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SUMMARY:Environment in Asia Series Lecture featuring Huaiyu Chen - Human-Animal Studies and Religions in Medieval Chinese Society
DESCRIPTION:register for hybrid zoom attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Huaiyu Chen\, Arizona State UniversityDiscussant: Brian Lander\, Brown University \n\n\n\nThis study illustrates how Buddhism shaped Chinese knowledge and experience of animals after it gradually took root in Chinese society in the medieval periods\, and vice versa\, how Chinese state ideology\, Daoism\, and local cultic practices reshaped Buddhism in understanding and engaging with animals. Taking approaches from history\, religious studies\, animal studies\, and environmental studies\, this study explores the entangled power relations among animals\, religions\, the state\, and the local community in medieval China. With the drastic increase of population in the medieval periods\, local community and religious practitioners expanded their activities and were often confronted with various wild animals. While competing with the dominant power of the state and negotiating with the local community\, Buddhism\, Confucianism\, and Daoism mobilized their intellectual\, spiritual\, and material resources of knowing\, categorizing\, pacifying\, petting\, and accompanying animals and developed their doctrines\, rituals\, discourses\, and practices to deal with complicated power relations between animals and humans. Drawing upon a wide range of sources\, such as traditional texts\, stone inscriptions\, and manuscripts\, as well as visual materials\, this study invites readers to embark on a journey to the unchartered territory of felines\, reptiles\, and birds that surrounded the medieval Chinese religious world\, represented by the tiger\, snake\, and parrot especially. Wisdoms\, virtues\, colors\, sounds\, and powers from both human and animal realms piece together for making a fascinating chapter of human history. \n\n\n\nHuaiyu Chen (Ph.D.\, Princeton University) is Professor of Buddhism and Chinese Religions at Arizona State University. He has many publications on Chinese Buddhism\, Religions on the Silk Road\, animals in Chinese religions\, and the history of modern Chinese humanities. His recent publications include In the Land of Tigers and Snakes: Living with Animals in Medieval Chinese Religions (2023) and Animals and Plants in Chinese Religions and Science (2023). He has received a membership from Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (2011-2012)\, Spalding Visiting Fellowship from Clare Hall of Cambridge University (2014-2015)\, and a visiting scholarship from the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin (2018).  \n\n\n\nAlso via Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0qcuygqjsiGNbg0qfZTS1ZdCxjnoKg9zx9 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/environment-in-asia-series-lecture-2/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Environment,Environment
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240416T160000
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SUMMARY:Environment in Asia Series featuring Timothy Brook - The Price of Collapse: The Little Ice Age and the Fall of Ming China
DESCRIPTION:Register for hybrid zoom attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers:Timothy Brook\, The University of British Columbia\, Professor EmeritusClark Alejandrino\, Trinity CollegeYan Gao\, University of MemphisIan M. Miller\, St John’s University \n\n\n\nSeries Convener:Ling Zhang\, Boston College \n\n\n\nIn 1644\, after close to three centuries of relative stability and prosperity\, the Ming dynasty collapsed. Many historians attribute its demise to the Manchu invasion of China\, but the truth is far more profound. The Price of Collapse provides an entirely new approach to the economic and social history of China\, exploring how global climate crisis spelled the end of Ming rule. \n\n\n\nThe mid-seventeenth century witnessed the deadliest phase of the Little Ice Age\, when temperatures and rainfall plunged and world economies buckled. Timothy Brook draws on the history of grain prices to paint a gripping portrait of the final tumultuous years of a once-great dynasty. He explores how global trade networks that increasingly moved silver into China may have affected prices and describes the daily struggle to survive amid grain shortages and famine. By the early 1640s\, as the subjects of the Ming found themselves caught in a deadly combination of cold and drought that defied all attempts to stave off disaster\, the Ming price regime collapsed\, and with it the Ming political regime. \n\n\n\nA masterful work of scholarship\, The Price of Collapse reconstructs the experience of ordinary people under the immense pressure of unaffordable prices as their country slid from prosperity to calamity and shows how the market mediated the relationship between an empire and the climate that turned against it. \n\n\n\nTimothy Brook is professor emeritus of history at the University of British Columbia and a fellow of the British Academy. His many books include Great State\, Mr. Selden’s Map of China\, and Vermeer’s Hat. \n\n\n\nAlso via Zoom.Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_qjb4CtrvRQSr5k5Tj6owiA \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/environment-in-asia-series-featuring-timothy-brook/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Environment,Environment
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SUMMARY:Environment in Asia Series featuring Jesse Rodenbiker - Ecological States: Politics of Science and Nature in Urbanizing China
DESCRIPTION:register for hybrid zoom attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Jesse Rodenbiker\, Associate Research Scholar\, Princeton University; Assistant Teaching Professor of Geography\, Rutgers University-New Brunswick \n\n\n\nDiscussant: Stevan Harrell\, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Environmental and Forest Sciences\, University of Washington; author of An Ecological History of Modern China \n\n\n\nEcological States critically examines ecological policies in the People’s Republic of China to show how campaigns of scientifically based environmental protection transform nature and society. While many point to China’s ecological civilization programs as a new paradigm for global environmental governance\, Jesse Rodenbiker argues that ecological redlining extends the reach of the authoritarian state. \n\n\n\nAlthough Chinese urban sustainability initiatives have driven millions of citizens from their land and housing\, Rodenbiker shows that these migrants are not passive subjects of state policy. Instead\, they creatively navigate resettlement processes in pursuit of their own benefit. However\, their resistance is limited by varied forms of state-backed infrastructural violence. \n\n\n\nThrough extensive fieldwork with scientists\, urban planners\, and everyday citizens in southwestern China\, Ecological States exposes the ways in which the scientific logics and practices fundamental to China’s green urbanization have solidified state power and contributed to dispossession and social inequality. \n\n\n\nJesse Rodenbiker is an associate research scholar at Princeton University with the Center on Contemporary China at the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies\, and an assistant teaching professor of geography at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. He is a human-environment geographer and interdisciplinary social scientist focusing on environmental governance\, urbanization\, and social inequality in China and globally. Rodenbiker is the author of the book Ecological States: Politics of Science and Nature in Urbanizing China (2023\, Cornell University Press). His work has been supported by fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies\, Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation\,  Fulbright\, Social Science Research Council\, and the Wilson Center\, among others. \n\n\n\nAlso via Zoom.Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMlc-CsqjwiEtNUqQ1sEFhmYYHp9hHGJwTX \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/environment-in-asia-series-lecture/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S250\, 1730 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Environment,Environment
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231120T163000
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SUMMARY:Environment in Asia Series featuring Yiyun Peng and Brian Spivey - Herbaceous Revolution and Environmental Protection: Introducing New Scholarship in Chinese Environmental History
DESCRIPTION:Register for hybrid zoom attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers: Yiyun Peng\, D. Kim Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow\, Department of History\, University of ChicagoBrian Spivey\, Mellon Faculty Fellow\, History Department\, UC IrvineSeries Convener: Ling Zhang\, Associate Professor\, Boston College \n\n\n\nYiyun Peng received her PhD in history from Cornell University in August 2023 and is currently the D. Kim Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of History at the University of Chicago. She works on late imperial and modern China and is mainly interested in environmental history\, the history of science and technology\, and economic history. Her first project demonstrates how a few popular cash crops and the handicraft industries processing them into commodities—indigo dye\, bamboo paper\, tobacco\, and ramie (a fiber plant) cloth—led to a herbaceous revolution in upland Southeast China from the sixteenth to the mid-twentieth century\, which profoundly transformed the region’s environment and society. In its dissertation form\, this project won the 2023 Messenger Chalmers Prize for the best dissertation in the Department of History at Cornell University. Her second project looks into the production and circulation of ramie in East Asia and beyond.  \n\n\n\nBrian Spivey is currently a Mellon Faculty Fellow in the History Department at UC Irvine. His work broadly focuses on the reciprocal relationship between environmental and societal change in modern China. His current research project examines how growing global and local awareness of pollution and other unintended side-effects of industrialization during the late Cultural Revolution (1970-1976) drove the early development of environmental protection efforts (“huanjing baohu”) and discussions about sustainable growth in China. He also researches the history of Xinjiang and the Uyghur people\, especially during the 1980s. \n\n\n\nAlso via Zoom.Register: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_d7H1jxtRTvSw6p179ZSG7w \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/environment-in-asia-series-featuring-yiyung-peng-and-brian-spivey-herbaceous-revolution-and-environmental-protection-introducing-new-scholarship-in-chinese-environmental-history/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Environment,Environment
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SUMMARY:Environment in Asia Series featuring Scott Moore - The Climate Risk to China’s Rise: Political\, Economic\, and Ecological Implications of Extreme Weather in China
DESCRIPTION:register for hybrid zoom webinar\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Scott Moore\, Practice Professor of Political Science and Director of China Programs and Strategic Initiatives at the University of Pennsylvania \n\n\n\nConvener of the Environment in Asia series: Ling Zhang\, Associate Professor\, Boston College \n\n\n\nThere is a growing case that of the world’s major economies China’s is most heavily exposed to climate risks. This talk probes the implications of climate risk and extreme weather for China’s future\, including its impact on China’s growth prospects; its role in driving Beijing’s climate policy; and its contrast with China’s real successes in improving flood control and disaster response. \n\n\n\nScott Moore is Practice Professor of Political Science and Director of China Programs and Strategic Initiatives at the University of Pennsylvania. His latest book\, China’s Next Act: How Sustainability and Technology is Reshaping China’s Rise and the World’s Future (Oxford University Press\, 2022)\, probes the ecological and technological dimensions of China’s rise\, and examines how we can make progress in tackling shared global challenges amidst growing geopolitical rivalry between China and other major powers. Moore previously served on the China Desk at the U.S. Department of State\, where he worked extensively on the Paris Agreement on Climate Change; and at the World Bank\, where he was a Young Professional and Water Resources Management Specialist. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/environment-in-asia-series-featuring-scott-moore-the-climate-risk-to-chinas-rise-political-economic-and-ecological-implications-of-extreme-weather-in-china/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Environment,Environment
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231002T120000
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SUMMARY:Environment in Asia Series Panel Discussion - Stevan Harrell's "An Ecological History of Modern China" 
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPanelists: Stevan Harrell\, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Environmental and Forest Sciences\, University of Washington \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPeter Perdue\, Professor Emeritus of History at Yale University \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJesse Rodenbiker\, Assistant Professor of Geography\, Rutgers University \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRobert Weller\, Professor of Anthropology\, Boston University \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOrganizer: Ling Zhang\, Associate Professor of History\, Boston College \n\n\n\nPresented via Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_BOeCcyb9RL2LQMD8zQwg9A \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/environment-in-asia-series-featuring-stevan-herrell-an-ecological-history-of-modern-china/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Environment,Environment
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230320T084500
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SUMMARY:“Environment in Asia” Reunion with a Tribute to Robert Marks and Peter Perdue
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRead our blog posts on the event: Exploring How the Environment Shapes China’s History and Conference Examines Planning and China’s Rapidly Growing Cities \n\n\n\nOrganizer: Ling Zhang\, Boston College; Convener of the Environment in Asia series \n\n\n\nNote: Due to the limited capacity of the venue\, the symposium will be a closed-door event. The public may view the event by registering for a Zoom Webinar. Register at https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Fs-4nrYSTzSqYM6OtpgPHw. \n\n\n\nThe “Environment in Asia” research series at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies is dedicated to promoting diverse environmental discourses and research methodologies within the field of Asian studies\, especially the field of Chinese studies. Since its founding in 2012\, the series has hosted dozens of lectures\, panel discussions\, conferences\, film screenings\, and art exhibitions. It has brought together scholars from various disciplinary and area studies backgrounds and has served as a platform to present their scholarship\, exchange ideas\, and form collaborations. \n\n\n\nThis symposium has two goals. First\, it honors two founding speakers and long-time supporters of the Environment in Asia series\, Professor Robert Marks and Professor Peter Perdue. It celebrates their life-long achievements as forerunners in the field of Chinese environmental history. Over the past four decades\, Professor Marks and Professor Perdue have been tirelessly committed to studying and writing environmental history as well as to mentoring students and junior colleagues. Their scholarship and services have profoundly shaped how we understand and practice Chinese environmental history. The symposium is a tribute to these intellectual leaders of ours and their lasting impact on our community. \n\n\n\nSecond\, as a reunion of the Environment in Asia series\, the symposium brings back some old friends of the series\, and it welcomes many new colleagues. More than celebrating the rich and eventful decade of the series\, the symposium invites these scholars from diverse fields and different generations to gather and reflect on our common endeavor: How do we research\, write\, and teach environmental issues as humanities and social scientific scholars\, and how do we promote environmental consciousness and model multi- and inter-disciplinary environmental scholarship in order to complicate and diversify the fields of Asian and Chinese studies\, which are dominated by humancentric concerns and practices? The symposium invites its participants to review what we as a community of environmental scholars have achieved; to assess what works and what doesn’t; to suggest different paths and new possibilities; to identify our shared challenges; and to propose exciting experiments. Through individual presentations and group conversations\, the symposium seeks to facilitate mutual understanding and mutual learning within our environmental-studies community. It aims to strengthen the community’s bond and to further its growth as an important\, indispensable subfield of Asian and Chinese studies. \n\n\n\nSchedule \n\n\n\n8:45–9:00 Welcome (Ling Zhang and Mark Wu) \n\n\n\n9:00–10:30 Tigers\, Rice\, and the Dongting Lake: The Journeys toward Environmental History (Moderator: Ling Zhang) \n\n\n\n10:30–10:45 Break \n\n\n\n10:45–12:45 Researching the Environment (Moderator: Arunabh Ghosh) \n\n\n\n12:45–13:30 Lunch \n\n\n\n13:30–15:00 Writing the Environment (Moderator: Victor Seow) \n\n\n\n15:00–15:15 Break \n\n\n\n15:15–16:45 Teaching the Environment (Moderator: Brian Lander) \n\n\n\n16:50¬–17:10 Closing (Robert Marks\, Peter Perdue\, and Ling Zhang) \n\n\n\nParticipants \n\n\n\nClark Alejandrino (Trinity College)Nicole Barnes (Duke University)David Bello (Washington and Lee University)Tristan Brown (MIT): “Laws of the Land: Fengshui and the State in Qing Dynasty China”Wesley Chaney (Bates College)Chris Coggins (Bard College at Simon Rock)Bradley Camp Davis (Eastern Connecticut State University)Alexander F. Day (Occidental College)Xiangli Ding (Rhode Island School of Design)Qin Fang (McDaniel College)Xiaofei Gao (University of Colorado\, Denver): “The Nature of Labor: Integrating Environmental and Social Changes of Modern Maritime China”Yan Gao (University of Memphis)Yuan Gao (Georgetown University): “China’s Arid West: An Environmental History of Late Qing and Early Republican Xinjiang”Arunabh Ghosh (Harvard University)Yongqiang Guan (Nankai University\, China)Mary Alice Haddad (Wesleyan University)Kyuhyun Han (University of California\, Santa Cruz): “From Hunting for Local People to Hunting for the Nation: PRC Hunting Industry and Amur Tiger Conservation in Northeast China\, 1949-1965”Zhaoqing Han (Fudan University\, China)Michael Hathaway (Simon Fraser University\, Canada)Jack Hayes (Kwantlen Polytechnic University\, Canada)Emily M. Hill (Queen’s University\, Canada)Rui Hua (Boston University): “When Great States Mined on Drifting Continents: A Magnesium-based Story of Local Farmers and Global Mining Laws on the Liaodong Peninsula\, 1.85GA-1931 AD”Fei Huang (University of Tübingen\, Germany)Brian Lander (Brown University)Peter Lavelle (University of Connecticut)De-nin Lee (Emerson College)John Lee (Durham University\, UK): “Mongol Legacies and Island Ecologies in Early Modern Korea”Robert Marks (Whitter College\, Emeritus)John McNeill (Georgetown University)Caroline Merrifield (Yale University): “Practical Politics in China’s Food Movement”Covell Meyskens (Naval Postgraduate School)Ian J. Miller (Harvard University)Ian M. Miller (St John’s University)Ruth Mostern (University of Pittsburgh)Micah Muscolino (University of California\, San Diego)Peter Perdue (Yale University\, Emeritus)Kenneth Pomeranz (University of Chicago)Anne-Sophie Pratte (Georgetown University\, Qatar): “Mapping Grasslands in 19th Century Qing Mongolia”Ying Qian (Columbia University)Guldana Salimjan (Simon Fraser University\, Canada)James Scott (Yale University)Victor Seow (Harvard University)Michael Szonyi (Harvard University)Yuk Ping Wan (Brown University)You Wang (University of Chicago)R. Bin Wong (University of California\, Los Angeles)Donald Worster (University of Kansas\, Emeritus)Mingfang Xia (Remin University\, China)Bingru Yue (Queen’s University\, Canada): “From Wetland to Ecological Model: Reclamations of Chongming Island\, Shanghai\, from 1950 to 2020”Amy Zhang (New York University): “Waste’s Collectives: political and ecology in urban China”Junfeng Zhang (Shanxi University\, China)Ling Zhang (Boston College) \n\n\n\n\n\nYouTube recording of ““Environment in Asia” Reunion with a Tribute to Robert Marks and Peter Perdue”\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/environment-in-asia-reunion-with-a-tribute-to-robert-marks-and-peter-perdue/
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CATEGORIES:Environment,Environment
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SUMMARY:Environment in Asia series featuring Michael J. Hathaway - What a Mushroom Lives For: Matsutake Mushrooms and the Worlds They Make
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Michael J. Hathaway\, Professor of Anthropology and Director of the David Lam Center for Asian Studies\, Simon Fraser University \nThis talk introduces the second book in an academic trilogy that began with Anna L. Tsing’s The Mushroom at the End of the World. In this talk\, Michael J. Hathaway draws from his forthcoming book. He delves into the worlds of fungi\, showing us how they literally enabled our green planet and carry out active forms of liveliness in the everyday\, acting as “world-makers.” Moving from fungi as an enigmatic kingdom that transformed the ancient Earth to the realm of the fascinating matsutake mushroom on the Tibetan Plateau\, Hathaway reveals the ways these mushrooms are creating their own multispecies encounters\, with and without humans. This forthcoming book challenges a legacy of human exceptionalism and human supremacy that is dominant in Western thinking and offers ways to notice the creative liveliness of all organisms\, from mammals to mushrooms. \nMichael J. Hathaway is a professor of anthropology and director of the David Lam Center for Asian Studies at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver\, Canada. He is part of the Matsutake Worlds Research Group\, which has been exploring the global trade in these valuable wild mushrooms\, from the US\, Canada\, Scandinavia\, and China to its centre in Japan. Together\, they examine the entanglements of capitalism\, science\, and the formation of new networks that link stitch together diverse humans\, matsutake mushrooms\,  and a number of other organisms in complex webs of life. \nPresented via Zoom \nAlso streaming on YouTube \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTranscript: Download Transcript
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/environment-in-asia-series-featuring-michael-j-hathaway-what-a-mushroom-lives-for-matsutake-mushrooms-and-the-worlds-they-make/
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CATEGORIES:Environment,Environment
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SUMMARY:Environment in Asia Lecture Series featuring Victor Seow — How to Write a History of Energy in Modern East Asia
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Victor Seow\, Assistant Professor of the History of Science\, Harvard UniversityModerator/discussant: Ling Zhang\, Boston College \nIn this session\, Victor Seow\, Assistant Professor of the History of Science\, Harvard University\, will be introducing his recently published book\, Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia (Chicago: University of Chicago Press\, 2022). Centered on the history of what was once largest coal mine in East Asia\, this book explores how modern states became embroiled in projects of intensive energy extraction and\, in so doing\, offers insights into the origins and challenges of our unfolding climate crisis. Victor will be joined by the Fairbank Center’s “Environment in Asia” series convenor Ling Zhang\, Associate Professor of History\, Boston College\, and the two will discuss the meanings and methods of writing a history of energy of China and East Asia\, from primary sources to narrative strategies. \nPresented via Zoom \nAlso streaming on YouTube \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTranscript: Download Transcript
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/environment-in-asia-lecture-series-featuring-victor-seow-how-to-write-a-history-of-energy-in-modern-east-asia/
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CATEGORIES:Environment
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220207T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220207T113000
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SUMMARY:Environment in Asia Series featuring Brian Lander - The Ecology of China’s Early Political Systems
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Brian Lander\, Assistant Professor of History\, Brown UniversityDiscussant: Ling Zhang\, Associate Professor\, Department of History\, Boston College \nBy encouraging us to rethink familiar historical processes through an ecological lens\, the field of environmental history provides new insights into the past. Lander’s book The King’s Harvest uses such an ecological perspective to examine the formation of political organizations in early China. Early political systems literally ran on solar energy stored in the grain that common farmer paid in tax\, so we should think of them as organizations dedicated to mobilizing photosynthetic energy. Early states devoted much of that energy to assembling large groups of men to fight with other groups of armed men\, but they also used it to expand farmland\, build infrastructure\, and increase the human population in the interests of increasing their tax income. This paper will use these insights to explore the history of the state and empire of Qin (c. 800-207 BCE). Qin established the centralized bureaucratic empire which became the standard model of political organization in China\, bequeathing subsequent empires with administrative skills that helped them thoroughly transform East Asia’s environments. \nBrian Lander studies the environmental history and archaeology of early China. He is an assistant professor of history at Brown University and a fellow at the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society. He teaches history and environmental studies. \nPresented via Zoom \nAlso streaming on YouTube \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTranscript: Download Transcript
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/environment-in-asia-series-featuring-brian-lander-the-ecology-of-chinas-early-political-systems/
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CATEGORIES:Environment
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SUMMARY:Environment in Asia Series - Greening East Asia: The Rise of the Eco-Developmental State
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:Ashley Esarey\, Associate Professor\, Department of Political Science\, University of AlbertaJoanna Lewis\, Distinguished Associate Professor of Energy and Environment and Director of the Science\, Technology and International Affairs Program (STIA)\,Georgetown UniversityMary Alice Haddad\, John E. Andrus Professor of Government\, Chair and Professor of East Asian Studies\, and Professor of Environmental Studies\, Wesleyan UniversityStevan Harrell\, Professor Emeritus\, Department of Anthropology and School of Environmental and Forest Sciences\, University of Washington \nModerator: Ling Zhang\, Boston College \nAshley Esarey is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Alberta. He received his PhD in Political Science from Columbia University and was An Wang Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University. His research concerns political communication in China\, elite politics\, renewable energy policy\, and Taiwanese politics. He was co-author (with Lu Hsiu-lien) of My Fight for a New Taiwan: One Woman’s Journey from Prison to Power. His co-edited books include Taiwan in Dynamic Transition: Nation Building and Democratization and Greening East Asia: The Rise of the Eco-Developmental State\, both published by the University of Washington Press in 2020. \nJoanna Lewis is Provost’s Distinguished Associate Professor of Energy and Environment and Director of the Science\, Technology and International Affairs Program (STIA) at Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. Her research examines political and technical determinants of energy and climate policy\, particularly in China. She is the author of the award-winning book Green Innovation in China\, and was a Lead Author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report. \nMary Alice Haddad is the John E. Andrus Professor of Government\, Chair and Professor of East Asian Studies\, and Professor of Environmental Studies at Wesleyan University. A Fulbright and Harvard Academy scholar\, she is the author of Effective Advocacy: Lessons from East Asia’s Environmentalists (MIT press\, forthcoming 2021)\,  Building Democracy in Japan (Cambridge\, 2012) and Politics and Volunteering in Japan (Cambridge\, 2007)\, and she co-edits the new Elements in Politics and Society in East Asia series from Cambridge University Press. Her current work concerns environmental politics in East Asia\, as well as how urban diplomacy is connecting and transforming policy around the world. \nStevan Harrell retired in 2017 from the Department of Anthropology and the School of Environmental and Forest Sciences at the University of Washington. A special issue of Human Ecology on Social-Ecological System Resilience in China\, co-edited with Denise M. Glover and Jack Patrick Hayes\, will appear in February. He is writing an ecological history of modern China\, provisionally entitled either Intensification and its Discontents or The Great Un-Buffering. He also edits the University of Washington Press series\, Studies on Ethnic Groups in China. \nPresented via Zoom WebinarRegistration Required \nAlso streaming on YouTube \n\n\nTranscript: Download Transcript
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/environment-in-asia-series-greening-east-asia/
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SUMMARY:Environment in Asia Series Featuring Ying Jia Tan - War and the Reconfiguration of China’s Energy Geography
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Ying Jia Tan\, Assistant Professor of History and East Asian Studies\, Wesleyan University \nIn Recharging China in War and Revolution\, 1882–1955 (Cornell University Press\, 2021)\, Ying Jia Tan argues that\, even in times of peace\, the Chinese economy operated as though still at war\, constructing power systems that met immediate demands but sacrificed efficiency and longevity. This talk explores the effects of China’s catastrophic loss of 97 percent of its power generating capacity during the Second Sino-Japanese War. It looks at how wartime mobilization accelerated China’s transition towards coal as the main fuel source for power generation\, led to the creation of a homegrown electrical equipment manufacturing industry\, and inspired a vision of national reconstruction driven by massive hydropower projects. Lessons from the electrification of wartime China reveals the strengths and limitations of state-driven initiatives aimed at alleviating power shortages\, which in turn\, offer insights into the common challenges facing China and Taiwan as they transition from fossil fuels to renewables. \nYing Jia Tan is assistant professor of history and East Asian Studies at Wesleyan University. is a historian of science and technology with allied interests in environmental history and the history of cartography. He teaches traditional and modern Chinese history\, as well as courses on maritime East Asia\, cartography\, and the Anthropocene. \nPresented via Zoom WebinarRegistration RequiredRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_jRhu4N8RSqGioDgdMqvjOw \nNote: this live lecture will not be simulcast on our YouTube channel nor available for viewing at a later date.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/ying-jia-tan-war-and-the-reconfiguration-of-chinas-energy-geography/
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CATEGORIES:Environment,Environment
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211013T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211013T173000
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SUMMARY:Environment in Asia Lecture Series featuring Ruth Mostern - The Yellow River: A Natural and Unnatural History
DESCRIPTION:  \n \n \n  \nSpeaker: Ruth Mostern\, University of Pittsburgh \nThis talk showcases Ruth Mostern’s new book: The Yellow River: A Natural and Unnatural History (Yale University Press\, 2021).  The Yellow River explains how environmentally transformative human activity has shaped the whole watershed and constituted the relationship between people and the river since Neolithic times.  The book demonstrates that the history of the relationship between people and the river is a history of soil as much as it is a history of water\, and that some of the most important episodes in Yellow River history transpired on the semi-arid lands of the Loess Plateau\, far from the riverbed itself. Using GIS and data analysis as well as close readings of historical sources\, the book reveals that although  the Yellow River floodplain was sometimes a site of frequent and devastating disasters\, this was only the case at times of certain decisions about public policy and infrastructure design. \nRuth Mostern is Associate Professor of History and Director of the World History Center at the University of Pittsburgh. She is the author of Dividing the Realm in Order to Govern: The Spatial Organization of the Song State (960-1276 CE) (Harvard Asia Center\, 2011) and the co-editor of Placing Names: Enriching and Integrating Gazetteers (Indiana University Press\, 2016). Her current book\, Following the Tracks of Yu: The Imperial and Ecological Worlds of the Yellow River is in contract at Yale University Press. She is currently PI on two NEH grants: one to develop content and infrastructure for an ecosystem of digital historical gazetteers\, and one to design and launch an interdisciplinary curriculum about water in Central Asia. \nCheck back soon for more information! \nPresented via Zoom Webinar \n\n\nTranscript: Download Transcript
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/environment-in-asia-lecture-series-featuring-ruth-mostern/
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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/
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CATEGORIES:Environment,Environment
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201120T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201120T133000
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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/
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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/
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CATEGORIES:Environment,Environment
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SUMMARY:Environment in Asia Lecture Series Featuring David Fedman and Ian M. Miller - East Asian Forestry and Empires
DESCRIPTION:Read the transcript of the event here.\n\n\nSpeakers:\nDavid Fedman\, Assistant Professor of History\,University of California\, Irvine\nIan M. Miller\, Assistant Professor of History\, St. John’s University\nModerator: Ling Zhang\, Boston College\n\n  \nDavid Fedman is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California\, Irvine. He is the author of Seeds of Control: Japan’s Empire of Forestry in Colonial Korea (University of Washington Press\, 2020). His other publications include “The Ondol Problem and the Politics of Forest Conservation in Colonial Korea” (Journal of Korean Studies\, Vol. 23\, 2018)\, which was awarded the 2019 Joel A. Tarr Envirotech Article Prize. \nIan M. Miller is Assistant Professor of History at St. John’s University in New York. He is the author of Fir and Empire: The Transformation of Forests in Early Modern China (University of Washington Press\, 2020). His current research is on the role of lineage organizations in regulating village environments\, provisionally titled Ancestral Shade: Kinship and Ecology in South China. \nPart of the Environment in Asia Lecture Series \nPresented Via Zoom Webinar
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/east-asian-forestry-and-empires-a-conversation-with-environmental-historians-david-fedman-and-ian-m-miller/
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SUMMARY:Webinar: Chris Nielsen - China’s Air Quality and Climate Change: The Known and the Unknown
DESCRIPTION:Read a full transcript of this event here \nRead event summary here \nSpeaker: Chris Nielsen\, Executive Director\, Harvard China Project \nChris Nielsen is the executive director of the Harvard-China Project on Energy\, Economy and Environment. Working with faculty at collaborating Chinese universities and across the schools of Harvard\, he has managed and developed the interdisciplinary China Project from its inception. \nRegistration Required.\nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_oTtS-QIlTYKPjgOrLBw6qw
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/chris-nielsen-critical-issues-confronting-china/
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CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China,Environment
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200318T140000
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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/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, 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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190225T160000
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SUMMARY:Alex Wang - Symbolic Legitimacy and Chinese Environmental Reform
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Alex Wang\, UCLA \nAt the heart of debates over Chinese rule of law is the question of state legitimacy. Critics argue that legitimacy requires liberal democratic rule of law. Chinese leaders have long relied on performance legitimacy – economic development and maintenance of social stability – as the core basis of their rule. Western scholarship on modern Chinese law and politics has\, to a significant degree\, critiqued the ability of China’s current institutions to perform as claimed. \nBut apart from any actual results that Chinese governance may generate\, the entire project of governance reform can be structured in a way that influences public impressions of state legitimacy. The process of reform is not only about attaining performance goals\, but is itself a kind of performance. This act of “performing performance” also signals competence\, commitment to the people\, tradition\, nationalist strength\, and a host of other positive values to citizens and other audiences. \nThis talk explores the symbolic aspects of Chinese environmental reform and potential implications\, drawing on case studies in air pollution\, climate change\, and China’s Belt & Road Initiative. \nAlex Wang is Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law\, and a leading expert on environmental law and the law and politics of China. His research focuses on the social effects of law\, and the interaction of law and institutions in China and the United States. His previous research has examined\, among other things\, the institutional design of environmental law and policy\, environmental bureaucracy\, public interest litigation\, information disclosure\, and environmental courts. His work has addressed air pollution\, climate change\, and other environmental issues. \n  \nThis event is co-sponsored by the East Asian Legal Studies Program at Harvard Law School.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/alex-wang-environment-in-asia-series/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Environment,Environment
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SUMMARY:Ruth Mostern - The Natural and Unnatural History of the Yellow River
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Ruth Mostern\, University of Pittsburgh \nThe geographer Jamie Linton has observed that under conditions of human entanglement\, there is no such thing as a hydrological cycle\, and that we should seek to understand the dynamics of hydrosocial cycles instead.  Under anthropogenic conditions\, water still precipitates and evaporates. Rivers are still fluvial systems in which precipitation and suspended material disgorge from headwaters\, flow through a drainage basin\, traverse a floodplain\, and exit to the ocean. However\, in a hydrosocial river\, human activity has transformed each of these processes. At the same time\, human society is reshaped by the river’s agentive activity. Catastrophes of drought and flood are marquee events on a hydrosocial river\, but slow changes – slow violence\, to use Rob Nixon’s striking term – affect imperial budgets and soil chemistry alike. This talk is a summary of my book-in-progress\, an effort to understand these dynamics on the entire Yellow River watershed at the scale of the Holocene era by combining environmental science\, spatial and data analysis\, and historical narrative. \nRuth Mostern is Associate Professor of History and Director of the World History Center at the University of Pittsburgh. She is the author of Dividing the Realm in Order to Govern: The Spatial Organization of the Song State (960-1276 CE) (Harvard Asia Center\, 2011) and the co-editor of Placing Names: Enriching and Integrating Gazetteers (Indiana University Press\, 2016). Her current book\, Following the Tracks of Yu: The Imperial and Ecological Worlds of the Yellow River is in contract at Yale University Press.  She is currently PI on two NEH grants: one to develop content and infrastructure for an ecosystem of digital historical gazetteers\, and one to design and launch an interdisciplinary curriculum about water in Central Asia.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/ruth-mostern-the-natural-and-unnatural-history-of-the-yellow-river/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Environment,Environment
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SUMMARY:Wen-Yi Huang - Families Divided: Migration and Those Left Behind in Fifth- and Sixth-Century China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Wen-Yi Huang\, An Wang Post-Doctoral Fellow\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard University \nIn this talk I explore the impact of migration on family members left behind\, particularly those whose parents\, children\, siblings\, and spouses were forcibly moved to the Northern Wei (386-534 CE) from four successive southern states of Eastern Jin (317-420 CE)\, Liu-Song (420-479 CE)\, Southern Qi (479-502 CE)\, and Liang (502-557 CE). I will do so by asking three questions: how did the families recover the migrants in a time of conflict? How did they repatriate the remains of the migrants across political divides and spatial distance? How did they cope with the consequences of their husbands or fathers’ dual marriages on both sides of the border? The talk highlights the agency of the left-behind families in the migration process\, their changing relationships with the migrants\, and the shifting meaning of home. Examining the roles of the state in the split-families issue\, it also seeks to illuminate the state’s influence on migration at the private\, familial scale. \n 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-humanities-seminar-2/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:China Humanities Seminar,Environment
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180913T160000
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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: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: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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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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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: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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