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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260205T183000
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SUMMARY:Conference — Designers of Mountains and Water: Alternative Landscapes for a Changing Climate
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Sinographic compound (山水)\, denoting “mountain and water\,” is widely shared across many Asian contexts\, with different regional traditions and approaches. As shanshui in China\, sansui in Japan\, and sansu in Korea\, the term has historically referred to creative artistic and philosophical visions of the natural world\, combining the vital elements of a fully dynamic landscape. With climate change underway\, what contemporary elements and dimensions of nature are necessary for designing and building sustainable spaces for human habitation and flourishing? Contemporary landscape architects from Northeast and Southeast Asia are trying to answer this question by rethinking the relation between social and natural forms. Their aim is to design habitable futures at the intersection of the two. \n\n\n\nThis conference will feature leading landscape architects and scholars from China\, Japan\, Korea\, Malaysia\, Singapore\, and Thailand\, as well as Australia and the US\, to discuss the perspectives\, histories\, politics\, and the most compelling projects of sustainable design in the Asian context. \n\n\n\nThis conference accompanies the exhibition Designers of Mountain and Water\, which will be on display in the Druker Design Gallery from January 20 to April 4\, 2026. Curated by Jungyoon Kim\, Associate Professor in Practice of Landscape Architecture at the GSD\, the exhibition features more than 45 works of landscape architecture by 23 practices in Asia.For more information\, including a detailed agenda\, please visit the conference’s web page.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/conference-designers-of-mountains-and-water-alternative-landscapes-for-a-changing-climate/
LOCATION:Piper Auditorium\, Gund Hall - 42 Quincy St\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Environment,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240429T160000
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SUMMARY:Environment in Asia Series Lecture featuring Huaiyu Chen - Human-Animal Studies and Religions in Medieval Chinese Society
DESCRIPTION:register for hybrid zoom attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Huaiyu Chen\, Arizona State UniversityDiscussant: Brian Lander\, Brown University \n\n\n\nThis study illustrates how Buddhism shaped Chinese knowledge and experience of animals after it gradually took root in Chinese society in the medieval periods\, and vice versa\, how Chinese state ideology\, Daoism\, and local cultic practices reshaped Buddhism in understanding and engaging with animals. Taking approaches from history\, religious studies\, animal studies\, and environmental studies\, this study explores the entangled power relations among animals\, religions\, the state\, and the local community in medieval China. With the drastic increase of population in the medieval periods\, local community and religious practitioners expanded their activities and were often confronted with various wild animals. While competing with the dominant power of the state and negotiating with the local community\, Buddhism\, Confucianism\, and Daoism mobilized their intellectual\, spiritual\, and material resources of knowing\, categorizing\, pacifying\, petting\, and accompanying animals and developed their doctrines\, rituals\, discourses\, and practices to deal with complicated power relations between animals and humans. Drawing upon a wide range of sources\, such as traditional texts\, stone inscriptions\, and manuscripts\, as well as visual materials\, this study invites readers to embark on a journey to the unchartered territory of felines\, reptiles\, and birds that surrounded the medieval Chinese religious world\, represented by the tiger\, snake\, and parrot especially. Wisdoms\, virtues\, colors\, sounds\, and powers from both human and animal realms piece together for making a fascinating chapter of human history. \n\n\n\nHuaiyu Chen (Ph.D.\, Princeton University) is Professor of Buddhism and Chinese Religions at Arizona State University. He has many publications on Chinese Buddhism\, Religions on the Silk Road\, animals in Chinese religions\, and the history of modern Chinese humanities. His recent publications include In the Land of Tigers and Snakes: Living with Animals in Medieval Chinese Religions (2023) and Animals and Plants in Chinese Religions and Science (2023). He has received a membership from Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (2011-2012)\, Spalding Visiting Fellowship from Clare Hall of Cambridge University (2014-2015)\, and a visiting scholarship from the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin (2018).  \n\n\n\nAlso via Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0qcuygqjsiGNbg0qfZTS1ZdCxjnoKg9zx9 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/environment-in-asia-series-lecture-2/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Environment,Environment
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240416T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240416T180000
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SUMMARY:Environment in Asia Series featuring Timothy Brook - The Price of Collapse: The Little Ice Age and the Fall of Ming China
DESCRIPTION:Register for hybrid zoom attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers:Timothy Brook\, The University of British Columbia\, Professor EmeritusClark Alejandrino\, Trinity CollegeYan Gao\, University of MemphisIan M. Miller\, St John’s University \n\n\n\nSeries Convener:Ling Zhang\, Boston College \n\n\n\nIn 1644\, after close to three centuries of relative stability and prosperity\, the Ming dynasty collapsed. Many historians attribute its demise to the Manchu invasion of China\, but the truth is far more profound. The Price of Collapse provides an entirely new approach to the economic and social history of China\, exploring how global climate crisis spelled the end of Ming rule. \n\n\n\nThe mid-seventeenth century witnessed the deadliest phase of the Little Ice Age\, when temperatures and rainfall plunged and world economies buckled. Timothy Brook draws on the history of grain prices to paint a gripping portrait of the final tumultuous years of a once-great dynasty. He explores how global trade networks that increasingly moved silver into China may have affected prices and describes the daily struggle to survive amid grain shortages and famine. By the early 1640s\, as the subjects of the Ming found themselves caught in a deadly combination of cold and drought that defied all attempts to stave off disaster\, the Ming price regime collapsed\, and with it the Ming political regime. \n\n\n\nA masterful work of scholarship\, The Price of Collapse reconstructs the experience of ordinary people under the immense pressure of unaffordable prices as their country slid from prosperity to calamity and shows how the market mediated the relationship between an empire and the climate that turned against it. \n\n\n\nTimothy Brook is professor emeritus of history at the University of British Columbia and a fellow of the British Academy. His many books include Great State\, Mr. Selden’s Map of China\, and Vermeer’s Hat. \n\n\n\nAlso via Zoom.Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_qjb4CtrvRQSr5k5Tj6owiA \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/environment-in-asia-series-featuring-timothy-brook/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Environment,Environment
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240410T160000
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SUMMARY:Environment in Asia Series featuring Jesse Rodenbiker - Ecological States: Politics of Science and Nature in Urbanizing China
DESCRIPTION:register for hybrid zoom attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Jesse Rodenbiker\, Associate Research Scholar\, Princeton University; Assistant Teaching Professor of Geography\, Rutgers University-New Brunswick \n\n\n\nDiscussant: Stevan Harrell\, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Environmental and Forest Sciences\, University of Washington; author of An Ecological History of Modern China \n\n\n\nEcological States critically examines ecological policies in the People’s Republic of China to show how campaigns of scientifically based environmental protection transform nature and society. While many point to China’s ecological civilization programs as a new paradigm for global environmental governance\, Jesse Rodenbiker argues that ecological redlining extends the reach of the authoritarian state. \n\n\n\nAlthough Chinese urban sustainability initiatives have driven millions of citizens from their land and housing\, Rodenbiker shows that these migrants are not passive subjects of state policy. Instead\, they creatively navigate resettlement processes in pursuit of their own benefit. However\, their resistance is limited by varied forms of state-backed infrastructural violence. \n\n\n\nThrough extensive fieldwork with scientists\, urban planners\, and everyday citizens in southwestern China\, Ecological States exposes the ways in which the scientific logics and practices fundamental to China’s green urbanization have solidified state power and contributed to dispossession and social inequality. \n\n\n\nJesse Rodenbiker is an associate research scholar at Princeton University with the Center on Contemporary China at the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies\, and an assistant teaching professor of geography at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. He is a human-environment geographer and interdisciplinary social scientist focusing on environmental governance\, urbanization\, and social inequality in China and globally. Rodenbiker is the author of the book Ecological States: Politics of Science and Nature in Urbanizing China (2023\, Cornell University Press). His work has been supported by fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies\, Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation\,  Fulbright\, Social Science Research Council\, and the Wilson Center\, among others. \n\n\n\nAlso via Zoom.Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMlc-CsqjwiEtNUqQ1sEFhmYYHp9hHGJwTX \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/environment-in-asia-series-lecture/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S250\, 1730 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Environment,Environment
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231120T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231120T180000
DTSTAMP:20260501T192146
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SUMMARY:Environment in Asia Series featuring Yiyun Peng and Brian Spivey - Herbaceous Revolution and Environmental Protection: Introducing New Scholarship in Chinese Environmental History
DESCRIPTION:Register for hybrid zoom attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers: Yiyun Peng\, D. Kim Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow\, Department of History\, University of ChicagoBrian Spivey\, Mellon Faculty Fellow\, History Department\, UC IrvineSeries Convener: Ling Zhang\, Associate Professor\, Boston College \n\n\n\nYiyun Peng received her PhD in history from Cornell University in August 2023 and is currently the D. Kim Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of History at the University of Chicago. She works on late imperial and modern China and is mainly interested in environmental history\, the history of science and technology\, and economic history. Her first project demonstrates how a few popular cash crops and the handicraft industries processing them into commodities—indigo dye\, bamboo paper\, tobacco\, and ramie (a fiber plant) cloth—led to a herbaceous revolution in upland Southeast China from the sixteenth to the mid-twentieth century\, which profoundly transformed the region’s environment and society. In its dissertation form\, this project won the 2023 Messenger Chalmers Prize for the best dissertation in the Department of History at Cornell University. Her second project looks into the production and circulation of ramie in East Asia and beyond.  \n\n\n\nBrian Spivey is currently a Mellon Faculty Fellow in the History Department at UC Irvine. His work broadly focuses on the reciprocal relationship between environmental and societal change in modern China. His current research project examines how growing global and local awareness of pollution and other unintended side-effects of industrialization during the late Cultural Revolution (1970-1976) drove the early development of environmental protection efforts (“huanjing baohu”) and discussions about sustainable growth in China. He also researches the history of Xinjiang and the Uyghur people\, especially during the 1980s. \n\n\n\nAlso via Zoom.Register: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_d7H1jxtRTvSw6p179ZSG7w \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/environment-in-asia-series-featuring-yiyung-peng-and-brian-spivey-herbaceous-revolution-and-environmental-protection-introducing-new-scholarship-in-chinese-environmental-history/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Environment,Environment
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231030T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231030T180000
DTSTAMP:20260501T192146
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SUMMARY:Environment in Asia Series featuring Scott Moore - The Climate Risk to China’s Rise: Political\, Economic\, and Ecological Implications of Extreme Weather in China
DESCRIPTION:register for hybrid zoom webinar\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Scott Moore\, Practice Professor of Political Science and Director of China Programs and Strategic Initiatives at the University of Pennsylvania \n\n\n\nConvener of the Environment in Asia series: Ling Zhang\, Associate Professor\, Boston College \n\n\n\nThere is a growing case that of the world’s major economies China’s is most heavily exposed to climate risks. This talk probes the implications of climate risk and extreme weather for China’s future\, including its impact on China’s growth prospects; its role in driving Beijing’s climate policy; and its contrast with China’s real successes in improving flood control and disaster response. \n\n\n\nScott Moore is Practice Professor of Political Science and Director of China Programs and Strategic Initiatives at the University of Pennsylvania. His latest book\, China’s Next Act: How Sustainability and Technology is Reshaping China’s Rise and the World’s Future (Oxford University Press\, 2022)\, probes the ecological and technological dimensions of China’s rise\, and examines how we can make progress in tackling shared global challenges amidst growing geopolitical rivalry between China and other major powers. Moore previously served on the China Desk at the U.S. Department of State\, where he worked extensively on the Paris Agreement on Climate Change; and at the World Bank\, where he was a Young Professional and Water Resources Management Specialist. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/environment-in-asia-series-featuring-scott-moore-the-climate-risk-to-chinas-rise-political-economic-and-ecological-implications-of-extreme-weather-in-china/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Environment,Environment
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231002T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231002T140000
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SUMMARY:Environment in Asia Series Panel Discussion - Stevan Harrell's "An Ecological History of Modern China" 
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPanelists: Stevan Harrell\, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Environmental and Forest Sciences\, University of Washington \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPeter Perdue\, Professor Emeritus of History at Yale University \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJesse Rodenbiker\, Assistant Professor of Geography\, Rutgers University \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRobert Weller\, Professor of Anthropology\, Boston University \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOrganizer: Ling Zhang\, Associate Professor of History\, Boston College \n\n\n\nPresented via Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_BOeCcyb9RL2LQMD8zQwg9A \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/environment-in-asia-series-featuring-stevan-herrell-an-ecological-history-of-modern-china/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Environment,Environment
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230320T084500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230320T171500
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SUMMARY:“Environment in Asia” Reunion with a Tribute to Robert Marks and Peter Perdue
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRead our blog posts on the event: Exploring How the Environment Shapes China’s History and Conference Examines Planning and China’s Rapidly Growing Cities \n\n\n\nOrganizer: Ling Zhang\, Boston College; Convener of the Environment in Asia series \n\n\n\nNote: Due to the limited capacity of the venue\, the symposium will be a closed-door event. The public may view the event by registering for a Zoom Webinar. Register at https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Fs-4nrYSTzSqYM6OtpgPHw. \n\n\n\nThe “Environment in Asia” research series at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies is dedicated to promoting diverse environmental discourses and research methodologies within the field of Asian studies\, especially the field of Chinese studies. Since its founding in 2012\, the series has hosted dozens of lectures\, panel discussions\, conferences\, film screenings\, and art exhibitions. It has brought together scholars from various disciplinary and area studies backgrounds and has served as a platform to present their scholarship\, exchange ideas\, and form collaborations. \n\n\n\nThis symposium has two goals. First\, it honors two founding speakers and long-time supporters of the Environment in Asia series\, Professor Robert Marks and Professor Peter Perdue. It celebrates their life-long achievements as forerunners in the field of Chinese environmental history. Over the past four decades\, Professor Marks and Professor Perdue have been tirelessly committed to studying and writing environmental history as well as to mentoring students and junior colleagues. Their scholarship and services have profoundly shaped how we understand and practice Chinese environmental history. The symposium is a tribute to these intellectual leaders of ours and their lasting impact on our community. \n\n\n\nSecond\, as a reunion of the Environment in Asia series\, the symposium brings back some old friends of the series\, and it welcomes many new colleagues. More than celebrating the rich and eventful decade of the series\, the symposium invites these scholars from diverse fields and different generations to gather and reflect on our common endeavor: How do we research\, write\, and teach environmental issues as humanities and social scientific scholars\, and how do we promote environmental consciousness and model multi- and inter-disciplinary environmental scholarship in order to complicate and diversify the fields of Asian and Chinese studies\, which are dominated by humancentric concerns and practices? The symposium invites its participants to review what we as a community of environmental scholars have achieved; to assess what works and what doesn’t; to suggest different paths and new possibilities; to identify our shared challenges; and to propose exciting experiments. Through individual presentations and group conversations\, the symposium seeks to facilitate mutual understanding and mutual learning within our environmental-studies community. It aims to strengthen the community’s bond and to further its growth as an important\, indispensable subfield of Asian and Chinese studies. \n\n\n\nSchedule \n\n\n\n8:45–9:00 Welcome (Ling Zhang and Mark Wu) \n\n\n\n9:00–10:30 Tigers\, Rice\, and the Dongting Lake: The Journeys toward Environmental History (Moderator: Ling Zhang) \n\n\n\n10:30–10:45 Break \n\n\n\n10:45–12:45 Researching the Environment (Moderator: Arunabh Ghosh) \n\n\n\n12:45–13:30 Lunch \n\n\n\n13:30–15:00 Writing the Environment (Moderator: Victor Seow) \n\n\n\n15:00–15:15 Break \n\n\n\n15:15–16:45 Teaching the Environment (Moderator: Brian Lander) \n\n\n\n16:50¬–17:10 Closing (Robert Marks\, Peter Perdue\, and Ling Zhang) \n\n\n\nParticipants \n\n\n\nClark Alejandrino (Trinity College)Nicole Barnes (Duke University)David Bello (Washington and Lee University)Tristan Brown (MIT): “Laws of the Land: Fengshui and the State in Qing Dynasty China”Wesley Chaney (Bates College)Chris Coggins (Bard College at Simon Rock)Bradley Camp Davis (Eastern Connecticut State University)Alexander F. Day (Occidental College)Xiangli Ding (Rhode Island School of Design)Qin Fang (McDaniel College)Xiaofei Gao (University of Colorado\, Denver): “The Nature of Labor: Integrating Environmental and Social Changes of Modern Maritime China”Yan Gao (University of Memphis)Yuan Gao (Georgetown University): “China’s Arid West: An Environmental History of Late Qing and Early Republican Xinjiang”Arunabh Ghosh (Harvard University)Yongqiang Guan (Nankai University\, China)Mary Alice Haddad (Wesleyan University)Kyuhyun Han (University of California\, Santa Cruz): “From Hunting for Local People to Hunting for the Nation: PRC Hunting Industry and Amur Tiger Conservation in Northeast China\, 1949-1965”Zhaoqing Han (Fudan University\, China)Michael Hathaway (Simon Fraser University\, Canada)Jack Hayes (Kwantlen Polytechnic University\, Canada)Emily M. Hill (Queen’s University\, Canada)Rui Hua (Boston University): “When Great States Mined on Drifting Continents: A Magnesium-based Story of Local Farmers and Global Mining Laws on the Liaodong Peninsula\, 1.85GA-1931 AD”Fei Huang (University of Tübingen\, Germany)Brian Lander (Brown University)Peter Lavelle (University of Connecticut)De-nin Lee (Emerson College)John Lee (Durham University\, UK): “Mongol Legacies and Island Ecologies in Early Modern Korea”Robert Marks (Whitter College\, Emeritus)John McNeill (Georgetown University)Caroline Merrifield (Yale University): “Practical Politics in China’s Food Movement”Covell Meyskens (Naval Postgraduate School)Ian J. Miller (Harvard University)Ian M. Miller (St John’s University)Ruth Mostern (University of Pittsburgh)Micah Muscolino (University of California\, San Diego)Peter Perdue (Yale University\, Emeritus)Kenneth Pomeranz (University of Chicago)Anne-Sophie Pratte (Georgetown University\, Qatar): “Mapping Grasslands in 19th Century Qing Mongolia”Ying Qian (Columbia University)Guldana Salimjan (Simon Fraser University\, Canada)James Scott (Yale University)Victor Seow (Harvard University)Michael Szonyi (Harvard University)Yuk Ping Wan (Brown University)You Wang (University of Chicago)R. Bin Wong (University of California\, Los Angeles)Donald Worster (University of Kansas\, Emeritus)Mingfang Xia (Remin University\, China)Bingru Yue (Queen’s University\, Canada): “From Wetland to Ecological Model: Reclamations of Chongming Island\, Shanghai\, from 1950 to 2020”Amy Zhang (New York University): “Waste’s Collectives: political and ecology in urban China”Junfeng Zhang (Shanxi University\, China)Ling Zhang (Boston College) \n\n\n\n\n\nYouTube recording of ““Environment in Asia” Reunion with a Tribute to Robert Marks and Peter Perdue”\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/environment-in-asia-reunion-with-a-tribute-to-robert-marks-and-peter-perdue/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Environment,Environment
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SUMMARY:Environment in Asia series featuring Michael J. Hathaway - What a Mushroom Lives For: Matsutake Mushrooms and the Worlds They Make
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Michael J. Hathaway\, Professor of Anthropology and Director of the David Lam Center for Asian Studies\, Simon Fraser University \nThis talk introduces the second book in an academic trilogy that began with Anna L. Tsing’s The Mushroom at the End of the World. In this talk\, Michael J. Hathaway draws from his forthcoming book. He delves into the worlds of fungi\, showing us how they literally enabled our green planet and carry out active forms of liveliness in the everyday\, acting as “world-makers.” Moving from fungi as an enigmatic kingdom that transformed the ancient Earth to the realm of the fascinating matsutake mushroom on the Tibetan Plateau\, Hathaway reveals the ways these mushrooms are creating their own multispecies encounters\, with and without humans. This forthcoming book challenges a legacy of human exceptionalism and human supremacy that is dominant in Western thinking and offers ways to notice the creative liveliness of all organisms\, from mammals to mushrooms. \nMichael J. Hathaway is a professor of anthropology and director of the David Lam Center for Asian Studies at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver\, Canada. He is part of the Matsutake Worlds Research Group\, which has been exploring the global trade in these valuable wild mushrooms\, from the US\, Canada\, Scandinavia\, and China to its centre in Japan. Together\, they examine the entanglements of capitalism\, science\, and the formation of new networks that link stitch together diverse humans\, matsutake mushrooms\,  and a number of other organisms in complex webs of life. \nPresented via Zoom \nAlso streaming on YouTube \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTranscript: Download Transcript
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/environment-in-asia-series-featuring-michael-j-hathaway-what-a-mushroom-lives-for-matsutake-mushrooms-and-the-worlds-they-make/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Environment,Environment
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SUMMARY:Environment in Asia Series - Greening East Asia: The Rise of the Eco-Developmental State
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:Ashley Esarey\, Associate Professor\, Department of Political Science\, University of AlbertaJoanna Lewis\, Distinguished Associate Professor of Energy and Environment and Director of the Science\, Technology and International Affairs Program (STIA)\,Georgetown UniversityMary Alice Haddad\, John E. Andrus Professor of Government\, Chair and Professor of East Asian Studies\, and Professor of Environmental Studies\, Wesleyan UniversityStevan Harrell\, Professor Emeritus\, Department of Anthropology and School of Environmental and Forest Sciences\, University of Washington \nModerator: Ling Zhang\, Boston College \nAshley Esarey is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Alberta. He received his PhD in Political Science from Columbia University and was An Wang Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University. His research concerns political communication in China\, elite politics\, renewable energy policy\, and Taiwanese politics. He was co-author (with Lu Hsiu-lien) of My Fight for a New Taiwan: One Woman’s Journey from Prison to Power. His co-edited books include Taiwan in Dynamic Transition: Nation Building and Democratization and Greening East Asia: The Rise of the Eco-Developmental State\, both published by the University of Washington Press in 2020. \nJoanna Lewis is Provost’s Distinguished Associate Professor of Energy and Environment and Director of the Science\, Technology and International Affairs Program (STIA) at Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. Her research examines political and technical determinants of energy and climate policy\, particularly in China. She is the author of the award-winning book Green Innovation in China\, and was a Lead Author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report. \nMary Alice Haddad is the John E. Andrus Professor of Government\, Chair and Professor of East Asian Studies\, and Professor of Environmental Studies at Wesleyan University. A Fulbright and Harvard Academy scholar\, she is the author of Effective Advocacy: Lessons from East Asia’s Environmentalists (MIT press\, forthcoming 2021)\,  Building Democracy in Japan (Cambridge\, 2012) and Politics and Volunteering in Japan (Cambridge\, 2007)\, and she co-edits the new Elements in Politics and Society in East Asia series from Cambridge University Press. Her current work concerns environmental politics in East Asia\, as well as how urban diplomacy is connecting and transforming policy around the world. \nStevan Harrell retired in 2017 from the Department of Anthropology and the School of Environmental and Forest Sciences at the University of Washington. A special issue of Human Ecology on Social-Ecological System Resilience in China\, co-edited with Denise M. Glover and Jack Patrick Hayes\, will appear in February. He is writing an ecological history of modern China\, provisionally entitled either Intensification and its Discontents or The Great Un-Buffering. He also edits the University of Washington Press series\, Studies on Ethnic Groups in China. \nPresented via Zoom WebinarRegistration Required \nAlso streaming on YouTube \n\n\nTranscript: Download Transcript
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/environment-in-asia-series-greening-east-asia/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Environment,Environment
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SUMMARY:Environment in Asia Series Featuring Ying Jia Tan - War and the Reconfiguration of China’s Energy Geography
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Ying Jia Tan\, Assistant Professor of History and East Asian Studies\, Wesleyan University \nIn Recharging China in War and Revolution\, 1882–1955 (Cornell University Press\, 2021)\, Ying Jia Tan argues that\, even in times of peace\, the Chinese economy operated as though still at war\, constructing power systems that met immediate demands but sacrificed efficiency and longevity. This talk explores the effects of China’s catastrophic loss of 97 percent of its power generating capacity during the Second Sino-Japanese War. It looks at how wartime mobilization accelerated China’s transition towards coal as the main fuel source for power generation\, led to the creation of a homegrown electrical equipment manufacturing industry\, and inspired a vision of national reconstruction driven by massive hydropower projects. Lessons from the electrification of wartime China reveals the strengths and limitations of state-driven initiatives aimed at alleviating power shortages\, which in turn\, offer insights into the common challenges facing China and Taiwan as they transition from fossil fuels to renewables. \nYing Jia Tan is assistant professor of history and East Asian Studies at Wesleyan University. is a historian of science and technology with allied interests in environmental history and the history of cartography. He teaches traditional and modern Chinese history\, as well as courses on maritime East Asia\, cartography\, and the Anthropocene. \nPresented via Zoom WebinarRegistration RequiredRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_jRhu4N8RSqGioDgdMqvjOw \nNote: this live lecture will not be simulcast on our YouTube channel nor available for viewing at a later date.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/ying-jia-tan-war-and-the-reconfiguration-of-chinas-energy-geography/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Environment,Environment
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SUMMARY:Environment in Asia Lecture Series featuring Ruth Mostern - The Yellow River: A Natural and Unnatural History
DESCRIPTION:  \n \n \n  \nSpeaker: Ruth Mostern\, University of Pittsburgh \nThis talk showcases Ruth Mostern’s new book: The Yellow River: A Natural and Unnatural History (Yale University Press\, 2021).  The Yellow River explains how environmentally transformative human activity has shaped the whole watershed and constituted the relationship between people and the river since Neolithic times.  The book demonstrates that the history of the relationship between people and the river is a history of soil as much as it is a history of water\, and that some of the most important episodes in Yellow River history transpired on the semi-arid lands of the Loess Plateau\, far from the riverbed itself. Using GIS and data analysis as well as close readings of historical sources\, the book reveals that although  the Yellow River floodplain was sometimes a site of frequent and devastating disasters\, this was only the case at times of certain decisions about public policy and infrastructure design. \nRuth Mostern is Associate Professor of History and Director of the World History Center at the University of Pittsburgh. She is the author of Dividing the Realm in Order to Govern: The Spatial Organization of the Song State (960-1276 CE) (Harvard Asia Center\, 2011) and the co-editor of Placing Names: Enriching and Integrating Gazetteers (Indiana University Press\, 2016). Her current book\, Following the Tracks of Yu: The Imperial and Ecological Worlds of the Yellow River is in contract at Yale University Press. She is currently PI on two NEH grants: one to develop content and infrastructure for an ecosystem of digital historical gazetteers\, and one to design and launch an interdisciplinary curriculum about water in Central Asia. \nCheck back soon for more information! \nPresented via Zoom Webinar \n\n\nTranscript: Download Transcript
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/environment-in-asia-lecture-series-featuring-ruth-mostern/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Environment,Environment
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SUMMARY:Environment in Asia Series featuring Zhang Meng - Timber and Forestry in Qing China: Sustaining the Market
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Zhang Meng\, Assistant Professor of History\, Vanderbilt University \nPart of the Environment in Asia lecture series \n \n \nIn the Qing period\, China’s population tripled\, and the flurry of new development generated unprecedented demand for timber. Standard environmental histories have often depicted this as an era of reckless deforestation. The reality was more complex: as old-growth forests were cut down\, new economic arrangements emerged to develop renewable timber resources. Timber and Forestry traces the expansion of an interregional trade network to cover the entire basin of the Yangzi River. Of driving concern were questions of sustainability: How to maintain a reliable source of timber across decades and centuries? And how to sustain a business network across a thousand miles? Delving into rare archives to reconstruct property rights systems and business histories\, the book considers both the formal legal mechanisms and the informal interactions that helped balance economic profit with environmental management. This case from China has important implications for world-historical conversations on resource management\, commercialization\, and sustainable development. \nMeng Zhang (張萌) is Assistant Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. She received her B.A. in economics from Peking University (2010) and Ph.D. in history from UCLA (2017). Zhang is a historian of late imperial China\, with particular interests in economic and environmental transformations and transnational dynamics in the rise of global capitalism. Her first book\, Timber and Forestry in Qing China: Sustaining the Market (University of Washington Press\, 2021)\, reveals the complex reality of timber trade and resource management during the flurry of commercial development in Qing China. She is working on a second project that follows the social life of edible bird’s nests through the transnational construction of knowledge\, desire\, trade\, and credit across early modern China and Southeast Asia. \n\n\nTranscript: Download Transcript
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/environment-in-asia-lecture-series-featuring-zhang-meng/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Environment,Environment
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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/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Environment,Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Meng Gao - The Essential Role of Vertical Profile Observations of Atmospheric Composition in China
DESCRIPTION:**PLEASE NOTE THE DATE OF THIS EVENT HAS CHANGED FROM NOVEMBER 18 TO DECEMBER 2** \nSpeaker: Meng Gao\, Assistant Professor\, Department of Geography\, Hong Kong Baptist University; Associate\, Harvard-China Project \nMonitoring and modeling/predicting air pollution are crucial to understanding the links between emissions and air pollution levels\, to supporting air quality management\, and to reducing human exposure. Yet\, current monitoring networks and modeling capabilities are unfortunately inadequate to understand the physical and chemical processes above ground\, and to support attribution of sources. Vertical observations of atmospheric composition would be essential to reduce uncertainties\, and to advance diagnostic understanding and prediction of air pollution. In this talk\, three major issues of air quality research in China will be exemplified: (1) current observation networks provide only partial view of air pollution\, and this can lead to misleading air quality management actions; (2) satellite retrievals of air pollutants are widely used in air pollution studies\, such as health risk assessment\, but too often users do not acknowledge that they have large uncertainties\, which can be reduced with measurements of vertical profiles; (3) air quality modeling and forecasting require vertical observational constraints. \nMeng Gao is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography\, Hong Kong Baptist University and Associate\, Harvard-China Project. He earned a B.Sc degree in atmospheric physics from Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology and an M.Sc and Ph.D in chemical engineering from the University of Iowa. Dr. Gao Meng’s research focuses on air pollution in highly polluted regions (China and India) and its interactions with health and climate. He uses a coupled meteorology-chemistry model to investigate in detail the chemical and physical processes leading to severe particulate matter and ozone pollution in Asia. He has demonstrated that aerosol interactions with radiation and clouds contribute in important ways to intensification of aerosol enhancements. He has shown how the assimilation of PM2.5 in winter haze periods can improve model predictions and that these improved predictions can reduce significantly the uncertainties in estimates of health impacts and aerosol radiative forcing. He has also shown how ocean temperature in autumn can be used effectively to predict the severity of Indian winter haze\, which can help guide pollution control planning at least a season in advance. \nPresented via Zoom.\nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJctduyqpzwiGNWMZt42nWYMuuC1aBGxxdHN
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/meng-gao-the-essential-role-of-vertical-profile-observations-of-atmospheric-composition-in-china/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Environment,Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Environment in Asia Lecture Series - Infectious Diseases and Public Health Management in China: From Historical and Anthropological Perspectives
DESCRIPTION:Read the transcript of the event here. \nSpeakers:\nNicole Elizabeth Barnes\, Duke University\nMary Augusta Brazelton\, The University of Cambridge\nMiriam Gross\, The University of Oklahoma\nElanah Uretsky\, Brandeis University \nModerator: Ling Zhang\, Boston College \nNicole Elizabeth Barnes is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of History and Gender\, Sexuality and Feminist Studies at Duke University. She is the author of Intimate Communities: Wartime Healthcare and the Birth of Modern China\, 1937-1945\, an open access e-book published by the University of California Press in 2018 that received the 2019 Joan Kelly Memorial Prize from the American Historical Association and the 2020 William H. Welch Medal from the American Association for the History of Medicine. She researches history of medicine\, women\, and gender in twentieth-century China. \nMary Augusta Brazelton is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science of the University of Cambridge. Her book Mass Vaccination: Citizens’ Bodies and State Power in Modern China (Cornell University Press\, 2019) examines the history of mass immunization in twentieth-century China. It suggests that the origins of the vaccination policies that eradicated smallpox and controlled other infectious diseases in the 1950s\, providing an important basis for the emergence of Chinese health policy as a model for global health\, can be traced to research and development in southwest China during the Second Sino-Japanese War. She has also published work on the history of penicillin development and tuberculosis control in China\, as well as the history of Peking Union Medical College\, and is the 2019 recipient of the Zhu Kezhen Senior Award from the International Society for the History of East Asian Science\, Technology\, and Medicine. Her research interests lie broadly in historical intersections of science\, technology\, and medicine in China and around the world.  At Cambridge\, she is an affiliated lecturer in East Asian Studies in the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies and a member of the World History Subject Group in the Faculty of History\, as well as a Research Fellow at the Needham Research Institute. She received her PhD at Yale and has taught at Tufts University. \nMiriam Gross is an Associate Professor in the Departments’ of History and of International and Area Studies at the University of Oklahoma\, Norman.  She received her Masters of International Affairs from Columbia University in 2002\, and her Ph.D. in Modern Chinese history from the University of California\, San Diego in 2010\, under the direction of Professors’ Joseph Esherick and Paul Pickowicz.  Her first book\, Farewell to the God of Plague: Chairman Mao’s Campaign to Deworm China\, was published by the University of California Press in 2016.  Her research focuses on the popularization\, politicization\, and contestation of science and medicine in the countryside in modern China as well as China’s medical diplomacy abroad.  Currently she is writing a book on COVID-19 that explores its roots in China and analyzes comparative global management and control strategies. \nElanah Uretsky is an Associate Professor of International and Global Studies at Brandeis University where she teaches courses on global health\, China and East Asia\, and human rights.  Trained as a medical anthropologist of China\, Professor Uretsky has twenty years of experience conducting research on the impact of gender\, sexuality\, and governance on HIV/AIDS and chronic disease in China. Her first book\, Occupational Hazards: Sex\, Business and HIV/AIDS in Post-Mao China\, discusses the impact that China’s culture of male networking practices has had on the development\, trajectory\, and administration of China’s HIV epidemic. Professor Uretsky has also examined China’s increasing involvement in the global health field and has conducted research on the health of African migrants living in the city of Guangzhou.  Prior to teaching at Brandeis\, Professor Uretsky taught in the Department of Global Health at George Washington University. Professor Uretsky holds a PhD in sociomedical science from Columbia University and did postdoctoral training at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in AIDS at Yale University. \nPart of the Environment in Asia Lecture Series \nPresented Via Zoom Webinar
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/infectious-diseases-and-public-health-management-in-china-from-historical-and-anthropological-perspectives/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Environment,Environment
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SUMMARY:Environment in Asia Series Featuring Judith Shapiro and Yifei Li - Authoritarian Environmentalism and Chinese Ecological Civilization
DESCRIPTION:Read the transcript of the event here. \nSpeakers:\nJudith Shapiro\, Director of the Masters in Natural Resources and Sustainable Development for the School of International Service\, American University \nYifei Li\, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at NYU Shanghai\,Global Network Assistant Professor\, New York University; Residential Fellow at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society\, Munich \n  \n\n\nYifei Li is Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at NYU Shanghai and Global Network Assistant Professor at NYU. In the 2020-2021 academic year\, he is also Residential Fellow at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society in Munich. His research concerns both the macro-level implications of Chinese environmental governance for state-society relations\, marginalized populations\, and global ecological sustainability\, as well as the micro-level bureaucratic processes of China’s state interventions into the environmental realm. He has received research support from the United States National Science Foundation\, the University of Chicago Center in Beijing\, and the China Times Cultural Foundation\, among other extramural sources. He is coauthor (with Judith Shapiro) of China Goes Green: Coercive Environmentalism for a Troubled Planet. His recent work appears in Current Sociology\, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research\, Environmental Sociology\, Journal of Environmental Management\, and other scholarly outlets. He received his Master’s and Ph.D. degrees in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Bachelor’s from Fudan University. \nJudith Shapiro is Director of the Masters in Natural Resources and Sustainable Development for the School of International Service at American University and Chair of the Global Environmental Politics program. She was one of the first Americans to live in China after U.S.-China relations were normalized in 1979\, and taught English at the Hunan Teachers’ College in Changsha\, China. She has also taught at Villanova\, the University of Pennsylvania\, the University of Aveiro (Portugal) and the Southwest Agricultural University in Chongqing\, China. She was a visiting professor at Schwarzman College\, Tsinghua University. Professor Shapiro’s research and teaching focus on global environmental politics and policy\, the environmental politics of Asia\, and Chinese politics under Mao. She is the author\, co-author or editor of nine books\, including (with Yifei Li) China Goes Green: Coercive Environmentalism for a Troubled Planet (Polity 2020)\, China’s Environmental Challenges (Polity 2016)\, Mao’s War against Nature (Cambridge University Press 2001)\, Son of the Revolution (with Liang Heng\, Knopf 1983)\, After the Nightmare (with Liang Heng\, Knopf 1987)\, Cold Winds\, Warm Winds: Intellectual Life in China Today (with Liang Heng\, Wesleyan University Press 1987)\, Debates on the Future of Communism (co-edited with Vladimir Tismaneanu\, Palgrave 1991)\, and\, together with her mother Joan Hatch Lennox\, Lifechanges: How Women Can Make Courageous Choices (Random House\, 1991). Dr. Shapiro earned her Ph.D. from American University’s School of International Service. She holds an M.A. in Asian Studies from the University of California\, Berkeley and another M.A. in Comparative Literature from the University of Illinois\, Urbana. Her B.A. from Princeton University is in Anthropology and East Asian Studies. \nPart of the Environment in Asia Lecture Series \nPresented Via Zoom Webinar
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/judith-shapiro-and-yifei-li-authoritarian-environmentalism-and-chinese-ecological-civilization/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Environment,Environment
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SUMMARY:Environment in Asia Lecture Series Featuring David Fedman and Ian M. Miller - East Asian Forestry and Empires
DESCRIPTION:Read the transcript of the event here.\n\n\nSpeakers:\nDavid Fedman\, Assistant Professor of History\,University of California\, Irvine\nIan M. Miller\, Assistant Professor of History\, St. John’s University\nModerator: Ling Zhang\, Boston College\n\n  \nDavid Fedman is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California\, Irvine. He is the author of Seeds of Control: Japan’s Empire of Forestry in Colonial Korea (University of Washington Press\, 2020). His other publications include “The Ondol Problem and the Politics of Forest Conservation in Colonial Korea” (Journal of Korean Studies\, Vol. 23\, 2018)\, which was awarded the 2019 Joel A. Tarr Envirotech Article Prize. \nIan M. Miller is Assistant Professor of History at St. John’s University in New York. He is the author of Fir and Empire: The Transformation of Forests in Early Modern China (University of Washington Press\, 2020). His current research is on the role of lineage organizations in regulating village environments\, provisionally titled Ancestral Shade: Kinship and Ecology in South China. \nPart of the Environment in Asia Lecture Series \nPresented Via Zoom Webinar
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/east-asian-forestry-and-empires-a-conversation-with-environmental-historians-david-fedman-and-ian-m-miller/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Environment,Environment
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SUMMARY:The River Dragon Has Indeed Come! –– Chinese Floods and Flood Management in 2020 and in the Past
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies · The River Dragon has indeed come! Chinese Floods and Flood Management in 2020 and in the past\nSpeakers:\nClark ALEJANDRINO\, Trinity College\nChris COURTNEY\, Durham University\nXiangli DING\, Rhode Island School of Design\nYan GAO\, University of Memphis \nModerator: Ling Zhang\, Boston College \nAbout the Speakers:\n \nClark Alejandrino teaches at Trinity College. Clark finished a Ph.D. in East Asian Environmental History at Georgetown University. He specializes in the environmental history of China\, especially its climate and animal history\, covering the fifth to the twentieth century in his research. He is currently preparing a book manuscript on typhoons in the history of the South China coast and preparing to embark on a new project exploring the history of migratory birds in East Asia. At Trinity\, he teaches courses on Chinese history\, environmental history\, world history\, and Pacific history. \nChris Courtney teaches at Durham University (UK). Chris is a social and environmental historian of China\, specializing on the history of Wuhan and its hinterland. His previous research focused upon the history of nature-induced disasters in the 19th and 20th centuries. His monograph The Nature of Disaster in China examined the history of the 1931 Central China Flood. It was awarded the 2019 John K Fairbanks Prize. Chris has also published on topics including the history of environmental religion\, fire disasters\, and Maoist flood (mis)management. His current research focuses on the problem of heat in modern Chinese cities. Using a combination of archival and oral history he is examining how people coped with extreme temperatures through a period of rapid cultural\, political and technological change. He explores how emergent technologies such as ice factories\, electric fans\, and air conditioning transformed the cultural and social landscape of urban China. \nXiangli Ding teaches at the Rhode Island School of Design. His research interests focus on the confluence of nature\, technologies\, economy and political forces in modern China and how that confluence has changed Chinese people’s lives and their relationship with the natural environment. His first book project\, Transforming Waters: Hydroelectricity\, State Making and Social Changes in 20th-Century China\, examines the rise of hydroelectricity in modern China and argues that political powers aided by hydro-technologies consumed not only the natural resources at an unprecedented pace and scale\, but also marginalized local communities in the making of the modern hydropower regime. \nYan Gao teaches at the University of Memphis. Yan specializes in social and environmental history of late imperial and modern China\, and her research focuses on water management of the central Yangzi region. She obtained her Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University and held a few research and teaching positions around the world. She was a Carson fellow at the Rachel Carson Center of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München\, a visiting post-doctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin\, and a Research Associate at the Global Asia Initiative of Duke University. She has published several scholarly articles. Yan is finalizing a book entitled “Yangzi Waters: Transforming the Water Regime in Late Imperial China.” \nPart of the Environment in Asia series at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard University \nThis event is a Zoom webinar. Registration is required.\nClick here to register.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-river-dragon-has-indeed-come-chinese-floods-and-flood-management-in-2020-and-in-the-past/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Environment
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SUMMARY:***POSTPONED*** Environment in Asia Reunion Workshop - With a Special Tribute to Profs. Robert B. Marks and Peter C. Perdue
DESCRIPTION:THIS EVENT IS POSTPONED DUE TO THE COVID-19 SITUATION.\nWE HOPE TO RESCHEDULE IT FOR APRIL 2021.\nWE APOLOGIZE FOR THE INCONVENIENCE\nOrganizer: Ling Zhang\, Boston College \nFeaturing roundtable conversations on:\nMultispecies Entanglement\nImaginaries and Representations\nLand\, Water\, Fire\, Air\nEnergy and Resource\nFood\, Body\, Health\nEnvironmental Politics and Policies of Contemporary China\nBuilding a Multidisciplinary Environmental Studies Community\nand\nPioneering Chinese Environmental History: A Celebration of Lifelong Achievements of Professor Robert B. Marks and Professor Peter C. Perdue \nMarch 18\, 2020 | 2:00 – 6:00 PM\nBelfer Case Study Room (S020) | CGIS South | 1730 Cambridge St. | Cambridge MA \nMarch 19\, 2020 | 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM\nRoom K262 | CGIS Knafel | 1737 Cambridge St. | Cambridge MA
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/environment-in-asia-reunion-workshop-with-a-special-tribute-to-profs-robert-b-marks-and-peter-c-perdue-2/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Environment
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SUMMARY:Yu Zhou - Technological Innovation: Exploring Chinese Models
DESCRIPTION:Read the event summary here \nSpeaker: Yu Zhou\, Vassar College \nChina’s technological ambition and trajectory have become a central concern for the US-China Trade War and will likely to define US-China relations for a long time to come.  This talk traces the evolution of Chinese policies on technological innovation.  Based on case studies on ten major technological industries written by leading academics\, such as machine tools\, rail\, automobile\, information\, communication technology\, and renewable energy\, the talk explores the common models that underline China’s technological dynamics. \nYu Zhou received Bachelor and Master’s degree from Department of Regional and Environmental Sciences (formerly Geography) in Peking University\, China\, and received PhD in geography from University of Minnesota in 1995. Her current research is on globalization and high-tech industry in China. More recently she has done researched into China’s green building program and urban sustainability. In the United States\, her works are more in the areas of ethnic business\, gender and ethnic communities\, and transnational business networks. In 2008\, she was selected as one of the twenty Public Intellectual Fellows by the National Committee on US-China Relations. She has been interviewed by New York Times\, and Washington Post\, Voice of America among others.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-lecture-series-2-2018-10-31-2019-03-06/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China Series,Environment,Environment
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SUMMARY:Alex Wang - Symbolic Legitimacy and Chinese Environmental Reform
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Alex Wang\, UCLA \nAt the heart of debates over Chinese rule of law is the question of state legitimacy. Critics argue that legitimacy requires liberal democratic rule of law. Chinese leaders have long relied on performance legitimacy – economic development and maintenance of social stability – as the core basis of their rule. Western scholarship on modern Chinese law and politics has\, to a significant degree\, critiqued the ability of China’s current institutions to perform as claimed. \nBut apart from any actual results that Chinese governance may generate\, the entire project of governance reform can be structured in a way that influences public impressions of state legitimacy. The process of reform is not only about attaining performance goals\, but is itself a kind of performance. This act of “performing performance” also signals competence\, commitment to the people\, tradition\, nationalist strength\, and a host of other positive values to citizens and other audiences. \nThis talk explores the symbolic aspects of Chinese environmental reform and potential implications\, drawing on case studies in air pollution\, climate change\, and China’s Belt & Road Initiative. \nAlex Wang is Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law\, and a leading expert on environmental law and the law and politics of China. His research focuses on the social effects of law\, and the interaction of law and institutions in China and the United States. His previous research has examined\, among other things\, the institutional design of environmental law and policy\, environmental bureaucracy\, public interest litigation\, information disclosure\, and environmental courts. His work has addressed air pollution\, climate change\, and other environmental issues. \n  \nThis event is co-sponsored by the East Asian Legal Studies Program at Harvard Law School.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/alex-wang-environment-in-asia-series/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Environment,Environment
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SUMMARY:Christopher Atwood: Environmental Geographies of the Mongol Empire
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Christopher Atwood\, Professor\, Mongolian and Chinese Frontier & Ethnic History\, University of Pennsylvania \nThe European conquest of the Americas\, the consequent ecological exchange\, massive mortality\, and rise of plantation economies have been one of the prime topics of environmental history. Less widely understood have been the similar ecological impacts and imperatives of the thirteenth century Mongol empire. Environment has been an important area of focus in the study of Central Eurasian nomads\, but within a framework that takes the relative stability of the ecological infrastructure as a given. The Mongol empire\, however\, resulted in a both a vast expansion of pastoralism and hunting together with the kind of directed agricultural expansion that we usually associate with the early modern world. The result was an environment in Mongol China that looked vastly different from anything in China before or after – and yet which left permanent marks on the Chinese economy and agriculture. This paper will present research on the environmental geography of Mongol empire\, focusing on North China\, showing how distinctive the environment was\, and how Mongol imperial policy used environmental zonation and control of labor as a crucial tool of governance.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/christopher-atwood-environment-in-asia-lecture-series/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Environment
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SUMMARY:Ruth Mostern - The Natural and Unnatural History of the Yellow River
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Ruth Mostern\, University of Pittsburgh \nThe geographer Jamie Linton has observed that under conditions of human entanglement\, there is no such thing as a hydrological cycle\, and that we should seek to understand the dynamics of hydrosocial cycles instead.  Under anthropogenic conditions\, water still precipitates and evaporates. Rivers are still fluvial systems in which precipitation and suspended material disgorge from headwaters\, flow through a drainage basin\, traverse a floodplain\, and exit to the ocean. However\, in a hydrosocial river\, human activity has transformed each of these processes. At the same time\, human society is reshaped by the river’s agentive activity. Catastrophes of drought and flood are marquee events on a hydrosocial river\, but slow changes – slow violence\, to use Rob Nixon’s striking term – affect imperial budgets and soil chemistry alike. This talk is a summary of my book-in-progress\, an effort to understand these dynamics on the entire Yellow River watershed at the scale of the Holocene era by combining environmental science\, spatial and data analysis\, and historical narrative. \nRuth Mostern is Associate Professor of History and Director of the World History Center at the University of Pittsburgh. She is the author of Dividing the Realm in Order to Govern: The Spatial Organization of the Song State (960-1276 CE) (Harvard Asia Center\, 2011) and the co-editor of Placing Names: Enriching and Integrating Gazetteers (Indiana University Press\, 2016). Her current book\, Following the Tracks of Yu: The Imperial and Ecological Worlds of the Yellow River is in contract at Yale University Press.  She is currently PI on two NEH grants: one to develop content and infrastructure for an ecosystem of digital historical gazetteers\, and one to design and launch an interdisciplinary curriculum about water in Central Asia.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/ruth-mostern-the-natural-and-unnatural-history-of-the-yellow-river/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Environment,Environment
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SUMMARY:Rob Efird - Nature for Nurture: Environmental Education\, Nature Experience\, and the Healthy Chinese Child
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Robert Efird\, Professor of Anthropology and Asian studies\, Seattle University \nFor the past 15 years\, the Chinese Ministry of Education’s attempt to promote environmental education in public schools has faced nearly insurmountable structural obstacles. By contrast\, there is a growing popular embrace of the value of nature exposure for children’s health and well-being. Drawing upon nearly a decade of fieldwork\, this talk discusses the challenges that formal environmental education has faced in China\, as well as the reasons behind the rise of “nature education” (ziran jiaoyu)\, the proliferation of “nature schools” (ziran xuexiao) and the revival of natural history (bowuxue). In particular\, we will explore how these developments are related to new ideas concerning children’s healthy development\, including the concept of “nature-deficit disorder” (ziran queshizheng) popularized by American journalist Richard Louv. \nRob Efird is Professor of Anthropology and Asian Studies at Seattle University. His research on environmental learning in China includes several book chapters\, articles in the Journal of Contemporary China and Environmental Education Research\, and a co-edited volume (with John Chi-Kin Lee) entitled Schooling for Sustainable Development Across the Pacific (Springer\, 2014). He spent a year in Kunming as a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar during 2011-2012\, and was a National Committee on U.S.-China Relations Public Intellectual Program Fellow from 2014 to 2016. \n  \nDiscussant: Robert Weller\, Professor of Anthropology\, Boston University \nDr. Robert Weller’s work concentrates on China and Taiwan in comparative perspective. His actual research topics\, however\, are eclectic—running from ghosts to politics\, rebellions to landscape paintings. Perhaps what unites everything is an interest in finding the limits to authority in all its settings.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/rob-efird-environment-in-asia-lecture-series/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Environment,Environment
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180910T164500
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SUMMARY:Gufran Beig - Anatomy of Extreme Pollution Event in a Megacity: Delhi
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Gufran Beig\, Project Director\, System of Air Quality Forecasting and Research\, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology\, Ministry of Earth Sciences\, Government of India; Fellow\, Indian Academy of Sciences; World Meteorological Organization Norbert Gerbier-Mumm International Award \nA Harvard-China Project Research Seminar \nMegacities are engines of growing pollution. Delhi is cursed by its geography to be prone to various meteorological phenomena acting in different times of the year that contribute to high pollution levels. Climate change is poised to worsen air quality and by the end of the century\, more than half of the world’s population will be exposed to increasingly stagnant atmospheric conditions\, with the tropics and subtropics bearing the brunt of the poor air quality. India’s capital\, Delhi\, is reported to be one of the megacities in the world that are worst affected by asthma. Delhi experienced an environmental emergency in early November 2017 when levels of toxic PM2.5 particles surpassed WHO guidelines by 25 times for a prolonged period of time (a week). In this talk\, we will demonstrate the role that monsoon dynamics played in linking and mixing dust emitted from a large\, natural dust storm\, 3000km away in the Middle East\, with smoke from agriculture fires in northwest India. Understanding the multi-scale nature of such events is important for improving our abilities to forecast these events and developing effective air quality management strategies. \nSponsored by China Project\, Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/gufran-beig-anatomy-of-extreme-pollution-event-in-a-megacity-delhi/
LOCATION:Pierce Hall 100F\, 29 Oxford St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Environment,Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:From Eco-Threat to Green Leader: Narratives of China’s Environment
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Elizabeth Lord\, An Wang Postdoctoral Fellow\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies \nThis talk aims to unpack dominant narratives about China’s environment\, including the discourse of crisis\, the idea that growth brings environmental protection and the potential that China can act as an environmental ‘vanguard’ at the international level. By analyzing how each of these narratives spatialize China’s environmental issues\, the objective is to unpack their assumptions and their geopolitical implications. These narratives show that environmental questions increasingly serve as a platform to ‘re-orientalize’ China\, or construct China as an environmental ‘other.’ \nElizabeth Lord is an An Wang Postdoctoral Fellow at the Fairbank Center. Her research seeks to understand China’s contemporary environment\, examine the relationship between environmental change and inequalities\, and theorize the production of environmental knowledge\, particularly in China. During her time at the Center\, Elizabeth will research the environmental narratives of China. She will evaluate the assumptions and implications of environmental narratives\, including those produced in China and outside of China. 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/from-eco-threat-to-green-leader-narratives-of-chinas-environment/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Environment,Environment
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180522T210000
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SUMMARY:The Arnold Arboretum and China: A Century-Old Partnership
DESCRIPTION:Surrounded by our Bonsai & Penjing collection\, enjoy cocktails and hors d’oeuvres as you view Professor Yin Kaipu’s (Chengdu Institute of Biology) photographs which document a century of environmental change. Each of his images will be paired with a sister image taken in the same location by Arboretum explorer Ernest Henry Wilson. \nThen screen highlights from CCTV-9’s documentary “Chinese Wilson.” Professor Yin and Dr. Michael Dosmann\, Arboretum Keeper of the Living Collections\, will introduce the film in which they both star\, linking China and the Arboretum’s past with modern-day quests to preserve these locations and biodiversity. \nFor more information and to RSVP by Tuesday\, May 8\, email Janetta Stringfellow\, Director of Institutional Advancement\, at janetta_stringfellow@harvard.edu or call 617-384-5043. \nEarlier in the day\, we will be hosting a program of talks by our Chinese guests and Arnold Arboretum staff. They will include presentations on E.H. Wilson’s life\, photographs\, and the plants he brought to Boston. We welcome you to also join us for this program.  Please contact Janetta Stringfellow for details. \nPhoto: View of North Gate and part of Taning Hsien with river and city wall. Altitude 600 ft. June 27\,1910. Photograph by Ernest Henry Wilson.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-arnold-arboretum-and-china-a-century-old-partnership/
LOCATION:Weld Hill Research Building\, 1300 Centre St.\, Boston\, MA\, 02131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Environment,Events of Interest
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180428T150000
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SUMMARY:Workshop: Chinese Food: Culture\, Economy\, and Ecology
DESCRIPTION:Part of the Fairbank Center’s “Environment in Asia” series \nApril 27\, 8:30am-6:30pm\, CGIS South Room S153\nApril 28\, 8:30am-3:30pm\, CGIS South Room S250 \nOrganizer: Ling Zhang (Boston College); Elizabeth Lord (Harvard University) \nSponsors:\nHarvard University Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\nHarvard-China Project on Energy\, Economy\, and Environment (Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences)\nBoston College Institute for the Liberal Arts \n  \nConference Program \nApril 27\, Friday \n8:45-9:15         Opening\nLing Zhang (Boston College)\nElizabeth Lord (Harvard University) \nPanel One: Food and Knowledge\n9:30-10:15 \nE. N. Anderson (University of California\, Riverside)\n“Learning Is Like Chicken Feet: Medieval China Studies West Asian Foodways in the Emerging Asian World-system” \nAbigail Coplin (Yale University)\n“The East is ‘Scientific’: Scientists\, the State\, and Credibility Crises During China’s GMO Controversy” \n10:15-10:30     Coffee Break \n10:30-12:30     Robban Toleno (Columbia University)\n“Buddhists\, Meat Analogues\, and the History of Vegetarianism in China”\nDiscussion: Peter Perdue (Yale University) \n12:30-13:30     Lunch \nPanel Two: Political Economy and Ecology \n13:30-14:15\nMindi Schneider (Erasmus Graduate School of Social Sciences and the Humanities)\n“Food and Power: A Food Regime Analysis of Contemporary China” \nMark Frank (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)\n“Food and Accommodation: Chinese Grain Governance in Eastern Tibet\, 1908-1940” \nBrendan A. Galipeau (Rice University)\n“Free in the Mountains or Home in the Vineyard: Resisting Plantation Labor on a French Vineyard in Tibet through Valuable Fungi Collection” \n15:30-15:50     Coffee Break \n15:50-18:30\nElizabeth Lord (Harvard University)\n“Making Pollution Invisible — An Exploration of Soil Surveys in Contemporary China” \nAlexander F. Day (Occidental College)\n“The Political Economy of Socialist Food Production: The Work of Labor and Fertilizer on a State-Owned Tea Farm” \nDiscussion: Ellen Oxfeld (Middlebury College\, 20 minutes) \n*          *          * \nApril 28\, Saturday \nPanel Three: Materiality\, Culture\, and Identity \n9:00-9:45\nMiranda Brown (University of Michigan)\n“On Bird’s Nests and Bean Curds: Reflections on the Rise of Tofu Connoisseurship” \nCaroline Merrifield (Yale University)\n“Jiangnan Luxe” \n9:45-10:00       Coffee Break \n10:00-12:00\nJin Feng (Grinnell College)\n“The Battle of Noodles” \nBenny Shaffer (Harvard University)\n“Shapeshifting Fields: The Moving Image Work of Mao Chenyu” \nDiscussion: Eileen Chow (Duke University) \n12:00-13:00     Lunch \n13:00-15:00     General Discussion and Conclusion
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/workshop-chinese-food-culture-economy-and-ecology/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, CGIS South\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Environment,Environment
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SUMMARY:Liu Zhenya - The Art of Energy Revolution: From Ultra High Voltage Power Grids to Global Energy Interconnection
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Liu Zhenya\, Former Chairman and President of State Grid Corporation of China; Chairman of Global Energy Interconnection Development and Cooperation Organization (GEIDCO) \nMr. Liu formerly served as the Chairman and President of State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC)\, the world’s largest utility company. He is currently the Chairman of GEIDCO\, a United Nations- and SGCC- affiliated organization that promotes grid interconnection worldwide to facilitate development of renewable energy. In this public lecture\, Mr. Liu will focus on low-carbon energy transition through innovative strategies that help to integrate energy systems across regions and the world. \nThe event will be conducted in Mandarin Chinese and English. Simultaneous Mandarin Chinese and English interpretation will be available. Please plan to arrive at least fifteen minutes early and bring a government- or university-issued photo ID if you would like to check-out a headset to listen to the interpretation. \nCo-sponsored by the Harvard-China Project on Energy\, Economy and Environment; the East Asian Legal Studies Program at Harvard Law School; the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering & Applied Sciences; and the Harvard Global Institute. \nhttps://chinaproject.harvard.edu/liu
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/liu-zhenya-the-art-of-energy-revolution-from-ultra-high-voltage-power-grids-to-global-energy-interconnection/
LOCATION:Milstein East B/C\, Wasserstein Hall\, 1585 Mass Ave.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Environment
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