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SUMMARY:Trump’s U.S.\, Xi’s China\, and Our Future: An Evening with the Award-Winning Creators of Face-Off: The U.S. vs China
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers: Jane Perlez\, Former Beijing Bureau Chief\, The New York Times Rana Mitter\, S.T. Lee Chair in U.S.-Asia Relations\, Harvard Kennedy School Mia Lobel\, Executive Producer\, Face-Off: U.S. vs China Frank Zhou ’26\, Associate Producer\, Face-Off: U.S. vs China \n\n\n\n****THE EVENT VENUE HAS CHANGED TO CGIS S030.**** \n\n\n\nCurious what China’s rise means for you as a young American or international student? Want an inside look at how Pulitzer-winning New York Times reporter and leading producer craft longform reporting into an award-winning podcast? Want to hear one of the world’s leading experts break down what’s next in America’s competition with the world’s second-largest economy? Join a panel and meet-and-greet with top reporters and experts to celebrate Face-Off: The U.S. vs China | Season Two\, an award-winning podcast from Airwave Media supported by the Carnegie Corporation and Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.Dumplings will be served.Register at: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScoKcNAy8bBu0ybwvkpExt7xxvr_4OWYTGjdl2tuFcm1EI0zQ/viewform. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/trumps-u-s-xis-china-and-our-future-an-evening-with-the-award-winning-creators-of-face-off-the-u-s-vs-china/
LOCATION:Room S030\, CGIS South\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Rong Ma — Powering a Just Transition: The Impacts of Place-Based Solar Expansion in Rural China
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Rong Ma\, Associate Professor\, China Agricultural University; Alumnus (Visiting Fellow) and Collaborator\, Harvard-China Project \n\n\n\nThis paper examines a solar subsidy program in China designed to alleviate poverty among rural households in the country’s most impoverished regions through solar resource development. The empirical findings indicate a substantial increase in firm entry in treated villages\, accompanied by a marked structural transformation characterized by a reduction in self-employment and a shift in land use from farmland to built-up areas. This surge in firm entry appears to be driven primarily by improvements in local electricity availability and reliability\, as well as upgrades in local transportation infrastructure. Correspondingly\, the analysis identifies a notable rise in local nightlight intensity and a reduction in regional nightlight disparities. Moreover\, treated villages experience significant improvements in air quality\, largely attributable to decreased pollutant emissions from nearby thermal power plants. By elucidating the impacts of place-based renewable energy policies\, this study underscores their potential to foster a more equitable energy transition. \n\n\n\nDr. Rong Ma is an Associate Professor at China Agricultural University\, College of Economics and Management. He is also a former Visiting Fellow and Collaborator with the Harvard-China Project. He obtained his Ph.D. in Economics from Tsinghua University. His research focuses on environmental economics and energy economics. \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/powering-a-just-transition-the-impacts-of-place-based-solar-expansion-in-rural-china/
LOCATION:Pierce Hall Room 301\, 29 Oxford St.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Reading Sinophone Women Writers
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Li Zishu 黎紫書Lu Pin 鹿苹Lin Zhao 林棹Dorothy Tse 謝曉虹Moderators:David Der-wei Wang\, Harvard UniversityMingwei Song\, Wellesley CollegeDingru Huang\, Tufts University \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/reading-sinophone-women-writers/
LOCATION:Plimpton Room (133)\, Barker Center\, 12 Quincy St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: Wang Bing's Youth Trilogy - Youth (Spring) Qingchun
DESCRIPTION:More than two decades after making his monumental West of the Tracks (2002)\, documentary auteur Wang Bing (b. 1967) has released a new cinematic fresco of Chinese workers. Whereas his debut work memorializes the declining Socialist industrial complex in Northeast China and its aging employees\, the Youth trilogy chronicles the plights of young migrant workers struggling with the vagaries and pressures of a free capitalist market. Between 2014 and 2019\, Wang Bing and his crew shot around 2\,600 hours of footage in the garment-making township of Zhili\, near Shanghai\, with hundreds of thousands of seasonal laborers from all over the country sewing children’s clothes in some 18\,000 workshops. The three installments of Youth—Spring\, Hard Times and Homecoming—premiered in competition at the Cannes\, Locarno and Venice film festivals\, respectively. Taken together\, this documentary trilogy not only provides a nuanced\, empathetic and critical look at China’s fashion industry\, but could also inspire in its audiences alternative experiences of time\, space and the material fabric of our lives.  \n\n\n\nYouth (Spring) QingchunThe first in Wang Bing’s opus centered on young migrant laborers in Zhili employs his trademark long takes and fixed camera setups\, contrasting routine days of sewing\, stitching and scissoring with bustling street scenes and after-hours sequences set in the workers’ cramped living quarters\, chancing upon dramas that inevitably emerge from such a repetitive\, cloistered and threadbare existence. While Zhili’s privatized structure and incentive-based production model allows for certain advantages over the kind of centrally governed factories seen in earlier Wang films like West of the Tracks (2002)\, it also leaves employees at the mercy of predatory managers\, a situation the director depicts as an endless tug-of-war for better pay. With textbook rigor\, Wang captures a new economic reality that\, for all it promises\, has only fostered a new form of exploitation. – Jordan Cronk \n\n\n\nDirected by Wang Bing \n\n\n\nFrance/Hong Kong/Luxembourg/Netherlands 2023\, DCP\, color\, 215 min. Mandarin with English subtitles \n\n\n\nGeneral Admission Tickets $10\, $8 Non-Harvard student\, seniors\, Harvard faculty and staff. Harvard students admitted free to regularly priced shows. \n\n\n\nSpecial event tickets (for in-person appearances) $15 – $20. \n\n\n\nTickets go on sale 30 minutes prior to show time at the box office and are also available in advance on the HFA website. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-screening-wang-bings-youth-trilogy/
LOCATION:Harvard Film Archive\, Carpenter Center\, 24 Quincy St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: Wang Bing's Youth Trilogy - Youth (Hard Times) Qingchun: Ku
DESCRIPTION:More than two decades after making his monumental West of the Tracks (2002)\, documentary auteur Wang Bing (b. 1967) has released a new cinematic fresco of Chinese workers. Whereas his debut work memorializes the declining Socialist industrial complex in Northeast China and its aging employees\, the Youth trilogy chronicles the plights of young migrant workers struggling with the vagaries and pressures of a free capitalist market. Between 2014 and 2019\, Wang Bing and his crew shot around 2\,600 hours of footage in the garment-making township of Zhili\, near Shanghai\, with hundreds of thousands of seasonal laborers from all over the country sewing children’s clothes in some 18\,000 workshops. The three installments of Youth—Spring\, Hard Times and Homecoming—premiered in competition at the Cannes\, Locarno and Venice film festivals\, respectively. Taken together\, this documentary trilogy not only provides a nuanced\, empathetic and critical look at China’s fashion industry\, but could also inspire in its audiences alternative experiences of time\, space and the material fabric of our lives.  \n\n\n\nYouth (Hard Times) Qingchun: Ku \n\n\n\nFocusing on the factory laborers’ economic struggles and workplace conflicts\, the second installment of Youth follows multiple narrative threads that stretch and tighten\, sometimes to a breaking point of violence and despair. A young woman keeps making mistakes and must redo several batches of trousers\, while her colleagues discuss ways to dodge the manager’s surveillance. Just released from police detention after an altercation with his boss\, a young man searches in vain for his lost account book. Parents pore over sewing machines while their child plays with scissors and cell phones. From the balcony outside their shop\, a group of workers watch their indebted boss beat up a fabric supplier and run away without paying their wages\, so they sell the shop’s sewing machines while the landlord cuts the power and water of their living quarters. In another dark dorm\, a worker who made tons of unsold denim recounts his participation in a labor riot and the ensuing police brutality. The exhaustion of overtime and deadlines thus alternates with the anxiety of dead time and wasted time\, accruing into the bitterness at the core of Wang Bing’s trilogy. \n\n\n\nDirected by Wang Bing \n\n\n\nFrance/Luxembourg/Netherlands 2024\, DCP\, color\, 226 min. Mandarin with English subtitles \n\n\n\nGeneral Admission Tickets $10\, $8 Non-Harvard student\, seniors\, Harvard faculty and staff. Harvard students admitted free to regularly priced shows. \n\n\n\nSpecial event tickets (for in-person appearances) $15 – $20. \n\n\n\nTickets go on sale 30 minutes prior to show time at the box office and are also available in advance on the HFA website. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-screening-wang-bings-youth-trilogy-2/
LOCATION:Harvard Film Archive\, Carpenter Center\, 24 Quincy St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250406T180000
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: Wang Bing's Youth Trilogy - Youth (Homecoming) Qingchun: Gui
DESCRIPTION:More than two decades after making his monumental West of the Tracks (2002)\, documentary auteur Wang Bing (b. 1967) has released a new cinematic fresco of Chinese workers. Whereas his debut work memorializes the declining Socialist industrial complex in Northeast China and its aging employees\, the Youth trilogy chronicles the plights of young migrant workers struggling with the vagaries and pressures of a free capitalist market. Between 2014 and 2019\, Wang Bing and his crew shot around 2\,600 hours of footage in the garment-making township of Zhili\, near Shanghai\, with hundreds of thousands of seasonal laborers from all over the country sewing children’s clothes in some 18\,000 workshops. The three installments of Youth—Spring\, Hard Times and Homecoming—premiered in competition at the Cannes\, Locarno and Venice film festivals\, respectively. Taken together\, this documentary trilogy not only provides a nuanced\, empathetic and critical look at China’s fashion industry\, but could also inspire in its audiences alternative experiences of time\, space and the material fabric of our lives.  \n\n\n\nYouth (Homecoming) Qingchun: Gui \n\n\n\nThe final installment of the Youth trilogyzooms in on a handful of workers as they return to their villages for the Lunar New Year\, meanwhile zooming out spatially from Zhili’s garment workshops to China’s vast countryside. After seeking payment of their owed wages\, Mu Fei and Dong Minyan board a packed train to Yunnan and take a van up a hazardous mountainside road. In homes decorated with giant Chairman Mao portraits\, their parents speak of illnesses and injustices\, debts and expenses. Firecrackers\, a confetti gang\, bride-carrying and karaoke create an exuberant atmosphere at Shi Wei’s and Liang Xianglian’s wedding. From the southwest mountains\, the film moves to the lower Yangtze River to celebrate the God of Prosperity and another wedding banquet. After the holidays\, the bride Fang Lingping takes her husband to Zhili and teaches him to sew. The last third of the film revisits familiar characters from Spring and Hard Times such as Lin Shao and Chen Wenting\, no longer teenagers in love but young parents\, uncertain how the cycles of seasonal labor will shape their children’s future. \n\n\n\nDirected by Wang Bing \n\n\n\nFrance/Luxembourg/Netherlands 2024\, DCP\, color\, 160 min. Mandarin with English subtitles \n\n\n\nGeneral Admission Tickets $10\, $8 Non-Harvard student\, seniors\, Harvard faculty and staff. Harvard students admitted free to regularly priced shows. \n\n\n\nSpecial event tickets (for in-person appearances) $15 – $20. \n\n\n\nTickets go on sale 30 minutes prior to show time at the box office and are also available in advance on the HFA website. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-screening-wang-bings-youth-trilogy-youth-homecoming-qingchun-gui/
LOCATION:Harvard Film Archive\, Carpenter Center\, 24 Quincy St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250407T170000
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SUMMARY:China's Future: Navigating Geopolitics in a New Era
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers:David J. Firestein\, President and CEO of the George H. W. Bush Foundation for U.S.-China Relations \n\n\n\nAndrew S. Erickson\, Professor of Strategy\, U.S. Naval War College China Maritime Studies Institute; Fairbank Center Visiting Scholar \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/chinas-future-navigating-geopolitics-in-a-new-era/
LOCATION:Room L-166\, Littauer Building\, 79 JFK St.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250411T120000
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SUMMARY:Daisy Yan Du - Chinese Animation: Multiplicities in Motion
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Daisy Yan Du\, Associate Professor\, Division of Humanities\, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology  Moderator: Alexander Zahlten\, Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University  \n\n\n\nRegistration appreciated for planning purposes.  \n\n\n\nChinese Animation: Multiplicities in Motion is the first edited volume that explores the multiple histories\, geographies\, industries\, technologies\, media\, and transmedialities of Chinese animation\, from early animated special effects to socialist classics\, from computer-generated-imagery (CGI) blockbusters to edgy independent films\, and from stop-motion to virtual reality. \n\n\n\nIts fifteen chapters\, grouped under the five themes of junctures\, gender\, identities\, digitality\, and practices\, span a century of animation since the 1920s across mainland China\, Hong Kong\, Taiwan\, Singapore\, and the diasporic world. Derived from the 2021 Inaugural Conference of the Association for Chinese Animation Studies (ACAS)\, this volume as a whole defines Chinese animation studies as a new field of research emerging from the peripheries of modern Chinese literature and film studies on the one hand\, and from the margins of Western and Japanese animation studies on the other. Incorporating diverse academic approaches and perspectives\, this groundbreaking book is an indispensable guide for a rapidly growing community of scholars\, students\, animators\, fans\, and general readers interested in Chinese and world animation. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/daisy-yan-du-%f0%9d%98%be%f0%9d%99%9d%f0%9d%99%9e%f0%9d%99%a3%f0%9d%99%9a%f0%9d%99%a8%f0%9d%99%9a-%f0%9d%98%bc%f0%9d%99%a3%f0%9d%99%9e%f0%9d%99%a2%f0%9d%99%96%f0%9d%99%a9%f0%9d%99%9e%f0%9d%99%a4/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Room S153\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250411T130000
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SUMMARY:Art of Journeys: From Ape Tales to the Monkey King Wukong
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe launch of the hit game\, “Black Myth: Wukong\,” in August 2024 has sparked renewed interests in the many historical sites that inspired its stunning visuals. In fact\, the role that players take on in the game—an anthropomorphic monkey with supernatural abilities—also has many previous incarnations in the history of Chinese and East Asian art at large. The most well-known is perhaps the Monkey King Sun Wukong\, from Wu Chengen’s monumental sixteenth-century novel Journey to the West. Yet Wu’s Journey to the West was only one of the converging points that brought together visual and textual sources dating back to the Han dynasty. Harvard Visual China’s 2025 Graduate Symposium presents two panels on the topic of Art of Journeys—From Ape Tales to the Monkey King Wukong.For a complete program and more information\, visit https://www.harvardvisualchina.com/hvc-2025-symposium-info-reg.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/art-of-journeys-from-ape-tales-to-the-monkey-king-wukong/
LOCATION:Sackler Building\, Lower Level\, 485 Broadway\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250416T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250416T130000
DTSTAMP:20260629T053138
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SUMMARY:Indigenous Narrative: The Dynamic Biographies of gShen-rab Mi-bo\, Founder of the Tibetan Bon Religion
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Konchok Tsering\, Assistant Professor\, School for Tibetan Studies\, Minzu University of China; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2024-25 \n\n\n\nChair/Discussant: Janet Gyatso\, Hershey Professor of Buddhist Studies\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nThis talk delves into the transformation of gShen-rab Mi-bo’s life stories within the Tibetan Bon religion\, examining three significant texts: mDo ‘dus\, mdo gzer mig\, and mdo dri med gzi brjid. Each biography\, emerging from distinct historical contexts\, showcases the evolving nature of Bon religious thought and its interaction with cultural influences. The mDo ‘dus\, a concise tenth-century work\, is recognized as an early foundational narrative. mdo gzer mig\, believed to originate in the eleventh century\, is essential for understanding the integration of Buddhist elements within Bon literature. The expansive mdo dri med gzi brjid\, from the fourteenth century\, enriches the narrative tapestry with folkloric and cultural details\, demonstrating how oral traditions have shaped its development. This exploration highlights the adaptive storytelling of the Bon tradition\, reflecting shifts in historical and cultural landscapes. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/indigenous-narrative-the-dynamic-biographies-of-gshen-rab-mi-bo-founder-of-the-tibetan-bon-religion/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250425T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250425T200000
DTSTAMP:20260629T053138
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: Wang Bing's Youth Trilogy - Youth (Homecoming) Qingchun: Gui
DESCRIPTION:More than two decades after making his monumental West of the Tracks (2002)\, documentary auteur Wang Bing (b. 1967) has released a new cinematic fresco of Chinese workers. Whereas his debut work memorializes the declining Socialist industrial complex in Northeast China and its aging employees\, the Youth trilogy chronicles the plights of young migrant workers struggling with the vagaries and pressures of a free capitalist market. Between 2014 and 2019\, Wang Bing and his crew shot around 2\,600 hours of footage in the garment-making township of Zhili\, near Shanghai\, with hundreds of thousands of seasonal laborers from all over the country sewing children’s clothes in some 18\,000 workshops. The three installments of Youth—Spring\, Hard Times and Homecoming—premiered in competition at the Cannes\, Locarno and Venice film festivals\, respectively. Taken together\, this documentary trilogy not only provides a nuanced\, empathetic and critical look at China’s fashion industry\, but could also inspire in its audiences alternative experiences of time\, space and the material fabric of our lives.  \n\n\n\nYouth (Homecoming) Qingchun: Gui \n\n\n\nThe final installment of the Youth trilogyzooms in on a handful of workers as they return to their villages for the Lunar New Year\, meanwhile zooming out spatially from Zhili’s garment workshops to China’s vast countryside. After seeking payment of their owed wages\, Mu Fei and Dong Minyan board a packed train to Yunnan and take a van up a hazardous mountainside road. In homes decorated with giant Chairman Mao portraits\, their parents speak of illnesses and injustices\, debts and expenses. Firecrackers\, a confetti gang\, bride-carrying and karaoke create an exuberant atmosphere at Shi Wei’s and Liang Xianglian’s wedding. From the southwest mountains\, the film moves to the lower Yangtze River to celebrate the God of Prosperity and another wedding banquet. After the holidays\, the bride Fang Lingping takes her husband to Zhili and teaches him to sew. The last third of the film revisits familiar characters from Spring and Hard Times such as Lin Shao and Chen Wenting\, no longer teenagers in love but young parents\, uncertain how the cycles of seasonal labor will shape their children’s future. \n\n\n\nDirected by Wang Bing \n\n\n\nFrance/Luxembourg/Netherlands 2024\, DCP\, color\, 160 min. Mandarin with English subtitles \n\n\n\nGeneral Admission Tickets $10\, $8 Non-Harvard student\, seniors\, Harvard faculty and staff. Harvard students admitted free to regularly priced shows. \n\n\n\nSpecial event tickets (for in-person appearances) $15 – $20. \n\n\n\nTickets go on sale 30 minutes prior to show time at the box office and are also available in advance on the HFA website. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-screening-wang-bings-youth-trilogy-youth-homecoming-qingchun-gui-2/
LOCATION:Harvard Film Archive\, Carpenter Center\, 24 Quincy St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250426T180000
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: Wang Bing's Youth Trilogy - Youth (Hard Times) Qingchun: Ku
DESCRIPTION:More than two decades after making his monumental West of the Tracks (2002)\, documentary auteur Wang Bing (b. 1967) has released a new cinematic fresco of Chinese workers. Whereas his debut work memorializes the declining Socialist industrial complex in Northeast China and its aging employees\, the Youth trilogy chronicles the plights of young migrant workers struggling with the vagaries and pressures of a free capitalist market. Between 2014 and 2019\, Wang Bing and his crew shot around 2\,600 hours of footage in the garment-making township of Zhili\, near Shanghai\, with hundreds of thousands of seasonal laborers from all over the country sewing children’s clothes in some 18\,000 workshops. The three installments of Youth—Spring\, Hard Times and Homecoming—premiered in competition at the Cannes\, Locarno and Venice film festivals\, respectively. Taken together\, this documentary trilogy not only provides a nuanced\, empathetic and critical look at China’s fashion industry\, but could also inspire in its audiences alternative experiences of time\, space and the material fabric of our lives.  \n\n\n\nYouth (Hard Times) Qingchun: Ku \n\n\n\nFocusing on the factory laborers’ economic struggles and workplace conflicts\, the second installment of Youth follows multiple narrative threads that stretch and tighten\, sometimes to a breaking point of violence and despair. A young woman keeps making mistakes and must redo several batches of trousers\, while her colleagues discuss ways to dodge the manager’s surveillance. Just released from police detention after an altercation with his boss\, a young man searches in vain for his lost account book. Parents pore over sewing machines while their child plays with scissors and cell phones. From the balcony outside their shop\, a group of workers watch their indebted boss beat up a fabric supplier and run away without paying their wages\, so they sell the shop’s sewing machines while the landlord cuts the power and water of their living quarters. In another dark dorm\, a worker who made tons of unsold denim recounts his participation in a labor riot and the ensuing police brutality. The exhaustion of overtime and deadlines thus alternates with the anxiety of dead time and wasted time\, accruing into the bitterness at the core of Wang Bing’s trilogy. \n\n\n\nDirected by Wang Bing \n\n\n\nFrance/Luxembourg/Netherlands 2024\, DCP\, color\, 226 min. Mandarin with English subtitles \n\n\n\nGeneral Admission Tickets $10\, $8 Non-Harvard student\, seniors\, Harvard faculty and staff. Harvard students admitted free to regularly priced shows. \n\n\n\nSpecial event tickets (for in-person appearances) $15 – $20. \n\n\n\nTickets go on sale 30 minutes prior to show time at the box office and are also available in advance on the HFA website. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-screening-wang-bings-youth-trilogy-youth-hard-times-qingchun-ku/
LOCATION:Harvard Film Archive\, Carpenter Center\, 24 Quincy St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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