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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/
CATEGORIES:Environment,Environment
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210317T100000
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SUMMARY:Qing Yang - A Ready-to-Implement Carbon-Negative Option to Help China Achieve Carbon Neutrality: Biochar with Biofuels
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Qing Yang\, Professor\, Department of New Energy Science and Engineering\, School of Energy and Power Engineering\, Huazhong University of Science and Technology \nQing Yang is a Professor in the Department of New Energy Science and Engineering\, School of Energy and Power Engineering\, Huazhong University of Science and Technology. She is also an Alumna (Visiting Scholar) and Collaborator of the Harvard-China Project. Her forthcoming paper in Nature Communications explores biochar as a contributing factor in attaining China’s renewable energy goals and carbon reduction. Her research interests include renewable energy systems\, and their implications on ecological and environmental systems. She studies greenhouse gas emissions and fossil fuel consumption for renewable energy derived processes. Professor Yang earned her Ph.D. from Peking University where she focused on energy systems analysis. \nSponsored by the Harvard-China Project on Energy\, Economy\, and Environment\, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. \nPresented via Zoom\nRegistration Required\nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAodeurpjorGtWM_8QLxMZQEsvQ7Xe_su3L
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/qing-yang-a-ready-to-implement-carbon-negative-option-to-help-china-achieve-carbon-neutrality-biochar-with-biofuels/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Environment,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201202T100000
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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/
CATEGORIES:Environment,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201120T120000
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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/
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/
CATEGORIES:Environment,Environment
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201023T120000
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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/
CATEGORIES:Environment,Environment
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200806T120000
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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/
CATEGORIES:Environment
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200319T090000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190306T123000
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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
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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/
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/
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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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/
CATEGORIES:Environment,Environment
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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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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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SUMMARY:Those Waters Giving Way
DESCRIPTION:An overview of Michael Cherney’s artistic process and recent works. The art combines photography with the subject matter\, aesthetics\, materials and formats traditionally associated with classical Chinese painting\, which allows for viewing the present day environment and landscape in China through the lens of art history. In addition to the presentation\, the artist will guide the audience through viewing several handscrolls\, albums and other works \n“One would be hard-pressed to find a ‘more Chinese’ artist than Qiu Mai (Michael Cherney). Photographer\, calligrapher\, and book artist\, Qiu Mai’s work is done with the great sophistication that draws on the subtleties of China’s most scholarly and esoteric traditions. Based in Beijing and a successful artist whose works have been collected by The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Department of Asian Art (the first photographic works ever to enter the collection of that department)\, Qiu Mai’s art is less provocative than it is intellectually engaging\, meditative\, and often simply beautiful.  What is provocative is his identity:  Qiu Mai is the Chinese name for Michael Cherney\, born in New York of Jewish parentage. Cherney’s work is the cutting-edge demonstration of artistic globalization:  if Asian artists can so readily ‘come West\,’ then what is to prevent large numbers of future Western artists from ‘going Asian’? Or\, like Qiu Mai/Michael Cherney\, going both ways at once\, both American and Chinese\, modern and traditional.”\n– Jerome Silbergeld\, P. Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Professor of Chinese Art History\, Princeton University \nCo-sponsored by the Harvard-China Project
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/those-waters-giving-way/
CATEGORIES:Environment,Environment,Events of Interest,Exhibitions,Special Event
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SUMMARY:Jennifer Rudolph and Michael Szonyi - The Coop Event Series/ "The China Questions" Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Join the editors and contributors to The China Questions for a book launch at the Harvard Coop’s Event Series. \nMany books offer information about China\, but few make sense of what is truly at stake. The questions addressed in this unique volume provide a window onto the challenges China faces today and the uncertainties its meteoric ascent on the global horizon has provoked. \nIn only a few decades\, the most populous country on Earth has moved from relative isolation to center stage. Thirty-six of the world’s leading China experts—all affiliates of the renowned Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University—answer key questions about where this new superpower is headed and what makes its people and their leaders tick. They distill a lifetime of cutting-edge scholarship into short\, accessible essays about Chinese identity\, culture\, environment\, society\, history\, or policy. \nChina has already captured the world’s attention. The China Questions takes us behind media images and popular perceptions to provide insight on fundamental issues. \nJoin editors Jennifer Rudolph and Michael Szonyi\, and contributors Peter Bol\, Andrew Erickson\, Susan Greenhalgh\, Wai-yee Li\, and Karen Thornber\, at the Harvard Coop to discuss the book and the key questions it raises about China’s future. \nEditors \nJennifer Rudolph\, Associate Professor of Modern Chinese political History\, Worcester Polytechnic Institute \nMichael Szonyi\, Professor of Chinese History\, Harvard University \nContributors \nPeter Bol\, Vice Provost for Advances in Learning\, and Charles H Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard university \nAndrew Erickson\, Professor of Strategy\, Naval War College \nSusan Greenhalgh is Professor of Anthropology\, Harvard University \nWai-yee Li\, Professor of Chinese Literature\, Harvard University \nKaren Thornber\, Professor of Comparative Literature\, and East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University \n 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/jennifer-rudolph-and-michael-szonyi-the-coop-event-series-the-china-questions-book-launch/
LOCATION:Harvard Coop\, 1400 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Environment,Events of Interest,Special Event
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SUMMARY:Film Screening of "Plastic China" and Q&A with Director Wang Jiuliang
DESCRIPTION:After the screening\, Director Wang Jiuliang will attend via Skype for a Q&A with the audience moderated by Professor Zhang Ling of Boston College and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. The discussion will be interpreted by Canaan Morse\, a Ph.D. candidate in Chinese Literature at Harvard.  \nAbout the Film: As the world’s biggest plastic waste importer\, China receives ten million tons per year from most of the developed countries around the world. With high external costs impacting the local environment and health\, these imports are reborn here in these plastic workshops into “recycled” raw materials for the appetite of China – the world factory. This waste is then exported back to where they came from with a new face such as manufactured clothing or toys. Following the daily lives of two families living in a typical plastic waste household-recycling workshop\, PLASTIC CHINA explores how this work of recycling plastic waste with their bare hands takes a toll not only on their health\, but also their own dilemma of poverty\, disease\, pollution and death. \nAbout the Director: Director of the award-winning documentary film BEIJING BESIEGED BY WASTE\, WANG Jiuliang graduated from the School of Cinematic Arts of the Communication University of China in 2007. From 2007 to 2008\, he finished a set of photographic works about Chinese traditional superstitions. He started investigating landfill pollution around Beijing in 2008\, and in 2011\, finished BEIJING BESIEGED BY WASTE\, a set of photographic works and a documentary with the same name. Since 2012\, he has been working on and promoting the documentary PLASTIC CHINA. \nBoston-area premiere co-sponsored by the Harvard-China Project on Energy\, Economy and Environment\, Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences; Environment in Asia Series\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies; and Emergent Visions Film Screening Series\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. \nFree admission to the film screening is made possible through the generous support of the Harvard Global Institute. 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-screening-of-plastic-china-and-qa-with-director-wang-jiuliang/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Emergent Visions Film Screening,Environment,Environment,Events of Interest,Film Screening
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SUMMARY:Prasenjit Duara - Spiritual Ecologies: Sustainability and Transcendence in Contemporary Asia
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Prasenjit Duara\, Oscar Tang Professor of East Asian Studies\, Duke University\n\n\n\n\n\nThe crisis of global modernity has been produced by human overreach that was founded upon a paradigm of national modernization. Today\, three global changes: the rise of non-western powers\, the crisis of environmental sustainability and the loss of authoritative sources of transcendence – the ideals\, principles and ethics once found in religions — define our condition. The physical salvation of the world is becoming the transcendent goal of our times\, transcending national sovereignty. The foundations of sovereignty can no longer be sought in tunnelled histories of nations; we are recognizing that histories have always been circulatory and the planet is a collective responsibility. \nI re-consider the values and resources in Asian traditions—particularly of China and India—that Max Weber found wanting in their capacity to achieve modernity. Several traditions in Asia\, particularly in environmentally marginalized local communities offer different ways of understanding the relationship between the personal\, ecological and universal. The idea of transcendence in these communities is more dialogical than radical or dualistic: separating God or the human subject from nature. Transnational civil society\, NGOS\, quasi-governmental and inter-governmental agencies committed to to the inviolability or sacrality of the “commons” are finding common cause with these communities struggling to survive. \nThe Environment Forum at the Mahindra Center is convened by Robin Kelsey (Dean of Arts and Humanities\, Harvard University) and Ian Jared Miller (Professor of History\, Harvard University).
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/prasenjit-duara-spiritual-ecologies-sustainability-and-transcendence-in-contemporary-asia/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Environment,Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Tyler Harlan - Small Hydropower and the Low-Carbon Frontier in China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Tyler Harlan\, Ph.D. Candidate\, Department of Geography\, University of California\, Los Angeles \nSince the 1950s\, the Chinese government has used small hydropower (SHP) to drive rural electrification and local economic development in the remote\, resource-rich west of the country. More recently\, however\, this same technology has been re-framed as a renewable energy that generates electricity for the national green economy. In this presentation I argue that SHP represents a broader transformation of rural western China into a ‘low-carbon frontier’\, characterized by the rapid growth of renewable energy infrastructure far from urban centers. I show how the frontier is simultaneously constructed as a site of ecological degradation and of untapped low-carbon value\, both discursively and materially through preferential state policies for renewable energy expansion. This\, in turn\, enables energy firms and local governments to extract new profits from natural resources that may have competing uses. Drawing on policy analysis and twelve months of interviews with government officials\, hydropower investors\, and farmers\, I argue that SHP on the ‘low-carbon frontier’ privileges renewable energy generation over other local resource needs. At the same time\, I show how local governments employ new SHP infrastructure for their own uses\, such as powering nearby mining and mineral processing facilities. This presentation thus highlights the importance of examining subnational geographies of low-carbon transformation\, and the ways that resources and technologies can be re-purposed for local and national development goals. \nCo-sponsored by China Project\, Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences\, and Environment in Asia Series\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/small-hydropower-and-the-low-carbon-frontier-in-china/
LOCATION:Pierce Hall 100F\, 29 Oxford St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Conference and Workshops,Environment,Environment,Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Thomas DuBois: China's Dairy Century - Making\, Drinking and Dreaming of Milk
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Thomas DuBois\, Modern China Historian \nChina’s dairy industry has of late become big news. A country that few would have instinctively associated with milk has emerged as the world’s third largest producer (following India and the United States)\, and second largest consumer of dairy. But the significance of dairy in China is not merely one of aggregate industry size\, nor is its emergence a wholly recent phenomenon. \nMilk was not a major theme in China’s twentieth century\, but it was a surprisingly persistent one. Looking back\, one will see peaks of interest—a new dairy here\, milk safety scandal there\, and images of happy\, milk-fed babies throughout. But do these very different sorts of events constitute a single story? This presentation examines China’s century of dairy as three distinct processes—production\, consumption and culture—discussing each according to its own sources\, standards and logic. Besides introducing a vital transformation within China’s animal industries\, this talk aims to introduce some new ways to think about how we make\, consume and think about food. \nThomas DuBois is a historian of modern China\, and author of three monographs on religion and social transformation\, most recently Empire and the Meaning of Religion in Northeast Asia: Manchuria 1900-1945 (Cambridge\, 2017). He has also written extensively on other topics of the social and legal history of the twentieth century\, including charities\, sovereignty and the resurgence of the NGO sector. DuBois has taught at universities in the US\, Singapore and Australia. His current research on China’s animal industries is funded by the Australian Research Council and the History and Anthropology Project at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. \nMore of his publications may be found at https://independent.academia.edu/ThomasDavidDuBois杜博思
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/environment-in-asia-series-chinas-dairy-century-making-drinking-and-dreaming-of-milk/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Environment,Environment
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SUMMARY:China’s Anthropogenic Methane Emissions: A Review of Current Bottom-Up Inventories
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Prof. Zhang Bo\, Visiting Scholar\, Harvard-China Project; Associate Professor\, State Key Laboratory of Coal Resources and Safe Mining\, China University of Mining & Technology (Beijing) \nMethane (CH4) is the second ranking anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG)\, with a global warming potential (GWP) 28 times greater than that of carbon dioxide (CO2) on a mass basis. In contrast to the ever-increasing focus at China’s CO2 emissions\, its CH4 emissions have received little attention. Yet China is believed to be the world’s largest CH4 emitter\, contributing more to climate change than the total CO2 emitted by many developed countries. Increasing CH4 emissions may be quietly undermining China’s efforts to mitigate its total GHG emissions. This seminar will present an overview of bottom-up estimation of China’s CH4 emissions\, including recent research advances and the limits of current understanding. \nSponsored by Harvard-China Project on Energy\, Economy and Environment\, Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences \nhttps://chinaproject.harvard.edu/event/china%E2%80%99s-anthropogenic-methane-emissions-review-current-bottom-inventories
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/chinas-anthropogenic-methane-emissions-a-review-of-current-bottom-up-inventories/
LOCATION:Pierce Hall 100F\, 29 Oxford St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Environment,Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Ecologies of Enclosure: Reconfiguring the Black Soldier Fly for Urban Waste Management in Guangzhou
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Amy Zhang\, Fairbank Center An Wang Post-Doctoral Fellow \n 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/ecologies-of-enclosure-reconfiguring-the-black-soldier-fly-for-urban-waste-management-in-guangzhou/
LOCATION:HUCE Seminar Room 440\, 26 Oxford St. - Museum of Comparative Zoology\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Environment,Environment,Events of Interest,Special Event
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SUMMARY:Environment in Asia Seminar: "Layer upon Layer: Experience\, Ecology\, Engineering\, Heritage\, and (most of all) History in the Making of China's Agricultural Terraces”
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Sigrid Schmalzer\, University of Massachusetts Amherst \nProfessor Schmalzer’s research focuses on social\, cultural\, and political aspects of the history of science in modern China. Her first book\, The People’s Peking Man: Popular Science and Human Identity in Twentieth-Century China\, was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2008 and won the Sharlin Memorial Award from the Social Science History Association. Her second book\, Red Revolution\, Green Revolution: Scientific Farming in Socialist China\, was released by University of Chicago Press in 2016 (a podcast interview with Schmalzer about the book is available from the New Books Network). She is also the co-editor of a volume intended for the undergraduate classroom titled Visualizing Modern China: Image\, History\, and Memory\, 1750-Present. Her shorter writings have been published in numerous edited volumes and scholarly journals\, including Isis\, Journal of American-East Asian Relations\, Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences\, East Asian History\, and Geographical Review. She was also the lead organizer for a conference held at UMass 11-13 April 2014\, “Science for the People: The 1970s and Today\,” which brought together students\, scholars in Science and Technology Studies\, and former members of the 1970s-1980s group Science for the People and is archived here: https://science-for-the-people.org. Her research has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation\, Fulbright\, the Social Science Research Council\, the American Philosophical Society\, and the D. Kim Foundation. \nLunch will be provided
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/environment-in-asia-seminar-sigrid-schmalzer/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Environment,Environment
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SUMMARY:Building Energy Efficiency Regulations in China: Policies and Trends
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Barbara Finamore\, Senior Attorney and Asia Director\, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) \nAbstract: Energy used in buildings is responsible for 30% of China’s CO2 emissions\, a percentage that is expected to grow as China continues to urbanize and transition to a service economy. China has developed a variety of policy tools designed to reduce building energy consumption and waste\, including building energy codes\, policies and programs to promote the green building sector\, and targets and incentives to expand energy efficiency retrofits for existing buildings. This presentation will outline some of China’s key policies and initiatives to improve building energy efficiency\, discusses several outstanding challenges and conclude with an overview of latest developments. \nCo-sponsored by the China Project\, Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences\, and the Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities\, Harvard Graduate School of Design
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/building-energy-efficiency-regulations-in-china-policies-and-trends/
LOCATION:Pierce Hall 100F\, 29 Oxford St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Environment,Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Environmental Public Interest Litigation in China: Cases and Reform
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Barbara Finamore\, Senior Attorney and Asia Director\, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) \nOn January 1\, 2015\, amendments to China’s Environmental Protection Law went into effect that would allow an estimated 700 Chinese NGOs to bring lawsuits against polluters on behalf of the public interest. The Supreme People’s Court then issued an authoritative “interpretation” that provides clarification and needed details to this new public interest environmental law system.  These new rules appear to be designed\, in many ways\, to make it easier for Chinese NGOs to sue polluters. Yet many challenges still remain.  This presentation will provide an overview of the current status of environmental public interest litigation in China\, including case studies\, challenges and reform efforts. \nCo-sponsored by the East Asian Legal Studies Program\, Harvard Law School; China Project\, Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences; and Environmental Law Program\, Harvard Law School
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/environmental-public-interest-litigation-in-china-cases-and-reform/
LOCATION:Austin Hall Room 308\, 1515 Mass Ave\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Environment,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170321T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170321T200000
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SUMMARY:Ancestral Halls: Their Life After Death
DESCRIPTION:From the late fifteenth century to the mid-twentieth century over 6\,000 ancestral halls (祠堂) were constructed in Huizhou 徽州\, a prefecture at the southern end of Anhui province.  Usually understood to represent the growing attachment of families to the establishment of lineage authority in their villages\, Huizhou’s ancestral halls soon acquired a variety of functions mentioned neither in classical Confucian nor neo-Confucian texts.  In exploring how these ancestral halls were built Dr. McDermott’s talk will investigate how their newly acquired functions helped attract kinsmen to the growing number and activities of these halls\, and how these halls’ hold over successive generations of lineages was linked to the rise and growth of the Huizhou merchants\, south China’s most successful regional group of merchants from the fifteenth to the mid-nineteenth century.  The talk will end with a consideration of how the long-term institutional changes in Huizhou villages from the early Ming to the Qing\, that culminated in the rise of these ancestral halls\, might provide us with a more agent-based set of categories for understanding how major institutional changes in village life from the fourteenth to twentieth century were perceived by ordinary Chinese themselves as the outgrowth of options arising from their villages’ institutional changes. \nSpeaker: Joseph McDermott\, St. John’s College\, University of Cambridge. After a BA (Eng.Lit.)  at Yale\, Joseph McDermott 周紹明 embarked on another BA and then a Ph.D. in Chinese Studies in the UK.  Drawn initially to the study of modern China\, his struggles with pre-modern Chinese literature very quickly drew him into the study of pre-modern Chinese history\, a decision he has never regretted.  His studies of the Song and then the Ming dynasties have had him undertake research and enjoy long overseas stays in Japan and China\, before ending up at St John’s College\, U. of Cambridge\, where he has taught since 1990.  An interest in China’s cultural history prompted him to write A Social History of the Chinese Book (2006) and edit State and Court Ritual in China (1999)\, but his overriding interest since his undergraduate days has been the changes in how ordinary Chinese people lived from the Tang dynasty up to the late Qing.  Hence\, his recent studies include the Song economy for the recent The Cambridge History of China\, Volume 5 Part II\, Song China as well as his two volumes on Huizhou lineages and merchants (The Making of a New Rural Order in South China\, Volume I: Village\, Land\, Lineage in Huizhou\, 900-1600\, Cambridge University Press\, 2014; Volume II to appear later this year).
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/ancestral-halls-their-life-after-death/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Environment,Environment
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