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SUMMARY:Discovering History in China: Remembering Paul Cohen
DESCRIPTION:We hope you will join us for a symposium and celebration of the late Paul Cohen\, a longtime Fairbank Center Associate and the Edith Stix Wasserman Professor of History and Asian Studies Emeritus at Wellesley College. Opening Remarks: Michael Szonyi\, Former Director\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Frank Wen-Hsiung Wu Memorial Professor of Chinese History\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nPanel Discussion: How Paul Cohen Changed HistoryModerator: Michael Szonyi\, Former Director\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Frank Wen-Hsiung Wu Memorial Professor of Chinese History\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nPanelists:Cynthia Brokaw\, Chen Family Professor of China Studies\, Brown UniversityAngela Ki Che Leung\, Professor Emerita\, Hong Kong University (video)Ellen Widmer\, Mayling Soong Professor of Chinese Studies\, emerita\, Wellesley College; Center Associate\, Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesGuoqi Xu\, David Chang Professor of Chinese history\, University of Hong Kong (video)Joseph Esherick\, Professor of History\, emeritus\, University of California San DiegoRemembrancesModerators:Waiyee Li\, 1879 Professor of Chinese Literature\, Harvard UniversityEllen Widmer\, Mayling Soong Professor of Chinese Studies\, emerita\, Wellesley College; Center Associate\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies \n\n\n\nSpeakers:Andrew Shennan\, Professor of History and Provost emeritus\, Wellesley CollegeC. Patterson Giersch\, Edith Stix Wasserman Professor in Asian Studies and Professor of History\, Wellesley CollegeJoanna Handlin Smith\, Editor emerita\, Harvard Journal of Asiatic StudiesCatherine Yeh\, Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature\, Boston UniversityDailan Xu\, Class of 2027\, Harvard CollegeAudience Remembrances \n\n\n\nSpecial Remarks:Elizabeth Sinn\, Honorary Professor\, Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences\, University of Hong KongCLOSING REMARKSWaiyee Li\, colleagueEllen Widmer\, colleagueReception to follow  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/discovering-history-in-china-remembering-paul-cohen/
LOCATION:Lower Level Conference Center Rooms 4-5\, Gutman Library\, 6 Appian Way\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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SUMMARY:China’s Political Economy: Challenges and Opportunities — Presentations by Fairbank Center Visiting Scholars and Fellows
DESCRIPTION:Presentations: \n\n\n\nLingang Zhou\, Associate Professor\, School of Politics and International Affairs\, East China Normal University; 2025-26 Visiting Scholar\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies The Progressive Logic of the PRC’s ConstitutionThe PRC’s constitution was initially established on the basis of a differentiated allocation of political power. First\, the exploiting classes were deprived of the right to vote. Second\, voting rights were distributed unequally between workers and peasants. However\, at the level of constitutional law\, both forms of inequality were gradually eliminated. By no later than 2010\, formal equality in voting rights had been achieved within the system. Yet the dominant interpretation of the principle of equality remains unchanged. This has led to an inconsistency between interpretation and institutional reality. Exploring this inconsistency can help reveal the progressive logic underlying it.Yixiao Zhou\, Associate Professor in Economics and Director of the China Economy Program\, Crawford School of Public Policy\, The Australian National University; 2025-26 Visiting Scholar\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies The Impact of Chinese Firms on Global Competition Since China’s market-oriented reforms and accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO)\, the share of Chinese firms in the global market has expanded significantly in recent decades. In this talk\, Yixiao Zhou examines how the increase in China’s global market share has reshaped global competition. She examines how competitive pressure varies between firms of different market power\, size\, geographic locations\, and industry sectors. \n\n\n\nYunli Lou\, Founder and Managing Partner\, Milestone Capital Partners; 2025-26 Visiting Fellow of Practice\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies China’s Path to Energy Security – what has been achieved and what can be learned?For more than a decade\, China has been deliberately building an energy infrastructure and supply chain with a goal to reduce reliance on imports\, dramatically increase clean energy production and consumption\, and achieve a high degree of energy self-sufficiency. This will only be accomplished through a fundamental transformation of its energy system\, moving from a fossil-fuel dominant structure to one led by new energy sources.   \n\n\n\nBased on her experience investing in renewable and battery companies in China over the last 20 years\, Yunli Lou will present a case study to illustrate the opportunities and challenges for firms in China’s new energy sector. \n\n\n\nDiscussant: Mark Wu\, Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law\, Harvard Law School; Director\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/fairbank-center-visiting-scholar-presentations-4/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S354\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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SUMMARY:Benjamin Ho — After Liberalism? Political Myths\, Order-Building and The Return of History in East Asia 
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Benjamin Ho\, Assistant Professor and Coordinator\, China Programme; S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS)\, SingaporeModerator: Mark Wu\, Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law\, Harvard Law School; Director\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard UniversityIn recent years\, questions have been posed regarding the durability of the current rules-based (liberal) international order and what this means for the practice of international relations. In this novel study\, Benjamin Ho\, an assistant professor from the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies\, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) argues of the importance of political myths shaping preferences of international order in Northeast Asia\, focusing on three key states\, namely China\, Japan and South Korea. He shares that existing political myths provide stronger narrative justification compared to national interests (defined purely materially) for these countries to adopt or reject certain aspects of the international order. States will view the international order as good or just if the characteristics of such an order support and allow for preservation for domestic myths. On the other hand\, states will view the international order unfavourably if the characteristics of this order run up or challenge their ability to preserve domestic myths. Notwithstanding the various global conflicts the world is witnessing today\, Ho contends that states continue to desire order – as opposed to disorder – in global affairs and the enduring role of mythos in structuring political relations with one another \n\n\n\nDr. Benjamin Ho is Assistant Professor and Coordinator at the China Programme\, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS)\, Singapore. He obtained his PhD from the Department of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science\, UK under a RSIS PhD scholarship. His research focus includes the study of China’s international relations\, with an emphasis on Chinese political worldview and exceptionalism thinking. Other research interests include security multilateralism in the Asia Pacific region with a focus on regional institutions and fora\, national security (intelligence)\, the sociology of religion and public theology (Christianity). He is the author of the book China’s Political Worldview and Chinese Exceptionalism: International Order and Global Leadership (Amsterdam University Press\, 2021) and is working on his second book project on Political Myths and International Order in Northeast Asia (with a focus on China\, Japan and South Korea). He has also published in journals such as China Quarterly\, Journal of Contemporary China\, Asian Journal of Comparative Politics\, The Washington Quarterly\, The National Interest\, Asia Policy\, and the Australian Journal of International Affairs. He was a Fulbright scholar at the Elliot School of International Affairs (George Washington University between 2021-2022)\, a Taiwan MOFA Fellow at the Institute of Political Science Academia Sinica (Taiwan) in 2022 and a Republic of Korea-ASEAN Scholar at the Korea National Diplomatic Academy in 2025.Co-sponsored by the Program on US-Japan Relations\, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs\, Harvard University \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/benjamin-ho-after-liberalism-political-myths-order-building-and-the-return-of-history-in-east-asia/
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