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SUMMARY:Justin Lin - Seventy Years of China's Economic Development: Reflections on Modern Economics
DESCRIPTION:Listen to this event on our podcast: \n \nRead and download the transcript for this event here. \nSpeaker: Justin Yifu Lin\,\nWorld Bank Chief Economist\, 2008-2012\nDean\, Institute of New Structural Economics\nDean\, Institute for South-South Cooperation and Development\nProfessor and Honorary Dean\nNational School of Development\nPeking University \nCo-sponsored by:\nHarvard College Association of U.S.-China Relations\nHarvard College China Forum\nInternational Relations on Campus
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/justin-lin-seventy-years-of-chinas-economic-development-reflections-on-modern-economics/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191118T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191118T160000
DTSTAMP:20260506T191902
CREATED:20191108T182828Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191108T182828Z
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SUMMARY:改革开放中的中国与世界 | China and the World In the Age of Reform and Opening Up
DESCRIPTION: 9:00 – 10:00am 韩钢 Han Gang\, East China Normal University：1980年代中国改革的高层政治格局 China’s High-level Political Structures During the Reforms of the 1980s \n10:15 – 11:15am: 肖冬连 Xiao Donglian\, East China Normal University：农村改革与中国市场的转轨 Rural Reforms and China’s Marketization  \n11:30 – 12:30: Robert S. Ross\, Boston College\, Fairbank Center Associate: The Origins of the New “Cold War”: U.S.-China Relations\, 2010-2015 \n1:30 – 2:30: 牛军 Niu Jun\, East China Normal University: 改革开放与中美关系 The Impact of Reform and Opening Up on U.S.-China Relations \n2:45 – 3:45:  Joseph Fewsmith\, Boston University\, Fairbank Center Associate: Balance and Dominance in Elite Politics (精英政治：平衡与支配)
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/%e6%94%b9%e9%9d%a9%e5%bc%80%e6%94%be%e4%b8%ad%e7%9a%84%e4%b8%ad%e5%9b%bd%e4%b8%8e%e4%b8%96%e7%95%8c-china-and-the-world-in-the-age-of-reform-and-opening-up/
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191024T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191024T133000
DTSTAMP:20260506T191902
CREATED:20190904T173613Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190904T173613Z
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SUMMARY:John Kamm - Counterrevolution in One Country: Tiananmen 1989
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: John Kamm\, Chairman and Executive Director\, The Dui Hua Foundation \nDrawing on recently available materials\, the speaker will examine how courts dealt with counterrevolutionary offenses and hooliganism in the aftermath of Tiananmen.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/john-kamm-counterrevolution-in-one-country-tiananmen-1989/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191022T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191022T170000
DTSTAMP:20260506T191902
CREATED:20190924T175151Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190924T175151Z
UID:8642-1571760000-1571763600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Jane Sun\, CEO of CTrip\, in conversation with Michael Szonyi
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Jane Sun\, CEO\, Ctrip\nModerator/Discussant: Michael Szonyi\, Director\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies \nCosponsored by:\nFairbank Center for Chinese Studies\nHarvard College China Forum\nHarvard Business School Greater China Club
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/a-chat-with-ctrip-ceo-jane-sun-on-leadership/
LOCATION:Hall D\, Science Center\, 1 Oxford Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191011T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191011T160000
DTSTAMP:20260506T191902
CREATED:20191003T134707Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191003T134707Z
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SUMMARY:Courtney Fung - China and Intervention at the UN Security Council
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Courtney Fung\, Hong Kong University
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/courtney-fung-china-and-intervention-at-the-un-security-council/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191010T161500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191010T183000
DTSTAMP:20260506T191902
CREATED:20190924T181457Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190924T181457Z
UID:8648-1570724100-1570732200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:2nd Annual "Destination: World\," Powered by PechaKucha
DESCRIPTION:From studying Hong Kong to walking Cape Town\, come learn how international experiences shape the lives of Harvard undergraduates. Nine students take center stage in the Tsai Auditorium stage to share their inspirational stories about global engagement\, intellectual exploration and personal discovery made possible through experiences abroad. The event will be followed by an international food buffet and the opportunity for students to learn more about crafting their own international experiences while at Harvard. \nCosponsored by Harvard’s Asia Center\, Center for African Studies\, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies\, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies\, Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard China Fund\, John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences\, Korea Institute\, Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute\, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies\, Office of FAS International Affairs\, Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs\, Office of International Education\, Program on US-Japan Relations\, and Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/2nd-annual-destination-world-powered-by-pechakucha/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191002T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191002T180000
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CREATED:20190820T143136Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190820T143136Z
UID:8473-1570033800-1570039200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Panel Discussion - Archival and Private Collection in Modern China
DESCRIPTION:Read and download the transcript of the event here. \nSpeakers:\nKatherine Alexander\, Assistant Professor of Chinese\, University of Colorado at Boulder\nRiley Brett-Roche\, The Mellon International Dissertation Research Fellow (2018); PhD Candidate in History\, Stanford University\nXiaosong Gao\, Director\, The Za Library; Associate at the Department of EALC\, Harvard University\nMichael Szonyi\, Frank Wen-Hsiung Wu Memorial Professor of Chinese History; Director\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard University \nChair and Organizer:\nXiaofei Tian\, Professor of Chinese Literature\, Harvard University
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/panel-discussion-archival-and-private-collection-in-modern-china/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest,Exhibitions,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190926T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190926T133000
DTSTAMP:20260506T191902
CREATED:20190820T145709Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190820T145709Z
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SUMMARY:Ong Chang Woei - The Limits of “Civilization” in the Late Northern Song
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Ong Chang Woei\, National University of Singapore \nWang Anshi’s New Policies included hotly debated military reforms\, but little is known about how the new military system functioned in different regions. The Khara-Khoto manuscripts discovered in the early 20th century allow us to explore how military reforms transformed territorial administration in Shaanxi from their initial introduction in the 1070s into the 1120s.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/ong-chang-woei-the-limits-of-civilization-in-the-late-northern-song/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190919T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190919T190000
DTSTAMP:20260506T191902
CREATED:20190909T133927Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190909T133927Z
UID:8595-1568916000-1568919600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:JFK Jr Forum - Hong Kong: The Future of One Country\, Two Systems
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\nTony Saich\, Director\, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation\nJane Perlez\, Beijing Bureau Chief\, The New York Times\nVictoria Tin-bor\, Associate Professor of Political Science\, University of Notre Dame
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/jfk-jr-forum-hong-kong-the-future-of-one-country-two-systems/
LOCATION:JFK Jr. Forum\, Harvard Kennedy School\, 79 John F. Kennedy St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190909T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190909T183000
DTSTAMP:20260506T191902
CREATED:20190820T141751Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190820T141751Z
UID:8462-1568046600-1568053800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Wilt L. Idema - A Second Look at the Precious Scroll of the Red Gauze (Hongluo Baojuan 紅羅寶卷): Some Considerations on the Development of the Genre
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Wilt L. Idema\, Professor of Chinese Literature Emeritus\, Harvard University \n \nWhen the Precious Scroll of the Red Gauze was first introduced to the academic world\, it was presented as the earliest work in the genre\, as its edition was believed to date from the Yuan dynasty (1260-1368). By now it is acknowledged that this edition only dates from the sixteenth century. Both the contents of the story and the printing of the text\, however\, may well deserve a second look as they lead to intriguing questions about the origins of the genre and its early use.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/wilt-l-idema-a-second-look-at-the-precious-scroll-of-the-red-gauze-hongluo-baojuan-%e7%b4%85%e7%be%85%e5%af%b6%e5%8d%b7-some-considerations-on-the-development-of-the-genre/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190907T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190907T150000
DTSTAMP:20260506T191902
CREATED:20190611T183538Z
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UID:8260-1567864800-1567868400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Celebration of Professor Roderick MacFarquhar
DESCRIPTION:Roderick MacFarquhar\n1930-2019\nThe Fairbank Community is Invited to Attend\na Celebration\non\nSaturday\, September 7\, 2019 at 2:00 PM\,\nat the\nMemorial Church of Harvard University \nWith Tributes from Family\, Colleagues\, and Friends\nReception to follow at the Harvard Faculty Club \nThe Family of Rod Mac Farquhar\ntogether with the\nFairbank Center for Chinese Studies\nand the\nDepartment of Government\nHarvard University\n\nFor planning purposes\, if you are attending Rod’s Celebration\, please fill out this short RSVP form. Thank you.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/memorial-service-for-professor-roderick-macfarquhar/
LOCATION:Memorial Church\, 1 Harvard Yard\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190904T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190904T180000
DTSTAMP:20260506T191902
CREATED:20190723T144408Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190723T144408Z
UID:8342-1567614600-1567620000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Pauline Yu - ’A New Day is Upon Us’:  Building the Field of Chinese Studies
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Pauline Yu\, President Emeritus\, American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) \nPauline Yu served as President of the American Council of Learned Societies from 2003-19 and was previously Dean of Humanities at UCLA\, Founding Chair of the Department of East Asian Languages and Literature at UC-Irvine\, and professor at Columbia University and the University of Minnesota.  Her publications have focused on classical Chinese poetry\, comparative poetics\, and issues in the humanities.  She received her B.A. in Modern European History and Literature from Harvard University and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Stanford University.  Yu serves on the boards of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences\, the American Academy in Berlin\, the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange\, and The Henry Luce\, The Robert H. N. Ho Family\, and The Teagle Foundations. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and elected member of the American Philosophical Society and Committee of 100.  A senior research scholar at Columbia\, she holds five honorary degrees.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/pauline-yu-a-new-day-is-upon-us-building-the-field-of-chinese-studies/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190508T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190508T180000
DTSTAMP:20260506T191902
CREATED:20190313T194547Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190313T194547Z
UID:8004-1557331200-1557338400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Panel Discussion - Tiananmen at 30
DESCRIPTION:Watch again on YouTube: \n \nListen again on Soundcloud: \n \nRead and download a transcript of this event here. \nSpeakers:\nHao Jian\, Professor\, Beijing Film Academy\nLouisa Lim\, Senior Lecturer\, University of Melbourne; Author\, The People’s Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited\nWang Dan\, Founder and Executive Director of Dialogue China\nJeffrey Wasserstrom\, Chancellor’s Professor of History\, University of California Irvine \nModerator: \nRowena Xiaoqing He\, Current Member\, Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton; Author\, Tiananmen Exiles: Voices of the Struggle for Democracy in China \n  \nTranscript of Director Michael Szonyi’s Opening Remarks\, May 8\, 2019 \nWelcome to the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University. My name’s Michael Szonyi. I am the director of the Fairbank Center and it is my privilege to introduce today’s session marking 30 years since the extraordinary events of May and June of 1989. \nWhile we have called today’s session “Tiananmen at 30\,” these events occurred not just at Tiananmen Square or even just in Beijing\, but in cities all over China. These events culminated\, as we all know\, on June 4th\, 1989 in a act of military suppression that took place not only\, or even primarily in the square itself\, but throughout the city and beyond. \nAnyone could have predicted that this year\, 2019\, would be a sensitive year for anniversaries in China. As Jiayang Fan wrote in The New Yorker this week\, for the CCP\, “certain anniversaries teeter between the emblematic and the problematic.” As things have unfolded\, the year proved far more sensitive for far more anniversaries than we had anticipated. Problematic definitely outweighed emblematic. \nBesides the 40th anniversary of the establishment of US-China relations\, and the 40th anniversary of the Taiwan Relations Act\, here at the Fairbank Center we’ve held events including a commemoration of 40 years of reform and opening up which we co-hosted and co-organized with the Unirule Institute of Economic. That event\, we believe\, proved to be one of the very last\, if not the very last\, public event for that very influential liberal think tank in China. We similarly commemorated the centenary of the May 4th Movement with a two-day conference organized by Professor David Wang. Some of you\, like me\, were at that conference and I think many of us who attended that conference were discouraged that\, as one of our guests\, Jeff Wasserstrom\, pointed out in his long New York Times op-ed\, a century after May 4th\, a free and open discussion of that event and its significance remains impossible in China. \nAs with May 4th\, so too June 4th. But even in a year of sensitive anniversaries\, there’s something distinctive about the event we commemorate today\, because of course there are no public commemorations at all of this event all in China. This is an event that can only be spoken of outside of China. \nThe Fairbank Center at Harvard is home for China studies in all forms\, even\, and in some ways especially when the topic is sensitive. We value our commitment to intellectual freedom to pursue questions and research that others might want us to avoid. It’s our responsibility to hold events such as today’s\, both as an academic endeavor in the face of official suppression in China and as a mark of respect to those whose lives were taken or scarred by the events 30 years ago. The importance of our discussions on the CCP’s relationship with the Chinese citizenry is only elevated by the context of other human rights crises that are unfolding in China today\, in particular the current crisis in Xinjiang\, and this reinforces the importance of our persistent pursuit of truth in the face of repression. \n  \nMichael Szonyi \nMay 8\, 2019
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/panel-discussion-tiananmen-at-30/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190502T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190502T180000
DTSTAMP:20260506T191902
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UID:8045-1556812800-1556820000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Mandopop: 40 Years of Chinese Popular Music and Culture
DESCRIPTION:Watch again:\n \nListen again:\n \nSpeakers:\nGAO Xiaosong 高曉松\nFANG Wenshan (Vincent Fang) 方文山\nLUO Dayou (Lo Ta-yu) 羅大佑\nYin Yue 尹約 \nThis is a ticketed event. Only ticket holders will be allowed in the auditorium.\nAll available tickets have been distributed. \nThis talk will be conducted in a mixture of English and Mandarin.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/mandopop-40-years-of-chinese-popular-music-and-culture/
LOCATION:Hall D\, Science Center\, 1 Oxford Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190416T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190416T180000
DTSTAMP:20260506T191902
CREATED:20190404T184307Z
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UID:8051-1555430400-1555437600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Paul Cohen - A Path Twice Traveled: My Journey as a Historian of China
DESCRIPTION:Listen again on Soundcloud: \n \nRead and download the transcript for this event here. \nSpeaker: Paul Cohen\, Fairbank Center Associate \nIn his memoir Paul Cohen\, one of the West’s preeminent historians of China\, traces the development of his work from its inception in the early 1960s to the present\, offering fresh perspectives that consistently challenge us to think more deeply about China and the historical craft in general. The book’s title reflects the crucially important disparity between the past as originally experienced and the past as later reconstructed historically\, by which point the historian and the world in which he or she lives have both undergone extensive change. This distinction is very much on Cohen’s mind throughout the book. \nPaul Cohen began his teaching career at the University of Michigan and Amherst College. He then taught for thirty-five years at Wellesley College\, where he is Edith Stix Wasserman Professor of Asian Studies and History\, Emeritus. He is also a long-time Associate of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard University. Cohen’s books include Discovering History in China: American Historical Writing on the Recent Chinese Past (1984); History in Three Keys: The Boxers as Event\, Experience\, and Myth (1997); Speaking to History: The Story of King Goujian in Twentieth-Century China (2009); and History and Popular Memory: The Power of Story in Moments of Crisis (2014). History in Three Keys was the winner of the 1997 New England Historical Association Book Award and the American Historical Association’s 1997 John K. Fairbank Prize in East Asian History. Cohen’s work has been translated into Chinese\, Japanese\, and Korean.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/paul-cohen-a-path-twice-traveled-my-journey-as-a-historian-of-china/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190415T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190415T180000
DTSTAMP:20260506T191902
CREATED:20190404T211315Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190404T211315Z
UID:8057-1555344000-1555351200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Douglas Paal - The Taiwan Relations Act at Forty
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Douglas Paal\, Distinguished Fellow\, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Former Director\, American Institute in Taiwan
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/douglas-paal-the-taiwan-relations-act-at-forty/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event,Taiwan,Taiwan Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190325T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190325T180000
DTSTAMP:20260506T191902
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SUMMARY:Felix Wemheuer - Rebels in Power: Factionalism in Shandong during China’s Cultural Revolution (1966-1969)
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Felix Wemheuer\, Chair Professor of Modern China Studies\, University of Cologne \nDuring the early Cultural Revolution (1966-1969)\, factional conflicts inside the CCP (Communist Party of China) and within the society resulted in civil war and the almost collapse of the party-state. Wemheuer will present Shandong Province as a case study for the development of factional conflicts at the various administrative levels of state and society. Based on various field trips\, archival research and Oral History interviews with former rebel leaders\, it will be shown how the coalition of rebel cadres\, students\, workers and soldiers was created in Shandong and why they were able to “seize power” in February of 1967. The events and developments that ultimately led to the splitting of the rebels and their final downfall in 1969 will also be examined. The talk will contribute to a new understanding of factional politics. \nFelix Wemheuer belongs to a new generation of Western scholars who are rewriting the history of Maoist China. His publications include Famine Politics in Maoist China and the Soviet Union (Yale UP 2014) and A Social History of Maoist China: Conflict and Change\, 1949-1976 (Cambridge UP 2019). Between 2008 and 2010\, he was a visiting scholar at the Fairbank Center.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/felix-wemheuer-rebels-in-power-factionalism-in-shandong-during-chinas-cultural-revolution-1966-1969/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190325T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190325T153000
DTSTAMP:20260506T191902
CREATED:20190319T132447Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190319T132447Z
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SUMMARY:Allan Layug - Order in International Thought: Unpacking China’s Concept of World Order
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Allan Layug\, PhD Candidate\, University of Queensland; Associate\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\nDiscussant: Robert Ross\, Professor of Political Science\, Boston College \nHow do we conceptualize China’s world order? What are its defining characteristics? Whose ideas matter in conceptualizing it—and why? And how do the different conceptions affect the Chinese world-ordering projects in the 21st century? These are the key questions the lecture aims to address. Specifically\, it will lay out the ideational foundations of order from the ancient to the modern Chinese thought\, exploring key ideas from Confucius to Sun Yatsen. It will unpack the bones of contention on conceptualization\, construction\, maintenance\, and transformation of world order in the contemporary period\, tracing change and continuity in Mao Zedong Thought\, Deng Theory\, Xi Jinping Thought. It will provide a four-level analysis: (a) analytical level\, where Chinese concept of order and its key characteristics are defined and analyzed\, (b) logical level\, where the reasoning behind such a conception is discussed\, (c) theoretical level\, where the concept is viewed from different theoretical points of view\, and (d) field of debate level\, where the parameters\, axes\, and forms of argument framing the debate in the Chinese world are analyzed. The lecture will conclude on some thoughts about the future trajectory of world ordering the Chinese Way.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/allan-layug-order-in-international-thought-unpacking-chinas-concept-of-world-order/
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest,Special Event
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SUMMARY:Neuhauser Lecture featuring Susan Thornton - Can We Live with China? A Roadmap for Co-evolution
DESCRIPTION:Listen again:  \n \nRead and download the transcript for this event here. \n  \nSpeaker: Susan Thornton\, Former Acting Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs \nSusan Thornton was Acting Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs at the Department of State during the first 18 months of the Trump administration. Prior to her departure\, Thornton led East Asia policy-making amid crises with North Korea\, escalating trade tensions with China\, and a generally deteriorating environment in the United States for international economic and diplomatic engagement. She was the architect of the diplomatic pressure campaign on the North Korean regime\, structured the administration’s initial approach to China\, and developed the administration’s trademark Indo-Pacific Strategy. \nIn previous leadership roles in Washington\, Thornton worked on China and Korea policy\, including stabilizing relations with Taiwan\, the U.S.-China Cyber Agreement\, the Paris Climate Accord and led a successful negotiation in Pyongyang for monitoring of the Agreed Framework on denuclearization. \nIn her 18 years of overseas postings in Central Asia\, Russia\, the Caucasus and China\, Thornton’s leadership furthered U.S. interests and influence and maintained programs and mission morale in a host of difficult operating environments. Prior to joining the Foreign Service\, she was among the first State Department Fascell Fellows and served from 1989–90 at the U.S. Consulate in Leningrad. She was also a researcher at the Foreign Policy Institute from 1987–91. \nThornton received her M.A. in International Relations and Soviet Studies from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in 1991 and earned an M.S. in National Strategy and Resource Management at the National Defense University’s Eisenhower School in 2010. Thornton received her B.A. from Bowdoin College in Economics and Russian in 1985\, and taught in international secondary schools in Brussels\, London\, and Chile. She speaks Russian\, Mandarin Chinese and French\, is a member of numerous professional associations and is on the Board of Trustees for the Eurasia Foundation. \n 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/neuhauser-lecture-featuring-susan-thornton-can-we-live-with-china-a-roadmap-for-co-evolution/
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest,Special Event
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SUMMARY:Workshop: The Birth of the Chinese Population
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Malcolm Thompson\, An Wang Postdoctoral Fellow\nDiscussant: Gail Hershatter\, Professor of History\, UC–Santa Cruz \nAbstract: What kind of problem is “the population problem” in China? That it would be a problem\, or at least an issue\, seems clear\, but this tells us little about how\, or why\, it was specifically problematized there for the first time in the 1920s and 1930s. This talk—which is based on a book project of the same name—will seek to explain the sudden emergence of the population problem in China in this period not as a realization of something obvious\, but as part of a general transformation of governing as a social practice.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/workshop-the-birth-of-the-chinese-population/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conference and Workshops,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190129T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190129T190000
DTSTAMP:20260506T191902
CREATED:20190110T170939Z
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SUMMARY:Exhibition Opening - Eye Eye Nose Mouth: Art\, Disability\, and Mental Illness in Nanjing\, China and Shiga-ken\, Japan
DESCRIPTION:This exhibition at the Harvard University Asia Center explores the intersections of art\, disability\, and mental health by displaying original works on paper and sculptures\ncreated by ten groundbreaking\, self-taught artists from China and Japan. Their compelling\, formally innovative works come in a wide range of styles and media\, from gestural abstractions to proliferating figurations\, from meticulous clay obelisks to eye-popping wall paintings. \nThe first exhibition of works produced in art workshops for people with disabilities ever to take place at Harvard (and only the second devoted to self-taught artists since the Harvard Society for Contemporary Art’s Exhibition of American Folk Paintings in 1930)\, “Eye Eye Nose Mouth” offers an original contribution to an ongoing conversation about mental health and the acceptance of mental disability and mental illness in both local and international contexts. \nThe curators conducted on-the-ground research at Nanjing Outsider Art Studio in China and Atelier Yamanami in Japan\, in order to witness the practices of the artists\, and to carefully contextualize the works within their specific sociocultural conditions of production. As the curators observed the inner workings of these art therapy workshops\, they documented the daily rhythms and artistic processes of the artists on video\, which form a tapestry of moving-image portraits to accompany the works in the exhibition. \nThe title of the exhibition is an homage to the work of Hideaki Yoshikawa\, who has been creating numerous series of works bearing the title “Eye Eye Nose Mouth” (目目鼻口\, pronounced me-me-hana-kuchi) at Atelier Yamanami over several decades. His drawings and clay sculptures\, combining obsessive seriality and formal inventiveness\, are exemplary of the quality of the works produced at Atelier Yamanami and Nanjing Outsider Art Studio\, but also of the most salient common feature of both workshops. \nThe two workshops belong to distinct sociocultural contexts at different stages of their respective histories: the former was founded in 1986\, while the latter\, founded in 2006\, is a comparatively smaller structure. However\, staff members of both workshops make it a point to never intervene directly in the creative process\, providing care\, support\, and art materials while leaving artists at total liberty to experiment and develop their own artistic practices at their own pace. The works displayed in this exhibition offer a glimpse of the results yielded by these deliberate strategies of tolerance and empowerment. \nMental illness and mental disability are particularly complex issues in both China and Japan\, due to prevalent social stigma\, and\, in the case of mainland China\, a relative lack of state-supported care facilities. In this regard\, both workshops constitute attempts to heighten public awareness of these issues\, and to improve the symbolic image and concrete living conditions of affected persons in their respective societies. While insisting on the specificity of each workshop’s particular context\, the exhibition avoids a rigid juxtaposition or comparison\, encouraging the viewer to instead find formal and thematic echoes across the works.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/exhibition-opening-eye-eye-nose-mouth-art-disability-and-mental-illness-in-nanjing-china-and-shiga-ken-japan/
LOCATION:Japan Friends of Harvard Concourse\, CGIS South\, Lower Level\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest,Exhibitions,Special Event
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SUMMARY:Cao Yin — From Policemen to Revolutionaries: A Sikh Diaspora in Global Shanghai\, 1885-1945
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Cao Yin\, Tsinghua University \nThis talk will uncover the less-known story of Sikh emigrants in Shanghai in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It argues that the cross-border circulation of personnel and knowledge across the British colonial and the Sikh diasporic networks\, facilitated the formation of the Sikh community in Shanghai\, eventually making this Chinese city one of the overseas hubs of the Indian nationalist struggle. By adopting a translocal approach\, this study elaborates on how the flow of Sikh emigrants\, largely regarded as subalterns\, initially strengthened but eventually unhinged British colonial rule in East and Southeast Asia. \nCao Yin is Associate Professor at the department of history\, Tsinghua University. His research interest mainly covers modern India\, the British Empire\, and the Sino-Indian connections in the twentieth century. His is the author of From Policemen to Revolutionaries: A Sikh Diaspora in Global Shanghai 1885-1945 (Leiden: Brill\, 2017). He is currently working on a book manuscript about how India became a chaotic home front for China during the second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945).
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/cao-yin-from-policemen-to-revolutionaries-a-sikh-diaspora-in-global-shanghai-1885-1945/
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181108T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181108T173000
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SUMMARY: 40 Years of Economic Reform and Opening: Achievements and Challenges
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\nLi Shi\, Beijing Normal University\n Tao Ran\, Renmin University of China\n Qin Qianhong\, Wuhan University \nDiscussant: Meg Rithmire\, Harvard Business School
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/40-years-of-economic-reform-and-opening-achievements-and-challenges/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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SUMMARY:40 Years of Opening and Reform: A Comprehensive View - Politics\, Law\, Thought\, Culture\, Society
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\nRen Jiantao\, Tsinghua University\nHe Weifang\, Peking University\nXiao Gongqin\, Shanghai Normal University\nRong Jian\, Independent Scholar \nDiscussant: Susan Greenhalgh\, Harvard University
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/40-years-of-opening-and-reform-a-comprehensive-view-politics-law-thought-culture-society/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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SUMMARY:Reischauer Lecture Series - Stephen Owen
DESCRIPTION:Listen Again:\n \n \nSpeaker: Stephen Owen\, James Bryant Conant University Professor\, Emeritus\, Harvard University \nStephen Owen is a sinologist specializing in premodern literature\, lyric poetry\, and comparative poetics. Much of his work has focused on the middle period of Chinese literature (200-1200)\, however\, he has also written on literature of the early period and the Qing. Owen has written or edited dozens of books\, articles\, and anthologies in the field of Chinese literature\, especially Chinese poetry\, including An Anthology of Chinese Literature: Beginnings to 1911 (Norton\, 1996); The Making of Early Chinese Classical Poetry (Harvard Asia Center\, 2006); and The Late Tang: Chinese Poetry of the Mid-Ninth Century (827-860) (Harvard Asia Center\, 2006). Owen has completed the translation of the complete poetry of Du Fu\, which has been published as the inaugural volumes of the Library of Chinese Humanities series\, featuring Chinese literature in translation. Owen earned a B.A. (1968) and a Ph.D. (1972) in Chinese Language from Yale University. He taught there from 1972 to 1982\, before coming to Harvard.  In acknowledgment of his groundbreaking work that crosses the boundaries of multiple disciplines\, Owen was awarded the James Bryant Conant University Professorship in 1997. He has been a Fulbright Scholar\, held a Guggenheim Fellowship\, and received a Mellon Foundation Distinguished Achievement Award (2006) among many other awards and honors. \n\nOctober 16\, 2018: \nFlavors of Truth and Claims of Authority\nDiscussant: Michael Puett\, Harvard University \nMichael Puett is the Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History and Anthropology\, as well as the Chair of the Committee on the Study of Religion\, at Harvard University. His interests are focused on the inter-relations between philosophy\, anthropology\, history\, and religion\, 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 Chinaand To Become a God: Cosmology\, Sacrifice\, and Self-Divinization in Early China\, as well as the co-author\, with Adam Seligman\, Robert Weller\, and Bennett Simon\, of Ritual and its Consequences: An Essay on the Limits of Sincerity. \nOctober 17\, 2018: \nHow Can One Say the Unprecedented in Pre-modern East Asia: Su Dongpo and Ink Bamboo\nDiscussant: Stephen H. West\, Foundation Professor of Chinese\, Head of East and Southeast Asian Section\, School of International Letters and Cultures\, Arizona State University; Louis Agassiz Professor of Chinese\, Emeritus\, University of California\, Berkeley \nStephen West is a Foundation Professor of Chinese in the School of International Letters and Cultures. West works in the textual culture of late medieval and early modern China (1000–1600)\, with specialties in performance literature\, drama\, urban literature\, and garden studies. \nThe Reischauer Lecture Series is co-sponosred by:\nFairbank Center For Chinese Studies\nHarvard University Asia Center\nKorea Institute\nMittal South Asia Institute\nReischauer Institute of Japanese Studies
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/reischauer-lecture-series-stephen-owen-2018-10-17/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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SUMMARY:Reischauer Lecture Series - Stephen Owen
DESCRIPTION:Listen Again: \n \nSpeaker: Stephen Owen\, James Bryant Conant University Professor\, Emeritus\, Harvard University \nStephen Owen is a sinologist specializing in premodern literature\, lyric poetry\, and comparative poetics. Much of his work has focused on the middle period of Chinese literature (200-1200)\, however\, he has also written on literature of the early period and the Qing. Owen has written or edited dozens of books\, articles\, and anthologies in the field of Chinese literature\, especially Chinese poetry\, including An Anthology of Chinese Literature: Beginnings to 1911 (Norton\, 1996); The Making of Early Chinese Classical Poetry (Harvard Asia Center\, 2006); and The Late Tang: Chinese Poetry of the Mid-Ninth Century (827-860) (Harvard Asia Center\, 2006). Owen has completed the translation of the complete poetry of Du Fu\, which has been published as the inaugural volumes of the Library of Chinese Humanities series\, featuring Chinese literature in translation. Owen earned a B.A. (1968) and a Ph.D. (1972) in Chinese Language from Yale University. He taught there from 1972 to 1982\, before coming to Harvard.  In acknowledgment of his groundbreaking work that crosses the boundaries of multiple disciplines\, Owen was awarded the James Bryant Conant University Professorship in 1997. He has been a Fulbright Scholar\, held a Guggenheim Fellowship\, and received a Mellon Foundation Distinguished Achievement Award (2006) among many other awards and honors. \nOctober 16\, 2018: \nFlavors of Truth and Claims of Authority\nDiscussant: Michael Puett\, Harvard University \nMichael Puett is the Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History and Anthropology\, as well as the Chair of the Committee on the Study of Religion\, at Harvard University. His interests are focused on the inter-relations between philosophy\, anthropology\, history\, and religion\, 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 Chinaand To Become a God: Cosmology\, Sacrifice\, and Self-Divinization in Early China\, as well as the co-author\, with Adam Seligman\, Robert Weller\, and Bennett Simon\, of Ritual and its Consequences: An Essay on the Limits of Sincerity. \nOctober 17\, 2018: \nHow Can One Say the Unprecedented in Pre-modern East Asia: Su Dongpo and Ink Bamboo\nDiscussant: Stephen H. West\, Foundation Professor of Chinese\, Head of East and Southeast Asian Section\, School of International Letters and Cultures\, Arizona State University; Louis Agassiz Professor of Chinese\, Emeritus\, University of California\, Berkeley \nStephen West is a Foundation Professor of Chinese in the School of International Letters and Cultures. West works in the textual culture of late medieval and early modern China (1000–1600)\, with specialties in performance literature\, drama\, urban literature\, and garden studies. \nThe Reischauer Lecture Series is co-sponosred by:Fairbank Center For Chinese StudiesHarvard University Asia CenterKorea InstituteMittal South Asia InstituteReischauer Institute of Japanese Studies
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/reischauer-lecture-series-stephen-owen/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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SUMMARY:Adrian Zenz - Recent Developments in Xinjiang
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Adrian Zenz\, Lecturer in social research methods\, European School of Culture & Theology\, Germany\nModerator: Mark Elliott\, Vice Provost\, International Affairs\, Harvard University \nCo-Sponsored by: \nFairbank Center for Chinese Studies\nCommittee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies\nEast Asian Legal Studies Program\, Harvard Law School\nPrince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program\n \nListen again on our Soundcloud: \n \nDownload and read the transcript of this event here.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/adrian-zenz-recent-developments-in-xinjiang/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest,Special Event
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SUMMARY:Panel Discussion - Strongman Politics in the 21st Century
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\nElsa Clavé\, Harvard University Asia Center\nAyşe Kadıoğlu\, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies\, Harvard University\nJoseph Fewsmith\, Boston University\nValerie Sperling\, Clark University \nModerator:\nThomas Vallely\, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation\, Harvard Kennedy School \nListen again on Soundcloud: \n \nAs the role of “strongman” leaders on the world stage appears to be on the rise\, this panel examines “strongman politics” in a comparative context. In May 2018\, Time Magazine proclaimed in an article that “The ‘Strongmen Era’ Is Here” (Time\, May 3\, 2018). Highlighting Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping’s tightening authoritarianism in Russia and China\, and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan\, Rodrigo Duterte\, and Viktor Orbán’s undermining of democratic norms in Turkey\, the Philippines\, and Hungary\, it certainly appears that Huntington’s post-Cold War “third wave” of democratization is witnessing a strongman-inspired reversal. But does this entail a new “era” of authoritarianism advance as the United States rhetorically withdraws from its global leadership role? \nThis panel examines the role of politically-strong male leaders in authoritarian countries in a comparative context. Elsa Clavé\, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Harvard University Asia Center\, examines the 2016 election of Duterte in the Philippines; Ayşe Kadıoğlu\, Visiting Scholar at Harvard’s Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies\, looks at Erdoğan’s reversal of Turkey’s previous move towards democratization; Joseph Fewsmith\, Professor Political Science at Boston University\, compares Xi Jinping’s consolidation of power in China to Mao’s historical rise at Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party; and Valerie Sperling\, Professor of Political Science at Clark University\, interrogates the cult-like masculinity of Vladimir Putin’s image as a “manly” leader in post-Soviet Russia. \nRegarding her upcoming discussion of the presidency of Duterte at the panel\, Asia Center Postdoctoral Fellow Elsa Clavé\, a historian of the Philippines working on the expression of authority and power in its Muslim periphery\, stated “President Duerte is not only a populist; he was elected and stays extremely popular for various other reasons. Understanding these reasons is essential to understanding the present society and the direction it is taking. Models and theory are a good approach to reality\, but reality exceeds both. A conversation between different fields and disciplines will help\, I hope\, to refine the model.” \nThe panel is moderated by Thomas Vallely\, Senior Advisor at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation\, Harvard Kennedy School\, and a specialist on Southeast Asia\, and introduced by Karen Thornber\, Director of the Harvard University Asia Center. \nCo-sponsoring Centers:\nAsh Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation\, Harvard Kennedy School\nWeatherhead Center for International Affairs\, Harvard University\nHarvard University Asia Center\nFairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard University\nDavis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies\, Harvard University\nMinda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies\, Harvard University
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/panel-discusison-strong-man-politics-in-the-21st-century/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest,Special Event
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SUMMARY:Panel Discussion: The End of Concern: Maoist China\, Activism\, and Asian Studies
DESCRIPTION:Panelists:\nFabio Lanza\, University of Arizona\nEllen Schrecker\, Yeshiva University\nAndrew Gordon\, Harvard University\nJoseph Esherick\, University of California San Diego\nSugata Bose\, Harvard University\nLien-Hang Nguyen\, Columbia University\nBruce Cumings\, University of Chicago \nModerator: Karen Thornber\, Harvard University Asia Center \nOrganized by: Arunabh Ghosh\, Harvard University \nCo-Sponsored by:\nFairbank Center for Chinese Studies\nHarvard University Asia Center\nReischauer Institute for Japanese Studies\nKorea Institute\nMittal South Asia Institute \nListen again on Soundcloud:
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/panel-discussion-the-end-of-concern-maoist-china-activism-and-asian-studies/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Conference and Workshops,Events of Interest,Modern China Lecture,Special Event
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180427T170000
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SUMMARY:Reconsidering Chinese Literature in the World: An International Symposium in Honor of Stephen Owen
DESCRIPTION:In honor of Harvard University Professor Stephen Owen’s retirement from teaching\, the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University and the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale University will convene an international symposium on Chinese and comparative literatures on April 26 and 27\, 2018\, at Harvard University. Papers will span the many fields within which Professor Owen’s contributions have been felt\, and allow participants\, drawn from among Owen’s graduate advisees and from the top scholars of Chinese and comparative literature around the world\, to reflect upon the ways these fields have changed over the course of his long teaching career and the new directions in which they are developing\, and should develop\, in the years ahead. \nFor more information\, including a detailed agenda\, visit https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/rcl. \nThe conference will be conducted in English and Chinese. It is open to the public. \nSponsored by the Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange\, the Harvard University Asia Center\, the Harvard University Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, the Harvard-Yenching Institute\, and the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/reconsidering-chinese-literature-in-the-world-an-international-symposium-in-honor-of-stephen-owen-2/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Conference and Workshops,Special Event
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