Panel Discussion - Ten Years of Healthcare Reform in China: Progress and Gaps in Universal Health Coverage
2019-10-08 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Kresge Building, G3, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, 02115, United States
Speakers:
Winnie Yip, Professor of the Practice of International Health Policy and Economics
Barry Bloom, Joan L. and Julius H. Jacobson Research Professor of Public Health
William Hsiao, K.T. Li Research Professor of Economics
Hong Wang, Senior Program Officer, Gates Foundation
In 2009, China launched major health-care reform to provide all citizens with equal access to basic health care with reasonable quality and financial risk protection. The Government quadrupled its funding for health, expanded social insurance for all, and encouraged local governments to conduct pilots to reform their health delivery system. In 10 years, China has made substantial progress in improving equal access to care and enhancing financial protection, especially for people of lower socioeconomic status. However, gaps remain. Professor Yip will be joined by a panel of speakers who will comment on future prospects for China’s health care system and will engage with the audience on lessons to be drawn for other countries aspiring to achieve universal health coverage.

Anya Ventura - New Media and the Study of Chinese Art
2019-10-09 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker: Anya Ventura, Harvard Chinese Art Media Lab
RSVP: https://forms.gle/BSG1esNAVgPsa8p9A
Questions? Contact Feng-en Tu (fengentu@fas.harvard.edu)

James C. Lin - Developments in China’s Capital Markets and Implications of the US-China Trade War
2019-10-09 16:00 - 17:00 | Morgan Courtroom, Austin Hall, 1515 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Speaker: James C. Lin, ‘98, Partner, Davis Polk & Wardell; Lecturer on Law, Harvard Law School

Workshop - Everything Digital: An Essential Guide to Digital Tools for East Asian Studies
2019-10-10 12:00 - 15:30 | Room 212, 2 Divinity Ave., 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Registration Deadline: By October 4, Friday to http://bit.ly/DigitalEA
Lunch will be provided
Are you wondering what digital tools might be useful for your research? Join us for an informal lunch session as we share recommendations and useful shortcuts to help you get off to a running start and make the most of your time at Harvard and overseas.
This workshop will largely focus on technology, and ways to integrate various tools with Chinese, Japanese, and Korean research. Topics include:

Overview: How to Get Connected
Input Methods and Dictionaries
Bibliographic Tools: Zotero, Endnote, Paperpile, Mendeley, etc.
Writing Tools: Scrivener, Evernote, DEVONThink, Tropy, OneNote, etc.
Personal Database Building: Spreadsheets, MS Access, FileMaker, Airtable, etc.
Online Presentations: WordPress, Omeka, Scalar, StoryMaps, Prezi, etc.

Please come with your own ideas to share as well! This is an opportunity to learn and explore.
A laptop or tablet is recommended, but not required.
In collaboration with:
Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
East Asian Digital Humanities Lab at Harvard-Yenching Library
Japan Digital Research Center at Fung Library

Ezra Vogel - China and Japan: Facing History
2019-10-15 16:30 - 18:00
Speaker: Ezra Vogel. Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus, Harvard University
Reception to follow.

Sabrine Sticker-Kellerer - Big Data and the Chinese Legal System
2019-10-18 12:00 - 13:00 | Morgan Courtroom, Austin Hall, 1515 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Speaker: Sabine Stricker-Kellerer, Rechtsanwaltin, SSK ASIA

Cobus van Staden - China’s Belt and Road Initiative in Africa: Lessons for Central Asia
2019-10-23 15:00 - 16:00 | CGIS South Room S354, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Speaker: Cobus van Staden, Senior Researcher on China-Africa relations, South African Institute of International Affairs.
Before the Belt and Road Initiative became the heart of Chinese foreign engagement, China was already active in Africa. The lessons it learned in building railways, ports, and diplomatic networks on the continent helped to shape Beijing’s global rollout of infrastructure and influence. But how has China-Africa engagement, and the subsequent BRI, shaped African governance? Where and how does the continent exercise agency in dealing with China? And what lessons can Central Asia learn as it navigates the new landscape shaped by the BRI and China’s rise as a global superpower

Stuart McManus - Mancipia Indica: Neo-Roman and Non-Western Slave Law in Portuguese Asia
2019-10-29 17:00 - 19:00 | History Department Conference Room, Robinson Hall, 35 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Speaker: Stuart McManus, The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, Princeton University
Sponsored by the Early Modern History Workshop

The Taiwan Constitutional Court: History and Challenges
2019-11-04 12:00 - 13:00 | Morgan Courtroom, Austin Hall, 1515 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Speakers:
Tzong-Li Hsu, Dr. iur., Georg-August Universität Göttingen, Germany; Chief Justice, Taiwan Constitutional Court and President, Judicial Yuan
Jau-yuan Hwang (SJD ‘95), Justice, Taiwan Constitutional Court
http://www.law.harvard.edu/programs/eals/events.html

Valerie Karplus - China's Climate Policy and Air Quality: From Subnational to Global Impacts
2019-11-04 12:00 - 13:15 | CGIS South Room S354, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Speaker: Valerie J. Karplus, Assistant Professor of Global Economics and Management, MIT Sloan School of Management
China’s future energy mix will have a decisive effect on the world’s ability to meet climate change mitigation goals. This talk will discuss China’s national approach to climate change, and use a multi-scale modeling approach to analyze the effects of China’s climate pledge on the energy system, greenhouse gas emissions, air quality, and human health. Projected air quality and health co-benefits in Japan, Korea, and the U.S. will also be presented. Taken together, the findings provide a strong case for cooperation among China, the U.S., and other Asian countries to support implementation of China’s climate goals.

Maria Adele Carrai - Sovereignty in China: A Genealogy of a Concept Since 1840
2019-11-04 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker: Maria Adele Carrai, Fellow, Harvard University Asia Center; Marie-Curie senior researcher at the Center for Global Governance at KU Leuven
Discussant: Alastair Iain Johnston, Governor James Albert Noe and Linda Noe Laine Professor of China in World Affairs, Harvard University

Liu Jingfang - China’s Green Movement: Players, Style, and Strategy
2019-11-05 12:00 - 13:30
Speaker: Liu Jingfang, Associate Professor, School of Journalism, Fudan University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2019-20
Chair/discussant: Karen Thornber, Professor of Comparative Literature and of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University
While China is transforming itself into an economic powerhouse, it also suffers from dire environmental degradation and crisis. Behind the notorious images of Beijing’s grey sky and smog-obscured landmarks, frequently portrayed in Western media, what has been done inside of China trying to change the situation? Who has made efforts and how? This talk gives an introduction of the less-known but growing environmental movement undertaken by diverse players in China over the past two and a half decades. It will examine how the multiple agents and institutions of change interact with each other at different levels, engage in special coping strategies, and struggle to activate a green movement of its own style and nature. From a communication perspective, it will examine, both empirically and theoretically, the elements that construct a growing “green public culture” in China and China’s unique path to environmental protection.
https://harvard-yenching.org/events/china-s-green-movement-players-style-and-strategy

Randall Schriver - U.S. National Defense Strategy Implementation in the Indo-Pacific
2019-11-05 12:00 - 13:30 | Allison Dining Room, 5th Floor Taubman Building, 15 Eliot St., Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Speaker: Randall G. Schriver, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs
Moderator: Graham Allison, Douglas Dillon Professor of Government, former Director of the Belfer Center, and founding Dean of Harvard Kennedy School

RSVP required.

Film Screening and Panel Discussion - "One Child Nation"
2019-11-05 16:00 - 19:00 | CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010), 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Panel Discussion:
Jialing Zhang, Co-Director of “One Child Nation”
Mable Chan, Founder of China Personified; One in a Billion Productions
Susan Greenhalgh, John King and Wilma Cannon Fairbank Research Professor of Chinese Society, Harvard University
Jie Li, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University
Karen Thornber, Harry Tuchman Levin Professor in Literature and Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University
Co-sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies

Jess Cohen-Tanugi - Five Tips for Creating Compelling Data Visualization
2019-11-06 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker: Jess Cohen-Tanugi, Visualization Specialist, Lamont Library
RSVP:https://forms.gle/BSG1esNAVgPsa8p9A
Questions: fengentu@fas.harvard.edu

International Implications from Contemporary Developments in Chinese Higher Education
2019-11-07 16:30 - 18:00 | William James Hall, Room 1550, 33 kirkland st, cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Speakers:
Hamish Coates, Professor, Institute of Education and Director, Higher Education Division; Deputy Director, Global Research Center for the Assessment of College and Student Development, Tsinghua University
Wen Wen, Associate Professor, Institute of Education, Tsinghua University; Deputy Director, Asian Research Center, Tsinghua University; Fulbright Scholar (2019-2020), Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University
Discussants:
Manja Klemenčič, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University
Francesca Purcell, Faculty Director, Higher Education Program, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University
While consequences from the growth of Chinese higher education have already reverberated around the world, we argue in this seminar that further substantial changes are only just starting to emerge.
This seminar begins by showing how changes in Chinese higher education over the last two decades have shaped major developments in other countries.
Next, it analyses contemporary developments in Chinese higher education, building on research being led by Tsinghua University’s Institute of Education which touches on institutional governance and leadership, the construction of infrastructure, the changing nature of doctorates and the academic profession, research goals and strategies, emerging hybrid forms of teaching, and the cultivation of students.
The seminar’s final contribution is to integrate these analyses and clarify emerging futures. Particular emphasis is placed on the nature of education and its contribution to the common good.
https://universities-pastpresentfuture.mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/international-implications-contemporary-developments

Xin Zhang - Governance by Numbers: Origins, Present and Future of China’s Social Credit System
2019-11-13 12:00 - 13:15 | WCC 1010, Wasserstein Hall, 1585 Mass. Ave., Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Speaker: Xin Zhang, Visiting Scholar, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University; Associate Professor, School of Law, University of International Business and Economics, Beijing
Commenter/Discussant : Ya-Wen Lei, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Harvard University
Asian food will be provided.

Gerard Sanders and Xuan Gao - The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank: A 21st-Century Multilateral Development Bank
2019-11-14 12:00 - 13:00 | Austin East, Room 101, 1515 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Speakers:
Gerard Sanders, General Counsel, AIIB
Xuan Gao, Senior Counsel and Head of Institutional Unit, AIIB
Non-pizza lunch will be served.

Roger Shih-Chieh Lo - Redemptive Society and Cold War: Tongshanshe (Fellowship of Goodness) in Zhejiang, Fujian, and Taiwan, 1949-1978
2019-11-14 12:00 - 13:30
Speaker: Roger Shih-Chieh Lo, National Taiwan University; HYI Visiting Scholar
Chair/discussant: Michael Szonyi, Harvard University
Throughout the 20th century, the two most influential redemptive societies in Chinese local society, Tongshanshe (Fellowship of Goodness) and Yiguangdao (Persistent way) both suffered various level of crackdown from different regimes. From fieldwork and local archives, however, it is evident that these two redemptive societies played a very important political role in local society. In this talk of the development of Tongshanshe in Zhejiang, Fujian and Taiwan during the cold war, I will discuss the following three questions: first, what is the significance of this redemptive society in local society during the cold war? Secondly, besides the suppression of evil cults from the government, what are the other undisclosed political interactions we can find from these local popular associations and national, or even international, politics? Finally, what kind of new explanation about post-1949 history can be found from this local history study.
Harvard-Yenching Institute lunch talk

Faan Chen - Driving and the Built Environment: Is Transit-Oriented Development Effective in Shanghai?
2019-11-14 15:30 - 16:45 | Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Speaker: Faan Chen, Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard-China Project, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University
The rapid growth of cities such as Shanghai in China has presented many transportation, land use and climate change challenges for local government officials, planning and transit practitioners and property developers. These challenges include traffic congestion, energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions that contribute to global warming. As one of the more visible urban forms of smart growth, Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) has been actively promoted as a model for urban development in areas around transit stations to solve such challenges. The vast majority of studies of TOD have been conducted in North American and European cities, while research of TOD is still in its infancy in most developing countries, including China, where residential and transport choices are likely to be more constrained and travel-related attitudes quite different from those in the developed world. Using the data collected from more than 8000 residents living in TOD and non-TOD neighborhoods in the city of Shanghai, this study aims to partly fill the gaps by investigating the causal relationship between the built environment and travel behavior in the Chinese context, and specifically to examine whether altering the built environment can actually lead to meaningful changes in travel behavior, e.g., less Vehicle Kilometers Traveled (VKT) and GHG emissions.
Sponsored by the Harvard-China Project on Energy, Economy, and Environment, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

Repercussions: The Hong Kong Protests in Context
2019-11-19 17:00 - 19:00 | CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Chair: James Robson, James C. Kralik and Yunli Lou Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations; Victor and William Fung Director, Harvard University Asia Center

Steven Goldstein, Sophia Smith Professor of Government, Emeritus, Smith College; Associate and Organizer, Taiwan Studies Workshop, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
Mary Alice Haddad, Professor of Government, East Asian Studies, and Environmental Studies, Wesleyan University
Sooyeon Kang, Pre-doctoral Fellow, Carr Center for Human Rights, Harvard Kennedy School; PhD Candidate, Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver
David Slater, Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Sophia University, Tokyo
Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Chancellor’s Professor of History, University of California, Irvine
Asia Beyond the Headlines Seminar Series, Harvard University Asia Center. Co-sponsored by: the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, the Korea Institute, the Program on U.S. Japan Relations, and the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies

Workshop: Law and Empire in the Sino-Asian Context
2019-11-21 11:00 - 18:00 | Austin Hall Room 308, 1515 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Co-hosted by International Society for Legal History , American Society for Legal History, The International Society for Chinese Law and History, and the Harvard Law School Program in East Asian Legal Studies
Graduate Student Panel
11:00 AM – 1:00 PM
Chair: Tahirih Lee (FSU)
Yue Jiang (Stanford) Commentator: Michael Szonyi (Harvard)
Gender, Property, and Lineage in Mid-Qing: Property Disputes Between Women and Lineages
Rui Hua (Harvard) Commentator: Sakura Christmas (Bowdoin)
Imperial Wars in A Magistrate’s Court: Translingual Legal Literacy and the Everyday Politics of Territorial Land Laws in Manchuria, 1900-1931
Xinyu Huang (Yale) Commentator: Thomas Buoye (Tulsa)
The Censorial Impeachments under Qianlong and Jiaqing Reign (1736-1820)
Jingjian Wu (Yale) Commentator: William Alford (Harvard)
W.A.P. Martin, Naturalism and The Translation of International Law in Late Qing China
Lunch Break
1:00 – 2:00 PM
Legal and Intellectual Constructs of Empire
2:00 – 3:30 PM
Chair: Phillip Thai (Northeastern)
Commentator: Fei-Hsien Wang (Indiana)
Colin Jones (Columbia)
Living Law, Legal Consciousness, and the Afterlives of Empire: The Origins and Legacy of the North China Rural Customs Survey (1941-1944)
Tristan Brown (MIT)
Breaking the Land, Breaking the Law: Fengshui and the End of Imperial China
Peter Thilly (Univ. of Mississippi)
Consular Jurisdiction and the Pioneers of Flexible Citizenship
Coffee Break
3:30 – 4:00 PM
Laying Down and Crossing Borders
4:00 – 6:00 PM
Chair: Pär Cassel (Michigan)
Commentator: Taisu Zhang (Yale)
Geng Tian (Peking Univ.)
The Boundary Works in the Qing’s Legal Analogies between “Violent” Social Groups, 1750-1850
Yonglin Jiang (Bryn Mawr)
The Contested Order: Central-Local Legal Dynamics on the Borderlands of the Ming Empire
Jenny Huangfu (Skidmore)
The Last Refuge of the Scoundrel: Transnational Fugitives and the Spaces of Law in Late Qing China, 1860s-1900s
Larissa Pitts (Quinnipiac)
The Abortive Forest Law of 1914: Russian Timber Merchants, Chinese ‘Traitors,’ and the Collapse of Modern Chinese Environmental Law

Pan Weilin - Dialectics of Waste: Recycling Campaigns in Socialist China, 1949-1978
2019-11-21 12:00 - 13:30
Speaker: Pan Weilin, Assistant Professor, Institute of China Studies, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2019-20
Chair/discussant: Elizabeth Perry, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government, Harvard University; Director, Harvard-Yenching Institute
This talk will examine how the national system of China’s waste recovery and recycling took shape through the mass movements during the heydays of the Great Leap Forward (1958-1960) and the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976). Waste recovery and recycling gained political weight after Mao’s idea of “comprehensive usage” (zonghe liyong) had become the guiding ideology of China’s rapid industrialization. It was not only a matter of production and productivity, but also a matter of dialectical materialism. The usable and the useless were perceived as a unity of opposites. In a “scientific”/ideal scenario, the use value can be unceasingly resurrected as long as human endeavor implies. I will argue that the idea and practice of waste recovery and recycling in that period showcased the revolutionary romanticism of the relationship between people and state, as well as people and nature. It is a socialist legacy that speaks to our contemporary concerns about sustainability and pollution control in post-reform urban China.
https://harvard-yenching.org/events/dialectics-waste-recycling-campaigns-socialist-china-1949-1978

American Factory: Film Screening and Discussion with Directors
2019-11-25 13:25 - 16:00 | Klarman Hall, Harvard Business School, Kresge Way, Boston, MA, 02163, United States
Speakers:
Julia Reichert, Director
Steven Bognar, Director
Meg Rithmire, F. Warren McFarlan Associate Professor of Business Administration
Kris Rondeau, Director of AFSCME New England
The film profiles the launch of the Fuyao Glass factory in Moraine, Ohio, sited in a former General Motors plant. To launch the factory, Fuyao brought in hundreds of experienced Chinese factory workers to Ohio to train their U.S. counterparts. The film provides the economic and social issues this sparked, including management challenges associated with labor dynamics, a unionization effort, and managing an operation with workers from two very different cultures.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/american-factory-documentary-screening-and-panel-discussion-tickets-80070269331

Urban Rusnak - Energy Connectivity and Investment Disputes in Eurasia
2019-12-04 09:00 - 10:00
Speaker: Urban Rusnák, Secretary General, Energy Charter Secretariat
Moderator: Mark Wu, Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Opening remarks: Rawi Abdelal, Herbert F. Johnson Professor of International Management, Harvard Business School; Director, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Join the Negotiation Task Force for a guest lecture by Urban Rusnák, Secretary General of the Energy Charter Secretariat, about the challenges of investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) in the context of Eurasian energy connectivity.

Elizabeth Ingleson - Making Made In China: Race, Labor, and Politics in U.S.-China Trade 1971-1980
2019-12-04 15:45 - 17:30 | History Department Conference Room, Robinson Hall, 35 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Speaker: Elizabeth Ingleson, Southern Methodist University
Interested attendees should e-mail marinoauffant@gmail.com for a copy of the pre-circulated paper.
Part of the Harvard International & Global History Seminar (HIGHS) series, a forum for cutting-edge work in the fields of international and global history.

Jin Ping Mei and the World: Translation and Transculturation — A Symposium in Honor of David Roy (1933-2016)
2019-12-05 09:00 - 17:30
The Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University will convene a symposium on Jin Ping Mei (The Plum in the Golden Vase) in honor of David Tod Roy (1933 – 2016), Professor Emeritus of the University of Chicago, on December 5, 2019, at Harvard University.
For more information, visit https://scholar.harvard.edu/jpm

Jane Perlez - The Cultural Revolution Revisited: 1967-2019
2019-12-13 14:00 - 15:30 | Taylor Seminar Room, Lippman House, 1 Francis Ave., Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Speaker: Jane Perlez, 2019 Joan Shorenstein Center Fellow, Beijing Bureau Chief for The New York Times.
Moderator: Lucy Hornby, 2020 Nieman Fellow, Deputy Beijing Bureau Chief for the Financial Times.
Long before she was Beijing bureau chief for The New York Times, Jane Perlez was an accidental tourist at the peak of China’s Cultural Revolution. Join us as she screens rare footage and talks about her impressions of a 1967 trip to Shanghai and cities around China, when Red Guards turned China upside down.

Shen Hongyu - The Evolving Role of Chinese Courts in International Commercial Dispute Resolution
2020-01-14 12:00 - 13:00 | Morgan Courtroom, Austin Hall, 1515 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Speaker: Judge Shen Hongyu, The Supreme People’s Court of China; Visiting Scholar, The Center for Chinese Legal Studies, Columbia Law School

Kwok-Leong Tang - Digital China Lab: Preparation for Digital Scholarship in Chinese Studies
2020-02-05 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker: Kwok-Leong Tang, Digital China Fellow, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University
Digital China Lab is a series of workshops on data collecting and wrangling, which will be offered by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies this semester. Kwok-leong will talk about the difficulties faced by humanities students in engaging with digital methodologies and explain his rationale for planning the workshops.
Kwok-Leong Tang provides support and consultation to anyone interested in adopting digital tools and methods in their research related to Chinese studies. He received his Ph.D. in history and Asian studies from Pennsylvania State University, where he worked as a postdoctoral teaching fellow after graduation.
