - Ground Stone Tool Production: A Forsaken Craft During Early Urbanization in China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Zhai Shaodong\, Associate Professor\, Institute of Archaeology\, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2019-20\nChair/discussant: Rowan Flad\, John E. Hudson Professor of Archaeology\, Department of Anthropology\, Harvard University \nIn China\, ground stone tools emerged during the transition period from the Paleolithic to the Neolithic time. However\, they did not take the place of knapped stone tools as the main production tools until the Yangshao Culture. This process coincided with the change from hunting and gathering to agriculture and sedentism. Therefore\, ground stone tools greatly supported agricultural development and sedentism. If there were ground stone tools\, there was ground stone tool production. Currently\, there are not many clues about ground stone tool production during and before the Yangshao Culture in the Central Plains of China\, but there are some related data from Taosi\, Erlitou and Yin Ruins. These three sites also represented the early urbanization process in China. This talk will compare ground stone tool production at these three sites in order to see the status of ground stone tool production during early urbanization in the Central Plains of China \nhttps://harvard-yenching.org/events/ground-stone-tool-production-forsaken-craft-during-early-urbanization-china
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/zhai-shaodong-ground-stone-tool-production-a-forsaken-craft-during-early-urbanization-in-china/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200218T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200218T160000
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SUMMARY:Dirk van der Kley - Less is More…The New BRI in Central Asia
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dirk van der Kley\, Program Director for Policy Research\, China Matters \nXi Jinping’s Belt and Road Initiative has changed significantly in Central Asia in the last few years. In particular\, direct Chinese government lending through Eximbank to Central Asian states has completely dried up. Instead the focus has shifted to smaller investment projects that create jobs for Central Asians and exports for Central Asian states\, while also providing benefits for Chinese companies. This is a much tougher task than just building infrastructure. It forces Chinese companies to operate in challenging business environments in Central Asia in key sectors. This presentation will systematically examine how these changes are paying out in each Central Asian state. It will demonstrate that Chinese companies have their own agency. For example\, they still try to shift debt burdens onto recipient states through hidden means or joint ventures with Central Asian state-owned enterprises. \n 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/dirk-van-der-kley-less-is-morethe-new-bri-in-central-asia/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200210T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200210T130000
DTSTAMP:20260516T060148
CREATED:20200127T153406Z
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SUMMARY:Wen-Chin Wu - How does China’s Foreign Aid Undermine the Effectiveness of US Foreign Policy? —Evidence from UN General Assembly Voting Data
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Wen-Chin Wu\, Assistant Research Fellow\, Institute of Political Science\, Academia Sinica; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2019-20\nChair/discussant: Christina Davis\, Professor of Government\, Harvard University; Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor\, Radcliffe Institute \nThe economic rise of China is inspiring a burgeoning literature on how China uses its economic power to influence other countries’ domestic politics and foreign policy. In this study\, I analyze how China’s foreign aid discourages its recipients from complying with US foreign policy goals in the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). Previous studies have shown that the US can successfully lobby other states to support its position in votes on UN resolutions that it deems important to US interests\, such as those on human rights issues. In this study\, I use a new dataset on Chinese foreign aid and hypothesize that the emergence of China as a major donor makes developing countries less dependent on US aid. In particular\, third countries would be less likely to comply with the US on important votes in the UNGA if they receive more aid from China. \nhttps://harvard-yenching.org/events/how-does-china-s-foreign-aid-undermine-effectiveness-us-foreign-policy-evidence-un-general
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/wen-chin-wu-how-does-chinas-foreign-aid-undermine-the-effectiveness-of-us-foreign-policy-evidence-from-un-general-assembly-voting-data/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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SUMMARY:Lan Yan - The House of Yan: A Family at the Heart of a Century of Chinese History
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Lan Yan\, Vice Chairman of Investment Banking\, Lazard; Chairman and CEO\, Lazard of Greater China
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/lan-yan-the-house-of-yan-a-family-at-the-heart-of-a-century-of-chinese-history/
LOCATION:Morgan Courtroom\, Austin Hall\, 1515 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200204T120000
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SUMMARY:Wang Xiying - Intimacy\, Desire\, and Reproduction: Women Living with HIV/AIDS in Beijing
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Wang Xiying\, Professor\, Faculty of Education\, Beijing Normal University; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2019-20\nChair/discussant: Susan Greenhalgh\, John King and Wilma Cannon Fairbank Research Professor of Chinese Society\, Department of Anthropology\, Harvard University \nThis talk focuses on understanding the daily lives of women living with HIV/AIDS (WLHA) and their coping strategies of the illness within the current Chinese society. Selecting intimacy\, desire and reproduction as three key concepts to explore their lives\, this talk is attentive to the ways in which gender inequality is played out in their practices of romantic and intimate relationships\, womanhood and motherhood\, marriage and family\, sexuality and reproductive health. Through the narrative of their lives\, the talk attempts to provide a brief sketch of HIV/AIDS history in China\, and illustrate how the HIV/AIDS issue is deeply related to broader social issues including unsafe blood and plasma selling\, massive scale of migration\, spreading of drug use\, emerging LGBT communities and sexual revolution. This talk depicts the institutional and social structure transformation embedded within WLHA’s personal experience in the fast-changing contemporary China. \nhttps://harvard-yenching.org/events/intimacy-desire-and-reproduction-women-living-hivaids-beijing
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/wang-xiying-intimacy-desire-and-reproduction-women-living-with-hiv-aids-in-beijing/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200130T120000
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SUMMARY:Qu Tongli - Emergence of Modern Humans in China: Behavioral Perspectives
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Qu Tongli\, Associate Professor in Archaeology\, Peking University; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2019-20\nChair/discussant: Amy Clark\, College Fellow – Archaeology\, Department of Anthropology\, Harvard University \nChina has been the focus of discussion on modern human origins. Human fossils found recently in South China show that modern humans emerged in China in the early Late Pleistocene (ca. 100ka BP)\, and add new clues to the modern human origins. However\, the appearance of modern humans in North China is in a more blurred picture due to the paucity of fossils. This talk attempts to look at the issue through examining the pattern of animal resource exploitation in the Late Pleistocene. Zooarchaeological studies of the sites in northern China show a subsistence pattern characterized by hunting large mammals\, especially the adult individuals during the early and middle Late Pleistocene\, which is similar with that of Neanderthals in the west of Eurasia. In the late Late Pleistocene subsistence strategies changed\, represented by a broadened diet and intensive exploitation. Meanwhile\, bone and antler tools appeared around 30ka BP in the north. According to these changes\, together with the appearance of novel lithic technology\, we suggest that modern humans appeared in North China around 30ka BP. \nEmergence of modern humans in China: behavioral perspectives
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/qu-tongli-emergence-of-modern-humans-in-china-behavioral-berspectives/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191206T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191206T133000
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SUMMARY:Carma Hinton - From Goddess to Demon? Musings on the Transformation of Female Imagery in Paintings of Central Asia and China from the Late Tang to the Song Dynasties
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Carma Hinton\, Asia Center Visiting Scholar; Clarence J. Robinson Professor of Visual Culture and Chinese Studies\, George Mason University\nChair: Jie Li\, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities\, Harvard University\n \nAsia Center Fellows Seminar
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/carma-hinton-from-goddess-to-demon-musings-on-the-transformation-of-female-imagery-in-paintings-of-central-asia-and-china-from-the-late-tang-to-the-song-dynasties/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S354\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191025T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191025T133000
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SUMMARY:Panel Discussion - Vietnam: Party\, State and Society in an Era of Great Power Rivalry
DESCRIPTION:Chair: Dwight Perkins\, Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy\, Emeritus\, Harvard University \nThe nature and limits of the party-state:\nBorje Ljunggren\, Associate\, Harvard Asia Center; former Swedish Ambassador to China and Vietnam \nHealth equity and markets:\nLincoln Chen\, President\, China Medical Board \nCivil society\, dissent and repression:\nEva Hansson\, Coordinator\, Forum for Asian Studies\, Stockholm University \nCoping in an era of growing great power rivalry:\nRobert Ross\, Political Science Department\, Boston College \nAsia Beyond the Headlines Seminar Series\, Harvard University Asia Center. 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/panel-discussion-vietnam-party-state-and-society-in-an-era-of-great-power-rivalry/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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