BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies - ECPv6.15.12.2//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-WR-CALNAME:Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H
X-Robots-Tag:noindex
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:America/New_York
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20220313T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20221106T060000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20230312T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20231105T060000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20240310T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20241103T060000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230919T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230919T173000
DTSTAMP:20260503T213403
CREATED:20230830T150934Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250130T155053Z
UID:33610-1695139200-1695144600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Modern China Lecture Series Featuring Jennifer Altehenger - When Folding Chairs Became Bestsellers: The Revolutionary Roots of China’s Furniture Exports
DESCRIPTION:Register for hybrid zoom attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Jennifer Altehenger\, Jessica Rawson Fellow in Modern Asian History\, Associate Professor of Chinese History\, Merton College\, Oxford \n\n\n\nThe People’s Republic of China is one of the world’s leading furniture producers\, and international media frequently report on its furniture exports. Descriptions of how goods from China came to furnish homes and workplaces across the world tend to start with the economic reforms of the 1980s. When they take a longer historical view\, they often gloss over the Mao era (1949-ca. 1976). This gap severs furniture exports from their revolutionary contexts and legacies. After 1949\, Chinese factories shipped wardrobes\, chairs\, cupboards\, tables\, and other items to the Soviet Union\, Australia\, Eastern and Western Europe\, the Middle East\, and many parts of Asia including Hong Kong. Most of the factories that produced export furniture after 1978 were established between the 1940s and 1960s\, their designers trained in state academies\, and their workers apprenticed in the socialist workplace of factories and cooperatives. Notable designs\, such as the Beijing Northern Suburb Timber Mill’s metal folding chair\, date to the 1960s and became bestsellers in the early 1970s. In this talk I explore stories from this world of furniture exports in Mao’s China: how design\, production\, and trade worked; who participated\, benefited\, or lost out; and how these developments laid the foundation for the PRC to become a global producer both of cheap and high-quality furniture.  \n\n\n\nAlso available on Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_dpZ2dC97SnGbyUrQPoBpzw \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/modern-china-lecture-series-featuring-jennifer-altehenger/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Modern China Lecture
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Jennifer-Altehenger.jpeg
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR