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SUMMARY:The Asian Security Order: Views from the Region
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:Selina Ho\, Assistant Professor in International Affairs; Co-Director of the Centre on Asia and Globalisation\, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy\, National University of SingaporeLi Chen\, Renmin University of ChinaChair: Robert Ross\, Professor of Political Science\, Boston College; Fairbank Center Associate \n\n\n\nCo-sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-asian-security-order-views-from-the-region/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240412T093000
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SUMMARY:Thinking through Performance in China - A Workshop on Chinese theories of Acting\, Singing\, and Theater (c.1200–1850)
DESCRIPTION:This workshop reconsiders the significance of critical writings about acting\, singing\, and theatrical performance in China (c.1200–1850). How did artists\, intellectuals\, and critics reflect on experiences of watching or listening to live performance? How did the act of writing about spectatorship become an artform in and of itself? What might these texts offer for theater and performance studies across the world today? The central question these texts address —namely\, “what is the function of Chinese theater?”—has ramifications for students of Chinese history\, literature\, and thought more broadly. \n\n\n\nTheatrical artforms flourished in China from the thirteenth to the nineteenth centuries. While current scholarship largely focuses on playwriting and surviving play-texts from the Yuan to Qing dynasties\, this period also bore witness to a boom in writings about performance\, from manuals on aria composition to poems on the operatic voice to epitaphs for actors. Rather than treat these materials (often referred to in Chinese as quhua 曲話\, qulun 曲論\,or julun 劇論) as supplementary evidence for a general history of playwriting\, this workshop approaches the act of writing about performance as a vibrant field of artistic expression. Texts about theatrical performance not only shed new light on the social history of acting during this period\, but they also speak to broader issues such as constructions of gender and sexuality\, the politics of patronage\, the place of allusion\, and conceptions of artifice and naturalness in Chinese aesthetic thought. In as much as these texts struggle to document the evanescence of live performance\, they also reflect on the purpose and limitations of writing itself. \n\n\n\nIn general\, the workshop will ask what it means to speak of “performance theory” in the premodern Chinese context. At the same time\, the workshop seeks to uncover valuable perspectives from premodern China for teachers\, students\, and practitioners of the performing arts today. \n\n\n\nAgendaFriday\, April 129:30 AM: Introductory Remarks \n\n\n\n10:00 AM: Panel 1 – Thinking through PerformanceChair: David Wang\, Harvard UniversityThomas Kelly\, Harvard University\, “Writing Evanescence: Pan Zhiheng’s Essays on Acting”Ling Hon Lam\, UC Berkeley\, “In Search of Bad Singing: A Disarticulation of the Automaton\, or a Mathematical Critique of ‘Self-So’ Cosmology” \n\n\n\n12:00 PM: Lunch \n\n\n\n1:00 PM: Panel 2 – Performance as Method in Song and Oral StorytellingChair: Si Nae Park\, Harvard UniversityPatricia Sieber\, The Ohio State University\, “Surprise as Method: Performance Aesthetics in Yuan Sanqu Songs”Canaan Morse\, Boston University\, “The Image of the Book and the Performance of Reading in The Drunken Man’s Talk and the Early Huaben” \n\n\n\n3:30 PM: Panel 3 – Performing SpectatorshipChair: Wai-yee Li\, Harvard UniversityYinghui Wu\, UCLA\, “The Passion for Performance and Performers in the Late Ming: Between Therapy\, Obsession\, and Bad Karma”Ming Tak Ted Hui\, Oxford University\, “Vocal Imaginaries: Connoisseurship of the Operatic Voice in the 16th Century” \n\n\n\nSaturday\, April 13 \n\n\n\n9:30 AM: Panel 4 – Translation WorkshopJudith Zeitlin (University of Chicago)\, Yiren Zheng (Dartmouth University)\, and Tom Kelly will lead a group discussion of essays by Pan Zhiheng 潘之恆 (1556–1622) on acting\, singing\, and theater.Zheng: 蘇舌師；馬手樂 (9:30–10:20)Zeitlin: 獨音；敘曲；李紉之 (10:30–11:20)Kelly: 仙度；原近 (11:30–12:20) \n\n\n\n12:30 PM: Lunch \n\n\n\n2:00 PM: Panel 5 – Theater and Theatricality   Chair: Catherine Yeh\, Boston UniversityGuojun Wang\, McGill University\, “Bibliography as Critique: Cataloging and Categorizing Drama in Premodern China”Kangni Huang\, Harvard University\, “Rethinking Meta-Theater: From Wu Bing to Jiang Shiquan”4:30 PM: Roundtable – New DirectionsFor more information\, contact Thomas Kelly at thomas_kelly@fas.harvard.edu.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/thinking-through-performance-in-china-a-workshop-on-chinese-theories-of-acting-singing-and-theater-c-1200-1850/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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SUMMARY:Joseph Esherick - Rethinking the Chinese Revolution
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Joseph Esherick\, Professor Emeritus of History\, University of California\, San Diego \n\n\n\nModerator: Elizabeth Perry\, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government\, Harvard University; Director\, Harvard-Yenching Institute. \n\n\n\nWas the Chinese Revolution inevitable? In “Rethinking the Chinese Revolution\,” Esherick will discuss his evolving assessment of modern Chinese history from his early essay\, “Harvard on China\,” through his “Ten Theses on the Chinese Revolution.” Fundamental to this evolution has been wrestling with the determinism he learned as a social historian of the 1960s to a greater (but still uneasy) embrace of the contingency of history that one sees in Accidental Holy Land. \n\n\n\nJoseph W. Esherick received his B.A. from Harvard in 1964 and his PhD from Berkeley in 1971.  His scholarship has focused on the last years of the Qing dynasty and the social and political transformation of modern China.  His dissertation and first monograph\, Reform and Revolution in China: the 1911 Revolution in Hunan and Hubei explored the social background of China’s republican revolution.  His book on The Origins of the Boxer Uprising won the John K. Fairbank Prize of the American Historical Association and the Joseph R. Levenson Prize of the Association for Asian Studies.  Ancestral Leaves explored the tumultuous history of nineteenth and twentieth-century China through the lives of successive generations of one family. His new monograph\, Accidental Holy Land: The Communist Revolution in Northwest China\, is a study of the founding of the Shaan-Gan-Ning border region of northwest China.  In edited volumes\, Esherick has analyzed Chinese local elites\, the transformation of Chinese cities\, American policy toward China during World War II\, the Cultural Revolution\, and the transition from empire to nation in comparative perspective\, and the year 1943 in China. After forty years of teaching at the University of Oregon and the University of California at San Diego\, Esherick retired in 2012 and now lives in Berkeley\, California. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/joseph-esherick-rethinking-the-chinese-revolution/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S250\, 1730 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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SUMMARY:Special Presentation featuring Stephen MacKinnon - History as Biography: Chen Hansheng 陈翰笙 (1897-2004)
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Stephen MacKinnon\, Emeritus Professor of History; Former Director of Center for Asian Studies\, Arizona State UniversitySteven MacKinnon\, author of Chen Hansheng: China’s Last Romantic Revolutionary\, will discuss the remarkable life of one of most important economic researchers on the Chinese rural economy over a career that spanned the 1930s to his death at 107 in 2004. Long an underground communist\, Chen was one of the most perceptive critics of both Nationalist and Communist policies\, from the collectivization of 1955 through the disasters of the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution and Mao Zedong. \n\n\n\nIn the late 1970s Prof. MacKinnon met Chen in Beijing and conducted many interviews with Chen and family\, proteges\, and surviving colleagues. The newly published biography emphasizes the international and Chinese historical context in which Chen operated globally as a celebrated social scientist\, political activist\, and public intellectual.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/modern-china-lecture-series-featuring-stephen-mackinnon-chen-hansheng-chinas-last-romantic-revolutionary/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240422T163000
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SUMMARY:Tiananmen @ 35 Film Screening: The Gate of Heavenly Peace
DESCRIPTION:Introduction: Carma Hinton\, Art historian and Documentary Filmmaker; Robinson Professor of Visual Culture and Chinese Studies\, George Mason University (retired) \n\n\n\n“In The Gate of Heavenly Peace (the literal translation of the name Tiananmen)\, the causes\, effects and fallout from the six-week protest that led up to the Chinese government’s crackdown on dissidents are detailed with intelligence\, grace and toughness. Filmmakers Carma Hinton and Richard Gordon have transformed news into history\, and history into art.” — Michael Blowen\, The Boston Globe   \n\n\n\nThe Gate of Heavenly Peace chronicles the heroism\, drama\, tension\, humor\, absurdity\, and many tragedies of the peaceful popular protests during the spring weeks of 1989\, culminating on June 4th\, when the government’s bloody crackdown dashed the hopes of millions. Using archival footage and contemporary interviews with a wide range of Chinese citizens\, including students\, workers\, intellectuals\, and government officials\, the film reveals how the hard-liners within the government marginalized moderates among the protesters\, resulting in the voices for reason gradually being cowed and then silenced by extremism and emotionalism on both sides. \n\n\n\nIt is a sobering tale\, for faced with the binary opposition between hardened stances\, there has been little middle ground left for the rational and thoughtful proponents of positive reform in China. By giving these ignored voices their proper place in history\, The Gate of Heavenly Peace reveals an ongoing debate in 20th century China regarding revolution and reform\, as well as the importance of personal responsibility and moral integrity\, the need\, as Vaclav Havel has put it\, to “live in the truth.” \n\n\n\nCarma Hinton is an art historian and a filmmaker. She was born in Beijing\, and Chinese is her first language and culture. She received her Ph.D. in Art History from Harvard University and taught at various universities between major film projects. Together with Richard Gordon\, Hinton has directed many documentary films on China\, including Small Happiness\, All Under Heaven\, To Taste a Hundred Herbs\, Abode of Illusion: The Life and Art of Chang Dai-chien\, The Gate of Heavenly Peace\, and Morning Sun. She has won two Peabody Awards\, the American Historical Association’s John E. O’Connor Film Award\, the International Critics Prize and the Best Social and Political Documentary at the Banff Television Festival\, among others. She retired from her position as Robinson Professor of Visual Culture and Chinese Studies at George Mason University recently to focus on her book about traditional Chinese scrolls depicting the theme of demon quelling and work on the extensive archive of film and other visual materials she and Richard Gordon collected over decades of research and film production.  \n\n\n\nThe Gate of Heavenly Peace produced and directed by Carma Hinton and Richard Gordon. United States\, 1995\, documentary\, 187 min. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/tiananmen-35-film-screening-the-gate-of-heavenly-peace/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film Screening,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240423T163000
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SUMMARY:Tiananmen @ 35: What Have We Learned? A Conversation with Journalists
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:Dorinda Elliott\, Newsweek\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies \n\n\n\nSeth Faison\, South China Morning Press\, Brunswick Group China Hub \n\n\n\nOrville Schell\, New York Review of Books\, Asia Society Center on U.S.-China Relations \n\n\n\nKatherine Wilhelm\, Associated Press\, NYU U.S. Asia Law Center \n\n\n\nModerator: Annie Jieping Zhang\, founder\, Matters Lab\, co-founder\, Initium Media\, Nieman-Berkman Klein Fellow 2024 \n\n\n\nWhat happened in the spring of 1989 in Beijing\, and does it matter today? A panel of journalists who covered China’s democracy movement—and have watched China’s economic and political development since—will examine the reasons for the student movement and the bloody crackdown and the ensuing turning points that led to Xi Jinping’s China today. \n\n\n\nDorinda (Dinda) Elliott is executive director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Harvard China Fund. She previously served as SVP at the China Institute in New York and as editorial and communications director at the Paulson Institute. Before that\, Elliott worked at Newsweek\, Time\, Asiaweek\, and Conde Nast Traveler. Elliott spent 20 years as a foreign correspondent\, based in Hong Kong\, Beijing\, and Moscow\, and then served as editor in chief of Asiaweek magazine\, based in Hong Kong. Elliott covered China’s opening up in the late 1980s and the student movement in 1989; the rise of the mafia and political and economic transition in Post-Soviet Russia; the fall of Suharto in Indonesia; the reformasi movement in Malaysia; Hong Kong’s handover to Chinese sovereignty in 1997; and China’s rise as an economic power.    \n\n\n\nSeth Faison is a partner at Brunswick Group\, specializing in China. He went to China in 1984 and spent two years learning Chinese. He became a reporter in Hong Kong and opened the Beijing Bureau of the South China Morning Post in 1988. He covered the 1989 student movement and crackdown in Tiananmen Square. He later joined the New York Times\, winning a Pulitzer Prize in 1994 as part of a team covering breaking news. He became Shanghai Bureau Chief and wrote extensively about changes in China’s politics\, economy\, arts and society. He is the author of “South of the Clouds: Exploring the Hidden Realms of China.” Since 2006\, he has served as a communications specialist and advisor\, including eight years as Head of Communications for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS\, TB and Malaria. \n\n\n\nOrville Schell is the Arthur Ross Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at Asia Society in New York. He is a former professor and Dean at the University of California\, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. \n\n\n\nSchell is the author of fifteen books\, ten of them about China\, and a contributor to numerous edited volumes. His most recent books are: Wealth and Power\, China’s Long March to the 21st Century; Virtual Tibet; The China Reader: The Reform Years; and Mandate of Heaven: The Legacy of Tiananmen Square and the Next Generation of China’s Leaders. Schell has written for many leading publications; he covered China’s student movement in 1989 for The New York Review of Books. \n\n\n\nKatherine Wilhelm is executive director of the U.S.-Asia Law Institute\, an adjunct professor at NYU School of Law\, and editor of the institute’s online essay series\, USALI Perspectives. She is an expert on China’s legal system\, public interest law organizations\, and civil society. Over the course of nearly three decades in China as a lawyer and journalist\, she worked for the Ford Foundation\, Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center\, a leading U.S. law firm\, the Far Eastern Economic Review\, and The Associated Press. She earned a JD and master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University and a master’s degree in East Asian studies from Harvard University. \n\n\n\nAnnie Jieping Zhang is founder and CEO of Matters Lab\, a decentralized Web3 social media platform. She also co-founded and was the editor-in-chief of Initium Media\, an online Chinese-language publication established in Hong Kong in 2015. She previously worked as an editor at City Magazine; chief writer and executive editor-in-chief for iSun Affairs\, an iPad-based magazine offering political and social news; and as a reporter for Asia Week. The Society of Publishers in Asia named Zhang Journalist of the Year in 2010.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/tiananmen-35-what-have-we-learned-a-conversation-with-journalists/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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