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SUMMARY:Michael Stanley-Baker - Evolution of A Recipe: How DocuSky’s Post-Search Classification function reveals historical change
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Michael Stanley-Baker\, Nanyang Technological University \n\n\n\nJoin us for an illuminating workshop hosted by the Digital China Initiative (DCI) and the China Biographical Database Project (CBDB)\, showcasing the innovative DocuSky platform. Developed by the Research Center for Digital Humanities at National Taiwan University\, this online platform is ingeniously designed to cater to the intricate demands of humanities scholarship. Under the expert guidance of Professor Michael Stanley-Baker from Nanyang Technological University\, participants will delve into the bespoke tools and services offered by DocuSky. These include a diverse range of digital resources\, analytical tools\, and tailored services essential for the organization and examination of research materials. \n\n\n\nThis workshop will feature a diverse set of digital research tools designed for the historical study of Chinese medicine.  At their core is the full-text corpus database hosted in DocuSky\, which will be the primary focus of the presentation.  We will examine the post-search classification feature\, and how it allows users to parse through thousands of query returns in an exploratory way\, oscillating between macro-scale data patterns\, and micro-scale close reading\, to come to a synthetic vision and analysis of specific research questions. \n\n\n\nThe advantage of digital tools go beyond acquiring more data.  Such overviews should afford insights which prompt new questions we might not have asked before. DocuSky does more than provide answers\, it stimulates new inquiry\, and provides the means to explore further. \n\n\n\nSpeaker’s bio: \n\n\n\nAs an adept historian in Chinese Medicine and Religion\, Professor Stanley-Baker’s expertise spans from the early Imperial period to contemporary Sinophone communities. His work intricately weaves together cultural knowledge in Chinese medicine with varied disciplines such as religion\, botany\, trade\, modern biology\, and policy. His methods range from meticulous textual analysis and interviews to cutting-edge digital humanities techniques. \n\n\n\nProfessor Stanley-Baker’s remarkable contributions to the field are evidenced by his editorial leadership in significant publications and his development of numerous digital humanities projects. His innovative creations include digital mappings of ancient Chinese medical texts and the Polyglot Medicine Knowledge Graph\, a pioneering digital resource connecting traditional and modern medicinal knowledge across cultures. The project won the 2nd runner-up for Best Dataset in DH Awards 2023. \n\n\n\nWith a rich academic background that includes a PhD from the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London\, an MA from Indiana University\, and a clinical degree in Chinese medicine\, Professor Stanley-Baker is a fount of knowledge. His esteemed research appointments across the globe have solidified his reputation as a leading light in the intersection of traditional knowledge and digital innovation. \n\n\n\nIf you want to participate in the workshop activities\, please register for a DocuSky account at https://docusky.org.tw/DocuSky/home/?l=en \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/michael-stanley-baker-evolution-of-a-recipe-how-docuskys-post-search-classification-function-reveals-historical-change/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S250\, 1730 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240423T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240423T114500
DTSTAMP:20260703T191748
CREATED:20240215T141531Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240221T155251Z
UID:35465-1713868200-1713872700@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Discovering Freshwater Jellyfish in Modern China: Arthur de Carle Soweby and Craspedacusta sowerbii\, 1880–1941
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Christine Luk\, Associate Professor of the History of Science\, Tsinghua University \n\n\n\nMore information: https://scholar.harvard.edu/seow/STinAsia \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/discovering-freshwater-jellyfish-in-modern-china-arthur-de-carle-soweby-and-craspedacusta-sowerbii-1880-1941/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240422T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240422T210000
DTSTAMP:20260703T191748
CREATED:20240216T165900Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240216T170130Z
UID:35522-1713812400-1713819600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Film Screening: In Our Time (Guang yin de gu shi)
DESCRIPTION:The omnibus film In Our Time initiated radical innovations in terms of aesthetic styles\, industry practices and commonly depicted themes\, thereby revolutionizing the filmmaking industry in Taiwan and inaugurating the movement of Taiwan New Cinema. The four segments are shot by four young emerging directors and each film—set in different decades from the 1950s to the 1980s—represents roughly one of the four younger stages of life: childhood\, adolescence\, young adulthood (in college) and married life (as working professionals). \n\n\n\nTitled Expectations\, sometimes translated as Desires\, Edward Yang’s segment features a series of sensitive and expressive vignettes that depict the growing pains of adolescents in mid-60s Taiwan. Yang sees the placement of the second short film as structurally akin to the second movement in a symphony\, typically characterized by its lyrical and slow nature. The teenaged Hsiao-Fen (Shi An-Ni) serves as a kind of prototype for other young heroines in Yang’s cinematic corpus. The diversity of the cinematic techniques used in his debut short film accentuates the complexity of the protagonist’s emotional and perceptual experience. \n\n\n\nDirected by Edward Yang\, Chang Yi\, Ko I-Chen and Tao Te-Chen. With Sylvia Chang\, Emily Y. Chang\, Lee Li-Chun \n\n\n\nTaiwan 1982\, DCP\, color\, 110 min. Mandarin and Min Nan with English subtitles \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-screening-taipei-story-qing-mei-zhu-ma-2/
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:20240419T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240419T173000
DTSTAMP:20260703T191748
CREATED:20240404T171228Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240404T171230Z
UID:36059-1713522600-1713547800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:2024 Harvard Visual China Graduate Symposium - Time and Temporality in Chinese Art & Culture
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHow do humans and objects exist in relation to time and experience time? We often turn to space and spatial models as the dominant approach to analyzing visual materials\, yet time could also serve as a way of organizing visual and perceptual experiences. In the case of Chinese art\, time and temporality had particular salience as organizing principles for pictorial programs and designs. Harvard Visual China’s 2024 Graduate Symposium presents three panels on the topic of Time and Temporality in Chinese Art and Culture. \n\n\n\nSponsored by the Department of History of Art & Architecture and the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Innovation Fund\, and Harvard FAS CAMLab. \n\n\n\nMore info and registration: https://www.harvardvisualchina.com/hvc-2024-symposium-info-reg \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/2024-harvard-visual-china-graduate-symposium-time-and-temporality-in-chinese-art-culture/
LOCATION:Sackler Building Auditorium\, 485 Broadway\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240417T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240417T173000
DTSTAMP:20260703T191748
CREATED:20240411T165341Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240411T165343Z
UID:36159-1713369600-1713375000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Contextual Annotation in Textual and Visual Media: COMARKUS and IMMARKUS
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Hilde De Weerdt\,  Professor of Chinese and Early Modern Global History\, KU Leuven  \n\n\n\nHilde De Weerdt joined the Early Modern History Research Group\, KU Leuven in March 2022 as Professor of Chinese and Early Modern Global History. Professor De Weerdt is broadly interested in intellectual\, social\, and political history\, both within an East Asian context\, and within a comparative or global historical framework. \n\n\n\nShe studied Chinese and Chinese History at KU Leuven (BA) and Harvard University (PH.D.) and taught history at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville (2002-2007\, Assistant Professor)\, Oxford University (2007-2012\, Associate Professor)\, and King’s College London (2012-2013\, Reader) before becoming Chair Professor of Chinese History at Leiden University in 2013. She has published five volumes on Chinese political culture and intellectual history\, focusing on the workings of late imperial Chinese bureaucratic infrastructures and political communication (Political Communication in Chinese and European History\, 800-1600\, ed.\, 2021; The Essentials of Governance\, tr. and ed.\, 2021; Information\, Territory\, and Networks: The Crisis and Maintenance of Empire in Song China\, 2015; Competition over Content: Negotiating Standards for the Civil Service Examinations in Imperial China (1127-1276)\, 2007; Knowledge and Text Production in an Age of Print–China\, 900-1400\, ed.\, 2011). \n\n\n\nShe is currently working on a longue-durée global history of Chinese political advice literature. In 2021 she received funding from the European Research Council and the Dutch Research Council (NWO) to extend her earlier work on Chinese state infrastructures into a large-scale collaborative project on the social and regional histories of material infrastructures (roads\, bridges\, city walls) (1000-1800). \n\n\n\nShe maintains an active interest in designing and developing digital research methods for East Asian and other languages. With Brent Ho she co-designed the text annotation and reading platform MARKUS\, and with Mees Gelein two text comparison modules COMPARATIVUS and PARALLELLS. (On the history of and concept behind these and related digital research projects\, see “Creating\, Linking\, and Analyzing Chinese and Korean Datasets: Digital Text Annotation in MARKUS and COMPARATIVUS”). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/contextual-annotation-in-textual-and-visual-media-comarkus-and-immarkus/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Room S153\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240415T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240415T220000
DTSTAMP:20260703T191748
CREATED:20240216T165551Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240216T165554Z
UID:35516-1713207600-1713218400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Film Screening: That Day\, on the Beach (Hai tan de yi tian)
DESCRIPTION:A renowned young pianist\, Tan Ching-Ching (Terry Hu) comes back to Taipei for the first time in thirteen years to give a performance. An old friend\, Lin Jia-li (Sylvia Chang)\, gets in touch with her to reconvene over an afternoon coffee. That Day\, on the Beach takes place over a conversation between the two female friends\, during which Ching learns about how the romantic and domestic life of Jia-li and her elder brother evolved over the past decade. Through complex flashbacks\, the microcosmic personal life is revealed to be closely interwoven with the drastic economic and social changes that Taiwan witnessed over the entire 70s. Full of subtle narrative and cinematic surprises\, the film explores the difficulties that accompany freedom\, love and trust; in staging the fragility of any sense of facile contentment and hope\, it makes visible the pleasure and pain entailed in one’s pursuits of happiness. The film also marks the debut of Christopher Doyle as a cinematographer\, best known for his collaborations with Wong Kar-Wai. Released in Taiwan four decades ago\, Edward Yang’s first feature’s length\, storytelling\, and formal ingenuity all speak to his unwavering will to uphold his artistic vision despite all obstacles. \n\n\n\nDirected by Edward Yang. With Sylvia Chang\, Hsu Ming\, Lee Lieh \n\n\n\nTaiwan 1983\, DCP\, color\, 166 min. Mandarin and German with English subtitles \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-screening-that-day-on-the-beach-hai-tan-de-yi-tian/
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:20240412T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240412T130000
DTSTAMP:20260703T191748
CREATED:20240313T201132Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240313T201135Z
UID:35857-1712923200-1712926800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Curatorial Chat: Central Asian Chronicles Echoes of the Silk Road in Manuscripts and Imagery
DESCRIPTION:Join co-curators Dr. Gülnar Eziz\, Preceptor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University\, and Isa Youshe\, PhD Student\, Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies at Harvard University\, for a 30-minute guided tour of the Central Asian Chronicles: Echoes of the Silk Road in Manuscripts and Imagery exhibition currently on display in Houghton’s Amy Lowell Room.  This will include discussion of the rich histories and cultural significance of the collections on display and ample time for participant questions. \n\n\n\nAttendees should gather in Houghton’s lobby. No registration is required.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/curatorial-chat-central-asian-chronicles-echoes-of-the-silk-road-in-manuscripts-and-imagery/
LOCATION:Houghton Library\, Quincy Street & Harvard Street\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240411T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240411T183000
DTSTAMP:20260703T191748
CREATED:20240328T161756Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240328T161757Z
UID:35983-1712854800-1712860200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:China: The Rise and Fall of the EAST - How Exams\, Autocracy\, Stability\, and Technology Brought China Success\, and Why They Might Lead to its Decline
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Yasheng Huang\, Epoch Foundation Professor of Global Economics and Management\, MIT Sloan School of Management; Faculty Director\, MIT-China Program\, Center for International Studies. \n\n\n\nDiscussant: Will Knight\, Senior Writer\, Wired Magazine \n\n\n\nMore information: https://bit.ly/RiseFallChina \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-east-how-exams-autocracy-stability-and-technology-brought-china-success-and-why-they-might-lead-to-its-decline/
LOCATION:Building 66\, 110\, 25 Ames St.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240411T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240411T131500
DTSTAMP:20260703T191748
CREATED:20240403T175316Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240403T175318Z
UID:36041-1712837700-1712841300@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Arbitrary Detention in Xinjiang: A Survivor's Story
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:Rayhan Asat\, Uyghur Lawyer\, HLS LLM ‘16Mihrigul Tursun\, Uyghur Activist\, Former Detainee and Camp Survivor \n\n\n\nIn 2015\, Mihrigul Tursun was imprisoned in a re-education camp in Xinjiang by the Chinese authorities. Rayhan Asat’s brother\, Ekpar\, has been detained for right years and counting. Join Harvard Law School Advocates for Human Rights for a discussion with Tursun and Rayhan to learn more about what is happening in Xinjiang and what can be done. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/arbitrary-detention-in-xinjiang-a-survivors-story/
LOCATION:WCC 1015\, Wasserstein Hall\, 1585 Massachusetts Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240409T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240409T200000
DTSTAMP:20260703T191748
CREATED:20240403T163040Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240408T135913Z
UID:36030-1712687400-1712692800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:2024 China Town Hall Featuring Kurt Campbell and Rana Mitter
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers:Kurt Campbell\, Deputy U.S. Secretary of StateRana Mitter\, ST Lee Chair in US-Asia Relations\, Harvard Kennedy SchoolJoin the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations and the Greater China Society at HKS on April 9th for the 2024 CHINA Town Hall (CTH)\, a two-part program that provides a snapshot of the current U.S.-China relationship and examines how that relationship reverberates at the local level – in our towns\, states\, and nation\, connects Americans around the country with U.S. policymakers and thought leaders on China.   \n\n\n\nThe 2024 CHINA Town Hall program will take place on Tuesday\, April 9\, from 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. ET\, with featured speaker Dr. Kurt Campbell\, Deputy Secretary of State.  Following the official program\, students have the opportunity to discuss with Prof. Rana Mitter in-person reflecting on the event from 7:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. ET.  \n\n\n\nRSVP:  https://forms.gle/cjDyW6LbUmfi58fV9 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/2024-china-town-hall-featuring-kurt-campbell-and-rana-mitter/
LOCATION:L-332 DELAND\, Littauer Building\, 79 JFK St.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240409T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240409T114500
DTSTAMP:20260703T191748
CREATED:20240215T141343Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240221T155224Z
UID:35463-1712658600-1712663100@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Dreams from China’s Past: Visions of the Future in Popular Science and Literature Magazines\, 1927–1949
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Aaron William Moore\, Professor of Asian Studies and Handa Chair of Japanese-Chinese Relations\, University of Edinburgh \n\n\n\nMore information: https://scholar.harvard.edu/seow/STinAsia \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/dreams-from-chinas-past-visions-of-the-future-in-popular-science-and-literature-magazines-1927-1949/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240408T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240408T210000
DTSTAMP:20260703T191748
CREATED:20240216T165027Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240216T165253Z
UID:35511-1712602800-1712610000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Film Screening: The Terrorizers (Kong bu fen zi)
DESCRIPTION:Characterized as “Yang’s most difficult\, intellectually provocative\, and structurally challenging film” (John Anderson)\, Edward Yang’s third feature-length film is a puzzle with immense reverberatory power. The Terrorizers depicts the intertwining of love and death among three different couples: a young photographer and his literary girlfriend; a middle-class and middle-aged married couple whose mutual estrangement grows to the point of no return; and a delinquent duo whose income comes from committing petty pickpocketing and blackmailing. Prank phone calls\, amateur photography\, writer’s block and coveted promotions serendipitously bring these separate lives together. As close relationships come to a dissolution\, the distinctions between life and art\, fiction and reality also edge toward implosion. \n\n\n\nDirected by Edward Yang. With Cora Miao\, Lee Li-Chun\, King Shih-Chieh \n\n\n\nTaiwan 1986\, DCP\, color\, 110 min. Mandarin and Min Nan with English subtitles \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-screening-the-terrorizers-kong-bu-fen-zi/
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:20240407T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240407T180000
DTSTAMP:20260703T191748
CREATED:20240216T164451Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240216T164452Z
UID:35506-1712502000-1712512800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Film Screening: Mahjong (Ma jiang)
DESCRIPTION:Mahjong is a game for four players\, and the one who first collects winning sets of tiles wins. But the real game lies not in these rectangular pieces per se\, but in deliberating what one already has and could afford to discard or how to acquire from others what one desires but does not yet possess. The funniest and angriest of Yang’s films\, Mahjong questions the sustainability of the dominance of a calculating profit-mindedness and transactional mentality\, incubated in a capitalist madness blown to the point of barbarity. Red Fish\, the son of a missing millionaire\, leads a group of four young men as they swim in the ocean of ambivalent values among European expats\, entrepreneurs\, liars and criminals. A series of surprising events expose a social world where tenderness only makes one vulnerable to be exploited or deceived\, and people—avoiding responsibilities—lack courage to think or make decisions for themselves. Following A Confucian Confusion\, this dark comedy continues to experiment with theatrical forms. Yang’s use of lighting in a scene of an astonishing and dramatically powerful murder recalls Béla Tarr’s intense chamber drama Autumn Almanac (1984). The repeated appearance of T.G.I. Friday’s and the Hard Rock Café\, along with other globalist trinkets\, casts an alluring\, mysterious and uncanny shadow over Taipei’s colorful nightlife. \n\n\n\nDirected by Edward Yang. With Tang Tsung Sheng\, Chang Chen\, Lawrence Ko \n\n\n\nTaiwan 1996\, DCP\, color\, 121 min. Mandarin\, Min Nan and English with English subtitles \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-screening-mahjong-ma-jiang/
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:20240404T122000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240404T132000
DTSTAMP:20260703T191748
CREATED:20240129T163620Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240129T163621Z
UID:35324-1712233200-1712236800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Glen S. Fukushima - U.S. Trade Policy\, Japan\, and China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Glen S. Fukushima\, Vice Chair\, Securities Investor Protection Corporation; Former Deputy Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Japan and China \n\n\n\nGlen S. Fukushima was nominated by President Joseph R. Biden to serve as Vice Chair of the Securities Investor Protection Corporation in October 2021 and confirmed by the U.S. Senate in April 2022.  After graduating from Harvard Law School in 1982\, he was a Fulbright Fellow at the Faculty of Law\, University of Tokyo; associate at Paul\, Hastings\, Janofsky & Walker; Deputy Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Japan and China at the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative; president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan; and senior executive in one European and four American multinational corporations.  He served on Hillary Clinton’s Asia Policy Working Group in 2015-2016. \n\n\n\nBoxed lunch will be provided. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/glen-s-fukushima-u-s-trade-policy-japan-and-china/
LOCATION:Morgan Courtroom\, Austin Hall\, 1515 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240403T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240403T174500
DTSTAMP:20260703T191748
CREATED:20240327T160932Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240327T160934Z
UID:35969-1712161800-1712166300@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:U.S. - China Relations Today
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers:Da Wei\, Director\, Center for International Security and Strategy (CISS); Professor of Department of International Relations\, School of Social Science\, Tsinghua University.Rana Mitter\, ST Lee Chair in US-Asia Relations\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nJoin the Greater China Society at Harvard Kennedy School for a discussion on U.S.-China relations featuring Professors Da Wei and Rana Mitter\, leading scholars on this topic. This event is part of the preview series to the 2024 China Conference organized by students at Harvard Kennedy School. \n\n\n\nProfessor DA Wei is the director of the Center for International Security and Strategy (CISS) at Tsinghua\, and professor of department of International Relations\, school of Social Science\, Tsinghua University. He is renowned for his work on China-US relations and US security & foreign policy\, and has a rich background in China’s academic and policy community. \n\n\n\nProfessor Rana Mitter\, ST Lee Chair in US-Asia Relations at Harvard\, is an acclaimed author and commentator on China’s international relations and historical narratives. He is the author of several books\, and his writing on contemporary China has appeared in influential media outlets. He previously taught at Oxford\, and is a Fellow of the British Academy. \n\n\n\nRegister at: https://forms.gle/SZVqh5iwTpNBSkek7 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/u-s-china-relations-today/
LOCATION:L-332 DELAND\, Littauer Building\, 79 JFK St.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240331T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240331T220000
DTSTAMP:20260703T191748
CREATED:20240216T164131Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240216T164132Z
UID:35503-1711911600-1711922400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Film Screening: A Confucian Confusion (Du li shi dai)
DESCRIPTION:A satirical comedy with biting wit and a romance that is equally suspicious of and hopeful about love\, this film ambitiously negotiates the coexistence of Confucianism with capitalism and democracy. In what feels like a second take of his Taipei Story\, Yang stages a frantic tango that is danced not with two but twelve. A circle of closely knit friends and relatives forms an entangled web of relationships where lost and insecure young professionals (civil servants\, accountants\, businessmen\, publishers\, writers\, and artists) navigate different emotional scenes in a vibrant Taipei. Following a series of misunderstandings\, a pervasive sense of loneliness permeates these densely populated frames\, resulting in a deliberate messiness. Intentionally not a guide for the perplexed\, Yang’s dazzling world melts pretense\, fakeness\, authenticity and sincerity into a confounding pool of restlessness. \n\n\n\nOne of the two least heralded (or screened) films by Edward Yang (the other being Mahjong)\, A Confucian Confusion’sstylistic and narrative experimentation is in fact fiercer than ever\, reflecting his ongoing formal exploration in a diverse oeuvre. Made after directing plays such as Likely Consequence (1992) and Growth Period (1993)\, A Confucian Confusionconducts\, with a bold theatricality\, a brilliant investigation into the challenging sedimentations of traditional ideals of social conformity and hierarchy in a modern age of independence. \n\n\n\nDirected by Edward Yang. With Chen Li-Mei\, Chen Shiang-chyi\, Chen Yi-Wen \n\n\n\nTaiwan 1994\, DCP\, color\, 125 min. Mandarin and Min Nan with English subtitles \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-screening-a-confucian-confusion-du-li-shi-dai/
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:20240330T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240330T220000
DTSTAMP:20260703T191748
CREATED:20240216T163724Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240216T163726Z
UID:35498-1711821600-1711836000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Film Screening: A Brighter Summer Day (Guling jie shaonian sharen shijian)\, with introduction by Kalli Peng
DESCRIPTION:Similar to Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s A City of Sadness (1989)\, A Brighter Summer Day also traces the experiences of a large family during a critical historical epoch in Taiwan. Set in the early 1960s\, against the backdrop of a society witnessing the consequences of major demographic shifts and political oppression\, this film depicts the difficult trials awaiting the simple and harmonious life of the Zhang family. With Yang’s exacting demands on the historical accuracy of the props\, such as the family house and the furniture in the classrooms\, A Brighter Summer Day splendidly restores the material historical world to us while inquiring into its zeitgeist. Caught between the world of rock ‘n’ roll\, gang rivalry\, love triangles and the White Terror paranoia\, a group of teenagers are compelled to learn to negotiate the tensions and discrepancy between ideals and reality. The adolescent struggles in grasping that which is worth holding on to\, be it people or principle\, turn out to be an inescapable fate for adults alike. \n\n\n\nWidely considered as Yang’s magnum opus\, this film\, based on a real-life murder\, launched Chang Chen’s acting career at the age of fourteen. The brilliant juxtapositions of light and darkness\, movement and stasis\, sound and silence\, all work together to yield a tragic lonesomeness that even the warmth of a bright summer day cannot cure. \n\n\n\nDirected by Edward Yang. With Chang Chen\, Lisa Yang\, Chang Kuo-Chu \n\n\n\nTaiwan 1991\, DCP\, color\, 237 min. Mandarin\, Min Nan\, Shanghainese and English with English subtitles \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-screening-a-brighter-summer-day-guling-jie-shaonian-sharen-shijian-with-introduction-by-kalli-peng/
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:20240329T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240329T220000
DTSTAMP:20260703T191748
CREATED:20240216T163132Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240216T163134Z
UID:35493-1711738800-1711749600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Film Screening: Yi Yi (A One and a Two …)\, with introduction by Kalli Peng
DESCRIPTION:Edward Yang’s cinematic swan song\, released at the turn of the millennium\, is a moving tapestry that weaves together the dissolution and reconstitution of the fragile subjectivities in an increasingly global\, capitalist and mediated urban society. Yi Yi opens with a wedding and ends with a funeral. What unfolds between love and death is everything that saturates our modern existence: awakening\, nostalgia\, contingency\, anxiety\, alienation\, the ennui of everyday banality and the oscillations between longings for interpersonal dependence and fears of intimacy. This three-hour-long audiovisual epic unfolds the confusions and struggles of the multigenerational Jian family. As the grandmother falls into a coma\, the family members take turns sitting at her bedside relaying their life to her\, only to hear their own doubts and uncertainties reverberate in the resounding silence. At his tenderest moment\, Yang\, through Yi Yi\, delicately\, wisely and elegantly portrays the poignant reminiscences of the stirrings of first love and unveils the beauty that all too often shies away in the face of a perceived emptiness of life. \n\n\n\nDirected by Edward Yang. With Wu Nien-Jen\, Elaine Jin\, Issey Ogata \n\n\n\nTaiwan/Japan 2000\, 35mm\, color\, 173 min. Mandarin\, Min Nan\, Hokkien\, English\, Japanese and French with English subtitles \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-screening-yi-yi-a-one-and-a-two-with-introduction-by-kalli-peng/
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:20240328T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240328T183000
DTSTAMP:20260703T191748
CREATED:20240321T193109Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240321T194226Z
UID:35901-1711641600-1711650600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Taiwan Conference: Tension in the Taiwan Strait: The Role of U.S. Allies
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers:Akio Takahara\, Professor of Contemporary Chinese Politics\, Graduate School of Law and Politics\, University of TokyoJa-Ian Chong\, Associate Professor of Political Science\, National University of SingaporeSatu Limaye\, Vice President\, East-West Center; Director\, East-West Center in Washington \n\n\n\nThis event examines the risks for conflict in the Taiwan Strait and the implications that the changed geo-strategic environment has for the US\, Taiwan\, the Sino-US relationship and the US-led system of alliances in the region. It builds on a series of BUCSA events about Taiwan’s security that we have held over the past few years\, including a talk with Taiwan Defense Minister Andrew Yang in the Spring of 2021 and a presentation and discussion with senior US diplomat Chas Freeman in March 2022. \n\n\n\nFor more information\, visit: https://www.bu.edu/asian/2023/12/04/taiwan-conference-tension-in-the-taiwan-strait-the-role-of-u-s-allies-march-28-2024/ .  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/taiwan-conference-tension-in-the-taiwan-strait-the-role-of-u-s-allies/
LOCATION:Pardee School of Global Studies\, Boston University\, 121 Bay State Rd\, Boston\, Massachusetts\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest,Taiwan
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240326T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240326T114500
DTSTAMP:20260703T191748
CREATED:20240215T141105Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240221T155126Z
UID:35460-1711449000-1711453500@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Racing to Be a Better Race: A Longue Durée History of China's Toilet Revolution
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Nicole Barnes\, Associate Professor of History\, Duke University \n\n\n\nMore information: https://scholar.harvard.edu/seow/STinAsia \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/racing-to-be-a-better-race-a-longue-duree-history-of-chinas-toilet-revolution/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240319T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240319T193000
DTSTAMP:20260703T191748
CREATED:20240312T170320Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240312T170322Z
UID:35840-1710871200-1710876600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Mitchell Presnick - US-China Business Relations: Past\, Present\, and Future
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Mitchell Presnick\, Visiting Fellow\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies  \n\n\n\nMr. Presnick will lead a fireside chat about his 30 years in China from 1988 – 2019. Topics will include serving on Budweiser’s（百威啤酒) China market entry team\, founding the China practice of APCO Worldwide (安可顾问)\, a Washington\, D.C. based global advisory and advocacy firm\, founding Super 8 Hotels China (中国速8酒店连锁) an economy hotel chain with over 1100 locations\, and serving as board member and vice chair of the American Chamber of Commerce in China during China’s accession to the GATT (now WTO).  \n\n\n\nWe will also explore current opportunities and challenges inherent in US-China business relations in the post-engagement era.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/mitchell-presnick-us-china-business-relations-past-present-and-future/
LOCATION:Room K354\, CGIS Knafel\, 1737 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240319T122000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240319T132000
DTSTAMP:20260703T191748
CREATED:20240313T153855Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240313T153857Z
UID:35850-1710850800-1710854400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Michelle Miao - Health Code Apps as Social Control in China: Empirical Findings from the Pandemic
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Michelle Miao\, Associate Professor of Law\, Chinese University of Hong Kong; Fellow\, Stanford University Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences \n\n\n\nMichelle Miao is Associate Professor of Law at Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). Her major areas of research include ethics of technological innovation\, comparative law\, criminal justice\, law and society\, and rule of law and authoritarianism. As a CUHK-Stanford University Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences Fellow for 2023-2024\, she is working on a project exploring the interaction between artificial intelligence and the shifting paradigm of authoritarian governance. Professor Miao is an awardee of the American Society of Comparative Law’s Hessel Yntema Prize for the most outstanding scholarship by a scholar under 40 years of age. \n\n\n\nBoxed lunch will be provided. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/michelle-miao-health-code-apps-as-social-control-in-china-empirical-findings-from-the-pandemic/
LOCATION:Morgan Courtroom\, Austin Hall\, 1515 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240308T091500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240309T134500
DTSTAMP:20260703T191748
CREATED:20240226T142031Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240226T142033Z
UID:35631-1709889300-1709991900@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Echoes of the Past\, Visions for the Future: The Power of Ideas to Navigate the China- West Divides
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:Tiziana Lippiello\, Ca’ FoscariMichael Puett\, Harvard UniversityAnna Irene Baka\, Harvard University; Ca’ FoscariBryan Van Norden\, Vassar CollegeTao Jiang\, Rutgers UniversityHsinning Liu\, Academia SinicaWen Yu\, Boston CollegeBenjamin Gallant\, Harvard UniversityKaren Turner\, Harvard University; College of the Holy CrossFranklin Perkins University of Hawai’iDimitra Amarantidou\, University of MacauLisa Raphals\, University of California\, RiversideWang Hui\, Tsinghua UniversityPeter Bol\, Harvard University \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/echoes-of-the-past-visions-for-the-future-the-power-of-ideas-to-navigate-the-china-west-divides/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240305T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240305T183000
DTSTAMP:20260703T191748
CREATED:20240221T145830Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240221T145832Z
UID:35539-1709658000-1709663400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Elizabeth Perry - Public Health\, National Strength and Regime Legitimacy: China’s Patriotic Health Campaign
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Elizabeth J. Perry\,  Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government\, Harvard University; Director\, Harvard-Yenching Institute \n\n\n\nThis talk focuses on China’s longest-lived mass movement: the Patriotic Health Campaign(PHC). Introduced by Mao Zedong in 1952 during the Korean War\, the PHC continues even today\, having recently played a role in Xi Jinping’s Zero-Covid effort. The talk will question the official characterization of the PHC as a “uniquely Chinese” approach to sanitation and epidemic control\, noting the influence of the American Tuberculosis Movement and YMCA health campaigns\, while at the same time emphasizing the central importance of public health in the legitimation of Chinese Communist rule\, from revolutionary days to the present. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/elizabeth-perry-public-health-national-strength-and-regime-legitimacy-chinas-patriotic-health-campaign/
LOCATION:Pardee School of Global Studies\, Boston University\, 121 Bay State Rd\, Boston\, Massachusetts\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240220T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240220T170000
DTSTAMP:20260703T191748
CREATED:20240216T171214Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240216T171216Z
UID:35529-1708443000-1708448400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Transport and Communication in Late Imperial China: Routes and Costs
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Ruoran Cheng\, Ph.D. candidate at the London School of Economics. \n\n\n\nRuoran Cheng will introduce his work on transport routes and costs in the Ming and Qing dynasties. Using techniques from geographic information science and data from historical route books\, he has proposed a more accurate and comprehensive account of transport routes. Based on this and other data he has constructed the relative costs of different modes of transportation from 1202 to 1890. Currently\, he is also working on the connection between trade potential proxied by natural routes and the location of economic activities proxied by archeological sites in China for a period spanning from Neolithic villages (7000 BP) to the unified empire (2000 BP) \n\n\n\nSponsored by the China Biographical Database Project\, China Historical GIS\, and the Digital China Initiative \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/transport-and-communication-in-late-imperial-china-routes-and-costs/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Room S001\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240216T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240217T170000
DTSTAMP:20260703T191748
CREATED:20240209T174323Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240209T174325Z
UID:35436-1708084800-1708189200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Harvard East Asia Society Conference 2024 - Knots: Complex Legacies and Imagined Futures of East Asia
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Harvard East Asia Society (HEAS) Graduate Student Conference is an annual event which provides an interdisciplinary forum for graduate students to exchange ideas and discuss current research on topics related to Asia. The conference allows young scholars to present their research to both their peers and to renowned scholars in relevant fields. All panels will be moderated by Harvard University faculty. The conference will also allow participants to meet others in their research area conducting similar research and to forge new professional relationships.The theme of this year’s conference is: Knots: Complex Legacies and Imagined Futures of East Asia. The knot is a traditional form of art that can be found throughout China\, Korea\, and Japan\, made from the orderly connection of different individual threads. The committee chose the figure of the knot to represent the intertwined memories\, legacies\, and histories of interaction between and throughout the different parts of the region we now call East Asia. We thus welcomed scholarship that attempts to bridge different spaces\, times\, and disciplines\, which includes (but is not limited to) history\, philosophy\, religion\, literature\, art history\, sociology\, anthropology\, archaeology\, economics\, political science\, gender studies\, environmental studies\, and law. Please find the conference schedule and booklet here. \n\n\n\nFor detailed information\, visit: https://linktr.ee/harvard_heas \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/harvard-east-asia-society-conference-2024-knots-complex-legacies-and-imagined-futures-of-east-asia/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240213T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240213T173000
DTSTAMP:20260703T191748
CREATED:20240208T190426Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240208T190428Z
UID:35421-1707838200-1707845400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Jiajun Zou - Is Examination Success the Result of Geographical Luck? New Ming Provincial Examination Dataset and Its Macro Social and Historical Implications
DESCRIPTION:Register for hybrid zoom attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Jiajun Zou\, Ph.D. Candidate in History\, Emory University  \n\n\n\nJiajun Zou introduces a fresh perspective to Ming dynasty studies with his pioneering dataset of 92\,000 juren profiles. In his presentation\, Zou will share his journey in assembling this comprehensive dataset\, utilizing a mix of CBDB resources\, computational techniques\, and prompt engineering via ChatGPT. He will then present statistical and macro-level evidence of a geographical bias within the examination system\, underscoring how proximity to examination centers at both the provincial and national levels significantly impacted odds of success. Zou contends that the examination system displayed a clear proximity bias\, favoring those closer to central hubs in terms of outlasting and exhausting their group competitors over time. The challenges faced by peripheral prefectures and regions are attributed not to a lack of talent—as some of the most distant prefectures produced the highest number of juren in China but only a handful of jinshi. Moving beyond the narratives of educational and intellectual traditions\, Zou explores whether rising costs of competition\, influenced by geographical and social dynamics\, shifted the balance of political power in Ming China. This presentation aims to highlight the value of a macro analytical approach using a large dataset to reveal hidden trends and to encourage modern scholars to independently tackle research challenges with innovative digital techniques. \n\n\n\nAlso via Zoom. Reigster: https://bit.ly/exam-luck \n\n\n\nAn event sponsored by China Biographical Database Project (CBDB) and Digital China Initiative (DCI)\, Harvard University \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/jiajun-zou-is-examination-success-the-result-of-geographical-luck-new-ming-provincial-examination-dataset-and-its-macro-social-and-historical-implications/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S250\, 1730 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240212T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240212T200000
DTSTAMP:20260703T191748
CREATED:20240209T162754Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240209T162757Z
UID:35431-1707760800-1707768000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:The China Challenge and America's Future
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us for a special conversation with Mike Gallagher and Raja Krishnamoorthi\, the Chairman and Ranking Member of the Select Committee on the Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party. This conversation will be moderated by former Assistant Secretary of Defense and Douglas Dillon Professor of Government Graham Allison\, and Director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs Meghan O’Sullivan. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-china-challenge-and-americas-future/
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:20231211T113000
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SUMMARY:Hou Zhe - Between Ideals and Reality: The Working Class‘s Role in China’s Education Revolution
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Hou Zhe\, Assistant Professor\, Institute of China Studies\, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2023-24 \n\n\n\nChair/Discussant: Elizabeth Perry\, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government\, Harvard University; Director\, Harvard-Yenching Institute \n\n\n\nThe assertion that “the working class must lead everything” was a fundamental tenet in the ideological framework of the education revolution during Mao’s era in China. This principle\, along with the beliefs that “education serves proletarian politics” and “education should be combined with productive labor”\, underscored the legitimacy and importance of the working class in this transformative period. This talk aims to delve into the multifaceted role of the working class in shaping the educational landscape during this revolution. It will explore the instrumental role of the Workers’ Mao Zedong Thought Propaganda Teams within the educational systems and the impact of the School Revolutionary Committees within educational institutions. Furthermore\, it will examine the implementation and outcomes of labor education across various types of schools during this era. By doing so\, this discussion seeks to illuminate the complex interplay between class\, politics\, and education within the context of China’s historical and socio-political fabric. \n\n\n\nMore info: www.harvard-yenching.org/events/hou-zhe-between-ideals-and-reality/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/hou-zhe-between-ideals-and-reality-the-working-classs-role-in-chinas-education-revolution/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:He Wenkai - Book talk: Public Interest and State Legitimation: Early Modern England\, Japan\, and China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: He Wenkai\,  Associate Professor\, Division of Social Science\, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; HYI Visiting Scholar 2016-17 \n\n\n\nIn this book\, Public Interest and State Legitimation: Early Modern England\, Japan\, and China (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press\, 2023)\, Wenkai He examines the connections between state capacity\, state legitimation and the expansion of political participation. He demonstrates how in each case a public interest-based discourse of state legitimation provided a common platform upon which state and society collaborated to provide public goods such as famine relief and large-scale infrastructural facilities. In this way\, state and society strove to overcome their respective weaknesses in attaining good governance. Moreover\, each discourse of state legitimation entailed ‘passive rights’ that allowed subordinates to justify their demands on the state to redress welfare grievances; these often took the form of collective actions. Conflicts between domestic welfare and other dimensions of public interest\, however\, could instigate cross-regional and cross-sectoral mass petitions for fundamental political reforms that were likewise justified by the state’s proclaimed duty to safeguard the public interest; these mass petitions might ultimately transform the state. Such a political ‘great divergence’ occurred in England (1760s-1780s) and Japan (1870s-1880s)\, but not in China. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/he-wenkai-book-talk-public-interest-and-state-legitimation-early-modern-england-japan-and-china/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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