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SUMMARY:PRC @ 75 – Film Screening – The Dreamers Revisited: Bumming in Beijing (Original Extended Version)\, featuring an introduction by Eugene Yuejin Wang & Q+A with Wu Wenguang and Dingru Huang
DESCRIPTION:Introduction: Eugene Yuejin Wang\, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art; Founding Director of Harvard FAS CAMLab\, Harvard University.
Q+A Discussion: Dingru Huang\, Rumsey Family Junior Professor in the Humanities and the Arts\, Department of International Literary and Cultural Studies\, Tufts University; former Fairbank Center associateProgrammer: Sam Maclean\, Communications Manager\, Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesFollowed by a Zoom Q+A with filmmaker Wu Wenguang\, director of Bumming in Beijing: The Last Dreamers \n\n\n\n“I hope I can find a secure place to settle\, giving me enough time to create my art freely. That’s not too much to ask\, is it?” — painter Zhang Dali \n\n\n\nOften referred to as the first independent Chinese documentary ever made\, Bumming in Beijing: The Last Dreamers (1990) follows five young\, migrant artists—photographer Gao Bo\, playwright Mou Sen\, writer Zhang Ci\, and painters Zhang Dali and Zhang Xiaping—as they navigate the complexities of sociopolitical life in their adopted home of Beijing in the late 1980s.  \n\n\n\nThe subjects of the film (most of whom are now internationally recognized\, exhibited\, and award-winning artists in their respective fields) here refer to themselves\, alternately\, as “vagrants\,” “migrants\,” and “freelancers.” Some attended university in Beijing in the early 1980s\, while others migrated from rural parts of Heilongjiang\, Liaoning\, and Sichuan to look for work. The film’s director\, Wu Wenguang\, himself migrated to Beijing from Yunnan in 1988\, originally to take a position at CCTV. But after 1989\, Wu’s situation began to mirror that of his subjects—a struggling\, independent artist searching for free modes of expression. \n\n\n\nBumming in Beijing began its production life in 1988\, as an episode of a CCTV documentary series which would eventually be shelved for being too sensitive for its depiction of restless\, counterculture youths. In the fall of 1989\, Wu discreetly revived the project\, independently\, relying on the close relationships that he had developed with his subjects to draw out their feelings on a range of hot-button contemporary issues—residence permits\, economic inequality\, the commodification of art\, the position of women in the society\, and the temptation to go abroad—and using his remnant CCTV resources to complete an initial\, 134-minute version of the film. \n\n\n\nSubsequently\, a much shorter\, 68-minute version of Bumming in Beijing was created for international audiences\, screened at various film festivals\, and developed a reputation as one of the foundational works of China’s “New Documentary” film movement.  \n\n\n\nFor this screening\, we present the original\, extended cut of the film (which was only recently subtitled in English). This version offers a more immersive experience of what it was like occupying spaces on the margins of society at one of the most fraught and volatile moments in recent Chinese history. The filmmaking also strikes a balance between talking head-style documentary and long\, dialogue-less passages observing the subjects’ domestic life and artistic practice. It’s a more raw vision—Wu can be heard off-screen instructing his cinematographer how and when to move the camera; you can identify moments\, especially in earlier shot scenes\, when Wu is still working out how to approach his subjects—but all this strengthens the connective tissue between the mode of the film’s production and the social discourses it’s documenting\, resulting in a moving portrait of free and creatively resourceful art in the face of oppression. \n\n\n\nEugene Yuejin Wang is the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art at Harvard University\, where he holds appointments in History of Art and Architecture\, Archeology\, Theater\, Dance\, and Media (TDM)\, Study of Religion\, and Inner Asia and Altaic Studies. A Guggenheim Fellow\, he is the author of the award-winning Shaping the Lotus Sutra: Buddhist Visual Culture in Medieval China. He is also the art history editor of Encyclopedia of Buddhism. His research ranges from early art and archaeology to modern art\, media\, and cinema. He is also the founding director of Harvard CAMLab\, which explores the nexus of cognition\, aesthetics\, and multimedia storyliving through expanded cinema and filmic installations.Dingru Huang is the Rumsey Family Assistant Professor in the Department of International Literary and Cultural Studies. Before joining Tufts\, she was at the University of California\, Berkeley\, as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Chinese Studies. Her research explores the entanglement of cultural production\, technological development\, and ecological imaginations in China and East Asia\, particularly the roles played by nonhuman animals. She has been published in peer-reviewed journals\, such as Modern Chinese Literature and Culture\, Ex-Position\, Wenxue\, and the Chung-wai Literary Quarterly.  \n\n\n\nThe Fairbank Center’s film screening series explores the largely unseen early history of independent film in China\, beginning in the late 1980s\, aiming to unearth films long-suppressed by Chinese authorities to fill out the narrative of modern film history in the PRC. \n\n\n\nBumming in Beijing (Original\, Extended Version)\, directed by Wu Wenguang. China\, 1990\, documentary\, 134 min. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/prc-75-film-screening-the-dreamers-revisited-bumming-in-beijing-original-extended-version-featuring-an-introduction-by-eugene-yuejin-wang/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film Screening,Special Event
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SUMMARY:Visiting Fellow Presentation and Discussion featuring Mitch Presnick — Leveraging China's Strengths as Alternative to Decoupling: Opportunities for Multinational Companies
DESCRIPTION:register for zoom meeting\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Mitch Presnick\, Visiting Fellow of Practice\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies; Founder\, Super 8 Hotels\, ChinaDiscussant: William Kirby\, Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration and T.M. Chang Professor of China Studies\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nIn 1978\, Deng Xiaoping Relaunched his “Reform and Opening” policy to leverage Western technology and know-how for China’s development … Deng recognized that China’s modernization required both pragmatism and humility. Today\, the roles are reversing. Leaders of multinational corporations must adopt a certain Deng-like pragmatism and humility.  Those who do will see profitable global growth and will have a leg up in their home markets\, provided they seize opportunities in the four key strengths of the Chinese economy. \n\n\n\nPresented via Zoom. Register here. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/visiting-fellow-presentation-and-discussion-featuring-mitch-presnick-leveraging-chinas-strengths-as-alternative-to-decoupling-opportunities-for-multinational-companies/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241107T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241107T130000
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SUMMARY:Transforming Classical Chinese Texts into Searchable Databases with AI
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Guenther Lomas\, Founder\, Sigtica \n\n\n\nAs artificial intelligence becomes integral to the digital humanities\, it offers innovative methods that transform research capabilities and uncover new insights into historical texts and cultural narratives. This talk will demonstrate how AI-powered pipelines can process large volumes of unstructured classical Chinese texts\, such as genealogies and Qing dynasty government employee records\, including those from the Da Qing jin shen quan shu\, into organized\, searchable databases. \n\n\n\nThe pipeline addresses a longstanding challenge in classical Chinese studies: the labor-intensive manual data entry process. It is designed to efficiently process millions of pages from historical Chinese texts\, tackling complexities like layout identification and precision in text extraction. Central to this effort is customized Optical Character Recognition (OCR)\, which enhances data extraction accuracy and identifies key fields using Named Entity Recognition (NER) models. The result is clean\, tabular databases that improve accessibility\, allowing researchers to analyze Chinese historical content with unprecedented efficiency. Furthermore\, this methodology holds potential applications for other languages\, including Japanese\, Korean\, Arabic and Latin\, broadening its impact. \n\n\n\nBy exploring these methodologies and their implications\, this presentation aims to show how integrating advanced technological tools enriches scholarly inquiry in the digital humanities\, providing deeper insights into patterns and narratives within Chinese history and beyond. This approach promises to revolutionize data collection\, paving the way for alternative research practices across various linguistic contexts. \n\n\n\nLunch will be provided. Registration required \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/transforming-classical-chinese-texts-into-searchable-databases-with-ai/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S354\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241107T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241107T180000
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SUMMARY:PRC @ 75 – Memory as Resistance: From Tiananmen to Hong Kong featuring Rowena Xiaoqing He
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Rowena Xiaoqing He (何曉清)\, Senior Research Fellow\, University of Texas Austin; author\, Tiananmen Exiles: Voices of the Struggle for Democracy in ChinaDiscussant: Anthony Saich\, Daewoo Professor of International Affairs; Director\, Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia\, Harvard Kennedy School \n\n\n\nThis talk is grounded in over two decades of fieldwork on the preservation of historical memory tabooed by the CCP regime. Drawing on contextualized personal accounts\, Rowena He will illuminate the unequal contest between state-imposed interpretations of history and independent scholarship on China’s forbidden past\, and their implications for nationalism\, democratization\, and the field of China Studies. Highlighting her extensive interactions with local and mainland Chinese students during Hong Kong’s unprecedented social movement\, she illustrates how memory becomes a form of resistance that embodies citizen autonomy and agency. The power of the powerless. \n\n\n\nRowena Xiaoqing He (何曉清) is a China specialist and historian of modern China. She is interested in the nexus of history\, memory\, and power\, and their implications for the relationship between academic freedom and public opinion\, human rights and democratization\, and youth values and nationalism. Her first book\, Tiananmen Exiles: Voices of the Struggle for Democracy in China\, was named Top Five Books 2014 by the Asia Society’s China File. The book has been reviewed in the New York Review of Books\, Wall Street Journal\, Financial Times\, New Statesman\, Spectator\, Christian Science Monitor\, China Journal\, Human Rights Quarterly\, and other international periodicals. Her research has been supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada\, Harvard University’s Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton\, and the National Humanities Center. Dr. He received the Harvard University Certificate of Teaching Excellence for three consecutive years for the Tiananmen courses that she created. She joined the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2019 and received the Faculty of Arts Outstanding Teaching Award in 2020 and 2021. In 2023\, she was denied a Hong Kong work visa to return to her position as an Associate Professor of History. Her op-eds have appeared in the Washington Post\, The Nation\, The Guardian\, The Globe and Mail\, and The Wall Street Journal. She was designated among the Top 100 Chinese Public Intellectuals 2016. Born and raised in China\, she received her Ph.D. from the University of Toronto. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/prc-75-memory-as-resistance-from-tiananmen-to-hong-kong-featuring-rowena-he/
LOCATION:Hall A\, Science Center\, 1 Oxford St.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241112T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241112T114500
DTSTAMP:20260529T133722
CREATED:20240819T145109Z
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SUMMARY:Fei Huang — Bathing Through Time and Landscape: A Longue Durée History of Hot Springs in China (1000–1945)
DESCRIPTION:Register for Zoom session\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker:  Fei Huang\, Professor of Chinese History and Society\, University of Tübingen  \n\n\n\nPart of the Science and Technology in Asia series. Sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center. Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies \n\n\n\nPresented via Zoom. Register at: https://scholar.harvard.edu/seow/STinAsia \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/fei-huang-bathing-through-time-and-landscape-a-longue-duree-history-of-hot-springs-in-china-1000-1945/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241125T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241125T110000
DTSTAMP:20260529T133722
CREATED:20241022T160107Z
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SUMMARY:Household Registration: A Tale of Two Cities
DESCRIPTION:zoom registration\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Anthony Saich\, Director of the Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia and Daewoo Professor of International Affairs\, Harvard Kennedy SchoolDiscussant: Rana Mitter\, S.T. Lee Professor of US-Asia Relations\, Harvard Kennedy School \n\n\n\nThe household registration system (hukou) is widely seen as a major factor contributing to inequality in China. Individuals’ benefits depend on where their registration is located\, with rural residents enjoying considerably less welfare support than their urban counterparts. This has been especially problematic for migrant laborers. There have been calls to abolish the system\, and even the central leadership has advocated for its amendment or removal. Yet\, many cities maintain it in some form. This talk explains why.  \n\n\n\nBefore reforms\, policy was exogenous\, determined by Beijing. Subsequently\, changes have become exogenous\, driven by bottom-up initiatives to modify the system. An examination of the cities of Shijiazhuang and Zhengzhou reveals how the local political economy shapes the outcomes of hukou reform.  \n\n\n\nPresented via Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ysKe4YuNR_-oX7x9nRFMig \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/household-registration-a-tale-of-two-cities/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250218T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250218T150000
DTSTAMP:20260529T133722
CREATED:20250210T190743Z
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SUMMARY:Weixin XU — Ukraine Every Day: An Artist’s Diary of 1\,090 Digital Drawings
DESCRIPTION:Artist Weixin XU has been working on his art project “Ukraine Every Day” since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Xu has completed almost 700 works using an iPad application. The portfolio includes portraits of soldiers\, political figures\, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky\, as well as scenes of the war. These images give voice to the artist’s hope for justice\, peace\, and resolution and his solidarity with the people of Ukraine. \n\n\n\nWeixin XU was born in Urumqi\, Xinjiang province\, in 1958\, and now lives and works in New York and Beijing. He received a BA from the Xi’an Academy of Arts and an MFA from the Zhejiang Academy of Arts. Xu has combined his interest in universal human conditions with a stark Realist style that is deeply rooted in China’s modern art history. His most recent works are single-person portrait series\, whose subjects share the same historic time or environment\, merging personal and collective narratives. Xu’s critically acclaimed works have been exhibited and collected by public institutions and private collections in China. Solo exhibitions include Song of Workers (Shanghai Art Museum\, 2007)\, Chinese Historical Figures: 1966-1976（Today Art Museum\, Beijing\, 2007)\, and China Image: Portrait in Circulation (Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard University\, 2011). He is currently a professor of painting and the former executive dean of the School of Arts\, Renmin University\, Beijing. In 2016\, Xu had his first major solo exhibition in USA at the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/weixin-xu-an-artists-diary-of-1090-digital-drawings/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Room S153\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250225T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250225T133000
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SUMMARY:Esther Hu — Soong Mayling and Wartime China\, 1937-1945: Deploying Words as Weapons
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Esther Hu\, Research Affiliate\, Boston University Center for the Study of Asia\, Pardee School of Global StudiesChair: William Kirby\, T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies; Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration; Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor; Director\, Harvard China Fund \n\n\n\nSoong Mayling and Wartime China\, 1937-1945: Deploying Words as Weapons focuses on the First Lady of China’s timely and critical contributions in the areas of war\, women’s work\, and diplomacy during China’s War of Resistance as inflected through gender. This book explores Soong Mayling through her own words by examining her speeches\, essays\, letters\, telegrams\, and news reports during the war period. How did Madame Chiang Kai-shek’s gender identity shape her interactions with other Chinese women\, the male military and political leadership in the Republic of China\, and the broader global public? How did Confucianism’s cardinal virtues and Chinese Christianity converge in Soong Mayling’s work and worldview? What were her main contributions as Secretary-General of the Chinese Air Force? Drawing on Chinese archival materials such as Chiang Kai-shek’s diaries and other records around the world\, Esther Hu provides a historically informed perspective of the First Lady’s legacy within the context of World War II history\, international cultural and military affairs\, and transnational geopolitics. \n\n\n\nBefore joining the faculty of Boston University in 2005 as an Assistant Professor in the Humanities\, Professor Hu had taught at Cornell University (John S. Knight Institute\, First-Year-Writing Seminars) and Chung Yuan Christian University (College of Humanities and Education). \n\n\n\nProfessor Hu is an Associate in Research at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University and a Fellow of the International History Institute at Boston University. Dr. Hu has published many essays\, book reviews\, and encyclopedia entries and is the English translator of Soong Mayling’s Chinese-language pictorial biography\, A Legacy of Grace and Resilience: Soong Mayling and her Era (2023; 2nd Ed. 2024). \n\n\n\nLunch will be provided. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/esther-hu-soong-mayling-and-wartime-china-1937-1945-deploying-words-as-weapons/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S250\, 1730 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250306T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250306T140000
DTSTAMP:20260529T133722
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SUMMARY:Jishun Zhang — Revolution in the Lilong and Its Legacy: Revisiting Shanghai Residents’ Committees in the Mao Zedong Era
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Jishun Zhang\, 2024-25 Professor Emeritus of the Si-Mian Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities of East China Normal University; Fairbank Center 2024-2025 Visiting Scholar \n\n\n\n*This talk will be presented in Mandarin* \n\n\n\nFrom April to May 2022\, Shanghai’s 61-day COVID-19 lockdown saw the sudden reassertion of the once-dormant Residents’ Committees. Their resurgence raises critical questions: Is this the same institution as before? Why did it appear absent for decades? Did it dissolve or integrate into broader institutional frameworks? Was its revival driven by lingering revolutionary mobilization\, a resurgence of Mao-era campaign-style governance\, or specific contingencies? These inquiries underscore the enduring significance of grassroots governance in the PRC. The 2022 lockdown offers a lens to reassess Shanghai’s Residents’ Committees beyond the 1949 divide and challenge the assumed rupture of 1979\, highlighting both continuities and transformations in CCP urban governance. \n\n\n\nJishun Zhang is Professor Emeritus of the Si-Mian Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities of East China Normal University. She studies the history of modern China\, with a focus on Shanghai’s history. Her research specifically focuses on grassroots social governance and cultural transformation in the Mao era. She is working with Professor Yuhua Wang in the Harvard University Department of Government on her current project\, “The Lane Revolution and Its Legacy: Revisiting Shanghai Neighborhood Committees in Mao’s Era.”  \n\n\n\nProfessor Zhang’s books include Chinese Intellectuals’ Views on America\, 1943-1953\, (Fudan University Press\, 1999) and A City Displaced: Shanghai in the 1950s (Social Sciences Academic Press\, 2015). Zhang is a graduate of Beijing Normal University and Fudan University\, where she received her Ph.D. She was a Visiting Scholar at the Institute of East Asia Studies at UC Berkeley in 1994-95 and was a coordinate professor in the Harvard-Yenching Institute in 2012-2013. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/jishun-zhang-revolution-in-the-lilong-and-its-legacy-revisiting-shanghai-residents-committees-in-the-mao-zedong-era/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Room S153\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250310T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250310T180000
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SUMMARY:Panel Discussion — Three Years In\, Prospects for Peace? China-Russia-North Korea Relations on the Third Anniversary of Putin’s Ukraine War
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:Andrew S. Erickson\, Professor of Strategy\, U.S. Naval War College China Maritime Studies Institute; Visiting Scholar\, Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesEmily J. Holland\, Assistant Professor\, Naval War College Russia Maritime Studies Institute; former postdoctoral fellow\, Davis CenterVitaly Kozyrev\, Distinguished Professor of Political Science & International Studies\, Endicott CollegeSeong-hyon Lee\, Visiting Scholar\, Harvard University Asia Center; Senior Fellow\, George H.W. Bush Foundation for US-China Relations \n\n\n\nModerator: Mark Wu\, Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law\, Harvard Law School; Director\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies \n\n\n\nFebruary 24\, 2025 marks the three-year anniversary of Putin’s devastating Ukraine invasion. Among its many reverberations are ramifications for Sino-Russian relations\, which continue to deepen despite lingering differences between the great powers and the revisionist autocrats leading them. Emerging and potential impacts include increasing energy and resource transactions\, alignment in the form of international strategic coordination and demonstrations of their partnership on the world stage\, collaboration in military technology and operations\, and maritime-security advances. And what role is North Korea playing in this complex geopolitical dance? Expert panelists will discuss these complicated dynamics and pressing issues as the Trump Administration pursues a conclusion to the devastating Russia-Ukraine War while Beijing\, Moscow\, and Peongyang strive to shape events in their favor. \n\n\n\nThis event is co-sponsored by the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies\, Harvard University and the Korea Institute\, Harvard University. \n\n\n\nAndrew S. Erickson is a Professor of Strategy in the U.S. Naval War College (NWC)’s China Maritime Studies Institute\, which he helped establish and has served as Research Director\, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He testifies periodically before Congress and briefs leading officials\, including the Secretary of Defense. Erickson helped to escort the Commander of China’s Navy on a visit to Harvard and subsequently to establish\, and to lead the first iteration of\, NWC’s first naval officer exchange program with China. He has received the Navy Superior Civilian Service Medal\, NWC’s inaugural Civilian Faculty Research Excellence Award\, and NBR’s inaugural Ellis Joffe Prize for PLA Studies. His research focuses on Indo-Pacific defense\, international relations\, technology\, and resource issues. Dr. Erickson was a 2019-2022 Visiting Scholar. \n\n\n\nEmily Holland is an assistant professor in the Russia Maritime Studies Institute at the U.S. Naval War College. Previously\, she was an assistant professor at the U.S. Naval Academy\, a postdoctoral fellow at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University and a visiting fellow at the German Institute for Economic Research (Berlin) and the European Council on Foreign Relations (Berlin). Professor Holland’s research has appeared in The Journal of International Affairs\, Newsweek and Lawfare\, among other publications. \n\n\n\nVitaly Kozyrev is Distinguished Professor of Political Science and International Studies at Endicott College in Beverly\, MA\, and Associate in Research at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University. His major interest is great power politics\, East-West relations\, international conflict\, and the political economy of regionalism and regional integration. \n\n\n\nSeong-Hyon Lee is a Senior Fellow at the George H.W. Bush Foundation for U.S.-China Relations\, focusing his research on South and North Korea. He received his Ph.D. from Tsinghua University and a Master of Theological Studies from Harvard University. Dr. Lee was formerly the Director of the Center for Chinese Studies at the Sejong Institute in Seoul\, South Korea\, a Pantech Fellow at the Stanford Korean Studies Program\, and a Visiting Scholar at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard University. He has provided briefings regarding the implications of China’s rise on South Korea and U.S.-China relations to South Korean presidential candidates. \n\n\n\nMark Wu is the Director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University and the Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law at Harvard Law School\, where he teaches international trade and international economic law. He recently returned to Harvard after serving as Senior Advisor in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative. Prior to academia\, Wu worked as an engagement manager for McKinsey & Co.\, where he focused on high-tech companies. He began his career as an economist and operations officer for the World Bank in China\, working on environmental\, urban development\, health\, and rural poverty issues.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/panel-discussion-three-years-in-prospects-for-peace-china-russia-north-korea-relations-on-the-third-anniversary-of-putins-ukraine-war/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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SUMMARY:Public Matters: Intellectuals and Political Life in China: A Symposium in honor of Merle Goldman (1931-2023)
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by the Harvard-Yenching InstitutePlease join us at the Fairbank Center for a day-long workshop in honor of the work of Merle Goldman\, a leading figure at the center and a foremost scholar of her generation who pioneered the study of contemporary Chinese intellectuals. \n\n\n\nIn a full day of panel presentations and discussions\, an interdisciplinary group of China scholars from North America\, Asia\, and Europe will highlight ongoing research that either builds directly on Merle’s work or addresses some of the central concerns that animated her professional career: literary dissent\, state-intellectual relations\, conceptions of citizenship and political rights\, and more. \n\n\n\nThe panels will explore the myriad ways in which Chinese intellectuals\, from imperial days to the present\, have sought to express political agency and the extent to which their impact has matched their aspirations. \n\n\n\nPlease join in this celebration of our late colleague’s important legacy! \n\n\n\nOrganizers: Elizabeth J. Perry\, Harvard UniversityTimothy Cheek\, University of British ColumbiaJoseph Fewsmith\, Boston UniversityNancy Hearst\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies \n\n\n\nProgram \n\n\n\n9:00 AM – Welcome \n\n\n\n9:15 AM – Panel 1Chinese Intellectuals and Chinese Society: Mobilization? Accommodation? Engagement? Alienation? Moderator: Elizabeth J. Perry\, Harvard UniversityPeter Zarrow\, University of Connecticut — The Language of Republicanism: Liang Qichao and Civic VirtueJoan Judge\, York University — Towards the Notion of a Politics of Accommodation: The minjian Classicist\, Hu Puan 胡檏安 (Yunyu 韞玉 1878 – 1947)Sebastian Veg\, School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS) — The Rise and Fall of minjian Intellectuals \n\n\n\n10:45 AM – Break \n\n\n\n11:00 AM – Panel 2Chinese Intellectuals and the Chinese State: Proactive? Reactive? Reformist? Conservative?Moderator: Timothy Cheek\, University of British ColumbiaEls Van Dongen\, Nanyang Technological University — Jiang Shigong’s Foucault and Selective Borrowing in Reform Era Intellectual DebatesMatthew Johnson\, The Jamestown Foundation — Wang Huning’s Journey from Establishment Intellectual to ‘Red Eminence’: The Party as Ideological FortressJoseph Fewsmith\, Boston University — A Through Train to Democracy? Xiao Gongqin and the Yan Fu Paradox \n\n\n\n12:30 PM – Lunch Break (on your own) \n\n\n\n1:30 PM – Panel 3Between State and Society: Dissent? Acquiescence? Subversion? Support?Moderator: Joseph Fewsmith\, Boston UniversityHang Tu\, National University of Singapore — The Covert Sphere: Persecution and the Subtle Art of Literary Dissent in the People’s RepublicEddy U\, University of California\, Davis — Subversive Sociality: The Resistance of Intellectuals in the Chinese Cultural RevolutionTimothy Cheek\, University of British Columbia — Polishing the Mirror: Historians as Public Intellectuals in Xi’s ChinaDenise Ho\, Georgetown University — A ‘New-Style Socialist University with Chinese Characteristics’ \n\n\n\n3:00 PM – Break  \n\n\n\n3:30 PM – Panel 4Beyond State and Society: Nationalism? Cosmopolitan? Globalism?Moderator: Orville Schell\, Asia SocietyJeffrey Wasserstrom\, University of California\, Irvine — Chinese Publics Beyond Chinese Borders: Political Exiles and Political Debates from Late Qing Times to the PresentAngela Xiao Wu\, New York University — Postsocialist Press Theory: Information for Infrastructural ModernityClyde Yicheng Wang\, Washington and Lee University — The End of ‘Balanced’ Nationalism: Popular Revolt against Hu Xijin and the Changing Roles of Establishment Intellectuals \n\n\n\n5:00 PM – Wrap-up: Toward a Conference Volume \n\n\n\nLight reception to follow \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/public-matters-intellectuals-and-political-life-in-china-a-symposium-in-honor-of-merle-goldman-1931-2023/
LOCATION:Room G-08\, Larsen Hall\, 14 Appian Way\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250414T150000
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SUMMARY:Visiting Scholar Presentation featuring Andrew Erickson — China’s Naval Leadership: Corruption and Capabilities
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Andrew Erickson\, Professor of Strategy\, China Maritime Studies Institute\, U.S. Naval War College \n\n\n\nRegarding China’s ability to seize Taiwan or achieve other top-level military objectives\, does corruption matter? Since assuming power in 2012\, paramount leader Xi Jinping has officially purged seven sitting and retired members of the Central Military Commission (CMC)\, including two Vice Chairmen. Beyond the CMC\, many other military leaders have likewise fallen\, including more than a dozen senior People’s Liberation Army (PLA) officials and defense industry executives over the past two years. The fight against “corruption” appears to be intensifying in 2025\, with more shoes set to drop. Second-ranked CMC Vice Chairman General He Weidong has not appeared at two recent meetings at which his attendance would be expected. Despite PLA Navy (PLAN) Political Commissar Yuan Huazhi having an inherently high-profile public role\, he has not been seen or heard from publicly since 7 September 2024. Many in the media and beyond speculate that these purges are significantly disrupting and limiting China’s military capabilities.  \n\n\n\nThis presentation will examine politicized corruption-related removals within PLAN leadership specifically and argue in contrast that their imposition of costs regarding endemic behavior are fundamentally a speedbump at most\, rather than a showstopper. Related removals are neither an indicator of prohibitive service incompetence nor a self-defeating constraint on operational capabilities. The PLAN may be playing high-stakes musical chairs with its leadership\, but it has a deep enough talent pool to do so without prohibitive problems and enjoys substantive strengths in its own right. Regardless of corruption’s pervasive persistence\, cutting-edge ships and weapons systems regularly enter service and PLAN capabilities to employ them operationally continue to improve. Corruption may impose inefficiencies\, but does not curtail the PLAN’s rapid advances across the waterfront. \n\n\n\nAndrew S. Erickson is a Professor of Strategy in the U.S. Naval War College (NWC)’s China Maritime Studies Institute\, which he helped establish and has served as Research Director\, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He testifies periodically before Congress and briefs leading officials\, including the Secretary of Defense. Erickson helped to escort the Commander of China’s Navy on a visit to Harvard and subsequently to establish\, and to lead the first iteration of\, NWC’s first naval officer exchange program with China. He has received the Navy Superior Civilian Service Medal\, NWC’s inaugural Civilian Faculty Research Excellence Award\, and NBR’s inaugural Ellis Joffe Prize for PLA Studies. His research focuses on Indo-Pacific defense\, international relations\, technology\, and resource issues. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/visiting-scholar-presentation-featuring-andrew-erickson-chinas-naval-leadership-corruption-and-capabilities/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Room S050\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250418T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250419T173000
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SUMMARY:What is China? New Perspectives in New Eras — An International Symposium 
DESCRIPTION:Keynote Speaker: Ge Zhaoguang 葛兆光\, Fudan UniversitySpeakers:April 18\, 2-5:30pm\, Yenching AuditoriumMark C. Elliot\, Harvard UniversityJames Robson\, Harvard UniversityPeter K. Bol\, Harvard UniversityRonald C. Po\, London University of Economics Kung Ling-wei\, Academia Sinica David Der-wei Wang\, Harvard UniversityApril 19\, 9:30 am – 5:30pm\, The Yenching Common RoomLi Yuyang\, Beijing Normal UniversityYing Lei\, Amherst College Tu Hang\, National University of SingaporeRichard Yu-cheng Shih\, Brown University Liu Shih Diing\, University of MacauDingru Huang\, Tufts UniversityDavid Dadui Yao\, Hainan University Kyle Shernuk\, Georgetown UniversityMichael Hill\, College of William and MaryMichael O’Krent\, Harvard University Li Jing\, Chinese National Academy of ArtsYedong Sh-Chen\, Harvard UniversityRoundtable:Chair: David Der-wei Wang \,Harvard UniversityAnnie Zhanling Wang\, Harvard UniversityJames Evans\, Harvard University Sophie Xiaofei Lei\, (Harvard UniversityShengqiao Lin\, Harvard UniversitySponsors:Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Harvard-Yenching Institute East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/what-is-china-new-perspectives-in-new-eras-an-international-symposium/
LOCATION:Yenching Auditorium\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250421T120000
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SUMMARY:Visiting Scholar Presentation featuring Shih-Diing Liu — Who’s Afraid of Gender? Revisiting Engendering China 31 Years On
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Shih-Diing Liu (刘世鼎)\, Professor of Communication and Senior Research Fellow\, Institute of Advanced Studies\, University of MacauDiscussant: Susan Greenhalgh\, Professor of Anthropology; John King and Wilma Cannon Fairbank Professor of Chinese Society\, Harvard UniversityThis presentation has two intertwined goals: to highlight the significance of gender in understanding Chinese society and to underscore the role of emotion in shaping gender dynamics in China and beyond. I will develop my discussion by revisiting Engendering China: Women\, Culture\, and the State\, an edited volume published by Harvard University Press in 1994\, just before the landmark Beijing Women’s Forum in 1995. Through a symptomatic reading of Engendering China\, I articulate my perspective on the gender-emotion nexus—an articulation often overlooked not only in Chinese studies but also in gender studies more broadly. Rather than focusing on the conventional notion of gender “consciousness\,” I advocate for a critical inquiry into gender “emotion” –  to explore the deeply felt but often unrecognized and repressed dimensions of gendered feelings\, experiences\, fantasies\, investments\, promises\, and practices. My analysis of pop culture and stardom illustrates that gender power operates not merely through structural imposition but through emotions. By recontextualizing Judith Butler’s polemic Who’s Afraid of Gender? (2024)\, my presentation examines how the return of the repressed—including emotions such as fear\, anxiety\, optimism\, and frustration—shapes the gender landscape\, offering new insights into both its constraints and possibilities for emancipation. \n\n\n\nShih-Diing Liu (刘世鼎) is Professor of Communication and a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies\, University of Macau. Liu’s research focuses on exploring the emotional dynamics of politics\, the formation of popular identity\, the expressive and embodied forms of political practices\, and the psychology of nationalism in contemporary China. His books include The Politics of People: Protest Cultures in China (SUNY Press\, 2019) and Affective Spaces: The Cultural Politics of Emotion in China (Edinburgh University Press\, 2024\, with Wei Shi). Continuing with a focus on emotion from the Affective Spaces project\, his current research explores the intersection of affect and gender in contemporary China. Arguing that Chinese gender has increasingly become an archive of feelings marked by ambivalence toward authorities\, this book project uncovers the power of emotion in negotiating the gendered order. Meanwhile\, he is also working on a book project that explores the emotional capabilities of Artificial Intelligence. \n\n\n\nSusan Greenhalgh (葛苏珊) is Professor of Anthropology and John King and Wilma Cannon Fairbank Professor of Chinese Society at Harvard University. Before moving to Harvard\, she was Professor of Anthropology at the University of California\, Irvine and\, before that\, Senior Research Associate of the NYC-based Population Council. \n\n\n\nIn April 2016\, Greenhalgh was named Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation for twelve months starting July 2016. At Harvard\, she was named Walter Channing Cabot Fellow for the year for the 2015 publication of her book\, Fat-talk Nation. Her most recent book is Soda Science: Making the World Safe for Coca-Cola \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/visiting-scholar-presentation-featuring-shih-diing-liu-whos-afraid-of-gender-revisiting-engendering-china-31-years-on/
LOCATION:Room K354\, CGIS Knafel\, 1737 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250428T150000
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SUMMARY:Visiting Scholar Presentation featuring Zimeng Pan — China's Current Patriotic Education: From Policy to Practice
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Zimeng Pan\, 2024-25 Visiting Scholar; Professor in the Department of International Studies and Director of the Research Center for Discourse and Society\, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics \n\n\n\nChina’s current patriotic education is deeply embedded in President Xi’s ideology of Cultural Confidence with an aim of strengthening national identity and unity through traditional cultural values and nationalist legacies. This presentation will first provide a brief overview of China’s patriotic education policies from 1978 to 2024\, followed by a rich account of how its current ideology of patriotism has been interpreted and reproduced by practitioners and the public\, particularly in the fields of education and media. Findings of two ethnographic research and corpus-assisted discourse research projects will be introduced. Detailed topics that are to be discussed include national textbook designs\, classroom practices\, AI-assisted education\, and female image constructed in media. This presentation will show how ‘patriotism’ and ‘culture’ are conceptualized and reconceptualized in the current Chinese context and how grassroots practices have been accordingly influenced. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/visiting-scholar-presentation-featuring-zimeng-pan-chinas-current-patriotic-education-from-policy-to-practice/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Room S050\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250430T163000
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SUMMARY:2025 Charles Neuhauser Memorial Lecture featuring Ambassador R. Nicholas Burns — Lessons from the Front Lines of the U.S.-China Relationship
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: R. Nicholas Burns\, U.S. Ambassador to China\, 2021-2025; Roy and Barbara Goodman Family Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Relations\, Harvard Kennedy School \n\n\n\nAmbassador Nicholas Burns is the Roy and Barbara Goodman Family Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Relations at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. He is the Founder and Faculty Chair of the Future of Diplomacy Project. He is also a Faculty Affiliate at Harvard’s Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies.  \n\n\n\nBurns served as the U.S. Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China from 2021-2025\, leading public servants from forty-eight U.S. government agencies at the U.S. mission to China in overseeing one of America’s most important and challenging bilateral relationships. During his tenure\, he helped to stabilize relations with Beijing while competing with China on military\, technology\, economic\, and human rights issues. \n\n\n\nBurns worked in the United States government for over three decades\, serving six presidents and nine secretaries of state. As a career Foreign Service Officer\, he was Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs from 2005 to 2008; the State Department’s third-ranking official when he led negotiations on the U.S.–India Civil Nuclear Agreement; a long-term military assistance agreement with Israel; and was the lead U.S. negotiator on Iran’s nuclear program. He was U.S. Ambassador to NATO (2001-2005) when the Alliance invoked Article 5 of the NATO Treaty on 9/11 in defense of the United States and embarked on military missions in Afghanistan and Iraq. Burns was the Ambassador to Greece (1997-2001) and State Department Spokesman (1995-1997). He worked for five years (1990–1995) on the National Security Council at the White House at the end of the Cold War where he was Senior Director for Russia\, Ukraine and Eurasia Affairs and Special Assistant to President Clinton and Director for Soviet Affairs in the Administration of President George H.W. Bush. Burns also served in the American Consulate General in Jerusalem (1985-1987) where he coordinated U.S. economic assistance to the Palestinian people in the West Bank and before that\, at the American embassies in Egypt (1983-1985) and Mauritania (1980 as an intern). He was a member of Secretary of State John Kerry’s Foreign Affairs Policy Board (2014-2017). \n\n\n\nProfessor Burns is Vice Chairman of the Cohen Group and Co-Chair of the Aspen Strategy Group and Aspen Security Forum. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences\, and the Council on Foreign Relations. He is also a Fellow of the Massachusetts Historical Society and a life-long member of Red Sox Nation.  \n\n\n\nProfessor Burns has received fifteen honorary degrees\, the Presidential Distinguished Service Award\, the Secretary of State’s Distinguished Service Award\, the Committee of 100 Leadership in Diplomacy Award (2024)\, the Aspen Strategy Group’s Leadership Award (2021)\, the Ignatian Award from Boston College (2017)\, the New Englander of the Year from the New England Council (2016)\, the Woodrow Wilson Award for Public Service from the Johns Hopkins University\, the Boston College Alumni Achievement Award\, and the Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award from Tufts University. He has a BA in History from Boston College (1978)\, an MA in International Relations from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (1980) and he earned the Certificat Pratique de Langue Francaise at the University of Paris-Sorbonne (1977). He was a Visiting Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars in summer 2008. \n\n\n\nAbout the Charles Neuhauser Memorial Lecture:Charles Neuhauser was a senior intelligence analyst with the Central Intelligence Agency\, from 1958 until October 1981. His career with the CIA spanned the period from the Great Leap Forward through the Cultural Revolution and its immediate aftermath. From 1966 to 1967\, just as the Cultural Revolution was going through its most violent phase\, Charles Neuhauser spent a year at The Fairbank Center for East Asian Research\, where he worked on the causes of the Cultural Revolution. \n\n\n\nThis annual lecture series was established in 1988 thanks to the generosity of Charles Neuhauser’s brother\, Paul Neuhauser. Its purpose is to maintain bridges between the worlds of government\, policy\, and the intelligence community and the university world. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/2025-charles-neuhauser-memorial-lecture-featuring-ambassador-r-nicholas-burns/
LOCATION:Hall C\, Science Center\, 1 Oxford St.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250527T160000
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SUMMARY:2025 Graduating Student Presentations
DESCRIPTION:From exploring 8th Century art to examining contemporary geopolitics\, Harvard’s Class of 2025 is full of individuals engaged in path-breaking research in Chinese Studies. We’ve selected a few outstanding projects to provide you a glimpse of the bold ideas being put forward by our graduating students.  Come hear lightning talks from the following students: \n\n\n\nJoyce Chen – China’s Socialization in the UN Security Council: The Case of the North Korean Nuclear Issue \n\n\n\nBulelani Jili – Leasing Out Sovereignty: The Proliferation of Chinese Surveillance Technologies in Africa \n\n\n\nChao Lang – From Integration to Isolation: Xinjiang Cotton and Commercial Networks (1759–1890) \n\n\n\nAlex Lee – Anthropomorphic Animals in Chinese Animated Film from the Great Leap Forward \n\n\n\nIsabel McWilliams – In Situ Actualization: The Hyper-bodied Bodhisattva in Eighth Century East Asian Art \n\n\n\nShuhuai Zhang – Zenith of a Dying Breed: The Chinese Communist Party’s Official Propagandists in the Early Reform Years (1976-1994) \n\n\n\nVeronica Peterson – Taking Care: Home Cooking and Cooking for Community in the Late 19th and Early 20th Century Chinese Diaspora \n\n\n\nLaurence Li – “Foreign Adversary” in U.S. Federal Courts \n\n\n\nCosette Wu – The Effect of the 2017 Techno-Geopolitical Shock on the US-Taiwan Innovation Relationship \n\n\n\n A reception will follow for all graduates after the presentations. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/2025-graduating-student-presentations/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250908T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250908T131500
DTSTAMP:20260529T133722
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SUMMARY:The Enduring Legacies of World War II in East Asia:  Reflections 80 Years Later
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Thomas Berger\, Professor of International Relations\, Pardee School of Global Studies\, Boston UniversityMark Caprio\,  Professor Emeritus\, Rikkyo University\, Tokyo; Kim Koo Visiting Professor of Korean Studies\, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard UniversityRana Mitter\, ST Lee Chair in US-Asia Relations\, Harvard Kennedy School \n\n\n\nModerator: Christina Davis\, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics\, Department of Government and Director\, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations\, Harvard UniversityThe 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War marks a significant occasion for critical reflections on its legacies in East Asia. China and Taiwan and the two Koreas are still divided and remain major flashpoints with security and political tensions. In the aftermath of WWII\, Japan emerged as a peaceful state\, but its imperial and war legacies have been politically contested. In China\, growing pride and nationalism are driving public discourse about WWII. Leaders in South Korea and Japan\, in the context of China’s rise and the second Trump administration\, have been rethinking their global role and seeking more bilateral cooperation. Our distinguished panel of historians and political scientists will examine how the legacies of WWII still shape the global order among China\, South Korea\, Japan\, and the U.S. today. \n\n\n\nThomas Berger is a Professor at the Pardee School of Global Studies\, Division of International Relations at Boston University. .He is the author of Cultures of Antimilitarism: National Security in Germany and Japan (Johns Hopkins University Press\, 1998) and War\, Guilt and World Politics after World War II (Cambridge University Press\, 2012)\, co-author with Ellis Krauss\, Kerstin Luckner\, Hanns Maull and Alexandra Sakaki ofReluctant Warriors\, Conflicted Allies: Germany\, Japan and the International Security Order (Brookings Institution Press\, 2019)  co-author of  as well as co-editor of  Japan in International Politics: Beyond the Reactive State (Lynne Rienner\, 2007). He has published extensively on East Asian and European security\, German and Japanese foreign policy\, and the politics of historical memory. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from MIT.Mark E. Caprio is professor emeritus at Rikkyo University in Tokyo\, Japan. He is the author of Japanese Assimilation Policies in Colonial Korea\, 1910—1945 (Seattle: University of Washington Press\, 2009). Additionally\, he has co-edited a number of volumes\, the most recent being a volume titled Japan as the Occupier and the Occupied (London: Palgrave Macmillan\, 2015). He has also contributed academic articles on colonial-era issues and Korea’s wartime and immediate postwar history that include colonial-era collaboration\, Japan-based Korean repatriation\, Korean attitudes toward the trusteeship plan that the Allied powers wished to impose on Korea\, and Japan’s role in the Korean War to academic journals\, as well as to edited volumes. Presently\, he is working on a monograph that considers overseas Korean efforts during the Pacific War years (1941-1945) to gain favor with the Allied forces (the US\, UK\, Nationalist China\, and the Soviet Union). Rana Mitter is ST Lee Chair in US-Asia Relations at the Harvard Kennedy School. He is the author of several books\, including Forgotten Ally: China’s World War II (2013) which won the 2014 RUSI/Duke of Westminster’s Medal for Military Literature\, and was named a Book of the Year in the Financial Times and Economist. His latest book is China’s Good War: How World War II is Shaping a New Nationalism (Harvard\, 2020). His writing on contemporary China has appeared recently in Foreign Affairs\, the Harvard Business Review\, The Spectator\, The Critic\, and The Guardian.  He has commented regularly on China in media and forums around the world\, including at the World Economic Forum at Davos. His recent documentary on contemporary Chinese politics “Meanwhile in Beijing” is available on BBC Sounds.  He is co-author\, with Sophia Gaston\, of the report “Conceptualizing a UK-China Engagement Strategy” (British Foreign Policy Group\, 2020). He won the 2020 Medlicott Medal for Service to History\, awarded by the UK Historical Association.  He previously taught at Oxford\, and is a Fellow of the British Academy.Christina L. Davis is the Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics in the Department of Government and Director of the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations at Harvard University. Her research interests include the politics and foreign policy of Japan\, East Asia\, and the study of international organizations with a focus on trade policy. Her research has been published in leading political science journals. She is the author of Food Fights Over Free Trade: How International Institutions Promote Agricultural Trade Liberalization (Princeton University Press 2003)\, and Why Adjudicate? Enforcing Trade Rules in the WTO (Princeton University Press 2012\, winner of the International Law Best Book award of the International Studies Association\, Ohira Memorial Prize\, and co-winner of Chadwick Alger Prize). Her latest book\, Discriminatory Clubs: The Geopolitics of International Organizations\, was released by Princeton University Press in July 2023. Currently\, she is working on several projects on the evolving trade order and economic sanctions. Education: AB in East Asian Studies\, Harvard 1993; Ph.D. in Political Science\, Harvard 2001.Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Korea Institute\, Harvard University Asia Center\, Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies\, and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs’ Program on US-Japan Relations \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-enduring-legacies-of-world-war-ii-in-east-asia-reflections-80-years-later/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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SUMMARY:How Should We Study China? A Discussion with Fairbank Center Faculty
DESCRIPTION:As the Fairbank Center celebrates its 70th Anniversary\, a select panel of Fairbank Center Faculty will discuss how we’ve studied China in the past\, and how we should move forward into the future. Join us for this insightful discussion.More information about our panelists coming soon! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/how-should-we-study-china-a-discussion-with-fairbank-center-faculty/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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SUMMARY:Once Burned\, Twice Shy: A Conversation on U.S.- China Trade with Ambassador Katherine Tai
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Ambassador Katherine C. Tai\, U.S. Trade Representative (2021-2025)Moderator: Mark Wu\,  Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law\, Harvard Law School; Director\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nJoin us for a conversation with Ambassador Katherine C. Tai\, U.S. Trade Representative (2021-2025) on U.S.- China trade relations\, moderated by Professor Mark Wu\, Director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. Ambassador Tai will examine the longstanding issues in the trade relationship\, dating back to her days as the Chief Counsel for China Trade Enforcement in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative\, and the harms to U.S. communities and interests arising out of the “China Shock.”  She will also assess the ongoing trade conflict and the likelihood of further challenges ahead as the world’s two largest economies navigate a complicated and contentious relationship with immense economic\, strategic\, and social consequences.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/once-burned-twice-shy-a-conversation-on-u-s-china-trade-with-ambassador-katherine-tai/
LOCATION:Hall D\, Science Center\, 1 Oxford Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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SUMMARY:Fairbank Center Visiting Scholar Presentations: Culture Wars and Philosophical Debates in East Asia and China
DESCRIPTION:Featuring presentations by two Fairbank Center Visiting Scholars who will share current research. Each short talk will be followed by Q and A discussion. \n\n\n\nThe Cultural Cold War: Moral Re-Armament Movement in East Asia Speaker: Hok Yin Chan\, Professor of Chinese and History\, City University of Hong Kong; 2025 Visiting Scholar\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard University. Discussant:  Michael Szonyi\, Frank Wen-Hsiung Wu Memorial Professor of Chinese History\, Harvard University.  \n\n\n\nHow did the religious-political organization Moral Re-Armament (MRA) develop in Hong Kong\, Japan\, and Taiwan during the Cold War era? What role did the U.S. play in supporting the movement’s anti-communist propaganda in “free world” areas of East Asia? Research examining different manifestations of the same movement in Hong Kong\, Japan\, and Taiwan reveals much about the ideological warfare in East Asia during the 1950s-70s and helps us better understand the history of the Cold War. \n\n\n\nWhat Is the Meaning of Reproduction for Individuals? An Explanation Based on Confucianism Speaker: Mimi Pi\, Associate Professor\, Department of Philosophy\, Capital Normal University of China; 2025-26 Visiting Scholar\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard University.Discussant: Michael Puett\, Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History\, Harvard University; Director\, Harvard University Asia Center.  \n\n\n\nThe rapidly declining birth rate in East Asia in recent years is bringing about a new social crisis. However\, in a modern world characterized by individualism and consumerism\, the traditional reasons for reproduction have lost their appeal. Confucian thought offers valuable resources in addressing this challenge. Specifically\, by drawing on Dong Zhongshu’s theory of ren (仁\, benevolence)\, Mencius’s theory of human nature\, and a renewed understanding of Confucian sacrificial rituals\, we may attempt to provide a framework of meaning that transcends utilitarian considerations. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/fairbank-center-visiting-scholar-presentations-2/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S250\, 1730 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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SUMMARY:Fairbank @ 70 — Witnesses to the Birth of Modern China: The Fairbanks and Liangs\, 1932-1949
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:Holly Fairbank\, Executive Director\, Maxine Greene Institute for Aesthetic Education and Social ImaginationWilliam Kirby\, T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies\, Harvard University; Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration\, Harvard Business SchoolRana Mitter\, ST Lee Chair in US-Asia Relations\, Harvard Kennedy School Wang Ruiheng\, Associate Professor of History\, Nanjing University; Visiting Scholar\, Harvard-Yenching InstituteAbraham Zamcheck\, Assistant Professor of Archiecture\, Shanghai Jiaotong University \n\n\n\nModerator: Dorinda Elliott\, Executive Director\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies \n\n\n\nIntroductory Remarks: Nancy Berliner\, Wu Tung Senior Curator of Chinese Art\, Museum of Fine Arts\, Boston \n\n\n\nIllustrated with photos from the current exhibit\, Once Upon a Time in Peking\, four historians will discuss the debates roiling China during John King Fairbank’s time there in the 1930s and 1940s and consider how they might continue to resonate today. For more than 150 years\, Chinese intellectuals have grappled with a fundamental question: how can China modernize without giving up its cultural roots? \n\n\n\nWhen Fairbank arrived in Peking in 1932 to pursue his China studies\, he found himself in the middle of that debate. What should China adopt from the West? What should it preserve? Amid this thrilling intellectual ferment\, Fairbank and his wife Wilma struck up an intense friendship with two U.S.-educated Chinese architects\, Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin\, who sought to use Western approaches to preserve ancient Chinese buildings. The Liangs welcomed them into their intellectual salons with some of China’s leading thinkers. That friendship helped inform Fairbank’s understanding of China\, contributing to his development as America’s preeminent scholar on contemporary China. \n\n\n\nFairbank returned in 1942 to a very different China. Scholarly debates over the country’s cultural future were eclipsed by the immediacy of war with Japan. The Fairbanks worked at the U.S. embassy in Chongqing\, promoting cultural exchanges. Their dear friends were now living in squalor\, decamped far from the frontlines to a village in Sichuan. In the midst of war\, China was forging a new place in the world\, witnessing a rise of nationalism that would reshape the country. \n\n\n\nOur speakers will discuss the Fairbanks’ China and along the way\, look at the questions—What is the essence of China? What is China’s role in the world?—that seem as important today as they were almost a century ago. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/fairbank-70-witnesses-to-the-birth-of-modern-china-discussing-the-fairbanks-and-the-liangs-1932-1949/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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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
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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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