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SUMMARY:Film Screening and Discussion: Caught by the Tides
DESCRIPTION:Buy tickets\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDirected by Zhangke JiaStarring Tao Zhao\, Zhubin LiCaught by the Tides (风流一代) is an ambitious\, genre-blending film from acclaimed Chinese director Jia Zhangke. Spanning over two decades\, the film interlaces newly shot scenes with archival footage\, fragments from Jia’s earlier films\, and documentary-style material to create a haunting portrait of love\, memory\, and transformation in modern China.The story follows Qiaoqiao (Zhao Tao)\, a dancer and club performer in early-2000s Datong\, whose lover\, Guo Bin\, abruptly leaves to seek fortune elsewhere. Her quiet\, persistent search for him unfolds against the sweeping changes of the nation—from mass displacement during the Three Gorges Dam project\, to rapid urbanization\, to the isolating years of the COVID-19 pandemic.Post Screening Panel DiscussionOur distinguished panel will delve into the film’s themes and its broader cultural\, historical\, and cinematic contexts. The discussion will consider how CAUGHT BY THE TIDES reflects on China’s transformation\, the interplay between personal stories and national history\, and the ways cinema can blur the lines between fiction and documentary.Shujen Wang\, Professor of Media Studies\, Emerson College; Research Associate\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard UniversityShujen Wang is the author of Framing Piracy: Globalization and Film Distribution in Greater China (2003)\, and her research spans media globalization\, platformization\, film distribution\, piracy\, and global copyright governance. She has contributed to multiple anthologies and published in leading journals including Cinema Journal\, Film Quarterly\, and International Journal of Cultural Studies. Former president of the Chinese Communication Association\, Dr. Wang has served as a research associate at Harvard’s Fairbank Center since 2002 and sits on the editorial advisory boards of several peer-reviewed journals. Her work has been translated into Portuguese and Chinese\, reflecting her global scholarly influence.Catherine Yeh\, Professor of Chinese & Comparative Literature\, Boston UniversityCatherine Yeh’s scholarship examines 19th- and 20th-century Chinese literary\, media\, and visual culture\, with particular attention to the role of entertainment\, literature\, and “marginal” figures in driving modernity. Her books include Shanghai Love: Courtesans\, Intellectuals\, and Entertainment Culture\, 1850–1910 and Performing the ‘Nation’ (co-edited\, 2008). She has written extensively on Shanghai courtesan culture\, the political novel\, the entertainment press\, and the rise of modern Chinese star culture. A recipient of numerous fellowships and research grants\, Professor Yeh’s work illuminates the intersections of art\, politics\, gender\, and urban modernity in China’s cultural transformation.Moderator: Xueping Zhong\, Professor of Modern Chinese Literature\, Chinese Culture\, Film\, Tufts UniversityXueping Zhong is the author of the Masculinity Besieged?: Issues of Modernity and Male Subjectivity in Chinese Literature of the Late Twentieth Century.Screening at West Newton Cinema\, 1296 Washington Street\, West Newton\, MA 02465 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-screening-and-discussion-caught-by-the-tides/
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SUMMARY:Taiwanese Politics and US-China-Taiwan Relations Under Trump 2.0
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: S. Philip Tsu\, National Taiwan UniversityThis talk will examine this following aspects of the US-Taiwan-China relations: 1. How Taiwan society views the US and China\, and the main developments in Taiwan’s party politics/democratic governance since President Lai was inaugurated in 2024; 2. The implications of US foreign policy under Trump 2.0 for the trilateral relations; and 3. The implications of China’s policies toward the US and Taiwan for trilateral relations. \n\n\n\nRegistration link: https://bostonu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_42BUHhGC7PoMxj8 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/taiwanese-politics-and-us-china-taiwan-relations-under-trump-2-0/
LOCATION:Room 101\, Boston University Kilachand Center For Life Sciences and Engineering\, 610 Commonwealth Ave\,\, Boston\, Massachusetts\, 02215\, United States
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SUMMARY:Is Authoritarian Constitutionalism an Oxymoron?
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Mark Tushnet\, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law\, Emeritus\, Harvard Law School; Co-editor\, Oxford Handbook of Law and Authoritarianism \n\n\n\nProfessor Tushnet\, who graduated from Harvard College and Yale Law School and served as a law clerk to Justice Thurgood Marshall\, specializes in constitutional law and theory\, including comparative constitutional law. His research includes studies of constitutional review in the United States and around the world\, and the creation of other “institutions for protecting constitutional democracy.” He also writes in the area of legal and particularly constitutional history\, with works on the development of civil rights law in the United States and a history of the Supreme Court in the 1930s. \n\n\n\nA light lunch will be provided. \n\n\n\nPlease note: In past years\, most EALS talks were in Morgan Courtroom (Austin 308)\, but due to the construction project currently underway next to Austin Hall\, we will hold most EALS talks in Wasserstein Hall this year. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/is-authoritarian-constitutionalism-an-oxymoron/
LOCATION:WCC 3007\, Wasserstein Hall\, 1585 Massachusetts Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
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