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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171003T120000
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SUMMARY:Book Talk - The Futility of Law and Development: China and the Dangers of Exporting American Law
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Jedidiah J. Kroncke
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/book-talk-the-futility-of-law-and-development-china-and-the-dangers-of-exporting-american-law/
LOCATION:Austin Hall Room 308\, 1515 Mass Ave\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171004T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171004T170000
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SUMMARY:China’s Anthropogenic Methane Emissions: A Review of Current Bottom-Up Inventories
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Prof. Zhang Bo\, Visiting Scholar\, Harvard-China Project; Associate Professor\, State Key Laboratory of Coal Resources and Safe Mining\, China University of Mining & Technology (Beijing) \nMethane (CH4) is the second ranking anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG)\, with a global warming potential (GWP) 28 times greater than that of carbon dioxide (CO2) on a mass basis. In contrast to the ever-increasing focus at China’s CO2 emissions\, its CH4 emissions have received little attention. Yet China is believed to be the world’s largest CH4 emitter\, contributing more to climate change than the total CO2 emitted by many developed countries. Increasing CH4 emissions may be quietly undermining China’s efforts to mitigate its total GHG emissions. This seminar will present an overview of bottom-up estimation of China’s CH4 emissions\, including recent research advances and the limits of current understanding. \nSponsored by Harvard-China Project on Energy\, Economy and Environment\, Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences \nhttps://chinaproject.harvard.edu/event/china%E2%80%99s-anthropogenic-methane-emissions-review-current-bottom-inventories
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/chinas-anthropogenic-methane-emissions-a-review-of-current-bottom-up-inventories/
LOCATION:Pierce Hall 100F\, 29 Oxford St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Environment,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171004T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171004T190000
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CREATED:20170929T181607Z
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SUMMARY:Infinite Interfusion: The Visible and the Invisible in Liao Pagodas
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Youn-mi Kim\, Ewha Womans University \nThe shamanistic Khitan people were exposed to Buddhism −the Indian religion that reached these nomads mediated by the Han Chinese sedentary culture− when they suddenly rose to power and founded the Liao Empire (907-1125). By exploring the pagodas from the Liao Empire\, this lecture discusses how the synthesis of these different cultural traditions gave birth to innovative architectural practices\, configurations that imagined Buddhist cosmology and the Buddha body through the interplay of the visible and the invisible. Although this unprecedentedly complex Buddhist cosmology was developed in China during the Tang dynasty (618-907)\, it was the Liao who achieved its most cogent embodiment in architectural form. These Liao pagodas operated according to a dialogic relationship between the visible and the invisible\, since the ultimate “Buddha body/cosmos” was invisible and its essence was emptiness (śunyatā)\, the fundamental Buddhist teaching. At the same time\, these cosmological pagodas were the loci where Buddhist doctrine intermingled with rituals activating a potent mandala and incantation. The Shamanistic tradition in which stars played an important role\, as well as Chinese beliefs that heaven served as a canvas that could exhibit ominous and numinous signs for the ruler\, facilitated a transformation of the pagoda into a microcosm where spiritual aspirations intersected with the worldly desire of Liao imperial patrons. \nYoun-mi Kim is a specialist in Chinese Buddhist art\, but her broader interest in the cross-cultural relationships between art and ritual extends to Korean and Japanese materials as well. Before joining the faculty at Ewha Womans University in 2017\, Kim was an Assistant Professor in the Department of the History of Art at Yale University from 2012 to 2016. Kim worked as an Assistant Professor in Asian art history at The Ohio State University (2011-2012) and a postdoctoral associate at the Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University (2010-2011). She is particularly interested in symbolic rituals\, in which an architectural space serves as a material agent; the interplay between visibility and invisibility in Buddhist art; and the sacred spaces and religious macrocosms created by religious architecture for imaginary pilgrimages. She is the editor of New Perspectives on Early Korean Art: From Silla to Koryŏ (Cambridge\, MA: Korea Institute\, Harvard University\, 2013). Her article\, “The Secret Link: Tracing Liao in Japanese Shingon Ritual\,” appeared in the Journal of Song-Yuan Studies 43 (2013 [published in 2015]).  Based on archaeological data from a medieval Chinese pagoda and medieval ritual manuals\, she is currently completing two book manuscripts.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/infinite-interfusion-the-visible-and-the-invisible-in-liao-pagodas/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171012T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171012T133000
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CREATED:20170919T155040Z
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SUMMARY:Modular Construction: Building Decorated Tombs in Song and Jin North China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Deng Fei\, Associate Professor\, National Institute of Advanced Humanistic Studies\, Fudan University; HYI Visiting Scholar\nChair/discussant: Eugene Wang\, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art\, Department of History of Art and Architecture\, Harvard University \nhttps://harvard-yenching.org/events/popularized-landscapes-pictures-landscape-tombs-yuan-china-1271-1368
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/popularized-landscapes-pictures-of-landscape-in-tombs-in-yuan-china-1271-1368/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171015T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171015T170000
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CREATED:20170929T181240Z
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UID:6007-1508061600-1508086800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:"8 Brokens" - Rediscovered: Painted Collage from China\, ca. 1900
DESCRIPTION:Symposium Organized by Harvard University and the Museum of Fine Arts\nRSVP: https://symposium-8-brokens.app.rsvpify.com/
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/8-brokens-rediscovered-painted-collage-from-china-ca-1900/
LOCATION:Museum of Fine Arts\, Riley Seminar Room\, 465 Huntingon Ave\, Boston\, MA\, 02115\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conference and Workshops,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171018T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171018T190000
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SUMMARY:From Mandala to Palace:  Transforming Space and Site at Qutan Monastery
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Aurelia Campbell\, Boston College\nModerator: Eugene Wang\, Harvard University \nThe lecture concentrates on Qutan Monastery\, a Buddhist temple located in an isolated mountainous region near Ledu\, Qinghai province\, at the Sino-Tibetan frontier. The temple was founded by an influential Tibetan Buddhist lama named Sanggyé Trashi (d. 1414)\, who\, in 1393\, traveled to the Ming capital to request imperial protection for his temple. The temple took its present shape over the course of about forty years\, roughly from 1390 to 1430\, as a series of additive constructions. In all\, it received support from four of the first five Ming rulers\, Hongwu\, Yongle\, Hongxi\, and Xuande\, though imperial involvement reached its height under Yongle (r. 1402-1424). Prior to Yongle’s takeover\, the temple constituted a small-scale group of buildings whose layout and decorations were designed to accommodate local ritual practices. Under Yongle\, several buildings in the official Ming architectural style were added around this original group\, resulting in a magnificent\, palatial monastery that would have rivaled even the grandest monasteries in the capital. The talk will examine the implications of Qutan Monastery’s architectural transition from “local” to “imperial” and argue that this temple is an important example of the ability of Ming imperial architecture to both transform and adapt to the complicated setting of a borderland region. \nAurelia Campbell is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art\, Art History\, and Film at Boston College. Her most recent work has focused on the architecture and material culture of the early Ming court. On this subject\, she is currently completing a book entitled Architecture and Empire in the Reign of Yongle. Her forthcoming projects include studies of Tibetan stupas in the Mongol period in China and ornamentation in Chinese architecture from the Yuan\, Ming\, and Qing dynasties.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/from-mandala-to-palace-transforming-space-and-site-at-qutan-monastery/
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171019T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171019T133000
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SUMMARY:Embodied Virtue: How Was Loyalty Edited and Performed in Late Imperial China?
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Chiung-yun Evelyn Liu\, Associate Research Fellow\, Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy\, Academia Sinica; HYI Visiting Scholar\nChair/discussant: Wai-yee Li\, Professor of Chinese Literature\, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University \nEmbodied Virtue: How Was Loyalty Edited and Performed in Late Imperial China?
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/embodied-virtue-how-was-loyalty-edited-and-performed-in-late-imperial-china/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171019T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171019T180000
DTSTAMP:20260715T111121
CREATED:20170830T161929Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170830T161929Z
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SUMMARY:Neuhauser Lecture - Embracing Sovereignty: China\, the U.S.\, and the Future of World Order
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: James Steinberg\, University Professor of Social Science\, International Affairs\, and Law\, Syracuse University \nIn the past year\, the leaders of China and the United States laid out their respective visions for future peace and prosperity in widely noted speeches at Davos (President Xi) and the UN (President Trump). What do those speeches tell us about the emerging grand strategies of the world’s two leading powers and the implications for East Asia and beyond? \nMr. Steinberg was dean of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs of Syracuse University from 2011 to June 2016. He was previously principal deputy secretary of state for Hillary Clinton\, dean of the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs\, vice president and foreign policy studies director at Brookings Institution\, President Clinton’s deputy national security advisor\, director of the State Department’s policy planning staff\, and deputy assistant secretary for analysis in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research. He co-authored Strategic Reassurance and Resolve: US-China Relations in the 21st Century and Difficult Transitions: Foreign Policy Troubles at the Outset of Presidential Power. \nListen again to this event on Soundcloud:
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/neuhauser-lecture-james-steinberg/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171023T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171023T140000
DTSTAMP:20260715T111121
CREATED:20170911T190036Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170911T190036Z
UID:5863-1508761800-1508767200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:China’s Future Leadership: An Instant Analysis of China’s 19th Party Congress
DESCRIPTION:Join the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation for a panel discussion where experts weigh in with exclusive insight and opinions on China’s 19th Party Congress. \nWatch this panel on YouTube: \n \nListen again to this panel on Soundcloud: \n \n  \n  \nModerator:\nMark Elliott\, Vice Provost of International Affairs at Harvard University and Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and in the Department of History in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. \nPanelists:\nAnthony Saich\, Director of the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation and Daewoo Professor of International Affairs. He teaches courses on comparative political institutions\, democratic governance\, and transitional economies with a focus on China. In his capacity as Ash Center Director\, Saich also serves as the director of the Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia and the faculty chair of the China Programs\, the Asia Energy Leaders Program\, and the Leadership Transformation in Indonesia Program\, which provide training programs for national and local Chinese and Indonesian officials. \nJoseph Fewsmith\, Professor of International Relations and Political Science at the BU Pardee School. He is the author or editor of eight books\, including\, most recently\, The Logic and Limits of Political Reform in China (January 2013). Fewsmith travels to China regularly and is active in the Association for Asian Studies and the American Political Science Association. \nElizabeth Perry\, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government and Director of the Harvard-Yenching Institute. She is a comparativist with special expertise in the politics of China. A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the British Academy\, she is the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship and sits on the editorial boards of nearly a dozen major scholarly journals and has served as the President of the Association for Asian Studies. Professor Perry’s research focuses on popular protest and grassroots politics in modern and contemporary China. \nEdward Wong\, journalist and a foreign correspondent for The New York Times. Wong reports on China’s politics\, economy\, environment\, military\, foreign policy and culture. Visiting Fellow at Harvard University’s Nieman Foundation for Journalism. \nHuang Yasheng\, International Program Professor in Chinese Economy and Business and a Professor of Global Economics and Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/reflections-on-the-19th-party-congress/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171023T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171023T180000
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CREATED:20170831T132116Z
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SUMMARY:China Humanities Seminar - Huaben and the Mind
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Tina Lu\, Yale University \nAs a genre\, huaben are relentlessly experimental. Sometimes these stories come close to stream of consciousness (especially in their depiction of dreams)\, and it is easy to lapse into habits of reading that consider those experiments proto-modernist. Tina Lu would like to take a step back and consider the ways in which they repeatedly explore both minds and experience within a cultural and philosophical backdrop that emphasized the problems of immediacy and free will. How does experiencing events differ from experiencing a story? \nTina Lu is a Professor of Chinese Literature in Yale’s Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures. She currently serves as department chair and is also inaugural head of Pauli Murray College (this is the equivalent of dean at one of the Harvard Houses). She is the author of Persons\, Roles\, and Minds: Identity in Peony Pavilion and Peach Blossom Fan; Accidental Incest\, Filial Cannibalism\, and Other Peculiar Encounters in Late Imperial Literature; and the forthcoming A Coin\, A Severed Head: Object Experiences in Seventeenth-Century China. This paper is part of a new project tentatively entitled “What the Hell Were They Thinking.” \n. \n 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-humanities-seminar/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:China Humanities Seminar,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171024T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171024T140000
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CREATED:20170830T152323Z
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SUMMARY:Jack Downey and the Third Force in China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: John Delury\, Associate Professor of Chinese Studies. Yonsei University Graduate School of International Studies \nProfessor Delury will discuss his research on the extraordinary case of Jack Downey\, who flew into Mao’s China in 1952 as part of a CIA project to support a “Third Force” resistance against the Communist government. Downey’s plane was shot down\, and he spent over 20 years as a prisoner in Beijing. The talk will trace the origins of the Third Force idea in post-war American grand strategy\, how it was operationalized by the CIA during the Korean War\, and the larger implications on Sino-US relations of the Downey case. \nJohn Delury is Associate Professor of Chinese Studies at Yonsei University Graduate School of International Studies in Seoul\, South Korea. He is author\, with Orville Schell\, of Wealth and Power: China’s Long March to the Twenty-First Century (Random House\, 2013). He received his BA and PhD in history from Yale University.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/us-china-history-talk/
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171024T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171024T200000
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CREATED:20170911T183523Z
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SUMMARY:China Town Hall Featuring Susan Rice
DESCRIPTION:China Town Hall: Local Connections\, National Reflections\nJoin 80+ communities across the United States in a national conversation on China.\nFeaturing an interactive webcast with former UN Ambassador Susan Rice\, and on-site discussion with Jeremy Goldkorn. \nAmbassador Susan E. Rice served President Barack Obama as national security advisor and U.S. permanent representative to the United Nations. In her role as national security advisor from July 1\, 2013\, to January 20\, 2017\, Ambassador Rice led the National Security Council staff and chaired the Cabinet-level National Security Principals Committee. She provided the President daily national security briefings and was responsible for coordinating the formulation and implementation of all aspects of the Administration’s foreign and national security policy\, intelligence\, and military efforts. \nAs U.S. permanent representative to the United Nations (UN) and a member of President Obama’s cabinet\, Ambassador Rice worked to advance U.S. interests\, defend universal values\, strengthen the world’s security and prosperity\, and promote respect for human rights. In a world of 21st century threats that pay no heed to borders\, Ambassador Rice helped rebuild an effective basis for international cooperation that strengthened the United States’ ability to achieve its foreign policy objectives and made the American people safer. \n_____ \nJeremy Goldkorn is the Editor-in-chief of SupChina and co-founder of the Sinica Podcast. \nHe is also the founder and director of Danwei\, a research firm that tracks Chinese media\, markets\, politics and business. The company started in 2003 as a blog that the The London Review of Books said gave “a range of sources\, news and opinions on China that no mainstream news organisation can match.” Danwei began offering research services to companies and financial institutions in 2006. The Financial Times acquired Danwei in 2013\, after which Goldkorn also took charge of the custom research services of FT Confidential China\, Latin America\, and ASEAN services. \nHosted in conjunction with the National Committee on U.S. China Relations.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-town-hall-featuring-susan-rice/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171026T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171026T173000
DTSTAMP:20260715T111121
CREATED:20170927T165402Z
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UID:5985-1509008400-1509039000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Longmen Grottoes: New Perspectives
DESCRIPTION:A UNESCO World Heritage Site filled with magnificently carved Buddhist caves\, the Longmen Grottoes are renown throughout the world for their enduring legacy to Chinese art. Join experts from the Longmen Grottoes Research Academy and leading scholars for a day of cutting-edge research\, archaeological findings\, preservation work\, and a special viewing of the Longmen Digital Retrieval Project.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/longmen-grottoes-new-perspectives/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S354\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171030T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171030T133000
DTSTAMP:20260715T111121
CREATED:20171010T152532Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171010T152532Z
UID:6036-1509364800-1509370200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Fox’s Spirit under Tiger’s Might: The Struggles for Identity and Integration among the Hakka Community in Southern Vietnam
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Nguyen Ngoc Tho\, Advanced Researcher\, Faculty of Cultural Studies\, University of Social Science and Humanities\, Vietnam National University-Ho Chi Minh City; HYI Visiting Scholar\nChair/discussant: Robert Weller\, Professor\, Department of Anthropology\, Boston University \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThere are around 823\,000 ethnic Chinese in Vietnam\, of which 95% are living in southern Vietnam. Due to historical and social backgrounds\, the dialectic groups (Cantonese\, Hokkien\, Hakka\, Teochiew and Hainan) are quite distinct and separate from each other. Each group maintains their own pantheon of gods and goddesses\, in which the majorities come to worship Tian Hou and Guan Gong/Guan Di. The Hakkas in Bien Hoa (Dong Nai province) uniquely worship the craft master gods (祖师). This remarkably creates a challenging gap among the Chinese dialectic groups as well as discloses the heterodox nature in their own tradition under the views of local standardized authority. Under sophisticated backgrounds and serious pressures\, the Hakkas decided to transform the reputation of their long-lasting craft master worship into a more integrative model – the Tian Hou cult\, by overriding the new cult on the surface. “A fox’s spirit is under a tiger’s might\,” the open discourse has been widespread\, although there have been almost no significant changes in either belief or practice. Remarkably\, the transformation currently seems to be oddly managed and not stabilized.\n \nAs a matter of fact\, the local Hakka elites have brainstormed and implemented the change under the aims of both cross-dialectic group binding and identity preservation. Furthermore\, they also struggle for an advanced and manageable integration process into broader Vietnamese society. This talk will investigate the disguise to seek the continuous efforts toward “liturgical standardization” and solidarity binding through the charismatic efforts of the local Hakka elites\, through which the research further discusses multilateral interaction and hidden discourses of the partners engaged.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://harvard-yenching.org/events/struggles-identity-and-integration-among-ethnic-chinese-communities-southern-vietnam-case
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-struggles-for-identity-and-integration-among-the-ethnic-chinese-communities-in-southern-vietnam-a-case-study-of-the-tian-hou-cult/
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