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SUMMARY:Youth Political Mobilization & Socialization in Contemporary China: The Centenary of the Communist Youth League
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2022 marks the 100th anniversary of the official establishment of the Chinese Communist Youth League (中国共产主义青年团\, CYL)\, one of the largest youth political organizations in the world. As the Chinese Communist Party’s assistant and reserve force\, the CYL is the Party’s main channel to socialize youth in the official political discourse and practices\, and mobilize them to support the current system. Despite the importance of the organization\, English-language academic work on its history\, politics and multifaceted role in contemporary China remains sporadic.The CYL’s centenary offers an opportunity to bring together scholars from different disciplines to discuss their research and insights on Chinese youth political socialization and mobilization\, with particular attention to the League and connected youth organizations. The Ash Center\, working with Dr. Jérôme Doyon (University of Edinburgh)\, Dr. Sofia Graziani (University of Trento) and Dr. Konstantinos Tsimonis (King’s College London)\, is pleased to organize an online seminar\, taking place on September 8th and 9th\, examining emerging scholarship related to communist youth organizations in China.  \n\n\n\nEvent Schedule Thursday\, September 8th • Introduction: 8:20-8:30 AM by Tony Saich\, Daewoo Professor of International Affairs\, Harvard Kennedy School • Panel 1: The Mobilization of Youth during the Chinese Communist Party’s Early Years: 8:30-10:30 AM  • Panel 2: The Socialization and Co-optation of Young Chinese: 11:00 AM-1:00 PMFriday\, September 9th  • Panel 3: Youth Organizations and State-Society Relations: 8:30-10:30 AM • Panel 4: Youth Narratives and Propaganda: 11:00 AM-1:00 PM • Concluding Remarks: 1:00-1:15 PM with Stanley Rosen\, Professor of Political Science from the University of Southern CaliforniaDay 2 registration link: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_0YAGp8NPRjyltJQPKgD1TQ\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/youth-political-mobilization-socialization-in-contemporary-china-the-centenary-of-the-communist-youth-league/
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SUMMARY:Christine Wong - Local Finance Under Siege: Unpacking the Paralysis of Fiscal Policy on the Eve of the 20th Party Congress
DESCRIPTION:Zoom Meeting link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Christine Wong\, National University of Singapore \n\n\n\nLocal finances are under stress.  In the first seven months of 2022 tax revenues were down 14%\, and land revenues 32%\, yet payroll and other expenditures have to be met\, including the Covid-related bills for mass testing and other containment measures.  Since 2021 social media has been flooded with posts reporting steep pay cuts for civil servants even in rich coastal regions.  National aggregate data show social spending trending downward in GDP-shares.  This seminar looks at the crisis in local finance that has accelerated through the pandemic\, with local governments increasingly underfunded and tied down by contradictory policies.  I will argue that local fiscal problems caused the government to under-deliver on its announced fiscal stimulus programs in both 2020 and 2021\, a scenario on-track to be repeated in 2022 despite the massive injection of special project bonds.  \n\n\n\nChristine Wong is currently Visiting Research Professor at the East Asia Institute\, National University of Singapore.  She has previously taught at the Schwarzman College at Tsinghua University\, the University of Melbourne\, Oxford\, University of Washington\, University of California at Santa Cruz and Berkeley\, and at Mount Holyoke College.  She has also held senior positions at the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank. Christine has published widely on China’s public finance and rural development.  Her recent publications include “Reforming public finance for the new era” (CPC Futures)\, “Why China’s 2022 fiscal stimulus will fall short” (EAI Commentary No. 53)\, “China’s 2022 budget and the fate of local government finance” (EAI Background Brief No. 1644)\, and “Plus ça Change: Three Decades of Fiscal Policy and Central–Local Relations in China” (China – an International Journal). \n\n\n\nWe would like to thank the MIT Sustainable Urbanization Lab\, the School of Community and Regional Planning at the University of British Columbia\, and the Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. for supporting this event.  Please subscribe to our mailing list if you’d like to receive e-mail notifications: http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/urbanchinaseminar. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/christine-local-finance-under-siege-unpacking-the-paralysis-of-fiscal-policy-on-the-eve-of-the-20th-party-congress/
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SUMMARY:Urban China Series featuring Yang Zhan - "Keep Moving\, Little Bees!": Real Estate Promotion and the Financial Roots of Urban Precariousness in China
DESCRIPTION:Join zoom meeting\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Yang Zhan\, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology\, The Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityDevelopers in China’s real estate industry organize temporary workers\, or “little bees\,” to promote sales. Most developers rely on high-interest loans\, and must repay their creditors as quick as possible to keep the chain of funding intact\, reduce risk\, and secure profits. Thus\, little bees are pushed to sell quicker\, rather than to sell more units. Due to this hyper-financialization\, time on the market becomes a key management target. The little bees aim to convert random encounters on the street into meaningful business relationships. This conversion is facilitated by maps\, numbers and speculative culture. Moreover\, the demands on sales time are exploitative because in the Chinese real estate market there is a discrepancy between agency and responsibility: Even though little bees’ daily movements are beyond their control\, they shoulder immense responsibility\, suffer from physical and psychological stress\, and are fired at little cost to management. Analyzing this entanglement with time and financialization provides critical insight into urban precariousness in China. \n\n\n\nYang Zhan is an Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology in the Department of Applied Social Sciences at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She was selected a research fellow of China India Institute at New School for Social Research in 2021. Zhan’s research interests include infrastructure of development\, urbanization and migration\, mobility and temporality\, voluntarism and anthropological theory.  Zhan is the winner of 2020 Eduard B. Vermeer Prize for the Best Article and was shortlisted for Holland Prize in 2022. Zhan’s articles have appeared in Urban Studies\, Cities\, Positions\, Dialectical Anthropology\, Urban Anthropology\, Anthropological Forum\, China Information\, Pacific Affairs\, among others. Zhan is currently working on a book manuscript tentatively titled Brutal Temporary: Venturing Migrants and the Politics of Future on China’s Urban Fringe. \n\n\n\nWe would like to thank the MIT Sustainable Urbanization Lab\, the School of Community and Regional Planning at the University of British Columbia\, and the Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. for supporting this event.  Please subscribe to our mailing list if you’d like to receive e-mail notifications: http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/urbanchinaseminar. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/urban-china-series-featuring-yang-zhan-keep-moving-little-bees-real-estate-promotion-and-the-financial-roots-of-urban-precariousness-in-china/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
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SUMMARY:Film Screenings - The Face of Time: Recent Films by Tsai Ming-Liang
DESCRIPTION:Rare and valuable is the filmmaker who expands one’s conception of the cinematic art; rarer still is the filmmaker who enlarges one’s notion of the term “director.” Malaysian-born\, Taiwan-based auteur Tsai Ming-liang (b. 1957) accomplished the former with his rigorous\, uncompromising and reputation-defining features of the nineties and early 2000s\, and ever since his self-declared retirement from narrative filmmaking after 2013’s Stray Dogs\, he has been anything but inactive while exploring the endless permutations of what it means to be an image maker in the 21st century. Among the many formally adventurous international filmmakers who have struck out for greener pastures in the past decade upon finding the commercial prospects of arthouse cinema distribution increasingly deficient\, Tsai has dabbled in the gallery space\, the black box theater\, virtual reality and the independently run exhibition space as venues to both showcase his uncategorizable work and influence how he produces it. Along the way\, he has transformed his very approach to capturing filmic material\, and where once a pithy precis for his films existed—Antonioni-esque studies of alienated Taiwanese youth\, for instance—there is no longer such a firm summary for exactly what a Tsai Ming-liang project looks like or how it operates.Tsai Ming-Liang and his collaborators will appear in person at film screenings on October 10 and 14.For more information on this series\, including a complete listing of showtimes and information on purchasing tickets\, visit https://harvardfilmarchive.org/programs/the-face-of-time-recent-films-by-tsai-ming-liang.  \n\n\n\nThis event is co-sponsored by the Harvard Film Archive and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-screenings-the-face-of-time-recent-films-by-tsai-ming-liang/
LOCATION:Harvard Film Archive\, Carpenter Center\, 24 Quincy St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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