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SUMMARY:PRC @ 75 – Film Screening – The Dreamers Revisited: Bumming in Beijing (Original Extended Version)\, featuring an introduction by Eugene Yuejin Wang & Q+A with Wu Wenguang and Dingru Huang
DESCRIPTION:Introduction: Eugene Yuejin Wang\, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art; Founding Director of Harvard FAS CAMLab\, Harvard University.
Q+A Discussion: Dingru Huang\, Rumsey Family Junior Professor in the Humanities and the Arts\, Department of International Literary and Cultural Studies\, Tufts University; former Fairbank Center associateProgrammer: Sam Maclean\, Communications Manager\, Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesFollowed by a Zoom Q+A with filmmaker Wu Wenguang\, director of Bumming in Beijing: The Last Dreamers \n\n\n\n“I hope I can find a secure place to settle\, giving me enough time to create my art freely. That’s not too much to ask\, is it?” — painter Zhang Dali \n\n\n\nOften referred to as the first independent Chinese documentary ever made\, Bumming in Beijing: The Last Dreamers (1990) follows five young\, migrant artists—photographer Gao Bo\, playwright Mou Sen\, writer Zhang Ci\, and painters Zhang Dali and Zhang Xiaping—as they navigate the complexities of sociopolitical life in their adopted home of Beijing in the late 1980s.  \n\n\n\nThe subjects of the film (most of whom are now internationally recognized\, exhibited\, and award-winning artists in their respective fields) here refer to themselves\, alternately\, as “vagrants\,” “migrants\,” and “freelancers.” Some attended university in Beijing in the early 1980s\, while others migrated from rural parts of Heilongjiang\, Liaoning\, and Sichuan to look for work. The film’s director\, Wu Wenguang\, himself migrated to Beijing from Yunnan in 1988\, originally to take a position at CCTV. But after 1989\, Wu’s situation began to mirror that of his subjects—a struggling\, independent artist searching for free modes of expression. \n\n\n\nBumming in Beijing began its production life in 1988\, as an episode of a CCTV documentary series which would eventually be shelved for being too sensitive for its depiction of restless\, counterculture youths. In the fall of 1989\, Wu discreetly revived the project\, independently\, relying on the close relationships that he had developed with his subjects to draw out their feelings on a range of hot-button contemporary issues—residence permits\, economic inequality\, the commodification of art\, the position of women in the society\, and the temptation to go abroad—and using his remnant CCTV resources to complete an initial\, 134-minute version of the film. \n\n\n\nSubsequently\, a much shorter\, 68-minute version of Bumming in Beijing was created for international audiences\, screened at various film festivals\, and developed a reputation as one of the foundational works of China’s “New Documentary” film movement.  \n\n\n\nFor this screening\, we present the original\, extended cut of the film (which was only recently subtitled in English). This version offers a more immersive experience of what it was like occupying spaces on the margins of society at one of the most fraught and volatile moments in recent Chinese history. The filmmaking also strikes a balance between talking head-style documentary and long\, dialogue-less passages observing the subjects’ domestic life and artistic practice. It’s a more raw vision—Wu can be heard off-screen instructing his cinematographer how and when to move the camera; you can identify moments\, especially in earlier shot scenes\, when Wu is still working out how to approach his subjects—but all this strengthens the connective tissue between the mode of the film’s production and the social discourses it’s documenting\, resulting in a moving portrait of free and creatively resourceful art in the face of oppression. \n\n\n\nEugene Yuejin Wang is the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art at Harvard University\, where he holds appointments in History of Art and Architecture\, Archeology\, Theater\, Dance\, and Media (TDM)\, Study of Religion\, and Inner Asia and Altaic Studies. A Guggenheim Fellow\, he is the author of the award-winning Shaping the Lotus Sutra: Buddhist Visual Culture in Medieval China. He is also the art history editor of Encyclopedia of Buddhism. His research ranges from early art and archaeology to modern art\, media\, and cinema. He is also the founding director of Harvard CAMLab\, which explores the nexus of cognition\, aesthetics\, and multimedia storyliving through expanded cinema and filmic installations.Dingru Huang is the Rumsey Family Assistant Professor in the Department of International Literary and Cultural Studies. Before joining Tufts\, she was at the University of California\, Berkeley\, as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Chinese Studies. Her research explores the entanglement of cultural production\, technological development\, and ecological imaginations in China and East Asia\, particularly the roles played by nonhuman animals. She has been published in peer-reviewed journals\, such as Modern Chinese Literature and Culture\, Ex-Position\, Wenxue\, and the Chung-wai Literary Quarterly.  \n\n\n\nThe Fairbank Center’s film screening series explores the largely unseen early history of independent film in China\, beginning in the late 1980s\, aiming to unearth films long-suppressed by Chinese authorities to fill out the narrative of modern film history in the PRC. \n\n\n\nBumming in Beijing (Original\, Extended Version)\, directed by Wu Wenguang. China\, 1990\, documentary\, 134 min. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/prc-75-film-screening-the-dreamers-revisited-bumming-in-beijing-original-extended-version-featuring-an-introduction-by-eugene-yuejin-wang/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film Screening,Special Event
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SUMMARY:Visiting Fellow Presentation and Discussion featuring Mitch Presnick — Leveraging China's Strengths as Alternative to Decoupling: Opportunities for Multinational Companies
DESCRIPTION:register for zoom meeting\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Mitch Presnick\, Visiting Fellow of Practice\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies; Founder\, Super 8 Hotels\, ChinaDiscussant: William Kirby\, Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration and T.M. Chang Professor of China Studies\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nIn 1978\, Deng Xiaoping Relaunched his “Reform and Opening” policy to leverage Western technology and know-how for China’s development … Deng recognized that China’s modernization required both pragmatism and humility. Today\, the roles are reversing. Leaders of multinational corporations must adopt a certain Deng-like pragmatism and humility.  Those who do will see profitable global growth and will have a leg up in their home markets\, provided they seize opportunities in the four key strengths of the Chinese economy. \n\n\n\nPresented via Zoom. Register here. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/visiting-fellow-presentation-and-discussion-featuring-mitch-presnick-leveraging-chinas-strengths-as-alternative-to-decoupling-opportunities-for-multinational-companies/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241107T130000
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SUMMARY:Transforming Classical Chinese Texts into Searchable Databases with AI
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Guenther Lomas\, Founder\, Sigtica \n\n\n\nAs artificial intelligence becomes integral to the digital humanities\, it offers innovative methods that transform research capabilities and uncover new insights into historical texts and cultural narratives. This talk will demonstrate how AI-powered pipelines can process large volumes of unstructured classical Chinese texts\, such as genealogies and Qing dynasty government employee records\, including those from the Da Qing jin shen quan shu\, into organized\, searchable databases. \n\n\n\nThe pipeline addresses a longstanding challenge in classical Chinese studies: the labor-intensive manual data entry process. It is designed to efficiently process millions of pages from historical Chinese texts\, tackling complexities like layout identification and precision in text extraction. Central to this effort is customized Optical Character Recognition (OCR)\, which enhances data extraction accuracy and identifies key fields using Named Entity Recognition (NER) models. The result is clean\, tabular databases that improve accessibility\, allowing researchers to analyze Chinese historical content with unprecedented efficiency. Furthermore\, this methodology holds potential applications for other languages\, including Japanese\, Korean\, Arabic and Latin\, broadening its impact. \n\n\n\nBy exploring these methodologies and their implications\, this presentation aims to show how integrating advanced technological tools enriches scholarly inquiry in the digital humanities\, providing deeper insights into patterns and narratives within Chinese history and beyond. This approach promises to revolutionize data collection\, paving the way for alternative research practices across various linguistic contexts. \n\n\n\nLunch will be provided. Registration required \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/transforming-classical-chinese-texts-into-searchable-databases-with-ai/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S354\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241107T163000
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SUMMARY:PRC @ 75 – Memory as Resistance: From Tiananmen to Hong Kong featuring Rowena Xiaoqing He
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Rowena Xiaoqing He (何曉清)\, Senior Research Fellow\, University of Texas Austin; author\, Tiananmen Exiles: Voices of the Struggle for Democracy in ChinaDiscussant: Anthony Saich\, Daewoo Professor of International Affairs; Director\, Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia\, Harvard Kennedy School \n\n\n\nThis talk is grounded in over two decades of fieldwork on the preservation of historical memory tabooed by the CCP regime. Drawing on contextualized personal accounts\, Rowena He will illuminate the unequal contest between state-imposed interpretations of history and independent scholarship on China’s forbidden past\, and their implications for nationalism\, democratization\, and the field of China Studies. Highlighting her extensive interactions with local and mainland Chinese students during Hong Kong’s unprecedented social movement\, she illustrates how memory becomes a form of resistance that embodies citizen autonomy and agency. The power of the powerless. \n\n\n\nRowena Xiaoqing He (何曉清) is a China specialist and historian of modern China. She is interested in the nexus of history\, memory\, and power\, and their implications for the relationship between academic freedom and public opinion\, human rights and democratization\, and youth values and nationalism. Her first book\, Tiananmen Exiles: Voices of the Struggle for Democracy in China\, was named Top Five Books 2014 by the Asia Society’s China File. The book has been reviewed in the New York Review of Books\, Wall Street Journal\, Financial Times\, New Statesman\, Spectator\, Christian Science Monitor\, China Journal\, Human Rights Quarterly\, and other international periodicals. Her research has been supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada\, Harvard University’s Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton\, and the National Humanities Center. Dr. He received the Harvard University Certificate of Teaching Excellence for three consecutive years for the Tiananmen courses that she created. She joined the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2019 and received the Faculty of Arts Outstanding Teaching Award in 2020 and 2021. In 2023\, she was denied a Hong Kong work visa to return to her position as an Associate Professor of History. Her op-eds have appeared in the Washington Post\, The Nation\, The Guardian\, The Globe and Mail\, and The Wall Street Journal. She was designated among the Top 100 Chinese Public Intellectuals 2016. Born and raised in China\, she received her Ph.D. from the University of Toronto. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/prc-75-memory-as-resistance-from-tiananmen-to-hong-kong-featuring-rowena-he/
LOCATION:Hall A\, Science Center\, 1 Oxford St.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241112T103000
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SUMMARY:Fei Huang — Bathing Through Time and Landscape: A Longue Durée History of Hot Springs in China (1000–1945)
DESCRIPTION:Register for Zoom session\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker:  Fei Huang\, Professor of Chinese History and Society\, University of Tübingen  \n\n\n\nPart of the Science and Technology in Asia series. Sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center. Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies \n\n\n\nPresented via Zoom. Register at: https://scholar.harvard.edu/seow/STinAsia \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/fei-huang-bathing-through-time-and-landscape-a-longue-duree-history-of-hot-springs-in-china-1000-1945/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241125T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241125T110000
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SUMMARY:Household Registration: A Tale of Two Cities
DESCRIPTION:zoom registration\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Anthony Saich\, Director of the Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia and Daewoo Professor of International Affairs\, Harvard Kennedy SchoolDiscussant: Rana Mitter\, S.T. Lee Professor of US-Asia Relations\, Harvard Kennedy School \n\n\n\nThe household registration system (hukou) is widely seen as a major factor contributing to inequality in China. Individuals’ benefits depend on where their registration is located\, with rural residents enjoying considerably less welfare support than their urban counterparts. This has been especially problematic for migrant laborers. There have been calls to abolish the system\, and even the central leadership has advocated for its amendment or removal. Yet\, many cities maintain it in some form. This talk explains why.  \n\n\n\nBefore reforms\, policy was exogenous\, determined by Beijing. Subsequently\, changes have become exogenous\, driven by bottom-up initiatives to modify the system. An examination of the cities of Shijiazhuang and Zhengzhou reveals how the local political economy shapes the outcomes of hukou reform.  \n\n\n\nPresented via Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ysKe4YuNR_-oX7x9nRFMig \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/household-registration-a-tale-of-two-cities/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Special Event
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