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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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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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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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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
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251203T154500
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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
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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
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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SUMMARY:China’s Political Economy: Challenges and Opportunities — Presentations by Fairbank Center Visiting Scholars and Fellows
DESCRIPTION:Presentations: \n\n\n\nLingang Zhou\, Associate Professor\, School of Politics and International Affairs\, East China Normal University; 2025-26 Visiting Scholar\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies The Progressive Logic of the PRC’s ConstitutionThe PRC’s constitution was initially established on the basis of a differentiated allocation of political power. First\, the exploiting classes were deprived of the right to vote. Second\, voting rights were distributed unequally between workers and peasants. However\, at the level of constitutional law\, both forms of inequality were gradually eliminated. By no later than 2010\, formal equality in voting rights had been achieved within the system. Yet the dominant interpretation of the principle of equality remains unchanged. This has led to an inconsistency between interpretation and institutional reality. Exploring this inconsistency can help reveal the progressive logic underlying it.Yixiao Zhou\, Associate Professor in Economics and Director of the China Economy Program\, Crawford School of Public Policy\, The Australian National University; 2025-26 Visiting Scholar\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies The Impact of Chinese Firms on Global Competition Since China’s market-oriented reforms and accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO)\, the share of Chinese firms in the global market has expanded significantly in recent decades. In this talk\, Yixiao Zhou examines how the increase in China’s global market share has reshaped global competition. She examines how competitive pressure varies between firms of different market power\, size\, geographic locations\, and industry sectors. \n\n\n\nYunli Lou\, Founder and Managing Partner\, Milestone Capital Partners; 2025-26 Visiting Fellow of Practice\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies China’s Path to Energy Security – what has been achieved and what can be learned?For more than a decade\, China has been deliberately building an energy infrastructure and supply chain with a goal to reduce reliance on imports\, dramatically increase clean energy production and consumption\, and achieve a high degree of energy self-sufficiency. This will only be accomplished through a fundamental transformation of its energy system\, moving from a fossil-fuel dominant structure to one led by new energy sources.   \n\n\n\nBased on her experience investing in renewable and battery companies in China over the last 20 years\, Yunli Lou will present a case study to illustrate the opportunities and challenges for firms in China’s new energy sector. \n\n\n\nDiscussant: Mark Wu\, Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law\, Harvard Law School; Director\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/fairbank-center-visiting-scholar-presentations-4/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S354\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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