BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies - ECPv6.15.12.2//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:20150308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20151101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20160313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20161106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20170312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20171105T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20180311T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20181104T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161205T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161205T140000 DTSTAMP:20260506T203638 CREATED:20161117T215901Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161117T215901Z UID:4458-1480939200-1480946400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:What Next? Trump and Asia DESCRIPTION:Missed the event? Listen again on the Fairbank Center’s Podcast: \n \nRead a transcript of this event (pdf) \nJoin the Harvard University Asia-related Centers for the first in a new series on the Asia-Pacific during Trump’s presidency. \nSpeakers: \nDr. Lynn Kuok\, Visiting Scholar\, East Asian Legal Studies\, Harvard Law School; Nonresident Fellow at Brookings Institution         \nProfessor Sung-Yoon Lee\, Kim Koo-Korea Foundation Professor in Korean Studies and Assistant Professor at The Fletcher School\, Tufts University \nProfessor Joseph Nye\, University Distinguished Service Professor\, Harvard University \nProfessor Ezra Vogel\, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus\, Harvard University \nModerator: Professor Susan Pharr\, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics\, Harvard University \n  \nWatch the livestream on the Fairbank Center’s Twitter or Facebook. \n  \nSponsored by Harvard University Asia Center; Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies; Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies; Kim Koo Forum at the Korea Institute; South Asia Institute; Program on U.S.-Japan Relations at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs; Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation\, Harvard Kennedy School; and the East Asia Legal Studies Program at Harvard Law School.   \n  URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/what-next-trump-and-asia/ LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161205T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161205T180000 DTSTAMP:20260506T203638 CREATED:20161202T135347Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161202T135347Z UID:4508-1480955400-1480960800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:The Buddha and the Dragon Princess in the Lotus Sutra — for deciphering the Devadatta frontispiece in the Heike Tokyo set DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Ryūichi Abé\, Harvard University \nThe Heike Nokyo is a sumptuously produced set of Buddhist scriptural handscrolls that was commissioned by the Heike military aristocratic clan and offered to the Goddess of Itsukushima\, the clan’s tutelary divinity\, in the mid-twelfth century.  The set is arguably the most sublime example of illustrated and decorated Buddhist scriptures in Japanese history.  The Heike Nokyo includes twenty-eight scrolls of the Lotus Sutra each of which is decked with a beautiful multicolor frontispiece that captures central motifs of the sutra’s each chapter.  Among them the “Dragon Princess” frontispiece of the Devadatta chapter scroll (Chapter Twelve) that depicts the Dragon Princess’s proffering her legendary jewel to Shakyamuni Buddha is particularly renowned for its splendor.  However\, unlike other sutra illustrations from the same period\, the Dragon Princess here does not transform herself into a male figure\, nor does she fly away to a buddha land in the south in order to be reborn there as a male Buddha.  Furthermore\, in contradistinction to the depiction in that chapter of the sutra in which the Buddha receives her jewel on Eagle Peak\, in the Heike Nokyo frontispiece the Buddha sits on a heavenly pure land; and Dragon Princess stands effortlessly on ocean waves.  No previous scholarship succeeded in deciphering this frontispiece as a narrative painting.  I argue that the Dragon Princess frontispiece represents an unusual effort by erudite Heike court ladies who grounded themselves on the authentic Sui and Tang Chinese doctrinal commentaries in order to reject the popular yet vulgar gender-biased interpretation of the Dragon Princess episode — that is\, she had to change her sex before she was able to attain enlightenment. The frontispiece aims at establishing a superior interpretation of the princess’s episode in the Lotus Sutra that positively illustrates female Buddhist practitioners’ agency in both attaining their own enlightenment and providing salvation to other beings\, both male and female. URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-buddha-and-the-dragon-princess-in-the-lotus-sutra-for-deciphering-the-devadatta-frontispiece-in-the-heike-tokyo-set/ LOCATION:Massachusetts CATEGORIES:Events of Interest ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161207T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161207T140000 DTSTAMP:20260506T203638 CREATED:20161201T162000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161201T162000Z UID:4501-1481113800-1481119200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:The East-Asian Peace: Can it Last? DESCRIPTION:Speaker: The Honorable Börje Ljunggren\, Former Asia Center Fellow; former Swedish Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China and Vietnam \nCritical Issues Confronting China Seminar Series; co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Harvard University Asia Center \n  URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-east-asian-peace-can-it-last/ LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China Series,Events of Interest ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161207T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161207T170000 DTSTAMP:20260506T203638 CREATED:20161201T163854Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161201T163854Z UID:4504-1481124600-1481130000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Long-Term Trend and Spatial Pattern of PM2.5-Induced Premature Mortality in China DESCRIPTION:Speaker: WANG Haikun\, Associate Professor\, School of Environment\, Nanjing University \nSponsored by the China Project\, Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. \nWith rapid economic growth\, China has witnessed increasingly frequent and severe haze and smog episodes over the past decade\, posing serious health impacts to the Chinese population\, especially those in densely populated city clusters. Quantification of the spatial and temporal variation of health impacts attributable to ambient fine particulate matter (PM2.5) has important implications for China’s policies on air pollution control. In this study\, we evaluated the spatial distribution of premature deaths in China between 2000 and 2010 attributable to ambient PM2.5 in accord with the Global Burden of Disease based on a high resolution population density map of China\, satellite retrieved PM2.5concentrations\, and provincial health data. Our results suggest that China’s anthropogenic ambient PM2.5 led to 1\,255\,400 premature deaths in 2010\, 42% higher than the level in 2000. Besides increased PM2.5 concentration\, rapid urbanization has attracted large population migration into the more developed eastern coastal urban areas\, intensifying the overall health impact. In addition\, our analysis implies that health burdens were exacerbated in some developing inner provinces with high population density (e.g. Henan\, Anhui\, Sichuan) because of the relocation of more polluting and resource-intensive industries into these regions. In order to avoid such national level environmental inequities\, China’s regulations on PM2.5 should not be loosened in inner provinces. Furthermore policies should create incentive mechanisms that can promote transfer of advanced production and emissions control technologies from the coastal regions to the interior regions. URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/long-term-trend-and-spatial-pattern-of-pm2-5-induced-premature-mortality-in-china/ LOCATION:Pierce Hall 100F\, 29 Oxford St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States CATEGORIES:Environment,Events of Interest END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161212T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161212T180000 DTSTAMP:20260506T203638 CREATED:20161202T135801Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161202T135801Z UID:4513-1481560200-1481565600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:The Indian Yogācāra Scholar Sthiramati and the Works Attributed to Him DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Jowita Kramer\, Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich \nThis paper focuses on the scriptural corpus of Sthiramati\, a pivotal scholar in the development of Indian Yogācāra thought in the 6th century. So far Sthiramati’s work has received far less attention from modern scholars than the treatises of other Yogācāra authors like Asaṅga or Vasubandhu—probably because of the perception of Sthiramati as a commentator and not as an original author and thinker in his own right. However\, as I have tried to show in a recently published paper\, commentators like Sthiramati have shaped the doctrinal development of the Yogācāra tradition by introducing new concepts and reorganizing previous teachings to a similar extent as “independent” authors like Vasubandhu. In the first part I will give an overview of the works ascribed to Sthiramati and question their authorship. The second part of the paper will be mainly devoted to my editorial work on the Sanskrit manuscripts of Sthiramati’s commentaries made available at the China Tibetology Research Center in Beijing\, namely the Pañcaskandhakavibhāṣā and the Abhidharmakośabhāṣya Tattvārthā. \n  URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-indian-yogacara-scholar-sthiramati-and-the-works-attributed-to-him/ LOCATION:1 Bow St.\, Room 317\, 1 Bow St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States CATEGORIES:Events of Interest ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170123T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170123T180000 DTSTAMP:20260506T203638 CREATED:20170111T154017Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170111T154017Z UID:4649-1485187200-1485194400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:"Underworld Law and Leeway: Summoning the Earth God in Journey to the West" 鬼律與故縱：《西遊記》中的召喚土地 DESCRIPTION:***This event will be conducted in Chinese*** \nSpeaker: Li Fengmao 李豐楙 \, Chair Professor\, National Chengchi University; Professor Emeritus\, Academia Sinica\, Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy \n鬼律與故縱：《西遊記》中的召喚土地〉簡介 \n李豐楙 \n在西遊的奇傳敘述中，神魔鬥法前時常出現的，就是孫行者頻繁召喚土地，方能問明妖精、妖魔出處，其頻率雖高卻較少受到關注，原因應是被視為陪襯的小神。世德堂本敘述其出場方式，應該有其創作的用意，乃交互使用兩種聲音：顯聲音與潛聲音。前者借遊戲筆調表現滑稽的趣味，其實在掩飾其真實的潛聲音，主要即借此諷喻、影射明代、尤其世宗朝皇室。由於兩種聲音之間交織運用，若隱若現，亟待解讀。作者雖曾吸收先行材料，但其突破在其創意，乃化用了道、佛二教的文化資源。此處即從「召喚土地」情節切入，文本解讀配合文化解讀，其手法皆有宗教、尤其道教知識支持。在敘述層次上，顯聲音即召喚土地的方式，軟硬兼施，從喚出到拘得，形成表層聲音的滑稽趣味；唯關鍵的召喚動作簡繁俱有，即捻訣與念真言–從唵字到唵㘕淨法界，在此發現採用明代流行的准提信仰，因其盛行於文人中，作者即挪用密教的准提咒，並未襲用道教召土地神咒。而在召喚過程中，行者對待土地、山神的態度，即任意使喚；相對土地、山神則表現得異常惶恐。這種顯聲音背後隱藏的潛聲音，所運用的「故縱之嫌」筆法，乃化用道教法派的鬼律、黑律知識，用於規範城隍–土地：境內有精邪而未能通告者，即有故縱之嫌而會被杖或流放。作者所敍寫的當境土地，既知妖精、妖魔卻任令其行動，懼而未曾通報，此即「故縱之嫌」的敘寫手法。其目的則是諷喻，明代中葉以前實行里甲制，小說家影射當時事：其一明初洪武三年禮部官僚依禮定制里社壇制，即自然神；唯里甲居民仍崇拜人格神的土地，以致里社壇荒廢不用。其二里長、甲首負責里甲事務，即催稅、徴糧及徭役，但至中葉因稅役過重，導致里民逃脫，小說既有「逃門戶」、「大戶負擔元宵燈油」等，此種敘述即為潛聲音。其三敘述妖精、妖魔據洞稱王、差使土地，妖魔俱從天界私下凡間，此種顯聲音即試煉五聖、尤其唐僧的取經意志；並諷喻明代王府與地方豪族，在地方據土稱霸，使喚里長甲首。西遊交錯使用顯、潛兩種聲音，即可知荒唐、滑稽語底下，乃掩飾當世習知的社會怪現狀，當時人領會其諷喻手法的影射旨趣，今人則需重新解讀「故縱與鬼律」，方能深刻理解滑稽文學的嚴肅性，確定多層聲音所形成的交響，乃奇傳文體具有語言藝術的價值。 \n國立政治大學中國文學研究所國家文學博士，曾經擔任中央研究院中國文哲研究所研究員，其後轉任政治大學宗教研究所，擔任文學院講座教授，政治大學華人宗教研究中心主任；2015年退休後擔任中國文哲所兼任研究員、政治大學文學院榮譽講座教授。曾經訪問巴黎法蘭西學院、哈佛燕京學社；擔任中華民國「國科會」中國文學門召集人、「臺灣宗教學會」第二任理事長。 URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/underworld/ LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States CATEGORIES:China Humanities Seminar ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170128T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170130T075959 DTSTAMP:20260506T203638 CREATED:20160920T195836Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160920T195836Z UID:3561-1485590400-1485763199@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Association for Asian Studies - New England Regional Conference DESCRIPTION: URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/association-for-asian-studies-new-england-regional-conference/ LOCATION:Boston College\, 140 Commonwealth Ave\, Chestnut Hill\, MA\, 02467\, United States CATEGORIES:Events of Interest ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170130T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170130T173000 DTSTAMP:20260506T203638 CREATED:20170111T155834Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170111T155834Z UID:4655-1485792000-1485797400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Traces: Dark Clouds - Special One-Day Photography Exhibition DESCRIPTION:Speaker/Photographer: Ian Teh\nAsia Centers Lounge • First Floor • CGIS South Building \nThis event is part of the Environment in Asia series at the Fairbank Center. \nIan Teh is an award-winning photographer based in UK and Malaysia.  He has published three monographs\, Undercurrents (2008)\, Traces (2011) and Confluence (2014). His work is part of the permanent collection at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)\, The Museum of Fine Arts\, Houston (MFAH) and the Hood Museum in the USA. Selected solo shows include the Jack Shainman Gallery in New York in 2004\, Flowers in London in 2011\, the Kunsthal Museum in Rotterdam in 2012\, the Open Society Foundations in New York and Penang in Malaysia in 2013\, the Photoville in New York\, the Tasneem Gallery in Barcelona in 2014\, and the Lianzhou Foto Festival in Guangdong of China in 2015. \nTeh has received multiple honours\, including the International Photoreporter Grant 2016\, the Abigail Cohen Fellowship in Documentary Photography 2014\, and the Emergency Fund 2011 from the Magnum Foundation. In 2013\, he was elected by the Open Society Foundations to exhibit in New York at the Moving Walls Exhibition. In 2015\, during COP21 during the Paris climate talks\, large poster images of his work was displayed on the streets of Paris as part of a collaborative initiative by Dysturb and Magnum Foundation.  He is a co-exhibitor to an environmental group show of internationally acclaimed photographers\, Coal + Ice\, curated by Susan Meiselas. It was recently exhibited at the Official Residence of the US Ambassador to France during COP21. URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/traces-dark-cloud-special-one-day-photography-exhibition/ LOCATION:CGIS South\, CGIS South\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States CATEGORIES:Environment,Environment,Events of Interest,Exhibitions,Special Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170130T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170130T180000 DTSTAMP:20260506T203638 CREATED:20170111T154638Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170111T154638Z UID:4652-1485792000-1485799200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Xie Lingyun and Imperial Performance: Deploying the Language of the Chuci DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Harrison Huang\,  Assistant Professor\, East Asian Languages and Cultures\, Columbia University \nThe reception of the Chuci anthology has been largely framed around the representation of the attributed author Qu Yuan as a loyal subject.\nThis talk instead traces Qu Yuan ‘s earlier reception and contested status during the Han dynasty\, to show how the Chuci repertoire can be adopted for imperial performance\, as seen in Xie Lingyun’s poetry. URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/xie-lingyun-and-imperial-performance-deploying-the-language-of-the-chuci/ LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States CATEGORIES:China Humanities Seminar ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170206T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170206T180000 DTSTAMP:20260506T203638 CREATED:20161114T140535Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161114T140535Z UID:4435-1486398600-1486404000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Environment in Asia Series: "On the Rare Earth Frontier: How and Where We Acquire the Elements of our Possible Futures" DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Julie Klinger\, Asst. Professor of International Relations\, Boston University \nJulie Michelle Klinger specializes in development\, environment\, and security politics in Latin America and China in comparative and global perspective. As a geographer\, Dr. Klinger’s research emphasizes in-depth fieldwork to examine the processes through which resource frontiers are produced at local and global scales. She has worked extensively in rural and frontier regions in Brazil and China over the past decade to examine the gaps between (inter)national policy and local practice. She is committed to fostering international research collaboration. \n  URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/environment-in-asia-series-featuring-julie-klinger-boston-university/ LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States CATEGORIES:Environment,Environment ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170207T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170207T180000 DTSTAMP:20260506T203638 CREATED:20170118T182941Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170118T182941Z UID:4700-1486483200-1486490400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Taiwan Studies Workshop: Cross-Strait Relations in the Trump Era DESCRIPTION:The Taiwan Studies Workshop reports back from their recent trip to Taiwan and the Mainland\, including a closed-door meeting with the Republic of China’s President Tsai Ing-wen\, and a meeting with the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council of the People’s Republic of China. \nSpeakers: \nJoseph Fewsmith\,Fairbank Center Associate\, Professor of International Relations and Political Science at Boston University \nSteven Goldstein\, Fairbank Center Associate\, Chairman of the Taiwan Studies Workshop at the Fairbank Center\, Sophia Smith Professor Emeritus at Smith College \nAlan Romberg\, Distinguished Fellow and the Director of the East Asia program at Stimson Center \nRobert S. Ross\, Fairbank Center Associate\, Professor of Political Science at Boston College URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/taiwan-studies-workshop/ LOCATION:Massachusetts CATEGORIES:Conference and Workshops,Delegation Visits,Taiwan,Taiwan Studies END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170208T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170208T135000 DTSTAMP:20260506T203638 CREATED:20170106T162423Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170106T162423Z UID:4637-1486557000-1486561800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:China and the United States After Trump: View From Washington DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr. Douglas Paal\, Vice President for Studies\, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace \nThis event is part of both the “Critical Issues Confronting China” and the “Trump and Asia” public lecture series. \nCo-sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center. URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-and-the-united-states-after-trump-view-from-washington/ LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Critical Issues Confronting China Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170210T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170210T140000 DTSTAMP:20260506T203638 CREATED:20170209T163204Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T163204Z UID:4806-1486728000-1486735200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Regional Production Networks in East Asia: Origin\, Evolution\, and Implications DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Professor Min Shu\, Harvard-Yenching Visiting Scholar; Associate Professor of International Economy\, Waseda University\, Japan \nChair:  Professor Daniel M. Smith\, Department of Government\, Harvard University \nIn the past three decades\, regional production networks played an increasingly important role in East Asian political economy. Originated from Japan’s industrial policy to ‘export’ its sunset industries\, the flow of foreign direct investments (FDIs) from advanced regional economies to the rest of East Asia accelerated after the Plaza Accord in 1985. The participation of non-Asian multinationals\, the exodus of SMEs in the same value/supply chains\, the modularization of modern production (esp. in electronics)\, and the host countries’ FDI-friendly policies all contributed to their rapid development in the 1990s. However\, it was the rise of China as the center of regional assemblies that has transformed the dynamics of regional production networks from capital flow and cross-country production to spatial politics. The talk will examine the implications of regional production networks in relations to labor market regulation\, trade protectionism\, and the politico-economic \n\nhttps://asiaevents.harvard.edu/event/regional-production-networks-east-asia-origin-evolution-and-implications URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/regional-production-networks-in-east-asia-origin-evolution-and-implications/ LOCATION:Massachusetts CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170214T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170214T180000 DTSTAMP:20260506T203638 CREATED:20170111T172646Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250130T154956Z UID:4660-1487088000-1487095200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Modern China Lecture Series: Collecting and Using Diaries and the Writing of PRC History DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Fan Shitao\, Beijing Normal University URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/modern-china-lecture-series-collecting-and-using-diaries-and-the-writing-of-prc-history/ LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States CATEGORIES:Modern China Lecture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170215T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170215T134500 DTSTAMP:20260506T203638 CREATED:20170111T152759Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170111T152759Z UID:4646-1487160900-1487166300@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Tectonic Geopolitical Shift? The China-Russia-US Strategic Triangle in the Trump Era DESCRIPTION:Speakers: \n\n\nLyle Goldstein\, Associate Professor\, US Naval War College\nVitaly Kozyrev\, Associate Professor of Political Science\, Endicott College\, Beverly\, MA \n\n\nResurgent China-Russia relations have formed a new and major factor in global politics over the last decade and especially in the last few years.  The current world order has come to resemble in some disturbing respects the two distinct and hostile camps that characterized the early Cold War period.  Indeed\, accelerating cooperation between Moscow and Beijing in the military\, diplomatic\, and economic spheres has been widely seen as a major threat to US national security.  While scholars have actively debated whether these steps toward enhanced strategic cooperation are merely symbolic and paper over major differences\, few have challenged the basic premise that Middle Kingdom’s financial heft taken together with the Kremlin’s agile diplomatic maneuvers could form a significant challenge to the West.  However\, the surprise election of Donald Trump may appear to disrupt the unfolding logic described above.  Undoubtedly\, a rapprochement between Washington and Moscow that mitigates or even eradicates the sense of a “New Cold War” would impact on the other key lattices of the classic strategic triangle:  both Russia-China relations as well as the all-important US-China relationship.  This talk will draw on unique Chinese and Russian source material to evaluate the prospects for such a major tectonic geopolitical shift. \nCosponsored by the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/tectonic-geopolitical-shift-the-china-russia-us-strategic-triangle-in-the-trump-era/ LOCATION:CGIS South Room S354\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Special Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170215T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170215T135000 DTSTAMP:20260506T203638 CREATED:20170209T170006Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T170006Z UID:4724-1487161800-1487166600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series: Caring for the Elderly in China - The Building of a Services Society DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Professor Arthur Kleinman\, Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology; Professor of Medical Anthropology in Social Medicine\, Professor of Psychiatry\, Harvard Medical School \n  URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-caring-for-the-elderly-in-china-the-building-of-a-services-society/ LOCATION:Massachusetts CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Critical Issues Confronting China Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170221T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170221T140000 DTSTAMP:20260506T203638 CREATED:20170217T181659Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170217T181659Z UID:4860-1487678400-1487685600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Does Gender Matter? Nuns in a Modern Chan Buddhist Monastery DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Chin-ning Wang (Changshen Shih)\, PhD (Dharma Drum Institute)\, Visiting Lecturer on Women’s Studies and Chinese Religion\, Women’s Studies in Religion Program\, Harvard Divinity School\n \nLunch will be provided. URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/does-gender-matter-nuns-in-a-modern-chan-buddhist-monastery/ LOCATION:Center for the Study of World Religions\, Common Room\, 42 Francis Avenue\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170222T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170222T180000 DTSTAMP:20260506T203638 CREATED:20170214T213747Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170214T213747Z UID:4840-1487779200-1487786400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:The Path to Success and Globalization of HNA Group DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Chen Feng\, Chairman\, HNA Group URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-path-to-success-and-globalization-of-hna-group/ 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170223T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170223T180000 DTSTAMP:20260506T203638 CREATED:20161012T133320Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161012T133320Z UID:3872-1487865600-1487872800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Liberalism\, Globalization\, Populism and Nationalism in the World Today DESCRIPTION:Across the world there has been a growing reaction against liberalism and globalization paired with a rise in populism and nationalism. This specially adjourned panel\, organized and moderated by Professor Peter Bol\, examines these trends in a global perspective\, with Harvard University experts in the histories of China and East Asia\, the UK and Europe\, the Middle East\, South Asia\, and the United States.\n\nSpeakers:\nWang Hui\, Professor of literature and history at Tsinghua University\nDavid Armitage\, Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History\, Harvard University\nMalika Zeghal\, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor in Contemporary Islamic Thought and Life\, Harvard University\nMadhav Khosla\, B. R. Ambedkar Academic Fellow\, Columbia Law School and Ph.D. candidate in political theory\, Harvard University.\nJames Kloppenberg\, Charles Warren Professor of American History\, Harvard University \nModerator: Peter Bol\, Vice Provost for Advances in Learning and the Charles H. Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University \n  \nSponsored by: Colloquium for Intellectual History\, Asia Center\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations. URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/responses-to-liberalism-in-china-the-middle-east-europe-the-us-and-south-asia/ LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Conference and Workshops,Events of Interest,Special Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170223T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170223T200000 DTSTAMP:20260506T203638 CREATED:20170217T183735Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170217T183735Z UID:4865-1487872800-1487880000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Sacred Nation: Chinese Museums and the Legacy of Empire DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Magnus Fiskesjö\, Associate Professor\, Department of Anthropology\, Cornell University \nThe official Chinese view of China’s history and national identity has been transformed in recent decades from a tale of revolutionary class struggle into a story of ancient and unbroken national and imperial glory. This shift can be discerned in both new and restored Chinese museums and memorial sites commemorating recent and past heroes. Magnus Fiskesjö will discuss the current boom in China’s “culture industry” and what it tells us about changes in Chinese conceptions of national and cultural identity. \nPresented in collaboration with the Departments of Anthropology and Human Evolutionary Biology\, Harvard University URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/sacred-nation-chinese-museums-and-the-legacy-of-empire/ LOCATION:Geological Lecture Hall\, 24 Oxford Street\, 24 Oxford St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170224T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170224T133000 DTSTAMP:20260506T203638 CREATED:20170209T160714Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T160714Z UID:4794-1487937600-1487943000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Embodied Memories of the “Nine Polemics” DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Sun Peidong (Associate Professor\, Department of History\, Fudan University; HYI Visiting Scholar)\nChair/Discussant: Elizabeth Perry (Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government\, Harvard University/Harvard-Yenching Institute) \nMasterminded by Mao himself and drafted by the CCP’s top theorists\, the Nine Polemics (jiu ping 九评)  made ideological and media preparations for the launching of the Cultural Revolution. The core issues in these polemics concerned the necessity to fight Soviet-style revisionism and prevent its happening in China\, the need to forestall the American strategy of peaceful evolution\, and the urgency to cultivate China’s younger generation as revolutionary successors. The Nine Polemics had a profound influence on the Cultural Revolution generation. Its polemical style and powerful rhetorical flourishes would soon become a model for Red Guard polemics. Famous passages from the Nine Commentaries were memorized and later became rhetorical resources for debate in the Cultural Revolution. This talk shows how the Nine Polemics produced such powerful influences by analyzing its organized dissemination and the context of its reception. Based on previously untapped archival sources\, as well as oral histories specifically collected for this project\, the analysis focuses on what aspects of the Nine Polemics are remembered and how they are remembered. A key finding shows that radio broadcast played a crucial role in disseminating the Nine Commentaries and strengthening their influences through the voices of the radio anchors. \nhttps://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/seeing-and-listening-violence-dissemination-nine-polemics-and-their-influence-red-guard URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/seeing-and-listening-to-violence-dissemination-of-the-nine-polemics-and-their-influence-on-the-red-guard-generation/ LOCATION:Massachusetts CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170227T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170227T180000 DTSTAMP:20260506T203638 CREATED:20170209T161752Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T161752Z UID:4800-1488211200-1488218400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:China Humanities Seminar: The Poetry Demon - Tensions within Chinese Buddhist Monks’ Literature DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Jason Protass is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Brown University. He completed doctoral work at Stanford University in 2016\, and was a visiting researcher at Academia Sinica in Taipei and at Hanazono and Ryukoku universities in Kyoto. \nBuddhist monks in Song dynasty China were visited by a literary impulse that interrupted religious activities and ritual. This unwelcome muse was sometimes referred to as the demon of poetry. In this talk\, I explore some lesser-known intersections of Chinese poetry and the Buddhist path. I read monks’ verse together with prescriptive texts that restricted literary activity\, including legal codes\, primers\, and hagiography. I hypothesize that at the heart of monastic verse culture was the negotiation of competing commitments to Buddhist monasticism and to literary expression. URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-humanities-seminar-the-poetry-demon-tensions-within-chinese-buddhist-monks-literature/ LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States CATEGORIES:China Humanities Seminar ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170301T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170301T140000 DTSTAMP:20260506T203638 CREATED:20170209T153044Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T153044Z UID:4770-1488371400-1488376800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series: U.S.-China Relations: Past\, Present and Future DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Professor Susan Shirk\, Research Professor and Chair\, the 21st Century China Center\, School of Global Strategy and Policy\, University of California\, San Diego \nCo-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Harvard University Asia Center URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-susan-shirk/ LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Critical Issues Confronting China Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170301T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170301T140000 DTSTAMP:20260506T203638 CREATED:20170223T134006Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170223T134006Z UID:4905-1488373200-1488376800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Free Thinkers: Islamic Reform and Ahmadi Thought in China During the Republican Period DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr. Z. Hale Eroglu Sager\, IAAS ’16 – Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies \n  URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/free-thinkers-islamic-reform-and-ahmadi-thought-in-china-during-the-republican-period/ LOCATION:Massachusetts CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170301T161500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170301T180000 DTSTAMP:20260506T203638 CREATED:20170221T175147Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170221T175147Z UID:4898-1488384900-1488391200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Picturing the World: Asian Maps After Mercator DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Professor Timothy Brook\, University of British Columbia; author of Mr. Selden’s Map of China \nChair: Andrew Gordon\, Acting Director\, Harvard Asia Center; Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor\, Harvard University \nReception to follow in the Asian Centers’ Lounge\, 1st Floor\, CGIS South \nAsia Center Seminar Series                                        \n  URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/picturing-the-world-asian-maps-after-mercator/ LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest,Exhibitions,Special Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170302T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170302T173000 DTSTAMP:20260506T203638 CREATED:20170227T173253Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170227T173253Z UID:4916-1488468600-1488475800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Hidden Air: Urbanization\, the Built Environment\, and Indoor Air Quality in China DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Gary Adamkiewicz\, Assistant Professor of Environmental Health and Exposure Disparities\, Department of Environmental Health\, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health \nChina’s recent economic growth and rate of urbanization are unprecedented in human history.  These driving forces create great opportunities and present significant challenges.  While cities have always been engines of creativity and innovation\, they can also put strains on natural systems\, often consume energy unsustainably and produce environmental pollution which threatens human health. This motivates our key question: How do we create healthy and sustainable cities in the next century?  Few studies on the connections between the attributes of urban residential housing and health have been conducted in China.  Our recent studies\, including a large cross-sectional survey-based effort in Suzhou\, aim to address some key questions on how the built environment can shape population health.  This seminar will highlight some of our efforts to understand how indoor and outdoor environments are changing in China in ways that directly impact health.  We will also discuss how indoor environments can mitigate some of the health risks from outdoor air pollution. \nSpeaker Bio: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/gary-adamkiewicz/\nFor more information\, visit https://chinaproject.harvard.edu/ URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/hidden-air-urbanization-the-built-environment-and-indoor-air-quality-in-china/ LOCATION:Pierce Hall 100F\, 29 Oxford St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States CATEGORIES:Environment,Events of Interest END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170303T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170303T140000 DTSTAMP:20260506T203638 CREATED:20170216T202006Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170216T202006Z UID:4848-1488543300-1488549600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:The People's Liberation Army: Perspectives from the United States and Japan DESCRIPTION:Speaker:\nGen. Yoshikazu Watanabe\, Asia Center Fellow; Researcher\, Fujitsu System Integration Laboratories\, LTD.; Eastern Army Commanding General (Ret.)\, Japan Ground Self Defense Force \nChair:  Dr. Andrew S. Erickson\, Professor of Strategy\, China Maritime Studies Institute (CMSI)\, Strategic and Operational Research Department\, U.S. Naval War College \nAsia Center Fellows Seminar Series\, Sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-peoples-liberation-army-perspectives-from-the-united-states-and-japan/ LOCATION:Massachusetts CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170306T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170306T151500 DTSTAMP:20260506T203638 CREATED:20170302T154538Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170302T154538Z UID:4941-1488808800-1488813300@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Ma Ying-jeou: From Harvard Law School to the Presidential Office DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Ma Ying-jeou\, S.J.D.‘81\, Former President of the Republic of China (Taiwan) \nCo-sponsored by the East Asian Legal Studies program at the Harvard Law School. \n  URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/ma-ying-jeou-from-harvard-law-school-to-the-presidential-office/ LOCATION:Harvard Law School\, Austin North (Room 100)\, 1515 Massachusetts Avenue\, Cambridge\, 02138\, United States CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Delegation Visits,Events of Interest,Taiwan,Taiwan Studies ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170307T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170307T130000 DTSTAMP:20260506T203638 CREATED:20170303T133607Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170303T133607Z UID:4976-1488888000-1488891600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Lawyer Activism in Authoritarian Contexts: The Case of China DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Sida Liu\, Assistant Professor of Sociology\, University of Toronto; Faculty Fellow\, American Bar Foundation URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/lawyer-activism-in-authoritarian-contexts-the-case-of-china/ LOCATION:Room 102\, Pound Hall\, 1563 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170307T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170307T180000 DTSTAMP:20260506T203638 CREATED:20170207T214113Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250130T154956Z UID:4760-1488902400-1488909600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Doubts about the Chinese current of "doubting antiquity" and its critics DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Rudolf G. Wagner\nFairbank Center Associate at Harvard University\, and Cluster Asia and Europe Associate at Heidelberg University\, Germany. \nThis is a study of the background\, impact\, and cost of the “doubting antiquity\,” or yigu\, current associated with the Gushi bian collection that followed a strong political agenda of undoing the authority of the orthodox view of Chinese history with the authority of scholarly criticism. \nIt traces its background against the claims by the initiator and editor of this collection\, Gu Jiegang\, that his inspirations all came from the Chinese scholarly tradition to an international discussion about the relationship between myth and history and the proper ways to read myth\, a discussion that had its origins in German classical philology and Protestant theology\, and reached China via Japanese contributions. \nIt sketches the international impact of the yigu current in a case study about the strategies for dating and editing the Laozi before the recent finds of early manuscripts. Finally it outlines the cost of the strong political agenda of both the yigu current and its present-day critics by showing how the focus on the genuine/fake issue left many highly relevant questions concerning the methodology of editing the newly-found manuscripts unasked and unanswered. URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/doubts-about-the-chinese-current-of-doubting-antiquity-and-its-critics/ LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States CATEGORIES:Modern China Lecture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR