Sheena Greitens - Information, Prevention, and Authoritarian Stability: Local Coercive Capacity in China
2018-12-05 13:30 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Conference Room, Cotting House, Soliders Field Road, Boston, MA, 02163, United States
Speaker: Sheena Greitens, University of Missouri

Wang Zhen — An undesigned nuclear triangle of the U.S., China and India?
2018-12-10 12:00 - 13:30 | Massachusetts
Speaker: Wang Zhen, Associate Professor of International Studies, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences
Chair/discussant: Steven E. Miller, Director, International Security Program, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School
https://harvard-yenching.org/events/undesigned-nuclear-triangle-us-china-and-india

Jianping Ye - Rural Land Tenure System in China: History and Current Reform
2019-01-24 12:00 - 14:00 | Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 13 Brattle St., Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Overview:
China’s rural land tenure system has experienced continuous reforms since 1978, but has faced new challenges amid rapid urbanization. The institutional structure of the system is complicated and evolving. In this seminar, Professor Ye will trace the history of institutional and policy changes in China’s rural land tenure system, and discuss the current reform thinking of the central government. Professor Ye will also present the findings of a survey of arable land in 17 provinces, which was directed by him and was carried out continuously over the last 15 years.

Speaker:
Jianping Ye is chair professor and head of the Land & Real Estate Research Center in the School of Public Administration at Renmin University, China. He is an expert in land policy, land resource management, and real estate policy. He has led a number of research projects funded by the Chinese National Science Foundation, and served as advisor or consultant to several Chinese governmental agencies, including the Ministry of Natural Resources (formerly the Ministry of Land and Resources), the Ministry of Housing and Urban and Rural Development, the National Development and Reform Commission, and the Development Research Center of the State Council. He has also consulted for the World Bank.

Exhibition Opening - Eye Eye Nose Mouth: Art, Disability, and Mental Illness in Nanjing, China and Shiga-ken, Japan
2019-01-29 17:30 - 19:00 | Japan Friends of Harvard Concourse, CGIS South, Lower Level, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
This exhibition at the Harvard University Asia Center explores the intersections of art, disability, and mental health by displaying original works on paper and sculptures
created by ten groundbreaking, self-taught artists from China and Japan. Their compelling, formally innovative works come in a wide range of styles and media, from gestural abstractions to proliferating figurations, from meticulous clay obelisks to eye-popping wall paintings.
The first exhibition of works produced in art workshops for people with disabilities ever to take place at Harvard (and only the second devoted to self-taught artists since the Harvard Society for Contemporary Art’s Exhibition of American Folk Paintings in 1930), “Eye Eye Nose Mouth” offers an original contribution to an ongoing conversation about mental health and the acceptance of mental disability and mental illness in both local and international contexts.
The curators conducted on-the-ground research at Nanjing Outsider Art Studio in China and Atelier Yamanami in Japan, in order to witness the practices of the artists, and to carefully contextualize the works within their specific sociocultural conditions of production. As the curators observed the inner workings of these art therapy workshops, they documented the daily rhythms and artistic processes of the artists on video, which form a tapestry of moving-image portraits to accompany the works in the exhibition.
The title of the exhibition is an homage to the work of Hideaki Yoshikawa, who has been creating numerous series of works bearing the title “Eye Eye Nose Mouth” (目目鼻口, pronounced me-me-hana-kuchi) at Atelier Yamanami over several decades. His drawings and clay sculptures, combining obsessive seriality and formal inventiveness, are exemplary of the quality of the works produced at Atelier Yamanami and Nanjing Outsider Art Studio, but also of the most salient common feature of both workshops.
The two workshops belong to distinct sociocultural contexts at different stages of their respective histories: the former was founded in 1986, while the latter, founded in 2006, is a comparatively smaller structure. However, staff members of both workshops make it a point to never intervene directly in the creative process, providing care, support, and art materials while leaving artists at total liberty to experiment and develop their own artistic practices at their own pace. The works displayed in this exhibition offer a glimpse of the results yielded by these deliberate strategies of tolerance and empowerment.
Mental illness and mental disability are particularly complex issues in both China and Japan, due to prevalent social stigma, and, in the case of mainland China, a relative lack of state-supported care facilities. In this regard, both workshops constitute attempts to heighten public awareness of these issues, and to improve the symbolic image and concrete living conditions of affected persons in their respective societies. While insisting on the specificity of each workshop’s particular context, the exhibition avoids a rigid juxtaposition or comparison, encouraging the viewer to instead find formal and thematic echoes across the works.

Chen Wei - How well has China’s family planning policy worked?
2019-01-30 12:00 - 13:30 | Massachusetts
Speaker: Chen Wei, Professor, School of Sociology and Population Studies, Renmin University of China; HYI Visiting Scholar 2018-19
Chair/discussant: Mary Brinton, Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Harvard University
Demography is destiny. China’s economic success has been importantly driven by its demographic changes which might also determine China’s future. At the center of the demographics of China is its unique family planning policy. China’s family planning policy, which used to be described as one-child policy, has played a decisive role in fertility transition and transformation of fertility patterns, hence the population growth trends in China. Beginning in 2016, China implemented a two-child policy putting an end to the 35-years long one-child policy, which has also brought about marked changes in China’s fertility patterns. This talk will discuss the changing fertility policy and its impacts on fertility and population trends in China, and addresses two major questions: who were not complying with the one-child policy in the past, and now who are having second child? This research is conducted using China’s population census and fertility survey data, involving quantitative approaches and international comparative perspectives.
https://harvard-yenching.org/events/how-well-has-china-s-family-planning-policy-worked

Eric Taglicozzo and Tansen Sen - Borders in Modern Asia: Concepts and Cases
2019-02-04 16:00 - 18:00 | CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Borders in Modern Asia Seminar Series
Eric Tagliacozzo, Professor of History, Cornell University
Tansen Sen, Professor of History, NYU Shanghai
Chaired by Sugata Bose and Sunil Amrith

Xiaofei Tian - The Halberd at Red Cliff: Jian'an and the Three Kingdoms
2019-02-05 16:00 - 17:00 | Massachusetts
Speaker: Xiaofei Tian, Professor of Chinese Literature; Chair of Regional Studies East Asia (RSEA), Harvard University

Contemporary China Film Screening - Art in Fog: A Conversation with Director Lydia Chen
2019-02-11 17:15 - 19:15 | Massachusetts
Discussant: Shelley Drake Hawkes, Middlesex Community College
Moderator: Eugenio Menegon, Boston University
Directed by Lydia Chen, Art in Smog offers an intimate encounter with four artists and a curator in China, as they pursue their dreams over 25 years of rapid change. The pursuit of art takes them from quiet lives in the 1990s to the extremes of the 2000s to their different paths forward today. Their lives and their work provide a visually rich glimpse of humanity in a tumultuous society.
Lydia Chen has engaged in cultural exchanges between China and the United States since the 1980s. At first she worked for the Foreign Languages Press and studied Chinese painting at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. Later she was communications director for the American Chamber of Commerce in China, associate director of the Center for East Asian Studies at Stanford University, and executive director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University. She received her master’s degrees in journalism and Asian studies from the University of California at Berkeley and her B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College.

Shelley Drake Hawks interviewed Chinese painters for her 2017 book _The Art of Resistance. Painting by Candlelight in Mao’s China_ and her accompanying film The Lotus and the Red Star. She currently teaches art history at Middlesex Community College. She has also taught at Mount Holyoke College, Boston University, UMASS-Boston, and Rhode Island School of Design. She has a masters in Asia regional studies from Harvard and a doctorate in history from Brown. To learn more about her book or view her film, visit https://arthistorypi.org/books/art-of-resistance

Wen Chen - China’s Healthcare Reform: Does Restructuring Government Functions Matter?
2019-02-19 18:00 - 20:00 | Harvard Chan School, Building 1, Room 1208, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, 02115, United States
Speaker: Wen Chen, Professor of Health Economics, Fudan University

Professor CHEN received his M.D. degree in social medicine and health management from Shanghai Medical University in 1998 and completed a research fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health from August 2000 to May 2001. Currently, he serves as Director of PuDong Preventive Medicine Institute, Fudan’s Foreign Affairs Office, Hong Kong/Macau/Taiwan Affairs Office, and and the Confucius Institute. He was the Dean of the School of Public Health at Fudan University from April 2013 to June 2017. Professor Chen is often invited as an investigator and advisor by national and municipal governments for various research programs on the Chinese healthcare system, national and provincial health insurance, pharmacoeconomics and pharmaceutical policy, health financing, etc. He has more than 120 publications in international and Chinese health economics and management journals. He was elected Excellent Talent in the New Century by the Chinese Ministry of Education in 2008.
A China Health Partnership Seminar

Neuhauser Lecture featuring Susan Thornton - Can We Live with China? A Roadmap for Co-evolution
2019-03-04 16:00 - 18:00 | Massachusetts
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Speaker: Susan Thornton, Former Acting Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
Susan Thornton was Acting Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs at the Department of State during the first 18 months of the Trump administration. Prior to her departure, Thornton led East Asia policy-making amid crises with North Korea, escalating trade tensions with China, and a generally deteriorating environment in the United States for international economic and diplomatic engagement. She was the architect of the diplomatic pressure campaign on the North Korean regime, structured the administration’s initial approach to China, and developed the administration’s trademark Indo-Pacific Strategy.
In previous leadership roles in Washington, Thornton worked on China and Korea policy, including stabilizing relations with Taiwan, the U.S.-China Cyber Agreement, the Paris Climate Accord and led a successful negotiation in Pyongyang for monitoring of the Agreed Framework on denuclearization.
In her 18 years of overseas postings in Central Asia, Russia, the Caucasus and China, Thornton’s leadership furthered U.S. interests and influence and maintained programs and mission morale in a host of difficult operating environments. Prior to joining the Foreign Service, she was among the first State Department Fascell Fellows and served from 1989–90 at the U.S. Consulate in Leningrad. She was also a researcher at the Foreign Policy Institute from 1987–91.
Thornton received her M.A. in International Relations and Soviet Studies from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in 1991 and earned an M.S. in National Strategy and Resource Management at the National Defense University’s Eisenhower School in 2010. Thornton received her B.A. from Bowdoin College in Economics and Russian in 1985, and taught in international secondary schools in Brussels, London, and Chile. She speaks Russian, Mandarin Chinese and French, is a member of numerous professional associations and is on the Board of Trustees for the Eurasia Foundation.

Yiu Yuk-man Carine - Reconstructing the history of Chinese dialects through foreigners’ eyes
2019-03-05 12:00 - 13:30 | Massachusetts
Speaker: YIU Yuk-man Carine, Associate Professor of Humanities, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; HYI Visiting Scholar 2018-19
Chair/discussant: C.-T. James Huang, Professor of Linguistics, Harvard University
https://harvard-yenching.org/events/reconstructing-history-chinese-dialects-through-foreigners-eyes

Başak Bilecen - Chinese International Students’ Networks at Elite Universities: A Comparative Study of Germany and the US
2019-03-13 16:30 - 18:00 | Adolphus Busch Hall, 27 Kirkland St., Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Speaker: Başak Bilecen, Rosalind Franklin Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Groningen
Chair: Muriel Rouyer, Adjunct Professor of Public Policy, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School; Local Affiliate, CES, Harvard University
In migration scholarship, the role of social networks has been well-established in people’s decisions on whether to migrate and where to migrate to. Recently, international student mobility literature has shown that networks, parental aspirations and socio-economic background play an important role in an individual’s study-abroad decisions. Over the past few decades many countries, including Germany and the United States, have witnessed a tremendous increase in the number of international students applying to universities, with the majority coming from China. Based on personal network analysis and qualitative interviews with Chinese international students enrolled at elite universities in Germany and in the US, Başak Bilecen will compare and contrast how networks effect study abroad decisions. She will show that these decisions are based on the networks of the individual students as well as their country of origin and the educational institutions.
https://bit.ly/2XC5KTL

Jenny So - Rare and Beautiful Objects, New and Unexpected Findings: Revisiting Harvard’s Early Chinese Jades
2019-03-13 18:00 - 19:00 | Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Speaker: Jenny So, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Jenny So will highlight the exciting discoveries she made while preparing a new catalogue of the ancient Chinese jades in the Harvard Art Museums collections. Free admission, but seating is limited. Tickets will be distributed beginning at 5:30pm at the museums’ Broadway entrance. One ticket per person. After the lecture, guests are invited to visit our early Chinese art galleries on Level 1 until 8pm.
About Jenny F. So
Jenny F. So received her B.A. from Swarthmore College, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in art history from Harvard University. She has served as senior curator of Ancient Chinese Art at the Freer and Sackler Galleries, the Smithsonian Institution, in charge of the rich holdings of both collections. She left the Smithsonian Institution to take up the position of professor of fine arts at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and later, was also appointed director of that university’s Institute of Chinese Studies and Art Museum. She retired from her full-time Hong Kong appointments in 2015, retaining an association as adjunct professor, and returned to live in Arlington, Virginia, where she continues to publish while serving as a specialist-consultant in Chinese art for American and international educational and commercial institutions.

Lyu Peng - Animal transition and subsistence strategy on an ancient Chinese island: A zooarchaeological study of the Xiaozhushan Site
2019-03-14 12:00 - 13:30 | Massachusetts
Speaker: Lyu Peng, Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; HYI Visiting Scholar 2018-19
Chair/discussant: Richard Meadow, Senior Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University
https://harvard-yenching.org/events/animal-transition-and-subsistence-strategy-ancient-chinese-island-zooarchaeological-study

Allan Layug - Order in International Thought: Unpacking China’s Concept of World Order
2019-03-25 14:00 - 15:30 | Massachusetts
Speaker: Allan Layug, PhD Candidate, University of Queensland; Associate, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
Discussant: Robert Ross, Professor of Political Science, Boston College
How do we conceptualize China’s world order? What are its defining characteristics? Whose ideas matter in conceptualizing it—and why? And how do the different conceptions affect the Chinese world-ordering projects in the 21st century? These are the key questions the lecture aims to address. Specifically, it will lay out the ideational foundations of order from the ancient to the modern Chinese thought, exploring key ideas from Confucius to Sun Yatsen. It will unpack the bones of contention on conceptualization, construction, maintenance, and transformation of world order in the contemporary period, tracing change and continuity in Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Theory, Xi Jinping Thought. It will provide a four-level analysis: (a) analytical level, where Chinese concept of order and its key characteristics are defined and analyzed, (b) logical level, where the reasoning behind such a conception is discussed, (c) theoretical level, where the concept is viewed from different theoretical points of view, and (d) field of debate level, where the parameters, axes, and forms of argument framing the debate in the Chinese world are analyzed. The lecture will conclude on some thoughts about the future trajectory of world ordering the Chinese Way.

Felix Wemheuer - Rebels in Power: Factionalism in Shandong during China’s Cultural Revolution (1966-1969)
2019-03-25 16:00 - 18:00 | CGIS Knafel K262, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Speaker: Felix Wemheuer, Chair Professor of Modern China Studies, University of Cologne
During the early Cultural Revolution (1966-1969), factional conflicts inside the CCP (Communist Party of China) and within the society resulted in civil war and the almost collapse of the party-state. Wemheuer will present Shandong Province as a case study for the development of factional conflicts at the various administrative levels of state and society. Based on various field trips, archival research and Oral History interviews with former rebel leaders, it will be shown how the coalition of rebel cadres, students, workers and soldiers was created in Shandong and why they were able to “seize power” in February of 1967. The events and developments that ultimately led to the splitting of the rebels and their final downfall in 1969 will also be examined. The talk will contribute to a new understanding of factional politics.
Felix Wemheuer belongs to a new generation of Western scholars who are rewriting the history of Maoist China. His publications include Famine Politics in Maoist China and the Soviet Union (Yale UP 2014) and A Social History of Maoist China: Conflict and Change, 1949-1976 (Cambridge UP 2019). Between 2008 and 2010, he was a visiting scholar at the Fairbank Center.

Harvard-Yenching Institute Annual Roundtable: Preserving Asia’s Colonial and Modern Architectural Heritage
2019-03-26 16:15 - 18:00 | CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010), 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Panelists:
Fu Chao-Ching, Emeritus, Department of Architecture, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
Kim Hyon-Sob, Department of Architecture, Korea University, South Korea
Liu Chen, School of Architecture, Tsinghua University, China; HYI Visiting Scholar 2018-19
Thant Myint-U, Writer, Historian, and Founder and Chairman of the Yangon Heritage Trust
Chair:
Andrew Gordon, Harvard University/Acting Director, Harvard-Yenching Institute
This year’s HYI roundtable will present an exchange of ideas about current issues of architectural preservation in Asian cities. Our panelists will focus on architecture of modern times, and in particular of the colonial era. What are the challenges, and the opportunities, facing those interested to preserve the architecture of this era and make its importance known to the present and posterity? These challenges and opportunities have political, economic, and cultural dimensions. Panelists will address the topic from one or more of these perspectives.
Co-sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center

Richard Weitz: Russia, China, and the United States as Great-Power Competitors: Implications for Nuclear Security and Conflict
2019-04-01 12:00 - 13:45 | CGIS South Room S354, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Speaker: Richard Weitz, Senior Research Fellow, Hudson Institute

Rudolf Wagner - The Public Performance of Justice: The Transcultural Career of a Political Installation Across Eurasia
2019-04-01 15:00 - 17:00 | Massachusetts
Speaker: Rudolf Wagner, Universitat Heidelberg; Fairbank Center Associate

Yeling Tan - Disaggregating “China, Inc” - Explaining the Rise of Chinese State Capitalism
2019-04-02 12:00 - 13:15 | Starr Auditorium, Belfer Building, Floor 2.5, Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Speaker: Yeling Tan, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Oregon
When China joined the WTO in 2001, conventional wisdom held that global trade rules would provide a credible commitment to liberalization. While significant reforms did take place, scholars soon pointed to the emergence of a Chinese “state capitalism”. Why did the expansion of market-oriented institutions after WTO entry fail to constrain the subsequent rise of more interventionist developmental policies? What explains the timing of these non-linear policy trajectories? This analysis disaggregates the Chinese central state and unpacks the divergent strategies adopted by competing agencies in response to WTO entry.
Yeling Tan, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Oregon, will explain why the timing of this divergence turns on the durability of WTO commitments and the political relationship between China’s party and its state. She will argue that what emerged was an intensified dualism in Chinese economic governance, with intensified market competition promoted by one set of central agencies, yet a more consolidated industrial policy promoted by rival agencies. Tony Saich, Ash Center Director and Daweoo Professor of International Affairs, will moderate.
Lunch will be served. This event is open to the public, but seating is first come, first served. We recommend that you arrive 10-15 minutes early to grab your lunch and a seat. Discussion will begin promptly at noon.

Symposium - Tale of Three Cities: Urban Regeneration Through Design and Cultural Innovation
2019-04-03 18:00 - 21:00 | Gund Hall Room 111, 48 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Speakers:
Yuan Qian, Director, Vanke Urban Research Institute
Lemin Zhang, Xiamen University.
Ruoxi Zhang, Xiamen University.
Neill Mclean Gaddes, Principal, Sans Practice
James Shen, Principal, People’s Architecture Office, Harvard Loeb Fellow 2018, Research Fellow – Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
In four decades China’s urban population has exploded, tripling to 58% of its total population. In compari-son to Europe at 74% and North America at 82%, China has ample room to further urbanize. However, the unfettered horizontal expansion of cities and the resulting over speculation and urban sprawl has led to severe environmental and social concerns.
Recognizing this challenge, President Xi stated at the19th National Congress of the Communist Party that the new urbanization plan will be “people centered” rather than land-driven. The 13th Five-Year plan he referred to, set a goal to regenerate 20 million residences in shantytowns, indicating a refocusing of urban development towards distressed locations and upgrading existing urban fabric.
Urban Regeneration sites such as urban villages and historic districts are typically located near city cen-ters, making it difficult to employ common tabula rasa urban renewal practices. Confronting dense urban areas with multiple stake holders and unique building and site conditions requires inventive approaches, multi-disciplinary collaboration, and public and private partnerships in order to gather the resources needed to tackle such projects.
This symposium brings together leading urban practitioners to discuss urban regeneration projects in Da-shilar Beijing, Hubei in Shenzhen, and Shapowei in Xiamen. In each case, Art and Design has played a crucial role through their history of development. This symposium aims to provide a forum for the ex-change of ideas and lessons learned from successes and failures in regard to the actual experience of implementing of innovative urban regeneration strategies.

Julie Zhu - Life under Mao: the Cultural Revolution and the "Barefoot Doctors"
2019-04-09 18:00 - 20:00 | Harvard Chan School, Building 1, Room 1208, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, 02115, United States
Speaker: Julie Zhu
Up through the early 1970s, the “Barefoot Doctor” initiative in China brought primary care to rural China through a cadre of village health workers affectionately referred to as the “Barefoot Doctors.” Julie Zhu was one of them. She was sent to the countryside after high school and worked under the most famous Barefoot Doctor in China, Lee Sun, who was praised by Mao and whose stories were in the official newspapers and school text books. In her talk, Julie will discuss poverty, medical care, as well as her experiences living in the countryside under Mao, using her own photo archive. The audience will have an opportunity to travel back in time and reflect on China’s primary care system from a historical perspective.

Workshop - Sinophone Humanities in Southeast Asia
2019-04-11 10:15 - 17:00 | Massachusetts
SCHEDULE
10.15am – 10.30am: Welcome Remarks by David Wang
10.30am – 12pm:
Panel A: The Geopolitics of Southeast Asian Space, Memory and History
Chair: Huang Ying-che (Aichi University)
Ko Chia-cian (National Taiwan University): 漢詩世界裡的華夷風
Tee Kim Tong (National Sun Yat-sen University): 馬華文學、吉隆坡與文學／記憶現場
Liew Zhou Hau (Harvard University): Staging Resettlement: The Re-engineering of Rural History and the Replanting of Nanyang Memories
Jessica Tan (Harvard University): Caught between Homelands: The “Return” of the Wild Goose Wang Xiaoping
12 – 1pm: Lunch
1 – 2.30pm:
Panel B: Southeast Asia Trans-regional Connections and Consciousness
Chair: David Wang (Harvard University)
Nicholas Wong (University of Chicago): Interwar Nanyang Studies and Hsu Yun-Tsiao’s Diaries in Patani, Siam
Hsiung Ting-hui (Tamkang University): 世界主義下的馬華文學：賀淑芳《迷宮毯子》中的種族問題
Jannis Chen (Harvard University): From Becoming-Things to Thing-Power: Literature of Things
Woo Kamloon (Linking Publishing Taiwan): 從文學到歷史：馬華出版在台灣
2.30 – 3pm: Tea Break
3 – 4.45pm:
Panel C: Roundtable Discussion with Chang Kuei-hsing
Chair: Mei Chia-ling (National Taiwan University)
Participants: Chang Kuei-hsing, David Wang and Huang Ying-che
4.45 – 5pm: Closing Remarks
The event is sponsored by the following institutions:
the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation, Harvard University Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, and Taiwan’s Ministry of Science and Technology “Southbound Chinese and Cultural Interpretation”
Project

May Fourth @ 100: China and the World
2019-04-12 09:30 - 2019-04-13 17:30 | CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010), 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
An international symposium to celebrate and reflect upon the monumental legacy of China’s May Fourth movement.
Listen to the keynote speeches by Rudolf Wagner (University of Heidelberg) and Chen Pingyuan on Soundcloud:

Download the transcript of Rudolf Wagner’s keynote speech here: Reconstructing May Fourth Keynote Speech by Rudolf Wagner

Speakers:
Chan, Leonard K.K.
Chan, Hok Yin
Chen Jingling
Chen Pingyuan
Chiu-Duke, Josephine
Dai Yan
Ge Zhaoguang
Hashimoto, Satoru
Hill, Michael
Iovene, Paola
Ishii Tsuyoshi
Ko Chia-cian
Ko Eitetsu (Huang Ying-che)
Lee, BoGyeong
Li Hsiao-t’i
Li Jie
Li Wen-ching
Lin, Carlos Yu-Kai
Lomova, Olga
Ma Xiaolu
Mei, Chia-ling
Park, Younghwan
Pu Wang
Rodekohr, Andrew
Rojas, Carlos
Song Mingwei
Song Weijie
Thornber, Karen
Wang, David
Wang Xiaojue
Wagner, Rudolf
Widmer, Ellen
Xia Xiaohong
Yeh, Catherine
The event is sponsored by the following institutions: the Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange, the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University, the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University, the Harvard University Asia Center, and the Harvard-Yenching Institute.
This event is open to the public.
https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/may-fourth-at-100

EU-China Trade and Investment Relations: A Vehicle for Cooperation or a Path to Competition?
2019-04-12 11:00 - 12:30 | Adolphus Busch Hall, 27 Kirkland St., Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Speakers:
Jonathan Brookfield, Tufts University
Yasheng Huang, MIT
Philippe LeCorre, Harvard Kenned School
The trade and investment ties between the European Union (EU) and China run very deep. The EU is China’s biggest trading partner, and China is the EU’s second biggest. Yet, European concerns over a lack of transparency, protection of intellectual property rights, and strong government intervention, have cast the relationship in doubt. At the same time, China’s recent investments in Europe and its One Belt, One Road Initiative, are seen by many Europeans as potential attempts by Beijing to spread its political influence across the European continent, which provoked combative reactions. However, the relationship needs not be one characterized by antagonism and suspicion. The speakers will present the current trade and investment relations between the EU and China. In addition, they will discuss the potential and opportunities for increased cooperation, as well as potential threats and negative effects of heightened competition, which a misguided approach towards trade and investment may provoke.
https://ces.fas.harvard.edu/events/2019/04/trade-and-investment-eu-and-china

Panel Discussion - China and the Middle East in the 21st Century
2019-04-16 14:30 - 16:30 | CMES Room 102, 38 Kirkland St., Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Speakers:
Ezra F. Vogel, Harvard University
Robert S. Ross, Boston College
Bruce Rutherford, Colgate University
Degang Sun, Shanghai International Studies University
Chair: Lenore S. Martin, Emmanuel College and Harvard University

Paul Clifford - Huawei Technologies: World-Class Company or State Agent?
2019-04-23 13:15 - 14:30 | Starr Auditorium, Belfer Building, Floor 2.5, Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Speaker: Paul Clifford, Ash Center Nonresident Senior Fellow
Moderator: Anthony Saich, Ash Center Director and Daewoo Professor of International Affairs
China has come a long way from relying on imports to support its telecommunications sector. Today, telecommunications companies in China not only fulfill that nation’s growing needs but have a global reach. In this context, how should we understand the stunning and controversial emergence of China’s leading technology firm, Huawei Technologies? To what extent has Huawei’s rise been due to its leadership, strategy, corporate culture and ability to innovate? How much of this success as a “national champion” has been driven by the Chinese Party-State’s industrial policy and support?

Sebastian Veg - Minjian: the Rise of China’s Grassroots Intellectuals
2019-04-25 16:00 - 17:30 | Massachusetts
Speaker: Sebastian Veg, School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS), Paris
While China’s intellectuals throughout the twentieth century were defined in terms of their elite position and responsibility for the nation, this role was profoundly challenged after the crackdown on the democracy movement of 1989. In its aftermath, new groups of intellectuals emerged from grassroots society, devoted to constituting alternative forms of knowledge outside the academy: amateur historians researching the Mao era, amateur ethnographers using documentary films to investigate social issues, grassroots lawyers working with disenfranchised groups to build rights-awareness, and citizen bloggers and journalists challenging the state control of the public sphere. Although these groups have come under increasing pressure since 2012, their ideas continue to inspire new dynamics in China’s society today.
Sebastian Veg is a Professor (directeur d’études) of intellectual history and literature of 20th century China at the School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS), Paris and an Honorary Professor at the University of Hong Kong. He has written on Chinese intellectuals from May Fourth to the present, the memory of the Mao era, and the democracy movement in Hong Kong.

Yan Xuetong and Graham Allison: US-China Competition in the Age of the Knowledge Economy
2019-04-26 14:30 - 16:00 | Belfer Center Library Room 369, Littauer Center, 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Speaker: Yan Xuetong, Distinguished Professor and Dean of the Institute of International Relations, Tsinghua University
Moderator: Graham Allison, Douglas Dillon Professor of Government and former Director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School

The EU and China as Global Actors: The Cases of Syria and Africa
2019-04-29 16:30 - 18:30 | Adolphus Busch Hall, 27 Kirkland St., Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Speakers:
Catherine Gegout, Harvard Kennedy School
Fidel Sendagort, Former Ambassador of Spain to Egypt
The panelists will discuss the differing approaches towards conflict management, and the different ways through which China and the European Union (EU) engage with the world. Specifically, they will discuss the Chinese and European policy towards the Syrian conflict and their methods of involvement in Africa. Lastly, they will address what these, at times conflicting approaches mean for the future relationship between the EU and China.
Chair:
Mark Crowley, Wuhan University

https://ces.fas.harvard.edu/events/2019/04/the-european-and-chinese-competing-visions-for-grand-strategy
