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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161205T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161205T180000
DTSTAMP:20260719T150747
CREATED:20161202T135347Z
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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:20260719T150747
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:20260719T150747
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:20260719T150747
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:20260719T150747
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:20260719T150747
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:20260719T150747
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:20260719T150747
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:20260719T150747
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:20260719T150747
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:20260719T150747
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:20260719T150747
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:20260719T150747
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:20260719T150747
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:20260719T150747
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:20260719T150747
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170307T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170307T130000
DTSTAMP:20260719T150747
CREATED:20170303T133607Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170303T133607Z
UID:4976-1488888000-1488891600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Lawyer Activism in Authoritarian Contexts: The Case of China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Sida Liu\, Assistant Professor of Sociology\, University of Toronto; Faculty Fellow\, American Bar Foundation
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/lawyer-activism-in-authoritarian-contexts-the-case-of-china/
LOCATION:Room 102\, Pound Hall\, 1563 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170308T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170308T133000
DTSTAMP:20260719T150747
CREATED:20170303T133814Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170303T133814Z
UID:4979-1488974400-1488979800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:The Elastic Ceiling: Gender and Professional Career in Chinese Courts
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Sida Liu\, Assistant Professor of Sociology\, University of Toronto; Faculty Fellow\, American Bar Foundation
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-elastic-ceiling-gender-and-professional-career-in-chinese-courts/
LOCATION:Morgan Courtroom\, Austin Hall\, 1515 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170322T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170322T130000
DTSTAMP:20260719T150747
CREATED:20170315T202721Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170315T202721Z
UID:5032-1490184000-1490187600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Introducing the Chinese Text Project
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr. Donald Sturgeon\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies \nThe Chinese Text Project is an online open-access digital library that makes pre-modern Chinese texts available to readers and researchers all around the world. The site attempts to make use of the digital medium to explore new ways of interacting with these texts that are not possible in print. With over thirty thousand titles and more than five billion characters\, the Chinese Text Project is also the largest database of pre-modern Chinese texts in existence. In the second meeting\, Dr. Donald Sturgeon\, the founder and the developer of CText and now a postdoctoral fellow at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, will introduce the database and the rationale behind it. \nLight refreshments provided. RSVP to Feng-en Tu (hyl.eadh@gmail.com)
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/introducing-the-chinese-text-project/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Conference and Workshops,Events of Interest,Special Event
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UID:4804-1490198400-1490205600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Harvard-Yenching Insitute Annual Roundtable Discussion: Asian Studies in Asia
DESCRIPTION:Panelists:\nHirano Kenichiro (Professor Emeritus of Tokyo University and of Waseda University\, Executive Director of Toyo Bunko (education and employment))\nPark Hyungji (Professor of English Literature\, Yonsei University)\nWang Hui (Professor of Literature and History\, Tsinghua University; Coordinate Research Scholar\, Harvard-Yenching Institute and Visiting Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations (Spring 2017)\, Harvard University))\nZhang Longxi (Chair Professor of Comparative Literature and Translation\, City University of Hong Kong)\n \nModerator:\nElizabeth Perry (Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government\, Harvard University; Director\, Harvard-Yenching Institute)\n \nThis roundtable seeks to exchange ideas about the revival and reinvention of Asian Studies (Chinese studies\, Japanese studies\, Korean studies as well as regional and global Asian studies) as these programs are being developed at universities and research institutes across Asia. In the case of Chinese studies\, this would include both国学 and中国学\, for example. The roundtable aims to engage in a serious discussion of various Asian studies initiatives in different Asian countries in terms of their intellectual rationale and potential – as well as the political and financial considerations and controversies that surround them.\n\nCo-sponsored with the Asia Center\, the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, the Korea Institute\, and the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies.\n \nhttps://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/asian-studies-asia
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/harvard-yenching-insitute-annual-roundtable-discussion-asian-studies-in-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:20170323T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170323T140000
DTSTAMP:20260719T150747
CREATED:20170316T181402Z
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UID:5039-1490270400-1490277600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Environmental Public Interest Litigation in China: Cases and Reform
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Barbara Finamore\, Senior Attorney and Asia Director\, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) \nOn January 1\, 2015\, amendments to China’s Environmental Protection Law went into effect that would allow an estimated 700 Chinese NGOs to bring lawsuits against polluters on behalf of the public interest. The Supreme People’s Court then issued an authoritative “interpretation” that provides clarification and needed details to this new public interest environmental law system.  These new rules appear to be designed\, in many ways\, to make it easier for Chinese NGOs to sue polluters. Yet many challenges still remain.  This presentation will provide an overview of the current status of environmental public interest litigation in China\, including case studies\, challenges and reform efforts. \nCo-sponsored by the East Asian Legal Studies Program\, Harvard Law School; China Project\, Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences; and Environmental Law Program\, Harvard Law School
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/environmental-public-interest-litigation-in-china-cases-and-reform/
LOCATION:Austin Hall Room 308\, 1515 Mass Ave\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Environment,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170323T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170323T173000
DTSTAMP:20260719T150747
CREATED:20170316T181735Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170316T181735Z
UID:5042-1490283000-1490290200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Building Energy Efficiency Regulations in China: Policies and Trends
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Barbara Finamore\, Senior Attorney and Asia Director\, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) \nAbstract: Energy used in buildings is responsible for 30% of China’s CO2 emissions\, a percentage that is expected to grow as China continues to urbanize and transition to a service economy. China has developed a variety of policy tools designed to reduce building energy consumption and waste\, including building energy codes\, policies and programs to promote the green building sector\, and targets and incentives to expand energy efficiency retrofits for existing buildings. This presentation will outline some of China’s key policies and initiatives to improve building energy efficiency\, discusses several outstanding challenges and conclude with an overview of latest developments. \nCo-sponsored by the China Project\, Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences\, and the Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities\, Harvard Graduate School of Design
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/building-energy-efficiency-regulations-in-china-policies-and-trends/
LOCATION:Pierce Hall 100F\, 29 Oxford St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Environment,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170323T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170323T200000
DTSTAMP:20260719T150747
CREATED:20170223T135435Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170223T135435Z
UID:4907-1490292000-1490299200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Film Screening: The Eagle Huntress
DESCRIPTION:Free admission \nCosponsored by the Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies at Harvard University and the Harvard Art Museums
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-screening-the-eagle-huntress/
LOCATION:Harvard Art Museum\, Menschel Hall\, Lower Level\, 32 Quincy St\, cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest,Film Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170405T161500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170405T173000
DTSTAMP:20260719T150747
CREATED:20170316T184405Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170316T184405Z
UID:5045-1491408900-1491413400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Reporting from China: A Conversation with New York Times Correspondent David Barboza
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: David Barboza\, New York Times reporter and 2016 Knight Visiting Nieman Fellow at Harvard’s Nieman Foundation \nJoin David Barboza for a discussion about the challenges and opportunities of reporting from China. Prior to his selection as Knight Visiting Fellow\, Barboza most recently served as Shanghai bureau chief for the Times. Ash Center Director and Daewoo Professor of International Affairs\, Tony Saich\, will moderate. \nMore info: https://ash.harvard.edu/event/reporting-china-david-barboza \nCosponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/reporting-from-china-a-conversation-with-new-york-times-correspondent-david-barboza/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170406T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170406T180000
DTSTAMP:20260719T150747
CREATED:20170324T134843Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170324T134843Z
UID:5066-1491494400-1491501600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Establishing the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank: The Lawyer's View
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Natalie Lichtenstein\, Adjunct Professor of China Studies\, Johns Hopkins University; Inaugural General Counsel\, AIIB (retired) \nChair: Ezra Vogel\, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus\, Harvard University \nAsia Center Seminar Series; co-sponsored with the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/establishing-the-asian-infrastructure-investment-bank-the-lawyers-view/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170410T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170410T180000
DTSTAMP:20260719T150747
CREATED:20170405T183035Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170405T183035Z
UID:5107-1491840000-1491847200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:History in Images\, History in Words: In Search of Facts in Documentary Filmmaking
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Carma Hinton\, Robinson Professor of Visual Culture and Chinese Studies\, George Mason University\nComments by: Gerald Peary\, Suffolk University \nSponsored by the BU’s Pardee School of Global Studies Center for the Study of Asia\, Center for the Humanities\, BU Arts Initiative\, the Institute for the Study of Muslim Societies & Civilizations\, the Department of World Languages & Literatures\, and Women’s\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies (WGS) Program
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/history-in-images-history-in-words-in-search-of-facts-in-documentary-filmmaking/
LOCATION:Boston University Photonics Center\, 8 St. Mary's Street\, 9th Floor\, Boston\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170411T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170411T180000
DTSTAMP:20260719T150747
CREATED:20170315T140056Z
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UID:5022-1491926400-1491933600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:The Souls of China: The Return of Religion After Mao
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Ian Johnson is a Pulitzer-Prize winning writer focusing on society\, religion\, and history. He works out of Beijing and Berlin\, where he also teaches and advises academic journals and think tanks. \nJohnson has spent over half of the past thirty years in the Greater China region\, first as a student in Beijing from 1984 to 1985\, and then in Taipei from 1986 to 1988. He later worked as a newspaper correspondent in China\, from 1994 to 1996 with Baltimore’s The Sun\, and from 1997 to 2001 with The Wall Street Journal\, where he covered macro economics\, China’s WTO accession and social issues. 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-souls-of-china-the-return-of-religion-after-mao-2/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170420T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170420T140000
DTSTAMP:20260719T150747
CREATED:20170414T144609Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170414T144609Z
UID:5125-1492689600-1492696800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:The February 28th Incident: Imperial Legacies and War Aftermath in Taiwan\, 1947
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Victor Louzon\, Postdoctoral Scholar at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute\, Columbia University \nThe February 28th Incident\, as the 1947 Taiwanese rebellion against Guomindang rule and its bloody suppression are known\, is perhaps the most notorious episode in modern Taiwanese history. This talk offers new insights on this event\, exploring the dynamics of decolonization and demobilization in Taiwan\, and of Republican China’s troubled war aftermath. It also discusses the debates and memory wars that surround the Incident in present-day Taiwan.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-february-28th-incident-imperial-legacies-and-war-aftermath-in-taiwan-1947/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest,Special Event,Taiwan,Taiwan Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170421T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170421T140000
DTSTAMP:20260719T150747
CREATED:20170420T172155Z
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UID:5178-1492776000-1492783200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:State Legitimation and Popular Political Participation in the Early Modern Era: England 1560-1640\, Japan 1660-1868\, and China 1720-1840
DESCRIPTION:Professor Wenkai He\, Radcliffe/Yenching Fellow\, Harvard University;  Associate Professor\, Hong Kong University Science and Technology\, Division of Social Science \nChair:  Professor David Howell\, Professor of Japanese History\, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University \nAsia Center Seminar Series
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/state-legitimation-and-popular-political-participation-in-the-early-modern-era-england-1560-1640-japan-1660-1868-and-china-1720-1840/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170424T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170424T180000
DTSTAMP:20260719T150747
CREATED:20170329T130758Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170329T130758Z
UID:5078-1493049600-1493056800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:China’s Banking Transformation: The Untold Story
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: James Stent\, Independent Director and Chairman of the Audit Committee of XacBank of Mongolia. \nPundits have been predicting the impending collapse of the Chinese banking system. The collapse has not happened. What have these pundits been missing? Why have their predictions not materialized? \nJames Stent\, author of China’s Banking Transformation: the Untold Story (Oxford University Press 2017) discusses the strengths and drivers of Chinese banking that arise from being embedded in the Chinese political economy and shaped by both international best practice and traditional cultural factors. A Western analytical framework will miss these essential factors and lead to wrong conclusions. Stent demonstrates that the banking system can be used as a prism for understanding how the contemporary Chinese political economy works. \nStent has made a career in banking in Asia. He served for 13 years as an independent director of two Chinese banks between the years 2003 and 2016\, providing him with an insider’s view of how the transformation of Chinese banks proceeded.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/chinas-banking-transformation-the-untold-story/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest,Special Event
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