BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies - ECPv6.16.2//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-WR-CALNAME:Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H
X-Robots-Tag:noindex
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:America/New_York
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20240310T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20241103T060000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20250309T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20251102T060000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20260308T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20261101T060000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250225T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250225T133000
DTSTAMP:20260602T204912
CREATED:20250210T151430Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250214T171645Z
UID:39395-1740484800-1740490200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Esther Hu — Soong Mayling and Wartime China\, 1937-1945: Deploying Words as Weapons
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Esther Hu\, Research Affiliate\, Boston University Center for the Study of Asia\, Pardee School of Global StudiesChair: William Kirby\, T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies; Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration; Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor; Director\, Harvard China Fund \n\n\n\nSoong Mayling and Wartime China\, 1937-1945: Deploying Words as Weapons focuses on the First Lady of China’s timely and critical contributions in the areas of war\, women’s work\, and diplomacy during China’s War of Resistance as inflected through gender. This book explores Soong Mayling through her own words by examining her speeches\, essays\, letters\, telegrams\, and news reports during the war period. How did Madame Chiang Kai-shek’s gender identity shape her interactions with other Chinese women\, the male military and political leadership in the Republic of China\, and the broader global public? How did Confucianism’s cardinal virtues and Chinese Christianity converge in Soong Mayling’s work and worldview? What were her main contributions as Secretary-General of the Chinese Air Force? Drawing on Chinese archival materials such as Chiang Kai-shek’s diaries and other records around the world\, Esther Hu provides a historically informed perspective of the First Lady’s legacy within the context of World War II history\, international cultural and military affairs\, and transnational geopolitics. \n\n\n\nBefore joining the faculty of Boston University in 2005 as an Assistant Professor in the Humanities\, Professor Hu had taught at Cornell University (John S. Knight Institute\, First-Year-Writing Seminars) and Chung Yuan Christian University (College of Humanities and Education). \n\n\n\nProfessor Hu is an Associate in Research at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University and a Fellow of the International History Institute at Boston University. Dr. Hu has published many essays\, book reviews\, and encyclopedia entries and is the English translator of Soong Mayling’s Chinese-language pictorial biography\, A Legacy of Grace and Resilience: Soong Mayling and her Era (2023; 2nd Ed. 2024). \n\n\n\nLunch will be provided. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/esther-hu-soong-mayling-and-wartime-china-1937-1945-deploying-words-as-weapons/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S250\, 1730 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/soon-mayling.jpg
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR