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SUMMARY:Public Matters: Intellectuals and Political Life in China: A Symposium in honor of Merle Goldman (1931-2023)
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by the Harvard-Yenching InstitutePlease join us at the Fairbank Center for a day-long workshop in honor of the work of Merle Goldman\, a leading figure at the center and a foremost scholar of her generation who pioneered the study of contemporary Chinese intellectuals. \n\n\n\nIn a full day of panel presentations and discussions\, an interdisciplinary group of China scholars from North America\, Asia\, and Europe will highlight ongoing research that either builds directly on Merle’s work or addresses some of the central concerns that animated her professional career: literary dissent\, state-intellectual relations\, conceptions of citizenship and political rights\, and more. \n\n\n\nThe panels will explore the myriad ways in which Chinese intellectuals\, from imperial days to the present\, have sought to express political agency and the extent to which their impact has matched their aspirations. \n\n\n\nPlease join in this celebration of our late colleague’s important legacy! \n\n\n\nOrganizers: Elizabeth J. Perry\, Harvard UniversityTimothy Cheek\, University of British ColumbiaJoseph Fewsmith\, Boston UniversityNancy Hearst\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies \n\n\n\nProgram \n\n\n\n9:00 AM – Welcome \n\n\n\n9:15 AM – Panel 1Chinese Intellectuals and Chinese Society: Mobilization? Accommodation? Engagement? Alienation? Moderator: Elizabeth J. Perry\, Harvard UniversityPeter Zarrow\, University of Connecticut — The Language of Republicanism: Liang Qichao and Civic VirtueJoan Judge\, York University — Towards the Notion of a Politics of Accommodation: The minjian Classicist\, Hu Puan 胡檏安 (Yunyu 韞玉 1878 – 1947)Sebastian Veg\, School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS) — The Rise and Fall of minjian Intellectuals \n\n\n\n10:45 AM – Break \n\n\n\n11:00 AM – Panel 2Chinese Intellectuals and the Chinese State: Proactive? Reactive? Reformist? Conservative?Moderator: Timothy Cheek\, University of British ColumbiaEls Van Dongen\, Nanyang Technological University — Jiang Shigong’s Foucault and Selective Borrowing in Reform Era Intellectual DebatesMatthew Johnson\, The Jamestown Foundation — Wang Huning’s Journey from Establishment Intellectual to ‘Red Eminence’: The Party as Ideological FortressJoseph Fewsmith\, Boston University — A Through Train to Democracy? Xiao Gongqin and the Yan Fu Paradox \n\n\n\n12:30 PM – Lunch Break (on your own) \n\n\n\n1:30 PM – Panel 3Between State and Society: Dissent? Acquiescence? Subversion? Support?Moderator: Joseph Fewsmith\, Boston UniversityHang Tu\, National University of Singapore — The Covert Sphere: Persecution and the Subtle Art of Literary Dissent in the People’s RepublicEddy U\, University of California\, Davis — Subversive Sociality: The Resistance of Intellectuals in the Chinese Cultural RevolutionTimothy Cheek\, University of British Columbia — Polishing the Mirror: Historians as Public Intellectuals in Xi’s ChinaDenise Ho\, Georgetown University — A ‘New-Style Socialist University with Chinese Characteristics’ \n\n\n\n3:00 PM – Break  \n\n\n\n3:30 PM – Panel 4Beyond State and Society: Nationalism? Cosmopolitan? Globalism?Moderator: Orville Schell\, Asia SocietyJeffrey Wasserstrom\, University of California\, Irvine — Chinese Publics Beyond Chinese Borders: Political Exiles and Political Debates from Late Qing Times to the PresentAngela Xiao Wu\, New York University — Postsocialist Press Theory: Information for Infrastructural ModernityClyde Yicheng Wang\, Washington and Lee University — The End of ‘Balanced’ Nationalism: Popular Revolt against Hu Xijin and the Changing Roles of Establishment Intellectuals \n\n\n\n5:00 PM – Wrap-up: Toward a Conference Volume \n\n\n\nLight reception to follow \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/public-matters-intellectuals-and-political-life-in-china-a-symposium-in-honor-of-merle-goldman-1931-2023/
LOCATION:Room G-08\, Larsen Hall\, 14 Appian Way\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250414T150000
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SUMMARY:Visiting Scholar Presentation featuring Andrew Erickson — China’s Naval Leadership: Corruption and Capabilities
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Andrew Erickson\, Professor of Strategy\, China Maritime Studies Institute\, U.S. Naval War College \n\n\n\nRegarding China’s ability to seize Taiwan or achieve other top-level military objectives\, does corruption matter? Since assuming power in 2012\, paramount leader Xi Jinping has officially purged seven sitting and retired members of the Central Military Commission (CMC)\, including two Vice Chairmen. Beyond the CMC\, many other military leaders have likewise fallen\, including more than a dozen senior People’s Liberation Army (PLA) officials and defense industry executives over the past two years. The fight against “corruption” appears to be intensifying in 2025\, with more shoes set to drop. Second-ranked CMC Vice Chairman General He Weidong has not appeared at two recent meetings at which his attendance would be expected. Despite PLA Navy (PLAN) Political Commissar Yuan Huazhi having an inherently high-profile public role\, he has not been seen or heard from publicly since 7 September 2024. Many in the media and beyond speculate that these purges are significantly disrupting and limiting China’s military capabilities.  \n\n\n\nThis presentation will examine politicized corruption-related removals within PLAN leadership specifically and argue in contrast that their imposition of costs regarding endemic behavior are fundamentally a speedbump at most\, rather than a showstopper. Related removals are neither an indicator of prohibitive service incompetence nor a self-defeating constraint on operational capabilities. The PLAN may be playing high-stakes musical chairs with its leadership\, but it has a deep enough talent pool to do so without prohibitive problems and enjoys substantive strengths in its own right. Regardless of corruption’s pervasive persistence\, cutting-edge ships and weapons systems regularly enter service and PLAN capabilities to employ them operationally continue to improve. Corruption may impose inefficiencies\, but does not curtail the PLAN’s rapid advances across the waterfront. \n\n\n\nAndrew S. Erickson is a Professor of Strategy in the U.S. Naval War College (NWC)’s China Maritime Studies Institute\, which he helped establish and has served as Research Director\, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He testifies periodically before Congress and briefs leading officials\, including the Secretary of Defense. Erickson helped to escort the Commander of China’s Navy on a visit to Harvard and subsequently to establish\, and to lead the first iteration of\, NWC’s first naval officer exchange program with China. He has received the Navy Superior Civilian Service Medal\, NWC’s inaugural Civilian Faculty Research Excellence Award\, and NBR’s inaugural Ellis Joffe Prize for PLA Studies. His research focuses on Indo-Pacific defense\, international relations\, technology\, and resource issues. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/visiting-scholar-presentation-featuring-andrew-erickson-chinas-naval-leadership-corruption-and-capabilities/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Room S050\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
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SUMMARY:What is China? New Perspectives in New Eras — An International Symposium 
DESCRIPTION:Keynote Speaker: Ge Zhaoguang 葛兆光\, Fudan UniversitySpeakers:April 18\, 2-5:30pm\, Yenching AuditoriumMark C. Elliot\, Harvard UniversityJames Robson\, Harvard UniversityPeter K. Bol\, Harvard UniversityRonald C. Po\, London University of Economics Kung Ling-wei\, Academia Sinica David Der-wei Wang\, Harvard UniversityApril 19\, 9:30 am – 5:30pm\, The Yenching Common RoomLi Yuyang\, Beijing Normal UniversityYing Lei\, Amherst College Tu Hang\, National University of SingaporeRichard Yu-cheng Shih\, Brown University Liu Shih Diing\, University of MacauDingru Huang\, Tufts UniversityDavid Dadui Yao\, Hainan University Kyle Shernuk\, Georgetown UniversityMichael Hill\, College of William and MaryMichael O’Krent\, Harvard University Li Jing\, Chinese National Academy of ArtsYedong Sh-Chen\, Harvard UniversityRoundtable:Chair: David Der-wei Wang \,Harvard UniversityAnnie Zhanling Wang\, Harvard UniversityJames Evans\, Harvard University Sophie Xiaofei Lei\, (Harvard UniversityShengqiao Lin\, Harvard UniversitySponsors:Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Harvard-Yenching Institute East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/what-is-china-new-perspectives-in-new-eras-an-international-symposium/
LOCATION:Yenching Auditorium\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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SUMMARY:Visiting Scholar Presentation featuring Shih-Diing Liu — Who’s Afraid of Gender? Revisiting Engendering China 31 Years On
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Shih-Diing Liu (刘世鼎)\, Professor of Communication and Senior Research Fellow\, Institute of Advanced Studies\, University of MacauDiscussant: Susan Greenhalgh\, Professor of Anthropology; John King and Wilma Cannon Fairbank Professor of Chinese Society\, Harvard UniversityThis presentation has two intertwined goals: to highlight the significance of gender in understanding Chinese society and to underscore the role of emotion in shaping gender dynamics in China and beyond. I will develop my discussion by revisiting Engendering China: Women\, Culture\, and the State\, an edited volume published by Harvard University Press in 1994\, just before the landmark Beijing Women’s Forum in 1995. Through a symptomatic reading of Engendering China\, I articulate my perspective on the gender-emotion nexus—an articulation often overlooked not only in Chinese studies but also in gender studies more broadly. Rather than focusing on the conventional notion of gender “consciousness\,” I advocate for a critical inquiry into gender “emotion” –  to explore the deeply felt but often unrecognized and repressed dimensions of gendered feelings\, experiences\, fantasies\, investments\, promises\, and practices. My analysis of pop culture and stardom illustrates that gender power operates not merely through structural imposition but through emotions. By recontextualizing Judith Butler’s polemic Who’s Afraid of Gender? (2024)\, my presentation examines how the return of the repressed—including emotions such as fear\, anxiety\, optimism\, and frustration—shapes the gender landscape\, offering new insights into both its constraints and possibilities for emancipation. \n\n\n\nShih-Diing Liu (刘世鼎) is Professor of Communication and a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies\, University of Macau. Liu’s research focuses on exploring the emotional dynamics of politics\, the formation of popular identity\, the expressive and embodied forms of political practices\, and the psychology of nationalism in contemporary China. His books include The Politics of People: Protest Cultures in China (SUNY Press\, 2019) and Affective Spaces: The Cultural Politics of Emotion in China (Edinburgh University Press\, 2024\, with Wei Shi). Continuing with a focus on emotion from the Affective Spaces project\, his current research explores the intersection of affect and gender in contemporary China. Arguing that Chinese gender has increasingly become an archive of feelings marked by ambivalence toward authorities\, this book project uncovers the power of emotion in negotiating the gendered order. Meanwhile\, he is also working on a book project that explores the emotional capabilities of Artificial Intelligence. \n\n\n\nSusan Greenhalgh (葛苏珊) is Professor of Anthropology and John King and Wilma Cannon Fairbank Professor of Chinese Society at Harvard University. Before moving to Harvard\, she was Professor of Anthropology at the University of California\, Irvine and\, before that\, Senior Research Associate of the NYC-based Population Council. \n\n\n\nIn April 2016\, Greenhalgh was named Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation for twelve months starting July 2016. At Harvard\, she was named Walter Channing Cabot Fellow for the year for the 2015 publication of her book\, Fat-talk Nation. Her most recent book is Soda Science: Making the World Safe for Coca-Cola \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/visiting-scholar-presentation-featuring-shih-diing-liu-whos-afraid-of-gender-revisiting-engendering-china-31-years-on/
LOCATION:Room K354\, CGIS Knafel\, 1737 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250428T150000
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SUMMARY:Visiting Scholar Presentation featuring Zimeng Pan — China's Current Patriotic Education: From Policy to Practice
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Zimeng Pan\, 2024-25 Visiting Scholar; Professor in the Department of International Studies and Director of the Research Center for Discourse and Society\, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics \n\n\n\nChina’s current patriotic education is deeply embedded in President Xi’s ideology of Cultural Confidence with an aim of strengthening national identity and unity through traditional cultural values and nationalist legacies. This presentation will first provide a brief overview of China’s patriotic education policies from 1978 to 2024\, followed by a rich account of how its current ideology of patriotism has been interpreted and reproduced by practitioners and the public\, particularly in the fields of education and media. Findings of two ethnographic research and corpus-assisted discourse research projects will be introduced. Detailed topics that are to be discussed include national textbook designs\, classroom practices\, AI-assisted education\, and female image constructed in media. This presentation will show how ‘patriotism’ and ‘culture’ are conceptualized and reconceptualized in the current Chinese context and how grassroots practices have been accordingly influenced. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/visiting-scholar-presentation-featuring-zimeng-pan-chinas-current-patriotic-education-from-policy-to-practice/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Room S050\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250430T163000
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SUMMARY:2025 Charles Neuhauser Memorial Lecture featuring Ambassador R. Nicholas Burns — Lessons from the Front Lines of the U.S.-China Relationship
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: R. Nicholas Burns\, U.S. Ambassador to China\, 2021-2025; Roy and Barbara Goodman Family Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Relations\, Harvard Kennedy School \n\n\n\nAmbassador Nicholas Burns is the Roy and Barbara Goodman Family Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Relations at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. He is the Founder and Faculty Chair of the Future of Diplomacy Project. He is also a Faculty Affiliate at Harvard’s Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies.  \n\n\n\nBurns served as the U.S. Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China from 2021-2025\, leading public servants from forty-eight U.S. government agencies at the U.S. mission to China in overseeing one of America’s most important and challenging bilateral relationships. During his tenure\, he helped to stabilize relations with Beijing while competing with China on military\, technology\, economic\, and human rights issues. \n\n\n\nBurns worked in the United States government for over three decades\, serving six presidents and nine secretaries of state. As a career Foreign Service Officer\, he was Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs from 2005 to 2008; the State Department’s third-ranking official when he led negotiations on the U.S.–India Civil Nuclear Agreement; a long-term military assistance agreement with Israel; and was the lead U.S. negotiator on Iran’s nuclear program. He was U.S. Ambassador to NATO (2001-2005) when the Alliance invoked Article 5 of the NATO Treaty on 9/11 in defense of the United States and embarked on military missions in Afghanistan and Iraq. Burns was the Ambassador to Greece (1997-2001) and State Department Spokesman (1995-1997). He worked for five years (1990–1995) on the National Security Council at the White House at the end of the Cold War where he was Senior Director for Russia\, Ukraine and Eurasia Affairs and Special Assistant to President Clinton and Director for Soviet Affairs in the Administration of President George H.W. Bush. Burns also served in the American Consulate General in Jerusalem (1985-1987) where he coordinated U.S. economic assistance to the Palestinian people in the West Bank and before that\, at the American embassies in Egypt (1983-1985) and Mauritania (1980 as an intern). He was a member of Secretary of State John Kerry’s Foreign Affairs Policy Board (2014-2017). \n\n\n\nProfessor Burns is Vice Chairman of the Cohen Group and Co-Chair of the Aspen Strategy Group and Aspen Security Forum. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences\, and the Council on Foreign Relations. He is also a Fellow of the Massachusetts Historical Society and a life-long member of Red Sox Nation.  \n\n\n\nProfessor Burns has received fifteen honorary degrees\, the Presidential Distinguished Service Award\, the Secretary of State’s Distinguished Service Award\, the Committee of 100 Leadership in Diplomacy Award (2024)\, the Aspen Strategy Group’s Leadership Award (2021)\, the Ignatian Award from Boston College (2017)\, the New Englander of the Year from the New England Council (2016)\, the Woodrow Wilson Award for Public Service from the Johns Hopkins University\, the Boston College Alumni Achievement Award\, and the Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award from Tufts University. He has a BA in History from Boston College (1978)\, an MA in International Relations from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (1980) and he earned the Certificat Pratique de Langue Francaise at the University of Paris-Sorbonne (1977). He was a Visiting Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars in summer 2008. \n\n\n\nAbout the Charles Neuhauser Memorial Lecture:Charles Neuhauser was a senior intelligence analyst with the Central Intelligence Agency\, from 1958 until October 1981. His career with the CIA spanned the period from the Great Leap Forward through the Cultural Revolution and its immediate aftermath. From 1966 to 1967\, just as the Cultural Revolution was going through its most violent phase\, Charles Neuhauser spent a year at The Fairbank Center for East Asian Research\, where he worked on the causes of the Cultural Revolution. \n\n\n\nThis annual lecture series was established in 1988 thanks to the generosity of Charles Neuhauser’s brother\, Paul Neuhauser. Its purpose is to maintain bridges between the worlds of government\, policy\, and the intelligence community and the university world. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/2025-charles-neuhauser-memorial-lecture-featuring-ambassador-r-nicholas-burns/
LOCATION:Hall C\, Science Center\, 1 Oxford St.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
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