BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies - ECPv6.15.12.2//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20200308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20201101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20210314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20211107T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20220313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20221106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240227T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240227T181500 DTSTAMP:20260510T165711 CREATED:20240131T183843Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240131T184022Z UID:35348-1709053200-1709057700@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Christopher-rea.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240220T171500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240220T183000 DTSTAMP:20260510T165711 CREATED:20240208T185204Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240215T160153Z UID:35418-1708449300-1708453800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/flags.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231212T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231212T140000 DTSTAMP:20260510T165711 CREATED:20231130T172853Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231204T143443Z UID:34832-1702384200-1702389600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu 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 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231128T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231128T143000 DTSTAMP:20260510T165711 CREATED:20231116T174657Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231116T174658Z UID:34533-1701173700-1701181800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu 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 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230925T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230925T180000 DTSTAMP:20260510T165711 CREATED:20230816T132654Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230920T194907Z UID:33437-1695659400-1695664800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/confu.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230516T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230516T110000 DTSTAMP:20260510T165711 CREATED:20230504T151244Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230618T220548Z UID:32292-1684229400-1684234800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/frolda-qhu2nFWqVEU-unsplash-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230509T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230509T153000 DTSTAMP:20260510T165711 CREATED:20230419T172530Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230618T220631Z UID:32172-1683635400-1683646200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/cai-fang-9BFq54TCqRs-unsplash-scaled-e1687125837398.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230421T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230421T170000 DTSTAMP:20260510T165711 CREATED:20230413T145444Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230702T041733Z UID:32064-1682085600-1682096400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:An Introduction to Generative AI for East Asian Studies DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis workshop introduces the use of generative AI. Generative AI refers to a category of artificial intelligence algorithms that generate new outputs based on data. Unlike traditional AI systems that recognize patterns and make predictions\, generative AI can create new content in the form of texts as well as images and audio. It enables one to work across languages (e.g.\, asking for answers in English about a text in classical Chinese). The workshop will cover the theory behind it\, the common misconceptions about it\, and showcase several tools. We will offer use case demonstrations for summarization\, data cleaning\, and visualization. Use cases may involve Chinese texts\, but the techniques can be applied to across East Asian Studies. Organized by the Digital China Initiative of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and China Biographical Database project. \n\n\n\nThis is an in-person event that will not be recorded or live-streamed. \n\n\n\nWe recommend that attendees register for a ChatGPT account: (https://chat.openai.com/chat). You can also use its alternatives\, such as Microsoft New Bing\, Google Bard\, Notion AI\, etc.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/an-introduction-to-generative-ai-for-east-asian-studies/ LOCATION:Yenching Auditorium\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States CATEGORIES:Special Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/steve-johnson-WhAQMsdRKMI-unsplash-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230404T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230404T180000 DTSTAMP:20260510T165711 CREATED:20230119T184119Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230625T035358Z UID:31395-1680625800-1680631200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Adrian Zenz - Xinjiang Update: What New Documents Tell Us About Beijing’s Evolving Internment Policy DESCRIPTION:Read our blog post on the event: Xinjiang Update: Beijing’s Evolving Internment Policy \n\n\n\nSpeaker: Adrian Zenz\, Senior Fellow and Director in China Studies\, Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation \n\n\n\nModerator: Mark C. Elliott\, Vice Provost for International Affairs\, Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nSince the start of Beijing’s campaign of interning Uyghurs and other ethnic groups in its northwestern region of Xinjiang in re-education camps\, the most pertinent evidence on the nature and impact of these policies has come from public and internal (classified) government documents. However\, nearly all of this documentation was limited to latter (implementation-related) stages of the policy cycle\, leaving scholars in the dark about crucial aspects of the deliberations and decision-making processes behind the policies. Between late 2021 and mid-2022\, two important caches of new internal files have been made public\, including classified speeches by Xi Jinping and by Zhao Kezhi\, China’s former Minister of Public Security. This presentation seeks to elucidate what these new files can tell us about the evolution of Beijing’s policies in the region\, the role of the central government in the process\, and the potential scale of the campaign of mass internment. \n\n\n\nDr. Adrian Zenz is Senior Fellow and Director in China Studies at the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation\, Washington\, D.C. (non-resident). His research focus is on China’s ethnic policy and Beijing’s campaign of mass internment\, securitization and forced labor in Xinjiang\, as well as ethnic minority education and labor programs in Tibet. Dr. Zenz is the author of Tibetanness under Threat and co-editor of Mapping Amdo: Dynamics of Change. He has played a leading role in the analysis of leaked Chinese government documents\, including the “China Cables\,” the “Karakax List\,” the “Xinjiang Papers\,” and the Xinjiang Police Files. Dr. Zenz has provided expert testimony to the governments of Germany\, France\, the United Kingdom\, Canada\, and the United States. He is a member of the Association of Asian Studies. He has published opinion pieces with Foreign Policy\, Foreign Affairs\, The New York Times\, and The Wall Street Journal. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/adrian-zenz-xinjiang-update-what-new-documents-tell-us-about-beijings-evolving-policy/ LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States CATEGORIES:Special Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Berlin-Protest_von_Tibetern_und_Uiguren_vor_dem_Brandenburger_Tor_gegen_die_Olympischen_Spiele_Beiing_2022_05-scaled.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230330T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230330T180000 DTSTAMP:20260510T165711 CREATED:20230222T173430Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230618T224923Z UID:31739-1680193800-1680199200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:How Soy Sauce Shapes Modern China: The Power of an Everyday Food - 2023 Fairbank Center Reischauer Lecture Series featuring Angela KC Leung\, Night Three\, "Soy Sauce in Crisis: China’s First Engagement with Technoscience" DESCRIPTION:Register for hybrid zoom attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRead our blog post on this series of lectures: What Soy Sauce Can Tell Us About History\, Politics—and Chinese Identity \n\n\n\nThe lecture series examines the cultural and political meaning of soy sauce by tracing its long trajectory from an obscure elite condiment to a mundane\, everyday food in the modern period. The condiment acquired in the process the unique power of forging shared identities – familial\, communitarian\, regional and national\, becoming more recently a heritage food in different Chinese societies today. Its status as a popular\, necessary daily food endowed it with social and economic values that have made its production an integral part of state building for successive regimes – Qing\, Republican\, Socialist\, post-Socialist. Since the early 20th century\, soy sauce has been crafted with changing knowledge and techniques\, by experts in evolving institutions and enterprises\, and marketed to satisfy consumers’ shifting imaginations of their time\, community\, and environment.   \n\n\n\nTuesday\, March 28\, 2023\, 4:30pm Lecture 1: Becoming an Everyday Food: Soy Sauce in the High Qing PeriodThe explosion of soy sauce’s popularity as an everyday food in China is explained in the context of the mid-eighteenth-century integration of Manchuria\, which would become the world’s biggest soybean producer\, into the Qing Empire at the zenith of its political power. The development changed urban landscapes\, shaped everyday life and forged new urban identities.  \n\n\n\nWednesday\, March 29\, 2023\, 4:30pmLecture 2: The Power of a Malleable Everyday Food: Soy Sauce in Modern China Soy sauce as a super connector gained enormous power in the 19th and early 20th centuries:  It was made and offered to tighten bonds within lineages\, strengthen native place relationships\, and diplomatic ties. It symbolized communitarian and national solidarity\, hospitality and pride. Such immense power imbued the condiment with significant economic value.  \n\n\n\nThursday\, March 30\, 2023\, 4:30pmLecture 3: Soy Sauce in Crisis: China’s First Engagement with Technoscience Under deteriorating governance and facing the influx of industrial Japanese products\, Chinese soy sauce production was to be transformed as part of the state program of industrial modernization. The process produced a first generation of food scientists and technocrats navigating between codified scientific knowledge and traditional practices based on embodied skills\, an approach still valid in the 21st century when heritage sauces are being constructed. \n\n\n\nAngela Ki Che Leung is Chair Professor of History\, Joseph Needham-Philip Mao Professor in Chinese History\, Science and Civilization at the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences\, University of Hong Kong since 2011. After obtaining her doctoral degree at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales\, Paris\, she became a researcher at the Academia Sinica\, Taiwan\, in 1982\, and taught history at UCLA\, National Taiwan University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong\, and was elected Academician of the Academia Sinica in 2010. She has published in Chinese\, English and French on the history of Chinese philanthropy and history of medicine and health. Her books in English include Leprosy in China: A History (2009)\, Health and Hygiene in Chinese East Asia (2010\, co-edited with Charlotte Furth); Gender\, Health and History in East Asia (2017\, co-edited with Izumi Nakayama); Moral Foods: The Construction of Health Regimes in Modern Asia (2019\, co-edited with Melissa Caldwell). She led a Hong Kong government funded collaborative project on everyday technologies in modern East Asia from 2017-2022\, and is preparing an edited volume on Food Technoscience in East Asia and a monograph on the history of Chinese soy sauce.Also available via Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_nIxWlsf8TlakxRYAt9OOgA \n\n\n\n\n\nYouTube recording of “How Soy Sauce Shapes Modern China: The Power of an Everyday Food – 2023 Fairbank Center Reischauer Lecture Series featuring Angela KC Leung\, Night Three\, “Soy Sauce in Crisis: China’s First Engagement with Technoscience””\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/how-soy-sauce-shapes-modern-china-the-power-of-an-everyday-food-2023-fairbank-center-reischauer-lecture-series-featuring-angela-kc-leung-night-three/ LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States CATEGORIES:Special Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/IMG_6568-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230329T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230329T180000 DTSTAMP:20260510T165711 CREATED:20230222T172904Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230618T224925Z UID:31737-1680107400-1680112800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:How Soy Sauce Shapes Modern China: The Power of an Everyday Food—2023 Fairbank Center Reischauer Lecture Series featuring Angela KC Leung\, Night Two\, "The Power of a Malleable Everyday Food: Soy Sauce in Modern China" DESCRIPTION:Register for hybrid zoom attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRead our blog post on this series of lectures: What Soy Sauce Can Tell Us About History\, Politics—and Chinese Identity \n\n\n\nThe lecture series examines the cultural and political meaning of soy sauce by tracing its long trajectory from an obscure elite condiment to a mundane\, everyday food in the modern period. The condiment acquired in the process the unique power of forging shared identities – familial\, communitarian\, regional and national\, becoming more recently a heritage food in different Chinese societies today. Its status as a popular\, necessary daily food endowed it with social and economic values that have made its production an integral part of state building for successive regimes – Qing\, Republican\, Socialist\, post-Socialist. Since the early 20th century\, soy sauce has been crafted with changing knowledge and techniques\, by experts in evolving institutions and enterprises\, and marketed to satisfy consumers’ shifting imaginations of their time\, community\, and environment.   \n\n\n\nTuesday\, March 28\, 2023\, 4:30pm Lecture 1: Becoming an Everyday Food: Soy Sauce in the High Qing PeriodThe explosion of soy sauce’s popularity as an everyday food in China is explained in the context of the mid-eighteenth-century integration of Manchuria\, which would become the world’s biggest soybean producer\, into the Qing Empire at the zenith of its political power. The development changed urban landscapes\, shaped everyday life and forged new urban identities.  \n\n\n\nWednesday\, March 29\, 2023\, 4:30pmLecture 2: The Power of a Malleable Everyday Food: Soy Sauce in Modern China Soy sauce as a super connector gained enormous power in the 19th and early 20th centuries:  It was made and offered to tighten bonds within lineages\, strengthen native place relationships\, and diplomatic ties. It symbolized communitarian and national solidarity\, hospitality and pride. Such immense power imbued the condiment with significant economic value.  \n\n\n\nThursday\, March 30\, 2023\, 4:30pmLecture 3: Soy Sauce in Crisis: China’s First Engagement with Technoscience Under deteriorating governance and facing the influx of industrial Japanese products\, Chinese soy sauce production was to be transformed as part of the state program of industrial modernization. The process produced a first generation of food scientists and technocrats navigating between codified scientific knowledge and traditional practices based on embodied skills\, an approach still valid in the 21st century when heritage sauces are being constructed. \n\n\n\nAngela Ki Che Leung is Chair Professor of History\, Joseph Needham-Philip Mao Professor in Chinese History\, Science and Civilization at the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences\, University of Hong Kong since 2011. After obtaining her doctoral degree at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales\, Paris\, she became a researcher at the Academia Sinica\, Taiwan\, in 1982\, and taught history at UCLA\, National Taiwan University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong\, and was elected Academician of the Academia Sinica in 2010. She has published in Chinese\, English and French on the history of Chinese philanthropy and history of medicine and health. Her books in English include Leprosy in China: A History (2009)\, Health and Hygiene in Chinese East Asia (2010\, co-edited with Charlotte Furth); Gender\, Health and History in East Asia (2017\, co-edited with Izumi Nakayama); Moral Foods: The Construction of Health Regimes in Modern Asia (2019\, co-edited with Melissa Caldwell). She led a Hong Kong government funded collaborative project on everyday technologies in modern East Asia from 2017-2022\, and is preparing an edited volume on Food Technoscience in East Asia and a monograph on the history of Chinese soy sauce.Also available via Zoom. Register at:  https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Gr9J4wRjRlST0KeJYWLTgg \n\n\n\n\n\nYouTube recording of “How Soy Sauce Shapes Modern China: The Power of an Everyday Food—2023 Fairbank Center Reischauer Lecture Series featuring Angela KC Leung\, Night Two\, “The Power of a Malleable Everyday Food: Soy Sauce in Modern China””\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/how-soy-sauce-shapes-modern-china-the-power-of-an-everyday-food-2023-fairbank-center-reischauer-lecture-series-featuring-angela-kc-leung-night-two/ LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States CATEGORIES:Special Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/IMG_6568-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230328T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230328T180000 DTSTAMP:20260510T165711 CREATED:20230222T172504Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230618T224926Z UID:31734-1680021000-1680026400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:How Soy Sauce Shapes Modern China: The Power of an Everyday Food—2023 Fairbank Center Reischauer Lecture Series featuring Angela KC Leung\, Night One\, "Becoming an Everyday Food: Soy Sauce in the High Qing Period" DESCRIPTION:Register for hybrid zoom attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRead our blog post on this series of lectures: What Soy Sauce Can Tell Us About History\, Politics—and Chinese Identity \n\n\n\nThe lecture series examines the cultural and political meaning of soy sauce by tracing its long trajectory from an obscure elite condiment to a mundane\, everyday food in the modern period. The condiment acquired in the process the unique power of forging shared identities – familial\, communitarian\, regional and national\, becoming more recently a heritage food in different Chinese societies today. Its status as a popular\, necessary daily food endowed it with social and economic values that have made its production an integral part of state building for successive regimes – Qing\, Republican\, Socialist\, post-Socialist. Since the early 20th century\, soy sauce has been crafted with changing knowledge and techniques\, by experts in evolving institutions and enterprises\, and marketed to satisfy consumers’ shifting imaginations of their time\, community\, and environment.  \n\n\n\nTuesday\, March 28\, 2023\, 4:30pm Lecture 1: Becoming an Everyday Food: Soy Sauce in the High Qing PeriodThe explosion of soy sauce’s popularity as an everyday food in China is explained in the context of the mid-eighteenth-century integration of Manchuria\, which would become the world’s biggest soybean producer\, into the Qing Empire at the zenith of its political power. The development changed urban landscapes\, shaped everyday life and forged new urban identities.  \n\n\n\nWednesday\, March 29\, 2023\, 4:30pmLecture 2: The Power of a Malleable Everyday Food: Soy Sauce in Modern China Soy sauce as a super connector gained enormous power in the 19th and early 20th centuries:  It was made and offered to tighten bonds within lineages\, strengthen native place relationships\, and diplomatic ties. It symbolized communitarian and national solidarity\, hospitality and pride. Such immense power imbued the condiment with significant economic value.  \n\n\n\nThursday\, March 30\, 2023\, 4:30pmLecture 3: Soy Sauce in Crisis: China’s First Engagement with Technoscience Under deteriorating governance and facing the influx of industrial Japanese products\, Chinese soy sauce production was to be transformed as part of the state program of industrial modernization. The process produced a first generation of food scientists and technocrats navigating between codified scientific knowledge and traditional practices based on embodied skills\, an approach still valid in the 21st century when heritage sauces are being constructed. \n\n\n\nAngela Ki Che Leung is Chair Professor of History\, Joseph Needham-Philip Mao Professor in Chinese History\, Science and Civilization at the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences\, University of Hong Kong since 2011. After obtaining her doctoral degree at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales\, Paris\, she became a researcher at the Academia Sinica\, Taiwan\, in 1982\, and taught history at UCLA\, National Taiwan University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong\, and was elected Academician of the Academia Sinica in 2010. She has published in Chinese\, English and French on the history of Chinese philanthropy and history of medicine and health. Her books in English include Leprosy in China: A History (2009)\, Health and Hygiene in Chinese East Asia (2010\, co-edited with Charlotte Furth); Gender\, Health and History in East Asia (2017\, co-edited with Izumi Nakayama); Moral Foods: The Construction of Health Regimes in Modern Asia (2019\, co-edited with Melissa Caldwell). She led a Hong Kong government funded collaborative project on everyday technologies in modern East Asia from 2017-2022\, and is preparing an edited volume on Food Technoscience in East Asia and a monograph on the history of Chinese soy sauce.Also available via Zoom. Register at:  https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_uaNtmwT2SPiUyNxzpzF40w \n\n\n\n\n\nYouTube recording of “How Soy Sauce Shapes Modern China: The Power of an Everyday Food—2023 Fairbank Center Reischauer Lecture Series featuring Angela KC Leung\, Night One\, “Becoming an Everyday Food: Soy Sauce in the High Qing Period””\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/how-soy-sauce-shapes-modern-china-the-power-of-an-everyday-food-2023-fairbank-center-reischauer-lecture-series-featuring-angela-kc-leung-night-one/ LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States CATEGORIES:Special Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/IMG_6568-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230307T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230307T180000 DTSTAMP:20260510T165711 CREATED:20230201T164856Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230624T215815Z UID:31491-1678206600-1678212000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:The Stories We Tell: The Politics of History in China and the United States DESCRIPTION:Register for hybrid zoom attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRead our blog post on the event: The Stories We Tell: Can the U.S. and China Reset their Conflicting Narratives? \n\n\n\nSpeakers:Jill Lepore\, David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History and Affiliate Professor of Law\, Harvard University; Staff Writer\, The New YorkerWen YU\, Visiting Assistant Professor of History\, Boston College \n\n\n\nModerator: Michael Puett\, Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History and Anthropology\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nIf every nation needs a shared history\, what is our story\, and who gets to tell it? These questions haunt both the United States and China. \n\n\n\nThe revival of nationalist interpretations of American history has rekindled debates about the role of history in shaping the meaning of American identity and the country’s shared values. Since the creation of a shared history that begins with the nation’s founding ideals has been central to the construction of American identity\, debates about shared values in the United States are often inseparable from debates about the meaning of the past. Similarly\, in China throughout the 20th century and into the present\, the interpretation of Chinese national history has been the battlefield for defining the country’s identity and shared values. \n\n\n\nJill Lepore\, Professor of American History and author of “These Truths: A History of the United States\,” and Wen YU\, Visiting Assistant Professor of History at Boston College\, will examine the similarities between the ongoing debates in both countries. In a conversation moderated by Michael Puett\, Professor of Chinese History and Anthropology\, they will also explore the tensions between history as a nation-building story and as a mode of inquiry that allows for self-examination and the integration of the historical experiences of other societies. \n\n\n\nThe Fairbank Center Big Questions Initiative\, conceived by PhD candidate Benjamin Gallant\, aims to challenge conventional views of fixed cultural differences through a series of public conversations that examine how China\, America\, and other societies have debated and addressed ​​a similar set of central questions. By inviting prominent scholars from outside of Chinese studies to engage in dialogue with scholars studying China\, we hope to encourage the audience to think in more complex ways about China and the United States\, and in the process\, to gain a deeper understanding of how we are all connected. \n\n\n\nJill Lepore is the David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History and Affiliate Professor of Law at Harvard University. She is also a staff writer at The New Yorker. Her many books include\, “These Truths: A History of the United States” (2018)\, an international bestseller\, named one of Time magazine’s top ten non-fiction books of the decade. Her new book\, “The Deadline\,” will be published in 2023. She is currently working on a long-term research project called Amend\, an NEH-funded data collection of attempts to amend the U.S. Constitution. \n\n\n\nWen YU is a Visiting Assistant Professor of History at Boston College. She received her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2018 and served as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies at the University of Michigan from 2019 to 2021. Her research focuses on China’s history of social and political thought\, ideological movements\, and intellectual culture from the seventeenth century to the present. She is working on a book project based on her award-winning dissertation\, entitled “The Search for a Chinese Way in the Modern World: From the Rise of Evidential Learning to the Birth of Chinese Identity.” It explains how defining Chinese cultural identity has become central to the intellectual debates about the political system and moral values in modern China. \n\n\n\nMichael Puett is the Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History and Anthropology at Harvard University. His interests are focused on the inter-relations between history\, anthropology\, religion\, and philosophy\, with the hope of bringing the study of China into larger historical and comparative frameworks. He is the author of “The Ambivalence of Creation: Debates Concerning Innovation and Artifice in Early China” and “To Become a God: Cosmology\, Sacrifice\, and Self-Divinization in Early China.” His course\, “Classical Chinese Ethical and Political Theory\,” is one of the most popular courses at the university. \n\n\n\nBenjamin Gallant is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of East Asian Languages at Harvard University whose research focuses on the intellectual and legal history of early China. His dissertation project examines how people used and debated the past in ancient China as the emergence of legalist statecraft and an imperial bureaucracy introduced enormous tensions between the state\, the family\, and the individual. His research has been supported by the Fulbright Program\, the Gerda Henkel Foundation\, and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. \n\n\n\nAlso available on Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_d-hUobBFTZOvmU8n5amfzA \n\n\n\n\n\nYouTube recording of “The Stories We Tell: The Politics of History in China and the United States”\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-stories-we-tell-the-politics-of-history-in-china-and-the-united-states/ LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States CATEGORIES:Special Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/stories_we_tell_poster.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230302T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230302T173000 DTSTAMP:20260510T165711 CREATED:20230201T174729Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230618T224532Z UID:31498-1677772800-1677778200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:“Friends with No Limits?” The Future of China-Russia Relations DESCRIPTION:Register for hybrid zoom attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRead our blog post on the event: Friends with “No Limits”? A Year into War in Ukraine\, History Still Constrains Sino-Russian Relations \n\n\n\nSpeakers:Andrew S. Erickson\, Professor of Strategy and Research Director\, U.S. Naval War College (NWC) China Maritime Studies Institute (CMSI); Visiting Professor\, Government Department\, Harvard University; Associate in Research\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies.M. Taylor Fravel\, Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science\, Director of the Security Studies Program\, MITEmily Holland\, Assistant Professor\, Russia Maritime Studies Institute\, U.S. Naval War 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\nA year after the Russian invasion of Ukraine\, are China and Russia still “friends with no limits?” Since embracing that phrase\, Chinese President Xi Jinping has sought\, on occasion\, to publicly distance Beijing from Moscow. Is that actually happening\, or is this just a mirage?  Over the past year\, bilateral trade has more than doubled\, with China offering much-needed economic support to blunt the impact of Western sanctions. Could Chinese contributions undermine EU\, U.S.\, and G7 country sanctions and prolong Putin’s war? What are the prospects for Sino-Russian partnership in politics\, defense\, and intelligence? \n\n\n\nJoin us as leading experts examine how a new China-Russia axis is changing the global order. \n\n\n\nAndrew S. Erickson is Professor of Strategy and the Research Director in the U.S. Naval War College (NWC)’s China Maritime Studies Institute (CMSI). He is a Visiting Professor at the Harvard University Department of Government Department and an Associate in Research at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. Erickson helped establish CMSI in 2006 and has played an integral role in its development. CMSI inspired the creation of other research centers\, which he has advised and supported; he is a China Aerospace Studies Institute (CASI) Associate. He is also an Executive Committee member of Israel’s Haifa Maritime Center and a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He serves on the editorial boards of Naval War College Review and Asia Policy. \n\n\n\nM. Taylor Fravel is the Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science and Director of the Security Studies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Taylor studies international relations\, with a focus on international security\, China\, and East Asia. His books include Strong Borders\, Secure Nation: Cooperation and Conflict in China’s Territorial Disputes\, (Princeton University Press\, 2008) and Active Defense: China’s Military Strategy Since 1949 (Princeton University Press\, 2019). Taylor is a graduate of Middlebury College and Stanford University\, where he received his PhD. He also has graduate degrees from the London School of Economics and Oxford University\, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. In 2016\, he was named an Andrew Carnegie Fellow by the Carnegie Corporation. \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\nAlexandra Vacroux is Executive Director of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University. Her scholarly work addresses many Russian and Eurasian policy issues and she teaches popular courses on the comparative politics of Eurasia and post-Soviet conflict. As Director of Graduate Studies for the Davis Center’s MA program in regional studies\, she has mentored dozens of Harvard’s best and brightest students and regional experts. Alexandra lived in Moscow from 1992 to 2004. While there she held a number of positions\, including consultant for the Russian Privatization Agency; partner and head of sales at the Brunswick Warburg investment bank; and active member of the board of United Way Moscow.  \n\n\n\nAlso available via Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_C_UXFIGVTsOLdWGUcWGm_A \n\n\n\nThis event is co-sponsored by the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies\, Harvard University. \n\n\n\n\n\nYouTube recording of ““Friends with No Limits?” The Future of China-Russia Relations”\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/friends-with-no-limits-the-future-of-china-russia-relations/ LOCATION:Hall A\, Science Center\, 1 Oxford St.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States CATEGORIES:Special Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230228T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230228T150000 DTSTAMP:20260510T165711 CREATED:20230216T194626Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230617T214659Z UID:31681-1677587400-1677596400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Visiting Scholars Present: European-Chinese Imperial Maps\, China-South Korea (Is the Party Over?)\, and More DESCRIPTION:Register for hybrid zoom attendance\n\n\n\n\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 the social networks of Chinese equity analysts\, Korea-China relations\, European-Chinese imperial maps of Central Asia\, and land development in China. There will be an opportunity for Q & A discussion following each talk.  Please join us for all or some of the workshop!   \n\n\n\nLunch will be provided from 12:30 pm to participants. Welcome and introduction at 12:50 pm. Presentations will begin at 1:00 pm. \n\n\n\nSchedule of Presentations:  \n\n\n\n1:00 pm          European-Chinese Imperial Maps and Gazetteers Related to the Kazakh (Qazaq) Khanate and Its Adjacent Regions from the 16th to the 19th Centuries. \n\n\n\nProfessor Nurlan Kenzheakhmet\, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University \n\n\n\n1:30 pm          South-Korea-China Relations. At 30\, Is the Party Over? \n\n\n\nDr. Seong-Hyon Lee\, George H. W. Bush Foundation for U.S.-China Relations \n\n\n\n2:00 pm           Social Ties and Functions of Equity Analysts. \n\n\n\nGuangyu Li\, Ph.D. Candidate\, King’s College London \n\n\n\n2:30 pm          Land & Social Development (I): An Exploration of Huangzongxi Law and Huangyanpei Zhou Qi Lü in Chinese History《土地与社会发展（一）：中国历史上的“黄宗羲定律”与“黄炎培周期律”初探》 \n\n\n\nProfessor Xiongfei Zheng\, Beijing Normal University (This presentation will be in Chinese) \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nAlso via Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUuduCqrz8tGNQd8b3oKF7W6pgvtHSdGaxN \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/fairbank-center-visiting-scholars-present-research-in-china-studies/ LOCATION:CGIS South\, Room S153\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States CATEGORIES:Special Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/fairbank-topics-ph.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230206T203000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230206T220000 DTSTAMP:20260510T165711 CREATED:20230119T134922Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230617T043833Z UID:31360-1675715400-1675720800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Urban China Series featuring Tang Beibei - The Making of “New Citizens:” Landless Farmers and Urban Governance in China DESCRIPTION:Zoom meeting link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Tang Beibei\, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University \n\n\n\nThis talk examines landless farmers who have entered Chinese urban life as urban residents in an organized and managed way as cities expand and spread. It explores in what ways and to what extent the central government’s initiatives on the integration of landless farmers into the urban economy and urban society have been carried out at local levels and how the local state has responded to the emergence of landless farmers in the cities. Through qualitative research into landless farmers in the city of Suzhou\, this study explores urban development not only as incorporation through the market\, but also as economic and social integration through local governance. Governance of landless famers has become a local state-building process through developing local urbanization trajectories\, local fiscal strategies\, and inter-city competition. As a result\, the making of new citizens goes hand in hand with local state-building during China’s urbanization.  \n\n\n\n​Beibei Tang is Professor of China Studies at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University. She has undertaken extensive ethnographic research across different localities in China\, with particular focuses on local govern­ance\, social stratification\, and state-society relations in urban China. Her research is published in high-impact journals such as The China Quarterly\, The China Journal\, and Journal of Contemporary China. She is the author of Governing Neighborhoods in Urban China (Cornell University Press 2023) and China’s Housing Middle Class (Routledge 2018)\, the co-author of Class and the Communist Party of China\, 1978-2021 (Routledge 2022)\, the co-editor of Suzhou in Transition (Routledge 2021)\, and the winner of the 2015 Gordon White Prize (The China Quarterly). She is a member of the editorial board of The China Journal and The China Quarterly. \n\n\n\nThis event series is made possible by the generous support of the MIT Sustainable Urbanization Lab\, the School of Community and Regional Planning at the University of British Columbia\, and the Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/urban-china-series-featuring-tang-beibei/ LOCATION:Presented via Zoom CATEGORIES:Special Event,Urban China Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/cloris-ying-e8IK8Lye0i4-unsplash-scaled-e1686976678106.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221206T083000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221206T100000 DTSTAMP:20260510T165711 CREATED:20221201T165047Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230617T023723Z UID:30934-1670315400-1670320800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:White Paper Protests: What’s Happening in China? - Voices on the Ground DESCRIPTION:VIew event recording on youtube\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers:Ya-Wen Lei\, Associate Professor\, Department of Sociology\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nFrank Tsai\, Founder\, China Crossroads\, Shanghai \n\n\n\nSelina Wang\, International Correspondent\, CNN Beijing \n\n\n\nDavid Rennie\, Beijing Bureau Chief\, The Economist  \n\n\n\nModerator: Dorinda Elliott\, Executive Director\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard University  \n\n\n\nWhere did the White Paper Protests that have swept across China come from\, and where are they going? Join us for a Zoom discussion with journalists and entrepreneurs on the ground in China to explore the roots of discontent\, the protesters’ short-term demands\, and the outlook for change going forward. Will China relax its Zero Covid policy? Will the eruption of protests across China pose a long-term problem for Xi Jinping? Can China’s battered economy recover? \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPresented via Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_osg0I1JcTii2q9cMKPp8DQ \n\n\n\n\n\nYouTube recording of “White Paper Protests: What’s Happening in China? – Voices on the Ground”\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/white-paper-protests-whats-happening-in-china-voices-on-the-ground/ LOCATION:Presented via Zoom CATEGORIES:Special Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/protest_banner.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221205T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221205T154000 DTSTAMP:20260510T165711 CREATED:20221129T153534Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230617T040332Z UID:30880-1670243400-1670254800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Fairbank Center Visiting Scholars Present DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFairbank Center visiting scholars and fellows share their current research in China studies with the Harvard community. This workshop will feature five short presentations with an opportunity for Q & A discussion following each presentation.  Please join us for all or some of the workshop!   \n\n\n\nLunch will be provided at 12:30.  Please submit this reply form (https://forms.gle/5mKtDCyfjC9Yc5PbA) by December 1 if you will attend for lunch.  \n\n\n\nOr to join online please Register for the Zoom meeting:  https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUof–prT4vHtSF1tZdEjTja41_wL6morgc \n\n\n\nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Zoom meeting. \n\n\n\nSchedule: \n\n\n\n12:30 – 12:50 pm            Lunch provided \n\n\n\n12:50 – 1:00 pm              Welcome and Introductions \n\n\n\nPresentations each followed by Q & A: \n\n\n\n1:05 – 1:30 pm                  Yung-Ta Chien\, Visiting Scholar; Freelance Journalist \n\n\n\n                                             Brokering the Mobility of Vietnamese Workers to Taiwan \n\n\n\n1:30 – 1:55 pm                  Claudia Huang\, An Wang Postdoctoral Fellow; Assistant Professor\, California State University\, Long Beach \n\n\n\n                                             The Pursuit of Self-Fulfillment Among Retirees in Urban China \n\n\n\n1:55 – 2:05 pm                  Break \n\n\n\n2:05 – 2:30 pm                  Jung-Nam Lee\, Visiting Scholar; Professor\, Korea University \n\n\n\n                                            The “Chinese-style” Political System in the Xi Jinping Era: Focus on Quasi-Totalism \n\n\n\n2:30 – 2:40 pm                  Break \n\n\n\n2:40 – 3:05 pm                  Zheng Lin\, Visiting Scholar; Professor\, Sun Yat-Sen University \n\n\n\n                                             Villages-in-city of Pearl River Delta and Unfinished Modernity \n\n\n\n3:05 – 3:30 pm                  Jiaru Zhan\, Visiting Scholar; Associate Professor\, East China University of Political Science and Law \n\n\n\n                                              Integration of Post and Press Distribution in Shanghai in the 1950s \n\n\n\n3:30 – 3:40 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-present/ LOCATION:CGIS South\, Room S153\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States CATEGORIES:Special Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/fairbank-topics-ph.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221108T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221108T190000 DTSTAMP:20260510T165711 CREATED:20220928T131357Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230610T020727Z UID:29817-1667928600-1667934000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Panel Discussion - China's New Politics: What have we learned from the 20th Party Congress DESCRIPTION:Read the Transcript here\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers:Joseph Fewsmith\, Professor of International Relations and Political Science\, Boston University Pardee School of Global StudiesLucy Hornby\, Visiting Scholar\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Former Beijing correspondent\, Financial TimesAnthony Saich\, Director of the Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia and 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 Law School \n\n\n\nRead the Transcript Here: Read Transcript \n\n\n\n\n\nYouTube recording of “Panel Discussion – China’s New Politics: What have we learned from the 20th Party Congress”\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/panel-discussion-post-communist-party-congress-whats-next-for-china/ LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States CATEGORIES:Special Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/20th_party_congress_online_header.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221031T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221031T150000 DTSTAMP:20260510T165711 CREATED:20221027T172656Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230625T024157Z UID:30569-1667219400-1667228400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Visiting Scholars Present DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFairbank Center Scholars will share current research on China-North Korea relations\, Taiwan identity and history\, and land rights in China. Each short presentation will be followed by Q & A discussion. Please join us for all or part of the workshop!If attending by Zoom\, register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0lfuuqqD8jGtVqgJrijXeU-EDRc_Av2elO \n\n\n\n12:30 pm – Lunch12:50 pm – Welcome1:00 pm – Dr. Seong-Hyon Lee:  China-North Korea Relations in the Era of U.S.-China Rivalry1:30 pm – Prof. Chia-hung Tsai:  Interdependence and Independence: A Case Study of Taiwan2:00 pm – Dr. Nan-Hsu Chen:  Global Resources and China’s War Preparations in the 1870s2:30 pm – Dr. Saul Wilson: The Landlord State: Building State Control over Land Allocation2:55 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/ LOCATION:CGIS South\, Room S153\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States CATEGORIES:Special Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/fairbank-topics-ph.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221013T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221013T180000 DTSTAMP:20260510T165711 CREATED:20220928T130357Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230622T203923Z UID:29815-1665678600-1665684000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Panel Discussion - What Does China’s Rise Mean for the United States? DESCRIPTION:Register for hybrid zoom attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFor decades Americans have described China as a rising power. That description no longer fits: China has already risen. What does this mean for the US–China relationship? For the global economy and international security?  \n\n\n\nJoin the Fairbank Center for a panel discussion to explore these questions and celebrate the release of The China Questions 2: Critical Issues in US-China Relations. \n\n\n\nSpeakers:Andrew Erickson\, Professor of Strategy and Research Director\, Naval War College’s China Maritime Studies InstituteMeg Rithmire\, F. Warren MacFarlan Associate Professor in the Business\, Government\, and International Economy Unit\, Harvard Business SchoolMin Ye\, Associate Professor of International Relations\, Boston University Pardee School of Global Studies \n\n\n\nModerator: Maria Adele Carrai\, Assistant Professor of Global China Studies at NYU Shanghai\, Harvard University Asia Center AssociateAlso available on Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_rHUJi2YdT0mn32olwdHFKA \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/panel-discussion-what-does-chinas-rise-mean-for-the-united-states/ LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States CATEGORIES:Special Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/china_questions2_panel_fall2022-3.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220920T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220920T190000 DTSTAMP:20260510T165711 CREATED:20220829T152042Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220829T161154Z UID:29388-1663695000-1663700400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Panel Discussion - Making Meritocracy: Lessons from China and India\, from Antiquity to the Present DESCRIPTION:Speakers:Tarun Khanna\, Jorge Paolo Lemann Professor at Harvard Business School; Faculty Director of the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nMichael Szonyi\, Frank Wen-Hsiung Wu Memorial Professor of Chinese History\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nAjantha Subramanian\, Mehra Family Professor of South Asian Studies and Professor of Anthropology and South Asian Studies; Chair of the Anthropology Department\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nModerator: James Robson\, James C. Kralik and Yunli Lou Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations; William Fung Director of the Asia Center\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nWhat can India and China\, the world’s most populous countries\, teach us about meritocracy? In Making Meritocracy\, Professors Tarun Khanna and Michael Szonyi have gathered over a dozen experts from a range of disciplines to discuss how these two societies have addressed the issue of building meritocracy historically\, philosophically\, and in practice. India and China have considered how to identify and promote merit for centuries\, and their attempts at developing meritocracies in the past\, present\, and future holds lessons for each other\, and for the rest of the world. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/panel-discussion-making-meritocracy-lessons-from-china-and-india-from-antiquity-to-the-present/ LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States CATEGORIES:Special Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/cosponsored-lecture-thumbnail-e1705695585733.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211115T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211115T213000 DTSTAMP:20260510T165711 CREATED:20211104T172220Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211104T172220Z UID:11215-1637006400-1637011800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Panel Discussion - Cross-Strait Relations One Year After Biden's Election DESCRIPTION:Panelists:\nSteven Goldstein\, Sophia Smith Professor of Government at Smith College Emeritus and director of the Taiwan Studies Workshop\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard University\nAlastair Iain Johnston\, Laine professor of China in World Affairs\, Department of Government\, Harvard University\nSara Newland\, Assistant Professor\, Department of Government\, Smith College\nSzue-chin Philip Hsu\, Professor of Political Science\, Department of Political Science\, National Taiwan University\nYi-Feng Tao\, Associate Professor of Political Science\, Department of Political Science\, National Taiwan University\nJohnny Chi-chen Chiang\, Congressman\, the Republic of China (Taiwan) and chairperson of Kuomingtan (March 2020 – October 2021)\nMark Chih-Wei Ho\, Congressman\, the Republic of China (Taiwan) and member of the Central Standing Committee\, the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) \nModerator:\nGeorge Yin\, National Service Postdoctoral Research Fellow\, Department of Political Science\, National Taiwan University and Adjunct Research Fellow\, Center for China Studies\, National Taiwan University \nOne year after Biden’s election\, cross strait and US-China relations seem more unstable than during the Trump administration. If the status quo is desirable\, what can the U.S. and Taiwan do to maintain the status quo? This hybrid webinar brings together US and Taiwan scholars\, in addition to Taiwanese policymakers\, to explore the drivers of increasing tensions in the cross-strait area\, and to examine the credibility of proposed solutions. \nPresented via Zoom Webinar and from the Legislative Yuan in Tapei\n\nRegister for the Zoom Webinar at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_2RgCTSP7RLS04cd00ao9mw\n\nRegister for the in-person event in Taipei at: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe93zzXCSxzSLmYB0uLD1GSCUH01UFjTTQEoRvd_HY8NvdZFg/viewform \nLocation for the in-person event is: The Legislative Yuan\, Room 801\, No. 1\, Sec. 1\, Jinan Rd.\, Zhongzheng District\, Taipei City\, Taiwan 100台北市中正區濟南路一段1號，群賢樓801\nPlease note: this event will not be simulcast on our YouTube channel. URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/panel-discussion-cross-strait-relations-one-year-after-bidens-election/ LOCATION:The Legislative Yuan\, Room 801\, No. 1\, Sec. 1\, Jinan Rd.\, Zhongzheng District\, Taipei\, Taiwan CATEGORIES:Special Event,Taiwan ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211115T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211115T173000 DTSTAMP:20260510T165711 CREATED:20211019T135045Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220801T225843Z UID:11141-1636992000-1636997400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:2021 Charles Neuhauser Memorial Lecture featuring Evan S. Medeiros — Competition\, Coexistence and the Future of US-China Relations DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Evan Medeiros\, Penner Family Chair in Asian Studies and the Cling Family Senior Fellow in US-China Relations\, Georgetown University \nEvan S. Medeiros is a professor and Penner family chair in Asia studies in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He has published several books and articles on East Asia\, U.S.-China relations\, and China’s foreign and national security policies. He regularly provides advice and commentary to global corporations and international media in his current role as Senior Advisor with The Asia Group. \nDr. Medeiros’ background is a unique blend of regional expertise and government experience. He served for six years on the staff of the National Security Council as director for China\, Taiwan\, and Mongolia and then as special assistant to the president and senior director for Asia. In the latter role\, Dr. Medeiros was President Barack Obama’s top advisor on the Asia-Pacific and was responsible for coordinating U.S. policy toward the Asia-Pacific across areas of diplomacy\, defense policy\, economic policy\, and intelligence. Prior to joining the White House\, Medeiros worked for seven years as a senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation. From 2007 to 2008\, he also served as policy advisor to Secretary Hank Paulson Jr.\, working on the U.S.-China Strategic Economic Dialogue at the U.S. Department of Treasury. \nDr. Medeiros holds a Ph.D. in international relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science\, an M.Phil in international relations from the University of Cambridge\, an M.A. in China studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London\, and a B.A. in analytic philosophy from Bates College. \nDr. Medeiros is a member of the Board of Directors of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations\, a member of the International Advisory Board of Cambridge University’s Centre for Geopolitics\, and a Life Member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is married to Bernadette Meehan\, and they have a daughter\, Amelia \nPresented via Zoom Webinar \nAlso streaming on YouTube URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/2021-charles-neuhauser-memorial-lecture-featuring-evan-s-medeiros-competition-coexistence-and-the-future-of-us-china-relations/ LOCATION:MA CATEGORIES:Special Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211101T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211101T133000 DTSTAMP:20260510T165711 CREATED:20211001T134056Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220420T221850Z UID:11072-1635768000-1635773400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Panel Discussion: Overcoming Challenges in the Research Environment in China DESCRIPTION:Read the summary of the event here. \nPanelists:Elizabeth Perry\, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government at Harvard University and Director of the Harvard-Yenching InstituteDenise Ho\, Assistant Professor of 20th Century Chinese History\, Yale UniversityRobert Weller\, Professor of Anthropology\, Boston UniversityYuen Yuen Ang\, Associate Professor\, Department of Political Science\, University of Michigan \nModerator: Michael Szonyi\, Frank Wen-Hsiung Wu Memorial Professor of Chinese History and Director\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard University \nThis panel discussion will focus on guidance and advice for late-stage graduate students who are experiencing challenges accessing archives\, conducting interviews\, or who otherwise face the types of barriers faced when conducting research in China but are now intensified by the COVID-19 pandemic. \nRead the summary of the event here. \nPresented via Zoom Webinar \n***Note: This live discussion will NOT be simulcast on our YouTube channel nor available for viewing at a later date.***\nCo-sponsored by: URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/panel-discussion-overcoming-challenges-in-the-research-environment-in-china/ LOCATION:MA CATEGORIES:Events of Interest,Special Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210930T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210930T180000 DTSTAMP:20260510T165711 CREATED:20210908T165648Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220801T182227Z UID:11009-1633017600-1633024800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Fairbank Center Panel Discussion - Transnational Aging in the Chinese Diaspora DESCRIPTION:  \n \n \nPanel Participants:Sara L. Friedman\, Professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies\, Indiana UniversityRussell King\, Professor of Geography\, University of SussexSarah Lamb\, Barbara Mandel Professor of Humanistic Social Sciences and Professor of Anthropology\, Brandeis UniversityAndrea Louie\, Professor of Anthropology\, Michigan State UniversityNicole Newendorp\, Associate Director and Lecturer\, Social Studies\, Harvard UniversityKen Chih-Yan Sun\, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Criminology\, Villanova University \nNearly 4.3 million immigrants in the United States are age sixty-five and over. Research predicts that the number of nonwhite elderly immigrants will continue to grow\, doubling to 36 percent of the senior population by 2050. Although the Covid-19 pandemic has changed the lives of older migrants\, the familial and social networks in which they are embedded remain in place and can translate into important protective resources. At the same time\, Chinese societies – e.g.\, mainland China\, Taiwan\, and Hong Kong – have experienced rapid and large-scale social and cultural transformation over the past few decades\, resulting in complex feelings and competing perspectives by older migrants on their homeland(s). In this workshop\, six scholars in the fields of migration\, aging\, and Chinese studies grapple with the new frontier of studies on migration and life transition by focusing on two recent ethnographies about transnational aging in the Chinese diaspora. One highlights Chinese immigrants who relocate to the US at a later life stage; the other examines long-term Taiwanese immigrants who spent decades navigating life in American society and transnationally. Through our conversation\, we seek to collaboratively rethink major issues and the understudied dimensions of aging and migration. \n\n\nTranscript: Download Transcript URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/fairbank-center-panel-discussion-transnational-aging-in-the-chinese-diaspora/ LOCATION:MA CATEGORIES:Gender Studies,Special Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210628T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210628T110000 DTSTAMP:20260510T165711 CREATED:20210614T182428Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220801T183136Z UID:10797-1624872600-1624878000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Special Event - The State of Taiwan Studies: A Roundtable Discussion on Methods and Directions DESCRIPTION:Read the transcript of the event here. \nPanelistsJaw-Nian Huang\, Assistant Professor\, Graduate Institute of Development Studies\, National Chengchi University\, TaiwanLawrence Zi-Qiao Yang\, Assistant Professor\, Institute of Social Research and Cultural Studies\, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University\, TaiwanKevin Wei Luo\, Doctoral Fellow\, Hou Family fellow in Taiwan Studies\, Harvard UniversityLev Nachman\, PhD in political science\, UC Irvine \nDiscussantChing-fang Hsu\, Postdoctoral Fellow\, Research Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences\, Ministry of Science and Technology\, Taiwan \nThis roundtable discussion brings together past and present Hou Family Doctoral Fellows in Taiwan Studies at the Fairbank Center\, to discuss current methodological approaches and emerging thematic directions in the study of Taiwanese history\, society\, and politics. Bridging across disciplinary fields such as media studies\, history\, and political science\, the panelists will share their research experiences amid resurging interest in Taiwan\, and envision how this renewed conversation can help jumpstart the next generation of Taiwan studies. \nPresented via Zoom Webinar \n\n\nTranscript: Download Transcript URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-state-of-taiwan-studies-a-roundtable-discussion-on-methods-and-directions/ LOCATION:MA CATEGORIES:Special Event,Taiwan END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210621T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210623T075959 DTSTAMP:20260510T165711 CREATED:20210617T182445Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210617T182445Z UID:10814-1624262400-1624435199@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Meaningful Ageing: Shaping a Better Future for China’s Elderly DESCRIPTION:Monday\, June 21\, 2021 – 8:30-10:30 PM EDT\nTuesday\, June 22\, 2021 – 8:30-10:30 AM EDT \nThe challenges presented by the ageing of China’s population are vast and complex. Not only does ageing have major impacts on labor supply\, savings\, economic growth and social and family relationships\, ageing also necessitates re-imagining social systems—such as healthcare\, eldercare\, pension and housing—in order to sustainably support the elderly population in ageing well and living a meaningful life in China. The government has made confronting these challenges a national policy priority\, as seen in the 14th Five-Year Plan. The prominence of ageing in this national policy planning blueprint and the issue’s inclusion in subsequent talks by senior policymakers signify its importance for ensuring sustainable economic and social development into the future. \nThis event\, hosted by the Harvard China Health Partnership and Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, seeks to develop new and innovative ideas to help China develop a health and eldercare system to meet the needs of its ageing population in light of demographic shifts. Over multiple sessions\, we will assemble an interdisciplinary group of experts to share their ideas\, research and practical experience that could be adapted to the Chinese cultural\, social and institutional contexts. \nFor a complete agenda and speaker list\, click here. \nPresented via Zoom\nRegistration Required\nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_-NZAPfx1Q5C72MMlwExV_Q URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/meaningful-ageing-shaping-a-better-future-for-chinas-elderly/ LOCATION:MA CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Conference and Workshops,Special Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210507T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210507T103000 DTSTAMP:20260510T165711 CREATED:20210427T135003Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220802T002258Z UID:10688-1620378000-1620383400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Takashi Shiraishi - Maritime Asia vs. Continental Asia: National Strategies in a Region of Change DESCRIPTION:Read the transcript of the event here. \nSpeaker: Takashi Shiraishi\, Chancellor\, Prefectural University of Kumamoto; Professor Emeritus\, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS)\, Japan \nModerators:\nNargis Kassenova\, Senior Fellow\, Program on Central Asia\, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies\nJames Evans\, Communications Officer\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies; Ph.D. Candidate\, Department of History\, Harvard University\n\n\nThe tectonic shifts in today’s geopolitical landscape are having a particularly dramatic impact in Asia\, where the rise of China presents a growing challenge to the US-led order that has maintained peace and stability in the region since the end of the Cold War. In his book\, Takashi Shiraishi\, one of Japan’s leading authorities on Asia and national policy planning\, explores the deeper background and long-term trends behind the diplomatic challenges and dilemmas now facing Japan\, China\, ASEAN\, and the United States. One key question that he addresses: What accounts for the divide between the maritime states and the countries of mainland Asia? He discusses China’s Belt and Road Initiative from this broader perspective. \nCo-sponsored by the Davis Center; Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies; Program on U.S.-Japan Relations\, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs; and the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies. URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/takashi-shiraishi-maritime-asia-vs-continental-asia-national-strategies-in-a-region-of-change/ LOCATION:MA CATEGORIES:Special Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210427T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210427T213000 DTSTAMP:20260510T165711 CREATED:20210127T154051Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210127T154051Z UID:10316-1619553600-1619559000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Fairbank Center Annual Neuhauser Lecture featuring Wang Jisi - China and America: Is Peaceful Competition Possible? DESCRIPTION:Read the transcript of the event here. \nSpeaker: Wang Jisi\, Professor in the School of International Studies and president of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies\, Peking University \nWang Jisi is a professor in the School of International Studies and president of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies(IISS)\, Peking University(PKU). He is honorary president of the Chinese Association for American Studies\, and was a member of the Foreign Policy Advisory Committee of China’s Foreign Ministry in 2008-2016. \nAfter working as a laborer in the Chinese countryside in 1968-78\, Wang Jisi entered Peking University and obtained an MA degree there in 1983. He taught in Peking University’s Department of International Politics (1983-91)\, and then served as director of the Institute of American Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences until 2005. From 2005 to 2013\, Wang Jisi served as dean of the School of International Studies at Peking University. He was concurrently director of the Institute of International Strategic Studies of the Central Party School of the Communist Party of China from 2001 to 2009. \nWang Jisi was a visiting fellow or visiting professor at Oxford University (1982-83)\, University of California at Berkeley (1984-85)\, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor (1990-91)\, and Claremont McKenna College in California (2001). He was invited as a Global Scholar by Princeton University in 2011-15 and spent 9 months in total there with the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He has served as an adviser to a number of international institutions and journals\, including the Asia Society Policy Institute\, School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the American University in Cairo\, the journal The American Interest\, and the journal Global Asia. \nProfessor Wang’s scholarly interests cover U.S. foreign policy\, China’s foreign relations\, Asian security\, and global politics in general. He has published numerous works in these fields. \nThe Fairbank Center Annual Neuhauser Lecture \nPresented via Zoom Webinar URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/fairbank-center-annual-neuhauser-lecture-featuring-wang-jisi/ LOCATION:MA CATEGORIES:Special Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR