BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies - ECPv6.16.2//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:20211115T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211115T173000 DTSTAMP:20260529T120021 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:20211115T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211115T213000 DTSTAMP:20260529T120021 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:20220920T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220920T190000 DTSTAMP:20260529T120021 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:20221013T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221013T180000 DTSTAMP:20260529T120021 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:20221031T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221031T150000 DTSTAMP:20260529T120021 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:20221108T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221108T190000 DTSTAMP:20260529T120021 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:20221205T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221205T154000 DTSTAMP:20260529T120021 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:20221206T083000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221206T100000 DTSTAMP:20260529T120021 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:20230206T203000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230206T220000 DTSTAMP:20260529T120021 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:20230228T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230228T150000 DTSTAMP:20260529T120021 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:20230302T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230302T173000 DTSTAMP:20260529T120021 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:20230307T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230307T180000 DTSTAMP:20260529T120021 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:20230328T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230328T180000 DTSTAMP:20260529T120021 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:20230329T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230329T180000 DTSTAMP:20260529T120021 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:20230330T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230330T180000 DTSTAMP:20260529T120021 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:20230404T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230404T180000 DTSTAMP:20260529T120021 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:20230421T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230421T170000 DTSTAMP:20260529T120021 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:20230509T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230509T153000 DTSTAMP:20260529T120021 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:20230516T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230516T110000 DTSTAMP:20260529T120021 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:20230925T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230925T180000 DTSTAMP:20260529T120021 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:20231128T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231128T143000 DTSTAMP:20260529T120021 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:20231212T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231212T140000 DTSTAMP:20260529T120021 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:20240220T171500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240220T183000 DTSTAMP:20260529T120021 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:20240227T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240227T181500 DTSTAMP:20260529T120021 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:20240321T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240321T150000 DTSTAMP:20260529T120021 CREATED:20240306T174033Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240319T173148Z UID:35827-1711027800-1711033200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/boandy.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240411T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240411T180000 DTSTAMP:20260529T120021 CREATED:20240327T162214Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240410T185649Z UID:35974-1712853000-1712858400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/apr11.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240412T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240413T173000 DTSTAMP:20260529T120021 CREATED:20240329T133311Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240329T133313Z UID:36001-1712914200-1713029400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/performance-theory.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240415T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240415T133000 DTSTAMP:20260529T120021 CREATED:20240305T181550Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240402T134811Z UID:35818-1713183300-1713187800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/esherick.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240418T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240418T150000 DTSTAMP:20260529T120021 CREATED:20240325T172420Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240328T171437Z UID:35926-1713447000-1713452400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/mackinnon.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240422T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240422T200000 DTSTAMP:20260529T120021 CREATED:20240410T180858Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240419T183014Z UID:36141-1713803400-1713816000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/gate-of-heavenly-peace.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR