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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:20250310T163000
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SUMMARY:Panel Discussion — Three Years In\, Prospects for Peace? China-Russia-North Korea Relations on the Third Anniversary of Putin’s Ukraine War
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:Andrew S. Erickson\, Professor of Strategy\, U.S. Naval War College China Maritime Studies Institute; Visiting Scholar\, Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesEmily J. Holland\, Assistant Professor\, Naval War College Russia Maritime Studies Institute; former postdoctoral fellow\, Davis CenterVitaly Kozyrev\, Distinguished Professor of Political Science & International Studies\, Endicott CollegeSeong-hyon Lee\, Visiting Scholar\, Harvard University Asia Center; Senior Fellow\, George H.W. Bush Foundation for US-China Relations \n\n\n\nModerator: Mark Wu\, Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law\, Harvard Law School; Director\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies \n\n\n\nFebruary 24\, 2025 marks the three-year anniversary of Putin’s devastating Ukraine invasion. Among its many reverberations are ramifications for Sino-Russian relations\, which continue to deepen despite lingering differences between the great powers and the revisionist autocrats leading them. Emerging and potential impacts include increasing energy and resource transactions\, alignment in the form of international strategic coordination and demonstrations of their partnership on the world stage\, collaboration in military technology and operations\, and maritime-security advances. And what role is North Korea playing in this complex geopolitical dance? Expert panelists will discuss these complicated dynamics and pressing issues as the Trump Administration pursues a conclusion to the devastating Russia-Ukraine War while Beijing\, Moscow\, and Peongyang strive to shape events in their favor. \n\n\n\nThis event is co-sponsored by the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies\, Harvard University and the Korea Institute\, Harvard University. \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. Dr. Erickson was a 2019-2022 Visiting Scholar. \n\n\n\nEmily Holland is an assistant professor in the Russia Maritime Studies Institute at the U.S. Naval War College. Previously\, she was an assistant professor at the U.S. Naval Academy\, a postdoctoral fellow at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University and a visiting fellow at the German Institute for Economic Research (Berlin) and the European Council on Foreign Relations (Berlin). Professor Holland’s research has appeared in The Journal of International Affairs\, Newsweek and Lawfare\, among other publications. \n\n\n\nVitaly Kozyrev is Distinguished Professor of Political Science and International Studies at Endicott College in Beverly\, MA\, and Associate in Research at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University. His major interest is great power politics\, East-West relations\, international conflict\, and the political economy of regionalism and regional integration. \n\n\n\nSeong-Hyon Lee is a Senior Fellow at the George H.W. Bush Foundation for U.S.-China Relations\, focusing his research on South and North Korea. He received his Ph.D. from Tsinghua University and a Master of Theological Studies from Harvard University. Dr. Lee was formerly the Director of the Center for Chinese Studies at the Sejong Institute in Seoul\, South Korea\, a Pantech Fellow at the Stanford Korean Studies Program\, and a Visiting Scholar at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard University. He has provided briefings regarding the implications of China’s rise on South Korea and U.S.-China relations to South Korean presidential candidates. \n\n\n\nMark Wu is the Director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University and the Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law at Harvard Law School\, where he teaches international trade and international economic law. He recently returned to Harvard after serving as Senior Advisor in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative. Prior to academia\, Wu worked as an engagement manager for McKinsey & Co.\, where he focused on high-tech companies. He began his career as an economist and operations officer for the World Bank in China\, working on environmental\, urban development\, health\, and rural poverty issues.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/panel-discussion-three-years-in-prospects-for-peace-china-russia-north-korea-relations-on-the-third-anniversary-of-putins-ukraine-war/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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SUMMARY:Jishun Zhang — Revolution in the Lilong and Its Legacy: Revisiting Shanghai Residents’ Committees in the Mao Zedong Era
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Jishun Zhang\, 2024-25 Professor Emeritus of the Si-Mian Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities of East China Normal University; Fairbank Center 2024-2025 Visiting Scholar \n\n\n\n*This talk will be presented in Mandarin* \n\n\n\nFrom April to May 2022\, Shanghai’s 61-day COVID-19 lockdown saw the sudden reassertion of the once-dormant Residents’ Committees. Their resurgence raises critical questions: Is this the same institution as before? Why did it appear absent for decades? Did it dissolve or integrate into broader institutional frameworks? Was its revival driven by lingering revolutionary mobilization\, a resurgence of Mao-era campaign-style governance\, or specific contingencies? These inquiries underscore the enduring significance of grassroots governance in the PRC. The 2022 lockdown offers a lens to reassess Shanghai’s Residents’ Committees beyond the 1949 divide and challenge the assumed rupture of 1979\, highlighting both continuities and transformations in CCP urban governance. \n\n\n\nJishun Zhang is Professor Emeritus of the Si-Mian Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities of East China Normal University. She studies the history of modern China\, with a focus on Shanghai’s history. Her research specifically focuses on grassroots social governance and cultural transformation in the Mao era. She is working with Professor Yuhua Wang in the Harvard University Department of Government on her current project\, “The Lane Revolution and Its Legacy: Revisiting Shanghai Neighborhood Committees in Mao’s Era.”  \n\n\n\nProfessor Zhang’s books include Chinese Intellectuals’ Views on America\, 1943-1953\, (Fudan University Press\, 1999) and A City Displaced: Shanghai in the 1950s (Social Sciences Academic Press\, 2015). Zhang is a graduate of Beijing Normal University and Fudan University\, where she received her Ph.D. She was a Visiting Scholar at the Institute of East Asia Studies at UC Berkeley in 1994-95 and was a coordinate professor in the Harvard-Yenching Institute in 2012-2013. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/jishun-zhang-revolution-in-the-lilong-and-its-legacy-revisiting-shanghai-residents-committees-in-the-mao-zedong-era/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Room S153\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250225T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250225T133000
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SUMMARY:Esther Hu — Soong Mayling and Wartime China\, 1937-1945: Deploying Words as Weapons
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Esther Hu\, Research Affiliate\, Boston University Center for the Study of Asia\, Pardee School of Global StudiesChair: William Kirby\, T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies; Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration; Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor; Director\, Harvard China Fund \n\n\n\nSoong Mayling and Wartime China\, 1937-1945: Deploying Words as Weapons focuses on the First Lady of China’s timely and critical contributions in the areas of war\, women’s work\, and diplomacy during China’s War of Resistance as inflected through gender. This book explores Soong Mayling through her own words by examining her speeches\, essays\, letters\, telegrams\, and news reports during the war period. How did Madame Chiang Kai-shek’s gender identity shape her interactions with other Chinese women\, the male military and political leadership in the Republic of China\, and the broader global public? How did Confucianism’s cardinal virtues and Chinese Christianity converge in Soong Mayling’s work and worldview? What were her main contributions as Secretary-General of the Chinese Air Force? Drawing on Chinese archival materials such as Chiang Kai-shek’s diaries and other records around the world\, Esther Hu provides a historically informed perspective of the First Lady’s legacy within the context of World War II history\, international cultural and military affairs\, and transnational geopolitics. \n\n\n\nBefore joining the faculty of Boston University in 2005 as an Assistant Professor in the Humanities\, Professor Hu had taught at Cornell University (John S. Knight Institute\, First-Year-Writing Seminars) and Chung Yuan Christian University (College of Humanities and Education). \n\n\n\nProfessor Hu is an Associate in Research at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University and a Fellow of the International History Institute at Boston University. Dr. Hu has published many essays\, book reviews\, and encyclopedia entries and is the English translator of Soong Mayling’s Chinese-language pictorial biography\, A Legacy of Grace and Resilience: Soong Mayling and her Era (2023; 2nd Ed. 2024). \n\n\n\nLunch will be provided. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/esther-hu-soong-mayling-and-wartime-china-1937-1945-deploying-words-as-weapons/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S250\, 1730 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250218T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250218T150000
DTSTAMP:20260503T213249
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SUMMARY:Weixin XU — Ukraine Every Day: An Artist’s Diary of 1\,090 Digital Drawings
DESCRIPTION:Artist Weixin XU has been working on his art project “Ukraine Every Day” since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Xu has completed almost 700 works using an iPad application. The portfolio includes portraits of soldiers\, political figures\, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky\, as well as scenes of the war. These images give voice to the artist’s hope for justice\, peace\, and resolution and his solidarity with the people of Ukraine. \n\n\n\nWeixin XU was born in Urumqi\, Xinjiang province\, in 1958\, and now lives and works in New York and Beijing. He received a BA from the Xi’an Academy of Arts and an MFA from the Zhejiang Academy of Arts. Xu has combined his interest in universal human conditions with a stark Realist style that is deeply rooted in China’s modern art history. His most recent works are single-person portrait series\, whose subjects share the same historic time or environment\, merging personal and collective narratives. Xu’s critically acclaimed works have been exhibited and collected by public institutions and private collections in China. Solo exhibitions include Song of Workers (Shanghai Art Museum\, 2007)\, Chinese Historical Figures: 1966-1976（Today Art Museum\, Beijing\, 2007)\, and China Image: Portrait in Circulation (Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard University\, 2011). He is currently a professor of painting and the former executive dean of the School of Arts\, Renmin University\, Beijing. In 2016\, Xu had his first major solo exhibition in USA at the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/weixin-xu-an-artists-diary-of-1090-digital-drawings/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Room S153\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES: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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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:20241107T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241107T180000
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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:20241107T120000
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:20241106T160000
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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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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241009T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241009T180000
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SUMMARY:PRC @ 75 Series — Bao Pu — An Insider’s View of Mao’s Reign: The Life of Bao Tong\, Communist Reformer
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Bao Pu\, Founder\, New Century Press\, Hong Kong \n\n\n\nDiscussant: Michael Puett\, Director\, Harvard University Asia Center; Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History and Anthropology\, Harvard University  \n\n\n\nMao Zedong’s 26-year reign profoundly shaped the People’s Republic of China. And yet while there have been numerous social\, political\, and economic analyses of the PRC\, the driving forces behind Mao’s policies and the inner workings of power politics at the highest levels of the Chinese Communist Party remain poorly understood due to lack of critical information. \n\n\n\nDrawing from a collection of largely unpublished private letters\, rare publications\, and archival records connected to Bao Tong\, the late Communist Party reformer and political secretary to Party General Secretary Zhao Ziyang\, Bao’s son Bao Pu weaves his father’s experiences during Mao’s reign into a single coherent narrative. The analysis traces Bao’s personal arc\, from the young idealist who joined the Party at age of 16 to disillusioned reformer who became one of the Party’s most outspoken critics. Bao Pu uncovers surprising insights into power dynamics at China’s highest levels\, enriched by visuals from Bao Tong’s personal archives and photographs. \n\n\n\nBao Tong was the highest-ranking Chinese official imprisoned over the pro-democracy protests in Tiananmen Square that ended in a bloody crackdown in 1989. Before that\, as Political Secretary of the CCP’s Central Committee’s Politburo Standing Committee\, he had worked on officially sanctioned plans for political reform. He was released from prison in 1997 and died in 2022 at the age of 90. \n\n\n\nBao began his career in the CCP’s Organization Department in July 1949 and remained deeply engaged with the Party’s central operations throughout his tenure. He worked closely with his mentor\, An Ziwen\, the Minister of the Organization Department\, contributing to the drafting of key documents during the turbulent years leading up to Mao’s Cultural Revolution when both them were purged. \n\n\n\nIn 1977\, Bao made a significant comeback by contributing to the drafting of Deng Xiaoping’s speech at the National Science Conference\, a pivotal moment that helped Deng rise to become the supreme leader of China. In the early 1980s\, Bao served as the secretary to Premier Zhao Ziyang and eventually ascended to the role of Political Secretary of the CCP’s Central Committee’s Politburo Standing Committee. By the late 1980s\, Bao was entrusted by General Secretary Zhao Ziyang with preparation for the Political Reform program\, which was approved at the CCP’s 13th Party Congress. \n\n\n\nHowever\, the momentum of these reforms came to a halt following the Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989\, leading to Bao’s imprisonment as the highest-ranking official to oppose Deng Xiaoping’s handling of the event. In his later years\, Bao continued to be an outspoken critic of the CCP. \n\n\n\nBao Pu is the Publisher and Founder of New Century Press in Hong Kong\, best known for its Chinese-language memoirs and contemporary histories of politics\, titles including Prisoner of the State: The Secret Journal of Premier Zhao Ziyang and The Origins of the Cultural Revolution\, by Harvard Professor Roderick MacFarquhar. Bao was awarded the Jeri Laber Interntational Freedom to Publish Award in 2010. He is the son of Bao Tong. \n\n\n\nPart of Worldwide Week at Harvard 2024 | October 5 – 12\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/bao-pu-an-insiders-view-of-maos-reign-the-life-of-bao-tong-communist-reformer/
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:20241004T120000
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SUMMARY:PRC @ 75 Series – Film Screening – Remembering the 1980s: The Documentary Series Tiananmen\, featuring an introduction by Yuhua Wang & Q+A with Rowena Xiaoqing He and Shi Jian
DESCRIPTION:Introduction: Yuhua Wang\, Professor of Government\, Harvard UniversityQ+A Discussion: Rowena Xiaoqing He\, Senior Research Fellow\, University of Texas Austin; author of Tiananmen Exiles: Voices of the Struggle for Democracy in ChinaProgrammer: Sam Maclean\, Communications Manager\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies \n\n\n\nFollowed by a Zoom Q+A with filmmaker Shi Jian\, co-director of Tiananmen \n\n\n\nThe eight-part documentary series Tiananmen\, about life in Beijing in the 1980s\, was produced with official sanction by a brilliant young team of filmmakers at China Central Television (CCTV). It had a planned airing commencement date of National Day — October 1\, 1989 — to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the People’s Republic of China. However\, production halted in the spring of 1989\, when students calling for democracy and an end to corruption took to the streets in Beijing. Following the violent crackdown on June 4th\, CCTV canceled the series\, concluding that any with the title “Tiananmen”—regardless of its political slant—would be too controversial to air. \n\n\n\nBut co-directors Shi Jian (时间) and Chen Jue (陈爵) decided to finished Tiananmen independently. The series was invited to screen at the Hong Kong Film Festival\, in 1992\, but the Chinese film delegation boycotted it\, and the screening was canceled. Since then\, the full documentary has only screened publicly once (in Chicago\, this past summer). \n\n\n\nThis historic series weaves a tapestry of sociopolitical life whose scope stretches from the survivors of the pre-revolution imperial court to the competitive struggles sparked by the transition to a planned economy\, to liberalization in the shadow of the not-too-distant Cultural Revolution\, to the vibrant artist communities and counterculture movements\, and ultimately\, to what registers as a sense of guarded optimism about China’s 21st century trajectory. \n\n\n\nYuhua Wang (王裕华) is Professor of Government at Harvard University\, whose research focuses on two aspects of the politics of state building. He looks at what contributes to the emergence of effective and durable statehood\, and after an effective state emerges\, how it can be constrained. Professor Wang’s third book\, The Rise and Fall of Imperial China: The Social Origins of State Development (2022\, Princeton University Press) won the 2023 Lubbert Best Book Award in Comparative Politics from the American Political Science Association. His articles have appeared in American Political Science Review\, Annual Review of Political Science\, British Journal of Political Science\, Comparative Political Studies\, Comparative Politics\, and China Quarterly. \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\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\nTiananmen’s 8 parts will screen in groups of two throughout Friday\, October 4\, with short breaks: \n\n\n\n12:00 PM: Introduction by Yuhua Wang\, Professor of Government\, followed by Part 1: “The Old City” (56 min.)\, about survivors of the imperial court\, including interviews with the last living imperial eunuch and Puyi’s family members\, and Part 2: “Residences” (51 min.)\, which explores everyday life in courtyard homes. \n\n\n\n2:15 PM: Part 3: “On the Street” (52 min.)\, about various forms of commerce and social activities\, and Part 4: “On Stage” (54 min.)\, a survey of theater actors\, street performers\, and rock musicians. \n\n\n\n4:15 PM: Part 5: “Going Places” (48 min.)\, about intellectual life at universities and inside private enterprises\, and Part 6: “Guest Performers” (48 min.)\, which follows foreigners who live and work in Beijing. \n\n\n\n6:00 PM: Part 7: “On the Way” (50 min.)\, about entrepreneurs in the entertainment industry\, including ad agencies and models\, and Part 8: “Memories” (1 hour)\, a look at China’s history of sociopolitical unrest. \n\n\n\nThe final episode will be followed by a Zoom Q+A with Rowena Xiaoqing He and Tiananmen co-director Shi Jian. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/big-waves-great-earthquakes-film-screening-no-3-remembering-the-1980s-the-documentary-series-tiananmen-featuring-an-introduction-by-yuhua-wang/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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SUMMARY:PRC @ 75 Series – Symposium: The People's Republic of China at 75
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Joseph Fewsmith\, Professor of International Relations\, Pardee School of Global Studies\, Boston UniversityElizabeth Perry\, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government\, Harvard UniversityAnthony Saich\, Director\, Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia; Daewoo Professor of International Affairs\, Harvard Kennedy SchoolYuhua Wang\, Professor of Government\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nModerator:Mark Wu\, Director\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies; Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law\, Harvard University  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/symposium-the-peoples-republic-of-china-at-75/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240926T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240926T163000
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SUMMARY:Combatting Digital Misinformation: Lessons from Taiwan — A Conversation with Audrey Tang
DESCRIPTION:Register now for event waitlist\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n***WAITLIST REGISTRATION ONLY***This event’s pre-registration has reached its capacity. You may register for the waitlist\, and we will notify you if a space becomes available.Speaker: Audrey Tang\, Inaugural Minister for Digital Affairs\, Taiwan (2022-2024) \n\n\n\nTaiwan sits on the front lines of global misinformation campaigns.  From election interference to fake news stories\, Taiwanese society faces a regular influx of activities by nefarious actors attempting to distort information.  What lessons can Taiwan offer for how to combat misinformation in a polarized political environment\, while protecting speech and promoting a thriving democracy?  Join us for a discussion with Audrey Tang\, Taiwan’s former Minister for Digital Affairs\, moderated by Professor Mark Wu\, Co-Director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society and Director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. \n\n\n\nCo-sponsored by the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. \n\n\n\nThis is an in-person only event. Seating is limited and pre-registration is required. Register at: https://forms.gle/Qt6aA8BGg4TkS7Vs7.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/combatting-digital-misinformation-lessons-from-taiwan-a-conversation-with-audrey-tang/
LOCATION:BKC Multipurpose Room 515\, Lewis Law Center\, 1557 Mass. Ave. 5th Floor\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Special Event,Taiwan
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240507T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240507T131500
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SUMMARY:Alienation of Enlightenment: Rethinking the May 4 Movement\, Featuring Fairbank Center Visiting Scholar Qin Hui
DESCRIPTION:RSVP – HUID holders only\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nQin Hui\, public intellectual and historian\, will give a talk on Tuesday\, May 7\, titled “启蒙的异化：五四再反思\,” “Alienation of Enlightenment: Rethinking the May 4 Movement.” Professor Yuhua Wang\, Professor of Government\, Harvard University\, will be the discussant. \n\n\n\nThe talk and Q&A will be in Chinese. \n\n\n\nHarvard University ID required. Please register with Weijing Guo (wguo@fas.harvard.edu)\, as seating is limited. \n\n\n\nQin Hui (秦晖) is a historian and public intellectual. He retired as Professor of History\, Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences\, Tsinghua University\, in 2017 and then served as a Visiting Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Qin’s primary field is economic history and peasant studies. Qin\, who has written extensively on issues relating to social justice in China’s countryside\, is currently focusing on China\, globalization\, and the “new Cold War.” \n\n\n\nQin’s recent research includes three broad topics: China\, globalization and the “new Cold War”; China’s social economy during the Cultural Revolution; and rethinking the lessons of the May Fourth Movement—what he calls “the failure of the second wave of global democratization.” \n\n\n\nQin graduated with a Masters Degree from Lanzhou University in 1981. Before coming to Harvard this year\, Qin was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Tokyo. Qin was a Visiting Fellow at the Fairbank Center in 2003. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/alienation-of-enlightenment-rethinking-the-may-4-movement-featuring-fairbank-center-visiting-scholar-qin-hui/
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:20240423T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240423T174500
DTSTAMP:20260503T213249
CREATED:20240409T162509Z
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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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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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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:20240415T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240415T133000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240412T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240413T173000
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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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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240411T180000
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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:20240321T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240321T150000
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SUMMARY:Discussion of Technology and Innovation in China 
DESCRIPTION:***THIS EVENT HAS REACHED CAPACITY\, ONLY PRE-REGISTERED ATTENDEES WILL BE ADMITTED*** \n\n\n\nSpeakers:Bo An\, 2023-24 An Wang Postdoctoral Fellow\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Andrew Kennedy\, Associate Professor\, Crawford School of Public Policy\, Australian National UniversityModerator:Iain Johnston\, Governor James Albert Noe and Linda Noe Laine Professor of China in World Affairs\, Harvard UniversityFeaturing two short research presentations followed by a roundtable discussion.  \n\n\n\nPost-maintenance: the Chinese Software Crisis in the 1980s\, presented by Bo An \n\n\n\nIn this talk\, I present a brief history of early Chinese computer software leading up to a crisis in maintenance in the 1980s\, which was one of the main causes for the failure of building an indigenous computing industry in the PRC. Through this forgotten chapter\, I hope to shed light on the broader context of the shift during the Deng period from self-reliance to foreign technology transfer\, especially from the perspective of technological infrastructure. This allows a more nuanced understanding of the post-socialist transition and the dynamics between self-reliance and foreign dependency\, as well as between the issues of innovation and maintenance in a long history of technology.  \n\n\n\nBo An holds a combined Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Literatures and Film and Media Studies from Yale University. Based on research into the history and theory of information technology in modern China\, his dissertation examines the rise of computing in the People’s Republic of China between the 1940s and 1980s. Dr. An is currently investigating post-1980s applied computing and the longer global history of science behind it.   \n\n\n\nChina’s New Paradigm: How the Party Learned to Love the Innovation System\, presented by Andrew Kennedy  \n\n\n\nChina’s pursuit of “innovation-driven development” has become central to its rise in the 21st century.  China’s approach to science\, technology\, and innovation has evolved considerably\, however\, and remains difficult to understand.  This presentation highlights the policy paradigms behind China’s changing approach and how CCP leaders have embraced and localized the concept of the innovation system in particular.     \n\n\n\nAndrew Kennedy is Associate Professor in the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University.  He is the author of The Conflicted Superpower: America’s Collaboration with China and India in Global Innovation (Columbia 2018) and The International Ambitions of Mao and Nehru: National Efficacy Beliefs and the Making of Foreign Policy (Cambridge 2012)\, among others.  His current research focuses on China’s approach to science and technology since 1949 and China’s rise as a technology power in the 21st century. Please register for this discussion at: https://forms.office.com/r/6PBbnhWYm9.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/discussion-of-technology-and-innovation-in-china/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S250\, 1730 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240227T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240227T181500
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SUMMARY:Special Presentation featuring Christopher Rea - From Zhuangzi’s Gourd to Cinderella’s Pumpkin: Gua 瓜 as a Vehicle for the Imagination
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Christopher Rea\, Professor of Chinese\, Former Director of the Centre for Chinese Research\, University of British ColumbiaModerator: David Der-wei Wang\, Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nThe Daoist philosopher Zhuangzi tells us that one remedy for a lack of imagination is to take your gourd for a ride. Confucius makes a point about usefulness by comparing himself to a gourd (or is it a melon?). Gua 瓜 (cucurbits)—which include gourds\, melons\, pumpkins\, squash\, and bitter melon—abound in Chinese philosophy\, art\, poetry\, historiography\, and storytelling\, notably in late imperial novels such as Jin Ping Mei\, Journey to the West\, and Story of the Stone. Why? Christopher Rea argues that gua have several qualities that account for their enduring popularity in the figurative imagination\, including their sound\, shape\, seasonality\, variety\, and abundance. \n\n\n\nThis talk shares examples of how the cucurbitaceae—a vast family that is as diverse in its metaphorical usages as in its species—has been used in Chinese and other contexts as a vehicle for the imagination. The humble gua 瓜 has been used to represent ideas of consequence\, both physical—human anatomy\, China\, the earth—and conceptual—moral peril\, wealth\, glory days. Gua are a vehicle for rethinking the taxonomies that drive cultural historiography\, the distinctions scholars make between here and there\, this and that. In particular\, this talk will focus on why gua associations tend to be overripe\, and on how Chinese (and non-Chinese) sources have used melons and their kin to represent time itself. \n\n\n\nChristopher Rea is Professor of Chinese and former Director of the Centre for Chinese Research at the University of British Columbia. He is the creator of the Chinese Film Classics Project\, whose website ChineseFilmClassics.org hosts the world’s largest online collection of early Chinese films with English subtitles\, as well as film clips\, essays\, links\, and an online course on early Chinese films. The websiteand the course are companions to his book Chinese Film Classics\, 1922-1949 (Columbia\, 2021)\, which has a Chinese edition forthcoming. Rea is also the author of the Levenson Prize-winning The Age of Irreverence: A New History of Laughter in China (California\, 2015; Rye Field\, 2018) and the co-author of Where Research Begins: Choosing a Research Project That Matters to You (and the World) (with Thomas Mullaney; Chicago\, 2022)\, which is also available in Chinese\, Japanese\, Korean\, and Polish. He is currently working on a second volume of The Book of Swindles (Columbia\, 2017) and on a cultural history of gua 瓜. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/special-presentation-featuring-christopher-rea-from-zhuangzis-gourd-to-cinderellas-pumpkin-gua-%e7%93%9c-as-a-vehicle-for-the-imagination/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S250\, 1730 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240220T171500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240220T183000
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SUMMARY:Special Presentation - China-Russia Relations Two Years into Putin’s Ukraine War: How Strong\, For How Long? 
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:Andrew S. Erickson\, Professor of Strategy\, U.S. Naval War College (NWC) China Maritime Studies Institute (CMSI); Visiting Professor\, Government Department\, Harvard University; Associate in Research\, Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesJulia Famularo\, Post-Doctoral Fellow\, Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesVitaly Kozyrev\, Distinguished Professor of Political Science & International Studies\, Endicott CollegeAlexandra Vacroux\, Executive Director\, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies\, Harvard UniversityModerator: Mark Wu\, Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law\, Harvard Law School; Director\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies \n\n\n\nThis event is co-sponsored by the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies\, Harvard University. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/special-presentation-friends-with-no-limits-assessing-the-strength-of-china-russia-relations/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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SUMMARY:Business in China’s “New Era”: Roundtable Discussion with Fairbank Center Visiting Fellows of Practice 
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVisiting Fellows Brendan Li\, Shujun Li\, Tony Liu\, and Mitch Presnick will explore the role of business in Xi Jinping’s “new era\,” from technology to finance\, manufacturing to services\, as well as opportunities for collaboration between Chinese and American enterprises.   \n\n\n\nThis is an in-person event open to Harvard community members. The discussion will not be recorded. Lunch will be served from 12:15.   \n\n\n\nPlease complete this RSVP form to let us know if you plan to attend: https://forms.office.com/r/xiyjHRMqzw  \n\n\n\nFeaturing four Fairbank Center Visiting Scholars of Practice:   \n\n\n\nBrendan Li Wangzhi (Brendan) Li is a lawyer and finance expert. He is the Founding Director and core tutor of Entrepreneur’s Training Camp at Peking University and was previously a Founding Partner of Lao Niu Charitable Foundation and a professional investor in the Citigroup Investment Banking Department. His research interests are related to constitutional law and Chinese politics. After graduating from Peking University Law school\, he became an attorney in China. He has a BA from Columbia University.   \n\n\n\nShujun Li Shujun Li is an entrepreneur and a social philosopher. He is Founder and Managing Partner of Trustbridge Partners. His research project\, tentatively titled “Impact of Diversity on Economic Development and Social Stability in Modern China\,” explores the influence of ethnic and ideological diversity on economic prosperity\, social stability\, and policy progression in modern China.   \n\n\n\nTony Liu Quan (Tony) Liu is Chairman and Founder of Beijing United Information Technology Co.\, a B2B e-commerce platform for online commodity transactions\, business information services\, and internet technology services. His research project focuses on exploring future opportunities and challenges of business cooperation between Chinese and American enterprises in the context of today’s U.S.-China relations. Liu graduated from Renmin University with a BA in Finance.  \n\n\n\nMitch Presnick Mitchell Presnick is founder of Super 8 Hotels China\, an economy hotel chain with more than 1100 locations\, and APCO Worldwide China\, a public affairs consultancy. His current research explores the practical realities and challenges inherent in this new era of China’s business relations with developed countries. Presnick studied at Peking University and Rutgers Business School and has spent 35 years in Beijing and Hong Kong.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/business-in-chinas-new-era-roundtable-discussion-with-fairbank-center-visiting-fellows-of-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:20231128T121500
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SUMMARY:Fairbank Center Visiting Scholars Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat do gender politics\, the Sino-Japanese War\, Cold War anxiety\, and the Cultural Revolution have in common? Come for lunch and find out on Tuesday\, November 28\, when Fairbank Center Visiting Scholars present their recent research!  \n\n\n\nAt the workshop\, scholars will present research on gender politics in Chinese film\, contemporary Taiwanese literature and media studies\, environmental and technological history\, and rural Chinese economic history.   \n\n\n\nQ&A and discussion will follow each talk.    \n\n\n\nThis is an in-person event. Lunch will be served at 12:15.   \n\n\n\nPlease complete this form if you plan to attend. \n\n\n\nSchedule:  \n\n\n\n12:15 pm      Welcome   \n\n\n\n12:30 pm      Yuan Zhang\, Assistant Professor in the School of International Education\, China Women’s University  Gender Politics and Chinese Film  \n\n\n\n1:00 pm       Chi-yu Lin\, Fellow of the Postdoctoral Research Abroad Program\, National Science and Technology Council of Taiwan A Cold War Anxiety of Influence: Cousin Lianyi 《蓮漪表妹》\, 1935-1985  \n\n\n\n1:30 pm       Miwa Shimada\, Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law\, Keio University The Northwest Development and China’s Frontier Image: Focusing on Inner Mongolia during the Sino-Japanese War  \n\n\n\n2:00 pm       Qin Hui\, Professor of History\, Emeritus\, Tsinghua University Why the Cultural Revolution Matters Today  (This talk will be delivered in Chinese)  \n\n\n\n2:30 pm       Closing Remarks  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/fairbank-center-visiting-scholars-workshop-2/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S250\, 1730 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230925T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230925T180000
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SUMMARY:Daniel A. Bell - China’s Struggle between Communism and Confucianism
DESCRIPTION:Register FOR HYBRID ZOOM attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Daniel A. Bell\, Professor\, Chair of Political Theory with the Faculty of Law\, University of Hong KongDiscussants: Peter Bol\, Charles H. Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard UniversityYuhua Wang\, Professor of Government\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nDuring China’s Cultural Revolution\, Chairman Mao’s Red Guards denounced Confucius for fostering “bad elements\, rightists\, monsters\, and freaks.” But in recent decades\, the Communist Party embraced the ancient philosopher\, who emphasized a combination of benevolence and social order. Party Secretary Xi Jinping\, determined to maintain stability\, is once again promoting stern Communist rhetoric and values. Will China eventually find a way to integrate these two traditions? And what can the struggle between Communism and Confucianism tell us about China’s future path?  \n\n\n\nConfucian expert Daniel A. Bell will explore these questions with Harvard University’s Peter Bol\, Charles H. Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, and Yuhua Wang\, Professor of Government who recently published The Rise and Fall of Imperial China. Bell’s new book The Dean of Shandong\, is an insider’s view of Chinese academia and what it tells us about China’s political system. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDaniel A. Bell  (貝淡寧) is Professor\, Chair of Political Theory with the Faculty of Law at the University of Hong Kong. He served as Dean of the School of Political Science and Public Administration at Shandong University (Qingdao) from 2017 to 2022.   His books include The Dean of Shandong (2023)\,  Just Hierarchy (co-authored with Wang Pei\, 2020)\, The China Model (2015)\, The Spirit of Cities (co-authored with Avner de-Shalit\, 2012)\, China’s New Confucianism (2008)\, Beyond Liberal Democracy (2007)\, and East Meets West (2000)\, all published by Princeton University Press.  He is also the author of Communitarianism and Its Critics (Oxford University Press\, 1993).  \n\n\n\nBell is founding editor of the Princeton-China series (Princeton University Press)\, which translates and publishes original and influential academic works from China. His works have been translated in 23 languages. He has been interviewed in English\, Chinese\, and French. In 2018\, he was awarded the Huilin Prize and was honored as a “Cultural Leader” by the World Economic Forum. \n\n\n\nAlso available via Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_EGsuvDUUQImIychErvnkgA \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/daniel-a-bell-chinas-struggle-between-communism-and-confucianism/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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SUMMARY:Visiting Scholars Present: Taiwan Studies
DESCRIPTION:Fairbank Center visiting scholars will share the work of Taiwan filmmaker Edward Yang\, research on Qing Dynasty Taiwan war preparations\, and new findings on U.S. views of U.S.-China AI competition. Please join us for this fascinating workshop!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister for hybrid zoom attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPresenters: \n\n\n\nRuochen Bo\, 2022-23 Hou Family Pre-doctoral Fellow in Taiwan Studies \n\n\n\nBo will talk about the iconic Taiwan filmmaker and one of his most important films: “Edward Yang and Education: A Brighter Summer Day (1991)“ \n\n\n\nNan-Hsu Chen\, 2022-23 Hou Family Post-doctoral Fellow in Taiwan Studies \n\n\n\nChen will talk about “Everyday Problems and Wartime Transportation in Taiwan\, 1884-85” \n\n\n\nChia-hung Tsai\, Professor\, National Chengchi University \n\n\n\nTsai will present on: “American Opinion on AI Competition between the US and China” \n\n\n\nAlso via Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_vY8L4xhtTS2X-JKmxqKZsg \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/visiting-scholars-present-taiwan-studies/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S250\, 1730 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event,Taiwan,Taiwan Studies
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SUMMARY:Visiting Scholars Present: Parks in Modern China\, Xinjiang\, Water Conservancy Projects\, and More
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\nFairbank Center visiting scholars will share their research in China studies with the Harvard community. This workshop-style event will feature current research on parks in Modern China\, Xinjiang\, water conservancy projects\, land development in China\, and American China studies. There will be an opportunity for Q & A discussion following each short presentation. Please join us for all or some of the workshop! Lunch will be provided from 12:30 pm to participants. Welcome and introduction at 12:50 pm. Presentations begin at 1:00 pm. \n\n\n\nSchedule of Presentations\n\n\n\n1:00 – 1:25 pm  | Zheng Lin\, Associate Professor\, Sun Yat-Sen University.How Parks Shape Modern China: Culture\, Politics and Everyday Life (1900-1950) \n\n\n\n1:30 – 1:55 pm | Xiongfei Zheng\, Professor\, Beijing Normal University.Land and Social Development II: Land Rent Theory and Its Contemporary Practice in China \n\n\n\n1:55 – 2:05 pm Break \n\n\n\n2:05 – 2:30 pm | Miwa Shimada\, Associate Professor\, Faculty of Law\, Keio University.Water Conservancy Projects and National Integration in Modern and Contemporary China — Focusing on the influence of American and Japanese water engineers      \n\n\n\n2:35 – 3:00 pm | Hua Yang\, Professor\, Shandong University.Research on American Chinese Studies in China (1978-2018)      \n\n\n\nIn-person attendance only:3:05 – 3:30 pm | Yajun Bao\, Professor\, Beijing Normal University.Rethinking the Xinjiang Issue through the Perspective of Governance: A focus on the 2010s   \n\n\n\n——— \n\n\n\nLocation: CGIS South\, Room S153 | 1730 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts 02138  \n\n\n\nOrganizer: Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/visiting-scholars-present-parks-in-modern-china-xinjiang-water-conservancy-projects-and-more/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Room S153\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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