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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Michael Kingston - Arctic Shipping and the Northern Sea Route, Shipping Trends, and The New Polar Code Regulations: The Concerns and Contributions of The International Insurance Industry
2019-04-30 12:00 - 13:15 | CGIS South Room S354, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Speaker: Michael Kingston, Managing Director, Michael Kingston Associates; Special Advisor, Protection of the Arctic Marine Environment (PAME) Working Group, Arctic Council
Moderator: George Soroka, Lecturer, Harvard University; Center Associate, Davis Center
More info: https://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/events/arctic-shipping-and-northern-sea-route-shipping-trends-and-new-polar-code-regulations

Wen Luo - The Application of GIS in the Historical Settlement Geography
2019-05-01 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker: Wen Luo, Deputy Director, Research Department on Cultural and Natural Resources, Tsinghua Tongheng Planning and Design Institute; Visiting Scholar, IQSS(CBDB Project), Harvard University
Light refreshments provided
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Mandopop: 40 Years of Chinese Popular Music and Culture
2019-05-02 16:00 - 18:00 | Hall D, Science Center, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
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Speakers:
GAO Xiaosong 高曉松
FANG Wenshan (Vincent Fang) 方文山
LUO Dayou (Lo Ta-yu) 羅大佑
Yin Yue 尹約
This is a ticketed event. Only ticket holders will be allowed in the auditorium.
All available tickets have been distributed.
This talk will be conducted in a mixture of English and Mandarin.

Workshop - Ocean, Island, Shore: Placing the Global Pacific in the Age of Climate Change
2019-05-08 09:00 - 17:30 | HUCE Seminar Room 440, 26 Oxford St. - Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
9:00-9:05 opening remarks by organizers
Chair: Xiaofei Gao (Fung Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University Asia Center)
9:05-9:50 John Huth (Donner Professor of Science, Department of Physics, Harvard University)
Discussant: Christina Thompson (Editor, Harvard Review, Harvard University)
9:50-10:35 John Hayashi (Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Harvard University)
Writing the History of Japanese Transoceanic Migration and Disease Prevention
Discussant: Warwick Anderson (Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser Visiting Professor of Australian Studies, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University)
COFFEE BREAK
Chair: Sugata Bose (Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs, Department of History, Harvard University)
10:50-11:35 Jonas Ruegg (Ph.D. Candidate, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University)
Mapping the Kuroshio Frontier: Japan’s Discovery of the Black Current
Discussant: Helen Rozwadowski (Director of the Maritime Studies Program and Associate Professor of History, Department of History, University of Connecticut, Avery Point)
11:35-12:20 Michaela Thompson (Preceptor of Environmental Science and Public Policy and Giorgio Ruffolo Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Sustainability Science, Kennedy School of Goverment, Harvard University)
Red Fish, Green Fish: A History of the Bristol Bay Sockeye Fishery
Discussant: Alexis Dudden (Professor of History, Department of History, University of Connecticut)
LUNCH BREAK
Chair: Stefan Huebner (SSRC Transregional Research Fellow and Visiting Scholar, Harvard University Asia Center)
1:10-1:55 Jason O. Chang (Associate Professor of History and Asian American Studies, Department of History, University of Connecticut)
The Maritime Racial Form of the Indo-Pacific: Lascar and Danjia Sailors in the Long Nineteenth Century
Discussant: Anthony D. Medrano (Ziff Environmental Fellow, Harvard University Center for the Environment)
1:55-2:40 Edward (Ted) Melillo (Associate Professor of History and Environmental Studies, Department of Environmental Studies, Amherst College)
‘Oiwi (Native) History of Kona Coffee in a Global Perspective
Discussant: Ian J. Miller (Professor of History, Department of History, Harvard University)
BREAK
Chair: Anthony D. Medrano (Ziff Environmental Fellow, Harvard University Center for the Environment)
3:00-3:45 Bathsheba Demuth (Assistant Professor of History and Environment and Society, Departments of Environmental Studies and History, Brown University)
Writing North Pacific History Through its Ecosystems: Russia, the United States, and Trophic Change
Discussant: Stefan Huebner (SSRC Transregional Research Fellow and Visiting Scholar, Harvard University Asia Center)
3:45-4:30 Wenjiao Cai (Ph.D. Candidate, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University)
At the Littoral Edge: Tideland Reclamation and Borderland Development in Late Choson Korea, 1600-1910
Discussant: Peter C. Perdue (Professor of History, Department of History, Yale University)
4:30-5:30 Closing Session
Moderators: Stefan Huebner (SSRC Transregional Research Fellow and Visiting Scholar, Harvard University Asia Center); Anthony D. Medrano (Ziff Environmental Fellow, Harvard University Center for the Environment); Jonas Ruegg (Ph.D. Candidate, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University)
This workshop is supported by: Harvard University Center for the Environment, Harvard University Asia Center, Harvard University Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, and the Pacific Circle.
For more information, visit https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/envihist/workshop-ocean-island-shore-placing-global-pacific-age-climate-change

Panel Discussion - Tiananmen at 30
2019-05-08 16:00 - 18:00 | CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010), 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
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Speakers:
Hao Jian, Professor, Beijing Film Academy
Louisa Lim, Senior Lecturer, University of Melbourne; Author, The People’s Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited
Wang Dan, Founder and Executive Director of Dialogue China
Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Chancellor’s Professor of History, University of California Irvine
Moderator:
Rowena Xiaoqing He, Current Member, Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton; Author, Tiananmen Exiles: Voices of the Struggle for Democracy in China

Transcript of Director Michael Szonyi’s Opening Remarks, May 8, 2019
Welcome to the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University. My name’s Michael Szonyi. I am the director of the Fairbank Center and it is my privilege to introduce today’s session marking 30 years since the extraordinary events of May and June of 1989.
While we have called today’s session “Tiananmen at 30,” these events occurred not just at Tiananmen Square or even just in Beijing, but in cities all over China. These events culminated, as we all know, on June 4th, 1989 in a act of military suppression that took place not only, or even primarily in the square itself, but throughout the city and beyond.
Anyone could have predicted that this year, 2019, would be a sensitive year for anniversaries in China. As Jiayang Fan wrote in The New Yorker this week, for the CCP, “certain anniversaries teeter between the emblematic and the problematic.” As things have unfolded, the year proved far more sensitive for far more anniversaries than we had anticipated. Problematic definitely outweighed emblematic.
Besides the 40th anniversary of the establishment of US-China relations, and the 40th anniversary of the Taiwan Relations Act, here at the Fairbank Center we’ve held events including a commemoration of 40 years of reform and opening up which we co-hosted and co-organized with the Unirule Institute of Economic. That event, we believe, proved to be one of the very last, if not the very last, public event for that very influential liberal think tank in China. We similarly commemorated the centenary of the May 4th Movement with a two-day conference organized by Professor David Wang. Some of you, like me, were at that conference and I think many of us who attended that conference were discouraged that, as one of our guests, Jeff Wasserstrom, pointed out in his long New York Times op-ed, a century after May 4th, a free and open discussion of that event and its significance remains impossible in China.
As with May 4th, so too June 4th. But even in a year of sensitive anniversaries, there’s something distinctive about the event we commemorate today, because of course there are no public commemorations at all of this event all in China. This is an event that can only be spoken of outside of China.
The Fairbank Center at Harvard is home for China studies in all forms, even, and in some ways especially when the topic is sensitive. We value our commitment to intellectual freedom to pursue questions and research that others might want us to avoid. It’s our responsibility to hold events such as today’s, both as an academic endeavor in the face of official suppression in China and as a mark of respect to those whose lives were taken or scarred by the events 30 years ago. The importance of our discussions on the CCP’s relationship with the Chinese citizenry is only elevated by the context of other human rights crises that are unfolding in China today, in particular the current crisis in Xinjiang, and this reinforces the importance of our persistent pursuit of truth in the face of repression.

Michael Szonyi
May 8, 2019

Conference - Interpreting Energy Dependence in Eurasia
2019-05-09 08:00 - 2019-05-11 07:59 | CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Energy dependence is the leitmotif of Eurasian political economy. The concept recurs in official speeches and is often invoked to imply a threat. The higher the level of dependence on hydrocarbon imports, especially oil and natural gas, the higher the energy security risk. This stems usually from political instability in hydrocarbon-producing countries, concerns about price volatility, the fact that some state-owned oil companies are hand-in-glove with authoritarian regimes, or increased carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels, which contribute to global warming. More than anywhere else, member states and associated member states of the International Energy Agency have sought to make sustainable development (including further development of domestic resources) and energy security a top priority. It is perceived as a means towards decreasing dependence. It turns out that the interests of consuming and producing countries are, however, more and more divergent, and finding common ground is challenging, although increasingly important.
Organizers:
Rawi Abdelal, Herbert F. Johnson Professor of International Management, Harvard Business School; Director, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Aurélie Bros, Postdoctoral Fellow, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
More information: https://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/events/interpreting-energy-dependence-eurasia
Sponsored by the Davis Center & the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs

Exhibition Reception - Calligraphy • China Gene : Ronghua Jing
2019-05-11 14:00 - 16:00 | Gutman Library, 6 Appian Way, Camrbidge, MA, 02138, United States
“One brush reveals all” is the secret of calligraphy and the key of decoding aesthetics of traditional Chinese art. This exhibition consists of ten calligraphies and ten Chinese paintings, including Chinese landscape paintings and Chinese bird paintings. The connotation of Twin Ten, 十全十美 (Ten in Whole, Ten in Beauty) implies perfection in Chinese culture. In the art of calligraphies, it tells a calligrapher’s life story, calligraphy note, and the journey of calligraphy study and practice.
Ronghua Jing selects several poetries of Tang Dynasty poets, including his favorite, Dufu (杜甫) , and shows his friendship with Reedstone. In the art of Chinese landscape paintings, Professor Jing expresses his love for nature and China, especially Changjiang River and Yellow Mountain. As an erudite history professor, he has insight on the philosophy of Yin-Yang and which he creates through brush pen.

Exhibition - Fire Dream: Zhao Meng and the Reinvention of the Clay Medium
2019-09-06 08:00 - 2019-10-31 07:59 | CGIS South, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Exploring the myriad material possibilities of clay, Zhao pushes the boundaries of the medium while reworking traditional forms. A closing reception and panel discussion will feature artists and scholars Brad Miller, Jeffrey Moser, Sun Ren, Eugene Y. Wang, and Nigel Wood.
Closing Event: Friday, October 25, 2019 | 4:00 – 6:00 PM
Room 427 | Sackler Building | 485 Broadway | Cambridge MA

Wilt L. Idema - A Second Look at the Precious Scroll of the Red Gauze (Hongluo Baojuan 紅羅寶卷): Some Considerations on the Development of the Genre
2019-09-09 16:30 - 18:30 | CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Speaker: Wilt L. Idema, Professor of Chinese Literature Emeritus, Harvard University

When the Precious Scroll of the Red Gauze was first introduced to the academic world, it was presented as the earliest work in the genre, as its edition was believed to date from the Yuan dynasty (1260-1368). By now it is acknowledged that this edition only dates from the sixteenth century. Both the contents of the story and the printing of the text, however, may well deserve a second look as they lead to intriguing questions about the origins of the genre and its early use.

Mobilities & Immobilities: Histories of Modern Migration to and in the Americas
2019-09-12 08:00 - 2019-09-13 16:00 | William James Hall, Room 1550, 33 kirkland st, cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
For complete information, visit www.migrantherstory.com.

Jeffrey Ding - Law, Technology, and China’s AI Dream
2019-09-12 12:00 - 13:00 | Room 100, Pound Hall, 1563 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Speaker: Jeffrey Ding, Researcher, Center for Governance of AI, Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxford and Creator of AI Newsletter
East Asian Legal Studies Lunchtime Talk

JFK Jr Forum - Hong Kong: The Future of One Country, Two Systems
2019-09-19 18:00 - 19:00 | JFK Jr. Forum, Harvard Kennedy School, 79 John F. Kennedy St., Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Speakers:
Tony Saich, Director, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation
Jane Perlez, Beijing Bureau Chief, The New York Times
Victoria Tin-bor, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Notre Dame

Chen Wenyi - Networks, Regions, and Knowledge in Fourteenth Century China: The Compilers of the History of the Yuan
2019-09-25 12:00 - 13:30
Speaker: Chen Wenyi, Academia Sinica
Chair: Peter Bol, Harvard University
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge
Sponsored by the Harvard-Yenching Institute
https://harvard-yenching.org/events/networks-regions-and-knowledge-fourteenth-century-china-compilers-history-yuan

Zhou Dan - Unbecoming Advocates: The Queer Career of Public Interest Lawyering in China
2019-09-26 12:00 - 13:00 | Morgan Courtroom, Austin Hall, 1515 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Speaker: Zhou Dan, L.L.M, ’16 SJD candidate

Ong Chang Woei - The Limits of “Civilization” in the Late Northern Song
2019-09-26 12:00 - 13:30 | CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Speaker: Ong Chang Woei, National University of Singapore
Wang Anshi’s New Policies included hotly debated military reforms, but little is known about how the new military system functioned in different regions. The Khara-Khoto manuscripts discovered in the early 20th century allow us to explore how military reforms transformed territorial administration in Shaanxi from their initial introduction in the 1070s into the 1120s.

Ya-Wen Lei - Publics, Scientists, and the State: Mapping the Global Human Genome Editing Controversy, 2015–2019
2019-09-27 12:00 - 13:30 | William James Hall, Room 1550, 33 kirkland st, cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
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Speaker: Ya-Wen Lei, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Harvard University

Panel Discussion - Archival and Private Collection in Modern China
2019-10-02 16:30 - 18:00 | CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Read and download the transcript of the event here.
Speakers:
Katherine Alexander, Assistant Professor of Chinese, University of Colorado at Boulder
Riley Brett-Roche, The Mellon International Dissertation Research Fellow (2018); PhD Candidate in History, Stanford University
Xiaosong Gao, Director, The Za Library; Associate at the Department of EALC, Harvard University
Michael Szonyi, Frank Wen-Hsiung Wu Memorial Professor of Chinese History; Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University
Chair and Organizer:
Xiaofei Tian, Professor of Chinese Literature, Harvard University
