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SUMMARY:Gender Studies and Performance Workshop
DESCRIPTION:9:00 – 9:15 AM: Welcome Remarks \n\n\n\n9:15 – 10:45 AM: Panel One \n\n\n\nCommentators: Waiyee Li\,  Harvard UniversityThomas Kelly\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nEugene Wang\, Harvard UniversityThe Woman Inhabiting a Dog’s Body: How Asian Theatre Evolved? \n\n\n\nWhen did Asian theatre begin—and how? I approach this question through a single\, startling image: Mulian’s mother reborn as a dog. The Mulian story—of a son descending into hell to rescue his damned mother—circulated as scripture\, transformation text\, cave mural\, Ghost Festival ritual\, and eventually full-fledged theatrical spectacle. Its remarkable transmedial persistence demands explanation. \n\n\n\nI argue that Mulian functioned as a conceptual engine for theatre’s evolution. The narrative’s internal pressures—how to render hell visible\, how to stage karmic punishment\, how to embody transformation\, how to make filial devotion sensorially overwhelming—forced successive media to innovate. Cave murals developed sequential and topographic pictorial logics; ritual performances mobilized immersive\, participatory environments; theatre devised acrobatics\, mechanical effects\, demonic choreography\, percussive soundscapes\, and startling audience infiltration. \n\n\n\nThe episode of “the woman inhabiting a dog’s body” crystallizes this engine at work: grotesque degradation and redemptive love fused into a single theatrical demand. The story did not simply migrate across media—it reconfigured them. Asian theatre\, I suggest\, emerged not as a sudden invention but as the cumulative response to a narrative that insisted the invisible be made visible\, the metaphysical made bodily\, and salvation staged before a crowd. \n\n\n\nKangni Huang\, University of Southern California\, Society of Fellows in the HumanitiesThe (After)life of a Stele: The Materiality of Writing in Jiang Shiquan’s Three Plays on Consort Lou \n\n\n\nThis paper focuses on the High Qing dramatist Jiang Shiquan’s 蔣士銓 (1725-1785) three plays on Consort Lou 婁妃\, wife of the rebellious Prince Ning\, Zhu Chenhao 朱宸濠 (d. 1520). The historical Consort Lou leaves only scarce traces in official history\, appearing primarily as a virtuous yet tragic figure whose repeated remonstrations against her husband’s rebellion went unheeded. Meanwhile\, Jiang’s theatrical portrayal of this historical figure shapes the image of Consort Lou into a reflexive voice on the issue of writing as material traces. Among the three plays by Jiang\, the first two\, Yi pian shi 一片石 (A Piece of Stone) and Di’er bei 第二碑 (The Second Stele)\, tell the rediscovery and commemoration of her burial site over the span of twenty-five years. And the last one\, Caiqiao tu 採樵圖 (The Painting of Gathering Wood)\, stages the rebellion and Lou’s virtuous actions during the turmoil. Building on recent scholarship that defines these works as “metahistorical plays\,” my analysis highlights the intricate relationship between Consort Lou’s life story as a virtuous woman and the materiality of writing. It argues that Jiang’s recurring reflection on the precariousness of material texts is deeply intertwined with the constructed image of Lou as both a female author and reader. By recentering on Lou’s authorial and readerly voice in these plays\, this study elucidates how theater not only reimagines but also reinvents gender history. \n\n\n\n10:45 – 11:00 AM: Refreshment Break \n\n\n\n11:00 AM – 1:00 PM: Panel Two \n\n\n\nCommentators: David Der-Wei Wang\, Harvard UniversityEileen Cheng-yin Chow\, Duke University \n\n\n\nNancy Rao\, Rutgers UniversityOpera Actresses in the Cantonese Sojourner Community: From Shanghai to San Francisco \n\n\n\nTaking the 1922 encounter in Shanghai between Cantonese opera actress Li Xuefang and Peking opera star Mei Lanfang as a point of departure\, this paper argues that Cantonese opera’s rising status then was a reconfiguration of cultural capital across regional and diasporic networks. By analyzing the circulation of the term “Bei-Mei-Nan-Xue” (北梅南雪) and the scholar–gentry–merchant alliances that underwrote both of their prominence\, the study demonstrates how operatic prestige was produced through urban modernity and elite patronage. The paper situates Shanghai as a mediating hub in the transpacific cultural economy that linked Cantonese opera to Chinese communities in North America. In this way\, opera actresses emerge not only as performers but as agents in the production of diasporic modernity\, negotiating gender\, regional identity\, and transpacific mobility. \n\n\n\nCatherine V. Yeh\, Boston UniversityHuashanas the Ideal Modern Women \n\n\n\nBetween 1910s and early 1920s a group of talented Peking Opera actors\, led by Mei Lanfang 梅兰芳and followed by three other great dan actors created a new female role called huashan 花衫\,or “flower-shirt.” This was remarked upon at the time by the theater world at large as the main reason for their rise in stardom. Undoubtedly\, the new huashan operas attracted large audiences in part because of the novelty of the role\, which combined the three main dan roles including the morally upright qingyi 青衣\,the coquette sexy huadan and the martial\, spirited wudan. In the huadan the audience saw a more rounded female character that seemed to fit the modern standards of realism\, while the dynamism expressed in this new role appeared to represent the spirit of the time. Yet\, in terms of ideology\, this huashan character does not pose a challenge to the Confucian image of the ideal woman. Embedded in each of the three main dan role types is an essentially Confucian view of womanhood. The real formal breakthrough that challenged the standard ideology of ideal womanhood came with the introduction of dance into Peking opera by Mei Lanfang. The re-creation of the lost Chinese dance by him and his adviser Qi Rushan transformed Peking opera aesthetics and its embedded social values. The form itself projected an alternative ideal womanhood that challenged standard gender ideals. At the same time\, Mei Lanfang and Qi Rushan legitimized the introduction of dance by making the claim that what they were doing was reclaiming a lost Chinese aesthetic heritage. The aestheticism of mei 美or beauty was this new ideology’s outer cloak. \n\n\n\nDaphne P. Lei\, University of California\, IrvineConformity as Rebellion? Convention\, Innovation\, and Gendered Interculturalism in Taiwan Jingju \n\n\n\nTraditional theatrical convention\, which made sense when it was invented in the past\, often appears dated or even ridiculous in the context of innovation or modernization. For instance\, the art of stilting (caiqiao) in jingju\, which was invented for male actors to mimic women’s bound feet during the Qing dynasty\, should have disappeared by now\, since women dominate female roles today and the modern definition of femininity goes beyond foot fetish. However\, not only do many “dated” conventions survive\, but they also work as wonderful stimuli for innovation and as a tool to negotiate conceptions of gender and interculturalism. This talk will focus on recent case studies in innovative jingju and jingju-inspired intercultural theatre in Taiwan\, such as The Tempest by Contemporary Legend Theatre. \n\n\n\n1:00 – 2:00 PM: Lunch Break \n\n\n\n2:00 – 2:15 PM: Workshop participants move to Harvard FAS CAM Lab Lower Level\, Sackler Building\, 485 Broadway\, Cambridge MA \n\n\n\n2:30 – 4:00 PM: Room — A Corporeal Dialogue Across Time (2026) \n\n\n\nJingqiu Guan\, Choreographer/Dancer\, Duke UniversityHan Qin\, Visual Design\, State University of New York at Stony BrookEthan Eldred\, Lighting Design\, Duke University \n\n\n\nRoom is a multimedia solo dance performance inspired by poems carved onto the wooden walls of the Angel Island Immigration Station\, written by Asian immigrants detained and interrogated upon their arrival in the United States between 1910 and 1940. Originally staged inside a translucent cube with four projection walls activated through motion-capture choreography\, the work is reimagined for the spatial architecture of Harvard’s CAMLab\, where four parallel screens transform the space into a layered landscape of memory\, surveillance\, and inscription.  \n\n\n\nHan Qin’s visual design\, combining charcoal drawing\, cyanotype blueprint\, and digital art derived from Guan’s original footage of Angel Island\, renders the archive as both tactile and mediated\, material and spectral. Within this constructed “room\,” the dancer\, juxtaposing the labor of birthing with the violence of immigration control\, positions her body as both witness and translator\, engaging in a cross-temporal dialogue with voices that persist through absence and erasure. Room invites us to ponder how we might listen to and touch our histories with openness and humility\, and how freedom is imagined\, constrained\, and valued.  \n\n\n\nPerformance to be immediately followed by a conversation with Jingqiu Guan and Han Qin\, moderated by Eileen Cheng-yin Chow \n\n\n\n4:00 PM: Reception \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/gender-studies-and-performance-workshop/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Gender Studies
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SUMMARY:2025 Gender Studies Workshop — The Beauty and the Book: Women\, Knowledge\, Literature\, and Book Culture in Late Imperial China and Beyond
DESCRIPTION:This year’s Gender Studies Workshop—The Beauty and the Book: Women\, Knowledge\, Literature\, and Book Culture in Late Imperial China and Beyond: A Conference in Honor of Ellen Widmer—will explore new directions in the study of writings by and about women in late imperial China and will take place on April 25\, 2025. The conference is generously sponsored by the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation\, Wellesley College\, Fairbank Center (Harvard University)\, and Asia Center (Harvard University). It will have four panels: 1. Uncovering the Hidden; 2. New Perspectives on Gender Roles and Gender Boundaries; 3. Gender and Knowledge; 4. Modern\, Post-modern\, Diasporic\, and Transnational Reverberations. \n\n\n\nPanel 1\, Uncovering the Hidden (9:00a.m.-10:30a.m.)Chair and Moderator: Elizabeth J. Perry\, Harvard UniversityDiscussant: Dorothy Ko\, Barnard College \n\n\n\nEllen Widmer\, Wellesley College — Mingyuan shiwei\, Zhang Hao\, and Wang Duanshu’s Editorial HandWu Hung\, University of Chicago — What is She Reading? A Closer Look at Some ‘Beautiful Women’ Paintings from Late Imperial ChinaGrace Fong\, McGill University — A Significant Year: Zong Wan’s Diary of My Sojourn in Baoding\, 1877Shengqing Wu\, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology — Embodying ‘Pure Love’: Tactility and Female Subjectivity in Republican Literature \n\n\n\nPanel Two: New Perspectives on Gender Roles and Gender Boundaries (10:45a.m.-12:15p.m.)Chair and Moderator: Robin Yates\, McGill UniversityDiscussant: Sophie Volpp\, UC BerkeleyJudith Zeitlin\, University of Chicago — The Gender of the Operatic Voice from Li Yu (1611-1680) to Xu Dachun (1693-1771)Wai-yee Li\, Harvard University — The Pleasure of Refusal: New Perspectives on Desire in Chen Duansheng’s (1751-1796) Love in Two Lives (Zaisheng yuan)Maram Epstein\, University of Oregon — How Conservative is Hou Zhi (ca. 1768-1830)?Rania Huntington\, University of Wisconsin Madison — A Laughing Flower’s Guide to the Party: Knowledge\, Pleasure\, and Pattern in Jinghua yuan (Flowers in the Mirror) \n\n\n\nLunch Break (12:15-1:30p.m.)\, Common Room\, 2 Divinity Avenue \n\n\n\nPanel Three: Gender and Knowledge (1:30-3p.m.)Chair and Moderator: Catherine Yeh\, Boston UniversityDiscussant: Cynthia Brokaw\, Brown University \n\n\n\nHuan Jin\, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology — Gender Dynamics in Late Imperial Letter-Writing ManualsXu Man\, Tufts University — The Precious Mirror for Womanly Virtue (Kunde baojian): A Daily-Use Encyclopedia for Women in High Qing ChinaSuyoung Son\, Cornell University — Female Authorship for Technical WritingJoan Judge\, York University — Women as Vernacular Knowers in China’s Long Republic (1894-1954): What We Can Learn from Cheap Print \n\n\n\nPanel Four: Modern\, Post-modern\, Diasporic\, and Transnational Reverberations (3:15p.m.-4:45p.m.)Chair and Moderator: David Wang\, Harvard UniversityDiscussant: Eileen Chow\, Duke University \n\n\n\nHyaeweol Choi\, University of Iowa — Christian Networks and Gender Norms in Colonial Korea from a Transnational PerspectiveEmma Teng\, MIT — Cooking and Gender/Cooking and Genre: Grace Zia Chu (1899–1999)Paize Keulemans\, Princeton University — The Poisonous Touch: Haptic Modes of Reading and Playing in Jin Ping Mei in the Late Ming and Early Twenty-first CenturyMingwei Song\, Wellesley College — The Rise of She-SF: Chinese SF’s Next WaveReception (5p.m.-6p.m.)\, Common Room\, 2 Divinity Avenue \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/2025-gender-studies-workshop-the-beauty-and-the-book-women-knowledge-literature-and-book-culture-in-late-imperial-china-and-beyond/
LOCATION:Yenching Auditorium\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Gender Studies
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SUMMARY:2024 Gender Studies Workshop - The Chinese Family Romance
DESCRIPTION:9:10 AM: Introductory remarks  \n\n\n\n9:15 AM: Literature Panel \n\n\n\nTina Lu\, Yale University – “The Family Romance\, Chuanqi\, and What Can’t Be Said” \n\n\n\nMaria Sibau\, Emory University – “Inventing Mothers in Late Imperial Literature” \n\n\n\nDiscussants:Thomas Kelly\, Harvard UniversityWai-yee Li\, Harvard University \n\n\n\n11:00 AM: Break \n\n\n\n11:15 AM: Presentations on the Chinese Family Romance by students of Eileen Chow\, Duke University \n\n\n\nPresenters: Yueqi Cheng\, Karen He\, Lujia Li\, Tina Tianyi Liu\, Xiaodan Wang\, Kenan Gu\, and Chenyi Huang \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n12:15 PM: Break \n\n\n\n1:30 PM: History Panel \n\n\n\nMatthew Sommer\, Stanford University – “Chosen Kinship\, Unorthodox Sexual Relationships\, and Alternative Family Formations in Qing Dynasty China” \n\n\n\nClara Ho\, Hong Kong Baptist University – “Is Forty a Turning Point in the Aging Process? Not Necessarily for Women in Qing China”Discussants:Tobie Meyer-Fong\, Johns Hopkins UniversityLi Yunxin\, Simmons University \n\n\n\n3:15 PM: Close of WorkshopConference Organizers:Catherine Yeh\, Boston UniversityXu Man\, Tufts University \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/2024-gender-studies-workshop-family-romance-in-late-imperial-china/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Gender Studies
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SUMMARY:Gender Studies Workshop: Gender\, Family\, and Law
DESCRIPTION:Gender\, Gender\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers:Bettine Birge\, Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures\, University of Southern CaliforniaYing Zhang\, Associate Professor and Director of the Institute for Chinese Studies\, The Ohio State UniversityMara Yue Du\, Assistant Professor and Himan Brown Faculty Fellow\, Cornell UniveristyXiaoping Cong\, Professor of History\, University of HoustonModerator:Michael Szonyi\, Frank Wen-Hsiung Wu Memorial Professor of Chinese History and Director\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard UniversityOrganizers:Man Xu\, Associate Professor of History\, Tufts UniversityWai-yee Li\, 1879 Professor of Chinese Literature\, Harvard UniversityCatherine Vance Yeh\, Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature\, Boston UniversityEileen Chow\, Associate Professor of the Practice of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies\, Duke University \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbstracts: \n\n\n\nConflict and Accommodation: Confucian family values and legal practice under the Mongol-Yuan (1260-1368)Bettine Birge\, University of Southern California \n\n\n\nFeminist history has long established that gender relations are inherently unstable\, always contested\, and constantly changing. By contrast\, the purported basis of the traditional Chinese legal system\, from at least the Tang on\, was a system of ethical relations and gender privilege\, which its Confucian architects claimed was natural and unchanging\, in accord with the constant Way of Heaven. Challenges to and changes in the gender system happened in every period of Chinese history\, but during the Mongol-Yuan dynasty\, these were particularly salient.  \n\n\n\n            The Mongol conquest and occupation of China presented a major challenge to Confucian ideas of gender relations and moreover created a system of legal pluralism that was incompatible with Confucian ideas of law based on timeless values. Despite the exhortations of Chinese advisors and several attempts\, no Yuan emperor ever issued a formal law code. This left local judges without clear laws to follow\, which resulted in various forms of accommodation\, often at odds with traditional legal codes and Confucian dictates of gender hierarchy.  \n\n\n\n            In my paper\, I will look at judicial practice under the Mongols to investigate how this fundamental dilemma played itself out in different settings. I will explore the varied ramifications of this process as seen in the adjudication of disputes over issues such as prenuptial contracts\, uxorilocal marriage\, and personal autonomy. We find that amidst considerable instability and ferment\, new ideas and accommodations emerged\, and new forms of gender privilege were established\, some of which endured past the Yuan dynasty.   \n\n\n\nTaking Women Seriously\, Taking Legal History SeriouslyYing Zhang\, Ohio State University \n\n\n\nThis paper examines the public actions taken by women in response to the imprisonment of officials in the Ming Dynasty. I argue that studying officials’ jail time accurately\, as part of the regular investigative procedure rather than merely a form of political punishment\, sheds new light on the legal agency of women in Ming officials’ households. Women’s legal agency\, in turn\, reveals some interesting pattern in the practice of Ming administrative law. “Taking women seriously” allows us to read traditional moral-political narratives as important legal history sources. With a few case studies\, I also raise questions about the conventional understanding of “private women” in elite households. \n\n\n\nRelational Power and the Logic of Inter-Personal Relations in Late Imperial Chinese LawMara Yue Du\, Cornell Univeristy \n\n\n\nThis article provides a theoretical reflection on the logic through which ritually defined family relationships dictated legal regulation of people’s behavior in late imperial China. When discussing the intertwining of family and traditional Chinese law\, existing scholarship mainly focuses on a person’s status in the kinship as defined by differential legal treatment of people of different genders and generations. This study instead highlights how the bond one actor had\, or did not have\, relative to another determined the allocation of responsibility and power between them\, the nature and cause of actions\, as well as punishment of offenses in any given circumstance. The relative relational power between two parties involved in a legal case was legally more important than a person’s status in his/her household. This article starts from a discussion of the distinction between unbreachable relationships established through blood ties and conditional relationships established through marriage or adoption. It then moves on to a comparison of three principles that defined Chinese family hierarchies—generation\, age\, and gender—with the former two prioritized over the third one except in marital/sexual relationships. The complex legal assessment of senior women’s agency and criminal liability is then explored\, enabling us to revisit such concepts as women’s “trice following” of men and to revise theoretical frameworks on Chinese family history which was fixated on women’s relative status to men.  \n\n\n\nLaw and Women’s Liberation in Revolutionary ChinaXiaoping Cong\, University of Houston \n\n\n\nThis paper investigates a critical aspect in the Chinese revolution which is the role of law and legal practice in the realization of women’s liberation. The author demonstrates how the revolutionary legislature concretized the idea of women’s liberation and women’s rights in both law terms and legal practice. The paper focuses on the marriage reform in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region where in the 1940s the revolutionary government and legislatures not only actively pushed the promulgation of the Marriage Regulations\, but also sought an effective solution for improving women’s lives and position in family and society. In the legal practice\, the court established “self-determined marriage” as new principle for marriage reform. Based on this principle the court granted women individual legal personalhood and recognized a woman’s choice in legal adjudication. This practice subverted a long-term tradition in China which saw marriage as a family practice rather than an individual’s matter. Through revision of legal terms\, the court further restrained patriarchal power\, which was defined “the third party” in marriage and had no right to intervene women’s marriage. It was this revolutionary practice that helped a woman to distinct her interest from that of her parents and her family\, thus gradually liberated women from the domination of patriarchal family. Furthermore\, the judges also developed a series of special investigation strategy and court technics that helped women to express their wills and secured their rights in self-determined marriage. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/gender-studies-workshop-gender-family-and-law/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Gender Studies
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SUMMARY:Fairbank Center Panel Discussion - Transnational Aging in the Chinese Diaspora
DESCRIPTION:  \n \n \nPanel Participants:Sara L. Friedman\, Professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies\, Indiana UniversityRussell King\, Professor of Geography\, University of SussexSarah Lamb\, Barbara Mandel Professor of Humanistic Social Sciences and Professor of Anthropology\, Brandeis UniversityAndrea Louie\, Professor of Anthropology\, Michigan State UniversityNicole Newendorp\, Associate Director and Lecturer\, Social Studies\, Harvard UniversityKen Chih-Yan Sun\, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Criminology\, Villanova University \nNearly 4.3 million immigrants in the United States are age sixty-five and over. Research predicts that the number of nonwhite elderly immigrants will continue to grow\, doubling to 36 percent of the senior population by 2050. Although the Covid-19 pandemic has changed the lives of older migrants\, the familial and social networks in which they are embedded remain in place and can translate into important protective resources. At the same time\, Chinese societies – e.g.\, mainland China\, Taiwan\, and Hong Kong – have experienced rapid and large-scale social and cultural transformation over the past few decades\, resulting in complex feelings and competing perspectives by older migrants on their homeland(s). In this workshop\, six scholars in the fields of migration\, aging\, and Chinese studies grapple with the new frontier of studies on migration and life transition by focusing on two recent ethnographies about transnational aging in the Chinese diaspora. One highlights Chinese immigrants who relocate to the US at a later life stage; the other examines long-term Taiwanese immigrants who spent decades navigating life in American society and transnationally. Through our conversation\, we seek to collaboratively rethink major issues and the understudied dimensions of aging and migration. \n\n\nTranscript: Download Transcript
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/fairbank-center-panel-discussion-transnational-aging-in-the-chinese-diaspora/
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CATEGORIES:Gender Studies,Special Event
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SUMMARY:Gender Studies Workshop - Acting the Part: Gender and Performance Onstage
DESCRIPTION:Presented via Zoom WebinarRegistration RequiredRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_LZDsfUQ1Rwm2YW8IYxGS-A \nGender as a form of performance is nowhere more clearly articulated than on the theater stage (and in opera-based films). On stage\, the male and female characters are enacted by artistic mimesis based on a set of assumptions about what constitutes maleness and the femaleness. Theater is also a great unifying force in standardizing these notions and it offers stage characters larger than life-size power to influence the audience. In turn\, gender is not only a form of social performance\, but through theater\, the artistic form embodying the normative ideals of gender roles become formalized. This is true both in terms of acting technique and the social values contained within the system of gestures. This is especially evident in the role of the female or male impersonators in opera performances in whose art the ideal form is essentialized. However\, gender ideals and stereotypes vary with time and place. At the same time\, these “essences” also change over time\, and theater is the ideal platform to challenge the inherited conventions\, while often reaffirming their underlying values. True to the spirit of theater\, its license of playfulness also gives it a subversive potential. The issue of gender performance is likewise tightly linked to identity. The performance of gender roles on the theater stage of Chinese diaspora communities\, for example\, also engages with the issue of gender in the context of race and Asian identity. \nThis workshop explores the issues of performing gender identity on stage. Topics may include: gender impersonation – fanchuan 反串; actor training in genderized roles; subversion of gender norms on stage; gender performance\, identity and ideology in times of national upheaval\, migration and social change. \nParticipants:Hsu Pei Hung 許培鴻\, documentarian/cinematographerEileen Cheng-yin Chow\, Duke UniversityXing Fan\, University of TorontoXu\, Peng\, University of Hawai’iTed Hui\, Harvard UniversityMatthew Sommer\, Stanford UniversityCatherine Yeh\, Boston UniversityEmily Wilcox\, William & Mary \nCommentators:Wai-Yee Li\, Professor Chinese Literature\, Harvard UniversityEllen Widmer\, Mayling Soong Professor of Chinese Studies\, Professor of East Asian Studies\, Wellesley CollegeThomas P. Kelly\, Assistant Professor\, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University \nAGENDA (All Times EDT) \nUPDATED AND FINAL SCHEDULE \nFriday April 23 [all times listed are EDT] \nPANEL 19:00-9:10 AMWelcoming address by Eileen Cheng-yin Chow (Duke University) and Catherine Yeh (Boston University) \n9:10-9:50AM Documenting Peony: a conversation and visual presentation with \nphotographer/ filmmaker Hsu Pei Hung 許培鴻 and Eileen Cheng-yin Chow \n[10-minute break] \nPANEL 2  \n10:00-10:15AM Xing Fan (University of Toronto): “Beyond Filling Female Blanks: In Search of Theoretical Frameworks for Gender Representation in Asian Theatre Historiography” \n10:15-10:30AM Discussant Tom Kelly (Harvard University) \n10:30-10:45AM Discussion on source materials and paper \n[15-minute break] \n11:00-11:15AM Peng Xu (University of Hawai’i): “Little Kitten Opera”: The Female Performance of Masculinity on the Public Stage in Shanghai\, 1890s–1910s \n11:15-11:30AM Discussant Tom Kelly (Harvard University) \n11:30-11:45AM Discussion on source materials and paper \n[1-hour lunch break – we will reconvene at 12:45PM] \n PANEL 3 \n12:45-1:00PM Ming Tak Ted Hui (University of Oxford): “The Political Implications of Crossdressing Before the Fall of the Ming” \n1:00-1:15PM Discussant Ellen Widmer (Wellesley College) \n1:15-1:30 Discussion on source materials and paper \n[15-minute break] \n1:45-2:00PM Matthew Sommer (Stanford University): “The Persecution of M-F Crossing in Qing Dynasty China” (Stanford University) \n2:00-2:15PM Discussant Ellen Widmer (Wellesley College) \n2:15-2:30PM Discussion on source materials and paper \n[mid-afternoon 30-minute coffee break – we will reconvene at 3pm] \nPANEL 4 \n3:00-3:15PM Catherine Yeh (Boston University): Unveiling the Orchid Hand: Mei Lanfang’s Art of Female Impersonator and the Redefinition of Gender in Peking Opera \n3:15-3:30PM Discussant Wai-Yee Li (Harvard University) \n3:30-3:45PM Discussion on source materials and paper \n[15-minute break] \n4pm-4:15PM Emily Wilcox (William & Mary): “Ethnic Presence and Ethnic Absence: Qemberxanim’s Bodily Discourse and the Making of Female ‘Uyghur Dance’ in China” \n4:15Pm-4:30PM Discussant Wai-Yee Li (Harvard University) \n4:30pm-4:45PM Discussion on source materials and paper \n4:45-5:30PM General discussion and concluding remarks
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/gender-studies-workshop-gender-and-performance-onstage/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Gender Studies
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SUMMARY:*** POSTPONED *** Gender Studies Workshop: Gender and Performance
DESCRIPTION:THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED \nParticipants:\nXu\, Peng\, Swarthmore College\nMegan Ammirati\, University of California Davis\nEmily Wilcox\, University of Michigan\nEileen Cheng-yin Chow\,  Duke University\nCatherine Yeh\, Boston University\nMatthew Sommer\, Stanford University\nDavid Wang\,  Harvard University\nClaire Conceison\, Massachusetts Institute of Technology\nTed Hui\, Harvard University \nCommentator: Wai-Yee Li\, Harvard University
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/gender-studies-workshop-gender-and-performance/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Gender Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190426T124500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190426T173000
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SUMMARY:2019 Gender Studies Workshop: Images\, Objects\, and Gender in China
DESCRIPTION:12:45-1 p.m.    Welcoming remarks \nFirst Panel \nModerator:     Catherine Vance Yeh \n1-1:30p.m.       Jeehee Hong\,  “ ‘Gender’ and Affect in Song Faces” \n1:30-2p.m.       Mao Wen-Fang\,  “The Object and the Beauty in Painting: the Metaphorical Viewing and Lyrical Interpretations of Portrait Texts in the Modes of ‘San hao三好’ (three good things) and ‘Lang yu li郎與麗’ (gentleman and beauty) of Ming-Qing Times” \n2-2:30p.m.       Daisy Yiyou Wang\, “Portraying Chinese Women: Gender and Ethnicity in Nineteenth-Century Photography” \n2:30-3p.m.       Discussion \n3-3:30p.m.       Break \n\nSecond Panel \nModerator:     Wai-yee Li \n3:30-4p.m.       Man Xu\, “ Sedan Chairs\, Carriages\, and Veils: Women’s Use of Vehicles in the Song Dynasty” \n4-4:30p.m.       Judith T. Zeitlin\, “Pipa vs Qin: Contesting the Gender of Musical Instruments in Seventeenth-Century China” \n4:30-5p.m.       Yulian Wu\, “Jade Thumb Ring: Object\, Skill\, and Manchu Masculinity in Eighteenth-Century China” \n5-5:30p.m.       Discussion
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/2019-gender-studies-workshop-gender-and-material-culture/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Gender Studies
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SUMMARY:Gender Studies Workshop: Gender and Friendship in China
DESCRIPTION:12:45-1 p.m.   Welcoming remarks \nFirst Panel \nModerator:     Wai-yee Li\, Harvard University \n1-1:30p.m.      Zhou Yiqun\, Stanford University: “Hermits and Their Wives in Early Chinese Texts” \n1:30-2p.m.      Hu Ying\, University of California Irvine: “Strange Friends: Reconceptualizing Gender and Community” \n2-2:30p.m.      Ellen Widmer\, Wellesley College: “Intercultural Mutuality: Mary Hannah Fulton (1854-1927) and Zhang Jujun (1879-1964)” \n2:30-3p.m.      Discussion \n3-3:30p.m.      Break \nSecond Panel \nModerator:     Xu Man\, Tufts University \n3:30-4p.m.      Haiyan Lee\, Stanford University: “‘Now We Have a Baby’: A Very Short Genealogy of the Pure Relationship in Chinese Literature” \n4-4:30p.m.      Catherine Vance Yeh\, Boston University: “Friendship in the Staging of a Star: Mei Lanfang” \n4:30-5p.m.      Eileen Chow\, Duke University: “‘有沒有愛？’：Tongren Culture\, Fandom and ‘Benefits with Friendship’” \n5-5:30p.m.      Discussion
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/gender-studies-workshop-gender-and-friendship-in-china/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S354\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Gender Studies
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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:MA
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest,Gender Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170509T120000
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SUMMARY:Living on the Edge: Korean Brothels in Colonial Taiwan
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Jin Jungwon\, Associate Research Fellow\, Institute of Taiwan History\, Academia Sinica; HYI Visiting Scholar\nChair/Discussant: Elizabeth Remick\, Associate Professor\, Department of Political Science\, Tufts University\n\nHarvard-Yenching Institute lunch talk\, co-sponsored with the Korea Institute \nDespite its wide practice\, the sex trade and sex industry in Taiwan and Korea had never been put under governmental control before Japanese colonial rule. In the early stages of colonization\, the Japanese colonizers imposed their own laws and regulations on the two newly acquired colonies of Taiwan and Korea. Legislation stipulated that brothels and prostitutes had to be registered\, and prostitutes had to undergo regular checks for sexually transmitted diseases. \nPrevious studies on the history of colonial Korea have widely agreed that the traditional practices of the sex industry in Chosŏn Korea underwent significant changes during Japanese rule. However\, the issue of how state-regulated prostitution policies influenced Taiwanese society and shaped its sex industries requires further discussion. \nIn an attempt to understand how the Japanese state-regulated prostitution system was implemented in colonial Taiwan\, this talk focuses particularly on the emergence and spread of Korean prostitutes and brothels across Taiwan from the 1920’s onwards. By exploring the process of one-way migration of Korean prostitutes to Taiwan\, the talk seeks to bring to light the different survival strategies of Korean brothel operators in Taiwan and Korea\, and to offer new insights on the unique traits of the Taiwanese sex-trade market compared to Korea. \nhttps://harvard-yenching.org/events/living-edge-korean-brothels-colonial-taiwan
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/living-on-the-edge-korean-brothels-in-colonial-taiwan/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest,Gender Studies,Taiwan Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170320T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170320T180000
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CREATED:20161024T144819Z
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SUMMARY:China Humanities Seminar: Perceptions of China's Sexual Economy
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Harriet Zurndorfer \nAbstract: This lecture focuses on men and women engaged in China’s sexual economy\, which is dominated by the exchange between wealthy and politically influential men and unmarried young women who trade their femininity and sexuality for material wealth and financial security from these men. Drawing on analyses of the popular 2009 television serial\, Woju (Dwelling Narrowness)\, coupled with recent ethnographic studies\, the lecture aims to demonstrate how this sexual economy thrives in the increasingly competitive and commercial urban landscape of present-day China. It will also attempt to view gender dynamics within the context of the socioeconomic changes during the past three decades and to investigate how gender inequality became assimilated into both official and popular discourses of Chinese life\, thereby facilitating the ascendancy and power of the sexual economy. \nHarriet Zurndorfer is affiliated with the Leiden Institute for Area Studies in the Faculty of Humanities\, Leiden University where she has worked since 1978. She is the author of Change and Continuity in Chinese History: The Development of Hui-chou Prefecture 800 to 1800 (Brill\, 1989)\, China Bibliography: A Research Guide to Reference Works about China Past and Present (Brill\, 1995; paperback edition\, University of Hawaii Press\, 1999)\, and editor of the compilation Chinese Women in the Imperial Past: New Perspectives (Brill\,1999). She has also published more than 200 scholarly articles and reviews. She is the founder and editor-in-chief of the journal Nan Nü: Men\, Women and Gender in China\, issued since 1999. Currently\, she is serving as one of the editors to the four-volume Cambridge World History of Violence\, and is a contributor to the Cambridge Economic History of China.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/harriet-zurndorfer-lecture/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:China Humanities Seminar,Gender Studies
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161015T170000
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SUMMARY:Sinophone Studies: New Directions
DESCRIPTION:Listen again: \n \n \n“Sinophone” is arguably one of the most provocative concepts of world literary studies since the turn of the new millennium. In 2007\, we held the Yale-Harvard joint international conference “Globalizing Modern Chinese Literature: Sinophone and Diasporic Writings\,” examining an array of issues ranging from diaspora to multicultural articulations. Since then\, waves of scholarship have grappled with Sinophone Studies\, its spatiotemporal boundaries\, its methodological feasibility\, and above all\, its geopolitical and geopoetic implications. With the conference Sinophone Studies: New Directions\, we seek to provide a new forum in which scholars and students from different disciplines can evaluate outcomes of prior research\, define new topics\, raise concerns\, and most importantly\, offer innovative ideas and approaches. \nThe conference focuses on the following four themes: \n• Site and Sight: locality\, landscape\, topos\n• Sound and Script: multilingualism\, linguistic and graphic mediality\n• Roots and Routes: heritage in motion\, secondary and tertiary diasporas\, global mobility\n• History and Potentiality: post-loyalism\, governance\, resistance politics \nDownload the conference schedule here: sinophone-studies-schedule \nDownload speaker abstracts here: sinophone-studies-abstracts \n  \nOrganizers: \nJing TSU\, Professor of Modern Chinese Literature and Culture and Comparative Literature\, Yale University \nDavid Der-wei WANG\, Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature\, Harvard University \n  \nKeynote speakers: \nShu-mei SHIH\, Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature\, University of California\, Los Angeles \nNG Kim Chew\, Chinese Malaysian writer and Professor of Chinese Literature\, National Chi Nan University\, Taiwan \n  \nSponsors: \nCouncil on East Asian Studies\, Yale University \nFairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard University \nChiang Ching-kuo Foundation \nHarvard-Yenching Institute \nDepartment of East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University \n  \nPresenters: \nRosa Vieira de ALMEIDA\, Ph.D. candidate\, East Asian Languages and Literatures\, Yale University \nAndrea BACHNER\, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature\, Cornell University \nBrian BERNARDS\, Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures\, University of Southern California \nCheow Thia CHAN\, Postdoctoral Fellow\, Department of Chinese Studies\, National University of Singapore \nHoward CHIANG\, Assistant Professor of History\, University of Waterloo \nStephen Y.W. CHU\, Professor of School of Modern Languages and Cultures\, University of Hong Kong \nChih-Wei CHUNG\, Hou Family Fellow\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard University \nGe Fei\, writer; Professor of Chinese Literature\, Tsinghua University\, P. R. China \nAlison GROPPE\, Associate Professor of Chinese Literature\, University of Oregon \nSatoru HASHIMOTO\, Assistant Professor of Chinese\, University of Maryland \nYu-ting HUANG\, Mellon-Keiter Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor of English\, Amherst College \nKIM Hye-joon\, Professor of Chinese\, Pusan National University \nHa Jin\, Writer\, Boston University \nHenning KLÖTER\, Professor of Modern Chinese Languages and LIteratures\, Humboldt University of Berlin \nKO Chia-cian\, Associate Professor of Chinese Literature\, National Taiwan University \nYu-lin LEE\, Professor\, National Chung Hsing University \nLO Yi-chin\, writer\, Taiwan \nXiaolu MA\, Ph.D. candidate\, Comparative Literature\, Harvard University \nFederica PASSI\, Associate Professor\, Ca’ Foscari University Venice \nCarlos ROJAS\, Professor of Chinese Cultural Studies; Gender\, Sexuality and Feminist Studies; and Arts of the Moving Image\, Duke University \nMarten Soderblom SAARELA\, Postdoctoral Fellow\, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science \nFlora SHAO\, Ph.D. candidate\, East Asian Languages and Literatures\, Yale University \nShu Ching SHIH\, writer\, Taiwan \nKyle SHERNUK\, Ph.D. candidate\, East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University \nDylan SUHER\, Ph.D. candidate\, East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University \nE. K. TAN\, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies\, Stony Brook University \nLi Wen Jessica TAN\, Ph.D. candidate\, East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University \nKaren L. THORNBER\, Professor of Comparative Literature and of East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University \nTSAI I-Ni\, Assistant Professor\, Graduate Program of Teaching Chinese as Second Language\, National Taiwan University \nSebastian VEG\, Research Professor\, Ecole des Hautes études en sciences sociales\, Paris \nAlvin K. WONG\, Assistant Professor of Chinese Literature and Film\, Yonsei University \nNicholas Y. H. WONG\, Ph.D. candidate\, Comparative Literature\, University of Chicago \nWOO Kamloon\, publisher\, Taiwan \nMiya Qiong XIE\, Ph.D. candidate\, Comparative Literature\, Harvard University \nYING Lei\, Ph.D. candidate\, East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/sinophone-studies-new-directions/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, CGIS South\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conference and Workshops,Gender Studies,Taiwan Studies
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SUMMARY:60th Anniversary Symposium
DESCRIPTION:Listen again to the panels from our 60th Anniversary Symposium:  \n \nWatch again on YouTube (note\, some panels are audio only): \n \nEvent Description \nJoin us for a two-day academic symposium celebrating sixty years of the Fairbank Center’s world-leading research on China and East Asia. \nBy taking a critical look at the prevailing trends in Chinese Studies over the past six decades\, this symposium aims to not only reflect on our Center’s history\, but also discuss how the field will evolve in the future. \nFeaturing panels on key issues confronting China and Chinese Studies in 2016\, the symposium’s cross-disciplinary approach represents the very core of the Fairbank Center’s founding mission: to advance scholarship in all fields of Chinese studies at Harvard. \nFriday\, October 7 \n  \nOpening Remarks \n8:30am \nMichael Szonyi | Director\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Professor of Chinese History \n  \n8:45am \nPanel 1: Politics  \nChair: William Kirby | T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies; Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration \nJoseph Fewsmith | Professor of International Relations and Political Science\, Boston University; Fairbank Center Associate \nRoderick MacFarquhar | Leroy B. Williams Research Professor of History and Political Science \nYuhua Wang | Assistant Professor of Government \n  \n10:30am \nPanel 2: China’s Society \nChair: Ya-wen Lei | Assistant Professor of Sociology \nXiang Zhou | Assistant Professor of Government \nDeborah Davis | Professor of Sociology\, Yale University \nYun Zhou | PhD Candidate\, Department of Sociology \n  \nPanel 3: Politics and the Use of History in China Today \nChair: Mark Elliott | Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History; Vice-Provost for International Affairs \nRowan Flad | John E. Hudson Professor of Archaeology \nJing Tsu | Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures and Comparative Literature\, Yale University \nRudolf Wagner | Senior Professor\, Heidelberg University; Fairbank Center Associate \n  \n1:45pm \nPanel 4: China’s Tibetan and Uighur Nationalities \nChair: Leonard van der Kuijp | Professor of Tibetan and Himalayan Studies \nWeirong Shen | Professor\, Renmin University of China \nBrenton Sullivan | Assistant Professor of Religion\, Colgate University \nRyosuke Kobayashi | Research Fellow\, Toyo Bunko; Visiting Scholar\, Harvard-Yenching Institute \nRian Thum | Assistant Professor of History\, Loyola University \n  \nPanel 5: Economy \nChair: Dwight Perkins | Harold Hitchings Burbank Research Professor of Political Economy\, Emeritus \nRichard Cooper | Maurits C. Boas Professor of International Economics \nDale Jorgenson | Samuel W. Morris University Professor\, Harvard University \nEdward Steinfeld | Howard Swearer Director\, Thomas J. Watson Jr. Institute for International & Public Affairs; Professor of Political Science\, Brown University \n  \n3:30pm \nPanel 6: U.S.-China Relations \nChair: Alastair Iain Johnston | Governor James Albert Noe and Linda Noe Laine Professor of China in World Affairs \nM. Taylor Fravel | Associate Professor of Political Science\, Massachusetts Institute of Technology \nSteven Goldstein | Sophia Smith Professor Emeritus of Government\, Smith College\, Emeritus; Fairbank Center Associate \nKelly Sims Gallagher | Professor of Energy and Environmental Policy\, The Fletcher School\, Tufts University \nRyan Hass | Director for China\, Taiwan\, and Mongolia Affairs\, National Security Council\, The White House \n  \n5:00pm \nReception for the opening of a new exhibition\, featuring paintings by Wilma Fairbank and Marian Schlesinger\, and photography by Sidney Gamble. \n  \n\n  \nSaturday\, October 8 \n10:00am \nPanel 7: Culture  \nChair: Xiaofei Tian | Professor of Chinese Literature \nWai-yee Li | Professor of Chinese Literature \nStephen Owen | James Bryant Conant University Professor \nDavid Wang | Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature \nEugene Wang | Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art \nEllen Widmer | Mayling Soong Professor of Chinese Studies\, Wellesley College; Fairbank Center Associate \n  \nPanel 8: Global Health\, Global Care for the Elderly and Cross-Cultural Comparisons \nChair: Arthur Kleinman | Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology; Professor of Medical Anthropology in Social Medicine; Professor of Psychiatry \nWinnie Yip |  Professor of Global Health Policy and Economics\, T.H. Chan School of Public Health \nPrerna Singh | Mahatma Gandhi Assistant Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs\, Brown University \n  \n11:45am \nPanel 9: China’s Environmental Issues – Historical and Contemporary Perspectives  \nChair: Arunabh Ghosh | Assistant Professor of History \nLing Zhang | Assistant Professor\, History Department\, Boston College \nBrian Lander | Environmental Fellow\, Harvard University Center for the Environment \nElizabeth Lord | Department of Geography and Planning\, University of Toronto \nMichael McElroy | Gilbert Butler Professor of Environmental Studies \n  \n2:30pm \nPanel 10: Former Directors’ Panel \nChair: Michael Szonyi | Director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies; Professor of Chinese History \nMark Elliott | Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History; Vice-Provost for International Affairs \nEzra Vogel | Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences\, Emeritus \nWilt Idema | Professor of Chinese Literature\, Emeritus \nRoderick MacFarquhar | Leroy B. Williams Research Professor of History and Political Science \n 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/60th-anniversary-symposium/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, CGIS South\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conference and Workshops,Environment,Events of Interest,Exhibitions,Gender Studies,Taiwan Studies
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