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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
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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
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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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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
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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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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190325T153000
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CREATED:20190319T132447Z
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UID:8009-1553522400-1553527800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
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/
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CATEGORIES:Events of Interest,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190304T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190304T180000
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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/
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CATEGORIES:Events of Interest,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190219T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190219T180000
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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:20260507T002937
CREATED:20190110T170939Z
LAST-MODIFIED: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/
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181105T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181105T140000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181017T160000
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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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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181016T180000
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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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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180426T173000
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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/
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CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Conference and Workshops,Special Event
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SUMMARY:Graham Allison - Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides' Trap?
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Graham Allison\, Douglas Dillon Professor of Government\, Harvard Kennedy School\nDiscussants:\nRoderick MacFarquhar\,  Leroy B. Williams Professor of History\, Harvard University\nOriana Skylar Mastro\, Assistant Professor of Security Studies\, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service\, Georgetown University \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation. \nListen again:
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/graham-allison-destined-for-war-can-america-and-china-escape-thucydides-trap/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Special Event
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180417T134500
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SUMMARY:His Excellency Cui Tiankai Speaks on U.S. - China Relations
DESCRIPTION:This Event begins at 12:15pm. \nSpeaker: Cui Tiankai\, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People’s Republic of China to the United States of America. \nHis Excellency Cui Tiankai\, Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China to the United States of America\, will present a public lecture on the current state of U.S.-China relations at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard University. \nThe lecture and discussion will be moderated by Michael Szonyi\, Director of the Fairbank Center and Professor of Chinese History at Harvard University. \nThis event is co-sponsored by Harvard Law School East Asian Legal Studies and the Harvard University Asia Center.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/a-conversation-with-ambassador-cui-tiankai/
LOCATION:Harvard Law School\, Austin North (Room 100)\, 1515 Massachusetts Avenue\, Cambridge\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest,Special Event
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SUMMARY:Mareike Ohlberg and Kristin Shi-Kupfer - Ideas and Ideologies Competing for China’s Future
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\nMareike Ohlberg\, Research Associate\, Mercator Institute for China Studies; former An Wang Post-Doctoral Fellow\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\nKristin Shi-Kupfer\, Head of Research on Politics\, Society\, and the Media\, Mercator Institute for China Studies \nUnlike any other Chinese leader since the beginning of the reform era\, Xi Jinping has worked on crafting a unified national ideology with the aim to strengthen the ties between China’s citizens and the Communist Party of China (CCP). The Xi leadership tries to rally support around the “China Dream\,” the vision of China as a global player\, and it promotes the “China Path” as an alternative to market economies and liberal democracies. \nAlthough partially successful\, the propaganda offensive has so far not yielded the desired result: a broad-based societal consensus on China’s future course. A new publication by the Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS) shows widely differing views within Chinese society on China’s developmental model and its global role. \nFor their report\, “Ideas and ideologies competing for China’s future\,” Kristin Shi-Kupfer\, Mareike Ohlberg\, Simon Lang and Bertram Lang analyzed debates in Chinese social media and conducted a survey among predominantly urban Chinese netizens. Even though party-state propaganda played a dominant role\, debates in online chat groups such as Weibo or Tianya Net displayed a wide range of opinions despite censorship and repression of dissent. \nDr. Kristin Shi-Kupfer\nKristin Shi-Kupfer heads research on politics\, society and the media at the Mercator Institute for China Studies. She is an expert on media policy\, civil society\, religious policy and ideology in China. She previously worked as a research associate at the University of Freiburg’s Institute for Sinology. She earned her PhD from Ruhr University Bochum with a thesis on spiritual and religious groups in China after 1978. From 2007 to 2011 she was the China correspondent for the Austrian news magazine Profil\, the German Protestant Press Agency epd\, and Südwest Presse in Beijing. She also worked as a freelance contributor for other media like ZEIT Online\, tageszeitung (taz)\, and Deutsche Welle in China. In May 2017\, Shi-Kupfer was appointed member of the expert committee of the German-Chinese platform on innovation under the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. \nDr. Mareike Ohlberg\nMareike Ohlberg is a research associate at the Mercator Institute for China Studies\, where she focuses on China’s subnational politics\, official media policy as well as developments in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Ohlberg holds a PhD in Chinese Studies from the University of Heidelberg and an MA from Columbia University. In her thesis\, she analyzed changes in China’s global propaganda outreach since 1978. Prior to joining MERICS\, Ohlberg spent a year as an An Wang Postdoctoral Fellow at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University and another year as a postdoctoral researcher at the Cheng Shewo Institute for Chinese Journalism at Shih Hsin University in Taipei.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/mareike-ohlberg-and-kristin-shi-kupfer-ideas-and-ideologies-competing-for-chinas-future/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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SUMMARY:Harvard University Asia Center 20th Anniversary Celebration
DESCRIPTION:S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, Japan Friends of Harvard Concourse \n9:30 a.m.         Coffee \n9:45 a.m.         Welcome by Professor Karen Thornber\, Victor and William Fung Director\, Asia Center; Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and of Comparative Literature\, Harvard University \n10:00 a.m.       Introduction by Vice Provost Mark Elliott\, Vice Provost for International Affairs\, Harvard University; Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History \n10:15 a.m.        Remarks by Professor Rema Hanna\, Chair\, Asia Center Southeast Asia Committee; Jeffrey Cheah Professor of South-East Asia Studies\, Harvard Kennedy School \n10:30 a.m.       A Dialogue with the Asia Center’s former Directors and Acting Directors on the Changing and Enduring Issues in Asia\nEzra Vogel\, Asia Center Director 1997-1999; Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences\, Emeritus\, Harvard University\nWilliam  Kirby\, Asia Center Director 1999-2002; Chair\, Harvard China Fund; T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies\, Harvard University; Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration\, Harvard Business School\nDwight Perkins\, Asia Center Director 2002-2005; Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy\, Emeritus\, Harvard University\nAnthony Saich\, Asia Center Director 2005-2008; Director\, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation; Daewoo Professor of International Affairs\, Harvard Kennedy School\nArthur Kleinman\, Asia Center Director 2008-2016; Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology\, Harvard University; Professor of Medical Anthropology and Psychiatry\, Harvard Medical School\nMichael Puett\, Asia Center Acting Director Spring Term 2013; Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History and Anthropology\, Harvard University\nAndrew Gordon\, Asia Center Acting Director 2016-2017; Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History\, Harvard University\nModerator:  Professor Meg Rithmire\, F. Warren McFarlan Associate Professor of Business of Administration\, Harvard Business School \n12:00 p.m.        Lunch  S030\, Lee Gathering Room\, Japan Friends of Harvard Concourse\, CGIS South \n1:00 p.m.          Remarks by Dean Claudine Gay\, Dean of Social Science\, Harvard University; Wilbur A. Cowett Professor of Government and of African and African American Studies \n1:15 p.m.          Study and Research in Asia:  The Student Perspective\nErnest (Billy) Brewster\, East Asian Languages and Civilizations\nRenzo R. Guinto\, T.H. Chan School of Public Health\nHyeok Kweon Kang\, East Asian Languages and Civilizations\nNeelam Khoja\, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations\nVeronika Kusumaryati\, Department of Anthropology\nNeeti Nayak\, Urban Planning and Design\, Graduate School of Design\nMelany Sun-Min Park\, History and Theory of Architecture\nKyle Shernuk\, East Asian Languages and Civilizations\nJustin Stern\, Architecture\, Landscape Architecture & Urban Planning\nFeng-en Tu\, History and East Asian Languages \n3:00 p.m.         Break \n3:15 p.m.         Asia in the Next Two Decades: A Conversation with Current Harvard Asia-related Center Directors\nTarun Khanna\, Director\, Lakshmi Mittal South Asia Institute; Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor\, Harvard Business School\nSun Joo Kim\, Director\, Korea Institute; Harvard-Yenching Professor of Korean History\, Harvard University\nWilliam Kirby\, Chair\, Harvard China Fund; T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies\, Harvard University; Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration\, Harvard Business School\nSusan Pharr\, Director\, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics\nJay Rosengard\, Acting Director\, Asia Center Thai Studies Program; Asia Center Southeast Asia Committee; Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy\, Harvard Kennedy School\nMichael Szonyi\, Director\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies; Professor of Chinese History\, Harvard University\nKaren Thornber\, Victor and William Fung Director\, Asia Center; Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and of Comparative Literature\, Harvard University \n4:40 p.m.         Audience to move to S010\, Tsai Auditorium (next door to S020) for Tsai Lecture \n4:45 p.m.         13th Annual Tsai Lecture: China’s Worldview Under Xi Jinping\nThe Honorable Kevin Rudd\, President\, Asia Society Policy Institute; former Prime Minister of Australia (2007-2010\, 2013) and former Foreign Minister (2010-2012) \n5:45 p.m.         Concluding Remarks/Reception
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/harvard-university-asia-center-20th-anniversary-celebration/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, CGIS South\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest,Special Event
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SUMMARY:Reporting on Asia - A Discussion with Four Nieman Fellows
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\nGlenda M. Gloria\, Managing Editor and Co-Founder of Rappler\, Philippines social news network\nShalini Singh\, Features Reporter\, New Delhi\, India; former reporter for The Week and the Hindustan Times; founding trustee at the People’s Archive of Rural India\nBonny Symons-Brown\, Australian Broadcasting Corporation; former TV news anchor\, Jakarta\, Indonesia\nEdward Wong\, The New York Times; former New York Times Beijing Bureau Chief and Iraq correspondent \nChair:\nKaren Thornber\, Victor and William Fung Director\, Harvard University Asia Center; Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and of Comparative Literature\, Harvard University \nAsia Center Seminar Series; co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Lakshmi Mittal South Asia Institute
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/reporting-on-asia-a-discussion-with-four-nieman-fellows/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180327T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180327T180000
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SUMMARY:Scott Kennedy - The Fat Tech Dragon: Commercial and Strategic Implications of China’s Hi-Tech Drive
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Scott Kennedy\, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) \nChina’s high-tech drive has drawn both fierce criticism for being unfair and breathless praise for its recent successes. This presentation attempts to cut through the hyperbole on both sides to examine the evolution of China’s high-tech policies and its recent performance record. Chinese technology policy has indeed become more discriminatory\, but China’s actual performance record varies across sectors\, as do the implications for the United States and the global economy. American policy needs to take this mixed record into account in crafting an appropriate and effective response. \nScott Kennedy is deputy director of the Freeman Chair in China Studies and director of the Project on Chinese Business and Political Economy at CSIS. A leading authority on China’s domestic and international economic policy\, Kennedy is the author of The Fat Tech Dragon: Benchmarking China’s Innovation Drive (CSIS\, 2017); (with Chris Johnson) Perfecting China Inc.: China’s 13th Five-Year Plan (CSIS\, 2016)\, and The Business of Lobbying in China (Harvard University Press\, 2005). He has edited three books\, including Global Governance and China: The Dragon’s Learning Curve (Routledge\, 2017)\, and Beyond the Middle Kingdom: Comparative Perspectives on China’s Capitalist Transformation (Stanford University Press\, 2011). For over 14 years\, Kennedy was a professor at Indiana University\, and from 2007 to 2014\, he was the director of the Research Center for Chinese Politics & Business. Kennedy received his Ph.D. in political science from George Washington University\, his M.A. in China studies from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies\, and his B.A. in foreign affairs from the University of Virginia. \nThis talk is made possible through generous funding by the Consulate General of Japan in Boston.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/scott-kennedy-the-fat-tech-dragon-commercial-and-strategic-implications-of-chinas-hi-tech-drive/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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SUMMARY:Jeff Wasserstrom and Maura Cunningham — China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom and Maura Elizabeth Cunningham \nHarvard Coop Book Talk \nIn this fully revised and updated third edition of China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know®\, Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom and Maura Elizabeth Cunningham provide cogent answers to urgent questions regarding the world’s newest superpower and offer a framework for understanding China’s meteoric rise from developing country to superpower. Framing their answers through the historical legacies – Confucian thought\, Western and Japanese imperialism\, the Mao era\, and the Tiananmen Square massacre – that largely define China’s present-day trajectory\, Wasserstrom and Cunningham introduce readers to the Chinese Communist Party\, the building boom in Shanghai\, and the environmental fallout of rapid Chinese industrialization. They also explain unique aspects of Chinese culture\, such as the one-child policy\, and provide insight into Chinese-American relations\, a subject that has become increasingly fraught during the Trump era. As Wasserstrom and Cunningham draw parallels between China and other industrialized nations during their periods of development\, in particular the United States during its rapid industrialization in the 19th century\, they also predict how we might expect China to act in the future vis-à-vis the United States\, Russia\, India\, and its East Asian neighbors. \nUpdated to include perspectives on Hong Kong’s shifting political status\, as well as an expanded discussion of President Xi Jinping’s time in office\, China in the 21st Century provides a concise and insightful introduction to this significant global power. \nMaura Elizabeth Cunningham is a writer and historian of modern China. She is a graduate of Saint Joseph’s University (B.A.\, 2004)\, Yale University (M.A.\, 2006)\, the Hopkins-Nanjing Center for Chinese and American Studies (graduate certificate\, 2008)\, and the University of California\, Irvine (Ph.D.\, 2014). Maura was the editor-in-chief of The China Beat\, a blog based at UC Irvine\, between 2009 and 2012\, and associate editor of ChinaFile during a fellowship at the Asia Society’s Center on U.S.-China Relations in 2011-12. From 2014 to 2016\, Maura served as a program officer at the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations\, where she co-directed the Public Intellectuals Program; in 2016\, she became the digital media manager at the Association for Asian Studies. As a writer\, her work has appeared at the Wall Street Journal\, the Financial Times\, the Los Angeles Review of Books\, and other publications. \nJeffrey Wasserstrom is a graduate of UC Santa Cruz (B.A.\, 1982)\, Harvard (A.M.\, 1984)\, and Berkeley (Ph.D.\,1989)\, and he is now Chancellor’s Professor of History at UC Irvine. He has written five books\, the most recent of which are Eight Juxtapositions: China through Imperfect Analogies from Mark Twain to Manchukuo (Penguin\, 2016) and the third edition of China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford\, 2018). He has also edited or co-edited several other books\, including The Oxford Illustrated History of Modern China (2016). In addition to writing for academic journals\, he has contributed to many general interest venues\, among them the New York Times\, the TLS\, and the Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB). He is an academic editor of LARB’s China Channel and the Editor of the Journal of Asian Studies.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/jeff-wasserstrom-and-maura-cunningham-china-in-the-21st-century-what-everyone-needs-to-know/
LOCATION:Harvard Coop\, 1400 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest,Special Event
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SUMMARY:The Rise of New  Religions in Asia
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: \nHelen Hardacre\, Harvard University\nAdam Lyons\, Harvard University\nFrank Korom\, Boston University\nAmanda Lucia\, University of California Riverside\nRobert Hefner\, Boston University\nJuliane Schober\, Arizona State University\nGareth Fisher\, Syracuse University\nChien-yu Julia Huang\, City Colleges of Chicago\nWei-ping Lin\, National Taiwan University\n\n\nMore Info: www.bu.edu/asian/2018/01/03/the-rise-of-new-religions-in-asia/
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-rise-of-new-religions-in-asia/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Conference and Workshops,Events of Interest,Special Event
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SUMMARY:Joseph Esherick: Bandits and Bolsheviks: the Shaanxi-Gansu Base Area before Mao
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Joseph W. Esherick\, Professor Emeritus\, University of California\, San Diego \nIn the fall of 1935\, Mao read a newspaper article about a Communist base in Northern Shaanxi. He redirected the Long March to that base\, which would become the Yan’an-centered “revolutionary holy land” from which the Chinese Communist Party would rise to power during the War of Resistance against Japan and the following Civil War. Yan’an during the war provided Mao and his colleagues an unprecedented degree of security\, and that era has been much studied. We know much less about the formation of the base that provided him sanctuary.  That is the subject of Esherick’s inquiry. \nJoseph W. Esherick is a social historian of social movements in modern China. His dissertation and first monograph\, Reform and Revolution in China: the 1911 Revolution in Hunan and Hubei explored the social background of China’s republican revolution.  His book on The Origins of the Boxer Uprising won the Fairbank Prize of the American Historical Association and the Levenson Prize of the Association for Asian Studies.  His most recent monograph\, Ancestral Leaves\, explored the tumultuous history of nineteenth and twentieth-century China through the successive generations of one family.  In 1988\, Esherick began a project on the Chinese Communist revolution in Northern Shaanxi\, then set it aside for many years in hopes of greater archival access. That hope never materialized\, and he has now returned to the project with such documentary and fieldwork materials he has been able to obtain. After forty years of teaching at the University of Oregon and the University of California at San Diego\, Esherick retired in 2012 and now lives in Berkeley\, California.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/joseph-esherick-bandits-and-bolsheviks-the-shaanxi-gansu-base-area-before-mao/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S354\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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SUMMARY:Those Waters Giving Way
DESCRIPTION:An overview of Michael Cherney’s artistic process and recent works. The art combines photography with the subject matter\, aesthetics\, materials and formats traditionally associated with classical Chinese painting\, which allows for viewing the present day environment and landscape in China through the lens of art history. In addition to the presentation\, the artist will guide the audience through viewing several handscrolls\, albums and other works \n“One would be hard-pressed to find a ‘more Chinese’ artist than Qiu Mai (Michael Cherney). Photographer\, calligrapher\, and book artist\, Qiu Mai’s work is done with the great sophistication that draws on the subtleties of China’s most scholarly and esoteric traditions. Based in Beijing and a successful artist whose works have been collected by The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Department of Asian Art (the first photographic works ever to enter the collection of that department)\, Qiu Mai’s art is less provocative than it is intellectually engaging\, meditative\, and often simply beautiful.  What is provocative is his identity:  Qiu Mai is the Chinese name for Michael Cherney\, born in New York of Jewish parentage. Cherney’s work is the cutting-edge demonstration of artistic globalization:  if Asian artists can so readily ‘come West\,’ then what is to prevent large numbers of future Western artists from ‘going Asian’? Or\, like Qiu Mai/Michael Cherney\, going both ways at once\, both American and Chinese\, modern and traditional.”\n– Jerome Silbergeld\, P. Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Professor of Chinese Art History\, Princeton University \nCo-sponsored by the Harvard-China Project
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/those-waters-giving-way/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Environment,Environment,Events of Interest,Exhibitions,Special Event
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SUMMARY:Daisy Yan Du - An Animated Wartime Encounter:Princess Iron Fan and the Chinese Connection in Early Japanese Animation
DESCRIPTION:Speaker:Daisy Yan Du\, Harvard-Yenching Visiting Scholar: Assistant Professor\, Division of Humanities\, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology \nAsia Center Seminar Series
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/daisy-yan-du-an-animated-wartime-encounterprincess-iron-fan-and-the-chinese-connection-in-early-japanese-animation/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Special Event
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