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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201022T123000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201021T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201021T103000
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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
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201019T220000
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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/
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201015T093000
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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/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201014T200000
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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/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201005T160000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200928T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200928T203000
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SUMMARY:Jinying Li - Walled Media\, Mediating Walls
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Jinying Li\, Brown University \nAs the global digital network promises boundless access to limitless information\, we are facing increasing layers of mounting walls in digital media: the Great Firewall (GFW)\, the Facebook Walls\, the virtual walls in virtual realities…. The existence of the walls shatters the myth of an infinitely open\, borderless digital space\, and highlights the significant functions of certain types of digital apparatus in managing\, controlling\, and mediating information\, knowledge\, and experience. A wall\, in its graphic signification and structural function\, is not only a boundary for demarcation but also a surface for expression. It is an object of both blockage and revelation. Drawing upon the “window” metaphor\, I argue that it is the wall rather than the window that fundamentally structures and defines digital media. Shifting the metaphor from “window” to ”wall” is a theoretical reconsideration of modern media not simply as systems of visual representation but as spatial organization. \nJinying Li is Assistant Professor of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University\, where she teaches media theory\, animation\, and digital culture in East Asia. Her essays have been published in Film International\, Mechademia\, the International Journal of Communication\, Journal of Chinese Cinemas\, Asiascape\, Asian Cinema\, and Camera Obscura. She co-edited two special issues on Chinese animation for the Journal of Chinese Cinemas\, and a special issue on regional platforms for Asiascape: Digital Asia. She recently completed her first book\, Geek Pleasures: Anime\, Otaku\, and Cybernetic Affect and began her second book project\, Walled Media and Mediating Walls. Jinying is also a filmmaker and has worked on animations\, feature films\, and documentaries. Two documentary TV series that she produced were broadcasted nationwide in China through Shanghai Media Group (SMG). She is one of the co-writers of animated feature film Big Fish and Begonia (Dayu Haitang\, 2016) \nThe talk is part of the ongoing East Asian Media Ecologies lecture series. Following a ten-minute presentation by Professor Li are an extended conversation and Q&A with the moderators and attendees.\nMade possible by the generous support of the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations. \nPresented via Zoom.\nLog on at: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/91095850811?pwd=TlBHM3hDL1kwSkJaQmhFdi9hVG1Ndz09\nMeeting password: 254290
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/jinying-li-walled-media-mediating-walls/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200923T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200923T130000
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CREATED:20200910T150231Z
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SUMMARY:East Asian Legal Studies Open House
DESCRIPTION:Please join East Asian Legal Studies to meet EALS faculty\, staff\, and scholars. \nThe Zoom link to this event will be published at: http://www.law.harvard.edu/programs/eals/events.html
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/east-asian-legal-studies-open-house-3/
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200921T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200921T183000
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CREATED:20200918T133244Z
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SUMMARY:Opening Event\, Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar in Book History
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\nCynthia Brokaw\, Brown University\nAlex Csiszar\, Harvard University\nKathryn James\, Yale University \nPresented via Zoom.\nRegistration Required\nRegister at https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEpf-mvqDsiGtAblBeWA3ymZhyloJtgcQs4
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/opening-event-mahindra-humanities-center-seminar-in-book-history/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200921T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200921T140000
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SUMMARY:Olga Lomová - European Dream About Chinese Poetry in Sinological Research:  The Cases of Vasiliv Alekseyev (1881–1951)  and Jaroslav Průšek (1906–1980)
DESCRIPTION:[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”3.22″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.25″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.27.4″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”]Via Zoom Meeting \nSpeaker: Olga Lomová\, Charles University in Prague \nIt is a well-known fact that since the late nineteenth century many Western modernists were fascinated by ancient Chinese poetry believed to be congenial to their new aesthetics. While Ezra Pound is a notorious example in the English-speaking world\, Pauline Yu and others have also demonstrated the crucial role of a much lesser known French poet and translator Judith Gautier (1845-1917) in promoting her version of Chinese poetry around Europe. Early translations of Chinese poetry by Western poets were shaped rather by their own taste for literary experiment than by serious inquiry into the complexity of Chinese poetic art\, and they are justly not included in the history of western sinology. However\, there were also sinologists who did substantial pioneering research into the history of Chinese literature and whose interest in the subject was nevertheless driven by similar modernist sensibility. I will present two European scholars who were among the first to write about Chinese poetry in European scholarship\, and discuss how the modernist aesthetics shaped their research. Using the cases of a Russian scholar V. Alexeyev\, and a Czech Jaroslav Průšek\, I will ask a question: how much preconceived notions about Chinese poetry inspired by earlier translations conditioned their understanding of Chinese literature\, and to what extent they helped them arrive at a breakthrough in Chinese literature studies. \nOlga Lomová is professor of Chinese literature at Charles University in Prague. Her research and teaching comprise Chinese poetry\, literary aesthetics\, and translation. She frames her research in questions of intellectual transformation in 20th century China\, interplay of ideology and culture in the PRC\, and history of sinological research in Europe with special focus on the Prague School. Currently she heads a research group on intercultural communication between East and West within a large transdisciplinary project KREAS at the Charles University Faculty of Arts. \nConducted via Zoom Meeting.\nRegistration Required.\nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0sf-2qqj8qEt1suBi_342kgpb6delQCu5E\n[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/olga-lomova-european-dream-about-chinese-poetry-in-sinological-research-the-cases-of-vasiliv-alekseyev-1881-1951-and-jaroslav-prusek-1906-1980/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200915T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200915T120000
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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/tJMpd-2hqTopHdfnfVovpSg7mzMWFAZsH8Le\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/
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200708T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200708T213000
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SUMMARY:Digital Sources for Chinese History
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\nJianye He\, Librarian for Chinese Collections\, UC Berkeley\nKwok leong Tang\, Digital China Fellow of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard University\nIan Chapman\, China Studies Reference and Instruction Specialist\, University of Washington\nAmanda Shuman\, post-doc researcher and database manager\, Institute of Chinese Studies\, University of Freiburg\nKarl Gerth\, Hwei-Chih and Julia Hsiu Chair in Chinese Studies and Professor of History\, UC San Diego \nSponsored by the Long US-China Institute (University of California\, Irvine) and the Council on East Asian Studies (Yale University)\, with support from Harvard University’s Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, the Johns Hopkins University\, Simon Fraser University History Department\, the University of Chicago\, the University of Washington\, and York University. \nRegistration required.\nClick here to register.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/digital-sources-for-chinese-history/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200623T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200623T140000
DTSTAMP:20260719T143049
CREATED:20200622T144930Z
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SUMMARY:Audrye Wong and Alex Yu-Ting Lin - Rising China in a Changing Asia
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\nAlex Yu-Ting Lin\, predoctoral research fellow\, Belfer Center’s International Security Program; Ph.D. candidate at the University of Southern California\nAudrye Wong\, Grand Strategy\, Security\, and Statecraft postdoctoral fellow\, Belfer Center; postdoctoral fellow; Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies \nModerator: Grace Headinger\, Operations Coordinator\, Belfer Center \nOver the past decade\, China’s emergence as a geopolitical leader in Asia has upended the region’s U.S.-led economic and security status quo. As both the U.S. and China vie for influence over other Asia-Pacific states\, both countries are locked in an international rivalry that threatens to erupt into conflict. Furthermore\, their diverging economic and security priorities paint two distinctly different visions for the region with greater implications for the global stage. \nDr. Audrye Wong and Alex Yu-Ting Lin\, International Security Program research fellows at the Belfer Center\, will discuss their research on great power competition in the Asia-Pacific region\, from whether China’s Belt-and-Road Initiative translates into tangible\, political outcomes\, to why Chinese influence among the region’s smallest states will define its likelihood for future conflict\, to how COVID-19 will impact U.S.-China strategic competition. They will also share stories of their academic paths and answer your questions about pursuing international security research as a career. \nRSVP required for this event. For more information and to RSVP\, please visit https://www.belfercenter.org/event/belfer-policy-chats-rising-china-changing-asia.  \n 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/audrye-wong-and-alex-yu-ting-lin-rising-china-in-a-changing-asia/
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200507T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200507T133000
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CREATED:20200424T153216Z
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SUMMARY:Feruza Aripova - Tracing the Effects of Soviet Gender and Sexual Politics in Central Asia
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Feruza Aripova\, PhD Candidate in World History\, Northeastern University; Center Associate\, Davis Center\nModerator: Rochelle Ruthchild\, Research Scholar\, Women’s Studies Research Center\, Brandeis University; Center Associate\, Davis Center \nOnline event. For more information\, please visit: https://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/events/tracing-effects-soviet-gender-and-sexual-politics-central-asia-0
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/feruza-aripova-tracing-the-effects-of-soviet-gender-and-sexual-politics-in-central-asia/
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200310T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200310T133000
DTSTAMP:20260719T143049
CREATED:20200303T164843Z
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SUMMARY:Zhang Ke - Progress or Perish: Different Images of India in Late Qing China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Zhang Ke\, Associate Professor of History\, Fudan University; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2019-20\nChair/discussant: Arunabh Ghosh\, Associate Professor of History\, Harvard University \nhttps://harvard-yenching.org/events/progress-or-perish-different-images-india-late-qing-china
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/xhang-ke-progress-or-perish-different-images-of-india-in-late-qing-china/
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200309T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200309T170000
DTSTAMP:20260719T143049
CREATED:20200226T152433Z
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UID:9177-1583758800-1583773200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:The Stories We Tell and the Objects We Keep: Asian American Women and the Archives
DESCRIPTION:The stories of Asian American women extend far beyond the geographic borders of the United States. Inspired by tales and objects from family history\, their narratives often reflect the transnational nature of Asian American women’s lives. Despite the importance of these narratives to expanding and complicating our understanding of war\, migration\, inequity\, and difference\, the accounts and perspectives of Asian American women have often been overlooked in formal records\, and the tangible objects providing critical evidence of their histories have been ignored. \nThis half-day program will bring together Asian American activists and artists\, including novelists\, filmmakers\, playwrights\, and photographers\, to share the stories that inspire their craft and the objects they retain as part of their personal histories. \nTo register and to view a full list of speakers\, visit www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2020-stories-we-tell-objects-we-keep-conference. \nThis event is free. Registration is required.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-stories-we-tell-and-the-objects-we-keep-asian-american-women-and-the-archives/
LOCATION:Radcliffe Knafel Center\, 10 Garden St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200306T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200306T140000
DTSTAMP:20260719T143049
CREATED:20200305T174656Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200305T174656Z
UID:9200-1583496000-1583503200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:EALC First Fridays Live Broadcast
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\nHisa Kuriyama\, Reischauer Institute Professor of Cultural History: “Toward a History of Timeless Wisdom”\nDylan Suher\, Ph.D. Candidate in Chinese Literature: “Chinese Television at Midnight: Triumph at Midnight and the Birth of ‘Television-Style Television'” \nThe Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard  invites you to join us for our first ever live broadcast of our signature First Friday talks!\nWatch and participate: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/151946950
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/ealc-first-fridays-live-broadcast/
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200304T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200304T130000
DTSTAMP:20260719T143049
CREATED:20200225T152644Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200225T152644Z
UID:9165-1583323200-1583326800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Bin Li - From History Books to Digital Humanities Database: Methods\, Tools\, and Case Studies of Chinese Classics
DESCRIPTION:Artificial intelligence technology has rapidly changed the study form of humanities. In this presentation\, we will discuss the key issues in using natural language processing\, deep learning\, GIS\, database and visualization technologies to design a new digital humanities database from the electronic texts of ancient books. We will introduce automatic tagging tools for ancient Chinese sentence/word segmentation\, named entity tagging. Then\, we will present a case study of constructing the DH database of Chinese classics Zuozhuan(左傳)\, Shiji(史記) and Shijing(詩經)\, which offers word based multi-functional retrieval in addition to the full-text retrieval. Data analysis and visualization also reveal new facts from the texts\, such as the personal social relations and travelling distance. Finally\, we discuss the potential improvements and applications of the DH database. \nSpeaker: Bin Li\, Visiting Scholar of CBDB group at IQSS\, Harvard University. Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics in the School of Chinese Language and Literature\, Nanjing Normal University
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/bin-li-from-history-books-to-digital-humanities-database-methods-tools-and-case-studies-of-chinese-classics/
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200225T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200225T180000
DTSTAMP:20260719T143049
CREATED:20200220T171647Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200220T171647Z
UID:9155-1582648200-1582653600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Jessica Brandt and Torrey Taussig - China\, Russia\, and Europe’s Authoritarian Challenge
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\nJessica Brandt\, Head of Policy and Research\, Alliance for Securing Democracy; Fellow\, The German Marshall Fund of the United States\nTorrey Taussig\, Research Director\, Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship\, Harvard Kennedy School \nChair: Sebastián Royo\, Professor of Government\, Suffolk University; Visiting Scholar 2019-2020\, Local Affiliate and Seminar Co-chair\, CES\, Harvard University \nhttps://ces.fas.harvard.edu/events/2020/02/china-russia-europe-authoritarian
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/jessica-brandt-and-torrey-taussig-china-russia-and-europes-authoritarian-challenge/
LOCATION:Adolphus Busch Hall\, 27 Kirkland St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200220T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200220T164500
DTSTAMP:20260719T143049
CREATED:20200218T153135Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200218T153135Z
UID:9139-1582212600-1582217100@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Xi Yang - China's Coal-to-Gas Policy for Residential Heating: Between the Shadow and the Light
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Xi Yang\, Visiting Researcher\, Harvard-China Project; Associate Professor\, China University of Petroleum Beijing \nUnder the pressure of improving its environmental governance\, China has strengthened its coal substitution policy known as “coal-to-gas” in residential heating in Northern region. This bold policy sets strict gas replacement targets for “26 + 2” key cities. However\, China suffered from severe gas shortages in the 2017-2018 winter\, which aroused widespread concern. Maintaining the natural gas balance became thus a challenging task for China\, especially with the policy extended nationwide. Also\, the contribution of gas substitution to air quality improvement remains uncertain. In the context of the Paris Agreement\, the feasibility of China’s gas substitution policy is vital not only for the accomplishment of its NDCs (Nationally Determined Contributions)\, but also to global decarbonization. Based on scenario analysis with the bottom-up MAPLE (China Multi-pollutant Abatement Planning and Long-term benefit Evaluation) model\, this talk will address current debates and discuss the potential impact of the coal-to-gas policy.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/xi-yang-chinas-coal-to-gas-policy-for-residential-heating-between-the-shadow-and-the-light/
LOCATION:Pierce Hall 100F\, 29 Oxford St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200219T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200219T170000
DTSTAMP:20260719T143049
CREATED:20200212T140349Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200212T140349Z
UID:9131-1582124400-1582131600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Mark Elliott and Kirsten Weld - The Public Face of History series: The Historian Confronting Political Controversies
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\nMark Elliott\, Vice Provost for International Affairs; Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History\, Harvard University\nKirsten Weld\, Professor of History\, Harvard University
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/mark-elliott-and-kirsten-weld-the-public-face-of-history-series-the-historian-confronting-political-controversies/
LOCATION:History Department Conference Room\, Robinson Hall\, 35 Quincy St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200214T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200214T163000
DTSTAMP:20260719T143049
CREATED:20200127T145500Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200127T145500Z
UID:9062-1581692400-1581697800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Daniel Koss - Where the Party Rules: The Rank and File of China’s Communist Party
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Daniel Koss\, Lecturer\, EALC\, Harvard University \nIn most non-democratic countries\, today governing forty-four percent of the world population\, the power of the regime rests upon a ruling party. Contrasting with conventional notions that authoritarian regime parties serve to contain elite conflict and manipulate electoral-legislative processes\, this book presents the case of China and shows that rank and-file members of the Communist Party allow the state to penetrate local communities. Subnational comparative analysis demonstrates that in ‘red areas’ with high party saturation\, the state is most effectively enforcing policy and collecting taxes. Because party membership patterns are extremely enduring\, they must be explained by events prior to the Communist takeover in 1949. Frontlines during the anti-colonial Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945) continue to shape China’s political map even today. Newly available evidence from the Great Leap Forward (1958-1961) and the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) shows how a strong local party basis sustained the regime in times of existential crisis. \nThis event is part of the Harvard-Yenching Library Book Talk Series\, in which faculty discuss their recent publications. The event is open to all. Light refreshments will be served.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/daniel-koss-where-the-party-rules-the-rank-and-file-of-chinas-communist-party/
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200205T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200205T130000
DTSTAMP:20260719T143049
CREATED:20200127T135924Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200127T135924Z
UID:9060-1580904000-1580907600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Kwok-Leong Tang - Digital China Lab: Preparation for Digital Scholarship in Chinese Studies
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Kwok-Leong Tang\, Digital China Fellow\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard University \nDigital China Lab is a series of workshops on data collecting and wrangling\, which will be offered by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies this semester. Kwok-leong will talk about the difficulties faced by humanities students in engaging with digital methodologies and explain his rationale for planning the workshops. \nKwok-Leong Tang provides support and consultation to anyone interested in adopting digital tools and methods in their research related to Chinese studies. He received his Ph.D. in history and Asian studies from Pennsylvania State University\, where he worked as a postdoctoral teaching fellow after graduation.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/kwok-leong-tang-digital-china-lab-preparation-for-digital-scholarship-in-chinese-studies/
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200114T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200114T130000
DTSTAMP:20260719T143049
CREATED:20200103T151155Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200103T151155Z
UID:9008-1579003200-1579006800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Shen Hongyu - The Evolving Role of Chinese Courts in International Commercial Dispute Resolution
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Judge Shen Hongyu\, The Supreme People’s Court of China; Visiting Scholar\, The Center for Chinese Legal Studies\, Columbia Law School
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/shen-hongyu-the-evolving-role-of-chinese-courts-in-international-commercial-dispute-resolution/
LOCATION:Morgan Courtroom\, Austin Hall\, 1515 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191213T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191213T153000
DTSTAMP:20260719T143049
CREATED:20191202T144048Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191202T144048Z
UID:8989-1576245600-1576251000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Jane Perlez - The Cultural Revolution Revisited: 1967-2019
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Jane Perlez\, 2019 Joan Shorenstein Center Fellow\, Beijing Bureau Chief for The New York Times.\nModerator: Lucy Hornby\, 2020 Nieman Fellow\, Deputy Beijing Bureau Chief for the Financial Times. \nLong before she was Beijing bureau chief for The New York Times\, Jane Perlez was an accidental tourist at the peak of China’s Cultural Revolution. Join us as she screens rare footage and talks about her impressions of a 1967 trip to Shanghai and cities around China\, when Red Guards turned China upside down.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/jane-perlez-the-cultural-revolution-revisited-1967-2019/
LOCATION:Taylor Seminar Room\, Lippman House\, 1 Francis Ave.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191205T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191205T173000
DTSTAMP:20260719T143049
CREATED:20191121T142327Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191121T142327Z
UID:8985-1575536400-1575567000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Jin Ping Mei and the World: Translation and Transculturation — A Symposium in Honor of David Roy (1933-2016)
DESCRIPTION:The Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University will convene a symposium on Jin Ping Mei (The Plum in the Golden Vase) in honor of David Tod Roy (1933 – 2016)\, Professor Emeritus of the University of Chicago\, on December 5\, 2019\, at Harvard University. \nFor more information\, visit https://scholar.harvard.edu/jpm
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/jin-ping-mei-and-the-world-translation-and-transculturation-a-symposium-in-honor-of-david-roy-1933-2016/
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191204T154500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191204T173000
DTSTAMP:20260719T143049
CREATED:20191106T154609Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191106T154609Z
UID:8892-1575474300-1575480600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Elizabeth Ingleson - Making Made In China: Race\, Labor\, and Politics in U.S.-China Trade 1971-1980
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Elizabeth Ingleson\, Southern Methodist University \nInterested attendees should e-mail marinoauffant@gmail.com for a copy of the pre-circulated paper. \nPart of the Harvard International & Global History Seminar (HIGHS) series\, a forum for cutting-edge work in the fields of international and global history.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/elizabeth-ingleson-making-made-in-china-race-labor-and-politics-in-u-s-china-trade-1971-1980-2/
LOCATION:History Department Conference Room\, Robinson Hall\, 35 Quincy St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191204T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191204T100000
DTSTAMP:20260719T143049
CREATED:20191106T163506Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191106T163506Z
UID:8893-1575450000-1575453600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Urban Rusnak - Energy Connectivity and Investment Disputes in Eurasia
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Urban Rusnák\, Secretary General\, Energy Charter Secretariat\nModerator: Mark Wu\, Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law\, Harvard Law School\nOpening remarks: Rawi Abdelal\, Herbert F. Johnson Professor of International Management\, Harvard Business School; Director\, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies \nJoin the Negotiation Task Force for a guest lecture by Urban Rusnák\, Secretary General of the Energy Charter Secretariat\, about the challenges of investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) in the context of Eurasian energy connectivity.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/urban-rusnak-energy-connectivity-and-investment-disputes-in-eurasia/
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191125T132500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191125T160000
DTSTAMP:20260719T143049
CREATED:20191107T142228Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191107T142228Z
UID:8924-1574688300-1574697600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:American Factory: Film Screening and Discussion with Directors
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\nJulia Reichert\, Director\nSteven Bognar\, Director\nMeg Rithmire\, F. Warren McFarlan Associate Professor of Business Administration\nKris Rondeau\, Director of AFSCME New England \nThe film profiles the launch of the Fuyao Glass factory in Moraine\, Ohio\, sited in a former General Motors plant. To launch the factory\, Fuyao brought in hundreds of experienced Chinese factory workers to Ohio to train their U.S. counterparts. The film provides the economic and social issues this sparked\, including management challenges associated with labor dynamics\, a unionization effort\, and managing an operation with workers from two very different cultures. \nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/american-factory-documentary-screening-and-panel-discussion-tickets-80070269331
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/american-factory-film-screening-and-discussion-with-directors/
LOCATION:Klarman Hall\, Harvard Business School\, Kresge Way\, Boston\, MA\, 02163\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191121T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191121T133000
DTSTAMP:20260719T143049
CREATED:20191106T163833Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191106T163833Z
UID:8894-1574337600-1574343000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Pan Weilin - Dialectics of Waste: Recycling Campaigns in Socialist China\, 1949-1978
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Pan Weilin\, Assistant Professor\, Institute of China Studies\, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2019-20\nChair/discussant: Elizabeth Perry\,  Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government\, Harvard University; Director\, Harvard-Yenching Institute \nThis talk will examine how the national system of China’s waste recovery and recycling took shape through the mass movements during the heydays of the Great Leap Forward (1958-1960) and the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976). Waste recovery and recycling gained political weight after Mao’s idea of “comprehensive usage” (zonghe liyong) had become the guiding ideology of China’s rapid industrialization. It was not only a matter of production and productivity\, but also a matter of dialectical materialism. The usable and the useless were perceived as a unity of opposites. In a “scientific”/ideal scenario\, the use value can be unceasingly resurrected as long as human endeavor implies. I will argue that the idea and practice of waste recovery and recycling in that period showcased the revolutionary romanticism of the relationship between people and state\, as well as people and nature. It is a socialist legacy that speaks to our contemporary concerns about sustainability and pollution control in post-reform urban China. \nhttps://harvard-yenching.org/events/dialectics-waste-recycling-campaigns-socialist-china-1949-1978
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/pan-weilin-dialectics-of-waste-recycling-campaigns-in-socialist-china-1949-1978/
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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