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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181110T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181110T230000
DTSTAMP:20260719T122408
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SUMMARY:Vigil and Memorial: Two Films by Wang Bing
DESCRIPTION:An in-person discussion with Wang Bing follows each film screening.\n$12 Special Event Tickets \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center’s Emergent Visions in Independent Chinese Cinema series\, organized by Professor Jie Li\, and the Harvard Film Archive. \n***NOTE TIME CHANGE***\nFriday November 9 at 8pm \nMrs. Fang\nA moving and bracing portrait of a dying woman and her family\, Mrs. Fang offers a remarkable variation of Wang Bing’s engaged cinema that demands the viewer to empathize and experience\, in real time and real emotion\, the intense yet poetically unfolding human dramas captured by his unwavering camera. Wang Bing’s shortest feature to date is among his most ethically and structurally profound—balanced between extended close-ups of the frail Fang Xiuying\, locked into an open-eyed coma\, and tender scenes of her family alternately overcome by grief and matter-of-factly accepting the inevitable. Most surprising are the sequences featuring two family members leaving Mrs. Fang’s small home to go night fishing\, an exercise that gently carries the weight of spiritual metaphor: a search for sustenance\, survival\, friendship in a cold\, dark world. \nSaturday November 10 at 2pm \nDead Souls\nAt eight hours and fifteen minutes\, Dead Souls is based on interviews\, footage and other memory traces Wang Bing gathered over twelve years\, from more than 120 people across various provinces. Covering a period from the Anti-Rightist Campaign of 1957 to the end of the Great Leap famine in 1961\, most of the film features testimonies from survivors of a “re-education camp” in northwestern China\, many once “revolutionaries” who were then “revolutionized.” Incarcerated for minor criticisms of the Party\, for past support of the Kuomintang\, for Christian faith\, or for no reason they can fathom\, former camp inmates recount recipes of starvation\, logistics of death and ruinations of families. Occasionally we also see their wives in the margins of the frame or hear offscreen voices of children too young to understand. The overlay of their testimonies—full of resonances\, contradictions\, digressions and silences—metonymically point to past injustice and suffering at a much larger scale.  While Wang Bing explored the same harrowing topic of the Jiabiangou labor camp in previous work such as Fengming: A Chinese Memoir (2007) and The Ditch (2010)\, the monumental scale\, unsensational precision and multiple perspectives of Dead Souls have drawn comparisons to Claude Lanzmann’s Holocaust documentary Shoah. Mediating testimony for those who can no longer bear witness for themselves\, Dead Souls invites us to partake in a belated memorial service for the victims of the Maoist revolution still condemned to state-sponsored amnesia.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/vigil-and-memorial-two-films-by-wang-bing-2018-11-10/
LOCATION:Harvard Film Archive\, Carpenter Center\, 24 Quincy St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest,Film Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181113T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181113T153000
DTSTAMP:20260719T122408
CREATED:20181022T182435Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181022T182435Z
UID:7696-1542119400-1542123000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Hopkins-Nanjing Center Open House
DESCRIPTION:The Johns Hopkins University Hopkins-Nanjing Center will hold an information session for students interested in graduate study in China. Students at the HNC take coursework in Chinese in areas including politics\, Chinese studies\, law\, economics\, and energy\, resources\, and the environment. MA and certificate programs are available\, with guaranteed funding for all financial aid applicants. For more information contact nanjing@jhu.edu.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/hopkins-nanjing-center-open-house/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181116T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181116T133000
DTSTAMP:20260719T122408
CREATED:20181022T183729Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181022T183729Z
UID:7700-1542369600-1542375000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Zheng Jing - From Asylums to Housing: A Vernacular Architectural Adaptation in Southeastern China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Zheng Jing\,  Wuhan University\, HYI Visiting Scholar 2018-19\nDiscussant: Michael Szonyi\, Harvard University \nhttps://harvard-yenching.org/events/asylums-housing-vernacular-architectural-adaptation-southeastern-china
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/zheng-jing-from-asylums-to-housing-a-vernacular-architectural-adaptation-in-southeastern-china/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181120T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181120T133000
DTSTAMP:20260719T122408
CREATED:20181022T184007Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181022T184007Z
UID:7701-1542715200-1542720600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Shen Hong - “Seeking Truth”? True and Not True: On the Equivocal Position of Hangchow Christian College in the History of Zhejiang University
DESCRIPTION:Spekaer: Shen Hong\,  Zhejiang University; HYI Visiting Scholar 2018-19\nDiscussant: David Wang\, Harvard University \nhttps://harvard-yenching.org/events/shen-hong-november-20
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/shen-hong-seeking-truth-true-and-not-true-on-the-equivocal-position-of-hangchow-christian-college-in-the-history-of-zhejiang-university/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181126T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181126T210000
DTSTAMP:20260719T122408
CREATED:20181022T182908Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181022T182908Z
UID:7698-1543258800-1543266000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Film Screening: The Great Buddha
DESCRIPTION:Directed by Huang Hsin-yao. With Cres Chuang\, Bamboo Chen\, Leon Dai\nTaiwan 2017\, DCP\, color & b/w\, 102 min. Min Nan with English subtitles \nhttps://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa\nGeneral Admission Tickets $9\, $7 Non-Harvard Students\, Seniors\, Harvard Faculty and Staff. Harvard students free
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-screening-the-great-buddha/
LOCATION:Harvard Film Archive\, Carpenter Center\, 24 Quincy St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest,Film Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181128T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181128T133000
DTSTAMP:20260719T122408
CREATED:20181119T153552Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181119T153552Z
UID:7745-1543406400-1543411800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Kang Jin-A — Transnational Merchant Diaspora in Modern East Asia: British and Cantonese cooperation in the treaty ports seen through the case of the Tongshuntai Firm
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Kang Jin-A\, History Department\, Hanyang University; HYI Visiting Scholar 2018-19\nChair/discussant: Victor Seow\, Department of the History of Science\, Harvard University \nhttps://harvard-yenching.org/events/transnational-merchant-diaspora-modern-east-asia-british-and-cantonese-cooperation-treaty
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/kang-jin-a-transnational-merchant-diaspora-in-modern-east-asia-british-and-cantonese-cooperation-in-the-treaty-ports-seen-through-the-case-of-the-tongshuntai-firm/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181130T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181130T140000
DTSTAMP:20260719T122408
CREATED:20181128T160438Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181128T160438Z
UID:7783-1543580100-1543586400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Panel Discussion - Early? Modern? Asia?: Three Perspectives
DESCRIPTION:Panelists:\nProfessor Carla Nappi\, Department of History\, University of Pittsburgh\nProfessor Elaine Fisher\, Department of Religious Studies\, Stanford University\nProfessor Michael Charney\, Department of History\, SOAS\, University of London\nChair: Professor David Atherton\, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University\n\nEarly Modern Asia Seminar Series\, Harvard University Asia Center
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/panel-discussion-early-modern-asia-three-perspectives/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181204T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181204T133000
DTSTAMP:20260719T122408
CREATED:20181119T151540Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181119T151540Z
UID:7744-1543924800-1543930200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Wang Horng-luen— Patriotic Education for the PRC?: Examining the “National Experience” of Degree-Pursuing PRC Students in Taiwan
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Wang Horng-luen\, Research Fellow\, Institute of Sociology\, Academia Sinica; HYI Visiting Scholar 2018-19\nChair/discussant: Paul Cohen\, Professor of History Emeritus\, Wellesley College \nhttps://harvard-yenching.org/events/wang-horng-luen-december-4
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/wang-horng-luen-patriotic-education-for-the-prc-examining-the-national-experience-of-degree-pursuing-prc-students-in-taiwan-wang-horng-luen/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181205T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181205T130000
DTSTAMP:20260719T122408
CREATED:20181126T203926Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181126T203926Z
UID:7776-1544011200-1544014800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Xi Chen - Historical Maps and Digital Humanities: A Survey on Harvard Library’s China-Related Map Collection
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Xi Chen\, Visiting Librarian of the Harvard-Yenching Library; Fudan University \nThe presentation will be given in Chinese.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/xi-chen-historical-maps-and-digital-humanities-a-survey-on-harvard-librarys-china-related-map-collection/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181205T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181205T150000
DTSTAMP:20260719T122408
CREATED:20181128T175722Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181128T175722Z
UID:7787-1544016600-1544022000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Sheena Greitens - Information\, Prevention\, and Authoritarian Stability: Local Coercive Capacity in China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Sheena Greitens\, University of Missouri
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/sheena-greitens-information-prevention-and-authoritarian-stability-local-coercive-capacity-in-china/
LOCATION:Conference Room\, Cotting House\, Soliders Field Road\, Boston\, MA\, 02163\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181210T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181210T133000
DTSTAMP:20260719T122408
CREATED:20181119T154318Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181119T154318Z
UID:7746-1544443200-1544448600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Wang Zhen  — An undesigned nuclear triangle of the U.S.\, China and India?
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Wang Zhen\, Associate Professor of International Studies\, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences\nChair/discussant: Steven E. Miller\, Director\, International Security Program\, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs\, Harvard Kennedy School \nhttps://harvard-yenching.org/events/undesigned-nuclear-triangle-us-china-and-india
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/wang-zhen-an-undesigned-nuclear-triangle-of-the-u-s-china-and-india/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190124T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190124T140000
DTSTAMP:20260719T122408
CREATED:20190123T163951Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190123T163951Z
UID:7864-1548331200-1548338400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Jianping Ye - Rural Land Tenure System in China: History and Current Reform
DESCRIPTION:Overview:\nChina’s rural land tenure system has experienced continuous reforms since 1978\, but has faced new challenges amid rapid urbanization. The institutional structure of the system is complicated and evolving. In this seminar\, Professor Ye will trace the history of institutional and policy changes in China’s rural land tenure system\, and discuss the current reform thinking of the central government. Professor Ye will also present the findings of a survey of arable land in 17 provinces\, which was directed by him and was carried out continuously over the last 15 years. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker:\nJianping Ye is chair professor and head of the Land & Real Estate Research Center in the School of Public Administration at Renmin University\, China. He is an expert in land policy\, land resource management\, and real estate policy. He has led a number of research projects funded by the Chinese National Science Foundation\, and served as advisor or consultant to several Chinese governmental agencies\, including the Ministry of Natural Resources (formerly the Ministry of Land and Resources)\, the Ministry of Housing and Urban and Rural Development\, the National Development and Reform Commission\, and the Development Research Center of the State Council. He has also consulted for the World Bank.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/jianping-ye-rural-land-tenure-system-in-china-history-and-current-reform/
LOCATION:Lincoln Institute of Land Policy\, 13 Brattle St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190129T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190129T190000
DTSTAMP:20260719T122408
CREATED:20190110T170939Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190110T170939Z
UID:7841-1548783000-1548788400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Exhibition Opening - Eye Eye Nose Mouth: Art\, Disability\, and Mental Illness in Nanjing\, China and Shiga-ken\, Japan
DESCRIPTION:This exhibition at the Harvard University Asia Center explores the intersections of art\, disability\, and mental health by displaying original works on paper and sculptures\ncreated by ten groundbreaking\, self-taught artists from China and Japan. Their compelling\, formally innovative works come in a wide range of styles and media\, from gestural abstractions to proliferating figurations\, from meticulous clay obelisks to eye-popping wall paintings. \nThe first exhibition of works produced in art workshops for people with disabilities ever to take place at Harvard (and only the second devoted to self-taught artists since the Harvard Society for Contemporary Art’s Exhibition of American Folk Paintings in 1930)\, “Eye Eye Nose Mouth” offers an original contribution to an ongoing conversation about mental health and the acceptance of mental disability and mental illness in both local and international contexts. \nThe curators conducted on-the-ground research at Nanjing Outsider Art Studio in China and Atelier Yamanami in Japan\, in order to witness the practices of the artists\, and to carefully contextualize the works within their specific sociocultural conditions of production. As the curators observed the inner workings of these art therapy workshops\, they documented the daily rhythms and artistic processes of the artists on video\, which form a tapestry of moving-image portraits to accompany the works in the exhibition. \nThe title of the exhibition is an homage to the work of Hideaki Yoshikawa\, who has been creating numerous series of works bearing the title “Eye Eye Nose Mouth” (目目鼻口\, pronounced me-me-hana-kuchi) at Atelier Yamanami over several decades. His drawings and clay sculptures\, combining obsessive seriality and formal inventiveness\, are exemplary of the quality of the works produced at Atelier Yamanami and Nanjing Outsider Art Studio\, but also of the most salient common feature of both workshops. \nThe two workshops belong to distinct sociocultural contexts at different stages of their respective histories: the former was founded in 1986\, while the latter\, founded in 2006\, is a comparatively smaller structure. However\, staff members of both workshops make it a point to never intervene directly in the creative process\, providing care\, support\, and art materials while leaving artists at total liberty to experiment and develop their own artistic practices at their own pace. The works displayed in this exhibition offer a glimpse of the results yielded by these deliberate strategies of tolerance and empowerment. \nMental illness and mental disability are particularly complex issues in both China and Japan\, due to prevalent social stigma\, and\, in the case of mainland China\, a relative lack of state-supported care facilities. In this regard\, both workshops constitute attempts to heighten public awareness of these issues\, and to improve the symbolic image and concrete living conditions of affected persons in their respective societies. While insisting on the specificity of each workshop’s particular context\, the exhibition avoids a rigid juxtaposition or comparison\, encouraging the viewer to instead find formal and thematic echoes across the works.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/exhibition-opening-eye-eye-nose-mouth-art-disability-and-mental-illness-in-nanjing-china-and-shiga-ken-japan/
LOCATION:Japan Friends of Harvard Concourse\, CGIS South\, Lower Level\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest,Exhibitions,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190130T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190130T133000
DTSTAMP:20260719T122408
CREATED:20190110T165116Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190110T165116Z
UID:7839-1548849600-1548855000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Chen Wei - How well has China’s family planning policy worked?
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Chen Wei\, Professor\, School of Sociology and Population Studies\, Renmin University of China; HYI Visiting Scholar 2018-19\nChair/discussant: Mary Brinton\,  Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology\, Department of Sociology\, Harvard University \nDemography is destiny. China’s economic success has been importantly driven by its demographic changes which might also determine China’s future. At the center of the demographics of China is its unique family planning policy. China’s family planning policy\, which used to be described as one-child policy\, has played a decisive role in fertility transition and transformation of fertility patterns\, hence the population growth trends in China. Beginning in 2016\, China implemented a two-child policy putting an end to the 35-years long one-child policy\, which has also brought about marked changes in China’s fertility patterns. This talk will discuss the changing fertility policy and its impacts on fertility and population trends in China\, and addresses two major questions: who were not complying with the one-child policy in the past\, and now who are having second child? This research is conducted using China’s population census and fertility survey data\, involving quantitative approaches and international comparative perspectives. \nhttps://harvard-yenching.org/events/how-well-has-china-s-family-planning-policy-worked \n  \n 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/chen-wei-how-well-has-chinas-family-planning-policy-worked/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190204T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190204T180000
DTSTAMP:20260719T122408
CREATED:20190204T144248Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190204T144248Z
UID:7891-1549296000-1549303200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Eric Taglicozzo and Tansen Sen - Borders in Modern Asia: Concepts and Cases
DESCRIPTION:Borders in Modern Asia Seminar Series \nEric Tagliacozzo\, Professor of History\, Cornell University \nTansen Sen\, Professor of History\, NYU Shanghai  \nChaired by Sugata Bose and Sunil Amrith
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/eric-taglicozzo-and-tansen-sen-borders-in-modern-asia-concepts-and-cases/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190205T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190205T170000
DTSTAMP:20260719T122408
CREATED:20190123T163515Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190123T163515Z
UID:7863-1549382400-1549386000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Xiaofei Tian - The Halberd at Red Cliff: Jian'an and the Three Kingdoms
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Xiaofei Tian\,  Professor of Chinese Literature; Chair of Regional Studies East Asia (RSEA)\, Harvard University
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/xiaofei-tian-the-halberd-at-red-cliff-jianan-and-the-three-kingdoms/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190211T171500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190211T191500
DTSTAMP:20260719T122408
CREATED:20190204T153024Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190204T153024Z
UID:7893-1549905300-1549912500@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Contemporary China Film Screening - Art in Fog: A Conversation with Director Lydia Chen
DESCRIPTION:Discussant: Shelley Drake Hawkes\, Middlesex Community College\nModerator: Eugenio Menegon\, Boston University \nDirected by Lydia Chen\, Art in Smog offers an intimate encounter with four artists and a curator in China\, as they pursue their dreams over 25 years of rapid change. The pursuit of art takes them from quiet lives in the 1990s to the extremes of the 2000s to their different paths forward today. Their lives and their work provide a visually rich glimpse of humanity in a tumultuous society. \nLydia Chen has engaged in cultural exchanges between China and the United States since the 1980s. At first she worked for the Foreign Languages Press and studied Chinese painting at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. Later she was communications director for the American Chamber of Commerce in China\, associate director of the Center for East Asian Studies at Stanford University\, and executive director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University. She received her master’s degrees in journalism and Asian studies from the University of California at Berkeley and her B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College.\n\nShelley Drake Hawks interviewed Chinese painters for her 2017 book _The Art of Resistance. Painting by Candlelight in Mao’s China_ and her accompanying film The Lotus and the Red Star. She currently teaches art history at Middlesex Community College. She has also taught at Mount Holyoke College\, Boston University\, UMASS-Boston\, and Rhode Island School of Design. She has a masters in Asia regional studies from Harvard and a doctorate in history from Brown. To learn more about her book or view her film\, visit https://arthistorypi.org/books/art-of-resistance
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/contemporary-china-film-screening-art-in-fog-a-conversation-with-director-lydia-chen/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190219T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190219T200000
DTSTAMP:20260719T122408
CREATED:20190125T173450Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190125T173450Z
UID:7871-1550599200-1550606400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Wen Chen - China’s Healthcare Reform: Does Restructuring Government Functions Matter?
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Wen Chen\, Professor of Health Economics\, Fudan University\n\n\n\nProfessor CHEN received his M.D. degree in social medicine and health management from Shanghai Medical University in 1998 and completed a research fellowship at the University of California\, Berkeley School of Public Health from August 2000 to May 2001. Currently\, he serves as Director of PuDong Preventive Medicine Institute\, Fudan’s Foreign Affairs Office\, Hong Kong/Macau/Taiwan Affairs Office\, and and the Confucius Institute. He was the Dean of the School of Public Health at Fudan University from April 2013 to June 2017. Professor Chen is often invited as an investigator and advisor by national and municipal governments for various research programs on the Chinese healthcare system\, national and provincial health insurance\, pharmacoeconomics and pharmaceutical policy\, health financing\, etc. He has more than 120 publications in international and Chinese health economics and management journals. He was elected Excellent Talent in the New Century by the Chinese Ministry of Education in 2008. \nA China Health Partnership Seminar
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/wen-chen-chinas-healthcare-reform-does-restructuring-government-functions-matter/
LOCATION:Harvard Chan School\, Building 1\, Room 1208\, 677 Huntington Ave\, Boston\, MA\, 02115\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190304T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190304T180000
DTSTAMP:20260719T122408
CREATED:20190211T151228Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190211T151228Z
UID:7913-1551715200-1551722400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Neuhauser Lecture featuring Susan Thornton - Can We Live with China? A Roadmap for Co-evolution
DESCRIPTION:Listen again:  \n \nRead and download the transcript for this event here. \n  \nSpeaker: Susan Thornton\, Former Acting Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs \nSusan Thornton was Acting Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs at the Department of State during the first 18 months of the Trump administration. Prior to her departure\, Thornton led East Asia policy-making amid crises with North Korea\, escalating trade tensions with China\, and a generally deteriorating environment in the United States for international economic and diplomatic engagement. She was the architect of the diplomatic pressure campaign on the North Korean regime\, structured the administration’s initial approach to China\, and developed the administration’s trademark Indo-Pacific Strategy. \nIn previous leadership roles in Washington\, Thornton worked on China and Korea policy\, including stabilizing relations with Taiwan\, the U.S.-China Cyber Agreement\, the Paris Climate Accord and led a successful negotiation in Pyongyang for monitoring of the Agreed Framework on denuclearization. \nIn her 18 years of overseas postings in Central Asia\, Russia\, the Caucasus and China\, Thornton’s leadership furthered U.S. interests and influence and maintained programs and mission morale in a host of difficult operating environments. Prior to joining the Foreign Service\, she was among the first State Department Fascell Fellows and served from 1989–90 at the U.S. Consulate in Leningrad. She was also a researcher at the Foreign Policy Institute from 1987–91. \nThornton received her M.A. in International Relations and Soviet Studies from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in 1991 and earned an M.S. in National Strategy and Resource Management at the National Defense University’s Eisenhower School in 2010. Thornton received her B.A. from Bowdoin College in Economics and Russian in 1985\, and taught in international secondary schools in Brussels\, London\, and Chile. She speaks Russian\, Mandarin Chinese and French\, is a member of numerous professional associations and is on the Board of Trustees for the Eurasia Foundation. \n 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/neuhauser-lecture-featuring-susan-thornton-can-we-live-with-china-a-roadmap-for-co-evolution/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest,Special Event
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190305T133000
DTSTAMP:20260719T122408
CREATED:20190208T140625Z
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UID:7910-1551787200-1551792600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Yiu Yuk-man Carine - Reconstructing the history of Chinese dialects through foreigners’ eyes
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: YIU Yuk-man Carine\, Associate Professor of Humanities\, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; HYI Visiting Scholar 2018-19\nChair/discussant: C.-T. James Huang\, Professor of Linguistics\, Harvard University \nhttps://harvard-yenching.org/events/reconstructing-history-chinese-dialects-through-foreigners-eyes
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/yiu-yuk-man-carine-reconstructing-the-history-of-chinese-dialects-through-foreigners-eyes/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190313T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190313T180000
DTSTAMP:20260719T122408
CREATED:20190307T174021Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190307T174021Z
UID:7988-1552494600-1552500000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Başak Bilecen - Chinese International Students’ Networks at Elite Universities: A Comparative Study of Germany and the US
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Başak Bilecen\, Rosalind Franklin Assistant Professor of Sociology\, University of Groningen\nChair: Muriel Rouyer\, Adjunct Professor of Public Policy\, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation\, Harvard Kennedy School; Local Affiliate\, CES\, Harvard University \n In migration scholarship\, the role of social networks has been well-established in people’s decisions on whether to migrate and where to migrate to. Recently\, international student mobility literature has shown that networks\, parental aspirations and socio-economic background play an important role in an individual’s study-abroad decisions. Over the past few decades many countries\, including Germany and the United States\, have witnessed a tremendous increase in the number of international students applying to universities\, with the majority coming from China. Based on personal network analysis and qualitative interviews with Chinese international students enrolled at elite universities in Germany and in the US\, Başak Bilecen will compare and contrast how networks effect study abroad decisions. She will show that these decisions are based on the networks of the individual students as well as their country of origin and the educational institutions. \nhttps://bit.ly/2XC5KTL
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/basak-bilecen-chinese-international-students-networks-at-elite-universities-a-comparative-study-of-germany-and-the-us/
LOCATION:Adolphus Busch Hall\, 27 Kirkland St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190313T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190313T190000
DTSTAMP:20260719T122408
CREATED:20190305T175844Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190305T175844Z
UID:7977-1552500000-1552503600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Jenny So - Rare and Beautiful Objects\, New and Unexpected Findings: Revisiting Harvard’s Early Chinese Jades
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Jenny So\, Chinese University of Hong Kong \nJenny So will highlight the exciting discoveries she made while preparing a new catalogue of the ancient Chinese jades in the Harvard Art Museums collections. Free admission\, but seating is limited. Tickets will be distributed beginning at 5:30pm at the museums’ Broadway entrance. One ticket per person. After the lecture\, guests are invited to visit our early Chinese art galleries on Level 1 until 8pm. \nAbout Jenny F. So \nJenny F. So received her B.A. from Swarthmore College\, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in art history from Harvard University. She has served as senior curator of Ancient Chinese Art at the Freer and Sackler Galleries\, the Smithsonian Institution\, in charge of the rich holdings of both collections. She left the Smithsonian Institution to take up the position of professor of fine arts at the Chinese University of Hong Kong\, and later\, was also appointed director of that university’s Institute of Chinese Studies and Art Museum. She retired from her full-time Hong Kong appointments in 2015\, retaining an association as adjunct professor\, and returned to live in Arlington\, Virginia\, where she continues to publish while serving as a specialist-consultant in Chinese art for American and international educational and commercial institutions.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/jenny-so-rare-and-beautiful-objects-new-and-unexpected-findings-revisiting-harvards-early-chinese-jades/
LOCATION:Harvard Art Museums\, 32 Quincy St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190314T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190314T133000
DTSTAMP:20260719T122408
CREATED:20190208T140837Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190208T140837Z
UID:7911-1552564800-1552570200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Lyu Peng - Animal transition and subsistence strategy on an ancient Chinese island: A zooarchaeological study of the Xiaozhushan Site
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Lyu Peng\, Institute of Archaeology\, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; HYI Visiting Scholar 2018-19\nChair/discussant: Richard Meadow\, Senior Lecturer\, Department of Anthropology\, Harvard University \nhttps://harvard-yenching.org/events/animal-transition-and-subsistence-strategy-ancient-chinese-island-zooarchaeological-study
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/lyu-peng-animal-transition-and-subsistence-strategy-on-an-ancient-chinese-island-a-zooarchaeological-study-of-the-xiaozhushan-site/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190325T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190325T153000
DTSTAMP:20260719T122408
CREATED:20190319T132447Z
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UID:8009-1553522400-1553527800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Allan Layug - Order in International Thought: Unpacking China’s Concept of World Order
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Allan Layug\, PhD Candidate\, University of Queensland; Associate\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\nDiscussant: Robert Ross\, Professor of Political Science\, Boston College \nHow do we conceptualize China’s world order? What are its defining characteristics? Whose ideas matter in conceptualizing it—and why? And how do the different conceptions affect the Chinese world-ordering projects in the 21st century? These are the key questions the lecture aims to address. Specifically\, it will lay out the ideational foundations of order from the ancient to the modern Chinese thought\, exploring key ideas from Confucius to Sun Yatsen. It will unpack the bones of contention on conceptualization\, construction\, maintenance\, and transformation of world order in the contemporary period\, tracing change and continuity in Mao Zedong Thought\, Deng Theory\, Xi Jinping Thought. It will provide a four-level analysis: (a) analytical level\, where Chinese concept of order and its key characteristics are defined and analyzed\, (b) logical level\, where the reasoning behind such a conception is discussed\, (c) theoretical level\, where the concept is viewed from different theoretical points of view\, and (d) field of debate level\, where the parameters\, axes\, and forms of argument framing the debate in the Chinese world are analyzed. The lecture will conclude on some thoughts about the future trajectory of world ordering the Chinese Way.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/allan-layug-order-in-international-thought-unpacking-chinas-concept-of-world-order/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190325T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190325T180000
DTSTAMP:20260719T122408
CREATED:20190220T192207Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190220T192207Z
UID:7927-1553529600-1553536800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Felix Wemheuer - Rebels in Power: Factionalism in Shandong during China’s Cultural Revolution (1966-1969)
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Felix Wemheuer\, Chair Professor of Modern China Studies\, University of Cologne \nDuring the early Cultural Revolution (1966-1969)\, factional conflicts inside the CCP (Communist Party of China) and within the society resulted in civil war and the almost collapse of the party-state. Wemheuer will present Shandong Province as a case study for the development of factional conflicts at the various administrative levels of state and society. Based on various field trips\, archival research and Oral History interviews with former rebel leaders\, it will be shown how the coalition of rebel cadres\, students\, workers and soldiers was created in Shandong and why they were able to “seize power” in February of 1967. The events and developments that ultimately led to the splitting of the rebels and their final downfall in 1969 will also be examined. The talk will contribute to a new understanding of factional politics. \nFelix Wemheuer belongs to a new generation of Western scholars who are rewriting the history of Maoist China. His publications include Famine Politics in Maoist China and the Soviet Union (Yale UP 2014) and A Social History of Maoist China: Conflict and Change\, 1949-1976 (Cambridge UP 2019). Between 2008 and 2010\, he was a visiting scholar at the Fairbank Center.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/felix-wemheuer-rebels-in-power-factionalism-in-shandong-during-chinas-cultural-revolution-1966-1969/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190326T161500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190326T180000
DTSTAMP:20260719T122408
CREATED:20181210T155040Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181210T155040Z
UID:7794-1553616900-1553623200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Harvard-Yenching Institute Annual Roundtable: Preserving Asia’s Colonial and Modern Architectural Heritage
DESCRIPTION:Panelists:\nFu Chao-Ching\, Emeritus\, Department of Architecture\, National Cheng Kung University\, Taiwan\nKim Hyon-Sob\, Department of Architecture\, Korea University\, South Korea\nLiu Chen\, School of Architecture\, Tsinghua University\, China; HYI Visiting Scholar 2018-19\nThant Myint-U\, Writer\, Historian\, and Founder and Chairman of the Yangon Heritage Trust \nChair:\nAndrew Gordon\, Harvard University/Acting Director\, Harvard-Yenching Institute \nThis year’s HYI roundtable will present an exchange of ideas about current issues of architectural preservation in Asian cities. Our panelists will focus on architecture of modern times\, and in particular of the colonial era.  What are the challenges\, and the opportunities\, facing those interested to preserve the architecture of this era and make its importance known to the present and posterity? These challenges and opportunities have political\, economic\, and cultural dimensions.  Panelists will address the topic from one or more of these perspectives. \nCo-sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/harvard-yenching-institute-annual-roundtable-preserving-asias-colonial-and-modern-architectural-heritage/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190401T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190401T134500
DTSTAMP:20260719T122408
CREATED:20190312T172630Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190312T172630Z
UID:7998-1554120000-1554126300@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Richard Weitz: Russia\, China\, and the United States as Great-Power Competitors: Implications for Nuclear Security and Conflict
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Richard Weitz\, Senior Research Fellow\, Hudson Institute \n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/richard-weitz-russia-china-and-the-united-states-as-great-power-competitors-implications-for-nuclear-security-and-conflict/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S354\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190401T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190401T170000
DTSTAMP:20260719T122408
CREATED:20190329T154548Z
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UID:8031-1554130800-1554138000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Rudolf Wagner - The Public Performance of Justice: The Transcultural Career of a Political Installation Across Eurasia
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Rudolf Wagner\, Universitat Heidelberg; Fairbank Center Associate
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/rudolf-wagner-the-public-performance-of-justice-the-transcultural-career-of-a-political-installation-across-eurasia/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190402T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190402T131500
DTSTAMP:20260719T122408
CREATED:20190313T183531Z
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UID:8002-1554206400-1554210900@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Yeling Tan - Disaggregating “China\, Inc” - Explaining the Rise of Chinese State Capitalism
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Yeling Tan\, Assistant Professor of Political Science\, University of Oregon \nWhen China joined the WTO in 2001\, conventional wisdom held that global trade rules would provide a credible commitment to liberalization. While significant reforms did take place\, scholars soon pointed to the emergence of a Chinese “state capitalism”. Why did the expansion of market-oriented institutions after WTO entry fail to constrain the subsequent rise of more interventionist developmental policies? What explains the timing of these non-linear policy trajectories? This analysis disaggregates the Chinese central state and unpacks the divergent strategies adopted by competing agencies in response to WTO entry. \nYeling Tan\, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Oregon\, will explain why the timing of this divergence turns on the durability of WTO commitments and the political relationship between China’s party and its state. She will argue that what emerged was an intensified dualism in Chinese economic governance\, with intensified market competition promoted by one set of central agencies\, yet a more consolidated industrial policy promoted by rival agencies. Tony Saich\, Ash Center Director and Daweoo Professor of International Affairs\, will moderate. \nLunch will be served. This event is open to the public\, but seating is first come\, first served. We recommend that you arrive 10-15 minutes early to grab your lunch and a seat. Discussion will begin promptly at noon. 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/yeling-tan-disaggregating-china-inc-explaining-the-rise-of-chinese-state-capitalism/
LOCATION:Starr Auditorium\, Belfer Building\, Floor 2.5\, Harvard Kennedy School\, 79 JFK St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190403T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190403T210000
DTSTAMP:20260719T122408
CREATED:20190318T195143Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190318T195143Z
UID:8007-1554314400-1554325200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Symposium - Tale of Three Cities: Urban Regeneration Through Design and Cultural Innovation
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\nYuan Qian\, Director\, Vanke Urban Research Institute\nLemin Zhang\, Xiamen University.\nRuoxi Zhang\, Xiamen University.\nNeill Mclean Gaddes\, Principal\, Sans Practice\nJames Shen\, Principal\, People’s Architecture Office\, Harvard Loeb Fellow 2018\, Research Fellow – Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies \nIn four decades China’s urban population has exploded\, tripling to 58% of its total population. In compari-son to Europe at 74% and North America at 82%\, China has ample room to further urbanize. However\, the unfettered horizontal expansion of cities and the resulting over speculation and urban sprawl has led to severe environmental and social concerns. \nRecognizing this challenge\, President Xi stated at the19th National Congress of the Communist Party that the new urbanization plan will be “people centered” rather than land-driven. The 13th Five-Year plan he referred to\, set a goal to regenerate 20 million residences in shantytowns\, indicating a refocusing of urban development towards distressed locations and upgrading existing urban fabric. \nUrban Regeneration sites such as urban villages and historic districts are typically located near city cen-ters\, making it difficult to employ common tabula rasa urban renewal practices. Confronting dense urban areas with multiple stake holders and unique building and site conditions requires inventive approaches\, multi-disciplinary collaboration\, and public and private partnerships in order to gather the resources needed to tackle such projects. \nThis symposium brings together leading urban practitioners to discuss urban regeneration projects in Da-shilar Beijing\, Hubei in Shenzhen\, and Shapowei in Xiamen. In each case\, Art and Design has played a crucial role through their history of development. This symposium aims to provide a forum for the ex-change of ideas and lessons learned from successes and failures in regard to the actual experience of implementing of innovative urban regeneration strategies.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/symposium-tale-of-three-cities-urban-regeneration-through-design-and-cultural-innovation/
LOCATION:Gund Hall Room 111\, 48 Quincy St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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