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SUMMARY:Urban China Lecture Series featuring  Margaret Hillenbrand - On the Edge: Feeling Precarious in China
DESCRIPTION:Zoom meeting link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker:  Margaret Hillenbrand\, Professor of Modern Chinese Literature and Culture; Fellow of Wadham College\, Oxford University \n\n\n\nOn the evening of November 18th\, 2017\, a blaze broke out in a two-story building in Xinjian urban village\, just outside Beijing’s sixth ring road. At least 19 people\, including 8 children\, died in the flames. Using fire safety as a rationale\, the city condemned the entire settlement and its inhabitants. Nearly 250\,000 were forced to evacuate. In this talk\, I suggest that such evictions provoke questions about the limits of inequality\, exclusion\, and insecure work as meaningful descriptors of social conditions in our times. In this talk\, I explore the logic of expulsion in contemporary China\, its capacity to foment both solidarity and social strife\, and its relationship with cultural forms. In particular\, I look at how people living under precarity in China today use culture as a space to vent feelings of rage\, resentment\, distrust\, and disdain that are taboo under the diktats of so-called harmonious society. \n\n\n\nMargaret Hillenbrand is Professor of Modern Chinese Literature and Visual Culture at the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on literary and visual studies in twentieth-century China\, Hong Kong\, Taiwan\, and Japan\, especially cultures of secrecy and protest. Her books include Negative Exposures: Knowing What Not to Know in Contemporary China (Duke University Press\, 2020)\, and On the Edge: Feeling Precarious in China (Columbia University Press\, 2023)\, from which this talk is drawn. She is now working on a new project about the cultural politics of the face in Chinese visual culture during the era of biometric surveillance. \n\n\n\nZoom Meeting Link: https://mit.zoom.us/j/92743598127 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/urban-china-lecture-series-featuring-margaret-hillenbrand/
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SUMMARY:Urban China Lecture Series featuring Cole Roskam - Planning Exchange: Ideas\, People\, and Cities in Circulation During China's Opening and Reform Era
DESCRIPTION:Zoom meeting link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker:  Cole Roskam\, Professor of Architectural History\, Department of Architecture\, University of Hong Kong \n\n\n\nBeginning in the 1970s and intensifying during the 1980s\, the People’s Republic of China initiated international scholarly exchange programs with numerous countries at a range of levels and scales within Chinese society. These interactions were intended to facilitate knowledge transfer\, particularly with regard to distinctly technical forms of knowledge; more generally\, they also helped increase China’s connections to the capitalist world and vice-versa. At the same time\, the exchange also offered a somewhat unpredictable vehicle for change—a fundamentally subjective experience capable of producing profound incommensurability and asymmetry across disciplines and individuals. \n\n\n\nThis presentation examines the dynamics at work in exchange within the broad field of urban planning and design\, which was a particularly popular arena for international engagement in reform-era China. In this presentation\, I explore the complex\, interpersonal dynamics of exchange in relation to planning expertise\, and the extent to which the inherent subjectivities at work in the experience of exchange proved consequential to urban planning practices in reform-era China and\, more generally\, the fundamental strangeness of reform itself.Cole Roskam is professor of architectural history in the Department of Architecture at the University of Hong Kong. His research explores architecture’s role in mediating moments of transnational interaction and exchange between China and other parts of the world. He is the author of Improvised City: Architecture and Governance in Shanghai\, 1843-1937 (University of Washington Press\, 2019) and Designing Reform: Architecture in the People’s Republic of China\, 1970-1992 (Yale University Press\, 2021). His writing has appeared in AD\, Architectural History\, Artforum International\, Grey Room\, and the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians\, among others. He has been a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (Washington\, DC)\, the Canadian Centre for Architecture (Montreal)\, and the University of Edinburgh. \n\n\n\nZoom Meeting Link: https://mit.zoom.us/j/92743598127 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/urban-china-lecture-series-featuring-cole-roskam/
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SUMMARY:Urban China Lecture Series featuring Zhu Fangsheng - Families\, Schools\, and Cities
DESCRIPTION:Zoom meeting link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker:  Zhu Fangsheng\, Assistant Professor of Sociology\, Duke Kunshan University \n\n\n\nThis talk will trace the origins and consequences of how contemporary Chinese cities govern public school admissions. School districts became the central device in public school admissions in China\, despite their absence of fiscal or administrative foundations. I argue that cities repurposed school districts to manage rising perceived injustices in informal processes by which parents were choosing schools\, and that such repurposing of school districts only succeeded with the arrival of big data infrastructure in the early 2010s. The successful repurposing of school districts reconfigured urban education governance. \n\n\n\nComparing across time periods\, I find that formal procedures reduced perceived injustices while also increasing collective action. Comparing across families\, I find that the formal procedures catalyzed different education migration strategies and destinations\, dependent on family resources. Comparing across urban districts within the same city\, I report unequal burdens of school provision between urban center and urban fringe districts. Altogether\, these findings demonstrate that formal procedures addressed perceived injustices but not substantive inequalities in urban education governance.  \n\n\n\nFangsheng Zhu studies policies\, organizations\, and technologies in education. His ongoing projects evolve around two research questions. First\, why has education in China remained unequal and intensive? Second\, what explains the rise and fall of China’s EdTech industry? Fangsheng is currently an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Duke Kunshan University. \n\n\n\nZoom Meeting Link: https://mit.zoom.us/j/92743598127 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/urban-china-lecture-series-featuring-zhu-fangsheng/
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SUMMARY:Urban China Lecture Series featuring Isabella Jackson - Shaping Modern Shanghai: Colonialism in China’s Global City
DESCRIPTION:Zoom meeting link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker:  Isabella Jackson\, Assistant Professor in Chinese History\, Trinity College Dublin \n\n\n\nThe Shanghai International Settlement was the site of key developments of the Republican period: economic growth\, rising Chinese nationalism\, and the Sino-Japanese conflict. Managed by the Shanghai Municipal Council (SMC\, 1854–1943)\, it was beyond the control of both the Chinese and the foreign imperial governments. In this paper\, Jackson defines Shanghai’s unique\, hybrid form of colonial urban governance as transnational colonialism. The SMC was both colonial in its structures and subject to colonial influence\, especially from the British Empire\, yet autonomous in its activities and transnational in its personnel. Through a study of how this unique body functioned on the local\, national\, and international stages\, the Council’s impact on the daily lives of the city’s residents and its contribution to the conflicts of the period are revealed. The implications go beyond Shanghai to encompass modern Chinese history more broadly and wider colonial history. \n\n\n\nDr. Isabella Jackson is Assistant Professor in Chinese History at Trinity College Dublin\, Ireland. She lectured at the Universities of Oxford and Aberdeen before moving to Dublin in 2015. Jackson is the author of Shaping Modern Shanghai: Colonialism in China’s Global City (Cambridge University Press\, 2018) and co-editor\, with Robert Bickers\, of Treaty Ports in Modern China: Law\, Land and Power (Routledge\, 2016). She is Principal Investigator of an Irish Research Council Laureate Award on Chinese Childhood in the Twentieth Century. \n\n\n\nZoom Meeting Link: https://mit.zoom.us/j/92743598127 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/urban-china-lecture-series-featuring-isabella-jackson/
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