BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies - ECPv6.17.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-WR-CALNAME:Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H
X-Robots-Tag:noindex
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:America/New_York
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20250309T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20251102T060000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20260308T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20261101T060000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20270314T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20271107T060000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260325T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260325T133000
DTSTAMP:20260312T171720Z
CREATED:20260312T171716Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260312T171720Z
UID:44575-1774440000-1774445400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:International Security and What’s Next for U.S. Strategy in the Indo-Pacific: A Discussion with Dr. Ely Ratner
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Ely Ratner\, Principal\, The Marathon Initiative; Senior Advisor\, Clarion Strategies; Assistant Secretary of Defense for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs\, 2021-2025 Respondent: Mark Wu\, Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law\, Harvard Law School; Director\, Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesModerator: Edward Cunningham\, Director of Ash Center China Programs and the Asia Energy and Sustainability Initiative.  \n\n\n\nThe Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia invites you to a discussion focusing on the future of international security and what’s next for U.S. strategy in the Indo-Pacific with Dr. Ely Ratner. Mark Wu\, Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law\, Harvard Law School; Director\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard University\, will serve as a respondent. This conversation will be moderated by Edward Cunningham\, Director of Ash Center China Programs and the Asia Energy and Sustainability Initiative. \n\n\n\nEly Ratner is a Principal at The Marathon Initiative and a Senior Advisor at Clarion Strategies. He served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs from 2021-2025 and as Deputy National Security Advisor to Vice President Joe Biden from 2015-2017. He has also worked in the Office of Chinese and Mongolian Affairs at the State Department and in the U.S. Senate as a Professional Staff Member on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. \n\n\n\nOutside of government\, Dr. Ratner has worked as the Executive Vice President and Director of Studies at the Center for a New American Security\, a Senior Fellow for China Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations\, and as an Associate Political Scientist at the RAND Corporation. He received his B.A. from Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs and earned his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California\, Berkeley. \n\n\n\nLunch will be served. This event will be recorded. \n\n\n\nThis event is open to Harvard ID holders only and registration is required. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/international-security-and-whats-next-for-u-s-strategy-in-the-indo-pacific-a-discussion-with-dr-ely-ratner/
LOCATION:Malkin Penthouse\, Littauer Building\, 79 JFK St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/latner.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260325T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260325T133000
DTSTAMP:20260312T190924Z
CREATED:20260312T190918Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260312T190924Z
UID:44588-1774440000-1774445400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:How US Internet Optimism Turned to AI Alarm with China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Graham Webster\, Stanford University \n\n\n\nUS thinkers once looked to the future of Internet technology in China with dreams of liberalization. China and the US co-built and jointly profited from the 2000s digital economy and the smartphone revolution\, yet in the 2010s both countries’ governments became increasingly anxious about their vulnerability and interdependence in the digital sphere. By 2020\, anxieties combined with trade conflict\, Covid recriminations\, and AI futurism\, cementing a rivalry mindset that today shapes partial decoupling and conditions of continued interconnection. This talk traces how US officials and thinkers acted on their visions of the future\, and how reality intervened. \n\n\n\nGraham Webster is a lecturer and research scholar in the Program on Geopolitics\, Technology\, and Governance at Stanford University\, where he leads the DigiChina Project. He specializes in technology policy and development in China and US-China relations. His reporting and commentary has appeared in WIRED\, Foreign Affairs\, and the MIT Technology Review\, among others. Graham was previously a senior fellow and lecturer at Yale Law School\, where he was responsible for the Paul Tsai China Center’s Track 2 dialogues between the United States and China. In the past\, he wrote a CNET News blog on technology and society from Beijing\, worked at the Center for American Progress\, and taught East Asian politics at NYU’s Center for Global Affairs. Graham holds a master’s degree in East Asian studies from Harvard University and a bachelor’s degree in journalism and international studies from Northwestern University. He is based in Oakland\, California. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/how-us-internet-optimism-turned-to-ai-alarm-with-china/
LOCATION:WCC 3013\, Wasserstein Hall\, 1585 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/graham-webster.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260326T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260326T180000
DTSTAMP:20260305T193651Z
CREATED:20260303T170005Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260305T193651Z
UID:44506-1774542600-1774548000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:The Death of Strategic Ambiguity: Middle Power Survival in the New U.S.-China Cold War
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Seong-Hyon Lee\, Senior Fellow\, George H. W. Bush Foundation for U.S.-China Relations; Associate\, Harvard University Asia Center \n\n\n\nModerator: Andrew Erickson\, Visiting Scholar\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard University; Professor of Strategy\, China Maritime Studies Institute\, U.S. Naval War College \n\n\n\nRegistration appreciated for planning purposes. \n\n\n\nFor decades\, East Asian middle powers like South Korea thrived by navigating a delicate geopolitical balance—relying on the United States for security architecture while depending on China for economic prosperity. However\, as the “New Cold War” intensifies\, this era of “riding two boats” has abruptly ended. Faced with shifting U.S. alliance postures\, escalating technology and trade frictions\, and the pressing realities of nuclear deterrence on the Korean Peninsula\, nations can no longer afford strategic ambiguity. This talk will explore how middle powers are being forced into strategic clarity\, recalibrating their foreign policies to survive a prolonged rivalry between Washington and Beijing. Drawing on recent developments in international security\, we will examine the difficult choices ahead for East Asia’s most critical geopolitical fault lines. \n\n\n\nDr. Seong-Hyon Lee is a Senior Fellow at the George H. W. Bush Foundation for U.S.-China Relations and an Associate at the Harvard University Asia Center. He is the author of The New Cold War: U.S.-China Rivalry and the Future of Global Power (2025). He specializes in U.S.-China strategic competition\, East Asian security\, and North Korea and Korean Peninsula geopolitics. \n\n\n\nhttps://asiacenter.harvard.edu/events/death-strategic-ambiguity-middle-power-survival-new-us-china-cold-war \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-death-of-strategic-ambiguity-middle-power-survival-in-the-new-u-s-china-cold-war/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Room S050\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260327T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260327T173000
DTSTAMP:20260319T155721Z
CREATED:20260318T213208Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260319T155721Z
UID:44612-1774627200-1774632600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Against Erasure: Uyghur Poems\, Imprisoned Souls\, and the Act of Resistance
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Aziz Isa Elkun\, University of London \n\n\n\nIn the face of the Chinese government1s systemic efforts to silence the Uyghur people\, the written word becomes a profound act of resistance. Against this backdrop of cultural erasure\, two recently pubIished English-language poetry anthologies – Uyghur Poems and Imprisoned Souls\, stand as vital testaments to love\, survival\, and defiance. These works serve as both a sanctuary for a threatened identity and a resonant cry for justice. Together\, they form more than a mere collection of verses; they are a living archive for both the present and the future. They prove that while bodies may be confined and traditions targeted for erasure\, the human pulse of love and collective memory remains indestructible. As enduring evidence of the Uyghur spirit\, these works carry a cultural legacy to the next generation and awaken the consciousness of humanity as a whole\, offering a glimmer of hope for the future. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/against-erasure-uyghur-poems-imprisoned-souls-and-the-act-of-resistance/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Room S050\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/uygh.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260331T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260331T130000
DTSTAMP:20260312T153523Z
CREATED:20260312T153520Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260312T153523Z
UID:44566-1774956600-1774962000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Butchered Rooms: Precarity\, Resilience\, and the Politics of Informal Housing in Post-Handover Hong Kong
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Ruby YS LAI\, Assistant Professor\, Department of Sociology and Social Policy\, Lingnan University; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2025-26Chair/Discussant: Ya-Wen Lei\, Professor of Sociology\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nIn the past decades\, the growing housing crisis has destabilized individual housing tenure and exacerbated an everyday sense of insecurity\, especially among low-income renters in megacities\, where housing costs continuously soar under increased financialization and commodification. How do individuals and families build a home while facing heightened precariousness? This talk argues that housing precarity is an outcome of inequality resulting from the macro political-economic structure rather than a condition of poverty\, by focusing on one of the world’s most unaffordable housing markets\, Hong Kong\, and its infamous subdivided units\, also called ‘butchered rooms’—a form of informal housing unit subdivided from an entire compartment\, characterized by an extremely tiny size\, with a median as small as 11m?. Drawing on years of ethnographic and participatory fieldwork and policy analysis\, the talk first illustrates the homemaking strategies through which occupants of butchered rooms navigate the spatio-material constraints of their built environment and the processes of resilience building. The second part of the talk provides a critical analysis of the housing policy regime in Hong Kong during the post-1997 period and unravels the political-economic structures that necessitate the invisible labor of occupants that buffers the consequences of housing inequality resulting from the city’s neoliberal housing regime and developmental urban governance\, which resonate with housing crises in urban areas across the globe. \n\n\n\n\nButchered Rooms: Precarity\, Resilience\, and the Politics of Informal Housing in Post-Handover Hong Kong\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/butchered-rooms-precarity-resilience-and-the-politics-of-informal-housing-in-post-handover-hong-kong/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/LAI-Yuen-Shan-Ruby.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260401T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260402T193000
DTSTAMP:20260312T193847Z
CREATED:20260312T193844Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260312T193847Z
UID:44600-1775035800-1775158200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Harvard Asia Law Conference II
DESCRIPTION:more information\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease join us for HALS 2026 Conference\, which will take place at the WCC on Harvard Law School Campus April 1st & 2nd. This year\, panels will feature topics like AI regulations across Asia\, the future of US-China trade relations\, practicing in-house at multinational companies\, and more. Please click here for details on the full agenda\, panel locations\, and programming. \n\n\n\nPlease contact hals@mail.law.harvard.edu with any questions. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/harvard-asia-law-conference-ii/
LOCATION:WCC\, Wasserstein Hall\, 1585 Massachusetts Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260409T122000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260409T132000
DTSTAMP:20260319T153832Z
CREATED:20260319T153829Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260319T153832Z
UID:44628-1775737200-1775740800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:What Would a Rational and Effective U.S.-China Trade Policy Look Like? Is One Still Possible?
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Katherine Tai\, U.S. Trade Representative (2021-2025) \n\n\n\nAmbassador Katherine C. Tai served as the 19th United States Trade Representative. As a member of President Biden’s Cabinet\, Ambassador Tai was the principal trade advisor\, negotiator\, and spokesperson on U.S. trade policy from March 2021 to January 2025. Prior to her unanimous Senate confirmation\, Ambassador Tai spent nearly 2 decades in public service focusing on crafting\, monitoring\, and enforcing U.S. and international trade laws. She previously served the Ways and Means Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives as Chief Trade Counsel and Trade Subcommittee Staff Director. She is also an experienced WTO litigator. From 2007 to 2014\, Ambassador Tai developed and tried cases for USTR\, eventually becoming the agency’s Chief Counsel for China Trade Enforcement. Ambassador Tai graduated from Yale University and Harvard Law School. She began her career practicing law in the private sector\, clerking for federal judges in the Districts of Columbia and Maryland\, and teaching English in Guangzhou\, China. \n\n\n\nA light lunch will be provided. Please register here. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/what-would-a-rational-and-effective-u-s-china-trade-policy-look-like-is-one-still-possible/
LOCATION:WCC B015\, Wasserstein Hall\, 1585 Massachusetts Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/catherine-tai.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260409T161500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260409T173000
DTSTAMP:20260406T184517Z
CREATED:20260406T184512Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260406T184517Z
UID:44733-1775751300-1775755800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:The OpenClaw Paradox: AI Agents\, Labor Anxiety\, and Radical Pragmatism in China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Lihui Zhang\, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government Senior Fellow\, Harvard Kennedy School \n\n\n\nIn this study group\, led by M-RCBG Senior Fellow Lihui Zhang\, we will explore how Chinese society demonstrates a distinctive duality in its approach to emerging technologies like AI\, combining both enthusiastic adoption and underlying anxiety. While American and European companies increasingly restrict employee access to AI tools due to security concerns\, Chinese organizations have embraced such technologies nearly universally across workplaces.Paradoxically\, this widespread integration occurs alongside growing public apprehension about workforce displacement. Many Chinese workers express genuine concern that AI will eventually replace human labor\, creating a complex emotional landscape of excitement and fear. This tension reflects broader global conversations about technological advancement and economic transformation in the AI era. China’s unique societal response to technology is precisely what makes it a potential testing ground for how humanity can address the challenges of AI. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-openclaw-paradox-ai-agents-labor-anxiety-and-radical-pragmatism-in-china/
LOCATION:M-RCBG Conference Room B-102\, 79 JFK St.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/study-group.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260413T154500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260413T174500
DTSTAMP:20260406T150514Z
CREATED:20260406T150510Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260406T150514Z
UID:44718-1776095100-1776102300@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Lively (linghuo) Accumulation: China’s 1980s Coastal Development Strategy and Histories of Capitalist and Socialist Crises
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Andrew Liu\, Associate Professor of History\, Villanova University \n\n\n\nCommentators:Ya-Wen Lei\, Professor\, Department of Sociology\, Harvard UniversityKashish Bastola\, PhD Candidate in History\, Harvard University \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/lively-linghuo-accumulation-chinas-1980s-coastal-development-strategy-and-histories-of-capitalist-and-socialist-crises/
LOCATION:Room 125\, Robinson Hall\, 35 Quincy St.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/andrew-liu-1.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260414T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260414T171500
DTSTAMP:20260406T172006Z
CREATED:20260406T172004Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260406T172006Z
UID:44724-1776182400-1776186900@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Machine and Sovereignty: For a Planetary Thinking 
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Yuk Hui\, Erasmus UniversityModerator: David Der-wei Wang\, Harvard University \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/machine-and-sovereignty-for-a-planetary-thinking/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/yuk-hui.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260415T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260415T130000
DTSTAMP:20260406T172259Z
CREATED:20260406T172247Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260406T172259Z
UID:44729-1776254400-1776258000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Taiwan: The Politics of Difference
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Anthony Hao Yeh\,  National Chengchi UniversityModerator: David Der-wei Wang\, Harvard University \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/taiwan-the-politics-of-difference/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/hao-yeh.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260416T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260416T133000
DTSTAMP:20260406T172550Z
CREATED:20260406T172546Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260406T172550Z
UID:44731-1776340800-1776346200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Sinophone South Studies: A Dialogue
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Chia-rong Wu\, University of CanterburyKyle Shernuk\, Georgetown UniversityModerator: David Der-wei Wang\, Harvard University \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/sinophone-south-studies-a-dialogue/
LOCATION:Plimpton Room (133)\, Barker Center\, 12 Quincy St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/kyle.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260417T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260417T170000
DTSTAMP:20260408T182443Z
CREATED:20260408T182441Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260408T182443Z
UID:44740-1776418200-1776445200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Taiwan Studies+ 2.0 Symposium
DESCRIPTION:As Taiwan finds itself reentering into the global conversation today\, where does the field of Taiwan Studies find itself in this historical moment? From the origins of capitalism to the threat of nuclear pollution\, from soundscapes in the authoritarian era to contemporary video games\, from indigenous identities to Cold War activism\, and from geopolitical competition to ecological imaginations – how do we identify different moments of Taiwan’s history as key nodes of global and local processes? This symposium\, now in its second iteration\, seeks to bring together different generations of global Taiwan scholars\, with the goal to foster new linkages and networks for a burgeoning field. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/taiwan-studies-2-0-symposium/
LOCATION:Yenching Auditorium\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/taiwan.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260422T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260422T130000
DTSTAMP:20260312T153730Z
CREATED:20260312T153727Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260312T153730Z
UID:44569-1776857400-1776862800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:What Does It Mean to “Write Oneself” in Tibetan Autobiographical Tradition: The Amazing  Life of Guru Chowang
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Geri Jiebu\, Associate Professor\, School of Chinese Ethnic Minority Language and Literature\, Minzu University of China; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2025-26Chair/Discussant: Janet Gyatso\, Hershey Professor of Buddhist Studies\, Harvard Divinity School \n\n\n\n\nWhat Does It Mean to “Write Oneself” in Tibetan Autobiographical Tradition: The Amazing Life of Guru Chowang\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/what-does-it-mean-to-write-oneself-in-tibetan-autobiographical-tradition-the-amazing-life-of-guru-chowang/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/FNU-Geri-Jiebu.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260903T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260903T160000
DTSTAMP:20260828T145249Z
CREATED:20260828T145247Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260828T145249Z
UID:45531-1788447600-1788451200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Subversion and Seduction: China’s Economic Statecraft
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Audrye Wong\, Senior Fellow\, American Enterprise InstituteChair: Rana Mitter\, S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations\, Harvard Kennedy School \n\n\n\nEven as the Chinese government intensifies supply-chain coercion\, it continues to deepen the trade and investment linkages that sustain its global economic centrality. Audrye Wong’s new book\, Subversion and Seduction: China’s Economic Statecraft\, explores an underemphasized aspect of China’s economic influence: positive inducements. Through six case studies\, extensive field research\, and a survey experiment\, Dr. Wong’s book explores what kinds of inducement strategies succeed at achieving Beijing’s foreign policy goals and under what conditions. \n\n\n\nUnderstanding the mechanisms\, successes\, and limitations of China’s economic statecraft will be critical for leaders in the United States and abroad as they navigate a world where China increasingly wields its economic clout for geopolitical influence. Join Professor Rana Mitter and Dr. Audrye Wong for a discussion on this essential new book. \n\n\n\nAudrye Wong is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute\, where her work focuses on China’s foreign policy\, economic statecraft\, propaganda and disinformation campaigns\, and foreign influence operations. Previously\, Dr. Wong was a professor at the University of Southern California and postdoctoral fellow at the Grand Strategy\, Security\, and Statecraft joint program of the Harvard Kennedy School and Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Security Studies Program. She has also held affiliations with Harvard’s Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, the Wilson Center\, the Brookings Institution\, and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She is fluent in Mandarin.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/subversion-and-seduction-chinas-economic-statecraft/
LOCATION:Fainsod Room (324)\, Littauer Building\, 79 JFK St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/audrye-wong.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260925T122000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260925T132000
DTSTAMP:20260910T162101Z
CREATED:20260910T162056Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260910T162101Z
UID:45688-1790338800-1790342400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) at 10: Legal Innovation in Multilateral Development Banks
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Natalie Lichtenstein JD ’78\, AIIB Inaugural General Counsel (retired) \n\n\n\nDiscussant: Alastair Iain Johnston\, The Governor James Albert Noe and Linda Noe Research Professor of China in World Affairs\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nWhen the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) was launched in 2016\, many wondered how this new multilateral development bank (MDB) would be different. China was its leading proponent and continues as its largest shareholder; developing countries in Asia and around the world have substantial stakes\, as does Europe. \n\n\n\nTen years later\, AIIB’s founding lawyer takes a look at AIIB in the context of MDB genealogy. Her new research spans the early 20th century roots of the World Bank Charter\, through the mid-century development of the principal regional MDBs. How does AIIB’s 21st century charter reflect its heritage\, and what new features were added? Concluding reflections will touch on how these features developed in AIIB’s first decade. \n\n\n\nThe talk is based on the newly published second edition of Ms. Lichtenstein’s book\, A Comparative Guide to the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (Oxford University Press\, 2025). \n\n\n\nA light lunch will be provided. Please register here.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/asian-infrastructure-investment-bank-aiib-at-10-legal-innovation-in-multilateral-development-banks/
LOCATION:WCC 3019\, Wasserstein Hall\, 1585 Mass. Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/AIB.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261005T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261005T183000
DTSTAMP:20260924T183241Z
CREATED:20260924T183238Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260924T183241Z
UID:45850-1791219600-1791225000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Developing the Philippine-U.S. Alliance’s Integrated Deterrence through the CADC: Preparing for a Taiwan Contingency
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Renato Cruz de Castro\, De La Salle University\, Manila\, Philippines \n\n\n\nThe lecture will examine the Philippines’ grand strategy\, the Comprehensive Archipelagic Defense Concept (CADC)\, and how it enables the Philippines to develop the necessary military capabilities to respond to a possible Taiwan contingency. In conclusion\, the talk will argue that the AFP’s growing military capabilities have enabled Manila to play a significant role in bolstering the Philippine-U.S. alliance’s integrated deterrence in the face of a possible major armed conflict over Taiwan. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/developing-the-philippine-u-s-alliances-integrated-deterrence-through-the-cadc-preparing-for-a-taiwan-contingency/
LOCATION:Rajen Kilachand Center for Integrated Life Sciences & Engineering\, Boston University\, 610 Commonwealth Ave\,\, Boston\, Massachusetts\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/BU-phillippines.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261007T131500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261007T143000
DTSTAMP:20260929T183144Z
CREATED:20260929T183055Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260929T183144Z
UID:45921-1791378900-1791383400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Muslim Transnationalism in Modern China: Debates on Hui Identity and Islamic Reform
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Hale Eroğlu\, Bogazici University \n\n\n\nMuslim Transnationalism in Modern China provides a portrait of underrecognized reformists who aimed to turn Muslim subjects into active Chinese citizens and revive “true” Islam in order to aid China’s development and promote peace. Eroğlu examines reformists’ engagement with local and transnational Muslim currents\, spanning “orthodox\,” “heterodox\,” reformist\, secular\, and socialist movements from Egypt\, Britain\, India\, Turkey\, and the Soviet Union. She reveals their varied strategies and highlights how they adapted global ideas to address local challenges such as the policies of the Nationalist and Communist parties\, the antireligion discourse of the New Culture Movement\, and the anti-Islam rhetoric of Christian missionaries. Drawing from Republican and early Communist-era journals\, Chinese translations of Islamic sources\, and memoirs and travelogues\, this book offers a nuanced understanding of Chinese-speaking Muslim intellectuals’ efforts to balance local and global influences in shaping their community’s future. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/muslim-transnationalism-in-modern-china-debates-on-hui-identity-and-islamic-reform/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Room S050\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/iaas.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261007T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261007T161500
DTSTAMP:20261002T154743Z
CREATED:20261002T154740Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261002T154743Z
UID:45971-1791385200-1791389700@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:On Political Thought in China
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Daniel Bell\, Chair Professor of Political Theory at the University of Hong KongModerator: Rana Mitter\, S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations\, Harvard Kennedy SchoolJoin us for an afternoon with Professor Daniel Bell\, Chair Professor of Political Theory at the University of Hong Kong and an expert on Chinese political thought\, to discuss how ancient ideas still shape decisions in Beijing today. Professor Bell will explain how the debates of China’s great rival thinkers\, from Confucius to Mozi\, continue to root China’s political thinking\, and how their logic factors into Chinese leaders’ calculations on the most consequential decisions they face\, including a potential move on Taiwan. \n\n\n\nDon’t miss the chance to understand the deep philosophical roots behind China’s present-day politics! \n\n\n\nThis event is part of the newly launched Thinking About China: A Belfer Center Conversation Series. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/on-political-thought-in-china/
LOCATION:Ellwood Democracy Lab – Rubenstein 414AB\, 79 JFK St.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/danielabell.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261007T161500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261007T171500
DTSTAMP:20261002T181718Z
CREATED:20261002T181714Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261002T181718Z
UID:45990-1791389700-1791393300@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:China’s Industrial Overcapacity: Impacts Beyond the U.S. and Europe
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Padmashree Gehl Sampath\, Senior Fellow\, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government\, Harvard Kennedy School \n\n\n\nLed by M-RCBG Senior Fellow Padmashree Gehl Sampath\, this study group looks at recent geopolitical changes in light of China’s excessive industrial capacity to assess its implications for other late industrializing economies outside of USA and Europe. \n\n\n\nIt will focus on emerging technological dominance in key sectors and discuss policy options. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/chinas-industrial-overcapacity-impacts-beyond-the-u-s-and-europe/
LOCATION:Ofer 401\, Harvard Kennedy School\, 79 JFK St.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/dans-thing.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261013T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261013T130000
DTSTAMP:20261006T125736Z
CREATED:20260923T184456Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261006T125736Z
UID:45825-1791891000-1791896400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:When Men Marry into Their Wives’ Families: Changing Patriarchy\, Intimacy\, and Masculinity in Everyday Family Life of Post-Reform China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Guanli Zhang\, Associate Professor\, School of Sociology\, Beijing Normal University; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2026-27Chair/Discussant: Susan Greenhalgh\, John King and Wilma Cannon Fairbank Research Professor of Chinese Society Emerita\, Harvard University \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/when-men-marry-into-the-wifes-family-patriarchy-intimacy-and-masculinity-in-everyday-family-life-of-post-reform-china/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/zhang-gulani.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261015T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261015T183000
DTSTAMP:20261007T143733Z
CREATED:20261007T143729Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261007T143733Z
UID:46014-1792083600-1792089000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Mapping Global China: Data\, Maps\, and Stories of China’s Global Presence
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers:Adele Carrai\, Associate Professor\, University of OxfordDavide Zoppolato\, Hong Yen Chang Center Fellow\, Columbia Law School  \n\n\n\nModerator: Iain Johnston\, Gov. James Albert Noe and Linda Noe Laine Research Professor of China in World Affairs\, Harvard University  \n\n\n\nRegistration appreciated for planning purposes.  \n\n\n\nThis presentation introduces Mapping Global China\, an open-access research initiative that maps and analyzes China’s expanding global presence.  \n\n\n\nBringing together original datasets\, interactive maps\, and narrative storytelling\, the project examines how Chinese capital\, institutions\, infrastructure\, and other forms of engagement are reshaping places around the world. The conversation will present some of the project’s new tools and findings and reflect on what mapping can reveal about the changing geography of Global China. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/mapping-global-china-data-maps-and-stories-of-chinas-global-presence/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/global-china.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261019T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261019T140000
DTSTAMP:20261016T185211Z
CREATED:20261014T183549Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261016T185211Z
UID:46053-1792411200-1792418400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Farewell to Grand Narratives: The Cultural Psychology of China’s Younger Generation (告别宏大叙事：当代中国年轻一代的文化心理)
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Xu Jilin (许纪霖)\, Professor of History\, East China Normal UniversityCo-Chair: Yedong Sh-Chen\, Visiting Assistant Teaching Professor in Chinese\, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures\, Wellesley College***This talk will be in Chinese*** \n\n\n\nThis event is not a Harvard University event\, but may be of interest to our community. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/farewell-to-grand-narratives-the-cultural-psychology-of-chinas-younger-generation-%e5%91%8a%e5%88%ab%e5%ae%8f%e5%a4%a7%e5%8f%99%e4%ba%8b%ef%bc%9a%e5%bd%93%e4%bb%a3%e4%b8%ad%e5%9b%bd/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/xujilin.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261021T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261021T130000
DTSTAMP:20261016T184835Z
CREATED:20261013T142450Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261016T184835Z
UID:46035-1792582200-1792587600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:The Ideological Origins of Modern Chinese Revolution: The Noble Spirit of the late Qing Revolutionaries - 近代中国革命的思想起源： 晚清一代革命者的志士精神 
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Xu Jilin\, Professor\, Department of History\, East China Normal UniversityChair/Discussant: Elizabeth J. Perry\, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nThis talk will be conducted in Chinese. \n\n\n\n清末世纪之交，在读书人中间，分化出一批激进的革命者。这些边缘知识人抛弃了儒家的意识形态，思想深处的虚无主义、破坏主义，与无政府主义的激进乌托邦与反满的族群意识结合，再加上唯意志论的催化，形成了视死如归的志士精神。20世纪中国的思想源头，大半渊源于晚清这一代革命者的志士精神。 \n\n\n\n华东师范大学特聘教授、历史系博士生导师、中国现代思想文化研究所副所长，兼任中国史学会理事、香港《二十一世纪》杂志编委，主要从事二十世纪中国思想史与知识分子的研究以及当代中国文化研究。主要著作有：《中国知识分子十论》（复旦大学出版社，2003）、《启蒙如何起死回生》（北京大学出版社，2011）、《当代中国的启蒙与反启蒙》（社会科学文献出版社，2011）、《家国天下：现代中国的个人、国家与世界认同》（上海人民出版社，2017）、《安身立命：大时代中的知识人》（上海人民出版社，2019）、《脉动中国：许纪霖的50堂传统文化课》（上海三联书店，2021）、《一个民族的精神史》（香港三联书店，2019）、《中国时刻？从富强到文明崛起的历史逻辑》（香港城市大学出版社2019）、《左冲右突：现代政治激流中的中国知识分子》（香港城市大学出版社2021）、Rethinking China’s Rise: A Liberal Critique (Cambridge University Press\, 2018)、《普遍的価値を求める: 中国現代思想の新潮流 (叢書・ウニベルシタス 1121， 日本法政大学出版局2020) 。2004年被广东《南方人物周刊》评为50位中国公共知识分子之一，2025年被广东《南风窗》杂志评为年度学者。《中国知识分子十论》一书2005年获得首届中国国家图书馆文津图书奖，《中国时刻？》一书被香港《亚洲周刊》评为2019年中文十大好书之首。 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/%e8%bf%91%e4%bb%a3%e4%b8%ad%e5%9b%bd%e9%9d%a9%e5%91%bd%e7%9a%84%e6%80%9d%e6%83%b3%e8%b5%b7%e6%ba%90%ef%bc%9a-%e6%99%9a%e6%b8%85%e4%b8%80%e4%bb%a3%e9%9d%a9%e5%91%bd%e8%80%85%e7%9a%84%e5%bf%97%e5%a3%ab/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/xujilin.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261021T122000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261021T132000
DTSTAMP:20260910T162559Z
CREATED:20260910T162556Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260910T162559Z
UID:45693-1792585200-1792588800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Beyond Tariffs and Subsidies: Toward a New Framework for U.S. Industrial Policy
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Y.S. Lee\,  West Virginia University College of Law \n\n\n\nThe United States has returned to tariffs and subsidies with renewed force\, seeking to rebuild domestic manufacturing\, promote strategic industries\, and counter geopolitical rivals such as China. This resurgence of industrial policy marks a sharp departure from the rule-based international trade order under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and the World Trade Organization since 1947. Yet despite costly tariffs and hundreds of billions of dollars in subsidies\, the economic results remain uncertain\, while concerns over inflation\, trade conflict\, and market distortion continue to grow. Current debates in economics\, politics\, and trade law have focused largely on whether tariffs and subsidies are desirable. Far less attention has been paid to a more fundamental question: whether the United States possesses the legal and institutional capacity to implement industrial policy effectively. \n\n\n\nThis Article addresses that question through the General Theory of Law and Development\, a framework that examines how law\, broader legal frameworks\, and institutions shape economic and social transformation. It argues that contemporary U.S. industrial policy is structurally inadequate to achieve its stated objectives due to serious legal and institutional deficiencies undermining effective implementation\, coordination\, and policy coherence. These deficiencies also generate significant tensions with both domestic and international legal obligations\, as illustrated by the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Learning Resources\, Inc. v. Trump. The Article develops foundational elements of a new legal and institutional framework for industrial promotion grounded in international collaboration\, economic rationality\, and institutional coordination. \n\n\n\nA light lunch will be provided. Please register here. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/beyond-tariffs-and-subsidies-toward-a-new-framework-for-u-s-industrial-policy/
LOCATION:WCC 3016\, Wasserstein Hall\, 1585 Massachusetts Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/ys-lee.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261023T135000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261023T170000
DTSTAMP:20261016T184145Z
CREATED:20261016T184142Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261016T184145Z
UID:46074-1792763400-1792774800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:CBDB Annual Conference 2026: Research in Chinese Studies in the Age of AI
DESCRIPTION:Program\n\n\n\nPanel 1 (1:55–2:55 PM): Between Print Culture\, Literature\, and Politics\n\n\n\n\nMei\, Yuting 梅愉婷\, Zhejiang UniversityBeyond Famous Names: The Rise of Compiler and Selector Credits in Ming Imprint Records\n\n\n\nLiu\, Zaicheng 劉再騁\, Fudan University“The South Wants to Shackle the Officials from the North”: Court Politics\, Commercial Print\, and Local Society in the Southern Ming\, 1644\n\n\n\nLi\, Xiaobei 李小貝\, Beijing Union UniversityHow Did Women in Chinese Opera Enter the Historical Record?\n\n\n\nLi\, Meifang 李美芳\, Xihua UniversityRecovering Poets from Anthologies: Expanding and Cross-Correcting CBDB with the Wanqing yi shihui 晚晴簃詩匯\n\n\n\n\nPanel 2 (3:05–4:05 PM): From a Local Perspective\n\n\n\n\nWang\, Huimin 王慧敏\, Nanjing Xiaozhuang UniversityMapping Jiangsu’s Cultural Ecology Based on the Jiangsu yiwen zhi 江蘇藝文志\n\n\n\nLi\, Anrunze 黎安潤澤\, Renmin University of ChinaA Multidimensional Analysis Based on Zhejiang tongzhi: Renwu zhuan 浙江通志·人物傳\n\n\n\nWang\, Rongjing 王榕靖\, Zhejiang UniversityNeo-Confucian Learning in Fujian: Networks and Genealogy in Li Qingfu’s 李清馥 Minzhong lixue yuanyuan kao 閩中理學淵源考\n\n\n\nDang\, Qiong 黨瓊\, Guangxi UniversityBeyond the Center: Official Careers and Imperial Governance in Qing Guangxi\n\n\n\n\nPanel 3 (4:15–5:00 PM): Another Look at Historiography\n\n\n\n\nZhang\, Zhongyang 張忠楊\, Zhejiang UniversityThe Place of Prestige: The Geography and Social Capital of Choronyms in Tang China\n\n\n\nLin\, Litao 林立濤\, Nanjing UniversityProtagonists and Supporting Players: Two-Way Narrative Salience of Persons in the Songshi jishi benmo 宋史紀事本末 and the Standard Histories of the Song\, Liao\, Jin\, and Yuan\n\n\n\nNie\, Wanchun 聶琬純\, Renmin University of ChinaThe Networks of the Officials under Tang Provincial Governors\, and the Relationship between Regional Military Regimes and the Central Government\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/cbdb-annual-conference-2026-research-in-chinese-studies-in-the-age-of-ai/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/cbdb.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261024T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261030T170000
DTSTAMP:20261019T185058Z
CREATED:20261019T185055Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261019T185058Z
UID:46091-1792850400-1793379600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Pop-Up Exhibition — Resonant Interval: Beyond Seven Strings and Tablature
DESCRIPTION:The history of the guqin\, the Chinese zither\, reflects how a civilization sustains itself amid change. Its tablature preserves fingering while leaving rhythm and expressive proportion to the performer. Each interpretation allows the past to happen anew through another body\, revealing how openness can sustain continuity. \n\n\n\nBringing ancient tablature\, historical interpretation\, contemporary performance\, and AI generation into dialogue\, the exhibition unfolds through layers of sound and moving image. Footsteps awaken the strings; stillness allows resonance to unfold. Visitors become part of this evolving experience\, as their pauses and choices leave a new “score” that becomes the next visitor’s starting point.Exhibition Dates & Hours: October 24–30\, 2026\, 2:00–5:00 PM. Visits outside regular exhibition hours are available by appointment. Please contact bwei@fas.harvard.edu at least one day in advance to arrange a visit. \n\n\n\nFree and open to the public. \n\n\n\nArtists: Youdi Wang and Bing Wei are Visiting Scholars at Harvard FAS CAMLab (2026–2027). Wang is a guqin performer and Assistant Professor at the Xi’an Conservatory of Music. Wei is a curator and artist with PhDs in Engineering and Arts\, and an Associate Professor at the Central Conservatory of Music. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/pop-up-exhibition-resonant-interval-beyond-seven-strings-and-tablature/
LOCATION:Sackler Building\, Lower Level\, 485 Broadway\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/camlab1024.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261030T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261030T130000
DTSTAMP:20261014T172924Z
CREATED:20260923T183339Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261014T172924Z
UID:45819-1793359800-1793365200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Between Cinema and Experience: War-Related Dreams and the Intergenerational Transmission of Memory in China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: ISHII Yumi\, Associate Professor\, Tohoku University; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2026-27Chair/Discussant: Andrew Gordon\, Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nhttps://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/trans-generational-transmission-of-war-memories-in-china/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/trans-generational-transmission-of-war-memories-in-china/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/ishii.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261103T122000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261103T132000
DTSTAMP:20261006T152744Z
CREATED:20261006T152740Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261006T152744Z
UID:46009-1793708400-1793712000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Networked State Capital in China's AI Ecosystem
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Curtis J. Milhaupt\, William F. Baxter International Professor of Law\, Stanford Law School; Senior Fellow\, by courtesy\, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies \n\n\n\nProfessor Milhaupt will discuss “Networked State Capital in China’s AI Ecosystem\,” his current joint project with Liwen Lin\, Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia\, Allard School of Law. \n\n\n\nSelf-reliance and technological resilience in artificial intelligence are national priorities of the Chinese party-state. Yet most of the key players in China’s AI ecosystem – including major platform and technology groups designated by the government as members of the “AI National Team” as well as AI unicorns – remain privately controlled at the apex of their corporate groups. If AI is a strategic priority\, why are many of the leading players not subject to apex-level state ownership and hierarchical administrative control traditionally associated with Chinese state capitalism? \n\n\n\nUsing corporate registry data\, the article maps where state-affiliated capital enters otherwise private technology groups and AI unicorns. The analysis shows that state capital is positioned at multiple points within AI ownership\, investment\, and deployment networks\, typically in subsidiaries below the apex. Some of these positions create durable channels through which the development of technology\, pilot projects\, standard setting\, and deployment can be coordinated with policy priorities. \n\n\n\nThe article conceptualizes China’s approach to state capitalism in the AI sector as a networked system of state capital and institutionalized state-private encounters rather than a binary divide between state-owned and private firms. \n\n\n\nCurtis J. Milhaupt is an internationally recognized expert on comparative corporate governance\, the legal systems of East Asia (particularly Japanese law)\, and state capitalism. \n\n\n\nA light lunch will be served. Please register here. Registration is not required but appreciated\, for planning purposes. \n\n\n\nA Harvard ID is required in order to enter Harvard Law School buildings. If you have questions\, please contact eals@law.harvard.edu in advance of the event. \n\n\n\nCo-sponsored by the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/networked-state-capital-in-chinas-ai-ecosystem/
LOCATION:WCC 3019\, Wasserstein Hall\, 1585 Mass. Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/milhaupt.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261104T131500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261104T143000
DTSTAMP:20260929T183614Z
CREATED:20260929T183611Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260929T183614Z
UID:45926-1793798100-1793802600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Structuring Chinese History: Diwang Tu 帝王圖\, Nianbiao 年表\, “Chinese Dynasties” Charts\, and Paradigmatic Crisis in Chinese Historiography
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: James Millward\, Georgetown UniversityPeriodization by “Chinese dynasties” is a structural foundation of the historiography of continental eastern Eurasia\, but even those passingly familiar with the field know the idea is beset with problems: The Chinese dynasties aren’t all “Chinese.” They weren’t all in the same place\, but were scattered around geographical China and Inner Asia\, often two or more at the same time. What we call “dynasties” go by many names in Chinese (what’s the difference between a chao\, a dai\, and a guo?). And no one can tell you exactly how many “Chinese dynasties” there were. \n\n\n\nDespite these issues\, the modern list of “dynasties” is central to the notion of a unified\, linear\, and continuous “China” that is said to be the “oldest civilization in the form of a state in the world.” This lecture examines charts and tables of monarchs and polities from Sinitic and European traditions to scrutinize dynasties periodization as a translingual practice. It will argue that Sinitic efforts to periodize were linear and progressive\, not cyclical; always discursive rather than canonical; and that the list of so-called “Chinese dynasties” changed with political winds and trends in historical philosophy. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/structuring-chinese-history-diwang-tu-%e5%b8%9d%e7%8e%8b%e5%9c%96-nianbiao-%e5%b9%b4%e8%a1%a8-chinese-dynasties-charts-and-paradigmatic-crisis-in-chinese-historiography/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Room S050\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/jamesmillward-x400.jpg
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR