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SUMMARY:Amelia Ying Qin - Seeking Patterns: Close and Distant Readings of Two Collections of Tang 唐 (618-907) Dynasty Anecdotes
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Amelia Ying Qin\,  An Wang Post Doctoral Fellow\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies \nThis study takes two different approaches—close and distant readings—to the hidden patterns in two anecdote collections. The Songchuang zalu 松牕雜錄 (Miscellaneous Notes under the Pine Window) is a small Tang 唐 (618-907) collection of sixteen anecdotes that claims its accounts are both “particularly unusual” 特異 and “definitely true” 必實. Close reading reveals it to be a text containing hidden structures with an emphasis on “the unusual” as a concept bearing discursive weight for the purpose of subtle political criticism. The intertwined ideas of unusualness and truthfulness define each other and form a discourse of “the unusual” that provides an interpretive framework for the collection’s core anecdotes. These accounts\, when read closely within this framework\, point to signs that foreshadow the Tang’s decline while voicing concerns over its end and directing muted criticism at the irresponsible Tang rulers. The Tang yulin 唐語林 (Forest of Conversations on the Tang)\, on the other hand\, is a collection of over eleven hundred anecdotes about Tang historical figures\, events\, and customs compiled during the Northern Song 北宋 (960-1127). Its contents were selectively recycled from fifty or so earlier miscellanies of various sizes\, and both the content and structure of the collection suffered from a hectic textual history of loss and restoration. To examine a text of this nature and size\, this study experiments with the approach of distant reading to explore potential patterns in its content\, structure\, and selective use of source material. In juxtaposing these two texts examined with different methods\, the speaker hopes to reflect upon the mercurial and ephemeral nature of anecdotal memories of the past\, as well as the possible ways of reading and understanding such memories. \nAmelia Ying Qin graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison\, with a Ph.D. in Chinese literature (2013) from the Department of East Asian Languages and Literature and an M.A. (2010) from the School of Library and Information Studies. Prior to her study in Madison\, she also completed degrees at the University of Rhode Island and Fudan University in Shanghai\, China. Her current research interest is in the relationship and dynamics between cultural memory and historiography in Chinese anecdotal and historical narratives during the time period of 600-1300. She is also the translator of two chapters of The Grand Scribe’s Records. Her teaching interests include Chinese language of all levels\, survey of Chinese literature\, special topics in modern and classical Chinese literature\, as well as comparative topics in East Asian literature and cultures.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-humanities-seminar-2018-05-07/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:China Humanities Seminar,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180522T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180522T210000
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SUMMARY:The Arnold Arboretum and China: A Century-Old Partnership
DESCRIPTION:Surrounded by our Bonsai & Penjing collection\, enjoy cocktails and hors d’oeuvres as you view Professor Yin Kaipu’s (Chengdu Institute of Biology) photographs which document a century of environmental change. Each of his images will be paired with a sister image taken in the same location by Arboretum explorer Ernest Henry Wilson. \nThen screen highlights from CCTV-9’s documentary “Chinese Wilson.” Professor Yin and Dr. Michael Dosmann\, Arboretum Keeper of the Living Collections\, will introduce the film in which they both star\, linking China and the Arboretum’s past with modern-day quests to preserve these locations and biodiversity. \nFor more information and to RSVP by Tuesday\, May 8\, email Janetta Stringfellow\, Director of Institutional Advancement\, at janetta_stringfellow@harvard.edu or call 617-384-5043. \nEarlier in the day\, we will be hosting a program of talks by our Chinese guests and Arnold Arboretum staff. They will include presentations on E.H. Wilson’s life\, photographs\, and the plants he brought to Boston. We welcome you to also join us for this program.  Please contact Janetta Stringfellow for details. \nPhoto: View of North Gate and part of Taning Hsien with river and city wall. Altitude 600 ft. June 27\,1910. Photograph by Ernest Henry Wilson.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-arnold-arboretum-and-china-a-century-old-partnership/
LOCATION:Weld Hill Research Building\, 1300 Centre St.\, Boston\, MA\, 02131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Environment,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180910T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180910T164500
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CREATED:20180906T185331Z
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SUMMARY:Gufran Beig - Anatomy of Extreme Pollution Event in a Megacity: Delhi
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Gufran Beig\, Project Director\, System of Air Quality Forecasting and Research\, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology\, Ministry of Earth Sciences\, Government of India; Fellow\, Indian Academy of Sciences; World Meteorological Organization Norbert Gerbier-Mumm International Award \nA Harvard-China Project Research Seminar \nMegacities are engines of growing pollution. Delhi is cursed by its geography to be prone to various meteorological phenomena acting in different times of the year that contribute to high pollution levels. Climate change is poised to worsen air quality and by the end of the century\, more than half of the world’s population will be exposed to increasingly stagnant atmospheric conditions\, with the tropics and subtropics bearing the brunt of the poor air quality. India’s capital\, Delhi\, is reported to be one of the megacities in the world that are worst affected by asthma. Delhi experienced an environmental emergency in early November 2017 when levels of toxic PM2.5 particles surpassed WHO guidelines by 25 times for a prolonged period of time (a week). In this talk\, we will demonstrate the role that monsoon dynamics played in linking and mixing dust emitted from a large\, natural dust storm\, 3000km away in the Middle East\, with smoke from agriculture fires in northwest India. Understanding the multi-scale nature of such events is important for improving our abilities to forecast these events and developing effective air quality management strategies. \nSponsored by China Project\, Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/gufran-beig-anatomy-of-extreme-pollution-event-in-a-megacity-delhi/
LOCATION:Pierce Hall 100F\, 29 Oxford St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Environment,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180914T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180914T130000
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CREATED:20180911T183723Z
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SUMMARY:Jennifer Hsieh -  Noise\, Decibels\, and the Paradox of Reproducibility in Urban Taiwan
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Jennifer Hsieh\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies \nJennifer Hsieh holds a Ph.D. in anthropology from Stanford University and comes to the Fairbank Center from the University of Amsterdam where she was a Vossius Fellow. \nPart of the Graduate Music Forum Friday Lunch Talk Series
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/jennifer-hsieh-noise-decibels-and-the-paradox-of-reproducibility-in-urban-taiwan/
LOCATION:Davison Room\, Music Building\, 3 Oxford St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest,Taiwan Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180914T131500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180914T144500
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CREATED:20180911T184823Z
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UID:7569-1536930900-1536936300@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:David Yang - Historical Traumas and the Roots of Political Distrust: Political Inference from the Great Chinese Famine
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: David Yang\, Assistant Professor\, Department of Economics\, Harvard University \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChairs:\nMelissa Dell\, Faculty Associate. Assistant Professor of Economics\, Department of Economics\, Harvard University\nClaudia Goldin\,Henry Lee Professor of Economics\, Department of Economics\, Harvard University\nNathan Nunn\, Frederic E. Abbe Professor of Economics\, Department of Economics\, Harvard University
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/david-yang-historical-traumas-and-the-roots-of-political-distrust-political-inference-from-the-great-chinese-famine/
LOCATION:Littauer Center\, Room M16\, 1805 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180917T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180917T173000
DTSTAMP:20260718T192435
CREATED:20180821T132420Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180821T132420Z
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SUMMARY:Martha Hanson - Heaven and Earth Are Within One's Grasp (Qian Kun zai wo 乾坤在握): The Handy Mind in Late Imperial Chinese Medicine
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Professor Marta Hanson\, Johns Hopkins \nPart of the Harvard University Asia Center Science and Technology Seminar Series
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/martha-hanson-heaven-and-earth-are-within-ones-grasp-qian-kun-zai-wo-%e4%b9%be%e5%9d%a4%e5%9c%a8%e6%8f%a1-the-handy-mind-in-late-imperial-chinese-medicine/
LOCATION:Room 469\, Science Center\, 1 Oxford St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180918T161500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180918T173000
DTSTAMP:20260718T192435
CREATED:20180813T134442Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180813T134442Z
UID:7497-1537287300-1537291800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Tony Saich and Jesse Turiel - Polling China: Understanding Public Opinion Across China
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Tony Saich\, Ash Center Director\, and Jesse Tureil\, PhD candidate\, Boston University \nJoin us for a conversation with Ash Center Director and Daewoo Professor of International Affairs Tony Saich and Jesse Turiel\, a PhD candidate from Boston University as they discuss their groundbreaking public opinion survey project in China. Starting in 2003\, Saich developed a series of surveys to measure satisfaction with various levels of government in China. Through 2016\, the survey project ultimately captured opinion data from 32\,000 individual respondents\, making it the most ambitious public opinion research project conducted on a nationwide scale to date in China.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/tony-saich-and-jesse-turiel-polling-china-understanding-public-opinion-across-china/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180919T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180919T180000
DTSTAMP:20260718T192435
CREATED:20180821T132727Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180821T132727Z
UID:7505-1537372800-1537380000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Jing-Bao Nie - In search of a Benevolent Polity: Eldery Suicide in China and a Confucian Socio-Ethical Vision of Eldercare
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Professor Jing-Bao Nie\, University of Otago\, New Zealand\nChair: Professor Arthur Kleinman\, Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology\, Harvard University; Professor of Medical Anthropology and Professor of Psychiatry\, Harvard Medical School \nPart of the Asia Center Seminar Series
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/jing-bao-nie-in-search-of-a-benevolent-polity-eldery-suicide-in-china-and-a-confusion-socio-ethical-vision-of-eldercare/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180924T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180924T133000
DTSTAMP:20260718T192435
CREATED:20180911T184236Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180911T184236Z
UID:7568-1537790400-1537795800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Lan Pei-Chia - Raising Global Families: Global Parenting and Class Inequality in Taiwan
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Prof. Lan Pei-Chia\, National Taiwan University\nChair: Prof. Andrew Gordon\, Harvard University; Acting Director\, Harvard-Yenching Institute \nhttps://harvard-yenching.org/events/raising-global-families-global-parenting-and-class-inequality-taiwan \nBased on in-depth interviews with ethnic Chinese parents from more than a hundred families in Taiwan and Boston\, my new book Raising Global Families examines how parents navigate transnational mobilities and negotiate cultural boundaries to cope with uncertainties and insecurities in the changing society and globalized world. I coined the term “global security strategies” to describe their childrearing practices that often lead to the unintended consequences of magnifying parental insecurity. This talk focuses on the distinct strategies of “global parenting” across the class spectrum in Taiwan. The professional middle class employ divergent educational strategies to pursue cosmopolitan parenting: some prefer international school and prioritize global competitiveness while some others choose Western-influenced alternative curriculums to orchestrate children’s natural growth. By contrast\, working-class Taiwanese men seek wives from China and Southeast Asia to escape the marriage squeeze\, but the transnational connections of immigrant mothers are hardly recognized as a valuable cultural capital by the state and school until the recent “New Southbound Policy.” \nAbout the speaker: Pei-Chia Lan is Distinguished Professor of Sociology\, Director of Global Asia Research Center\, and Associate Dean of the College of Social Sciences at National Taiwan University. She was a postdoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley\, a Fulbright scholar at New York University\, and a Yenching-Radcliffe fellow at Harvard University. Her major publications include Global Cinderellas: Migrant Domestics and Newly Rich Employers in Taiwan (Duke 2006\, ASA Sex and Gender Book Award and ICAS Book Prize) and Raising Global Families: Parenting\, Immigration\, and Class in Taiwan and the US (Stanford 2018). \nHarvard-Yenching Institute talk\, co-sponsored with the Sociology Dept.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/lan-pei-chia-raising-global-families-global-parenting-and-class-inequality-in-taiwan/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180925T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180925T160000
DTSTAMP:20260718T192435
CREATED:20180906T190515Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180906T190515Z
UID:7561-1537885800-1537891200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:East Asian Legal Studies Open House
DESCRIPTION:An opportunity to meet EALS Faculty\, Staff\, Research Fellows\, and the 2018-2019 Visiting Scholars \nRemarks at 3:00 p.m. \nLight refreshments will be served.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/east-asian-legal-studies-open-house-2/
LOCATION:Austin Hall Room 308\, 1515 Mass Ave\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180925T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180925T180000
DTSTAMP:20260718T192435
CREATED:20180801T175201Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250130T154942Z
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SUMMARY:Panel Discussion: The End of Concern: Maoist China\, Activism\, and Asian Studies
DESCRIPTION:Panelists:\nFabio Lanza\, University of Arizona\nEllen Schrecker\, Yeshiva University\nAndrew Gordon\, Harvard University\nJoseph Esherick\, University of California San Diego\nSugata Bose\, Harvard University\nLien-Hang Nguyen\, Columbia University\nBruce Cumings\, University of Chicago \nModerator: Karen Thornber\, Harvard University Asia Center \nOrganized by: Arunabh Ghosh\, Harvard University \nCo-Sponsored by:\nFairbank Center for Chinese Studies\nHarvard University Asia Center\nReischauer Institute for Japanese Studies\nKorea Institute\nMittal South Asia Institute \nListen again on Soundcloud:
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/panel-discussion-the-end-of-concern-maoist-china-activism-and-asian-studies/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Conference and Workshops,Events of Interest,Modern China Lecture,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180926T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180926T200000
DTSTAMP:20260718T192435
CREATED:20180925T151433Z
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UID:7639-1537984800-1537992000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:China's Anti-Poverty Miracle?
DESCRIPTION:Panelists:\nLu Mai\nSecretary General\, China Development Research Foundation\nRohini Pande\nRafik Hariri Professor of International Political Economy\, Harvard Kennedy School\nAnthony Saich\nDaewoo Professor of International Affairs and Director\, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation\, Harvard Kennedy School\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGraham Allison (Moderator)\nDouglas Dillon Professor of Government\, Harvard Kennedy School
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/chinas-anti-poverty-miracle/
LOCATION:JFK Jr. Forum\, Harvard Kennedy School\, 79 John F. Kennedy St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180927T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180927T180000
DTSTAMP:20260718T192435
CREATED:20180907T150704Z
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UID:7563-1538064000-1538071200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Panel Discussion - Strongman Politics in the 21st Century
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\nElsa Clavé\, Harvard University Asia Center\nAyşe Kadıoğlu\, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies\, Harvard University\nJoseph Fewsmith\, Boston University\nValerie Sperling\, Clark University \nModerator:\nThomas Vallely\, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation\, Harvard Kennedy School \nListen again on Soundcloud: \n \nAs the role of “strongman” leaders on the world stage appears to be on the rise\, this panel examines “strongman politics” in a comparative context. In May 2018\, Time Magazine proclaimed in an article that “The ‘Strongmen Era’ Is Here” (Time\, May 3\, 2018). Highlighting Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping’s tightening authoritarianism in Russia and China\, and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan\, Rodrigo Duterte\, and Viktor Orbán’s undermining of democratic norms in Turkey\, the Philippines\, and Hungary\, it certainly appears that Huntington’s post-Cold War “third wave” of democratization is witnessing a strongman-inspired reversal. But does this entail a new “era” of authoritarianism advance as the United States rhetorically withdraws from its global leadership role? \nThis panel examines the role of politically-strong male leaders in authoritarian countries in a comparative context. Elsa Clavé\, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Harvard University Asia Center\, examines the 2016 election of Duterte in the Philippines; Ayşe Kadıoğlu\, Visiting Scholar at Harvard’s Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies\, looks at Erdoğan’s reversal of Turkey’s previous move towards democratization; Joseph Fewsmith\, Professor Political Science at Boston University\, compares Xi Jinping’s consolidation of power in China to Mao’s historical rise at Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party; and Valerie Sperling\, Professor of Political Science at Clark University\, interrogates the cult-like masculinity of Vladimir Putin’s image as a “manly” leader in post-Soviet Russia. \nRegarding her upcoming discussion of the presidency of Duterte at the panel\, Asia Center Postdoctoral Fellow Elsa Clavé\, a historian of the Philippines working on the expression of authority and power in its Muslim periphery\, stated “President Duerte is not only a populist; he was elected and stays extremely popular for various other reasons. Understanding these reasons is essential to understanding the present society and the direction it is taking. Models and theory are a good approach to reality\, but reality exceeds both. A conversation between different fields and disciplines will help\, I hope\, to refine the model.” \nThe panel is moderated by Thomas Vallely\, Senior Advisor at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation\, Harvard Kennedy School\, and a specialist on Southeast Asia\, and introduced by Karen Thornber\, Director of the Harvard University Asia Center. \nCo-sponsoring Centers:\nAsh Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation\, Harvard Kennedy School\nWeatherhead Center for International Affairs\, Harvard University\nHarvard University Asia Center\nFairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard University\nDavis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies\, Harvard University\nMinda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies\, Harvard University
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/panel-discusison-strong-man-politics-in-the-21st-century/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181002T171500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181002T190000
DTSTAMP:20260718T192435
CREATED:20180925T143401Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180925T143401Z
UID:7634-1538500500-1538506800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:William Alford -  Learn from the Past to Appreciate the Present\, That is What Makes One a Teacher 溫故而知新\,可以為師矣: Confucius\, Cohen (s) and Contemporary China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: William P. Alford\, Jerome A. and Joan L. Cohen Professor of East Asian Legal Studies\, Harvard University \nDean John F. Manning invites you to join the Harvard Law School Community and Friends in honoring William P. Alford on the occasion of his appointment as the Jerome A. and Joan L. Cohen Professor of East Asian Legal Studies. Come to “Learn from the Past to Appreciate the Present\, That is What Makes One a Teacher溫故而知新\,可以為師矣”:Confucius\, Cohen (s) and Contemporary China\, a talk by William P. Alford on Tuesday\, October 2\, 2018 in the Wasserstein Caspersen Clinical Building Milstein West (room 2019) at Harvard Law School at 5:15 p.m. All are welcome. There will be a reception following the talk.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/william-alford-learn-from-the-past-to-appreciate-the-present-that-is-what-makes-one-a-teacher%e6%ba%ab%e6%95%85%e8%80%8c%e7%9f%a5%e6%96%b0%e5%8f%af%e4%bb%a5%e7%82%ba%e5%b8%ab%e7%9f%a3-c/
LOCATION:Milstein West\, Wasserstein Hall\, 1585 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181003T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181003T130000
DTSTAMP:20260718T192435
CREATED:20180925T144937Z
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UID:7636-1538568000-1538571600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Jerome A. Cohen - Law and Power in China and in Its Foreign Relations
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Jerome A. Cohen\, Professor of Law\, NYU School of Law; Of Counsel\, Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison; Founding Director\, East Asian Legal Studies Program \nEast Asian Legal Studies\nLunchtime Talk Series
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/jerome-a-cohen-law-and-power-in-china-and-in-its-foreign-relations/
LOCATION:Room 111 Austin West\, Harvard Law School\, 1515 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181003T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181003T130000
DTSTAMP:20260718T192435
CREATED:20180928T184702Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180928T184702Z
UID:7648-1538568000-1538571600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Su-Bing Chang - Taiwan Biographical Database: An Introduction
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Su-bing Chang\, Professor\, National Taiwan University; Visiting Scholar\, Fairbank Center \nPlease RSVP to Feng-en Tu (hyl.eadh@gmail.com)
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/su-bing-chang-taiwan-biographical-database-an-introduction/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181009T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181009T180000
DTSTAMP:20260718T192435
CREATED:20180801T162105Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180801T162105Z
UID:7387-1539100800-1539108000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Adrian Zenz - Recent Developments in Xinjiang
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Adrian Zenz\, Lecturer in social research methods\, European School of Culture & Theology\, Germany\nModerator: Mark Elliott\, Vice Provost\, International Affairs\, Harvard University \nCo-Sponsored by: \nFairbank Center for Chinese Studies\nCommittee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies\nEast Asian Legal Studies Program\, Harvard Law School\nPrince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program\n \nListen again on our Soundcloud: \n \nDownload and read the transcript of this event here.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/adrian-zenz-recent-developments-in-xinjiang/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181019T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181019T140000
DTSTAMP:20260718T192435
CREATED:20181016T160816Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181016T160816Z
UID:7681-1539950400-1539957600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Ngoc Tho Nguyen - Taking Root Wherever You Land: The Liturgical Transformation of Popular Cults Among Ethnic Chinese in Vietnam
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Professor Ngoc Tho Nguyen\, Asia Center Visiting Scholar; Associate Professor in East Asian Cultural Studies\, Vietnam National University\, Ho Chi Minh City \nChair: Professor Michael Szonyi\, Frank Wen-Hsiung Wu Memorial Professor of Chinese History; Director\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard University \nAsia Center Fellows Seminar Series; co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/ngoc-tho-nguyen-taking-root-wherever-you-land-the-liturgical-transformation-of-popular-cults-among-ethnic-chinese-in-vietnam/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181022T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181022T180000
DTSTAMP:20260718T192435
CREATED:20181010T181450Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181010T181450Z
UID:7674-1540224000-1540231200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Destination: World - Student Tales From Beyond the Comfort Zone
DESCRIPTION:Harvard undergraduates sharing their stories of personal discovery\, intellectual exploration\, and global engagement made possible through travel abroad.\nReception to follow. \nCosponsored by:\nOffice of the Vice Provost for International Affairs\nDavid Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies\nDavis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies\nEdwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies\nFairbank Center for Chinese Studies\nHarvard China Fund\nHarvard University Asia Center\nKorea Institute\nLakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute\nProgram on US-Japan Relations\nWeatherhead Center for International Affairs
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/destination-world-student-tales-from-beyond-the-comfort-zone/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181025T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181025T140000
DTSTAMP:20260718T192435
CREATED:20181025T121455Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181025T121455Z
UID:7704-1540469700-1540476000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Press Freedoms in Asia - Perspectives From China\, Myanmar\, and Thailand
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\nDavid Barboza\, The New York Times; former New York Times Shanghai Bureau Chief\, 2013 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting\nEsther Htusan\, Nieman Foundation Fellow; correspondent for the Associated Press in Myanmar\nPuangthong R. Pawakapan\, Visiting Scholar\, Harvard-Yenching Institute; Associate Professor\, Faculty of Political Science\, Chulalongkorn University \nModerator:\nMable Chan\, Fairbank Center Associate in Research; former ABC News producer and Hong Kong TVB news correspondent \nAsia Beyond the Headlines Seminar Series\, Harvard University Asia Center; co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/press-freedoms-in-asia-perspectives-from-china-myanmar-and-thailand/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181030T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181030T160000
DTSTAMP:20260718T192435
CREATED:20181002T203322Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181002T203322Z
UID:7650-1540908000-1540915200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:China's Belt Road Initiative in Eurasia: The Challenge of Fostering Sustainable Connectivity
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\nPhilippe Le Corre\,  Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government\, Harvard Kennedy School\nMamuka Tsereteli\, Central Asia-Caucasus Institute\, American Foreign Policy Council\nNargis Kassenova\, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies\, Harvard University\n\n\n  \nDiscussant:\nSvante E. Cornell\, Central Asia-Caucasus Institute \nSince its official launch in 2013\, China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has become a topic of intense research and and discussion. While there is no shortage of research projects on the features and implications of Beijing’s massive investments in infrastructure connecting Asia with Europe and Africa\, our understanding of linkages between China’s activities in various geographic regions and emerging interdependencies is limited. This roundtable will gather experts on Chinese investments and policies in Europe\, the South Caucasus and Central Asia (the Silk Road region of the BRI) to present a more comprehensive picture of Chinese-designed connectivity in Eurasia. \nMore information may be found at https://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/events/chinas-belt-road-initiative-eurasia-challenge-fostering-sustainable-connectivity.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/chinas-belt-road-initiative-in-eurasia-the-challenge-of-fostering-sustainable-connectivity/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S354\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181107T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181107T133000
DTSTAMP:20260718T192435
CREATED:20181022T183242Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181022T183242Z
UID:7699-1541592000-1541597400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Liu Chen - Father and Son: A Neglected Legacy of the Renaissance on Liang Qichao and Liang Sicheng
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Liu Chen\,  Tsinghua University\, HYI Visiting Scholar 2018-19\nDiscussant: Lino Pertile\, Harvard University\nhttps://harvard-yenching.org/events/liu-chen-november-7
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/liu-chen-father-and-son-a-neglected-legacy-of-the-renaissance-on-liang-qichao-and-liang-sicheng/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181110T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181110T230000
DTSTAMP:20260718T192435
CREATED:20181010T184422Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181010T184422Z
UID:7679-1541858400-1541890800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Vigil and Memorial: Two Films by Wang Bing
DESCRIPTION:An in-person discussion with Wang Bing follows each film screening.\n$12 Special Event Tickets \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center’s Emergent Visions in Independent Chinese Cinema series\, organized by Professor Jie Li\, and the Harvard Film Archive. \n***NOTE TIME CHANGE***\nFriday November 9 at 8pm \nMrs. Fang\nA moving and bracing portrait of a dying woman and her family\, Mrs. Fang offers a remarkable variation of Wang Bing’s engaged cinema that demands the viewer to empathize and experience\, in real time and real emotion\, the intense yet poetically unfolding human dramas captured by his unwavering camera. Wang Bing’s shortest feature to date is among his most ethically and structurally profound—balanced between extended close-ups of the frail Fang Xiuying\, locked into an open-eyed coma\, and tender scenes of her family alternately overcome by grief and matter-of-factly accepting the inevitable. Most surprising are the sequences featuring two family members leaving Mrs. Fang’s small home to go night fishing\, an exercise that gently carries the weight of spiritual metaphor: a search for sustenance\, survival\, friendship in a cold\, dark world. \nSaturday November 10 at 2pm \nDead Souls\nAt eight hours and fifteen minutes\, Dead Souls is based on interviews\, footage and other memory traces Wang Bing gathered over twelve years\, from more than 120 people across various provinces. Covering a period from the Anti-Rightist Campaign of 1957 to the end of the Great Leap famine in 1961\, most of the film features testimonies from survivors of a “re-education camp” in northwestern China\, many once “revolutionaries” who were then “revolutionized.” Incarcerated for minor criticisms of the Party\, for past support of the Kuomintang\, for Christian faith\, or for no reason they can fathom\, former camp inmates recount recipes of starvation\, logistics of death and ruinations of families. Occasionally we also see their wives in the margins of the frame or hear offscreen voices of children too young to understand. The overlay of their testimonies—full of resonances\, contradictions\, digressions and silences—metonymically point to past injustice and suffering at a much larger scale.  While Wang Bing explored the same harrowing topic of the Jiabiangou labor camp in previous work such as Fengming: A Chinese Memoir (2007) and The Ditch (2010)\, the monumental scale\, unsensational precision and multiple perspectives of Dead Souls have drawn comparisons to Claude Lanzmann’s Holocaust documentary Shoah. Mediating testimony for those who can no longer bear witness for themselves\, Dead Souls invites us to partake in a belated memorial service for the victims of the Maoist revolution still condemned to state-sponsored amnesia.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/vigil-and-memorial-two-films-by-wang-bing-2018-11-10/
LOCATION:Harvard Film Archive\, Carpenter Center\, 24 Quincy St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest,Film Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181113T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181113T153000
DTSTAMP:20260718T192435
CREATED:20181022T182435Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181022T182435Z
UID:7696-1542119400-1542123000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Hopkins-Nanjing Center Open House
DESCRIPTION:The Johns Hopkins University Hopkins-Nanjing Center will hold an information session for students interested in graduate study in China. Students at the HNC take coursework in Chinese in areas including politics\, Chinese studies\, law\, economics\, and energy\, resources\, and the environment. MA and certificate programs are available\, with guaranteed funding for all financial aid applicants. For more information contact nanjing@jhu.edu.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/hopkins-nanjing-center-open-house/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181116T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181116T133000
DTSTAMP:20260718T192435
CREATED:20181022T183729Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181022T183729Z
UID:7700-1542369600-1542375000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Zheng Jing - From Asylums to Housing: A Vernacular Architectural Adaptation in Southeastern China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Zheng Jing\,  Wuhan University\, HYI Visiting Scholar 2018-19\nDiscussant: Michael Szonyi\, Harvard University \nhttps://harvard-yenching.org/events/asylums-housing-vernacular-architectural-adaptation-southeastern-china
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/zheng-jing-from-asylums-to-housing-a-vernacular-architectural-adaptation-in-southeastern-china/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181120T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181120T133000
DTSTAMP:20260718T192435
CREATED:20181022T184007Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181022T184007Z
UID:7701-1542715200-1542720600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Shen Hong - “Seeking Truth”? True and Not True: On the Equivocal Position of Hangchow Christian College in the History of Zhejiang University
DESCRIPTION:Spekaer: Shen Hong\,  Zhejiang University; HYI Visiting Scholar 2018-19\nDiscussant: David Wang\, Harvard University \nhttps://harvard-yenching.org/events/shen-hong-november-20
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/shen-hong-seeking-truth-true-and-not-true-on-the-equivocal-position-of-hangchow-christian-college-in-the-history-of-zhejiang-university/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181126T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181126T210000
DTSTAMP:20260718T192435
CREATED:20181022T182908Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181022T182908Z
UID:7698-1543258800-1543266000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Film Screening: The Great Buddha
DESCRIPTION:Directed by Huang Hsin-yao. With Cres Chuang\, Bamboo Chen\, Leon Dai\nTaiwan 2017\, DCP\, color & b/w\, 102 min. Min Nan with English subtitles \nhttps://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa\nGeneral Admission Tickets $9\, $7 Non-Harvard Students\, Seniors\, Harvard Faculty and Staff. Harvard students free
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-screening-the-great-buddha/
LOCATION:Harvard Film Archive\, Carpenter Center\, 24 Quincy St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest,Film Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181128T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181128T133000
DTSTAMP:20260718T192435
CREATED:20181119T153552Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181119T153552Z
UID:7745-1543406400-1543411800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Kang Jin-A — Transnational Merchant Diaspora in Modern East Asia: British and Cantonese cooperation in the treaty ports seen through the case of the Tongshuntai Firm
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Kang Jin-A\, History Department\, Hanyang University; HYI Visiting Scholar 2018-19\nChair/discussant: Victor Seow\, Department of the History of Science\, Harvard University \nhttps://harvard-yenching.org/events/transnational-merchant-diaspora-modern-east-asia-british-and-cantonese-cooperation-treaty
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/kang-jin-a-transnational-merchant-diaspora-in-modern-east-asia-british-and-cantonese-cooperation-in-the-treaty-ports-seen-through-the-case-of-the-tongshuntai-firm/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181130T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181130T140000
DTSTAMP:20260718T192435
CREATED:20181128T160438Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181128T160438Z
UID:7783-1543580100-1543586400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Panel Discussion - Early? Modern? Asia?: Three Perspectives
DESCRIPTION:Panelists:\nProfessor Carla Nappi\, Department of History\, University of Pittsburgh\nProfessor Elaine Fisher\, Department of Religious Studies\, Stanford University\nProfessor Michael Charney\, Department of History\, SOAS\, University of London\nChair: Professor David Atherton\, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University\n\nEarly Modern Asia Seminar Series\, Harvard University Asia Center
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/panel-discussion-early-modern-asia-three-perspectives/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181204T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181204T133000
DTSTAMP:20260718T192435
CREATED:20181119T151540Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181119T151540Z
UID:7744-1543924800-1543930200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Wang Horng-luen— Patriotic Education for the PRC?: Examining the “National Experience” of Degree-Pursuing PRC Students in Taiwan
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Wang Horng-luen\, Research Fellow\, Institute of Sociology\, Academia Sinica; HYI Visiting Scholar 2018-19\nChair/discussant: Paul Cohen\, Professor of History Emeritus\, Wellesley College \nhttps://harvard-yenching.org/events/wang-horng-luen-december-4
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/wang-horng-luen-patriotic-education-for-the-prc-examining-the-national-experience-of-degree-pursuing-prc-students-in-taiwan-wang-horng-luen/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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