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SUMMARY:The Lifestyles in the Tang Dynasty under the Influence of Manuscript Culture
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Zhao Shuyang\,  Nanjing University; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2023-24Chair/Discussant: Prof. Xiaofei Tian\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nThe physical form of books plays a crucial role in human’s daily life. Prior to the advent of woodblock printing in ancient China\, the manuscript era prevailed\, in which all books were laboriously copied by hand. This unique method of production bestowed upon these books’ distinct features such as flexibility\, unpredictability\, and individuality. During this period\, people came up with various strategies to accommodate these traits to facilitate the smooth dissemination of written works. Adapting to this manuscript-based literary culture\, the ancients in China developed specific ways of life that left a lasting impact on fields like history\, culture\, and literature. These historical lifestyles are different from what we know today and interpreting them through the perspective of the print era could lead to misconceptions. A genuine understanding of these lifestyles and the historical documents they produced is only possible when contextualized within the manuscript era. \n\n\n\nMore info: https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/the-lifestyles-in-the-tang-dynasty-under-the-influence-of-manuscript-culture/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-lifestyles-in-the-tang-dynasty-under-the-influence-of-manuscript-culture/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:International Mitigation Finance: Carbon Mitigation\, Welfare\, and Optimal Recipient Design
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Naixin Huang\, Ph.D. Candidate in Economics\, Tsinghua University; Harvard-China Project Fellow \n\n\n\nInternational mitigation finance is a primary way in global climate cooperation to limit fast-growing carbon emissions of developing countries. Using a multi-country-multi-sector quantitative trade model\, we take the year 2017 as an example to estimate carbon mitigation and welfare effects from mitigation finance and explore its optimal recipient allocation. We find that 2017’s 44.2 billion USD mitigation finance can reduce 533 million tons of carbon emissions\, or 1.5% of 2017’s world total. Each recipient country’s welfare increased and the total welfare of all providers increased. In addition\, to maximize carbon mitigation\, finance should be redistributed to a small number of countries with the lowest marginal mitigation cost instead of large emitters. Marginal mitigation cost is determined by the initial ratio of clean energy quantity to dirty energy quantity\, clean energy endowment\, price index\, and carbon emission coefficient. Global welfare would be raised by redistributing finance\, as it can reduce 875 million tons of carbon emissions\, or 2.5% of 2017’s world total. \n\n\n\nNaixin Huang is a Ph.D. candidate in economics from Tsinghua University. Her research with HCP research associate Dr. Mun S. Ho and visiting Prof. Jing Cao focuses on the global carbon price floor’s welfare effects and optimal design. The 2°C goal is challenging to reach\, and it will be essential to consider the international differences in mitigation costs and benefits. IMF (2021) proposes a system of global carbon prices in which countries at different economic levels assign different carbon prices. Using a global trade model\, she and colleagues seek to illustrate the impact of such a differentiated price floor system. Then\, they seek an alternative design for the worldwide carbon price floor. Besides the global carbon price floor\, she and visiting Prof. Jing Cao also researched international climate finance’s welfare effects and optimal design. \n\n\n\nSponsored by the Harvard-China Project on Energy\, Economy\, and Environment at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/international-mitigation-finance-carbon-mitigation-welfare-and-optimal-recipient-design/
LOCATION:Pierce Hall 100F\, 29 Oxford St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:He Wenkai - Book talk: Public Interest and State Legitimation: Early Modern England\, Japan\, and China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: He Wenkai\,  Associate Professor\, Division of Social Science\, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; HYI Visiting Scholar 2016-17 \n\n\n\nIn this book\, Public Interest and State Legitimation: Early Modern England\, Japan\, and China (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press\, 2023)\, Wenkai He examines the connections between state capacity\, state legitimation and the expansion of political participation. He demonstrates how in each case a public interest-based discourse of state legitimation provided a common platform upon which state and society collaborated to provide public goods such as famine relief and large-scale infrastructural facilities. In this way\, state and society strove to overcome their respective weaknesses in attaining good governance. Moreover\, each discourse of state legitimation entailed ‘passive rights’ that allowed subordinates to justify their demands on the state to redress welfare grievances; these often took the form of collective actions. Conflicts between domestic welfare and other dimensions of public interest\, however\, could instigate cross-regional and cross-sectoral mass petitions for fundamental political reforms that were likewise justified by the state’s proclaimed duty to safeguard the public interest; these mass petitions might ultimately transform the state. Such a political ‘great divergence’ occurred in England (1760s-1780s) and Japan (1870s-1880s)\, but not in China. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/he-wenkai-book-talk-public-interest-and-state-legitimation-early-modern-england-japan-and-china/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Hou Zhe - Between Ideals and Reality: The Working Class‘s Role in China’s Education Revolution
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Hou Zhe\, Assistant Professor\, Institute of China Studies\, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2023-24 \n\n\n\nChair/Discussant: Elizabeth Perry\, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government\, Harvard University; Director\, Harvard-Yenching Institute \n\n\n\nThe assertion that “the working class must lead everything” was a fundamental tenet in the ideological framework of the education revolution during Mao’s era in China. This principle\, along with the beliefs that “education serves proletarian politics” and “education should be combined with productive labor”\, underscored the legitimacy and importance of the working class in this transformative period. This talk aims to delve into the multifaceted role of the working class in shaping the educational landscape during this revolution. It will explore the instrumental role of the Workers’ Mao Zedong Thought Propaganda Teams within the educational systems and the impact of the School Revolutionary Committees within educational institutions. Furthermore\, it will examine the implementation and outcomes of labor education across various types of schools during this era. By doing so\, this discussion seeks to illuminate the complex interplay between class\, politics\, and education within the context of China’s historical and socio-political fabric. \n\n\n\nMore info: www.harvard-yenching.org/events/hou-zhe-between-ideals-and-reality/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/hou-zhe-between-ideals-and-reality-the-working-classs-role-in-chinas-education-revolution/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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