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SUMMARY:The China Challenge and America's Future
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us for a special conversation with Mike Gallagher and Raja Krishnamoorthi\, the Chairman and Ranking Member of the Select Committee on the Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party. This conversation will be moderated by former Assistant Secretary of Defense and Douglas Dillon Professor of Government Graham Allison\, and Director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs Meghan O’Sullivan. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-china-challenge-and-americas-future/
LOCATION:JFK Jr. Forum\, Harvard Kennedy School\, 79 John F. Kennedy St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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SUMMARY:Jiajun Zou - Is Examination Success the Result of Geographical Luck? New Ming Provincial Examination Dataset and Its Macro Social and Historical Implications
DESCRIPTION:Register for hybrid zoom attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Jiajun Zou\, Ph.D. Candidate in History\, Emory University  \n\n\n\nJiajun Zou introduces a fresh perspective to Ming dynasty studies with his pioneering dataset of 92\,000 juren profiles. In his presentation\, Zou will share his journey in assembling this comprehensive dataset\, utilizing a mix of CBDB resources\, computational techniques\, and prompt engineering via ChatGPT. He will then present statistical and macro-level evidence of a geographical bias within the examination system\, underscoring how proximity to examination centers at both the provincial and national levels significantly impacted odds of success. Zou contends that the examination system displayed a clear proximity bias\, favoring those closer to central hubs in terms of outlasting and exhausting their group competitors over time. The challenges faced by peripheral prefectures and regions are attributed not to a lack of talent—as some of the most distant prefectures produced the highest number of juren in China but only a handful of jinshi. Moving beyond the narratives of educational and intellectual traditions\, Zou explores whether rising costs of competition\, influenced by geographical and social dynamics\, shifted the balance of political power in Ming China. This presentation aims to highlight the value of a macro analytical approach using a large dataset to reveal hidden trends and to encourage modern scholars to independently tackle research challenges with innovative digital techniques. \n\n\n\nAlso via Zoom. Reigster: https://bit.ly/exam-luck \n\n\n\nAn event sponsored by China Biographical Database Project (CBDB) and Digital China Initiative (DCI)\, Harvard University \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/jiajun-zou-is-examination-success-the-result-of-geographical-luck-new-ming-provincial-examination-dataset-and-its-macro-social-and-historical-implications/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S250\, 1730 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
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SUMMARY:Harvard East Asia Society Conference 2024 - Knots: Complex Legacies and Imagined Futures of East Asia
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Harvard East Asia Society (HEAS) Graduate Student Conference is an annual event which provides an interdisciplinary forum for graduate students to exchange ideas and discuss current research on topics related to Asia. The conference allows young scholars to present their research to both their peers and to renowned scholars in relevant fields. All panels will be moderated by Harvard University faculty. The conference will also allow participants to meet others in their research area conducting similar research and to forge new professional relationships.The theme of this year’s conference is: Knots: Complex Legacies and Imagined Futures of East Asia. The knot is a traditional form of art that can be found throughout China\, Korea\, and Japan\, made from the orderly connection of different individual threads. The committee chose the figure of the knot to represent the intertwined memories\, legacies\, and histories of interaction between and throughout the different parts of the region we now call East Asia. We thus welcomed scholarship that attempts to bridge different spaces\, times\, and disciplines\, which includes (but is not limited to) history\, philosophy\, religion\, literature\, art history\, sociology\, anthropology\, archaeology\, economics\, political science\, gender studies\, environmental studies\, and law. Please find the conference schedule and booklet here. \n\n\n\nFor detailed information\, visit: https://linktr.ee/harvard_heas \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/harvard-east-asia-society-conference-2024-knots-complex-legacies-and-imagined-futures-of-east-asia/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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SUMMARY:Transport and Communication in Late Imperial China: Routes and Costs
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Ruoran Cheng\, Ph.D. candidate at the London School of Economics. \n\n\n\nRuoran Cheng will introduce his work on transport routes and costs in the Ming and Qing dynasties. Using techniques from geographic information science and data from historical route books\, he has proposed a more accurate and comprehensive account of transport routes. Based on this and other data he has constructed the relative costs of different modes of transportation from 1202 to 1890. Currently\, he is also working on the connection between trade potential proxied by natural routes and the location of economic activities proxied by archeological sites in China for a period spanning from Neolithic villages (7000 BP) to the unified empire (2000 BP) \n\n\n\nSponsored by the China Biographical Database Project\, China Historical GIS\, and the Digital China Initiative \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/transport-and-communication-in-late-imperial-china-routes-and-costs/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Room S001\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
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