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SUMMARY:Sophie Ling-chia Wei - A Sage Embellished with Elements of “Chinoiserie”: The Making of Jesus in the Jesuit Figurist Translations of Chinese Classics
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Sophie Ling-chia Wei\, Associate Professor\, Department of Translation\, Chinese University of Hong Kong; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2023-24Chair/Discussant: James Robson\, James C. Kralik and Yunli Lou Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nWhen Christianity was introduced to China in the Ming and Qing dynasties\, translations of sacred texts and stories of biblical figures were employed for the purpose of proselytization. The Jesuit Figurists’ translations took on lives of their own\, going on to create impact through new and interesting parallels between Chinese mythological figures and the image of Jesus Christ. The making of Jesus in the hands of the Jesuit Figurists revealed their intention of establishing a communal space between Christianity and Chinese history and culture. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/sophie-ling-chia-wei-a-sage-embellished-with-elements-of-chinoiserie-the-making-of-jesus-in-the-jesuit-figurist-translations-of-chinese-classics/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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SUMMARY:Craig Allen - China’s Economic Development Model: Implications for US-Japan Relations
DESCRIPTION:Register for hybrid zoom attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Craig Allen\, President\, US-China Business CouncilModerator: 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\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/craig-allen-chinas-economic-development-model-implications-for-us-japan-relations/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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SUMMARY:Mingwei Song - Fear of Seeing: A Poetics of Chinese Science Fiction
DESCRIPTION:education\n\n\n\n\nRegister for zoom webinar\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Mingwei Song\, Wellesley College \n\n\n\nSpecial Guests:Mu Ming\, Science Fiction WriterYan Feng\, Fudan University \n\n\n\nCohosts:David Der-wei Wang\, Harvard UniversityJie Li\, Harvard Univeristy \n\n\n\nPresented via Zoom. Register: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_5kFBIXkeQdSBPFNyJkoEAg#/registration \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/mingwei-song-fear-of-seeing-a-poetics-of-chinese-science-fiction/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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SUMMARY:Yu Dong - Exploration of Food Resources by a Neolithic Community in Northern China: Perspectives from Stable Isotope Analysis
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Yu Dong\, Professor\, Institute of Cultural Heritage\, Shandong University; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2023-24 \n\n\n\nChair/Discussant: Noreen Tuross\, Landon T. Clay Professor of Scientific Archaeology\, Harvard University \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/yu-dong-exploration-of-food-resources-by-a-neolithic-community-in-northern-china-perspectives-from-stable-isotope-analysis/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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SUMMARY:2024 Harvard China Law Symposium - Longevity: Building Resilient Bridges
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin the Harvard Law School China Law Association’s annual China Law Symposium\, “Longevity: Building Resilient Bridges\,” celebrating the Lunar New Year. This three-day event features lunch & dinner panels\, concluding with a festive Lunar New Year social. \n\n\n\nFor more information\, including a detailed agenda\, visit https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/cla/china-law-symposium/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/2024-harvard-china-law-symposium-longevity-building-resilient-bridges/
LOCATION:WCC\, Harvard Law School\, 1585 Massachusetts Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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SUMMARY:Feng Song - Progress in China’s Electricity Market Reform and Assessing Its Impact on Generation Efficiency
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Feng Song\, Associate Professor\, School of Economics\, Renmin University of China; Visiting Scholar\, Harvard-China Project.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/feng-song-progress-in-chinas-electricity-market-reform-and-assessing-its-impact-on-generation-efficiency/
LOCATION:Pierce Hall 100F\, 29 Oxford St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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SUMMARY:The Implications of Taiwan’s Presidential Election
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers:Wenchi Yu\, Nonresident Research Fellow and international affairs journalist with Taiwan-based TVBS televisionEric Huang\, Former spokesperson for the opposition KMT party\, Mid-Career Masters of Public Affairs student\, Harvard Kennedy School \n\n\n\nModerator: Anthony Saich\, Rajawali Institute Director and Daewoo Professor of International Affairs   \n\n\n\nJoin the Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies for a webinar on Taiwan’s recent presidential election\, which earlier this month saw the Democratic Progressive Party’s Lai Ching-te capture the presidency. To understand what this means for the future of cross-straits relations as well as Taiwan’s relationship with the United States\, we will hear from nonresident research fellow Wenchi Yu\, an international affairs journalist with Taiwan-based TVBS television; and Eric Huang\, a former spokesperson for the opposition KMT party and current Mid-Career Masters of Public Affairs student at the Kennedy School. This discussion will be moderated by Rajawali Institute Director and Daewoo Professor of International Affairs Tony Saich.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-implications-of-taiwans-presidential-election/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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SUMMARY:Chen Tuo - The Pope! A Utopian Model in Late Ming China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Chen Tuo\, Assistant Professor\, Faculty of History\, Nankai University; BC Ricci Institute–HYI Joint Visiting Researcher Fellowship Program\, 2023-2024 \n\n\n\nChair: M. Antoni J. Ucerler\, Associate Professor\, History\, Boston College; Director\, Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History \n\n\n\nDiscussant: Sophie Ling-chia Wei\, Associate Professor\, Department of Translation\, Chinese University of Hong Kong; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2023-24 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/chen-tuo-the-pope-a-utopian-model-in-late-ming-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:20231212T113000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231211T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231211T130000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231207T113000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231205T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231205T130000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231204T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231204T131500
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231129T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231129T130000
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SUMMARY:Wei Ran - Latin American Travelers and Revolutionary China in the Global 1960s: A Story of (Dis)encounters
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Wei Ran\,  Associate Professor\, Institute of Foreign Literature\, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2023-24Discussant: Mariano Siskind\, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of Comparative Literature\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nIn the Global 1960s\, many Latin American leading intellectuals\, such as Pablo Neruda\, José Venturelli\, Eduardo Galeano and Ricardo Piglia\, visited Maoist China\, which was regarded as an alternative to Soviet Union and Cuba’s bureaucratic systems. This talk tries to reconstruct the experiences of their (dis)encounters with revolutionary China in the 1960-70s\, though travelogues\, memoirs\, documentaries\, archival records\, and contemporary novels. I will appropriate Contemporary Colombian novelist Juan Gabriel Vásquez’s Volver la vista atrás (2020) as Ariadne’s thread to sketch several Latin American travelers’ trajectories in Revolutionary China’s labyrinth. Key Latin American travelers’ experiences not merely synergistically created a Chinese version of Tricontinentalism and global solidarity\, but rather creatively modified some of the uniform discourses of Mao Zedong’s thought on literature and culture into centrifugal and transgressive critique. My central argument is that the pioneering literary and cultural creativity of the cross-border Latin American travelers led the way in the conceptualization of socialist cosmopolitanism\, rather than economic and trade cooperation in the 1960-70s. After five decades of the global 1960s\, facing Latin American postmemory archives\, such as Volver la vista atrás\, this talk\, by challenging fixed epistemological patterns\, seeks to suggest new perspectives towards the transnational utopian ruins. \n\n\n\nMore info: https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/latin-american-travelers-and-revolutionary-china-in-the-global-1960s-a-story-of-disencounters/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/wei-ran-latin-american-travelers-and-revolutionary-china-in-the-global-1960s-a-story-of-disencounters/
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:20231127T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231127T170000
DTSTAMP:20260508T020536
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SUMMARY:Yangyang Cheng - Empires and Exiles: On Writing About Science and Technology Between China and the United States
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Yangyang Cheng\, Research Scholar in Law and Fellow\, Paul Tsai China Center\, Yale Law SchoolModerator: Victor Seow\, Associate Professor of the History of Science\, Department of the History of Science\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nDr. Yangyang Cheng is a Research Scholar in Law and Fellow at Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center\, where her work focuses on the development of science and technology in China and U.S.‒China relations. Her essays on these and related topics have appeared in The New York Times\, The Guardian\, The Nation\, WIRED\, MIT Technology Review\, Los Angeles Review of Books\, and many other publications\, and have received awards from the Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA)\, Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA)\, and Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Born and raised in China\, Cheng received her PhD in physics from the University of Chicago and her bachelor’s from the University of Science and Technology of China’s School for the Gifted Young. Before joining Yale\, she worked on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) for over a decade\, most recently at Cornell University and as an LHC Physics Center Distinguished Researcher at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/yangyang-cheng-empires-and-exiles/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Room S050\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231116T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231116T130000
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SUMMARY:Yan Wenjie - Fake News as a Socio-political-psychological Phenomenon: Evidence from China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Yan Wenjie\, Professor\, Political Communication\, Beijing Normal University; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2023-24Chair/Discussant: Matthew Baum\, Marvin Kalb Professor Of Global Communications and Professor Of Public Policy\, Harvard Kennedy School; Department of Government\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nThe spread of online falsity is one of the most pressing global challenges of the day. It is detrimental to the proper functioning of a society\, because it blocks quality information\, erodes social trust\, and breeds group conflicts. It is also a serious concern in China. With hundreds of millions of users\, Chinese social media have been awash with unfiltered misinformation. How gullible are people to misinformation on social media? What are the factors that may contribute to their patterns of veracity judgment and behavioral tendencies? What are the preventative measures at our disposal we might possibly use as social interventions? This talk is to provide some initial answers to these questions by presenting results from a set of survey experiments on samples of Chinese Internet users. By drawing upon empirical evidence from a non-Western population\, this talk is aimed to shed further light on our understanding of false news. \n\n\n\nMore info: https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/fake-news-as-a-socio-political-psychological-phenomenon-evidence-from-china/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/yan-wenjie-fake-news-as-a-socio-political-psychological-phenomenon-evidence-from-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:20231109T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231109T130000
DTSTAMP:20260508T020536
CREATED:20231025T150759Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231025T150801Z
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SUMMARY:Seol Paehwan — Man is the Slave of Kindness: A Gift (Sauɤa)-giving Culture and Social\, Economic\, Political Network in the Mongol Empire
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Seol Paehwan\, Associate Professor\, Department of History\, Chonnam National University; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2023-24Chair/Discussant: Christopher P. Atwood\, Professor\, Mongolian and Chinese Frontier and Ethnic History\, University of Pennsylvania \n\n\n\nHarvard-Yenching Institute Visiting Scholar talkMore info: https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/man-is-the-slave-of-kindness-%e2%80%95-a-gift-sau%c9%a4a-giving-culture-and-social-economic-political-network-in-the-mongol-empire/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/seol-paehwan-man-is-the-slave-of-kindness-a-gift-sau%c9%a4a-giving-culture-and-social-economic-political-network-in-the-mongol-empire/
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:20231012T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231013T170000
DTSTAMP:20260508T020536
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SUMMARY:Asia-Africa Relations: Its Status and Possible Trajectories
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:Emmanuel K. Akyeampong\, Harvard UniversityUfrieda Ho\, Journalist and AuthorGayatri Sethi\, Educator and AuthorDuncan Yoon\, New York UniversityGeoffrey Jones\, Harvard Business SchoolAnnette Skovsted Hansen\, Aarhus UniversityIsaac Odoom\, Carleton UniversityMarlous van Waijenburg\, Harvard Business SchoolSeifudein Adem\, Doshisha UniversityLina Benabdallah\, Wake Forest UniversityMaria Adele Carrai\, New York University ShanghaiIdriss Fofana\, Harvard UniversityKumiko Makino\, Institute of Developing Economies\, Japan External Trade OrganizationXiaoyang Tang\, Tsinghua UniversityVeda Vaidyanathan\, Institute of Chinese Studies\, DelhiAnnette Lienau\, Harvard UniversityDaniel E. Agbiboa\, Harvard UniversityGaurav Desai\, University of MichiganPedro Machado\, Indiana University Bloomington \n\n\n\nFor a detailed agenda\, visit the conference web site. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/asia-africa-relations-its-status-and-possible-trajectories/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Conference and Workshops,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231012T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231012T131500
DTSTAMP:20260508T020536
CREATED:20230922T124651Z
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SUMMARY:Meg Rithmire - The Past\, Present\, and Future of State - Business Relations in China: Learning from Comparisons
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Meg Rithmire\, F. Warren McFarlan Associate Professor of Business of Administration\, Harvard Business School. \n\n\n\nOver the last decade\, China has gone from high rates of economic growth with private sector participation to state crackdowns on business and slowing growth\, if not economic stagnation or crisis. Prof. Rithmire will draw on her research on relationships between the private sector and the party-state to explain the long history of capitalism and capitalists in China\, and discuss what can be gained from comparing China’s political economy. Is China like Japan\, bound for decades of macroeconomic stagnation\, or like Suharto’s Indonesia\, one economic crisis away from dissolution? \n\n\n\nAlso available on Zoom. Register here. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/meg-rithmire-the-past-present-and-future-of-state-business-relations-in-china-learning-from-comparisons/
LOCATION:Rubenstein 414AB\, 79 JFK St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231011T122000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231011T134500
DTSTAMP:20260508T020536
CREATED:20230918T134720Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230928T180737Z
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SUMMARY:Tamar Grozwald Ozery - Law and Political Economy in China: The Role of Law in Corporate Governance and Market Growth
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Tamar Groswald Ozery\, Assistant Professor\, Department of Asian Studies\, Hebrew University of Jerusalem \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPanelists:William P. Alford (moderator)\, Jerome A. and Joan L. Cohen Professor of Law\, Director of East Asian Legal Studies\, Chair of the Harvard Law School Project on Disability\, Harvard Law SchoolRui Guo\, Visiting Scholar\, East Asian Legal Studies\, Harvard Law SchoolNicholas C. Howson\, Pao Li Tsiang Professor of Law\, University of Michigan Law SchoolMariana Pargendler\, Professor\, Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) Law School; Professor of Law\, Harvard Law School (effective July 2024)Meg Rithmire\, F. Warren MacFarlanAssociate Professor\, Business\, Government\, and International Economy Unit\, Harvard Business School \n\n\n\nIn her new book\, Law and Political Economy in China: The Role of Law in Corporate Governance and Market Growth (Cambridge University Press\, 2023)\, Tamar Groswald Ozery takes a law & political economy approach to deconstruct the role of law in China’s market development since 1978. \n\n\n\nPlease join us for a book launch event featuring a panel of international corporate governance and China law experts. Professor Groswald Ozery\, Professor Rithmire\, and Dr. Guo will join Professor Alford in person. Professor Howson and Professor Pargendler will participate via Zoom. \n\n\n\nDiscussion will mainly focus on the role of formal law in governing markets during the “Legalized Politicization Era” (2010–present)\, the present era of market development in China. Covered extensively in the book\, the present era reveals a shift in China’s political–economic equilibrium. The authorities over governing markets are being reconfigured to handle the consequences of prior era state capitalism. Such reconfiguration of market governance is achieved through the mobilization of legal institutions in two main directions: intensifying the presence of the regulatory state in the market and shifting substantial market governance powers directly to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). \n\n\n\nBoxed lunch will be provided. \n\n\n\nTamar Groswald Ozery is an Assistant Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem\, Israel. Previously\, she was a Grotius Fellow (Michigan Law)\, a Research & Teaching Fellow (Harvard Law)\, and the editor of the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance. Her published scholarly works focus on Chinese corporate governance\, cross-border investments\, and party-state market relations. She is a frequent commentator on China’s legal system\, political economy\, and global economic integration; and has testified before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission. Prior to academia\, she spearheaded the China department of a leading Israeli law firm. \n\n\n\nWilliam P. Alford (J.D. 1977) is Jerome A. and Joan L. Cohen Professor of Law at Harvard Law School\, where he is also Director of East Asian Legal Studies\, Chair of the Harvard Law School Project on Disability\, and Senior Advisor for Graduate and International Legal Studies. His work on law and legal history in East Asia includes To Steal a Book is an Elegant Offense: Intellectual Property Law in Chinese Civilization; Raising the Bar: The Emerging Legal Profession in East Asia; 残疾人法律保障机制研究 (A Study of Legal Mechanisms to Protect Persons with Disabilities); Prospects for the Professions in China; Taiwan and International Human Rights; and An Oral History of the Special Olympics in China. \n\n\n\nRui Guo (S.J.D. 2013) is a Visiting Scholar at the East Asian Legal Studies program at Harvard Law School. His research centers on the rise of Chinese State-owned Enterprises (SOEs) and their intricate economic\, social\, and political implications. He earned his S.J.D. from Harvard Law School and holds both an L.L.B and L.L.M from the China University of Political Science and Law in Beijing. Alongside his interests in corporate law\, he also explores various legal education subjects in the United States and China\, including disability law and AI ethics. \n\n\n\nNicholas C. Howson is the Pao Li Tsiang Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School. He is a former partner of Paul\, Weiss\, Rifkind\, Wharton & Garrison LLP who worked out of the firm’s New York\, Paris\, London\, and Beijing offices\, and as a managing partner of the firm’s Asia Practice based in the Chinese capital. Professor Howson has spent many years living in the People’s Republic of China (PRC)\, both as a scholar and as a practicing lawyer based in Beijing. Professor Howson writes and lectures widely on Chinese law topics\, focusing on Chinese corporate law and securities regulation\, the Chinese capital markets\, Chinese legal history\, and the development of constitutionalism in Greater China. He acts as a Chinese law expert or party advocate in U.S. and international litigation and/or U.S. government enforcement actions. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations\, and a designated foreign arbitrator for both the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission in Beijing and the Shanghai International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission. \n\n\n\nMariana Pargendler will join Harvard Law School as a Professor of Law\, effective July 1\, 2024. She is currently a professor at FGV Sao Paulo Law School\, where she coordinates the Nucleus of Law\, Economics\, and Governance (NuDEG)\, and is also Global Associate Professor of Law at New York University (NYU) School of Law. Professor Pargendler received a J.S.D. from Yale Law School\, where she was a fellow researcher at the Olin Center for Studies in Law\, Economics\, and Public Policy as well as a research fellow at the Millstein Center for Corporate Governance and Performance at the Yale School of Management. Her academic research focuses on the areas of contract law\, corporate law\, and corporate governance\, from an economic and comparative perspective. Her papers have been published in renowned national and international journals\, and she is co-author of the third edition of the book The Anatomy of Corporate Law: A Comparative and Functional Approach (Oxford University Press\, 2017)\, which has been translated into several languages. \n\n\n\nMeg Rithmire is the F. Warren MacFarlan associate professor in the Business\, Government\, and International Economy Unit at Harvard Business School. Professor Rithmire holds a Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University\, and her primary expertise is in the comparative political economy of development with a focus on China and Asia. Her first book\, Land Bargains and Chinese Capitalism (Cambridge University Press\, 2015)\, examines the role of land politics\, urban governments\, and local property rights regimes in the Chinese economic reforms. Her new book investigates the relationship between capital and the state and globalization in Asia\, comparing China\, Malaysia\, and Indonesia from the early 1980s to the present. The book\, Precarious Ties: Business and the State in Authoritarian Asia (Oxford University Press\, 2023)\, examines how governments attempt to discipline business and\, second\, how business adapts to different methods of state control. Her work also focuses on China’s role in the world\, including Chinese outward investment and lending practices and economic relations between China and other countries\, especially the United States.   \n\n\n\nSponsored by the East Asian Legal Studies program at Harvard Law School\, the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University\, and the Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia at Harvard Kennedy School. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/tamar-grozwald-ozery-law-and-political-economy-in-china-the-role-of-law-in-corporate-governance-and-market-growth/
LOCATION:WCC 2036 Milstein East A\, Harvard Law School
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230927T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230927T200000
DTSTAMP:20260508T020536
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SUMMARY:Ian Johnson - Sparks: China’s Underground Historians
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Ian Johnson\, Senior Fellow for China Studies\, Council on Foreign RelationsDiscussant: Annie Jieping Zhang\, Reporter\, Columnist\, and Entrepreneur \n\n\n\nHarvard Book Store welcomes Ian Johnson — journalist whose work has won numerous prizes for his coverage of China\, including a Pulitzer Prize— for a discussion of his new book Sparks: China’s Underground Historians and Their Battle for The Future. He will be joined in conversation by reporter\, columnist and entrepreneur\, ANNIE JIEPING ZHANG. \n\n\n\nSparks: China’s Underground Historians and their Battle for the Future describes how some of China’s best-known writers\, filmmakers\, and artists have overcome crackdowns and censorship to forge a nationwide movement that challenges the Communist Party on its most hallowed ground: its control of history. \n\n\n\nThe past is a battleground in many countries\, but in China it is crucial to political power. In traditional China\, dynasties rewrote history to justify their rule by proving that their predecessors were unworthy of holding power. Marxism gave this a modern gloss\, describing history as an unstoppable force heading toward Communism’s triumph. The Chinese Communist Party builds on these ideas to whitewash its misdeeds and glorify its rule. Indeed\, one of Xi Jinping’s signature policies is the control of history\, which he equates with the party’s survival. \n\n\n\nBut in recent years\, a network of independent writers\, artists\, and filmmakers have begun challenging this state-led disremembering. Using digital technologies to bypass China’s legendary surveillance state\, their samizdat journals\, guerilla media posts\, and underground films document a regular pattern of disasters: from famines and purges of years past to ethnic clashes and virus outbreaks of the present–powerful and inspiring accounts that have underpinned recent protests in China against Xi Jinping’s strongman rule. \n\n\n\nBased on years of first-hand research in Xi Jinping’s China\, Sparks challenges stereotypes of a China where the state has quashed all free thought\, revealing instead a country engaged in one of humanity’s great struggles of memory against forgetting—a battle that will shape the China that emerges in the mid-21st century. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/ian-johnson-sparks-chinas-underground-historians/
LOCATION:Harvard Book  Store\, 1256 Massachusetts Ave.\,\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230927T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230927T180000
DTSTAMP:20260508T020536
CREATED:20230825T154216Z
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SUMMARY:Lung Yingtai - My Life in an Indigenous Village
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Lung Yingtai\, Writer\, Former Minister of Culture of TaiwanChair: Elizabeth J. Perry\, Director\, Harvard-Yenching Institute; Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nSince Lung Yingtai relocated to an indigenous village in eastern Taiwan three years ago\, she sought to comprehend the elements that comprise her life\, including the journey of her daily water supply from the mountain’s depths to her garden pond. Furthermore\, she regularly encounters cobras\, wild boars and crab-eating mongooses\, prompting her to examine the impact of cultural as well as environmental “encroachment” on the wildlife and people residing in the untouched forest. \n\n\n\nAbout the speaker: Lung Yingtai is a writer\, literary critic and public intellectual. Lung not only has a large number of devoted readers in her native Taiwan\, but her works also have great influence in the Chinese-language world in Singapore\, Malaysia\, China\, and North America. Lung entered public service as Taipei City Government’s first minister of culture in 1999 and served as Taiwan’s inaugural Minister of Culture from 2012-2014. She is author of more than two dozen books\, including essays\, fiction\, reportage\, and literary criticism. Her 1985 book\, The Wild Fire\, created a major cultural stir for its honest and introspective look at the social and political problems facing contemporary Taiwan society. Big River\, Big Sea: Untold Stories of 1949\, published in 2009\, became a must-read in greater China despite that it has been banned in China. She was Hung Leung Hao Ling Distinguished Fellow in Humanities at the University of Hong Kong from 2015-2020. \n\n\n\nOrganized by the Harvard-Yenching Institute\, and co-sponsored with the Harvard University Asia Center\, the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, and the Boston University Center for the Study of Asia \n\n\n\nMore information: https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/my-life-in-an-indigenous-village/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/lung-yingtai-my-life-in-an-indigenous-village/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest,Taiwan
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230522T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230522T100000
DTSTAMP:20260508T020536
CREATED:20230515T134430Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230515T134432Z
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SUMMARY:China's Clean Energy Engagement in Central Asia
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers:Yipeng Zhou\, Coordinator\, Imperiia Project / A.M. in Regional Studies–REECAChristoph Nedopil\, Director\, Green Finance and Development Center\, Fanhai International School of Finance\, Fudan UniversityAlmas Chukin\, Managing Partner\, Visor Kazakhstan \n\n\n\nModerator: Nargis Kassenova\, Senior Fellow; Director\, Program on Central Asia\, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies \n\n\n\nChina has become a global leader in clean energy in recent years. Exporting renewable energy technologies and equipment is at the core of China’s plan to go green while remaining prosperous. The five Central Asian countries can benefit from this drive and capitalize on Chinese investments and financing\, technological exchange\, and knowledge sharing in their pursuit of a clean energy transition. Chinese firms have already become important investors in solar and wind farms in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. However\, to fully benefit from these opportunities\, Central Asian countries should carefully consider a number of challenges\, including potential financial and technological dependence and the ramifications of China’s economic slowdown. The panel will feature a presentation of the recent Renewable Energy Transition in Central Asia (RETCA) project publication on the topic. \n\n\n\nPresented via Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_WpPzzG2wSzKElYbeHl-_YA#/registration.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/chinas-clean-energy-engagement-in-central-asia/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230502T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230502T114500
DTSTAMP:20260508T020536
CREATED:20230202T190837Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230202T190839Z
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SUMMARY:Emily Baum - From Cold War to COVID-19: Acupuncture as Soft Power in the PRC
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Emily Baum \n\n\n\nPresented via Zoom. Register at: https://scholar.harvard.edu/seow/STinAsia \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/emily-baum-from-cold-war-to-covid-19-acupuncture-as-soft-power-in-the-prc/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230427T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230427T153000
DTSTAMP:20260508T020536
CREATED:20230419T154813Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230425T130208Z
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SUMMARY:Asia and the Russia's War on Ukraine
DESCRIPTION:In-person attendees\, register at https://forms.gle/zntgppbURiWLKch87Remote attendees via Zoom\, register at https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_i1W35PQSRoGfeMlV-Maizg#/registration \n\n\n\nHow does Asia respond to Russia’s war in Ukraine? And what are the implications for Asian security and stability? While Japan and South Korea have sided with the West and supported Ukraine\, China\, and North Korea are deepening ties with Russia. China’s strategic alignment with Russia and the growing tensions in the Taiwan Strait heighten the fears over a military escalation. India\, as well as several Southeast Asian countries\, have not condemned the war. The speakers will discuss security implications for the Asian order and Asia’s responses to the war. \n\n\n\n12:00 PM: Welcome and Introductions by James Robson\, James C. Kralik\, and Yunli Lou Professor\, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations; Harvard College Professor; Victor and William Fung Director\, Asia Center\, Harvard University \n\n\n\n12:10 PM: Keynote by The Honorable Dmytro Kuleba\, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine and Q&A  \n\n\n\n1:10 PM: Presentation by Yaena Kwon\, TV Journalist at ZDF and WDR; Fellow\, Harvard University Asia Center \n\n\n\nCo-moderated by James Robson and Yaena Kwon \n\n\n\n1:30 PM: Coffee Break  \n\n\n\n1:45 -3:30 PM:  Panel discussion \n\n\n\nChristina L. Davis\, Director\, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics\, Department of Government; and Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor\, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nLucy Hornby\, Editor\, Enodo Economics; Visiting Scholar\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies; Senior Associate\, Freeman Chair in Chinese Studies (CSIS); Former China Correspondent\, Financial Times\, and Reuters. \n\n\n\nDavid Kang\, Maria Crutcher Professor of International Relations\, University of Southern California \n\n\n\nNishank Motwani\, Researcher; Master of Public Administration candidate\, Harvard Kennedy School \n\n\n\nUk Yang\, National Security Researcher\, Asan Institute for Policy Studies; Government Consultant \n\n\n\nModerator: Yaena Kwon\, TV Journalist at ZDF and WDR; Fellow\, Harvard University Asia Center \n\n\n\nA light lunch will be served from 11:00 AM -12:00 PM. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/asia-and-the-war-in-ukraine/
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:20230411T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230411T180000
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SUMMARY:Beijing Olympiad: First Time as Mass Spectacle\, Second Time as Digital Ornament
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Cassandra Xin Guan\, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow\, MIT Center for Art\, Science & Technology \n\n\n\nThe opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympics was notable for its spectacular deployment of the mass human ornament. In 2022\, a second Olympic opening ceremony took place amidst a global pandemic and rising geopolitical tension between China and the US. This time around the hot and noisy masses that thrilled American television viewers with their coordinated precision have vanished from the scene of representation. In documentations of the two events: one hot\, one cold; one crowded\, one empty; one bursting with life\, one eerily devoid of humanity—we see a thermal-aesthetic inversion that assigns representational values to an under-theorized historical interval between China’s first and second Olympic Games. This talk will tarry with the chronotopic form of this interval\, with\, that is\, the time-space of historical figuration. Drawing attention to the emergence of a nationalist imaginary determined by the paradox of automation\, I ask what global forces are responsible for the cooling of the mass spectacle’s hot noise\, and what happens to the efficacy of the vitalized icon when the masses exit the mass ornament? \n\n\n\nCassandra Xin Guan is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at The MIT Center for Art\, Science & Technology. She holds a PhD in Modern Culture and Media from Brown University and was Dean’s Faculty Fellow in the Program of Science\, Technology\, Society (STS). She is currently working on two books in tandem: “Maladaptive Media: ‘Life’ and Other Works of Animation” and “Imagine There’s No Human: China in Animation.” Her writings have appeared in October\, Screen\, and Critical Inquiry. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/beijing-olympiad-first-time-as-mass-spectacle-second-time-as-digital-ornament/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230406T170000
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SUMMARY:Sinophone Southeast Asian Crossings:A Symposium on Nanyang Culture\, History\, and Memory
DESCRIPTION:Register for hybrid zoom attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPanel 1: 2:00 – 3:20pmSpeaker: Chan Cheow Thia\, National University of Singapore\, Author of Malaysian CrossingsRespondent: Mei Nan Mingxue\, Harvard UniversityPanel 2: 3:40-5pmSpeaker: Li Zishu\, Author of The Age of GoodbyesRespondent: Jannis Jizhou Chen\, Harvard UniversityAlso via Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_NC-Rw5ksTZiNT9H9_73F7w \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/sinophone-southeast-asian-crossingsa-symposium-on-nanyang-culture-history-and-memory/
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230405T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230405T203000
DTSTAMP:20260508T020536
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SUMMARY:Robert Ross: ​Wedge Strategies and Alliance Politics: Chinese Coercion and the U.S.-Philippine Alliance
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Robert S. Ross\, Professor of Political Science\, Boston CollegeModerator: James Robson\, James C. Kralik\, and Yunli Lou Professor\, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations; Harvard College Professor; Victor and William Fung Director\, Asia Center\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nThis talk examines China’s wedge strategy toward the U.S.-Philippine alliance during the presidency of Benigno Aquino III. Although the Philippine-China sovereignty dispute was the proximate cause of Chinese coercion\, it does not explain Chinese policy. Chinese policy evolution and the writings of Chinese scholars and think-tank analysts make clear that China’s foremost concern was that the Philippine’s defense cooperation with the United States in support of its sovereignty claims contributed to the U.S. “pivot” to Asia and to U.S. “containment” of China. China used its military and economic capabilities to undermine Philippine confidence in U.S. support and to weaken the Philippine economy\, thus driving a wedge between the Philippines and the United States and undermining the U.S. challenge to Chinese security. After the Philippines adjusted it alignment between China and the United States\, China eased its coercion and it used economic “rewards” to consolidate Philippine realignment. The talk concludes with a brief discussion of the implications of the Marcos\, Jr.\, presidency for U.S.-China competition and regional affairs. \n\n\n\nPresented via Zoom. Register at https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_JX1Vr-46SSWjjb5gBD_sKg. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/robert-ross-wedge-strategies-and-alliance-politics-chinese-coercion-and-the-u-s-philippine-alliance/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230405T110000
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SUMMARY:Chu Xiaobai - Jesus and Modernity in Republican China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Chu Xiaobai\, Professor\, Department of Chinese Literature and Culture\, East China Normal University; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2022-23 \n\n\n\nDiscussant: Chloë Starr\, Professor of Asian Christianity and Theology\, Yale Divinity School \n\n\n\nHarvard-Yenching Institute Visiting Scholar Talk \n\n\n\nSeating is limited. Masks are required for all in-person audience members. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/chu-xiaobai-jesus-and-modernity-in-republican-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:20230404T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230404T114500
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SUMMARY:Jacob Eyferth - Agrarian Taylorism: Reorganizing the Rural Labor Process in Collective-Era China
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Jacob Eyferth \n\n\n\nPresented via Zoom. Register at: https://scholar.harvard.edu/seow/STinAsia \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/jacob-eyferth-agrarian-taylorism-reorganizing-the-rural-labor-process-in-collective-era-china/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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