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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180910T153000
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180530T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180530T160000
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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:MA
CATEGORIES:Environment,Environment
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180522T180000
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180427T083000
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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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180417T183000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180307T160000
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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/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Environment,Environment,Events of Interest,Exhibitions,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180207T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180207T203000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171128T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171128T210000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171116T170000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171115T153000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171106T160000
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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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UID:5959-1507131000-1507136400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170428T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170428T153000
DTSTAMP:20260506T120724
CREATED:20170414T193643Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170414T193643Z
UID:5145-1493388000-1493393400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170412T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170412T140000
DTSTAMP:20260506T120724
CREATED:20160923T153519Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160923T153519Z
UID:3579-1491998400-1492005600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170323T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170323T173000
DTSTAMP:20260506T120724
CREATED:20170316T181735Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170316T181735Z
UID:5042-1490283000-1490290200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170323T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170323T140000
DTSTAMP:20260506T120724
CREATED:20170316T181402Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170316T181402Z
UID:5039-1490270400-1490277600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
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
DTSTAMP:20260506T120724
CREATED:20170223T133651Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170223T133651Z
UID:4902-1490119200-1490126400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170302T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170302T173000
DTSTAMP:20260506T120724
CREATED:20170227T173253Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170227T173253Z
UID:4916-1488468600-1488475800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Hidden Air: Urbanization\, the Built Environment\, and Indoor Air Quality in China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Gary Adamkiewicz\, Assistant Professor of Environmental Health and Exposure Disparities\, Department of Environmental Health\, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health \nChina’s recent economic growth and rate of urbanization are unprecedented in human history.  These driving forces create great opportunities and present significant challenges.  While cities have always been engines of creativity and innovation\, they can also put strains on natural systems\, often consume energy unsustainably and produce environmental pollution which threatens human health. This motivates our key question: How do we create healthy and sustainable cities in the next century?  Few studies on the connections between the attributes of urban residential housing and health have been conducted in China.  Our recent studies\, including a large cross-sectional survey-based effort in Suzhou\, aim to address some key questions on how the built environment can shape population health.  This seminar will highlight some of our efforts to understand how indoor and outdoor environments are changing in China in ways that directly impact health.  We will also discuss how indoor environments can mitigate some of the health risks from outdoor air pollution. \nSpeaker Bio: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/gary-adamkiewicz/\nFor more information\, visit https://chinaproject.harvard.edu/
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/hidden-air-urbanization-the-built-environment-and-indoor-air-quality-in-china/
LOCATION:Pierce Hall 100F\, 29 Oxford St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Environment,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170206T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170206T180000
DTSTAMP:20260506T120724
CREATED:20161114T140535Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161114T140535Z
UID:4435-1486398600-1486404000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Environment in Asia Series:  "On the Rare Earth Frontier:  How and Where We Acquire the Elements of our Possible Futures"
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Julie Klinger\, Asst. Professor of International Relations\, Boston University \nJulie Michelle Klinger specializes in development\, environment\, and security politics in Latin America and China in comparative and global perspective. As a geographer\, Dr. Klinger’s research emphasizes in-depth fieldwork to examine the processes through which resource frontiers are produced at local and global scales. She has worked extensively in rural and frontier regions in Brazil and China over the past decade to examine the gaps between (inter)national policy and local practice. She is committed to fostering international research collaboration. \n 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/environment-in-asia-series-featuring-julie-klinger-boston-university/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Environment,Environment
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170130T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170130T173000
DTSTAMP:20260506T120724
CREATED:20170111T155834Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170111T155834Z
UID:4655-1485792000-1485797400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Traces: Dark Clouds - Special One-Day Photography Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Speaker/Photographer: Ian Teh\nAsia Centers Lounge • First Floor • CGIS South Building \nThis event is part of the Environment in Asia series at the Fairbank Center. \nIan Teh is an award-winning photographer based in UK and Malaysia.  He has published three monographs\, Undercurrents (2008)\, Traces (2011) and Confluence (2014). His work is part of the permanent collection at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)\, The Museum of Fine Arts\, Houston (MFAH) and the Hood Museum in the USA. Selected solo shows include the Jack Shainman Gallery in New York in 2004\, Flowers in London in 2011\, the Kunsthal Museum in Rotterdam in 2012\, the Open Society Foundations in New York and Penang in Malaysia in 2013\, the Photoville in New York\, the Tasneem Gallery in Barcelona in 2014\, and the Lianzhou Foto Festival in Guangdong of China in 2015. \nTeh has received multiple honours\, including the International Photoreporter Grant 2016\, the Abigail Cohen Fellowship in Documentary Photography 2014\, and the Emergency Fund 2011 from the Magnum Foundation. In 2013\, he was elected by the Open Society Foundations to exhibit in New York at the Moving Walls Exhibition. In 2015\, during COP21 during the Paris climate talks\, large poster images of his work was displayed on the streets of Paris as part of a collaborative initiative by Dysturb and Magnum Foundation.  He is a co-exhibitor to an environmental group show of internationally acclaimed photographers\, Coal + Ice\, curated by Susan Meiselas. It was recently exhibited at the Official Residence of the US Ambassador to France during COP21.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/traces-dark-cloud-special-one-day-photography-exhibition/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, CGIS South\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Environment,Environment,Events of Interest,Exhibitions,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161207T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161207T170000
DTSTAMP:20260506T120724
CREATED:20161201T163854Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161201T163854Z
UID:4504-1481124600-1481130000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Long-Term Trend and Spatial Pattern of PM2.5-Induced Premature Mortality in China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: WANG Haikun\, Associate Professor\, School of Environment\, Nanjing University \nSponsored by the China Project\, Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. \nWith rapid economic growth\, China has witnessed increasingly frequent and severe haze and smog episodes over the past decade\, posing serious health impacts to the Chinese population\, especially those in densely populated city clusters. Quantification of the spatial and temporal variation of health impacts attributable to ambient fine particulate matter (PM2.5) has important implications for China’s policies on air pollution control. In this study\, we evaluated the spatial distribution of premature deaths in China between 2000 and 2010 attributable to ambient PM2.5 in accord with the Global Burden of Disease based on a high resolution population density map of China\, satellite retrieved PM2.5concentrations\, and provincial health data. Our results suggest that China’s anthropogenic ambient PM2.5 led to 1\,255\,400 premature deaths in 2010\, 42% higher than the level in 2000. Besides increased PM2.5 concentration\, rapid urbanization has attracted large population migration into the more developed eastern coastal urban areas\, intensifying the overall health impact. In addition\, our analysis implies that health burdens were exacerbated in some developing inner provinces with high population density (e.g. Henan\, Anhui\, Sichuan) because of the relocation of more polluting and resource-intensive industries into these regions. In order to avoid such national level environmental inequities\, China’s regulations on PM2.5 should not be loosened in inner provinces. Furthermore policies should create incentive mechanisms that can promote transfer of advanced production and emissions control technologies from the coastal regions to the interior regions.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/long-term-trend-and-spatial-pattern-of-pm2-5-induced-premature-mortality-in-china/
LOCATION:Pierce Hall 100F\, 29 Oxford St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Environment,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161130T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161130T170000
DTSTAMP:20260506T120724
CREATED:20161116T174415Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161116T174415Z
UID:4449-1480519800-1480525200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Competing Air Quality and Water Conservation Co-Benefits from Power Sector Decarbonization in China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: PENG Wei\, Postdoctoral Fellow\, Harvard Kennedy School \nCo-sponsored by the China Project\, Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences\, and the Environment and Natural Resources Program\, Harvard Kennedy School
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/competing-air-quality-and-water-conservation-co-benefits-from-power-sector-decarbonization-in-china/
LOCATION:Pierce Hall 100F\, 29 Oxford St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Environment,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161109T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161109T170000
DTSTAMP:20260506T120724
CREATED:20161103T173005Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161103T173005Z
UID:4360-1478705400-1478710800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:China's National Cap-and-Trade Program: the Promise and the Reality
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: WANG Pu\, Postdoctoral Fellow\, Harvard Kennedy School \nCo-sponsored by the China Project\, Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences\, and the Environment and Natural Resources Program\, Harvard Kennedy School. \nChina’s national cap-and-trade program is regarded as a cornerstone of its climate policy outlined in the 13th Five-year plan (2016-2020)\, published right after the 2015 U.N. Climate Conference in Paris. Since China has accounted for two thirds of global emissions growth in the past decade\, its ambition to control carbon emissions could be a great contribution to the global effort in combating climate change. In addition to emission reduction\, China also intends to achieve two other goals through the program: to facilitate economic transition by reducing energy-inefficient industrial sectors and promoting low-carbon industries\, and to mitigate severe air pollution in the urban regions. But the program’s effectiveness is contingent on the right institutional settings at both macro and micro levels. The speaker will review the major challenges for the program in accomplishing the policy goals\, and discuss the efficiency and equity tradeoffs of different allowance allocation methods in the cap-and-trade program.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/chinas-national-cap-and-trade-program-the-promise-and-the-reality/
LOCATION:Pierce Hall 100F\, 29 Oxford St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Environment,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161019T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161019T173000
DTSTAMP:20260506T120724
CREATED:20161006T202342Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161006T202342Z
UID:3858-1476891000-1476898200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:China's Evolving Vulnerability to Climate Change Impacts: A Spatial Analysis of its Infrastructure System
DESCRIPTION:Speaker:  Xi (Sisi) HU\, Ph.D. Candidate\, Environmental Change Institute\, University of Oxford; Visiting Fellow\, China Project \nSponsored by the China Project\, Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. \nTo learn more about our seminar series\, visit our website: https://chinaproject.harvard.edu/seminars \nYou can also subscribe to our mailing list by emailing tiffanychan@seas.harvard.edu 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/chinas-evolving-vulnerability-to-climate-change-impacts-a-spatial-analysis-of-its-infrastructure-system/
LOCATION:Pierce Hall 100F\, 29 Oxford St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Environment,Environment,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161007T043000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161008T120000
DTSTAMP:20260506T120724
CREATED:20160719T224149Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160719T224149Z
UID:1312-1475814600-1475928000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:60th Anniversary Symposium
DESCRIPTION:Listen again to the panels from our 60th Anniversary Symposium:  \n \nWatch again on YouTube (note\, some panels are audio only): \n \nEvent Description \nJoin us for a two-day academic symposium celebrating sixty years of the Fairbank Center’s world-leading research on China and East Asia. \nBy taking a critical look at the prevailing trends in Chinese Studies over the past six decades\, this symposium aims to not only reflect on our Center’s history\, but also discuss how the field will evolve in the future. \nFeaturing panels on key issues confronting China and Chinese Studies in 2016\, the symposium’s cross-disciplinary approach represents the very core of the Fairbank Center’s founding mission: to advance scholarship in all fields of Chinese studies at Harvard. \nFriday\, October 7 \n  \nOpening Remarks \n8:30am \nMichael Szonyi | Director\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Professor of Chinese History \n  \n8:45am \nPanel 1: Politics  \nChair: William Kirby | T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies; Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration \nJoseph Fewsmith | Professor of International Relations and Political Science\, Boston University; Fairbank Center Associate \nRoderick MacFarquhar | Leroy B. Williams Research Professor of History and Political Science \nYuhua Wang | Assistant Professor of Government \n  \n10:30am \nPanel 2: China’s Society \nChair: Ya-wen Lei | Assistant Professor of Sociology \nXiang Zhou | Assistant Professor of Government \nDeborah Davis | Professor of Sociology\, Yale University \nYun Zhou | PhD Candidate\, Department of Sociology \n  \nPanel 3: Politics and the Use of History in China Today \nChair: Mark Elliott | Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History; Vice-Provost for International Affairs \nRowan Flad | John E. Hudson Professor of Archaeology \nJing Tsu | Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures and Comparative Literature\, Yale University \nRudolf Wagner | Senior Professor\, Heidelberg University; Fairbank Center Associate \n  \n1:45pm \nPanel 4: China’s Tibetan and Uighur Nationalities \nChair: Leonard van der Kuijp | Professor of Tibetan and Himalayan Studies \nWeirong Shen | Professor\, Renmin University of China \nBrenton Sullivan | Assistant Professor of Religion\, Colgate University \nRyosuke Kobayashi | Research Fellow\, Toyo Bunko; Visiting Scholar\, Harvard-Yenching Institute \nRian Thum | Assistant Professor of History\, Loyola University \n  \nPanel 5: Economy \nChair: Dwight Perkins | Harold Hitchings Burbank Research Professor of Political Economy\, Emeritus \nRichard Cooper | Maurits C. Boas Professor of International Economics \nDale Jorgenson | Samuel W. Morris University Professor\, Harvard University \nEdward Steinfeld | Howard Swearer Director\, Thomas J. Watson Jr. Institute for International & Public Affairs; Professor of Political Science\, Brown University \n  \n3:30pm \nPanel 6: U.S.-China Relations \nChair: Alastair Iain Johnston | Governor James Albert Noe and Linda Noe Laine Professor of China in World Affairs \nM. Taylor Fravel | Associate Professor of Political Science\, Massachusetts Institute of Technology \nSteven Goldstein | Sophia Smith Professor Emeritus of Government\, Smith College\, Emeritus; Fairbank Center Associate \nKelly Sims Gallagher | Professor of Energy and Environmental Policy\, The Fletcher School\, Tufts University \nRyan Hass | Director for China\, Taiwan\, and Mongolia Affairs\, National Security Council\, The White House \n  \n5:00pm \nReception for the opening of a new exhibition\, featuring paintings by Wilma Fairbank and Marian Schlesinger\, and photography by Sidney Gamble. \n  \n\n  \nSaturday\, October 8 \n10:00am \nPanel 7: Culture  \nChair: Xiaofei Tian | Professor of Chinese Literature \nWai-yee Li | Professor of Chinese Literature \nStephen Owen | James Bryant Conant University Professor \nDavid Wang | Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature \nEugene Wang | Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art \nEllen Widmer | Mayling Soong Professor of Chinese Studies\, Wellesley College; Fairbank Center Associate \n  \nPanel 8: Global Health\, Global Care for the Elderly and Cross-Cultural Comparisons \nChair: Arthur Kleinman | Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology; Professor of Medical Anthropology in Social Medicine; Professor of Psychiatry \nWinnie Yip |  Professor of Global Health Policy and Economics\, T.H. Chan School of Public Health \nPrerna Singh | Mahatma Gandhi Assistant Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs\, Brown University \n  \n11:45am \nPanel 9: China’s Environmental Issues – Historical and Contemporary Perspectives  \nChair: Arunabh Ghosh | Assistant Professor of History \nLing Zhang | Assistant Professor\, History Department\, Boston College \nBrian Lander | Environmental Fellow\, Harvard University Center for the Environment \nElizabeth Lord | Department of Geography and Planning\, University of Toronto \nMichael McElroy | Gilbert Butler Professor of Environmental Studies \n  \n2:30pm \nPanel 10: Former Directors’ Panel \nChair: Michael Szonyi | Director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies; Professor of Chinese History \nMark Elliott | Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History; Vice-Provost for International Affairs \nEzra Vogel | Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences\, Emeritus \nWilt Idema | Professor of Chinese Literature\, Emeritus \nRoderick MacFarquhar | Leroy B. Williams Research Professor of History and Political Science \n 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/60th-anniversary-symposium/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, CGIS South\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conference and Workshops,Environment,Events of Interest,Exhibitions,Gender Studies,Taiwan Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161005T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161005T173000
DTSTAMP:20260506T120724
CREATED:20160926T214101Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160926T214101Z
UID:3735-1475681400-1475688600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Carbonaceous Aerosol Emissions: From National to City Scale in China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: ZHAO Yu\, Professor\, Nanjing University\, School of the Environment
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/carbonaceous-aerosol-emissions-from-national-to-city-scale-in-china/
LOCATION:Pierce Hall 100F\, 29 Oxford St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Environment
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