BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies - ECPv6.16.2//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20190310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20191103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20200308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20201101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20210314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20211107T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201102T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201102T180000 DTSTAMP:20260528T094050 CREATED:20200826T162922Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200826T162922Z UID:9541-1604332800-1604340000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Lucas R. Bender - The Eternal Frontier of China’s Cosmopolitan Empire: Changing Attitudes Towards Ethnocultural Others in Tang-Dynasty Texts DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Lucas R. Bender\, Yale University \nThe seventh and early-eighth centuries have often been considered the period of “China’s Cosmopolitan Empire” on account of their relative tolerance of religious and ideological diversity\, their acceptance of significant “foreign” populations in the capital and on the borderlands\, and their active recruitment of non-“Han” ethnicities into the military and civil ranks. At the same time\, however\, surviving texts from this period also evince attitudes no less xenophobic than those found in texts from the ninth through eleventh centuries\, when scholars have often claimed that China became less open to ethnocultural others. This talk will argue that what changes between these periods are not\, in fact\, contemporary attitudes towards “the barbarians\,” who were almost universally reviled in surviving texts from throughout the Tang. Instead\, changing ideas about texts themselves\, and about the ways that texts should ideally operate within the world\, produced a transformation in how longstanding and relatively unchanging tropes about ethnocultural others were understood and deployed. The apparent decline of elite “cosmopolitan” attitudes from the seventh century to the tenth thus reflects\, in significant part\, a shift in literary theory. \nLucas Rambo Bender is Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages & Literatures at Yale University. He graduated from Harvard’s Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations in 2016. His book on the great Tang-dynasty poet Du Fu is forthcoming in the summer of 2021 from the Harvard University Asia Center Press\, and he is currently at work on a second project\, about the oft-remarked but rarely-interrogated “pluralism” of the late Chinese middle ages. \nPresented via Zoom.\nRegistration required.\nRegister at https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcrc-yvrD8oH9KrvPpFFw9ytwB2Uicb5hlH. URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/lucas-r-bender-the-eternal-frontier-of-chinas-cosmopolitan-empire-tropes-of-identity-and-difference-in-the-tang-dynasty/ CATEGORIES:Events of Interest END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201111T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201111T231500 DTSTAMP:20260528T094050 CREATED:20201105T133459Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201105T133459Z UID:9983-1605124800-1605136500@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:China and the World in the Post-COVID-19 Era DESCRIPTION:What will the impact be of COVID-19 on the global economy and how will that impact global health and the potential for global collaboration for a healthier future? Join “China and the World in a Post-COVID-19 Era” to gain perspectives on the post-pandemic outlook for trade and investment\, sustainable development\, collaborations in public health\, and mental and psychological health. With an in-person and Zoom-based audience of academics\, policymakers\, medical practitioners\, and social entrepreneurs\, the forum features keynote speakers Jeffrey D. Sachs (Columbia University) and Jeffrey Koplan (Emory University) as well as discussants from Chinese and U.S. universities\, Chinese government officials\, and social entrepreneurs. \nOpening:\n\nQizhu Tang (唐其柱)\, Vice President\, Wuhan University; Dean\, Wuhan University School of Medicine\nJuhua Xiao (肖菊华)\, Vice-Governor of Hubei Province\nHonghui Chen (陈红辉)\, Vice-Mayor of Wuhan\nXiankang Dou (窦贤康)\, President\, Wuhan University\nMark Elliott (欧立德)\, Vice-Provost for International Affairs\, Harvard University; and Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History\, Faculty of Arts and Sciences\, Harvard University\n\nSession I: Broader Implications on Global Health and Psycho-Social Impacts\n\nWinnie Yip (叶志敏)\, Professor of Global Health Policy and Economics\, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Interim Director\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard University\nJeffrey Koplan\, Vice-President for Global Health\, Emory University; Former Director\, U.S. Centers for Disease Control\nBarry Bloom\, Joan and Jack Jacobson Research Professor of Public Health\, Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases\, and Former Dean\, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health\nRuiping Xiao (肖瑞平)\, Director\, Institute of Molecular Medicine\, Peking University; Associate Editor \, New England Journal of Medicine\nShekar Saxena\, Professor of Global Mental Health\, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health\n\nSession II: The Future Under Global Economic Integration\n\nSong Min (宋敏)\, Dean of School of Economics and Management\, Wuhan University\nJeffrey D. Sachs\, University Professor and Director\, Center for Sustainable Development\, Columbia University\nYao Yang (姚洋)\, Dean\, National School of Development at Peking University\nBert Hofman (郝福满)\, Director of the East Asian Institute at National University of Singapore\, Professor of Practice at the Lee Kuan Yew School\n\nClosing:\n\nWannian Liang (梁万年\, Executive Associate Dean of Tsinghua University\, Vanke School of Public Health; former Director-General of Healthcare Reform\, National Health Commission of China\nWilliam Hsiao (萧庆伦)\, Emeritus Professor of Economics\, Department of Health Policy and Management\, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health\nDongsheng Chen (陈东升)\, Chairman of Dong Fureng Research Institute of Wuhan University; Founder\, Chairman and CEO of Taikang Insurance Group\n\nOrganized by Wuhan University (School of Medicine\, and School of Economics and Management)\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard University\, and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; and sponsored by the Taikang Public Health and Epidemic Control Fund. \nResources:\n\nPlease see additional information in the program agenda here.\nRegistration required. Register here. URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/harvard-wuhan-forum-china-and-the-world-in-the-post-covid-19-era/ CATEGORIES:Events of Interest END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201112T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201112T120000 DTSTAMP:20260528T094050 CREATED:20200908T172452Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200908T172452Z UID:9618-1605178800-1605182400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Chinese Language Resources DESCRIPTION:The Harvard-Yenching Library is offering online bibliographic orientation sessions via Zoom to introduce you to the most important resources in Chinese\, Japanese and Korean language resources.\n\nWhen: Nov 12\, 2020 11:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)\n\nRegister in advance for this meeting:\nhttps://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIqdOyurjotGNQFReBoL3L0wpgjXm0IhIlk\n\nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/chinese-language-resources-3/ CATEGORIES:Events of Interest END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201112T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201112T200000 DTSTAMP:20260528T094050 CREATED:20201102T153856Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201102T153856Z UID:9959-1605207600-1605211200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:China Town Hall: Society & Culture DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\nRaymond Chang\, Major League Baseball China\nLucas Sin\, Junzi Kitchen\nJanet Yang\, Janet Yang Productions \nModerator: Alison Friedman\, Performing Arts of West Kowloon Cultural District Authority \nStarting with ping-pong diplomacy in 1971\, cultural diplomacy has played a pivotal role in facilitating mutual understanding between the peoples of the United States and China. This event will gather leading cultural figures to discuss how\, despite sometimes turbulent political and economic relations\, sports\, food\, and film continue to reveal our shared humanity and connect us through culture. \nPresented via Zoom\nRegistration Required\nRegister at: https://www.tfaforms.com/4855337 URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-town-hall-society-culture/ CATEGORIES:Events of Interest END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201113T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201113T150000 DTSTAMP:20260528T094050 CREATED:20201102T174848Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201102T174848Z UID:9963-1605272400-1605279600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Chinese Literature Across the Borderlands DESCRIPTION:Convened by:\nDavid Der-wei Wang\, Harvard University\nKyle Shernuk\, Yale University\nMiya Qiong Xie\, Dartmouth University \nThis workshop aims to explore the shifting definitions of the borderland as a territorial gateway\, a geopolitical space\, a contact zone\, a liminal terrain\, and an imaginary portal. To this end\, participants will explore the intersection of ethnic\, linguistic\, cultural\, and ecological dynamics that inform the cartography of the Chinese borderland\, from the Northeast to the Southwest\, from Inner Mongolia to Tibet\, and from Nanyang to Nanmei. We will reflect on the recent\, interdisciplinary growth in understanding the characteristics of borders and frontiers\, including migration and settlement\, cultural hybridity\, and transnationalism\, as well as take issues with the boundaries of literature as it manifests itself in multiple forms of media and mediation. This workshop is organized around a forthcoming special issue of Prism: Theory and Modern Chinese Literature. \nSchedule: \n13:00-14:00: Panelist Positions Papers (3-5 min/presenter)\n14:00-14:45: Panelist Roundtable Discussion\n14:45-15:00: Q&A w/ Zoom Attendees \nPanel 1: “Bordering” National Imaginaries \n\nMiya Xie (Dartmouth): “The Making and Unmaking of Nationalist Literature from the National Margin: Rereading Duanmu Hongliang’s The Korchin Banner Plains as Borderland Writing”\nYanshuo Zhang (Michigan): Shen Congwen’s Idealized Ethnic: Borderland\, Ethnicity\, and the Spiritual Enchantments of a Modern Master\nLevi Gibbs (Dartmouth): “The Cultural Hybridity of Chineseness: Regional Transgression in Stories of Northern Shaanxi”\n\nPanel 2: Ethnic Negotiations \n\nTuo Jianing (Sichuan University): “Sinophone Hui Literature in the Mengjiang Regime during the Second Sino-Japanese War”\nJerôme de Wit (University of Tübingen): “The Cultural Creation of the Ethnic Korean Minority in China: Focusing on the Portrayal of Local Landscape in post-1949 Korean-Chinese Literature”\nChristopher Peacock (Columbia): “Unsavory Characters: Forced Bilingualism in the Tibetan Fiction of Tsering Döndrup”\nE.K. Tan (Stony Brook University): “Conciliatory Amalgamation: The Politics of Survival in Sinophone Uyghur Writer Padi Guli’s A Hundred Years of Bloodline (2015)”\nMark Bender (Ohio State): “Treading Poetic Borders in Southwest China and Northeast India”\n\nPanel 3: Sinophone and Xenophone Articulations \n\nBrian Bernards (USC): “Sinophonic Detours and Trespasses in Colonial Burma: The Transborder Poetics of Ai Wu’s Travels in the South”\nJessica Tan (Harvard): “Unfinished Revolutions: Wei Beihua\, Chairil Anwar and the Limits of Realism of Post-war Mahua Literature”\nKyle Shernuk (Yale): “Embracing the Xenophone: Siu Kam Wen and the Possibility of Spanish-language Chinese Literature\n\n\nPresented via Zoom Webinar\nRegistration Required\nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Nl2mg5FtTtydlP0t4pUbVg. URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/chinese-literature-across-the-borderlands/ CATEGORIES:Events of Interest ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201118T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201118T203000 DTSTAMP:20260528T094050 CREATED:20201026T203254Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201026T203254Z UID:9920-1605727800-1605731400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Panel Discussion - East Asia Responds to U.S. Election Results DESCRIPTION:Presenters:\nToshihiro Nakayama\, Professor of American Politics and Foreign Policy\, Faculty of Policy Management\, Keio University; Adjunct Fellow\, Japan Institute of International Affairs\nShin-wha Lee\, Professor\, Department of Political Science and International Relations\, Korea University\nWu Xinbo\, Dean\, Institute of International Studies; Director\, Center for American Studies; Fudan University\nDiscussant: Ezra Vogel\, Honorary Director\, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences\, Emeritus\, Harvard University\nModerator: Christina Davis\, Director\, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Professor of Government; and Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor\, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study\, Harvard University \nPresented via Zoom\nRegistration Required\nRegister at https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEtcuuvqT0rHtU4M2pcRaMBZj73P1WwZXCh URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/panel-discussion-east-asia-responds-to-u-s-election-results/ CATEGORIES:Events of Interest END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201119T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201119T220000 DTSTAMP:20260528T094050 CREATED:20201113T151035Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201113T151035Z UID:10006-1605816000-1605823200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Tao Leigh Goffe - "My Mother Told Me I am Chinese": Afro-Asian Aesthetics in the Caribbean DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Tao Leigh Goffe\, Assistant Professor in the Department of Africana Studies and the Department of Feminist\, Gender & Sexuality Studies\, Cornell University \nIn this talk\, Professor Tao Leigh Goffe will discuss the aesthetic challenge ‘Chinese’ poses as a racial category in the Caribbean. The introduction of Chinese as a category of labor to the West Indian plantation (Jamaica\, Trinidad\, Cuba) is a history she traces from 1803 to the present through the institution of “racial indenture” as a replacement from enslaved African labor\, chiefly on sugar plantations. Identifying common aesthetic strands of Chinese cosmology in artwork by people of Chinese descent with roots in the Caribbean\, Goffe asks questions about the Chinese haunting of the Caribbean plantation. \nMade possible by the generous support of the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations \nPresented via Zoom\nJoin at: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/93136279659?pwd=VUo2cVBHRUE0ZnppM0hlUE56YWNtQT09 URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/tao-leigh-goffe-my-mother-told-me-i-am-chinese-afro-asian-aesthetics-in-the-caribbean/ CATEGORIES:Events of Interest ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201124T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201124T131500 DTSTAMP:20260528T094050 CREATED:20201120T134830Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201120T134830Z UID:10017-1606219200-1606223700@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Tahir Hamut Izgil and Rana Yashar Aybala - Uyghur Poetry in Translation DESCRIPTION:Join us for the opportunity to hear from Tahir Hamut Izgil and Rana Yashar Aybala\, two of the foremost poets writing in Uyghur today. The event will feature opening remarks by Mark Elliott\, Harvard’s Vice Provost of International Affairs\, followed by presentations from both poets. We will also have the opportunity to hear from Dr Gülnar Eziz\, Harvard Preceptor in Uyghur and Chaghatay and Dr. Joshua Freeman of Princeton’s Society of Fellows\, on their translation work. \nThis event is co-sponsored by Harvard Hillel\, Uyghur Academy-USA\, the Human Rights Working Group\, and the Jewish Movement for Uyghur Freedom. \nOpen to the public.\nRegistration is required.\nRegister here: https://guestlist.co/events/666291 \nProceeds from the event will fund books and supplies for Uyghur Academy-USA and the Boston Uyghur School. URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/tahir-hamut-izgil-and-rana-yashar-aybala-uyghur-poetry-in-translation/ CATEGORIES:Events of Interest END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201130T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201130T220000 DTSTAMP:20260528T094050 CREATED:20200826T163113Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200826T163113Z UID:9542-1606766400-1606773600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Cheng Yu-yu - Revolution in the Nation of Poetry: Physical and Linguistic Perspectives since 1919 (詩國革命的「漢語」脈絡) DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Cheng Yu-yu\, National Taiwan University \nThis talk will be given in Mandarin. \nOnce Chinese poetry becomes “modern poetry\,” its so-called modernity must be discussed in the context of the modernity of “Chinese language” itself. From the late Qing and early Republican periods on\, when confronted with the invasion of such things as new lexicon\, new academic disciplines\, alphabetic languages\, and English grammar\, the Chinese language\, Chinese characters\, and the cultural tradition to which it belongs have never ceased responding to and reflecting upon such foreign forces. In examining this “modernizing” process of Chinese poetry\, which progressed from the question of “how to speak to the new world” to that of “how to reestablish a new relationship with the world\,” one cannot overlook the new ways of thinking of the Chinese language that emerged from and were constructed by various disciplines\, including grammatology\, philology\, phonology\, psychology\, and rhetoric studies. And in discussing “modern poetry\,” one should not disregard how figures such as Ma Jianzhong\, Liu Shipei\, Huang Ren\, Huang Kan\, Tang Yue\, Hu Pu’an\, Chen Wangdao\, and Li Anzhai\, as well as Chen Shih-Hsiang and Kao Yu-kung\, have consciously sought the basis upon which the Chinese language and Chinese characters depend for their existence and adaption to change. What lie at the very core of this basis are the “speakability” and the “manifestability” of the Chinese language. These concepts were engaged in a tug-of-war with the tumultuous modern vision prevalent since the late Qing\, exhibiting a well-matched rivalry that cannot be ignored. \n當漢語詩成為「『現代』詩」，這所謂「現代質地」（modernity）還是必須回到「漢語」的現代性來討論。晚清民初以來，面對新語詞、新學科、拼音文字、英語文法這些如同外來侵襲的事物，漢語、漢字及其所在的文化系統，從未停止回應與思考；從「如何向新世界開口發聲」到「如何重建與世界的新關係」，漢語詩「現代化」的進程裡，不應該忽視當時由語法學、文字學、音韻學、心理學、修辭學等不同領域出發而建構的漢語新思維，討論「現代詩」不應該忽略如馬建忠、劉師培、黃人、黃侃、唐鉞、胡樸安、陳望道、李安宅，以至於陳世驤或高友工等人，是如何自覺的去發現漢語、漢字所以存有與應變的依據，而其中允為核心的是漢語的「可發聲性」與「可體現性」，正與晚清以來高張喧騰的現代視線相互拉鋸，呈現不可輕忽的抗衡態勢。 \nProfessor Yu-yu Cheng\, Academician of Academia Sinica\, the Chair Professor of Chinese literature at National Taiwan University\, is devoted to developing pioneering and interdisciplinary interpretations of Chinese classical literature by combining the Eastern and Western humanistic thoughts. She enjoys an international reputation for her contribution to the discourses of space\, body\, and Chinese lyrical tradition. Cheng has published numerous books\, including “Literary Ch’i” in Six Dynasties Literary Theory\, The Situation Aesthetics in Six Dynasties\, Gender and Nation: Discourses of Encountering Sorrow in Han and Jin Rhapsodies\, The Poet in Text and Landscape: Mutual Definition of Self and Landscape\, Metaphor: Crossing Categorical Boundaries in Ancient Chinese Literature\, and Gesture and Language: A New Approach to the Revolution of a Poetic Tradition\, etc. \nPresented via Zoom.\nRegistration required.\nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYkd-GtqDosHtFLLK39YRE6hU_gP7MyM9sX URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/cheng-yu-yu-tradition-and-modernity-in-the-revolution-of-the-poetry-nation/ CATEGORIES:Events of Interest END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR