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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Anthony Saich — Through the Past Darkly: Culture and Practice of the Chinese Communist Party 
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Anthony Saich\, Daewoo Professor of International Affairs; Director\, Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia\, Harvard Kennedy SchoolDiscussant: Rana Mitter\, ST Lee Chair in US-Asia Relations\, Harvard Kennedy School \n\n\n\nLittle could the founders of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) have known that they were setting in motion one of history’s greatest revolutionary movements. While much has changed\, there is important continuity in the practice and the culture of the party. It is an organization and propaganda party; an infallible and autonomous party; a controlling party; a collectivist party; an adaptable and flexible party; and a global party. \n\n\n\nAnthony Saich (托尼·赛奇) is the director of the Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia and Daewoo Professor of International Affairs\, teaching courses on comparative political institutions\, democratic governance\, and transitional economies with a focus on China. In his capacity as Institute Director\, Saich also serves as the faculty chair of the China Programs\, the Asia Energy Leaders Program\, Unseen Legacies of the Vietnam War and the Global Vietnam Wars Studies Initiative. \n\n\n\nHe holds a Ph.D. from the Faculty of Letters\, University of Leiden\, the Netherlands. He received his master’s degree in politics with special reference to China from the School of Oriental and African Studies\, London University\, and his bachelor’s degree in politics and geography from the University of Newcastle\, UK. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-featuring-anthony-saich-through-the-past-darkly-culture-and-practice-of-the-chinese-communist-party/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China,Critical Issues Confronting China Series
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Yi Lu — Garbage Time of History? Chinese Archives in the Era of Xi Jinping
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Yi Lu\, Assistant Professor of History\, Dartmouth CollegeDiscussant: Daniel Koss\, Associate Senior Lecturer on East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nThe Chinese internet has recently been captivated by a meme: “the garbage time of history.” The phrase evokes the Soviet Union’s final\, suffocating decades to suggest that China\, too\, has entered an era of stagnation. Beyond a general sense of anomie born from Covid-19 and economic malaise\, the meme speaks to the very difficulty of remembering in Xi Jinping’s China — indeed\, the posts themselves are quickly scrubbed. \n\n\n\nIs China in the garbage time of history? This talk takes the concept seriously — as material\, as metaphor\, and as memento of our times — by exploring the fate of archives in contemporary China. Specifically\, I focus on China’s grassroots archives\, collections of de-accessioned Mao-era records salvaged by waste recyclers and sold in flea markets before being acquired by major universities. Once celebrated as counter-archives preserving history beyond the Party-State’s reach\, what has become of these collections as archives are folded ever more deeply into China’s information security system and Xi’s project of national rejuvenation? Drawing on documentary research\, ethnographic fieldwork\, and quantitative analysis\, I explore the challenges of remembering the past when revisionism\, nationalism\, and denialism make archives more politicized and precarious — and not just in China. \n\n\n\nYi Lu is a historian of modern China\, with particular interests in the history of information\, material culture\, and digital humanities. He is currently Assistant Professor of History at Dartmouth College and completing his first book project\, The Dustbin of History: Chinese Archives and Their Afterlives. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-featuring-yi-lu-the-ccps-struggle-to-control-memory/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China,Critical Issues Confronting China Series
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