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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170207T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170207T180000
DTSTAMP:20260505T215525
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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170208T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170208T135000
DTSTAMP:20260505T215525
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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170210T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170210T140000
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170214T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170214T180000
DTSTAMP:20260505T215525
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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170215T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170215T134500
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170215T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170215T135000
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170221T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170221T140000
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170222T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170222T180000
DTSTAMP:20260505T215525
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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170223T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170223T180000
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170223T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170223T200000
DTSTAMP:20260505T215525
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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170224T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170224T133000
DTSTAMP:20260505T215525
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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170227T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170227T180000
DTSTAMP:20260505T215525
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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170301T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170301T140000
DTSTAMP:20260505T215525
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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170301T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170301T140000
DTSTAMP:20260505T215525
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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170301T161500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170301T180000
DTSTAMP:20260505T215525
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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170302T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170302T173000
DTSTAMP:20260505T215525
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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170303T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170303T140000
DTSTAMP:20260505T215525
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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170306T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170306T151500
DTSTAMP:20260505T215525
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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170307T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170307T130000
DTSTAMP:20260505T215525
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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170307T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170307T180000
DTSTAMP:20260505T215525
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
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UID:4797-1488974400-1488979800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:The Poetics of Communication: Social and Cultural Functions of the Traditional Song Fair of the Bai Ethnic People in Southwest China 
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Zhu Gang (Associate Research Fellow\, Institute of Ethnic Literature\, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; HYI Visiting Scholar)\nChair/Discussant: Gregory Nagy (Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature\, Department of the Classics\, Harvard University) \nhttps://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/poetics-communication-social-and-cultural-functions-traditional-song-fair-bai-ethnic-people
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-poetics-of-communication-social-and-cultural-functions-of-the-traditional-song-fair-of-the-bai-ethnic-people-in-southwest-china/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
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SUMMARY:The Elastic Ceiling: Gender and Professional Career in Chinese Courts
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Sida Liu\, Assistant Professor of Sociology\, University of Toronto; Faculty Fellow\, American Bar Foundation
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-elastic-ceiling-gender-and-professional-career-in-chinese-courts/
LOCATION:Morgan Courtroom\, Austin Hall\, 1515 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170308T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170308T140000
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UID:4772-1488976200-1488981600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series: China Reshapes the Balance of Power: Seeking Peace and Security
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Professor Robert Ross\, Professor of Political Science at Boston College; Associate\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard University \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/
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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170320T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170320T180000
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CREATED:20161024T144819Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161024T144819Z
UID:4107-1490025600-1490032800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:China Humanities Seminar: Perceptions of China's Sexual Economy
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Harriet Zurndorfer \nAbstract: This lecture focuses on men and women engaged in China’s sexual economy\, which is dominated by the exchange between wealthy and politically influential men and unmarried young women who trade their femininity and sexuality for material wealth and financial security from these men. Drawing on analyses of the popular 2009 television serial\, Woju (Dwelling Narrowness)\, coupled with recent ethnographic studies\, the lecture aims to demonstrate how this sexual economy thrives in the increasingly competitive and commercial urban landscape of present-day China. It will also attempt to view gender dynamics within the context of the socioeconomic changes during the past three decades and to investigate how gender inequality became assimilated into both official and popular discourses of Chinese life\, thereby facilitating the ascendancy and power of the sexual economy. \nHarriet Zurndorfer is affiliated with the Leiden Institute for Area Studies in the Faculty of Humanities\, Leiden University where she has worked since 1978. She is the author of Change and Continuity in Chinese History: The Development of Hui-chou Prefecture 800 to 1800 (Brill\, 1989)\, China Bibliography: A Research Guide to Reference Works about China Past and Present (Brill\, 1995; paperback edition\, University of Hawaii Press\, 1999)\, and editor of the compilation Chinese Women in the Imperial Past: New Perspectives (Brill\,1999). She has also published more than 200 scholarly articles and reviews. She is the founder and editor-in-chief of the journal Nan Nü: Men\, Women and Gender in China\, issued since 1999. Currently\, she is serving as one of the editors to the four-volume Cambridge World History of Violence\, and is a contributor to the Cambridge Economic History of China.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/harriet-zurndorfer-lecture/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:China Humanities Seminar,Gender Studies
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CREATED:20170111T174953Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250130T154956Z
UID:4670-1490112000-1490119200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Modern China Lecture Series: The Significance of the Frontier in Twentieth Century Chinese History
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Shellen Wu\, University of Tennessee\, Knoxville \nThe 1890s set off an unprecedented rush for the last remaining unclaimed lands around the world. Developments in the preceding century saw the social sciences and disciplines like geography and agronomy connecting Europe\, the Americas\, and Asia. The educated elite from around the world increasingly spoke a common language of science and the social sciences.From the nineteenth through the twentieth centuries\, the discourse of endless frontiers stretched from Eastern Europe\, Soviet Central Asia and Siberia\, to Inner Mongolia\, and Western China\, in each case becoming absorbed into long-running historical concerns about territory and identity.These disparate places shared a centrally planned vision of turning the frontiers into fertile agricultural heartlands. The global circulation of imperialist and geopolitical discourse helped to shape the modern Chinese geographical imagination. Geomodernity in China emerged from this fundamental spatial reconceptualization of Chinese territoriality.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/modern-china-lecture-series-shellen-wu/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Modern China Lecture
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170321T200000
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CREATED:20170223T133651Z
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SUMMARY:Ancestral Halls: Their Life After Death
DESCRIPTION:From the late fifteenth century to the mid-twentieth century over 6\,000 ancestral halls (祠堂) were constructed in Huizhou 徽州\, a prefecture at the southern end of Anhui province.  Usually understood to represent the growing attachment of families to the establishment of lineage authority in their villages\, Huizhou’s ancestral halls soon acquired a variety of functions mentioned neither in classical Confucian nor neo-Confucian texts.  In exploring how these ancestral halls were built Dr. McDermott’s talk will investigate how their newly acquired functions helped attract kinsmen to the growing number and activities of these halls\, and how these halls’ hold over successive generations of lineages was linked to the rise and growth of the Huizhou merchants\, south China’s most successful regional group of merchants from the fifteenth to the mid-nineteenth century.  The talk will end with a consideration of how the long-term institutional changes in Huizhou villages from the early Ming to the Qing\, that culminated in the rise of these ancestral halls\, might provide us with a more agent-based set of categories for understanding how major institutional changes in village life from the fourteenth to twentieth century were perceived by ordinary Chinese themselves as the outgrowth of options arising from their villages’ institutional changes. \nSpeaker: Joseph McDermott\, St. John’s College\, University of Cambridge. After a BA (Eng.Lit.)  at Yale\, Joseph McDermott 周紹明 embarked on another BA and then a Ph.D. in Chinese Studies in the UK.  Drawn initially to the study of modern China\, his struggles with pre-modern Chinese literature very quickly drew him into the study of pre-modern Chinese history\, a decision he has never regretted.  His studies of the Song and then the Ming dynasties have had him undertake research and enjoy long overseas stays in Japan and China\, before ending up at St John’s College\, U. of Cambridge\, where he has taught since 1990.  An interest in China’s cultural history prompted him to write A Social History of the Chinese Book (2006) and edit State and Court Ritual in China (1999)\, but his overriding interest since his undergraduate days has been the changes in how ordinary Chinese people lived from the Tang dynasty up to the late Qing.  Hence\, his recent studies include the Song economy for the recent The Cambridge History of China\, Volume 5 Part II\, Song China as well as his two volumes on Huizhou lineages and merchants (The Making of a New Rural Order in South China\, Volume I: Village\, Land\, Lineage in Huizhou\, 900-1600\, Cambridge University Press\, 2014; Volume II to appear later this year).
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/ancestral-halls-their-life-after-death/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Environment,Environment
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UID:5032-1490184000-1490187600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Introducing the Chinese Text Project
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr. Donald Sturgeon\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies \nThe Chinese Text Project is an online open-access digital library that makes pre-modern Chinese texts available to readers and researchers all around the world. The site attempts to make use of the digital medium to explore new ways of interacting with these texts that are not possible in print. With over thirty thousand titles and more than five billion characters\, the Chinese Text Project is also the largest database of pre-modern Chinese texts in existence. In the second meeting\, Dr. Donald Sturgeon\, the founder and the developer of CText and now a postdoctoral fellow at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, will introduce the database and the rationale behind it. \nLight refreshments provided. RSVP to Feng-en Tu (hyl.eadh@gmail.com)
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/introducing-the-chinese-text-project/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Conference and Workshops,Events of Interest,Special Event
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170322T140000
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UID:4774-1490185800-1490191200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series: Leninism Upgraded - Restoration and Innovation Under Xi Jinping
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Sebastian Heilmann\, President\, Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS)\, Berlin; former Visiting Fellow\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies; former research fellow\, Harvard-Yenching Institute \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-2017-03-22/
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
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170322T180000
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UID:4804-1490198400-1490205600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Harvard-Yenching Insitute Annual Roundtable Discussion: Asian Studies in Asia
DESCRIPTION:Panelists:\nHirano Kenichiro (Professor Emeritus of Tokyo University and of Waseda University\, Executive Director of Toyo Bunko (education and employment))\nPark Hyungji (Professor of English Literature\, Yonsei University)\nWang Hui (Professor of Literature and History\, Tsinghua University; Coordinate Research Scholar\, Harvard-Yenching Institute and Visiting Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations (Spring 2017)\, Harvard University))\nZhang Longxi (Chair Professor of Comparative Literature and Translation\, City University of Hong Kong)\n \nModerator:\nElizabeth Perry (Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government\, Harvard University; Director\, Harvard-Yenching Institute)\n \nThis roundtable seeks to exchange ideas about the revival and reinvention of Asian Studies (Chinese studies\, Japanese studies\, Korean studies as well as regional and global Asian studies) as these programs are being developed at universities and research institutes across Asia. In the case of Chinese studies\, this would include both国学 and中国学\, for example. The roundtable aims to engage in a serious discussion of various Asian studies initiatives in different Asian countries in terms of their intellectual rationale and potential – as well as the political and financial considerations and controversies that surround them.\n\nCo-sponsored with the Asia Center\, the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, the Korea Institute\, and the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies.\n \nhttps://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/asian-studies-asia
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/harvard-yenching-insitute-annual-roundtable-discussion-asian-studies-in-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
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