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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170405T161500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170405T173000
DTSTAMP:20260718T094727
CREATED:20170316T184405Z
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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:20260718T094727
CREATED:20170324T134843Z
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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:20260718T094727
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:20260718T094727
CREATED:20170315T140056Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170315T140056Z
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:20260718T094727
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:20260718T094727
CREATED:20170420T172155Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170420T172155Z
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:20260718T094727
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170424T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170424T220000
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CREATED:20170414T145418Z
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UID:5128-1493060400-1493071200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:"Behemoth": Film Screening and Discussion with Director Zhao Liang
DESCRIPTION:Beginning with a mining explosion in Mongolia and ending in a ghost city west of Beijing\, documentarian Zhao Liang’s new film Behemoth details\, in one breathtaking sequence after another\, the social and environmental devastation driven by the totality of humankind’s desire and greed. After the screening\, Director Liang will attend via Skype for a discussion with Gen Carmel of the LEF Foundation and Crows & Sparrows. The discussion will be interpreted by Canaan Morse\, a Ph.D. candidate in Chinese Literature at Harvard. \nBehemoth is co-presented by The DocYard; Crows & Sparrows; the Harvard-China Project\, Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences; and the Environment in Asia Series\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. \nFree admission to holders of a current Harvard ID\, sponsored by Harvard-China Project and Harvard-Global Institute \nEvent website: https://chinaproject.harvard.edu/event/behemoth
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/behemoth-film-screening-and-discussion-with-director-zhao-liang/
LOCATION:Brattle Theater\, 40 Brattle St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Environment,Events of Interest,Film Screening,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170425T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170425T140000
DTSTAMP:20260718T094727
CREATED:20170213T200320Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170213T200320Z
UID:4830-1493121600-1493128800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Trump and Asia: Business as Usual? U.S.-Asia Business and Trade in the Trump Era
DESCRIPTION:The Asia-related centers at Harvard University continue our new “Trump and Asia” series with a look at international business and trade between the U.S. and Asia. \nListen again on the Fairbank Center’s podcast: \n \nSpeakers: \nWilliam Kirby \nT. M. Chang Professor of China Studies; Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration; Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor; Director of the Harvard China Fund; former Director of the Fairbank Center \n  \nMireya Solis  \nSenior Fellow – Foreign Policy\, Center for East Asia Policy Studies\, and Philip Knight Chair in Japan Studies at the Brookings Institute \n  \nMark Wu  \nAssistant Professor of Law\, Harvard Law School \n  \nModerated by Tarun Khanna \nJorge Paulo Lemann Professor at the Harvard Business School\, Director of Harvard University South Asia Institute \n  \nChaired by Andrew Gordon \nVictor and William Fung Acting Director of the Harvard University Asia Center; Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History  \n  \nThis event will be livestreamed on the Fairbank Center’s Facebook page\, and an audio podcast of the event will be available on our podcast.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/trump-and-asia-business-as-usual-u-s-asia-business-and-trade-in-the-trump-era/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170428T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170428T153000
DTSTAMP:20260718T094727
CREATED:20170414T193643Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170414T193643Z
UID:5145-1493388000-1493393400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Ecologies of Enclosure: Reconfiguring the Black Soldier Fly for Urban Waste Management in Guangzhou
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Amy Zhang\, Fairbank Center An Wang Post-Doctoral Fellow \n 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/ecologies-of-enclosure-reconfiguring-the-black-soldier-fly-for-urban-waste-management-in-guangzhou/
LOCATION:HUCE Seminar Room 440\, 26 Oxford St. - Museum of Comparative Zoology\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Environment,Environment,Events of Interest,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170501T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170501T180000
DTSTAMP:20260718T094727
CREATED:20170331T164317Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231107T152515Z
UID:5088-1493654400-1493661600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Reischauer Lecture Series - Empire and Righteous Nation: 600 Years of China-Korea Relations
DESCRIPTION:Day One Focus:\nChina and Korea from 1392 (the beginning of the Choson state) to the late 19th century\nMay 1\, 2017 | 4pm – 6pm \nTsai Auditorium\, CGIS South Building\, 1730 Cambridge Street \nDiscussant: Kirk W. Larsen\, Brigham Young University \n \nDay Two Focus:\nChina and Korea in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries \nMay 2\, 2017 | 4pm – 6pm \nBelfer Case Study Room\, CGIS South Building\, 1730 Cambridge Stree \nDiscussant: Ezra F. Vogel\, Harvard University \n \nDay Three Focus:\nContemporary China and the Two Koreas\nMay 3\, 2017 | 4pm – 6pm \nBelfer Case Study Room\, CGIS South Building\, 1730 Cambridge Street \nDiscussant: Sung Yoon Lee\, Tufts University \n \nSpeaker: Odd Arne Westad is the S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations at Harvard University\, where he teaches at the Kennedy School of Government.  He is an expert on contemporary international history and on the eastern Asian region. \nBefore coming to Harvard in 2015\, Westad was School Professor of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).  While at LSE\, he directed LSE IDEAS\, a leading center for international affairs\, diplomacy and strategy. \nProfessor Westad won the Bancroft Prize for The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times. The book\, which has been translated into fifteen languages\, also won a number of other awards.  Westad served as general editor for the three-volume Cambridge History of the Cold War\, and is the author of  the Penguin History of the World (now in its 6th edition).  His most recent book\, Restless Empire: China and the World since 1750\, won the Asia Society’s book award for 2013. \nListen Again on the Fairbank Center Podcast:
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/reischauer-lecture-series-empire-and-righteous-nation-600-years-of-china-korea-relations/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170501T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170501T180000
DTSTAMP:20260718T094727
CREATED:20170404T145953Z
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UID:5099-1493654400-1493661600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:China Humanities Seminar: Forging a Master Key: Li Yu’s 李漁 Theory of Universal Theater
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: S.E. Kile\, University of Michigan \nStudies of Li Yu’s theorization of playwriting and theatrical performance have generally focused on his creation of a new technical vocabulary for playwriting and performance\, the relationship between his theory’s tenets and his own playwriting practice\, and the impact of profit-seeking on his ideas. I propose that using technology as an analytical category to examine Li Yu’s linguistic and generic experimentation in his plays and in Xianqing ouji (Leisure Notes\, 1671) reveals calculated and strategic efforts to make it possible for his products – in this case\, his plays – to be most easily transmitted across the entire empire. \nI begin by presenting some of Li Yu’s efforts to cater to an empire-wide audience in his theorization of the language of plays: I consider first his prioritization and standardization of dialogue\, and second\, his updating of old plays and “generic translation” of plays of Northern provenance into new\, universal forms. In creating an ever more regulated generic form\, these changes made theater more accessible for audiences\, but not for playwrights or performers. To conclude\, I examine the innovative ways in which Li Yu sought to transmit performance itself through generic and technological experimentation. \n  \nS.E. Kile is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Michigan. A specialist in late Ming and early Qing literature and culture\, Kile is currently finishing a monograph on the maverick literatus Li Yu. This manuscript approaches texts as material objects and technological innovations: as things that can enfold imagined worlds and transport those lively and inventive worlds across time and space. Recent publications have appeared in differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies and Chinese Oral and Performing Literatures (CHINOPERL).
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-humanities-seminar-forging-a-master-key-li-yus-%e6%9d%8e%e6%bc%81-theory-of-universal-theater/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:China Humanities Seminar,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170502T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170502T180000
DTSTAMP:20260718T094727
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UID:5090-1493740800-1493748000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Reischauer Lecture Series - Empire and Righteous Nation: 600 Years of China-Korea Relations
DESCRIPTION:Day Two Focus:\nLate 19th Century and 20th Century\nSpeaker: Odd Arne Westad is the S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations at Harvard University\, where he teaches at the Kennedy School of Government.  He is an expert on contemporary international history and on the eastern Asian region. \nBefore coming to Harvard in 2015\, Westad was School Professor of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).  While at LSE\, he directed LSE IDEAS\, a leading center for international affairs\, diplomacy and strategy. \nProfessor Westad won the Bancroft Prize for The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times. The book\, which has been translated into fifteen languages\, also won a number of other awards.  Westad served as general editor for the three-volume Cambridge History of the Cold War\, and is the author of  the Penguin History of the World (now in its 6th edition).  His most recent book\, Restless Empire: China and the World since 1750\, won the Asia Society’s book award for 2013.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/reischauer-lecture-series-empire-and-righteous-nation-600-years-of-china-korea-relations-2017-05-02/
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:20170503T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170503T180000
DTSTAMP:20260718T094727
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UID:5091-1493827200-1493834400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Reischauer Lecture Series - Empire and Righteous Nation: 600 Years of China-Korea Relations
DESCRIPTION:Day Three Focus:\nChina’s relations with North and South Korea Today\nSpeaker: Odd Arne Westad is the S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations at Harvard University\, where he teaches at the Kennedy School of Government.  He is an expert on contemporary international history and on the eastern Asian region. \nBefore coming to Harvard in 2015\, Westad was School Professor of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).  While at LSE\, he directed LSE IDEAS\, a leading center for international affairs\, diplomacy and strategy. \nProfessor Westad won the Bancroft Prize for The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times. The book\, which has been translated into fifteen languages\, also won a number of other awards.  Westad served as general editor for the three-volume Cambridge History of the Cold War\, and is the author of  the Penguin History of the World (now in its 6th edition).  His most recent book\, Restless Empire: China and the World since 1750\, won the Asia Society’s book award for 2013.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/reischauer-lecture-series-empire-and-righteous-nation-600-years-of-china-korea-relations-2017-05-03/
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:20170504T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170504T143000
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UID:5134-1493892000-1493908200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Berggruen Workshop: Perspectives on Chinese Thought in the World
DESCRIPTION:This workshop celebrates the partnership between the Berggruen Institute and the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics\, thereby also taking advantage of the presence of the first group of Berggruen Fellows at Harvard. The topic of the workshop\, also related to a major concern of the Berggruen Institute\, is “Perspectives on Chinese Thought in the World.” Some of the presenters work on China in a rather straightforward way\, others don’t\, but China\, and thus Chinese thought\, concerns us all\, and increasingly so. One way or another\, the talks will address how it does. Advance reading of papers is not expected\, though papers are available for some of the talks (upon request). \nOn February 9\, 2017\, the workshop convened for a successful session\, featuring Viren Murthy\, Tongdong Bai\, and Sungmoon Kim\, before the organizers were compelled to postpone the afternoon panels due to the onset of a blizzard. These panels have now been rescheduled as a featured event that will kick off the Center’s 30th Anniversary Celebration\, May 4-6\, 2017. \n**Please register HERE no later than Monday\, April 24.** \nThursday\, May 4\, 2017\n\n10:00am – 10:15am:  Opening Remarks \nDanielle Allen\, Tongdong Bai\, and Mathias Risse\, Organizers \n\n10:15am – 11:45am:  Morning Session \nMelissa Williams\, “Minben Legitimacy\, Western Legitimacy: A Framework for Comparative Research” \nAnna Sun\, “The Irreligious Kingdom: Perceptions of Chinese Religious Life Today”\n   \n12:00pm – 1:00pm:  Lunch (on site) \n\n1:00pm – 2:15pm:  Afternoon Session \nTongdong Bai\, “A Confucian Version of Human and Animal Rights” \nMathias Risse\, “Thinking about Global Justice in the Age of the Rise of China” \n\n2:15pm:  Closing Remarks
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/berggruen-workshop-perspectives-on-chinese-thought-in-the-world/
LOCATION:Safra Center for Ethics\, 124 Mt. Auburn St.\, Suite 520N\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conference and Workshops,Events of Interest,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170506T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170507T183000
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UID:5182-1494061200-1494181800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:East Asian Media Studies Conference
DESCRIPTION:The East Asian Media Studies Conference will present a snapshot of a young and still-forming field of inquiry. It will provide a space for discussing the question of field formation and the interventions that such work allows for. In this respect\, the conference is associated with the asia-theory-visuality conference held in Princeton in November 2015. We are hoping to create a space that breaks down the divide between presenters and the audience\, and engages everyone in the process of actively reflecting on the evolution of the field. Texts associated with the keynote will be precirculated so that the keynote addresses can serve as an opportunity for dialogue and critique; panelists will be called on to explicitly reflect on how their work relates to broader developments within the field; and graduate students will moderate lunchtime discussions on future directions in East Asian media studies. \nFor more information\, visit https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/eams.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/east-asian-media-studies-conference/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, CGIS South\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Conference and Workshops,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170509T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170509T133000
DTSTAMP:20260718T094727
CREATED:20170420T171712Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170420T171712Z
UID:5176-1494331200-1494336600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Living on the Edge: Korean Brothels in Colonial Taiwan
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Jin Jungwon\, Associate Research Fellow\, Institute of Taiwan History\, Academia Sinica; HYI Visiting Scholar\nChair/Discussant: Elizabeth Remick\, Associate Professor\, Department of Political Science\, Tufts University\n\nHarvard-Yenching Institute lunch talk\, co-sponsored with the Korea Institute \nDespite its wide practice\, the sex trade and sex industry in Taiwan and Korea had never been put under governmental control before Japanese colonial rule. In the early stages of colonization\, the Japanese colonizers imposed their own laws and regulations on the two newly acquired colonies of Taiwan and Korea. Legislation stipulated that brothels and prostitutes had to be registered\, and prostitutes had to undergo regular checks for sexually transmitted diseases. \nPrevious studies on the history of colonial Korea have widely agreed that the traditional practices of the sex industry in Chosŏn Korea underwent significant changes during Japanese rule. However\, the issue of how state-regulated prostitution policies influenced Taiwanese society and shaped its sex industries requires further discussion. \nIn an attempt to understand how the Japanese state-regulated prostitution system was implemented in colonial Taiwan\, this talk focuses particularly on the emergence and spread of Korean prostitutes and brothels across Taiwan from the 1920’s onwards. By exploring the process of one-way migration of Korean prostitutes to Taiwan\, the talk seeks to bring to light the different survival strategies of Korean brothel operators in Taiwan and Korea\, and to offer new insights on the unique traits of the Taiwanese sex-trade market compared to Korea. \nhttps://harvard-yenching.org/events/living-edge-korean-brothels-colonial-taiwan
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/living-on-the-edge-korean-brothels-in-colonial-taiwan/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest,Gender Studies,Taiwan Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170510T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170510T140000
DTSTAMP:20260718T094727
CREATED:20170427T180229Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170427T180229Z
UID:5193-1494417600-1494424800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Visiting Scholar Presentations
DESCRIPTION:Join us to hear the Fairbank Center’s 2016-17 Visiting Scholars present on the projects that brought them to Harvard.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/visiting-scholar-presentations/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170523T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170523T170000
DTSTAMP:20260718T094727
CREATED:20170414T164958Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170414T164958Z
UID:5138-1495551600-1495558800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Democratic Equality and Confucian Hierarchy
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Joseph Chan\, University of Hong Kong\nDiscussant: Archon Fung\, Harvard Kennedy School of Government \n**Please register HERE no later than Friday\, May 12.** \nNOTE: The paper will be circulated one week in advance to all seminar participants. \nJoseph Chan is professor of the Department of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Hong Kong. A leading scholar in Confucian political theory and perfectionism\, Chan has published many path-breaking articles in journals such as Philosophy and Public Affairs\, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies\, History of Political Thought\, Journal of Chinese Philosophy\, and Philosophy East and West\, among others. His recent book\, Confucian Perfectionism: A Political Philosophy for Modern Times (Princeton University Press\, 2014)\, proposes a novel normative theory called “moderate Confucian perfectionism\,” which justifies the perfectionist promotion of the Confucian conception of the good life in a way that is compatible with pluralism\, human rights\, and personal and moral autonomy. Chan is currently working on a new book project that aims to critically examine the moral foundations of the democratic ideals of popular sovereignty\, political equality\, and the right to vote and offer an alternative normative theory\, at the heart of which lie political meritocracy and certain forms of morally justifiable hierarchy.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/democratic-equality-and-confucian-hierarchy/
LOCATION:Safra Center for Ethics\, 124 Mt. Auburn St.\, Suite 520N\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170914T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170914T160000
DTSTAMP:20260718T094727
CREATED:20170830T142054Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170830T142054Z
UID:5765-1505399400-1505404800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:East Asian Legal Studies Open House
DESCRIPTION:Join East Asian Legal Studies for an opportunity to meet EALS Faculty\, Staff\, Research Fellows\, and the 2017-2018 Visiting Scholars. \nLight refreshments will be served.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/east-asian-legal-studies-open-house/
LOCATION:Austin Hall Room 308\, 1515 Mass Ave\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170918T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170918T140000
DTSTAMP:20260718T094727
CREATED:20170830T152659Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170830T152659Z
UID:5786-1505736000-1505743200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Identity Politics and Organized Crime
DESCRIPTION:East Asian Legal Studies talk with Professor J. Mark Ramseyer\, Harvard Law School \nMark Ramseyer spent most of his childhood in provincial towns and cities in southern Japan\, attending Japanese schools for K-6. He returned to the U.S. for college. Before attending law school\, he studied Japanese history in graduate school. Ramseyer graduated from HLS in 1982. He clerked for the Hon. Stephen Breyer (then on the First Circuit)\, worked for two years at Sidley & Austin (in corporate tax)\, and studied as a Fulbright student at the University of Tokyo. After teaching at UCLA and the University of Chicago\, he came to Harvard in 1998. He has also taught or co-taught courses at several Japanese universities (in Japanese). In his research\, Ramseyer primarily studies Japanese law\, and primarily from a law & economics perspective. In addition to a variety of Japanese law courses\, he teaches the basic Corporations course. With Professors Klein and Bainbridge\, he co-edits a Foundation Press casebook in the field. \nCo-sponsored by the Program on US-Japan Relations and the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/identity-politics-and-organized-crime/
LOCATION:Austin Hall Room 308\, 1515 Mass Ave\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170918T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170918T173000
DTSTAMP:20260718T094727
CREATED:20170830T154845Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170830T154845Z
UID:5796-1505750400-1505755800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:What to Expect from the 19th Party Congress
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a discussion about what’s going to happen at the 19th Party Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Xiang Bing\, Dean of Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business\, will speak. Arne Westad\, S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations\, HKS\, will moderate. \nRefreshments will be served. \nThis event is cosponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies \nhttps://ash.harvard.edu/event/what-expect-19th-party-congress
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/what-to-expect-from-the-19th-party-congress/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170925T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170925T133000
DTSTAMP:20260718T094727
CREATED:20170911T181405Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170911T181405Z
UID:5856-1506342600-1506346200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Hopkins-Nanjing Center Information Session
DESCRIPTION:Meet with a Hopkins-Nanjing Center (HNC) admissions representative to learn more about our graduate school program offerings in China\, as well as the application process\, fellowship opportunities and career outcomes for HNC graduates. Feel free to contact feneh1@jhu.edu to schedule a one-on-one appointment.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/hopkins-nanjing-center-information-session/
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:20170925T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170925T170000
DTSTAMP:20260718T094727
CREATED:20170919T160522Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170919T160522Z
UID:5890-1506353400-1506358800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Co-ethnic Capital in Coastal China and India: The Developmental Diasporas of Guangdong and Kerala
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Kellee Tsai\, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/co-ethnic-capital-in-coastal-china-and-india-the-developmental-diasporas-of-guangdong-and-kerala/
LOCATION:Elaine Conference Room 300\, Chao Center\, Harvard Business School\, 25 Harvard Way\, Bostom\, MA\, 02163\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170926T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170926T140000
DTSTAMP:20260718T094727
CREATED:20170830T161232Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170830T161232Z
UID:5800-1506429000-1506434400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Sino-Japanese Relations: What Went Wrong after 1992
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Ezra Vogel\, Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus\, Harvard University. \nModerator: Susan Pharr\, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics and Director\, WCFIA Program on U.S.-Japan Relations\, Harvard University.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/sino-japanese-relations-what-went-wrong-after-1992/
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170927T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170927T173000
DTSTAMP:20260718T094727
CREATED:20170919T155741Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170919T155741Z
UID:5888-1506528000-1506533400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Poetry Reading
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dang Zi\,\nTranslator: Eleanor Goodman \nZang Di\, who has been honored three times as one of China’s top ten poets\, is a featured poet at the Princeton Poetry Festival on October 5-6\, 2017. His new collection\, The Roots of Wisdom\, translated by award-winning translator Eleanor Goodman\, will be published at the same time by Zephyr Press. In this bilingual book\, Zang Di uses rich\, emotional language to explore the natural world\, including his beloved Weiming Lake at Peking University — his “Walden.” Zang Di will give readings at Harvard University’s Yenching Library (Common Room) on September 27\, and at Yale University during his visit to the U.S. \nZang Di 臧棣\, a poet\, critic\, translator\, and editor\, was born in Beijing in 1964. He was educated at Peking University\, where he received his Ph.D. in literature in 1997 and where he now teaches. Widely acknowledged as one of the leading poets and literary critics of his generation\, he has won numerous honors and awards\, including the Contemporary China’s Top Ten Prominent Young Poets Award (2005)\, China’s Top Ten Rising Poetry Critics Award (2007)\, the Chinese Poetry Biennial Top Ten Poets Award (2008)\, and the Poet of the Year Award (2008). Zang has published many collections of poetry\, including The Universe Is Flat (2008) and No-Name Lake (2010)\, and edited several major anthologies of modern and contemporary Chinese poetry\, as well as a collection of Chinese translations of Rilke’s poetry. He is the editor of the journal New Poetry Criticism. \nTranslator and poet Eleanor Goodman is a Research Associate at the Fairbank Center at Harvard University. Her translation of the book of poems\, Something Crosses My Mind\, by Wang Xiaoni (Zephyr\, 2014)\, won the 2015 Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize\, was short-listed for the 2015 Griffin International Poetry Prize\, and was the recipient of a 2013 PEN/Heim Translation Grant. Her first collection of her own poems\, Nine Dragon Island\, was a finalist for the Drunken Boat First Book Prize\, and was published in 2016 (Enclave Publishing House and Zephyr Press).
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/poetry-reading/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170929T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170929T140000
DTSTAMP:20260718T094727
CREATED:20170922T173434Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170922T173434Z
UID:5975-1506686400-1506693600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:The Revolutionary Ethic and the Spirit of Factionalism in the Chinese Cultural Revolution
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Guobin Yang\, Grace Lee Boggs Professor of Communication and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania \nFrom 1966 to 1968\, youth in urban China were embroiled in factional battles in what many of them believed to be a revolution of a lifetime. Based on the recently published book The Red Guard Generation and Political Activism in China (2016)\, this talk argues that factional violence was the result of the enactment of a hallowed revolutionary tradition. The mechanism of this enactment was political competition.  In a political process of ambiguity and uncertainty and a social context of domestic fears and international threats\, individuals were compelled to show\, through public performances of revolutionary faith\, that they\, not their rivals\, were the true revolutionaries\, “the elect.” This conclusion has broader implications for understanding the role of political culture in processes of collective violence and social change
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-revolutionary-ethic-and-the-spirit-of-factionalism-in-the-chinese-cultural-revolution/
LOCATION:William James Hall\, Room 1550\, 33 kirkland st\, cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171003T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171003T140000
DTSTAMP:20260718T094727
CREATED:20170830T153151Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170830T153151Z
UID:5788-1507032000-1507039200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Book Talk - The Futility of Law and Development: China and the Dangers of Exporting American Law
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Jedidiah J. Kroncke
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/book-talk-the-futility-of-law-and-development-china-and-the-dangers-of-exporting-american-law/
LOCATION:Austin Hall Room 308\, 1515 Mass Ave\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171004T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171004T170000
DTSTAMP:20260718T094727
CREATED:20170920T145144Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170920T145144Z
UID:5959-1507131000-1507136400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:China’s Anthropogenic Methane Emissions: A Review of Current Bottom-Up Inventories
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Prof. Zhang Bo\, Visiting Scholar\, Harvard-China Project; Associate Professor\, State Key Laboratory of Coal Resources and Safe Mining\, China University of Mining & Technology (Beijing) \nMethane (CH4) is the second ranking anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG)\, with a global warming potential (GWP) 28 times greater than that of carbon dioxide (CO2) on a mass basis. In contrast to the ever-increasing focus at China’s CO2 emissions\, its CH4 emissions have received little attention. Yet China is believed to be the world’s largest CH4 emitter\, contributing more to climate change than the total CO2 emitted by many developed countries. Increasing CH4 emissions may be quietly undermining China’s efforts to mitigate its total GHG emissions. This seminar will present an overview of bottom-up estimation of China’s CH4 emissions\, including recent research advances and the limits of current understanding. \nSponsored by Harvard-China Project on Energy\, Economy and Environment\, Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences \nhttps://chinaproject.harvard.edu/event/china%E2%80%99s-anthropogenic-methane-emissions-review-current-bottom-inventories
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/chinas-anthropogenic-methane-emissions-a-review-of-current-bottom-up-inventories/
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:20171004T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171004T190000
DTSTAMP:20260718T094727
CREATED:20170929T181607Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170929T181607Z
UID:6011-1507138200-1507143600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Infinite Interfusion: The Visible and the Invisible in Liao Pagodas
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Youn-mi Kim\, Ewha Womans University \nThe shamanistic Khitan people were exposed to Buddhism −the Indian religion that reached these nomads mediated by the Han Chinese sedentary culture− when they suddenly rose to power and founded the Liao Empire (907-1125). By exploring the pagodas from the Liao Empire\, this lecture discusses how the synthesis of these different cultural traditions gave birth to innovative architectural practices\, configurations that imagined Buddhist cosmology and the Buddha body through the interplay of the visible and the invisible. Although this unprecedentedly complex Buddhist cosmology was developed in China during the Tang dynasty (618-907)\, it was the Liao who achieved its most cogent embodiment in architectural form. These Liao pagodas operated according to a dialogic relationship between the visible and the invisible\, since the ultimate “Buddha body/cosmos” was invisible and its essence was emptiness (śunyatā)\, the fundamental Buddhist teaching. At the same time\, these cosmological pagodas were the loci where Buddhist doctrine intermingled with rituals activating a potent mandala and incantation. The Shamanistic tradition in which stars played an important role\, as well as Chinese beliefs that heaven served as a canvas that could exhibit ominous and numinous signs for the ruler\, facilitated a transformation of the pagoda into a microcosm where spiritual aspirations intersected with the worldly desire of Liao imperial patrons. \nYoun-mi Kim is a specialist in Chinese Buddhist art\, but her broader interest in the cross-cultural relationships between art and ritual extends to Korean and Japanese materials as well. Before joining the faculty at Ewha Womans University in 2017\, Kim was an Assistant Professor in the Department of the History of Art at Yale University from 2012 to 2016. Kim worked as an Assistant Professor in Asian art history at The Ohio State University (2011-2012) and a postdoctoral associate at the Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University (2010-2011). She is particularly interested in symbolic rituals\, in which an architectural space serves as a material agent; the interplay between visibility and invisibility in Buddhist art; and the sacred spaces and religious macrocosms created by religious architecture for imaginary pilgrimages. She is the editor of New Perspectives on Early Korean Art: From Silla to Koryŏ (Cambridge\, MA: Korea Institute\, Harvard University\, 2013). Her article\, “The Secret Link: Tracing Liao in Japanese Shingon Ritual\,” appeared in the Journal of Song-Yuan Studies 43 (2013 [published in 2015]).  Based on archaeological data from a medieval Chinese pagoda and medieval ritual manuals\, she is currently completing two book manuscripts.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/infinite-interfusion-the-visible-and-the-invisible-in-liao-pagodas/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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