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SUMMARY:Wang Liping - More than Affirmative Action: China’s Preferential Policy in Historical and Comparative Perspective
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Wang Liping\,  Peking University; Visiting Scholar\, Harvard-Yenching Institute\nChair/discussant: Lei Ya-Wen\,  Harvard University \nWith the ethical appeal of equality and justice as well as a more cohesive society\, affirmative action has been in place for many years around the world. Such measures\, going by various names depending on the context and perceived acceptability\, have attained their goals to varying degrees in different countries even though the debates around them are never silenced. In many countries adopting such policies\, the political logic of preferential policies has long influenced policy construction and a dilemma ensues: affirmative policies are enduring or even expanding while doubts and questions about such measures are bubbling up. With the rapid increase in diversity in many dimensions\, old and new\, the situation in China is more pressing. The talk will focus on China’s preferential policies in historical and comparative perspective\, hoping to gain a better understanding of such policies and to advance more constructive discussions about the affirmative action dilemma in China and beyond. \nHarvard-Yenching Institute lunch talk \nhttps://harvard-yenching.org/events/more-affirmative-action-china-s-preferential-policy-historical-and-comparative-perspective \n  \n 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/wang-liping-more-than-affirmative-action-chinas-preferential-policy-in-historical-and-comparative-perspective/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180307T123000
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SUMMARY:Bilahari Kausikan: US-China Competition for Influence in Southeast Asia
DESCRIPTION:Read event summary here \nSpeaker: Bilahari Kausikan\, Ambassador-at-Large at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs\, Singapore \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-3-2018-02-21/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Critical Issues Confronting China Series,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180307T160000
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SUMMARY:Those Waters Giving Way
DESCRIPTION:An overview of Michael Cherney’s artistic process and recent works. The art combines photography with the subject matter\, aesthetics\, materials and formats traditionally associated with classical Chinese painting\, which allows for viewing the present day environment and landscape in China through the lens of art history. In addition to the presentation\, the artist will guide the audience through viewing several handscrolls\, albums and other works \n“One would be hard-pressed to find a ‘more Chinese’ artist than Qiu Mai (Michael Cherney). Photographer\, calligrapher\, and book artist\, Qiu Mai’s work is done with the great sophistication that draws on the subtleties of China’s most scholarly and esoteric traditions. Based in Beijing and a successful artist whose works have been collected by The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Department of Asian Art (the first photographic works ever to enter the collection of that department)\, Qiu Mai’s art is less provocative than it is intellectually engaging\, meditative\, and often simply beautiful.  What is provocative is his identity:  Qiu Mai is the Chinese name for Michael Cherney\, born in New York of Jewish parentage. Cherney’s work is the cutting-edge demonstration of artistic globalization:  if Asian artists can so readily ‘come West\,’ then what is to prevent large numbers of future Western artists from ‘going Asian’? Or\, like Qiu Mai/Michael Cherney\, going both ways at once\, both American and Chinese\, modern and traditional.”\n– Jerome Silbergeld\, P. Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Professor of Chinese Art History\, Princeton University \nCo-sponsored by the Harvard-China Project
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/those-waters-giving-way/
CATEGORIES:Environment,Environment,Events of Interest,Exhibitions,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180319T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180320T170000
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SUMMARY:The Rise of New  Religions in Asia
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: \nHelen Hardacre\, Harvard University\nAdam Lyons\, Harvard University\nFrank Korom\, Boston University\nAmanda Lucia\, University of California Riverside\nRobert Hefner\, Boston University\nJuliane Schober\, Arizona State University\nGareth Fisher\, Syracuse University\nChien-yu Julia Huang\, City Colleges of Chicago\nWei-ping Lin\, National Taiwan University\n\n\nMore Info: www.bu.edu/asian/2018/01/03/the-rise-of-new-religions-in-asia/
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-rise-of-new-religions-in-asia/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Conference and Workshops,Events of Interest,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180319T160000
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SUMMARY:Chinese Popular Culture at the Beginning of the 20th and 21st Centuries
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\n Zheng Yanqing\,  Chinese Academy of Social Sciences: “Popular Culture and the Public Sphere”\nShao Yanjun\, Peking University:  “Internet Fiction and Imagined Community”\nChristopher Rea\, University of British Columbia: “Of Spongers\, Sharpers\, and Cannibal Eunuchs: The Swindle Story around the World.” \nThe event is sponsored by the Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/chinese-popular-culture-at-the-beginning-of-the-20th-and-21st-centuries/
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Evelyn (Chiung-yun) Liu - When Fantastic Narrative Encounters Empirical Knowledge: Imagining the World in "The Eunuch Sanbao's Voyage to the Western Ocean"
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Evelyn (Chiung-yun) Liu\,  Academia Sinica\, HYI Visiting Scholar \nThe Eunuch Sanbao’s Voyage to the Western Ocean\, a late-sixteenth century novel loosely based on the historical expeditions commanded by Zheng He (1371-1433)\, is a peculiar mixture of factual accounts of foreign lands and fantastic narrative. In this work\, popular Buddhist and Daoist figures living in a mythological landscape encounter a new worldview based on firsthand geographical accounts of maritime voyages recorded as early as the fourteenth century. While the novel is often regarded as a literary failure\, a hodgepodge in which the author imitates and copies earlier texts and jumbles them together\, this talk proposes to understand such “failure” as a multi-faceted response to the rapidly expanding cognitive sphere of that time. Taking the novel as a cultural product of the late Ming book market\, we will examine the author’s choices of source materials in connection to his target reader\, the strategies he employs to maneuver between the exotic and the familiar\, and the epistemological disjunctions he faces in the attempt to create a narrative that encompasses “the end of the Western Ocean.”  We will also look at the possible changes in the conception of “the world” revealed through the ways in which the author negotiates between empirical geography and Buddhist/Daoist cosmologies. \nChiung-yun Evelyn Liu is an Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy\, Academia Sinica\, Taiwan. She earned her B.A. from National Taiwan University\, M.A. from Columbia University and Ph.D. from Harvard University. Her research interests include literature of the fantastic\, mediations on historical memory\, and the intersection of knowledge production\, cultural imagination and psychological responses to the foreign in late imperial China. She is completing a book manuscript\, which investigates how moral value\, memory politics\, literary sensibility and commercial media worked together in shaping and transforming historical memories. Her next project explores the function of sentiment in the process of knowledge reception and reformulation; particularly how Chinese literati coped with turbulent dynastic transitions and unsettling cross-cultural encounters through encyclopedic writing as means of reordering and comprehending the changing world.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-humanities-seminar-2018-02-26/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:China Humanities Seminar,Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Nathan Vedal - Philology as a Discipline in Pre-Modern China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Nathan Vedal\, Visiting Fellow\, Center for Humanities and Information\, Penn State \nOrganizer: Technical Traditions in Greece and Rome: Between Theory and Practice\, Harvard University GSAS Workshop 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/nathan-vedal-philology-as-a-science-in-pre-modern-china/
LOCATION:Boylston Hall Room 203\, Boylston Hall\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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ORGANIZER;CN="Department of the Classics":MAILTO:classics@fas.harvard.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180326T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180326T210000
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SUMMARY:Jeff Wasserstrom and Maura Cunningham — China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom and Maura Elizabeth Cunningham \nHarvard Coop Book Talk \nIn this fully revised and updated third edition of China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know®\, Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom and Maura Elizabeth Cunningham provide cogent answers to urgent questions regarding the world’s newest superpower and offer a framework for understanding China’s meteoric rise from developing country to superpower. Framing their answers through the historical legacies – Confucian thought\, Western and Japanese imperialism\, the Mao era\, and the Tiananmen Square massacre – that largely define China’s present-day trajectory\, Wasserstrom and Cunningham introduce readers to the Chinese Communist Party\, the building boom in Shanghai\, and the environmental fallout of rapid Chinese industrialization. They also explain unique aspects of Chinese culture\, such as the one-child policy\, and provide insight into Chinese-American relations\, a subject that has become increasingly fraught during the Trump era. As Wasserstrom and Cunningham draw parallels between China and other industrialized nations during their periods of development\, in particular the United States during its rapid industrialization in the 19th century\, they also predict how we might expect China to act in the future vis-à-vis the United States\, Russia\, India\, and its East Asian neighbors. \nUpdated to include perspectives on Hong Kong’s shifting political status\, as well as an expanded discussion of President Xi Jinping’s time in office\, China in the 21st Century provides a concise and insightful introduction to this significant global power. \nMaura Elizabeth Cunningham is a writer and historian of modern China. She is a graduate of Saint Joseph’s University (B.A.\, 2004)\, Yale University (M.A.\, 2006)\, the Hopkins-Nanjing Center for Chinese and American Studies (graduate certificate\, 2008)\, and the University of California\, Irvine (Ph.D.\, 2014). Maura was the editor-in-chief of The China Beat\, a blog based at UC Irvine\, between 2009 and 2012\, and associate editor of ChinaFile during a fellowship at the Asia Society’s Center on U.S.-China Relations in 2011-12. From 2014 to 2016\, Maura served as a program officer at the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations\, where she co-directed the Public Intellectuals Program; in 2016\, she became the digital media manager at the Association for Asian Studies. As a writer\, her work has appeared at the Wall Street Journal\, the Financial Times\, the Los Angeles Review of Books\, and other publications. \nJeffrey Wasserstrom is a graduate of UC Santa Cruz (B.A.\, 1982)\, Harvard (A.M.\, 1984)\, and Berkeley (Ph.D.\,1989)\, and he is now Chancellor’s Professor of History at UC Irvine. He has written five books\, the most recent of which are Eight Juxtapositions: China through Imperfect Analogies from Mark Twain to Manchukuo (Penguin\, 2016) and the third edition of China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford\, 2018). He has also edited or co-edited several other books\, including The Oxford Illustrated History of Modern China (2016). In addition to writing for academic journals\, he has contributed to many general interest venues\, among them the New York Times\, the TLS\, and the Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB). He is an academic editor of LARB’s China Channel and the Editor of the Journal of Asian Studies.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/jeff-wasserstrom-and-maura-cunningham-china-in-the-21st-century-what-everyone-needs-to-know/
LOCATION:Harvard Coop\, 1400 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest,Special Event
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SUMMARY:Thomas Gold - An 'Old Youth' (老青年) Looks at Chinese Youth Today
DESCRIPTION:Read event summary here \nSpeaker: Thomas B. Gold\, University of California at Berkeley \nThomas B. Gold is Professor of Sociology at the University of California. Since 2000 he has also served as Executive Director of the Inter-University Program for Chinese Language Studies (IUP)\, a consortium of 14 American universities which administers an advanced Chinese language program at Tsinghua University in Beijing. (https://ieas.berkeley.edu/iup]. At Berkeley he has also served as Associate Dean of International and Area Studies\, Founding Director of the Berkeley China Initiative\, and Chair of the Center for Chinese Studies.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-3-2018-03-28/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Critical Issues Confronting China Series,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180330T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180330T133000
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SUMMARY:Zhang Changhong - A Shift in Buddhist Iconography between the 8th and 12th Century: Rock Carvings and Mandala Murals in Eastern and Western Tibet
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Zhang Changhong\, Palace Museum\, Beijing; HYI Coordinate Research Scholar\nChair: Leonard van der Kuijp\, Harvard University \nhttps://harvard-yenching.org/events/shift-buddhist-iconography-between-8th-and-12th-century-rock-carvings-and-mandala-murals
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/zhang-changhong-a-shift-in-buddhist-iconography-between-the-8th-and-12th-century-rock-carvings-and-mandala-murals-in-eastern-and-western-tibet/
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