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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161025T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161025T200000
DTSTAMP:20260720T003137
CREATED:20161017T124525Z
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UID:3961-1477418400-1477425600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:A New Asia: How China Shaped the Postwar Global Order
DESCRIPTION:The 2016 S.T. Lee Lecture will be presented by Rana Mitter\, professor of history and politics of modern China and fellow of St Cross College\, University of Oxford. Established in 2001\, the Lee Lecture focuses on military history\, strategy\, and policy making. \nRSVP to arrd_events@hks.harvard.edu
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/a-new-asia-how-china-shaped-the-postwar-global-order/
LOCATION:Loeb House\, 17 Quincy Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161031T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161031T140000
DTSTAMP:20260720T003137
CREATED:20161025T192513Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161025T192513Z
UID:4114-1477915200-1477922400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Book Talk: The Last Days of Stalin
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Joshua Rubenstein. staff member of Amnesty International USA from 1975 to 2012 and associate at Harvard University’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/book-talk-the-last-days-of-stalin/
LOCATION:Lewis 241A\, 1557 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161108T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161108T140000
DTSTAMP:20260720T003137
CREATED:20161102T154959Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161102T154959Z
UID:4313-1478607300-1478613600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Unparalleled Momentum: A Review of China-U.S. Economic and Trade Relations Under President Obama
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Xiang Yu\, Visiting Scholar\, Harvard University Asia Center; Director of the Division of American Economy Studies\, Institute of American Studies\, China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations (CICIR); Research Fellow and Associate Professor\, CICIR \nChair: Dr. William Overholt\, Asia Center Senior Fellow
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/unparalleled-momentum-a-review-of-china-u-s-economic-and-trade-relations-under-president-obama/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161109T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161109T170000
DTSTAMP:20260720T003137
CREATED:20161103T173005Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161103T173005Z
UID:4360-1478705400-1478710800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:China's National Cap-and-Trade Program: the Promise and the Reality
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: WANG Pu\, Postdoctoral Fellow\, Harvard Kennedy School \nCo-sponsored by the China Project\, Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences\, and the Environment and Natural Resources Program\, Harvard Kennedy School. \nChina’s national cap-and-trade program is regarded as a cornerstone of its climate policy outlined in the 13th Five-year plan (2016-2020)\, published right after the 2015 U.N. Climate Conference in Paris. Since China has accounted for two thirds of global emissions growth in the past decade\, its ambition to control carbon emissions could be a great contribution to the global effort in combating climate change. In addition to emission reduction\, China also intends to achieve two other goals through the program: to facilitate economic transition by reducing energy-inefficient industrial sectors and promoting low-carbon industries\, and to mitigate severe air pollution in the urban regions. But the program’s effectiveness is contingent on the right institutional settings at both macro and micro levels. The speaker will review the major challenges for the program in accomplishing the policy goals\, and discuss the efficiency and equity tradeoffs of different allowance allocation methods in the cap-and-trade program.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/chinas-national-cap-and-trade-program-the-promise-and-the-reality/
LOCATION:Pierce Hall 100F\, 29 Oxford St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Environment,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161112T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161115T075959
DTSTAMP:20260720T003137
CREATED:20161103T172653Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161103T172653Z
UID:4355-1478937600-1479196799@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Workshop: The Artist’s Hand—Technology in Practice
DESCRIPTION:This workshop is an international event jointly sponsored by the Harvard History of Art and Architecture Dept.\, the China Academy of Art\, and the Rhode Island School of Design. It is designed to unite practicing artists and art historians in an exploration of the role of the Artist’s Hand and traditional technique in contemporary artistic practice (with an emphasis on East Asia).
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/workshop-the-artists-hand-technology-in-practice/
LOCATION:Deknatel Hall\, 32 Quincy St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161114T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161114T110000
DTSTAMP:20260720T003137
CREATED:20161102T153857Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161102T153857Z
UID:4303-1479114000-1479121200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Film Screening and Discussion: Mr. Deng Goes to Washington
DESCRIPTION:Mr. Deng Goes to Washington tells the story of Deng Xiaoping’s\, China’s paramount leader\, historic visit to the United States in 1979 that changed the trajectory of world history.  This dramatic story is told through first-hand experiences of those people from both countries who made the normalization of relations possible–politicians\, diplomats\,  and one former U.S. President.  Throughout the trip\, Deng had to face many different audiences and win the approval of the U.S. public and the U.S. Congress.  But in the end\, Deng’s wisdom in opening up a new course\, his determination and sense of humor and the American hosts’ good will and detailed preparations cemented the friendship between the U.S. and China and precipitated China’s meteoric economic rise for the next 36 years. \nDiscussants:\nEzra Vogel\, Henry Ford II Professor of Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus\,  Harvard University\nJan Berris\, Vice-President\, National Committee on U.S.-China Relations\nFu Hongqing\, Director\, Mr. Deng Goes to Washington\nZhou Zhixing\, Chair\, U.S.-China New Perspectives Foundation
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-screening-and-discussion-mr-deng-goes-to-washington/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161115T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161115T200000
DTSTAMP:20260720T003137
CREATED:20161109T175918Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161109T175918Z
UID:4426-1479232800-1479240000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Film Screening: "Song of the Reed"
DESCRIPTION:In 1998\, the Taiwan Women’s Rescue Foundation (TWRF) made a groundbreaking documentary that revealed the existence of Taiwanese comfort women. More than 15 years later\, the same organization filmed a second documentary\, Song of the Reed. Following the later years of six former comfort women\, Song of the Reed focuses on the therapy that the women went through to confront their horrific experiences and the justice that they are still seeking.\nJapanese\, Hoklo\, and Mandarin with Chinese and English subtitles. \n 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-screening-song-of-the-reed/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest,Film Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161117T171500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161117T190000
DTSTAMP:20260720T003137
CREATED:20161026T195309Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161026T195309Z
UID:4230-1479402900-1479409200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:South China Sea: Hague and Aftermath
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\nAndrew Loewenstein\, Partner\, Foley Hoag\nPeter Dutton\, Naval War College\nMichael McDevitt\, CNA Strategic Studies\nTaylor Fravel\, MIT
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/south-china-sea-hague-and-aftermath/
LOCATION:Boston University School of Education Auditorium\, 2 Silber Way\, Boston\, MA\, 02215\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161122T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161122T133000
DTSTAMP:20260720T003137
CREATED:20161102T160333Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161102T160333Z
UID:4320-1479816000-1479821400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:The Mining Industry\, Caravan Transportation and Ethnic Mobilization in southwest China from the 17th to 19th Century
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Prof. Ma Jianxiong (Hong Kong U. of Science and Technology; HYI Visiting Scholar)\nChair/discussant: Prof. Michael Szonyi (Director\, Harvard University Fairbank Center) \nHarvard-Yenching Institute Lunchtime Talk \nThis talk will review the history of silver and copper mines on the borderland between Yunnan and Burma\, in particular the social organization of miners in remote mountainous areas. Two types of ethnic mobilization among the Hui and the Lahu will be examined. These two ethnic minorities were mobilized through different channels to politically resist the Qing government in interior counties and exterior chieftains. This was due to the political influence of unemployed miners\, which arose from the decline of borderland silver mines in the early 19th century and local governments’ subsequent failure to manage social mobility as miners shifted their work to agriculture or business. The talk aims to study how cooperative transportation system networks became interwoven by different social actors in cities and mines\, especially caravan muleteers whose mobility in metal transportation and commercial circulations was bound to the development of the mining industry and ethnic politics in southwest China. Different social sections cooperated through mediators such as the caravan muleteers\, silver miners and exiled monks. In general\, this talk will explain the historical reconstruction of borderland society in southwest China\, showing how ethnic mobilization was a social consequence of economic and political transformation resulting from the extension of state governance in mountain areas from the Ming to the Qing. \nhttps://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/mining-industry-caravan-transportation-and-ethnic-mobilization-southwest-china-17th-19th
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-mining-industry-caravan-transportation-and-ethnic-mobilization-in-southwest-china-from-the-17th-to-19th-century/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161128T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161128T180000
DTSTAMP:20260720T003137
CREATED:20161118T150854Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161118T150854Z
UID:4463-1480348800-1480356000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:The World of Universities in the 21st Century - Two Case Studies: UC-Berkeley & Hong Kong University
DESCRIPTION:William Kirby\, Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration\, Harvard Business School; T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies\, Harvard University \nCommentators:\nCharles S. Maier\, Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History\, Harvard University\nSugata Bose\, Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History\, Harvard University\nAniket De\, PhD Candidate in History\, Harvard University
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-world-of-universities-in-the-21st-century-two-case-studies-uc-berkeley-hong-kong-university/
LOCATION:Lower Level Library\, Robinson Hall\, 35 Quincy Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161129T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161129T130000
DTSTAMP:20260720T003137
CREATED:20160909T223500Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160909T223500Z
UID:3397-1480417200-1480424400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Unlikely Partners: Chinese Reformers\, Western Economists\, and the Making of Global China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Julian Gewirtz ’13  \nJulian Gewirtz will discuss his forthcoming book\, Unlikely Partners: Chinese Reformers\, Western Economists\, and the Making of Global China\, which Harvard University Press will publish in January. Writing for the New Yorker\, Evan Osnos summarizes: “The book tells the little-known story of how Chinese intellectuals and leaders\, facing a ruined economy at the end of the Cultural Revolution\, sought the help of foreign economists to rebuild. Between 1976 and 1993\, in a series of exchanges\, conferences\, and collaborations\, Western intellectuals sought not to change China but to help it change itself\, and they made indispensable contributions to China’s rise as a global economic power.”
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/unlikely-partners-chinese-reformers-western-economists-and-the-making-of-global-china/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161129T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161129T133000
DTSTAMP:20260720T003137
CREATED:20161102T160722Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161102T160722Z
UID:4323-1480420800-1480426200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:The Exile and Diplomacy of the 13th Dalai Lama (1904-1912): Tibet's Encounters with the US and Japan
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Prof. Kobayashi Ryosuke (Toyo Bunko; HYI Visiting Scholar)\nChair/discussant: Prof. Leonard van der Kuijp (Harvard University)\n\nHarvard-Yenching Institute Lunch Talk \nThis talk will show how Tibet attempted to participate in the international community around the demise of the Qing Dynasty in 1912 by focusing on its relationships with the US and Japan. The sojourns of the 13th Dalai Lama (1876-1933) to Mongolia\, China and India from 1904 to 1912 were remarkable turning points that led him to reconsider the deteriorating relationship with the Qing dynasty and China and to begin participating in the modern international community. Through encounters with foreign dignitaries from Britain\, Russia\, the US and Japan\, the Dalai Lama\, who had never before been away from Tibet\, developed his understanding of the international community and of Tibet’s position in the world. This talk will discuss how the Dalai Lama conducted his diplomacy with the U.S. and Japan\, two newly influential countries in East Asia at the end of 19th century\, and how those countries dealt with Tibetan issues. \nhttps://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/exile-and-diplomacy-13th-dalai-lama-1904-1912-tibets-encounters-us-and-japan
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-exile-and-diplomacy-of-the-13th-dalai-lama-1904-1912-tibets-encounters-with-the-us-and-japan/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161130T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161130T140000
DTSTAMP:20260720T003137
CREATED:20161116T173731Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161116T173731Z
UID:4446-1480509000-1480514400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Beijing Faces its Periphery: Update on Hong Kong and Taiwan
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr. Richard Bush\, Brookings Institution: Senior Fellow\, the Richard H. Armacost Chair\, the Chen-Fu and Cecilia Yen Koo Chair in Taiwan Studies\,  Director of  the Center for East Asia Policy Studies\, and Senior Fellow\, Foreign Policy\, John L. Thornton China Center;  former Chairman and Managing Director of the American Institute in Taiwan \nCritical Issues Confronting China Seminar Series; co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Harvard University Asia Center
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/periphery/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Critical Issues Confronting China Series,Events of Interest,Taiwan Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161130T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161130T170000
DTSTAMP:20260720T003137
CREATED:20161116T174415Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161116T174415Z
UID:4449-1480519800-1480525200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Competing Air Quality and Water Conservation Co-Benefits from Power Sector Decarbonization in China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: PENG Wei\, Postdoctoral Fellow\, Harvard Kennedy School \nCo-sponsored by the China Project\, Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences\, and the Environment and Natural Resources Program\, Harvard Kennedy School
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/competing-air-quality-and-water-conservation-co-benefits-from-power-sector-decarbonization-in-china/
LOCATION:Pierce Hall 100F\, 29 Oxford St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Environment,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161205T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161205T180000
DTSTAMP:20260720T003137
CREATED:20161202T135347Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161202T135347Z
UID:4508-1480955400-1480960800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:The Buddha and the Dragon Princess in the Lotus Sutra — for deciphering the Devadatta frontispiece in the Heike Tokyo set
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Ryūichi Abé\, Harvard University \nThe Heike Nokyo is a sumptuously produced set of Buddhist scriptural handscrolls that was commissioned by the Heike military aristocratic clan and offered to the Goddess of Itsukushima\, the clan’s tutelary divinity\, in the mid-twelfth century.  The set is arguably the most sublime example of illustrated and decorated Buddhist scriptures in Japanese history.  The Heike Nokyo includes twenty-eight scrolls of the Lotus Sutra each of which is decked with a beautiful multicolor frontispiece that captures central motifs of the sutra’s each chapter.  Among them the “Dragon Princess” frontispiece of the Devadatta chapter scroll (Chapter Twelve) that depicts the Dragon Princess’s proffering her legendary jewel to Shakyamuni Buddha is particularly renowned for its splendor.  However\, unlike other sutra illustrations from the same period\, the Dragon Princess here does not transform herself into a male figure\, nor does she fly away to a buddha land in the south in order to be reborn there as a male Buddha.  Furthermore\, in contradistinction to the depiction in that chapter of the sutra in which the Buddha receives her jewel on Eagle Peak\, in the Heike Nokyo frontispiece the Buddha sits on a heavenly pure land; and Dragon Princess stands effortlessly on ocean waves.  No previous scholarship succeeded in deciphering this frontispiece as a narrative painting.  I argue that the Dragon Princess frontispiece represents an unusual effort by erudite Heike court ladies who grounded themselves on the authentic Sui and Tang Chinese doctrinal commentaries in order to reject the popular yet vulgar gender-biased interpretation of the Dragon Princess episode — that is\, she had to change her sex before she was able to attain enlightenment. The frontispiece aims at establishing a superior interpretation of the princess’s episode in the Lotus Sutra that positively illustrates female Buddhist practitioners’ agency in both attaining their own enlightenment and providing salvation to other beings\, both male and female.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-buddha-and-the-dragon-princess-in-the-lotus-sutra-for-deciphering-the-devadatta-frontispiece-in-the-heike-tokyo-set/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161207T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161207T140000
DTSTAMP:20260720T003137
CREATED:20161201T162000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161201T162000Z
UID:4501-1481113800-1481119200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:The East-Asian Peace: Can it Last?
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: The Honorable Börje Ljunggren\, Former Asia Center Fellow; former Swedish Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China and Vietnam \nCritical Issues Confronting China Seminar Series; co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Harvard University Asia Center \n 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-east-asian-peace-can-it-last/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China Series,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161207T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161207T170000
DTSTAMP:20260720T003137
CREATED:20161201T163854Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161201T163854Z
UID:4504-1481124600-1481130000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Long-Term Trend and Spatial Pattern of PM2.5-Induced Premature Mortality in China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: WANG Haikun\, Associate Professor\, School of Environment\, Nanjing University \nSponsored by the China Project\, Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. \nWith rapid economic growth\, China has witnessed increasingly frequent and severe haze and smog episodes over the past decade\, posing serious health impacts to the Chinese population\, especially those in densely populated city clusters. Quantification of the spatial and temporal variation of health impacts attributable to ambient fine particulate matter (PM2.5) has important implications for China’s policies on air pollution control. In this study\, we evaluated the spatial distribution of premature deaths in China between 2000 and 2010 attributable to ambient PM2.5 in accord with the Global Burden of Disease based on a high resolution population density map of China\, satellite retrieved PM2.5concentrations\, and provincial health data. Our results suggest that China’s anthropogenic ambient PM2.5 led to 1\,255\,400 premature deaths in 2010\, 42% higher than the level in 2000. Besides increased PM2.5 concentration\, rapid urbanization has attracted large population migration into the more developed eastern coastal urban areas\, intensifying the overall health impact. In addition\, our analysis implies that health burdens were exacerbated in some developing inner provinces with high population density (e.g. Henan\, Anhui\, Sichuan) because of the relocation of more polluting and resource-intensive industries into these regions. In order to avoid such national level environmental inequities\, China’s regulations on PM2.5 should not be loosened in inner provinces. Furthermore policies should create incentive mechanisms that can promote transfer of advanced production and emissions control technologies from the coastal regions to the interior regions.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/long-term-trend-and-spatial-pattern-of-pm2-5-induced-premature-mortality-in-china/
LOCATION:Pierce Hall 100F\, 29 Oxford St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Environment,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161212T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161212T180000
DTSTAMP:20260720T003137
CREATED:20161202T135801Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161202T135801Z
UID:4513-1481560200-1481565600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:The Indian Yogācāra Scholar Sthiramati and the Works Attributed to Him
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Jowita Kramer\, Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich \nThis paper focuses on the scriptural corpus of Sthiramati\, a pivotal scholar in the development of Indian Yogācāra thought in the 6th century. So far Sthiramati’s work has received far less attention from modern scholars than the treatises of other Yogācāra authors like Asaṅga or Vasubandhu—probably because of the perception of Sthiramati as a commentator and not as an original author and thinker in his own right. However\, as I have tried to show in a recently published paper\, commentators like Sthiramati have shaped the doctrinal development of the Yogācāra tradition by introducing new concepts and reorganizing previous teachings to a similar extent as “independent” authors like Vasubandhu. In the first part I will give an overview of the works ascribed to Sthiramati and question their authorship. The second part of the paper will be mainly devoted to my editorial work on the Sanskrit manuscripts of Sthiramati’s commentaries made available at the China Tibetology Research Center in Beijing\, namely the Pañcaskandhakavibhāṣā and the Abhidharmakośabhāṣya Tattvārthā. \n 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-indian-yogacara-scholar-sthiramati-and-the-works-attributed-to-him/
LOCATION:1 Bow St.\, Room 317\, 1 Bow St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170128T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170130T075959
DTSTAMP:20260720T003137
CREATED:20160920T195836Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160920T195836Z
UID:3561-1485590400-1485763199@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Association for Asian Studies - New England Regional Conference
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/association-for-asian-studies-new-england-regional-conference/
LOCATION:Boston College\, 140 Commonwealth Ave\, Chestnut Hill\, MA\, 02467\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170130T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170130T173000
DTSTAMP:20260720T003137
CREATED:20170111T155834Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170111T155834Z
UID:4655-1485792000-1485797400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Traces: Dark Clouds - Special One-Day Photography Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Speaker/Photographer: Ian Teh\nAsia Centers Lounge • First Floor • CGIS South Building \nThis event is part of the Environment in Asia series at the Fairbank Center. \nIan Teh is an award-winning photographer based in UK and Malaysia.  He has published three monographs\, Undercurrents (2008)\, Traces (2011) and Confluence (2014). His work is part of the permanent collection at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)\, The Museum of Fine Arts\, Houston (MFAH) and the Hood Museum in the USA. Selected solo shows include the Jack Shainman Gallery in New York in 2004\, Flowers in London in 2011\, the Kunsthal Museum in Rotterdam in 2012\, the Open Society Foundations in New York and Penang in Malaysia in 2013\, the Photoville in New York\, the Tasneem Gallery in Barcelona in 2014\, and the Lianzhou Foto Festival in Guangdong of China in 2015. \nTeh has received multiple honours\, including the International Photoreporter Grant 2016\, the Abigail Cohen Fellowship in Documentary Photography 2014\, and the Emergency Fund 2011 from the Magnum Foundation. In 2013\, he was elected by the Open Society Foundations to exhibit in New York at the Moving Walls Exhibition. In 2015\, during COP21 during the Paris climate talks\, large poster images of his work was displayed on the streets of Paris as part of a collaborative initiative by Dysturb and Magnum Foundation.  He is a co-exhibitor to an environmental group show of internationally acclaimed photographers\, Coal + Ice\, curated by Susan Meiselas. It was recently exhibited at the Official Residence of the US Ambassador to France during COP21.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/traces-dark-cloud-special-one-day-photography-exhibition/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, CGIS South\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Environment,Environment,Events of Interest,Exhibitions,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170210T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170210T140000
DTSTAMP:20260720T003137
CREATED:20170209T163204Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T163204Z
UID:4806-1486728000-1486735200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Regional Production Networks in East Asia: Origin\, Evolution\, and Implications
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Professor Min Shu\, Harvard-Yenching Visiting Scholar; Associate Professor of International Economy\, Waseda University\, Japan \nChair:  Professor Daniel M. Smith\, Department of Government\, Harvard University \nIn the past three decades\, regional production networks played an increasingly important role in East Asian political economy. Originated from Japan’s industrial policy to ‘export’ its sunset industries\, the flow of foreign direct investments (FDIs) from advanced regional economies to the rest of East Asia accelerated after the Plaza Accord in 1985. The participation of non-Asian multinationals\, the exodus of SMEs in the same value/supply chains\, the modularization of modern production (esp. in electronics)\, and the host countries’ FDI-friendly policies all contributed to their rapid development in the 1990s. However\, it was the rise of China as the center of regional assemblies that has transformed the dynamics of regional production networks from capital flow and cross-country production to spatial politics. The talk will examine the implications of regional production networks in relations to labor market regulation\, trade protectionism\, and the politico-economic \n\nhttps://asiaevents.harvard.edu/event/regional-production-networks-east-asia-origin-evolution-and-implications
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/regional-production-networks-in-east-asia-origin-evolution-and-implications/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170221T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170221T140000
DTSTAMP:20260720T003137
CREATED:20170217T181659Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170217T181659Z
UID:4860-1487678400-1487685600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Does Gender Matter? Nuns in a Modern Chan Buddhist Monastery
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Chin-ning Wang (Changshen Shih)\, PhD (Dharma Drum Institute)\, Visiting Lecturer on Women’s Studies and Chinese Religion\, Women’s Studies in Religion Program\, Harvard Divinity School\n \nLunch will be provided.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/does-gender-matter-nuns-in-a-modern-chan-buddhist-monastery/
LOCATION:Center for the Study of World Religions\, Common Room\, 42 Francis Avenue\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170222T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170222T180000
DTSTAMP:20260720T003137
CREATED:20170214T213747Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170214T213747Z
UID:4840-1487779200-1487786400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:The Path to Success and Globalization of HNA Group
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Chen Feng\, Chairman\, HNA Group
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-path-to-success-and-globalization-of-hna-group/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170223T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170223T180000
DTSTAMP:20260720T003137
CREATED:20161012T133320Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161012T133320Z
UID:3872-1487865600-1487872800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Liberalism\, Globalization\, Populism and Nationalism in the World Today
DESCRIPTION:Across the world there has been a growing reaction against liberalism and globalization paired with a rise in populism and nationalism. This specially adjourned panel\, organized and moderated by Professor Peter Bol\, examines these trends in a global perspective\, with Harvard University experts in the histories of China and East Asia\, the UK and Europe\, the Middle East\, South Asia\, and the United States.\n\nSpeakers:\nWang Hui\, Professor of literature and history at Tsinghua University\nDavid Armitage\, Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History\, Harvard University\nMalika Zeghal\, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor in Contemporary Islamic Thought and Life\, Harvard University\nMadhav Khosla\, B. R. Ambedkar Academic Fellow\, Columbia Law School and Ph.D. candidate in political theory\, Harvard University.\nJames Kloppenberg\, Charles Warren Professor of American History\, Harvard University \nModerator: Peter Bol\, Vice Provost for Advances in Learning and the Charles H. Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University \n  \nSponsored by: Colloquium for Intellectual History\, Asia Center\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/responses-to-liberalism-in-china-the-middle-east-europe-the-us-and-south-asia/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Conference and Workshops,Events of Interest,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170223T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170223T200000
DTSTAMP:20260720T003137
CREATED:20170217T183735Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170217T183735Z
UID:4865-1487872800-1487880000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Sacred Nation: Chinese Museums and the Legacy of Empire
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Magnus Fiskesjö\, Associate Professor\, Department of Anthropology\, Cornell University \nThe official Chinese view of China’s history and national identity has been transformed in recent decades from a tale of revolutionary class struggle into a story of ancient and unbroken national and imperial glory. This shift can be discerned in both new and restored Chinese museums and memorial sites commemorating recent and past heroes. Magnus Fiskesjö will discuss the current boom in China’s “culture industry” and what it tells us about changes in Chinese conceptions of national and cultural identity. \nPresented in collaboration with the Departments of Anthropology and Human Evolutionary Biology\, Harvard University
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/sacred-nation-chinese-museums-and-the-legacy-of-empire/
LOCATION:Geological Lecture Hall\, 24 Oxford Street\, 24 Oxford St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170301T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170301T140000
DTSTAMP:20260720T003137
CREATED:20170223T134006Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170223T134006Z
UID:4905-1488373200-1488376800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Free Thinkers: Islamic Reform and Ahmadi Thought in China During the Republican Period
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr. Z. Hale Eroglu Sager\, IAAS ’16 – Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies \n 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/free-thinkers-islamic-reform-and-ahmadi-thought-in-china-during-the-republican-period/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170301T161500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170301T180000
DTSTAMP:20260720T003138
CREATED:20170221T175147Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170221T175147Z
UID:4898-1488384900-1488391200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Picturing the World: Asian Maps After Mercator
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Professor Timothy Brook\, University of British Columbia; author of Mr. Selden’s Map of China \nChair: Andrew Gordon\, Acting Director\, Harvard Asia Center; Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor\, Harvard University \nReception to follow in the Asian Centers’ Lounge\, 1st Floor\, CGIS South \nAsia Center Seminar Series                                         \n 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/picturing-the-world-asian-maps-after-mercator/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest,Exhibitions,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170302T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170302T173000
DTSTAMP:20260720T003138
CREATED:20170227T173253Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170227T173253Z
UID:4916-1488468600-1488475800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Hidden Air: Urbanization\, the Built Environment\, and Indoor Air Quality in China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Gary Adamkiewicz\, Assistant Professor of Environmental Health and Exposure Disparities\, Department of Environmental Health\, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health \nChina’s recent economic growth and rate of urbanization are unprecedented in human history.  These driving forces create great opportunities and present significant challenges.  While cities have always been engines of creativity and innovation\, they can also put strains on natural systems\, often consume energy unsustainably and produce environmental pollution which threatens human health. This motivates our key question: How do we create healthy and sustainable cities in the next century?  Few studies on the connections between the attributes of urban residential housing and health have been conducted in China.  Our recent studies\, including a large cross-sectional survey-based effort in Suzhou\, aim to address some key questions on how the built environment can shape population health.  This seminar will highlight some of our efforts to understand how indoor and outdoor environments are changing in China in ways that directly impact health.  We will also discuss how indoor environments can mitigate some of the health risks from outdoor air pollution. \nSpeaker Bio: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/gary-adamkiewicz/\nFor more information\, visit https://chinaproject.harvard.edu/
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/hidden-air-urbanization-the-built-environment-and-indoor-air-quality-in-china/
LOCATION:Pierce Hall 100F\, 29 Oxford St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Environment,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170303T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170303T140000
DTSTAMP:20260720T003138
CREATED:20170216T202006Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170216T202006Z
UID:4848-1488543300-1488549600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:The People's Liberation Army: Perspectives from the United States and Japan
DESCRIPTION:Speaker:\nGen. Yoshikazu Watanabe\, Asia Center Fellow; Researcher\, Fujitsu System Integration Laboratories\, LTD.; Eastern Army Commanding General (Ret.)\, Japan Ground Self Defense Force \nChair:  Dr. Andrew S. Erickson\, Professor of Strategy\, China Maritime Studies Institute (CMSI)\, Strategic and Operational Research Department\, U.S. Naval War College \nAsia Center Fellows Seminar Series\, Sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-peoples-liberation-army-perspectives-from-the-united-states-and-japan/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170306T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170306T151500
DTSTAMP:20260720T003138
CREATED:20170302T154538Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170302T154538Z
UID:4941-1488808800-1488813300@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Ma Ying-jeou: From Harvard Law School to the Presidential Office
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Ma Ying-jeou\, S.J.D.‘81\, Former President of the Republic of China (Taiwan) \nCo-sponsored by the East Asian Legal Studies program at the Harvard Law School. \n 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/ma-ying-jeou-from-harvard-law-school-to-the-presidential-office/
LOCATION:Harvard Law School\, Austin North (Room 100)\, 1515 Massachusetts Avenue\, Cambridge\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Delegation Visits,Events of Interest,Taiwan,Taiwan Studies
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