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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180307T123000
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SUMMARY:Bilahari Kausikan: US-China Competition for Influence in Southeast Asia
DESCRIPTION:Read event summary here \nSpeaker: Bilahari Kausikan\, Ambassador-at-Large at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs\, Singapore \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-3-2018-02-21/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Critical Issues Confronting China Series,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180307T160000
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SUMMARY:Those Waters Giving Way
DESCRIPTION:An overview of Michael Cherney’s artistic process and recent works. The art combines photography with the subject matter\, aesthetics\, materials and formats traditionally associated with classical Chinese painting\, which allows for viewing the present day environment and landscape in China through the lens of art history. In addition to the presentation\, the artist will guide the audience through viewing several handscrolls\, albums and other works \n“One would be hard-pressed to find a ‘more Chinese’ artist than Qiu Mai (Michael Cherney). Photographer\, calligrapher\, and book artist\, Qiu Mai’s work is done with the great sophistication that draws on the subtleties of China’s most scholarly and esoteric traditions. Based in Beijing and a successful artist whose works have been collected by The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Department of Asian Art (the first photographic works ever to enter the collection of that department)\, Qiu Mai’s art is less provocative than it is intellectually engaging\, meditative\, and often simply beautiful.  What is provocative is his identity:  Qiu Mai is the Chinese name for Michael Cherney\, born in New York of Jewish parentage. Cherney’s work is the cutting-edge demonstration of artistic globalization:  if Asian artists can so readily ‘come West\,’ then what is to prevent large numbers of future Western artists from ‘going Asian’? Or\, like Qiu Mai/Michael Cherney\, going both ways at once\, both American and Chinese\, modern and traditional.”\n– Jerome Silbergeld\, P. Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Professor of Chinese Art History\, Princeton University \nCo-sponsored by the Harvard-China Project
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/those-waters-giving-way/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Environment,Environment,Events of Interest,Exhibitions,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180319T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180320T170000
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SUMMARY:The Rise of New  Religions in Asia
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: \nHelen Hardacre\, Harvard University\nAdam Lyons\, Harvard University\nFrank Korom\, Boston University\nAmanda Lucia\, University of California Riverside\nRobert Hefner\, Boston University\nJuliane Schober\, Arizona State University\nGareth Fisher\, Syracuse University\nChien-yu Julia Huang\, City Colleges of Chicago\nWei-ping Lin\, National Taiwan University\n\n\nMore Info: www.bu.edu/asian/2018/01/03/the-rise-of-new-religions-in-asia/
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-rise-of-new-religions-in-asia/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Conference and Workshops,Events of Interest,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180319T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180319T170000
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CREATED:20180305T181254Z
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SUMMARY:Chinese Popular Culture at the Beginning of the 20th and 21st Centuries
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\n Zheng Yanqing\,  Chinese Academy of Social Sciences: “Popular Culture and the Public Sphere”\nShao Yanjun\, Peking University:  “Internet Fiction and Imagined Community”\nChristopher Rea\, University of British Columbia: “Of Spongers\, Sharpers\, and Cannibal Eunuchs: The Swindle Story around the World.” \nThe event is sponsored by the Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/chinese-popular-culture-at-the-beginning-of-the-20th-and-21st-centuries/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180319T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180319T180000
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SUMMARY:Evelyn (Chiung-yun) Liu - When Fantastic Narrative Encounters Empirical Knowledge: Imagining the World in "The Eunuch Sanbao's Voyage to the Western Ocean"
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Evelyn (Chiung-yun) Liu\,  Academia Sinica\, HYI Visiting Scholar \nThe Eunuch Sanbao’s Voyage to the Western Ocean\, a late-sixteenth century novel loosely based on the historical expeditions commanded by Zheng He (1371-1433)\, is a peculiar mixture of factual accounts of foreign lands and fantastic narrative. In this work\, popular Buddhist and Daoist figures living in a mythological landscape encounter a new worldview based on firsthand geographical accounts of maritime voyages recorded as early as the fourteenth century. While the novel is often regarded as a literary failure\, a hodgepodge in which the author imitates and copies earlier texts and jumbles them together\, this talk proposes to understand such “failure” as a multi-faceted response to the rapidly expanding cognitive sphere of that time. Taking the novel as a cultural product of the late Ming book market\, we will examine the author’s choices of source materials in connection to his target reader\, the strategies he employs to maneuver between the exotic and the familiar\, and the epistemological disjunctions he faces in the attempt to create a narrative that encompasses “the end of the Western Ocean.”  We will also look at the possible changes in the conception of “the world” revealed through the ways in which the author negotiates between empirical geography and Buddhist/Daoist cosmologies. \nChiung-yun Evelyn Liu is an Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy\, Academia Sinica\, Taiwan. She earned her B.A. from National Taiwan University\, M.A. from Columbia University and Ph.D. from Harvard University. Her research interests include literature of the fantastic\, mediations on historical memory\, and the intersection of knowledge production\, cultural imagination and psychological responses to the foreign in late imperial China. She is completing a book manuscript\, which investigates how moral value\, memory politics\, literary sensibility and commercial media worked together in shaping and transforming historical memories. Her next project explores the function of sentiment in the process of knowledge reception and reformulation; particularly how Chinese literati coped with turbulent dynastic transitions and unsettling cross-cultural encounters through encyclopedic writing as means of reordering and comprehending the changing world.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-humanities-seminar-2018-02-26/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:China Humanities Seminar,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180321T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180321T183000
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SUMMARY:Nathan Vedal - Philology as a Discipline in Pre-Modern China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Nathan Vedal\, Visiting Fellow\, Center for Humanities and Information\, Penn State \nOrganizer: Technical Traditions in Greece and Rome: Between Theory and Practice\, Harvard University GSAS Workshop 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/nathan-vedal-philology-as-a-science-in-pre-modern-china/
LOCATION:Boylston Hall Room 203\, Boylston Hall\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180326T190000
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SUMMARY:Jeff Wasserstrom and Maura Cunningham — China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom and Maura Elizabeth Cunningham \nHarvard Coop Book Talk \nIn this fully revised and updated third edition of China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know®\, Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom and Maura Elizabeth Cunningham provide cogent answers to urgent questions regarding the world’s newest superpower and offer a framework for understanding China’s meteoric rise from developing country to superpower. Framing their answers through the historical legacies – Confucian thought\, Western and Japanese imperialism\, the Mao era\, and the Tiananmen Square massacre – that largely define China’s present-day trajectory\, Wasserstrom and Cunningham introduce readers to the Chinese Communist Party\, the building boom in Shanghai\, and the environmental fallout of rapid Chinese industrialization. They also explain unique aspects of Chinese culture\, such as the one-child policy\, and provide insight into Chinese-American relations\, a subject that has become increasingly fraught during the Trump era. As Wasserstrom and Cunningham draw parallels between China and other industrialized nations during their periods of development\, in particular the United States during its rapid industrialization in the 19th century\, they also predict how we might expect China to act in the future vis-à-vis the United States\, Russia\, India\, and its East Asian neighbors. \nUpdated to include perspectives on Hong Kong’s shifting political status\, as well as an expanded discussion of President Xi Jinping’s time in office\, China in the 21st Century provides a concise and insightful introduction to this significant global power. \nMaura Elizabeth Cunningham is a writer and historian of modern China. She is a graduate of Saint Joseph’s University (B.A.\, 2004)\, Yale University (M.A.\, 2006)\, the Hopkins-Nanjing Center for Chinese and American Studies (graduate certificate\, 2008)\, and the University of California\, Irvine (Ph.D.\, 2014). Maura was the editor-in-chief of The China Beat\, a blog based at UC Irvine\, between 2009 and 2012\, and associate editor of ChinaFile during a fellowship at the Asia Society’s Center on U.S.-China Relations in 2011-12. From 2014 to 2016\, Maura served as a program officer at the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations\, where she co-directed the Public Intellectuals Program; in 2016\, she became the digital media manager at the Association for Asian Studies. As a writer\, her work has appeared at the Wall Street Journal\, the Financial Times\, the Los Angeles Review of Books\, and other publications. \nJeffrey Wasserstrom is a graduate of UC Santa Cruz (B.A.\, 1982)\, Harvard (A.M.\, 1984)\, and Berkeley (Ph.D.\,1989)\, and he is now Chancellor’s Professor of History at UC Irvine. He has written five books\, the most recent of which are Eight Juxtapositions: China through Imperfect Analogies from Mark Twain to Manchukuo (Penguin\, 2016) and the third edition of China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford\, 2018). He has also edited or co-edited several other books\, including The Oxford Illustrated History of Modern China (2016). In addition to writing for academic journals\, he has contributed to many general interest venues\, among them the New York Times\, the TLS\, and the Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB). He is an academic editor of LARB’s China Channel and the Editor of the Journal of Asian Studies.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/jeff-wasserstrom-and-maura-cunningham-china-in-the-21st-century-what-everyone-needs-to-know/
LOCATION:Harvard Coop\, 1400 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest,Special Event
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SUMMARY:Thomas Gold - An 'Old Youth' (老青年) Looks at Chinese Youth Today
DESCRIPTION:Read event summary here \nSpeaker: Thomas B. Gold\, University of California at Berkeley \nThomas B. Gold is Professor of Sociology at the University of California. Since 2000 he has also served as Executive Director of the Inter-University Program for Chinese Language Studies (IUP)\, a consortium of 14 American universities which administers an advanced Chinese language program at Tsinghua University in Beijing. (https://ieas.berkeley.edu/iup]. At Berkeley he has also served as Associate Dean of International and Area Studies\, Founding Director of the Berkeley China Initiative\, and Chair of the Center for Chinese Studies.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-3-2018-03-28/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Critical Issues Confronting China Series,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180330T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180330T133000
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SUMMARY:Zhang Changhong - A Shift in Buddhist Iconography between the 8th and 12th Century: Rock Carvings and Mandala Murals in Eastern and Western Tibet
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Zhang Changhong\, Palace Museum\, Beijing; HYI Coordinate Research Scholar\nChair: Leonard van der Kuijp\, Harvard University \nhttps://harvard-yenching.org/events/shift-buddhist-iconography-between-8th-and-12th-century-rock-carvings-and-mandala-murals
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/zhang-changhong-a-shift-in-buddhist-iconography-between-the-8th-and-12th-century-rock-carvings-and-mandala-murals-in-eastern-and-western-tibet/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180402T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180402T140000
DTSTAMP:20260717T223404
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UID:6825-1522670400-1522677600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Reporting on Asia - A Discussion with Four Nieman Fellows
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\nGlenda M. Gloria\, Managing Editor and Co-Founder of Rappler\, Philippines social news network\nShalini Singh\, Features Reporter\, New Delhi\, India; former reporter for The Week and the Hindustan Times; founding trustee at the People’s Archive of Rural India\nBonny Symons-Brown\, Australian Broadcasting Corporation; former TV news anchor\, Jakarta\, Indonesia\nEdward Wong\, The New York Times; former New York Times Beijing Bureau Chief and Iraq correspondent \nChair:\nKaren Thornber\, Victor and William Fung Director\, Harvard University Asia Center; Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and of Comparative Literature\, Harvard University \nAsia Center Seminar Series; co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Lakshmi Mittal South Asia Institute
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/reporting-on-asia-a-discussion-with-four-nieman-fellows/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180402T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180402T173000
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SUMMARY:Gao Xiaosong - The Story of a Private Library in Contemporary China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Gao Xiaosong\,  Director\, Za Library\, Beijing\, China \nModerator: Xiaofei Tian\,  Professor of Chinese Literature\, EALC\, Harvard \nMr. Gao Xiaosong 高曉松\, director of Za shu guan 雜書館\, will speak on the Za Library\, one of the largest private libraries open to the public in China.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/gao-xiaosong-the-story-of-a-private-library-in-contemporary-china/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180404T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180404T140000
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SUMMARY:Dwight Perkins - How to Measure China's Economic Reform
DESCRIPTION:Read event summary here \nSpeaker: Dwight Perkins\, Harvard University \nDwight H. Perkins is the Harold Hitchings Burbank Research Professor of Political Economy of Harvard University\, where he joined the faculty in 1963. Previous positions at Harvard include Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy\, 1963-2006; Associate Director of the Fairbank Center\, 1973-1977; chairman of the Department of Economics\, 1977-1980; Director of the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID)\, the University’s former multi-disciplinary institute for research\, teaching\, and technical assistance on development policy\,1980-1995; and Director of the Harvard University Asia Center\, 2002-2005.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-3-2018-04-04/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Critical Issues Confronting China Series,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180405T120000
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SUMMARY:Hongtu Chen - The Aging Population in China and the Development of the Care Workforce
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr. Hongtu Chen\, Associate\, Harvard University Asia Center; Assistant Professor of Psychology\, Department of Psychiatry\, Harvard Medical School\nChair: Professor Arthur Kleinman\, Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology\, Harvard University; Professor of Medical Anthropology and Professor of Psychiatry\, Harvard Medical School \nAsia Center Seminar Series; co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/hongtu-chen-the-aging-population-in-china-and-the-development-of-the-care-workforce/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180409T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180409T173000
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UID:6753-1523289600-1523295000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Manoranjan Mohanty - China’s Transformation: The Success Story and the Success Trap
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Prof. Manoranjan Mohanty\, Council for Social Development\, New Delhi\nChair: Prof. Elizabeth Perry\, Harvard University/Harvard-Yenching Institute \nThe book provides insights into the economic and social transformation that China has undergone from 1979 to the present. Based on the author’s research in China for over three decades\, China’s Transformation: The Success Story and the Success Trap shows how its ‘reform and open door’ policy evolved and helped achieve tremendous economic success. However\, it also generated serious social and environmental problems. The book presents that the consequences of this success story of growth are so strong that it has been difficult for China to change its main development path to achieve a desirable level of equity and sustainability. The author describes this as the ‘success trap’ that China is currently grappling with. The author argues that China’s reform path is grounded in the premises of the European Industrial Revolution backed by strong sociopolitical forces at home\, indicating that a major change in the development path is unlikely. However\, all indications point to a strong and prosperous China as a rising world power in the coming decades\, trying to cope with the sociopolitical problems in its own way. \nCo-sponsored by the Harvard-Yenching Institute and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies \nhttps://harvard-yenching.org/events/manoranjan-mohanty-book-talk-china-s-transformation-success-story-and-success-trap \n  \n 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/manoranjan-mohanty-chinas-transformation-the-success-story-and-the-success-trap/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180410T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180410T210000
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UID:6686-1523386800-1523394000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:William Overholt - Book Talk: "China’s Crisis of Success"
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: William Overholt\, Senior Fellow\, Harvard University Asia Center \nChina’s Crisis of Success provides new perspectives on China’s rise to superpower status\, showing that China has reached a threshold where success has eliminated the conditions that enabled miraculous growth. Continued success requires re-invention of its economy and politics. The old economic strategy based on exports and infrastructure now piles up debt without producing sustainable economic growth\, and Chinese society now resists the disruptive change that enabled earlier reforms. While China’s leadership has produced a strategy for successful economic transition\, it is struggling to manage the politics of implementing that strategy. After analysing the economics of growth\, William H. Overholt explores critical social issues of the transition\, notably inequality\, corruption\, environmental degradation\, and globalisation. He argues that Xi Jinping is pursuing the riskiest political strategy of any important national leader. Alternative outcomes include continued impressive growth and political stability\, Japanese-style stagnation\, and a major political-economic crisis.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/william-overholt-book-talk-chinas-crisis-of-success/
LOCATION:Harvard Coop\, 1400 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180411T130000
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UID:6925-1523448000-1523451600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Maya Stiller - Maps\, Graffiti\, Kinship: The Use of GIS in the Spatial Analysis of a Sacred Mountain in Late Chosŏn Korea (1600-1900)
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Maya Stiller Fellow\, Korea Institute; ACLS/The Robert H.N. Ho Family Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in Buddhist Studies\, Department of History of Art and Architecture; Assistant Professor\, University of Kansas \nLight refreshments provided. \nRSVP to Feng-en Tu (hyl.eadh@gmail.com)
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/maya-stiller-maps-graffiti-kinship-the-use-of-gis-in-the-spatial-analysis-of-a-sacred-mountain-in-late-choson-korea-1600-1900/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Diana Fu: Mobilizing Without the Masses
DESCRIPTION:Read event summary here \nSpeaker: Dr. Diana Fu\, University of Toronto \nDiana Fu is assistant professor of Asian politics. Her research examines the relationship between popular contention\, state power\, and civil society in contemporary China.  She is the author of  “Mobilizing Without the Masses: Control and Contention in China\,” (Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics Series and Columbia University’s Studies of the Weatherhead East Asia Institute).  Articles that are part of this broader project have appeared in Governance (2017)\, Comparative Political Studies (2017)\, The China Journal (2018)\, among others. \nShe graduated for Oxford University with distinction where she studied as a Rhodes Scholar.  She was a Walter H. Shorenstein Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University and a Predoctoral Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  Her writing and research have appeared in The Economist\, Foreign Affairs\, The Washington Post\, Boston Review\, Nick Kristof’s On the Ground Blog (The New York Times)\, PostGlobal\, and Global Brief. \n 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-3-2018-04-11/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Critical Issues Confronting China Series,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180412T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180412T170000
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SUMMARY:Eugenio Menegon and Elisa Frei - Calamity from Within? Jesuits\, Papal Legates\, and Chinese Imperial Envoys in the Eighteenth Century
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\nEugenio Menegon\, Department of History\, Boston University & Collaborative Scholar\, Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies\nElisa Frei\, Fellow\, Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies\, Boston College \nInstitute for Advanced Jesuit Studies Colloquium\, Boston College \nMore information: https://www.bc.edu/centers/iajs/Programs/institute-colloquium-.html \n 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/eugenio-menegon-and-elisa-frei-calamity-from-within-jesuits-papal-legates-and-chinese-imperial-envoys-in-the-eighteenth-century/
LOCATION:John J. Burns Library\, Boston College\, 140 Commonwealth Ave.\, Chestnut Hill\, MA\, 02467\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180413T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180413T183000
DTSTAMP:20260717T223404
CREATED:20180406T155426Z
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UID:6961-1523611800-1523644200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Harvard University Asia Center 20th Anniversary Celebration
DESCRIPTION:S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, Japan Friends of Harvard Concourse \n9:30 a.m.         Coffee \n9:45 a.m.         Welcome by Professor Karen Thornber\, Victor and William Fung Director\, Asia Center; Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and of Comparative Literature\, Harvard University \n10:00 a.m.       Introduction by Vice Provost Mark Elliott\, Vice Provost for International Affairs\, Harvard University; Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History \n10:15 a.m.        Remarks by Professor Rema Hanna\, Chair\, Asia Center Southeast Asia Committee; Jeffrey Cheah Professor of South-East Asia Studies\, Harvard Kennedy School \n10:30 a.m.       A Dialogue with the Asia Center’s former Directors and Acting Directors on the Changing and Enduring Issues in Asia\nEzra Vogel\, Asia Center Director 1997-1999; Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences\, Emeritus\, Harvard University\nWilliam  Kirby\, Asia Center Director 1999-2002; Chair\, Harvard China Fund; T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies\, Harvard University; Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration\, Harvard Business School\nDwight Perkins\, Asia Center Director 2002-2005; Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy\, Emeritus\, Harvard University\nAnthony Saich\, Asia Center Director 2005-2008; Director\, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation; Daewoo Professor of International Affairs\, Harvard Kennedy School\nArthur Kleinman\, Asia Center Director 2008-2016; Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology\, Harvard University; Professor of Medical Anthropology and Psychiatry\, Harvard Medical School\nMichael Puett\, Asia Center Acting Director Spring Term 2013; Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History and Anthropology\, Harvard University\nAndrew Gordon\, Asia Center Acting Director 2016-2017; Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History\, Harvard University\nModerator:  Professor Meg Rithmire\, F. Warren McFarlan Associate Professor of Business of Administration\, Harvard Business School \n12:00 p.m.        Lunch  S030\, Lee Gathering Room\, Japan Friends of Harvard Concourse\, CGIS South \n1:00 p.m.          Remarks by Dean Claudine Gay\, Dean of Social Science\, Harvard University; Wilbur A. Cowett Professor of Government and of African and African American Studies \n1:15 p.m.          Study and Research in Asia:  The Student Perspective\nErnest (Billy) Brewster\, East Asian Languages and Civilizations\nRenzo R. Guinto\, T.H. Chan School of Public Health\nHyeok Kweon Kang\, East Asian Languages and Civilizations\nNeelam Khoja\, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations\nVeronika Kusumaryati\, Department of Anthropology\nNeeti Nayak\, Urban Planning and Design\, Graduate School of Design\nMelany Sun-Min Park\, History and Theory of Architecture\nKyle Shernuk\, East Asian Languages and Civilizations\nJustin Stern\, Architecture\, Landscape Architecture & Urban Planning\nFeng-en Tu\, History and East Asian Languages \n3:00 p.m.         Break \n3:15 p.m.         Asia in the Next Two Decades: A Conversation with Current Harvard Asia-related Center Directors\nTarun Khanna\, Director\, Lakshmi Mittal South Asia Institute; Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor\, Harvard Business School\nSun Joo Kim\, Director\, Korea Institute; Harvard-Yenching Professor of Korean History\, Harvard University\nWilliam Kirby\, Chair\, Harvard China Fund; T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies\, Harvard University; Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration\, Harvard Business School\nSusan Pharr\, Director\, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics\nJay Rosengard\, Acting Director\, Asia Center Thai Studies Program; Asia Center Southeast Asia Committee; Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy\, Harvard Kennedy School\nMichael Szonyi\, Director\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies; Professor of Chinese History\, Harvard University\nKaren Thornber\, Victor and William Fung Director\, Asia Center; Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and of Comparative Literature\, Harvard University \n4:40 p.m.         Audience to move to S010\, Tsai Auditorium (next door to S020) for Tsai Lecture \n4:45 p.m.         13th Annual Tsai Lecture: China’s Worldview Under Xi Jinping\nThe Honorable Kevin Rudd\, President\, Asia Society Policy Institute; former Prime Minister of Australia (2007-2010\, 2013) and former Foreign Minister (2010-2012) \n5:45 p.m.         Concluding Remarks/Reception
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/harvard-university-asia-center-20th-anniversary-celebration/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, CGIS South\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180413T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180413T133000
DTSTAMP:20260717T223404
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SUMMARY:Lin Wei-ping - Gender\, Gambling\, and the State in the Militarized Islands between China and Taiwan
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Lin Wei-ping\, National Taiwan University; HYI Associate\nDiscussant: Michael Szonyi\, Harvard University \nhttps://harvard-yenching.org/events/gender-gambling-and-state-militarized-islands-between-china-and-taiwan
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/lin-wei-ping-gender-gambling-and-the-state-in-the-militarized-islands-between-china-and-taiwan/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest,Gender Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180416T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180416T170000
DTSTAMP:20260717T223404
CREATED:20180326T173922Z
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UID:6854-1523894400-1523898000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Mai Jia - The Art and Politics of the Espionage Novel in Contemporary China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Mai Jia\, Chinese novelist and President of the Zhejiang Writers’ Association \nThis lecture will be given in Chinese. \n 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/mai-jia-the-art-and-politics-of-the-espionage-novel-in-contemporary-china/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180417T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180417T134500
DTSTAMP:20260717T223404
CREATED:20180228T145936Z
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SUMMARY:His Excellency Cui Tiankai Speaks on U.S. - China Relations
DESCRIPTION:This Event begins at 12:15pm. \nSpeaker: Cui Tiankai\, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People’s Republic of China to the United States of America. \nHis Excellency Cui Tiankai\, Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China to the United States of America\, will present a public lecture on the current state of U.S.-China relations at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard University. \nThe lecture and discussion will be moderated by Michael Szonyi\, Director of the Fairbank Center and Professor of Chinese History at Harvard University. \nThis event is co-sponsored by Harvard Law School East Asian Legal Studies and the Harvard University Asia Center.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/a-conversation-with-ambassador-cui-tiankai/
LOCATION:Harvard Law School\, Austin North (Room 100)\, 1515 Massachusetts Avenue\, Cambridge\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180418T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180418T140000
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SUMMARY:Edward Cunningham - Elite Philanthropy in the US and China: What Does the Data Tell Us?
DESCRIPTION:Read event summary here \nSpeaker: Dr. Edward A. Cunningham\, Harvard Kennedy School \nEdward Cunningham is Director of Ash Center China Programs and of the Asia Energy and Sustainability Initiative at Harvard Kennedy School. He is also an Adjunct Lecturer of Public Policy\, focusing on energy markets and governance\, international economics and competitiveness\, the political economy of development\, and China’s integration into the world. Most recently he has engaged in work on the rise of Chinese private wealth and philanthropy. He serves as an advisor to private and publicly listed companies in the energy\, environmental\, and financial services sectors. \nCunningham was selected as a Fulbright Fellow to the P.R.C.\, during which time he conducted his doctoral fieldwork as a visiting fellow at Tsinghua University. He is fluent in Mandarin and Italian\, and his work has appeared in media such as The New York Times\, The Financial Times\, The New Yorker\, The Economist\, The Wall Street Journal\, Fortune\, and Bloomberg. He graduated from Georgetown University\, received an A.M. from Harvard University\, and holds a Ph.D. from M.I.T. in political science. He is currently completing a book on China’s energy markets and energy governance during the modern reform period.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-3-2018-04-18/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Critical Issues Confronting China Series,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180418T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180418T183000
DTSTAMP:20260717T223404
CREATED:20180412T164003Z
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UID:7040-1524070800-1524076200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Nathan Sivin - Why Some Comparisons Make More Difference than Others
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Nathan Sivin\, University of Pennsylvania \nIn his talk\, ‘Why Some Comparisons Make More Difference than Others\,’ Professor Sivin will explore motivations for East-West and other comparative studies\, as well as the methodological challenges that they involve. \nNathan Sivin\, professor emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania\, is a generalist who has contributed studies of all the sciences and medicine in every period of Chinese history\, and comparative studies of these fields in China and Europe. He has taught a range of courses from the Scientific Revolution in Europe to advanced classical Chinese\, as well as the sociology of professionalization (with Renée Fox) and ritual in science\, technology\, and medicine. \nOrganizer: Technical Traditions in Greece and Rome: Between Theory and Practice\, Harvard University GSAS Workshop
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/nathan-sivin-why-some-comparisons-make-more-difference-than-others/
LOCATION:Boylston Hall Room 203\, Boylston Hall\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180425T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180425T133000
DTSTAMP:20260717T223404
CREATED:20180323T151028Z
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UID:6840-1524657600-1524663000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Wang Jianping - Upholding the Faith in an Atheistic Land: Flourishing Unofficial Islamic Publications in Contemporary China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Wang Jianping\, Professor of Islamic Studies (retired)\, Shanghai Normal University; HYI Library Research Grant recipient\nChair: James Cheng\, Librarian of the Harvard-Yenching Library\, Harvard University \nhttps://harvard-yenching.org/events/upholding-faith-atheistic-land-flourishing-unofficial-islamic-publications-contemporary-china
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/wang-jianping-upholding-the-faith-in-an-atheistic-land-flourishing-unofficial-islamic-publications-in-contemporary-china/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180425T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180425T140000
DTSTAMP:20260717T223404
CREATED:20170919T162825Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170919T162825Z
UID:5905-1524659400-1524664800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Wu Xinbo - Managing growing and expanding competition between China and the U.S.
DESCRIPTION:Read event summary here \nSpeaker: Wu Xinbo\, Professor & Director Center for American Studies Dean Institute of International Studies Fudan University \nDr. Wu is Professor and Dean\, Institute of International Studies\, and Director at the Center for American Studies\, Fudan University.  He teaches and researches China’s foreign and security policy\, Sino-U.S. relations\, and U.S. Asia-Pacific policy.  Prof. Wu is the author of Dollar Diplomacy and Major Powers in China\, 1909-1913 (Fudan University Press\, 1997)\, award-winning Turbulent Water: US Asia-Pacific Security Strategy in the post-Cold War Era (Fudan University Press\, 2006)\, Managing Crisis and Sustaining Peace between China and the United States (United States Institute of Peace\, 2008)\, and The New Landscape in Sino-U.S. Relations in the early 21st Century (Fudan University Press\, 2011).  He also has published numerous articles and book chapters in China\, U.S.\, Japan\, Germany\, South Korea\, Singapore and India.  Dr. Wu is on the editorial board of The Washington Quarterly (published by the Center for Strategic and International Studies) and on the International Board of the Studies in Asian Security book series (sponsored by the East-West Center and published by the Stanford University Press).
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-3-2018-04-25/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Critical Issues Confronting China Series,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180425T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180425T160000
DTSTAMP:20260717T223404
CREATED:20180410T134810Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180410T134810Z
UID:7014-1524666600-1524672000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Liu Shuguang - Cultural Heritage in China: Present and Future
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Liu Shuguang\, Deputy Administrator\, State Administration of Cultural Heritage (SACH)\, People’s Republic of China \nThis talk will focus on the distinctive features of cultural heritage in China\, the formation of Cultural Heritage Management Mechanism  with Chinese Characteristics and the existing state and challenges to Cultural Heritage Management in China. \nLiu Shuguang\, graduated from the history department at Zhengzhou University with a bachelor degree in archeology in 1982. In 1986\, he received a master’s degree in Chinese history at Peking University. After serving as an archaeologist in Luoyang\, from 1986 to 1996\, he taught ancient Chinese history\, history of Chinese archaeology\, Chinese urban history\, etc.\, at Minzu University of China and the Branch College of Peking University. \nFrom 1996 to 2010\, he worked at State Administration of Cultural Heritage (SACH). From March\, 2010\, he was president of Chinese Academy of Cultural Heritage\, and president of National Center of Underwater Cultural Heritage. Since December\, 2015\, he has been deputy administrator of SACH.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/liu-shuguang-management-of-cultural-heritage-in-china-existing-state-and-future-trend/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180425T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180425T170000
DTSTAMP:20260717T223404
CREATED:20180420T143206Z
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UID:7082-1524670200-1524675600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Victor Seow - Energy Transitions amidst Regime Change: Mining Coal in the Early People’s Republic of China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Victor Seow\, Assistant Professor\, Department of the History of Science\, Harvard University \nThe decade after the revolution of 1949 witnessed a China that was being made anew. The material transformation of society and economy that had been the goal of preceding regimes was realized to a hitherto unseen degree in the industrial edifice raised by the socialist state. This was an achievement that rested upon a bedrock of fossil fuel energy. In line with centrally directed plans\, the coal that lay in abundance in multiple regions across China was unearthed in mounting quantities\, as Chinese engineers led the excavation of new mines and the introduction of new technologies and techniques\, from the longwall system to hydraulic mining. Yet for all the effort in pushing production\, supply did not seem to be able to catch up with demand\, and by the late 1950s\, China seemed to be facing a coal shortage. Part of the problem was that of thermal inefficiency: for most industrial processes\, Chinese engines\, furnaces\, and boilers were burning more coal than their British and American counterparts. This talk examines efforts by Chinese planners to expand coal output as part of what they saw as a race to outpace capitalist countries in industrial development\, and shows that it was not so much a failure of technology but the fixation on sheer volume that led to a low quality of coal produced\, which in turn compromised the efficiency of the socialist industrial enterprise. \nSponsored by Harvard-China Project on Energy\, Economy and Environment\, Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/victor-seow-energy-transitions-amidst-regime-change-mining-coal-in-the-early-peoples-republic-of-china/
LOCATION:Pierce Hall 100F\, 29 Oxford St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180502T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180502T140000
DTSTAMP:20260717T223404
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SUMMARY:David Shambaugh - Power Shift? America and China in Southeast Asia
DESCRIPTION:Read event summary here \nSpeaker: David Shambaugh\, George Washington University \nProfessor Shambaugh is an internationally recognized authority and author on contemporary China and the international relations of Asia\, with a strong interest in the European Union and transatlantic issues. \nBefore joining the faculty at George Washington\, he held the positions of Reader in Chinese Politics at the University of London’s School of Oriental & African Studies (SOAS) and Editor of The China Quarterly. He also previously served as an analyst on the staff of the National Security Council East Asia Bureau and the Department of State’s Bureau of Intelligence & Research (1976-78). He was also a nonresident Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program at The Brookings Institution (1998-2015)\, previously directed the Asia Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (1986-87)\, served on the Board of Directors of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations (2009-2015)\, and has been elected a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies\, Council on Foreign Relations\, U.S. Asia-Pacific Council\, and other public policy and scholarly organizations. He is a recipient of research grants from the Ford Foundation\, Rockefeller Foundation\, Smith Richardson Foundation\, German Marshall Fund\, British Academy\, U.S. National Academy of Sciences\, and other philanthropic bodies. He has been appointed a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (2002-03)\, an Honorary Research Professor at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences (2008–)\, a Senior Fulbright Research Scholar at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Institute of World Economics & Politics in Beijing (2009-10)\, and Distinguished Visiting Professor at the S. Ranjaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore (2017). Professor Shambaugh has also been a visiting scholar or professor at universities in Australia\, China\, Hong Kong\, Italy\, India\, Japan\, Russia\, and Taiwan. He is also a frequent contributor to the international media\, serves on a number of editorial boards\, and has been a consultant to various governments\, research institutions\, foundations\, and private corporations. \nProfessor Shambaugh is a prolific author\, having published more than 30 books and 300 articles. \nCo-Sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-3-2018-05-02/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Critical Issues Confronting China Series,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180507T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180507T180000
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CREATED:20170831T132116Z
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SUMMARY:Amelia Ying Qin - Seeking Patterns: Close and Distant Readings of Two Collections of Tang 唐 (618-907) Dynasty Anecdotes
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Amelia Ying Qin\,  An Wang Post Doctoral Fellow\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies \nThis study takes two different approaches—close and distant readings—to the hidden patterns in two anecdote collections. The Songchuang zalu 松牕雜錄 (Miscellaneous Notes under the Pine Window) is a small Tang 唐 (618-907) collection of sixteen anecdotes that claims its accounts are both “particularly unusual” 特異 and “definitely true” 必實. Close reading reveals it to be a text containing hidden structures with an emphasis on “the unusual” as a concept bearing discursive weight for the purpose of subtle political criticism. The intertwined ideas of unusualness and truthfulness define each other and form a discourse of “the unusual” that provides an interpretive framework for the collection’s core anecdotes. These accounts\, when read closely within this framework\, point to signs that foreshadow the Tang’s decline while voicing concerns over its end and directing muted criticism at the irresponsible Tang rulers. The Tang yulin 唐語林 (Forest of Conversations on the Tang)\, on the other hand\, is a collection of over eleven hundred anecdotes about Tang historical figures\, events\, and customs compiled during the Northern Song 北宋 (960-1127). Its contents were selectively recycled from fifty or so earlier miscellanies of various sizes\, and both the content and structure of the collection suffered from a hectic textual history of loss and restoration. To examine a text of this nature and size\, this study experiments with the approach of distant reading to explore potential patterns in its content\, structure\, and selective use of source material. In juxtaposing these two texts examined with different methods\, the speaker hopes to reflect upon the mercurial and ephemeral nature of anecdotal memories of the past\, as well as the possible ways of reading and understanding such memories. \nAmelia Ying Qin graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison\, with a Ph.D. in Chinese literature (2013) from the Department of East Asian Languages and Literature and an M.A. (2010) from the School of Library and Information Studies. Prior to her study in Madison\, she also completed degrees at the University of Rhode Island and Fudan University in Shanghai\, China. Her current research interest is in the relationship and dynamics between cultural memory and historiography in Chinese anecdotal and historical narratives during the time period of 600-1300. She is also the translator of two chapters of The Grand Scribe’s Records. Her teaching interests include Chinese language of all levels\, survey of Chinese literature\, special topics in modern and classical Chinese literature\, as well as comparative topics in East Asian literature and cultures.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-humanities-seminar-2018-05-07/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:China Humanities Seminar,Events of Interest
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