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SUMMARY:The World is Watching: Activists and Academics on the Uyghur Genocide
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\nRushan Abbas\, Founder and Executive Director\, Campaign for Uyghurs\nKamaltürk Yalqun\, General Secretary\, Campaign for Uyghurs\nDarren Byler\, Postdoctoral Fellow\, University of Colorado\nRian Thum\, Loyola University \nJoin us to hear from activists and academics on the Uyghur genocide. Rushan Abbas\, a prominent Uyghur American activist and the founder and Director of Campaign for Uyghurs\, will be presenting an overview of the current crisis as well as personal stories of engaging in activism. Kamaltürk Yalqun will be sharing how the persecution has affected Uyghur intellectuals\, including his father\, Yalqun Rozi\, a famous Uyghur scholar and literary critic. Dr. Darren Byler\, a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Asian Studies at the University of Colorado\, will be sharing some of his research\, including a discussion of surveillance and terror rhetoric. Dr. Rian Thum will be sharing his ethnographic research on China and Islam. Each panelist will be presenting individually\, with a question and answer session at the end. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Harvard-Radcliffe Asian American Association\, Harvard College Democrats\, Jewish Movement for Uyghur Freedom Harvard Chapter\, HLS Advocates for Human Rights\, Harvard Hillel\, Latinas Unidas de Harvard College\, Harvard Facilitators for Religious\, Ethical\, and Spiritual Inquiry\, the HLS Students Turkish Law Students Association\, the Harvard Human Rights and Business Law Students Association\, and the Harvard Law School Immigration Project. \nPresented via WebEx\nFor more information: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-world-is-watching-activists-and-academics-on-the-uyghur-genocide-tickets-141572379799?utm-medium=discovery&utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&aff=escb&utm-source=cp&utm-term=listing
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-world-is-watching-activists-and-academics-on-the-uyghur-genocide/
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210227T100000
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DTSTAMP:20260717T151326
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SUMMARY:Harvard East Asia Society Conference 2021 - Moving Bodies: Mobility and Control Across East Asia
DESCRIPTION:Presented by: The Harvard East Asia Society\, A GSAS Student Group\, Harvard University \nFor more information\, including an agenda and a list of speakers\, visit: https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/heasconference/2021-schedule.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/harvard-east-asia-society-conference-2021-moving-bodies-mobility-and-control-across-east-asia/
CATEGORIES:Conference and Workshops,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210224T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210224T210000
DTSTAMP:20260717T151326
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SUMMARY:Erin Y. Huang - Ocean Media:  South China Sea and Gilles Deleuze’s Desert Islands
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Erin Y. Huang\, Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies and Comparative Literature\, Princeton University \n“Humans can live on an island only by forgetting what an island represents\,” writes Deleuze in his short essay “Desert Islands” (îles déserte; huangdao; mujintō; no-man island). But what does an island truly represent (that for Deleuze means the constant strife between the earth’s elements)? What is producing the culture of forgetting? And why do islands appear deserted even when they are inhabited? In recent years when the large-scale Chinese state-led artificial islanding (rengong zaodao) in the South China Sea created an international territorial dispute\, caused by new experimentations with the limit of the early modern European legal concept of the “free sea” (coined by the seventeenth-century Dutch philosopher Hugo Grotius)\, these questions that Deleuze raised in the 1950s return as the definition of the “island” increasingly gravitates toward the “technologies of islanding” that are reshaping the operations of global financial and military power. Transforming the “island” into free treaty ports\, military vessels and bases\, logistics cities\, and special economic zones\, islanding\, rather than insularity\, is at the heart of the critical infrastructure of global circulation. Bringing together the methodological approaches of infrastructure and media studies and the island writings of Jacques Derrida and Gilles Deleuze\, this talk explores a new genealogy of island critique\, from Danial Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe that marks the beginning of British maritime power to the contemporary American satellite surveillance network on Asian oceans (e.g. AMTI’s “Island Tracker”) and the expansion of Chinese infrastructural empire that is creating new conflict shorelines. Rather than defining “ocean media” at the outset\, this examination probes what we mean by “media” in the context of understanding capital’s creation of “environment\,” and the new conceptualizations of “Europe” (old centers of maritime power) and “Asia” (new experimenters of existing colonial techniques). \nErin Y. Huang is assistant professor of East Asian Studies and Comparative Literature and an associated faculty of Gender & Sexuality Studies at Princeton University. She is the author of Urban Horror: Neoliberal Post-Socialism and the Limits of Visibility (Duke University Press\, 2020). She is currently working on her second book that focuses on maritime capitalism\, islanding\, special economic zones\, and feminist critiques of global logistics. \nThe talk is part of the East Asian Media Ecologies lecture series. \nPresented via Zoom\nLog on to: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/91834267809?pwd=Q3pCZVZBM3RXSzVwVlBFRC9aZz09SWNw
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/erin-y-huang-ocean-media-south-china-sea-and-gilles-deleuzes-desert-islands/
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210223T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210223T180000
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CREATED:20210126T160440Z
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SUMMARY:China Humanities Seminar Featuring Tina Lu - The Politics of Li Yu’s Xianqing ouji (Casual Expressions)
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Tina Lu\, Colonel John Trumbull Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures\, Yale University \nWhen it comes to an understanding of the politics of literature and literary production\, our field is still largely dominated by Craig Clunas’ framework (itself largely adapted from Bourdieu). I am interested in considering the politics of Li Yu’s Xianqing ouji 閒情偶寄 (1671) not simply as a means for its author to climb up a social hierarchy but as a much more expansive political imagining. Many of the collection’s essays treat what are obviously political topics (for example\, behavior appropriate to people of different social standing)\, but I will argue that their form and language also demand consideration as political acts. \nPlease note that Professor Lu’s talk will be recorded and archived on the MHC and EALC websites. If you do not feel comfortable being recorded\, please disable your video. The Q&A session will not be recorded. \nThis event is generously sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center and the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University. \nPresented via Zoom\nRegistration Required\nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMtc-iopzwoG9KcANoTFgoQondjKok6oHAY
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-humanities-seminar-featuring-tina-lu-the-politics-of-li-yus-xianqing-ouji-casual-expressions/
CATEGORIES:China Humanities Seminar,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210222T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210222T213000
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SUMMARY:Symposium: Japanese Economic Statecraft in an Era of U.S.-China Rivalry
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\nTakashi Shiraishi\, Chancellor\, Prefectural University of Kumamoto; President\, Graduate Research Institute of Policy Studies (2011-2017); President\, Institute of Developing Economies-JETRO (2007-2018)\nSaori Katada\, Professor of International Relations\, Department of Political Science and International Relations\, University of Southern California\nDaniel Drezner\, Professor of International Politics\, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy\, Tufts University; Nonresident Senior Fellow\, Brookings Institution\nWilliam Norris\, Associate Professor\, The Bush School of Government and Public Service\, Texas A&M University \nModerator: Christina Davis\, Director\, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Professor of Government; Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor\, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study\, Harvard University \nThis symposium is part of the Special Series on Japanese Economic Statecraft. \nPresented via Zoom\nRegistration Required\nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAqcOyorj0tGtCej8VhG_ljsUW-cOF6EsNp
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/symposium-japanese-economic-statecraft-in-an-era-of-u-s-china-rivalry/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210216T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210216T120000
DTSTAMP:20260717T151326
CREATED:20210203T214049Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210203T214049Z
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SUMMARY:Harvard-Yenching Library Bibliographic Orientation Session
DESCRIPTION:The Harvard-Yenching Library is offering virtual bibliographic orientation sessions via Zoom to introduce you to the most important Chinese language resources. \nPresented via Zoom\nRegistration Required\nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMvcuqsqjkqHtAFzbIKdd4b6f9r-qxzNdrn
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/harvard-yenching-library-bibliographic-orientation-session/
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210204T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210204T160000
DTSTAMP:20260717T151326
CREATED:20210126T155011Z
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SUMMARY:Philippe LeCorre - EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment: Did Beijing Steal the Show?
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Philippe Le Corre\, Research Fellow\, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government and Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation\, Harvard Kennedy School of Government \nPresented via Zoom\nRegister at:https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_9rPP_9PsTgizqjl-rRhxrA
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/philippe-lecorre-eu-china-comprehensive-agreement-on-investment-did-beijing-steal-the-show/
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210203T131500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210203T150000
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CREATED:20210129T141440Z
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SUMMARY:Wei-chieh Tsai - Settler Nativization in the Inner Eurasian Borderlands of the Qing and Russian Empires
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Wei-chieh Tsai\, Assistant Professor\, Department of History\, Shenzhen University \nSettler nativization is an important issue\, yet insufficiently studied in colonial histories of early modern Eurasian empires. In the early modern era\, the Qing and Russian empires both penetrated the heartland of Inner Eurasia. Military subjugation and conquest was followed by a migration of people and colonization toward the Inner Eurasian borderlands. Both regimes faced similar problems\, and settler nativization was one of them. Those Han Chinese and Russian settlers were mostly poor\, lowly educated\, and single men working as farmers and merchants. They migrated into the Inner Eurasian borderlands seeking arable lands and trade opportunities. To survive in the strange lands\, those settlers and their offspring as minorities had to work with indigenous peoples and gradually acquired indigenous cultures and identities. This paper explores the similarity and difference between the nativization of Han Chinese and Russian settlers and the responses of the states. This paper argues that the difference of autonomy and local authority of native peoples in both empires should contribute to the consequence of settler nativization in the Qing and Russian empires. \nRegister for Zoom meeting link
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/wei-chieh-tsai-settler-nativization-in-the-inner-eurasian-borderlands-of-the-qing-and-russian-empires/
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201207T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201207T220000
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CREATED:20201118T152119Z
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SUMMARY:Song Lihong - Trauma and Transcendence: The Shadow of the Holocaust on an Israeli Sinologist
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Song Lihong\, Professor\, Department of Religious Studies and Glazer Institute of Jewish and Israel Studies\, Nanjing University; HYI Visiting Scholar 2020-21\nChair/discussant: David Stern\, Harry Starr Professor of Classical and Modern Jewish and Hebrew Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature\, Harvard University \nThe late Irene Eber (1929-2019)\, professor of East Asian Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a long-time affiliate of the Fairbank Center of Harvard\, is arguably the scholar on the intercultural and transnational encounters between Jews and modern China. She is also a Holocaust survivor who wrote an inimitable memoir\, The Choice: Poland\, 1939-1945. It offered an unparalleled chance to unravel how China is construed by a Jewish Sinologist haunted by an all-pervasive mood of subdued obsession and inner wrestling with her memories of the Holocaust. This talk\, sitting on the intersection of China studies\, Jewish studies\, and Holocaust studies\, will examine the nexus between her Jewish identity and her academic vocation\, and discuss how this tormented scholar made a variety of personal and academic choices and managed to find her position in this world of imponderables. \nhttps://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/trauma-and-transcendence/ \nPresented via Zoom\nRegistration Required\nRegister at: https://harvard.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_brAA3a7e79Sj6D3
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/song-lihong-trauma-and-transcendence-the-shadow-of-the-holocaust-on-an-israeli-sinologist/
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201207T070000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201208T094500
DTSTAMP:20260717T151326
CREATED:20201130T220533Z
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SUMMARY:From 30 Million to Zero Malaria Cases in China: Lessons Learned for Malaria- Eliminating Countries in Africa
DESCRIPTION:On December 7–8\, 2020\, Harvard University will partner with National Institute for Parasitic Diseases (NIPD)\, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)\, and the World Health Organization to convene a special scientific symposium titled\, “From 30 Million to Zero Malaria Cases in China: Lessons Learned for Malaria-Eliminating Countries in Africa.” \nParticipants will gain insights on China’s successful integration of sophisticated genetic technologies with ongoing malaria surveillance efforts for improved malaria policy decision-making for eradication and also gain insights as experts discuss the progress and challenges of malaria elimination in middle- to high-burden countries. \nMore information here. \nPresented via Zoom Webinar
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/from-30-million-to-zero-malaria-cases-in-china-lessons-learned-for-malaria-eliminating-countries-in-africa/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201203T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201203T203000
DTSTAMP:20260717T151326
CREATED:20201117T135854Z
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SUMMARY:Michael Szonyi - Did Chinese Peasants Have a Revolution? Perspectives from the Long Twentieth-Century
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Michael Szonyi\, Frank Wen-hsiung Wu Professor of Chinese History; Director\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard University.\nDiscussant: Gail Hershatter\, Distinguished Professor of History\, University of California – Santa Cruz\nModerator: Jeffrey Wasserstrom\, Chancellor’s Professor of History\, University of Califorina – Irvine \nFor much of the last seventy years the answer to the question “Did Chinese peasants have a revolution?” has seemed self-evident. But from our vantage point in 2020\, it is equally self-evident that rural people did not have the revolution they were promised or that they expected\, and that their experience of revolution was highly distinctive. In this presentation\, Professor Michael Szonyi first explores some of the ways that focusing on the experience of rural people may help us rethink our understandings of both modern Chinese history and the challenges facing contemporary China.  Then he turns to discuss how one aspect of rural life – the household development cycle – has impacted the experience of revolutionary change in rural China. \nPresented via Zoom\nRegistration required\nRegister at: https://uci.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_fM-yryoyRxqGMIiJRRHAWg
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/michael-szonyi-did-chinese-peasants-have-a-revolution-perspectives-from-the-long-twentieth-century/
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201202T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201202T110000
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CREATED:20201113T155407Z
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SUMMARY:Meng Gao - The Essential Role of Vertical Profile Observations of Atmospheric Composition in China
DESCRIPTION:**PLEASE NOTE THE DATE OF THIS EVENT HAS CHANGED FROM NOVEMBER 18 TO DECEMBER 2** \nSpeaker: Meng Gao\, Assistant Professor\, Department of Geography\, Hong Kong Baptist University; Associate\, Harvard-China Project \nMonitoring and modeling/predicting air pollution are crucial to understanding the links between emissions and air pollution levels\, to supporting air quality management\, and to reducing human exposure. Yet\, current monitoring networks and modeling capabilities are unfortunately inadequate to understand the physical and chemical processes above ground\, and to support attribution of sources. Vertical observations of atmospheric composition would be essential to reduce uncertainties\, and to advance diagnostic understanding and prediction of air pollution. In this talk\, three major issues of air quality research in China will be exemplified: (1) current observation networks provide only partial view of air pollution\, and this can lead to misleading air quality management actions; (2) satellite retrievals of air pollutants are widely used in air pollution studies\, such as health risk assessment\, but too often users do not acknowledge that they have large uncertainties\, which can be reduced with measurements of vertical profiles; (3) air quality modeling and forecasting require vertical observational constraints. \nMeng Gao is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography\, Hong Kong Baptist University and Associate\, Harvard-China Project. He earned a B.Sc degree in atmospheric physics from Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology and an M.Sc and Ph.D in chemical engineering from the University of Iowa. Dr. Gao Meng’s research focuses on air pollution in highly polluted regions (China and India) and its interactions with health and climate. He uses a coupled meteorology-chemistry model to investigate in detail the chemical and physical processes leading to severe particulate matter and ozone pollution in Asia. He has demonstrated that aerosol interactions with radiation and clouds contribute in important ways to intensification of aerosol enhancements. He has shown how the assimilation of PM2.5 in winter haze periods can improve model predictions and that these improved predictions can reduce significantly the uncertainties in estimates of health impacts and aerosol radiative forcing. He has also shown how ocean temperature in autumn can be used effectively to predict the severity of Indian winter haze\, which can help guide pollution control planning at least a season in advance. \nPresented via Zoom.\nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJctduyqpzwiGNWMZt42nWYMuuC1aBGxxdHN
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/meng-gao-the-essential-role-of-vertical-profile-observations-of-atmospheric-composition-in-china/
CATEGORIES:Environment,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201130T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201130T220000
DTSTAMP:20260717T151326
CREATED:20200826T163113Z
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SUMMARY:Cheng Yu-yu - Revolution in the Nation of Poetry: Physical and Linguistic Perspectives since 1919  (詩國革命的「漢語」脈絡)
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Cheng Yu-yu\, National Taiwan University \nThis talk will be given in Mandarin. \nOnce Chinese poetry becomes “modern poetry\,” its so-called modernity must be discussed in the context of the modernity of “Chinese language” itself. From the late Qing and early Republican periods on\, when confronted with the invasion of such things as new lexicon\, new academic disciplines\, alphabetic languages\, and English grammar\, the Chinese language\, Chinese characters\, and the cultural tradition to which it belongs have never ceased responding to and reflecting upon such foreign forces. In examining this “modernizing” process of Chinese poetry\, which progressed from the question of “how to speak to the new world” to that of “how to reestablish a new relationship with the world\,” one cannot overlook the new ways of thinking of the Chinese language that emerged from and were constructed by various disciplines\, including grammatology\, philology\, phonology\, psychology\, and rhetoric studies. And in discussing “modern poetry\,” one should not disregard how figures such as Ma Jianzhong\, Liu Shipei\, Huang Ren\, Huang Kan\, Tang Yue\, Hu Pu’an\, Chen Wangdao\, and Li Anzhai\, as well as Chen Shih-Hsiang and Kao Yu-kung\, have consciously sought the basis upon which the Chinese language and Chinese characters depend for their existence and adaption to change. What lie at the very core of this basis are the “speakability” and the “manifestability” of the Chinese language. These concepts were engaged in a tug-of-war with the tumultuous modern vision prevalent since the late Qing\, exhibiting a well-matched rivalry that cannot be ignored. \n當漢語詩成為「『現代』詩」，這所謂「現代質地」（modernity）還是必須回到「漢語」的現代性來討論。晚清民初以來，面對新語詞、新學科、拼音文字、英語文法這些如同外來侵襲的事物，漢語、漢字及其所在的文化系統，從未停止回應與思考；從「如何向新世界開口發聲」到「如何重建與世界的新關係」，漢語詩「現代化」的進程裡，不應該忽視當時由語法學、文字學、音韻學、心理學、修辭學等不同領域出發而建構的漢語新思維，討論「現代詩」不應該忽略如馬建忠、劉師培、黃人、黃侃、唐鉞、胡樸安、陳望道、李安宅，以至於陳世驤或高友工等人，是如何自覺的去發現漢語、漢字所以存有與應變的依據，而其中允為核心的是漢語的「可發聲性」與「可體現性」，正與晚清以來高張喧騰的現代視線相互拉鋸，呈現不可輕忽的抗衡態勢。 \nProfessor Yu-yu Cheng\, Academician of Academia Sinica\, the Chair Professor of Chinese literature at National Taiwan University\, is devoted to developing pioneering and interdisciplinary interpretations of Chinese classical literature by combining the Eastern and Western humanistic thoughts. She enjoys an international reputation for her contribution to the discourses of space\, body\, and Chinese lyrical tradition. Cheng has published numerous books\, including “Literary Ch’i” in Six Dynasties Literary Theory\, The Situation Aesthetics in Six Dynasties\, Gender and Nation: Discourses of Encountering Sorrow in Han and Jin Rhapsodies\, The Poet in Text and Landscape: Mutual Definition of Self and Landscape\, Metaphor: Crossing Categorical Boundaries in Ancient Chinese Literature\, and Gesture and Language: A New Approach to the Revolution of a Poetic Tradition\, etc. \nPresented via Zoom.\nRegistration required.\nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYkd-GtqDosHtFLLK39YRE6hU_gP7MyM9sX
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/cheng-yu-yu-tradition-and-modernity-in-the-revolution-of-the-poetry-nation/
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201124T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201124T131500
DTSTAMP:20260717T151326
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SUMMARY:Tahir Hamut Izgil and Rana Yashar Aybala - Uyghur Poetry in Translation
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the opportunity to hear from Tahir Hamut Izgil and Rana Yashar Aybala\, two of the foremost poets writing in Uyghur today. The event will feature opening remarks by Mark Elliott\, Harvard’s Vice Provost of International Affairs\, followed by presentations from both poets. We will also have the opportunity to hear from Dr Gülnar Eziz\, Harvard Preceptor in Uyghur and Chaghatay and Dr. Joshua Freeman of Princeton’s Society of Fellows\, on their translation work. \nThis event is co-sponsored by Harvard Hillel\, Uyghur Academy-USA\, the Human Rights Working Group\, and the Jewish Movement for Uyghur Freedom. \nOpen to the public.\nRegistration is required.\nRegister here: https://guestlist.co/events/666291 \nProceeds from the event will fund books and supplies for Uyghur Academy-USA and the Boston Uyghur School.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/tahir-hamut-izgil-and-rana-yashar-aybala-uyghur-poetry-in-translation/
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SUMMARY:Tao Leigh Goffe - "My Mother Told Me I am Chinese": Afro-Asian Aesthetics in the Caribbean
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Tao Leigh Goffe\, Assistant Professor in the Department of Africana Studies and the Department of Feminist\, Gender & Sexuality Studies\, Cornell University \nIn this talk\, Professor Tao Leigh Goffe will discuss the aesthetic challenge ‘Chinese’ poses as a racial category in the Caribbean. The introduction of Chinese as a category of labor to the West Indian plantation (Jamaica\, Trinidad\, Cuba) is a history she traces from 1803 to the present through the institution of “racial indenture” as a replacement from enslaved African labor\, chiefly on sugar plantations. Identifying common aesthetic strands of Chinese cosmology in artwork by people of Chinese descent with roots in the Caribbean\, Goffe asks questions about the Chinese haunting of the Caribbean plantation. \nMade possible by the generous support of the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations \nPresented via Zoom\nJoin at: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/93136279659?pwd=VUo2cVBHRUE0ZnppM0hlUE56YWNtQT09
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/tao-leigh-goffe-my-mother-told-me-i-am-chinese-afro-asian-aesthetics-in-the-caribbean/
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SUMMARY:Panel Discussion - East Asia Responds to U.S. Election Results
DESCRIPTION:Presenters:\nToshihiro Nakayama\, Professor of American Politics and Foreign Policy\, Faculty of Policy Management\, Keio University; Adjunct Fellow\, Japan Institute of International Affairs\nShin-wha Lee\, Professor\, Department of Political Science and International Relations\, Korea University\nWu Xinbo\, Dean\, Institute of International Studies; Director\, Center for American Studies; Fudan University\nDiscussant: Ezra Vogel\, Honorary Director\, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences\, Emeritus\, Harvard University\nModerator: Christina Davis\, Director\, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Professor of Government; and Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor\, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study\, Harvard University \nPresented via Zoom\nRegistration Required\nRegister at https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEtcuuvqT0rHtU4M2pcRaMBZj73P1WwZXCh
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/panel-discussion-east-asia-responds-to-u-s-election-results/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201113T130000
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SUMMARY:Chinese Literature Across the Borderlands
DESCRIPTION:Convened by:\nDavid Der-wei Wang\, Harvard University\nKyle Shernuk\, Yale University\nMiya Qiong Xie\, Dartmouth University \nThis workshop aims to explore the shifting definitions of the borderland as a territorial gateway\, a geopolitical space\, a contact zone\, a liminal terrain\, and an imaginary portal. To this end\, participants will explore the intersection of ethnic\, linguistic\, cultural\, and ecological dynamics that inform the cartography of the Chinese borderland\, from the Northeast to the Southwest\, from Inner Mongolia to Tibet\, and from Nanyang to Nanmei. We will reflect on the recent\, interdisciplinary growth in understanding the characteristics of borders and frontiers\, including migration and settlement\, cultural hybridity\, and transnationalism\, as well as take issues with the boundaries of literature as it manifests itself in multiple forms of media and mediation. This workshop is organized around a forthcoming special issue of Prism: Theory and Modern Chinese Literature. \nSchedule:  \n13:00-14:00: Panelist Positions Papers (3-5 min/presenter)\n14:00-14:45: Panelist Roundtable Discussion\n14:45-15:00: Q&A w/ Zoom Attendees \nPanel 1: “Bordering” National Imaginaries  \n\nMiya Xie (Dartmouth): “The Making and Unmaking of Nationalist Literature from the National Margin: Rereading Duanmu Hongliang’s The Korchin Banner Plains as Borderland Writing”\nYanshuo Zhang (Michigan): Shen Congwen’s Idealized Ethnic: Borderland\, Ethnicity\, and the Spiritual Enchantments of a Modern Master\nLevi Gibbs (Dartmouth): “The Cultural Hybridity of Chineseness: Regional Transgression in Stories of Northern Shaanxi”\n\nPanel 2: Ethnic Negotiations \n\nTuo Jianing (Sichuan University): “Sinophone Hui Literature in the Mengjiang Regime during the Second Sino-Japanese War”\nJerôme de Wit (University of Tübingen): “The Cultural Creation of the Ethnic Korean Minority in China: Focusing on the Portrayal of Local Landscape in post-1949 Korean-Chinese Literature”\nChristopher Peacock (Columbia): “Unsavory Characters: Forced Bilingualism in the Tibetan Fiction of Tsering Döndrup”\nE.K. Tan (Stony Brook University): “Conciliatory Amalgamation: The Politics of Survival in Sinophone Uyghur Writer Padi Guli’s A Hundred Years of Bloodline (2015)”\nMark Bender (Ohio State): “Treading Poetic Borders in Southwest China and Northeast India”\n\nPanel 3: Sinophone and Xenophone Articulations \n\nBrian Bernards (USC): “Sinophonic Detours and Trespasses in Colonial Burma: The Transborder Poetics of Ai Wu’s Travels in the South”\nJessica Tan (Harvard): “Unfinished Revolutions: Wei Beihua\, Chairil Anwar and the Limits of Realism of Post-war Mahua Literature”\nKyle Shernuk (Yale): “Embracing the Xenophone: Siu Kam Wen and the Possibility of Spanish-language Chinese Literature\n\n\nPresented via Zoom Webinar\nRegistration Required\nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Nl2mg5FtTtydlP0t4pUbVg.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/chinese-literature-across-the-borderlands/
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SUMMARY:China Town Hall: Society & Culture
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\nRaymond Chang\, Major League Baseball China\nLucas Sin\, Junzi Kitchen\nJanet Yang\, Janet Yang Productions \nModerator: Alison Friedman\, Performing Arts of West Kowloon Cultural District Authority \nStarting with ping-pong diplomacy in 1971\, cultural diplomacy has played a pivotal role in facilitating mutual understanding between the peoples of the United States and China. This event will gather leading cultural figures to discuss how\, despite sometimes turbulent political and economic relations\, sports\, food\, and film continue to reveal our shared humanity and connect us through culture. \nPresented via Zoom\nRegistration Required\nRegister at: https://www.tfaforms.com/4855337
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-town-hall-society-culture/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201112T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201112T120000
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SUMMARY:Chinese Language Resources
DESCRIPTION:The Harvard-Yenching Library is offering online bibliographic orientation sessions via Zoom to introduce you to the most important resources in Chinese\, Japanese and Korean language resources.\n\nWhen: Nov 12\, 2020 11:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)\n\nRegister in advance for this meeting:\nhttps://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIqdOyurjotGNQFReBoL3L0wpgjXm0IhIlk\n\nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/chinese-language-resources-3/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201111T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201111T231500
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SUMMARY:China and the World in the Post-COVID-19 Era
DESCRIPTION:What will the impact be of COVID-19 on the global economy and how will that impact global health and the potential for global collaboration for a healthier future? Join “China and the World in a Post-COVID-19 Era” to gain perspectives on the post-pandemic outlook for trade and investment\, sustainable development\, collaborations in public health\, and mental and psychological health. With an in-person and Zoom-based audience of academics\, policymakers\, medical practitioners\, and social entrepreneurs\, the forum features keynote speakers Jeffrey D. Sachs (Columbia University) and Jeffrey Koplan (Emory University) as well as discussants from Chinese and U.S. universities\, Chinese government officials\, and social entrepreneurs. \nOpening:\n\nQizhu Tang (唐其柱)\, Vice President\, Wuhan University; Dean\, Wuhan University School of Medicine\nJuhua Xiao (肖菊华)\, Vice-Governor of Hubei Province\nHonghui Chen (陈红辉)\, Vice-Mayor of Wuhan\nXiankang Dou (窦贤康)\, President\, Wuhan University\nMark Elliott (欧立德)\, Vice-Provost for International Affairs\, Harvard University; and Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History\, Faculty of Arts and Sciences\, Harvard University\n\nSession I: Broader Implications on Global Health and Psycho-Social Impacts\n\nWinnie Yip (叶志敏)\, Professor of Global Health Policy and Economics\, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Interim Director\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard University\nJeffrey Koplan\, Vice-President for Global Health\, Emory University; Former Director\, U.S. Centers for Disease Control\nBarry Bloom\, Joan and Jack Jacobson Research Professor of Public Health\, Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases\, and Former Dean\, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health\nRuiping Xiao (肖瑞平)\, Director\, Institute of Molecular Medicine\, Peking University; Associate Editor \, New England Journal of Medicine\nShekar Saxena\, Professor of Global Mental Health\, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health\n\nSession II: The Future Under Global Economic Integration\n\nSong Min (宋敏)\, Dean of School of Economics and Management\, Wuhan University\nJeffrey D. Sachs\, University Professor and Director\, Center for Sustainable Development\, Columbia University\nYao Yang (姚洋)\, Dean\, National School of Development at Peking University\nBert Hofman (郝福满)\, Director of the East Asian Institute at National University of Singapore\, Professor of Practice at the Lee Kuan Yew School\n\nClosing:\n\nWannian Liang (梁万年\, Executive Associate Dean of Tsinghua University\, Vanke School of Public Health; former Director-General of Healthcare Reform\, National Health Commission of China\nWilliam Hsiao (萧庆伦)\, Emeritus Professor of Economics\, Department of Health Policy and Management\, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health\nDongsheng Chen (陈东升)\, Chairman of Dong Fureng Research Institute of Wuhan University; Founder\, Chairman and CEO of Taikang Insurance Group\n\nOrganized by Wuhan University (School of Medicine\, and School of Economics and Management)\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard University\, and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; and sponsored by the Taikang Public Health and Epidemic Control Fund. \nResources:\n\nPlease see additional information in the program agenda here.\nRegistration required. Register here.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/harvard-wuhan-forum-china-and-the-world-in-the-post-covid-19-era/
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SUMMARY:Lucas R. Bender - The Eternal Frontier of China’s Cosmopolitan Empire: Changing Attitudes Towards Ethnocultural Others in Tang-Dynasty Texts
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Lucas R. Bender\, Yale University \nThe seventh and early-eighth centuries have often been considered the period of “China’s Cosmopolitan Empire” on account of their relative tolerance of religious and ideological diversity\, their acceptance of significant “foreign” populations in the capital and on the borderlands\, and their active recruitment of non-“Han” ethnicities into the military and civil ranks. At the same time\, however\, surviving texts from this period also evince attitudes no less xenophobic than those found in texts from the ninth through eleventh centuries\, when scholars have often claimed that China became less open to ethnocultural others. This talk will argue that what changes between these periods are not\, in fact\, contemporary attitudes towards “the barbarians\,” who were almost universally reviled in surviving texts from throughout the Tang. Instead\, changing ideas about texts themselves\, and about the ways that texts should ideally operate within the world\, produced a transformation in how longstanding and relatively unchanging tropes about ethnocultural others were understood and deployed. The apparent decline of elite “cosmopolitan” attitudes from the seventh century to the tenth thus reflects\, in significant part\, a shift in literary theory. \nLucas Rambo Bender is Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages & Literatures at Yale University. He graduated from Harvard’s Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations in 2016. His book on the great Tang-dynasty poet Du Fu is forthcoming in the summer of 2021 from the Harvard University Asia Center Press\, and he is currently at work on a second project\, about the oft-remarked but rarely-interrogated “pluralism” of the late Chinese middle ages. \nPresented via Zoom.\nRegistration required.\nRegister at https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcrc-yvrD8oH9KrvPpFFw9ytwB2Uicb5hlH.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/lucas-r-bender-the-eternal-frontier-of-chinas-cosmopolitan-empire-tropes-of-identity-and-difference-in-the-tang-dynasty/
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SUMMARY:Daniel S. Markey and Andrew Small — China’s Western Horizon: Beijing and the New Geopolitics of Eurasia
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\nDaniel S. Markey\, Senior Research Professor\, International Relations\, School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)\, John Hopkins University\nAndrew Small\, Senior Transatlantic Fellow\, Asia Program\, The German Marshall Fund of the United States\nModerator: Nargis Kassenova\, Senior Fellow\, Program on Central Asia\, Davis Center; Associate Professor\, KIMEP University \n\n\n\nWatch live on YouTube. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nUnder the ambitious leadership of President Xi Jinping\, China is transforming its wealth and economic power into potent tools of global political influence. But its foreign policy initiatives\, such as the Belt and Road Initiative\, are shaped and redefined as they confront the ground realities of local and regional politics outside China. Daniel S. Markey\, in his new book China’s Western Horizon\, describes and analyzes these complex processes in South Asia\, Central Asia\, and the Middle East. Drawing from extensive interviews\, travels\, and historical research\, he provides the in-depth studies of the dynamics that China’s involvement in Pakistan\, Kazakhstan and Iran has created. Markey anticipates that China’s expanding influence will not bring greater stability and peace to this difficult part of the world\, and might exacerbate conflicts within and among Eurasian states. He argues that U.S. policy makers should have a clear grasp of local histories\, interests and relationships to effectively advance America’s specific diplomatic\, economic\, and security interests in Eurasia\, whether in common cause with Beijing or when working at cross purposes. At this event\, Daniel S. Markey will present some of the key arguments of his book. Andrew Small will discuss the book and provide an overview of the European perspectives on China’s engagement in Eurasia. Policy options for U.S. and European policy makers will be explored. \nMore info: https://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/events/china%E2%80%99s-western-horizon-beijing-and-new-geopolitics-eurasia
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/daniel-s-markey-and-andrew-small-chinas-western-horizon-beijing-and-the-new-geopolitics-of-eurasia/
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SUMMARY:Arnika Fuhrmann - In the Mood for Texture: Bangkok as a Chinese City
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Arnika Fuhrmann\, Associate Professor\, Department of Asian Studies\, Cornell University. \nWhat does it mean to imagine “Asia” beyond the reductive visions of contemporary policy? This project explores the contemporary visual culture of Chinese pasts and colonial modernities\, revived across the cinemas\, new media\, hospitality venues\, and other material sites of East and Southeast Asia. Examining the doubling of Hong Kong\, Bangkok\, and Shanghai across these sites\, it investigates how a transregional Chinese modernity that emerged under\, but always exceeded\, conditions of colonial and national governance informs the present. As film directors such as Wong Kar-wai and hotels\, bars\, and clubs revive 1930s Shanghai and 1960s Hong Kong modernities—and exploit the Chinese past of Bangkok’s old European trading quarters—this redeployment of (semi-)colonial histories and Chinese urban pasts is emerging as a primary signifier of the good life and understandings of Asia in the present. The deployment of this twentieth century translocal Chinese modernity points to enduring regional imaginaries that diverge from global notions of “China Rising\,” the People’s Republic’s own Belt and Road Initiative\, or the policies of the Association for Southeast Asian Nations. Bangkok—as a Chinese city—stands at the center of these prominent\, transregional revivals in which media and urban design projects speak of radically different desires than those of current policy. \nArnika Fuhrmann is an Associate Professor in the Department of Asian Studies at Cornell University. Her work on contexts in Southeast Asia is informed by affect\, gender\, urban and media theory. Her book Ghostly Desires: Queer Sexuality and Vernacular Buddhism in Contemporary Thai Cinema (Duke University Press\, 2016) examines how Buddhist-coded anachronisms of haunting figure struggles over sexuality\, personhood\, and notions of collectivity in contemporary Thai cinema and political rhetoric. She is currently working on a project called Digital Futures: South/east Asian Media Temporalities and the Expansion of the Sphere of Politics. \nThe talk is part of the ongoing East Asian Media Ecologies lecture series. Following a ten-minute presentation by Professor Fuhrmann are an extended conversation with the moderators and a Q&A with the attendees.  \nA zoom link will be posted closer to the event.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/arnika-fuhrmann-in-the-mood-for-texture-bangkok-as-a-chinese-city/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201024T090000
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SUMMARY:Left-Wing South
DESCRIPTION:Co-hosts:\nDavid Der-wei Wang\, Harvard University\nLetty Chen\, Washington University in St. Louis \nSpecial Guests:\nWang Anyi\, Fudan University\nNg Kim Chew\, National Chi Nan University \nPresenters:\nTu Hang\, Harvard University\nJessica Tan\, Harvard University\nKang Ling\, Fudan University\nNicholas Wong\, Hong Kong University\nPo-hsi Chen\, Yale University\nChung Chih-wei\, National Taiwan University \nJoin us for an online workshop on the rich legacies of left-wing thoughts and practices in the Sinophone South (Hong Kong\, Taiwan\, Singapore\, etc.). Young scholars from across the world will present on their most recent research\, and two renowned writers—Wang Anyi and Ng Kim Chew—will join our discussion. The workshop will be held in Chinese. \nThe workshop is sponsored by the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation. \nRegistration required: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0oduiqpzgpH920iAXTi-t1N3OAYMIOblc0
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/left-wing-south/
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SUMMARY:Lyle Goldstein and Vitaly Kozyrev — From a ‘Marriage of Convenience’ to the ‘Axis of Authoritarianism’: Evaluating the Russia-China Relationship in the 21st Century
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\nLyle Goldstein\, Research Professor\, China Maritime Studies Institute (CMSI)\, Naval War College\nVitaly Kozyrev\, Professor\, Political Science and International Studies\, Endicott College \n\n\n\nWatch live on YouTube. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nExamining contemporary Russia-China relations\, assessments by Western scholars yield a wide variety of perspectives and conclusions.  Some view the relationship as inherently brittle\, lacking in genuine substance and shot through with historical mistrust.  At the other end of the spectrum\, some hold that the relationship represents the most ominous possible threat to Western-style democracies.  This presentation will summarize and attempt to categorize these wide-ranging conclusions\, demonstrating that realists\, liberals and constructivists have all developed distinct interpretations of the Russia-China relationship and its meaning for global security.  Employing a case study approach\, this research makes detailed probes into Russia-China cooperation in five specific domains\, including Central Asia\, the Korean Peninsula\, the Arctic\, the Middle East\, and in the military domain more generally.  These case studies offer preliminary conclusions for a larger book-length study that aims to be one of the first truly comprehensive studies of this complex and consequential bilateral relationship.  Results to date illustrate a path between the two analytical extremes.  The relationship has already produced some very significant results in the given case studies.  On the other hand\, the threat of further developing Russia-China relations should not be exaggerated\, even as the subject demands increased scholarly attention. \nMore info: https://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/events/%E2%80%98marriage-convenience%E2%80%99-%E2%80%98axis-authoritarianism%E2%80%99-evaluating-russia-china-relationship-21st
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/lyle-goldstein-and-vitaly-kozyrev-from-a-marriage-of-convenience-to-the-axis-of-authoritarianism-evaluating-the-russia-china-relationship-in-the-21st-cen/
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SUMMARY:Deng Yanhua - Value Clashes\, Power Competition and Community Trust: Why an NGO’s Earthquake Recovery Program Faltered in Rural China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Deng Yanhua\, Professor\, School of Social and Behavioral Sciences\, Nanjing University; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2020-21\nChair/discussant: Anthony Saich\, Daewoo Professor of International Affairs\, Harvard Kennedy School \nNGOs in rural China cannot operate successfully and achieve their goals if they lose the trust of the people they aim to serve and the grassroots leaders they must work with. Following the 2008 Sichuan earthquake\, an environmental NGO in P village became entangled in competition with village cadres and value clashes with villagers who had their own understanding of development\, sustainability and environmentalism. Initially\, “borrowed power” from higher-level governments enabled the ENGO to enter the community fairly smoothly and to gain a degree of trust\, but disputes with villagers (over home construction\, organic agriculture and eco-tourism) and a power struggle with local cadres (over their role in the village) triggered resistance that ultimately drove the ENGO out. The story of P village is a cautionary tale about power relationships and community micropolitics. “Borrowed power” from above is no match for opposition from below on two fronts. Sadly\, however\, “success” in expelling the ENGO has not meant success more broadly. P village’s economic performance remains weak and old divisions between the powerful and powerless have re-emerged\, as lack of trust in outsiders has been replaced with a lack of trust in insiders. \nPresented via Zoom\nRegistration Required\nRegister at: https://harvard.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_2cmQYapggeGGx3D \nhttps://harvard-yenching.org/events/value-clashes-power-competition-and-community-trust-why-ngo-s-earthquake-recovery-program
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/deng-yanhua-value-clashes-power-competition-and-community-trust-why-an-ngos-earthquake-recovery-program-faltered-in-rural-china/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201019T200000
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SUMMARY:Bruce Rusk - Information and Its Objects:  Provenancing the Censers of the Xuande Court
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Bruce Rusk\, University of British Columbia \n\nThis presentation examines the textual existence of material objects in early modern China\, arguing that a new concept of the archive refigured the relationship between document and thing. The use of textual sources to understand the material culture of the past of course had a long history\, particularly in antiquarian studies; writing about ancient objects had an equally long pedigree. By the early eighteenth century\, however\, some writers grounded claims about artifacts in a new vision of textual sources as documents drawn from an archive. The model of the state archive (dang’an 檔案/dangzi 檔子\, Manchu dangse)\, a vital tool of governance in the Qing\, may have shaped the use of documents in other epistemic domains. I examine the case of the Xuande lu 宣德爐\, copper-alloy incense burners attributed to the early-Ming court\, and the various “registers” (pu 譜) that describe them and their provenance. These texts were crafted to support of tenuous claims\, since both the books and the artifacts whose history they provide are forgeries. Borrowing the concept of “documentality” from library studies\, I show how relations of documentation between artifact as document and document as object create a network of epistemological connections that establish meaning and value in the world. \nBruce Rusk (PhD History\, UCLA\, 2004) is Associate Professor in the Department of Asian Studies\, University of British Columbia. He studies the cultural history of early modern China (14th to 18th centuries)\, focusing on cultural practices of authentication and deception\, on the history of philology\, and cultural uses of writing and books. He has published a monograph on the history of classical scholarship (Critics and Commentators: The Book of Poems as Classic and Literature\, Harvard Asia Center\, 2012) and a co-translation of a short story collection (Zhang Yingyu\, The Book of Swindles: Selections from a Late Ming Collection\, with Christopher Rea\, Columbia UP\, 2017); is a co-editor of the forthcoming Literary Information in China: A History (with Jack Chen\, Anatoly Detwyler\, Liu Xiao\, and Christopher Nugent; Columbia UP\, 2021). He is currently writing a study of material and textual forgery in early modern and modern China. \n\nRegister in advance for this meeting:\nhttps://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0rde2hpjIpG9xhdYG4cfxKe9yowMMQNvme
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/bruce-rusk-information-and-its-objects-provenancing-the-censers-of-the-xuande-court/
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SUMMARY:Repatriation and Reintegration of ISIS Affiliates in Central Asia
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\nVera Mironova\, Writer; Center Associate\, Davis Center\nFarukh Chariyev\, Project Component Manager\, NGO “Barqaror Hayot”\nRustam Azizi\, Deputy Director\, Center for Islamic Studies under the President of the Republic of Tajikistan\nModerator: Nargis Kassenova\, Senior Fellow\, Program on Central Asia\, Davis Center \nAround 5\,000-10\,000 individuals from post-Soviet Eurasia traveled to Syria and Iraq to join ISIS and other armed groups fighting there between 2012 and 2019. Now\, some of them are repatriated to their home countries\, while many remain in prisons and detention camps in the Middle East. What will happen to ISIS affiliates returning to Central Asia? Will they be prosecuted or released once repatriated? And how can governments ensure their integration in the civilian society back home? The roundtable will address these questions and offer policy recommendations. \n\n\n\nWatch live on YouTube. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nMore info: https://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/events/repatriation-and-reintegration-isis-affiliates-central-asia.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/repatriation-and-reintegration-of-isis-affiliates-in-central-asia/
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Chinese Language Resources
DESCRIPTION:The Harvard-Yenching Library is offering online bibliographic orientation sessions via Zoom to introduce you to the most important resources in Chinese\, Japanese and Korean language resources. \nRegister in advance for this meeting:\nhttps://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0pdO-grz4pG9ch-VhtIx9tM_Bncj7GvyLt\nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/chinese-language-resources-2/
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Nicolas Tackett - The Mechanics of Cultural Change in China in a Period of Disunity
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Nicolas Tackett\, University of California Berkeley \nSituated at the epicenter of the “Tang-Song Transition\,” the tenth-century interregnum between the Tang and Song dynasties was a period of rapid change. This talk will focus on the dramatic evolution of Chinese political culture\, as reflected in new political ideals\, new ideas of Chinese space\, and a new elite sense of identity. What underlying mechanisms account for these developments? Datasets and examples taken from an on-going book project suggest that cultural change was spurred by the particularities of the tenth century as a period of disunity. Although Chinese civilization has evolved continuously throughout its long history\, change during periods of disunity was driven by distinct causative factors\, which included political instability\, inter-regime competition\, elite migrations\, not to mention the process of reunification itself. \nNicolas Tackett is Professor of History at U.C. Berkeley. He is the author of two books. The Destruction of the Medieval Chinese Aristocracy (2014) examines how a network of powerful families survived at the pinnacle of political power for centuries only to disappear into oblivion suddenly and completely at the turn of the 10th c. The Origins of the Chinese Nation (2017) argues that a national consciousness emerged in China in the eleventh century (i.e.\, much earlier than typically assumed)\, and explores how this new consciousness was a product of the diplomatic environment of 11th-c. Northeast Asia. \nPresented via Zoom.\nRegistration required.\nRegister at https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIuf-uqrz8uGNdQbNpKcTEXXRzRvo5dR5Vb
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/nicolas-tackett-the-mechanics-of-cultural-change-in-china-in-a-period-of-disunity/
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