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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170301T123000
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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:20260507T130836
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:20260507T130836
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:20260507T130836
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:20260507T130836
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:20260507T130836
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:20260507T130836
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:20260507T130836
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170308T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170308T133000
DTSTAMP:20260507T130836
CREATED:20170209T160940Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T160940Z
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170308T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170308T133000
DTSTAMP:20260507T130836
CREATED:20170303T133814Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170303T133814Z
UID:4979-1488974400-1488979800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
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
DTSTAMP:20260507T130836
CREATED:20170209T154053Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T154053Z
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
DTSTAMP:20260507T130836
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170321T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170321T180000
DTSTAMP:20260507T130836
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170321T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170321T200000
DTSTAMP:20260507T130836
CREATED:20170223T133651Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170223T133651Z
UID:4902-1490119200-1490126400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170322T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170322T130000
DTSTAMP:20260507T130836
CREATED:20170315T202721Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170315T202721Z
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170322T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170322T140000
DTSTAMP:20260507T130836
CREATED:20170209T154053Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T154053Z
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170322T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170322T180000
DTSTAMP:20260507T130836
CREATED:20170209T162627Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T162627Z
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170323T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170323T140000
DTSTAMP:20260507T130836
CREATED:20170316T181402Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170316T181402Z
UID:5039-1490270400-1490277600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Environmental Public Interest Litigation in China: Cases and Reform
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Barbara Finamore\, Senior Attorney and Asia Director\, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) \nOn January 1\, 2015\, amendments to China’s Environmental Protection Law went into effect that would allow an estimated 700 Chinese NGOs to bring lawsuits against polluters on behalf of the public interest. The Supreme People’s Court then issued an authoritative “interpretation” that provides clarification and needed details to this new public interest environmental law system.  These new rules appear to be designed\, in many ways\, to make it easier for Chinese NGOs to sue polluters. Yet many challenges still remain.  This presentation will provide an overview of the current status of environmental public interest litigation in China\, including case studies\, challenges and reform efforts. \nCo-sponsored by the East Asian Legal Studies Program\, Harvard Law School; China Project\, Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences; and Environmental Law Program\, Harvard Law School
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/environmental-public-interest-litigation-in-china-cases-and-reform/
LOCATION:Austin Hall Room 308\, 1515 Mass Ave\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Environment,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170323T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170323T173000
DTSTAMP:20260507T130836
CREATED:20170316T181735Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170316T181735Z
UID:5042-1490283000-1490290200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Building Energy Efficiency Regulations in China: Policies and Trends
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Barbara Finamore\, Senior Attorney and Asia Director\, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) \nAbstract: Energy used in buildings is responsible for 30% of China’s CO2 emissions\, a percentage that is expected to grow as China continues to urbanize and transition to a service economy. China has developed a variety of policy tools designed to reduce building energy consumption and waste\, including building energy codes\, policies and programs to promote the green building sector\, and targets and incentives to expand energy efficiency retrofits for existing buildings. This presentation will outline some of China’s key policies and initiatives to improve building energy efficiency\, discusses several outstanding challenges and conclude with an overview of latest developments. \nCo-sponsored by the China Project\, Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences\, and the Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities\, Harvard Graduate School of Design
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/building-energy-efficiency-regulations-in-china-policies-and-trends/
LOCATION:Pierce Hall 100F\, 29 Oxford St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Environment,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170323T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170323T200000
DTSTAMP:20260507T130836
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: The Eagle Huntress
DESCRIPTION:Free admission \nCosponsored by the Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies at Harvard University and the Harvard Art Museums
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-screening-the-eagle-huntress/
LOCATION:Harvard Art Museum\, Menschel Hall\, Lower Level\, 32 Quincy St\, cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest,Film Screening
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170329T140000
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UID:4775-1490790600-1490796000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series: China - A Bullish Case
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Chen Zhao\, recently retired as Co-Head of Macro Research\, Brandywine Global Investment Management; former Partner\, Managing Editor and Chief Global Strategist at BCA Research Group \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-2017-03-29/
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:20170405T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170405T140000
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UID:4776-1491395400-1491400800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series: The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: John Pomfret\, Author of The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom: America and China\, 1776 to the Present and Chinese Lessons; former Washington Post correspondent \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-2017-04-05/
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:20170405T161500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170405T173000
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CREATED:20170316T184405Z
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UID:5045-1491408900-1491413400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Reporting from China: A Conversation with New York Times Correspondent David Barboza
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: David Barboza\, New York Times reporter and 2016 Knight Visiting Nieman Fellow at Harvard’s Nieman Foundation \nJoin David Barboza for a discussion about the challenges and opportunities of reporting from China. Prior to his selection as Knight Visiting Fellow\, Barboza most recently served as Shanghai bureau chief for the Times. Ash Center Director and Daewoo Professor of International Affairs\, Tony Saich\, will moderate. \nMore info: https://ash.harvard.edu/event/reporting-china-david-barboza \nCosponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/reporting-from-china-a-conversation-with-new-york-times-correspondent-david-barboza/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170406T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170406T173000
DTSTAMP:20260507T130836
CREATED:20170331T153443Z
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UID:5085-1491492600-1491499800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Unpacking China’s Belt and Road Initiative and Its Energy and Environmental Implications
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Weidong Liu\, Professor in Economic Geography\, Assistant Director\, and Chair of the Center for the Belt and Road Initiative\, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research\, Chinese Academy of Science \nIn 2013\, China’s President\, Xi Jinping\, proposed the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)\, sometimes alternatively labeled “One Belt\, One Road.” The State Council authorized the BRI action plan in 2015 with two main components: the land-based “Silk Road Economic Belt” and the ocean-based “21st Century Maritime Silk Road”. The belt and road together are intended to strengthen China’s ties to more than 60 countries of the Indian Ocean\, Persian Gulf\, Mediterranean Sea\, and Europe. The initiative is part of China’s major strategy to increase its outward investment in infrastructure building\, develop new multilateral financial instruments\, and facilitate economic cooperation in the Eurasia region. \nIn this seminar\, Prof. Weidong Liu will discuss the Belt and Road Initiative\, including its implications for energy and environment in China and Eurasia. \nCo-sponsored by China Project\, Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences; Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies; and Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation\, Harvard Kennedy School.  \nQuestions? Contact Tiffany Chan at tiffanychan@seas.harvard.edu \nEvent page: https://chinaproject.harvard.edu/event/liu170406
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/unpacking-chinas-belt-and-road-initiative-and-its-energy-and-environmental-implications/
LOCATION:Pierce Hall 100F\, 29 Oxford St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170406T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170406T180000
DTSTAMP:20260507T130836
CREATED:20170324T134843Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170324T134843Z
UID:5066-1491494400-1491501600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Establishing the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank: The Lawyer's View
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Natalie Lichtenstein\, Adjunct Professor of China Studies\, Johns Hopkins University; Inaugural General Counsel\, AIIB (retired) \nChair: Ezra Vogel\, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus\, Harvard University \nAsia Center Seminar Series; co-sponsored with the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/establishing-the-asian-infrastructure-investment-bank-the-lawyers-view/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170407T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170407T173000
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CREATED:20161024T143320Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161024T143320Z
UID:4104-1491559200-1491586200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Chinese Religions Seminar: Illness\, Healing\, and Ritual in Chinese Religion
DESCRIPTION:Participants:\nJessey Choo\, Rutgers\, The State University of New Jersey\nTJ Hinrichs\, Cornell University\nAntje Richter\, University of Colorado\nStephen Teiser\, Princeton University \nOrganizers:\nMichael Puett\, Harvard University\nRobert Weller\, Boston University \nSchedule:\n10:00-11:15:  Stephen Teiser\, “Deceptively Simple Acts of Healing in Chinese Buddhism.”\n11:15-11:30: Coffee Break\n11:30-12:45: Antje Richter  “Illness Narratives in Early Medieval Literature. “Illness and Healing in a Fourth-Century Chinese Correspondence.”\n12:45-2:00: Lunch\n2:00-3:15: TJ Hinrichs\, “Healing Ritual as a Boundary Object at the Huizong Court.”\n3:15-3:30: Coffee Break\n3:30-4:45: Jessey Choo\, “Whence Came the Childbed Dead: Healing in Daoist Blood Lake (xuehu) Rituals.”\n4:45-5:30: General discussion
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/chinese-religions-seminar/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170407T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170407T170000
DTSTAMP:20260507T130836
CREATED:20170306T212941Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231107T152605Z
UID:5011-1491571800-1491584400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Taiwan Studies: New Directions and Connections
DESCRIPTION:Workshop for Taiwan Studies: New Directions and Connections \nOrganizer: Professor David Der-wei Wang\, Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature\, Harvard University \nSponsors: Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies \nDiscussants: David der-wei Wang\, Michelle Yeh\, Michael Berry\, Mei Chia-ling \nFRIDAY\, APRIL 7\, 1PM – 5PM \nPanel One: (Post-)Colonial Identities and Sentimentalities\, 1934-1949 \n1pm – 3pm \nDiscussant: Michelle Yeh \nDingru Huang \nMapping a Strange Home: Weng Nao\, the Kōenji Neighborhood of Tokyo\, and Taiwanese literature in the 1930s \nChun -yu Lu \nLovable Foe: Sentimentalizing Morality in Wartime Taiwan\, 1937-1945 \nDominic Meng-Hsuan Yang \nTrauma and Diaspora of 1949: History\, Memory\, and Literature in Taiwan’s Mainlander Studies  \nPanel Two: Reinvention and Remembrance\, 1950s-1970s \n3:30pm – 5pm \nDiscussant: Melissa J. Brown \nYang Fu-min \nWhen “Wen” becomes Knowledge: Bing-ing Hsieh’s “How I Write” \nCheng-chieh Chang \nRemembering Taiwan’s Activism in 1960s-70s \nLo Yichen \nOf the Civil Law Family: The Troubling Concept for Legal Transplantation in Taiwan \nSATURDAY APRIL 8\, 10AM – 5:30PM\n*Please note. Saturday’s sessions will now be held in the Common Room\, 2 Divinity Avenue\, Cambridge MA* \nPanel Three: Politics and Poetics\, 1979-1980s \n10am – 11:30am \nDiscussant: Mei Chia-ling \nKevin Luo \nRevisiting Authoritarianism and Democratization in Taiwan: Analyzing Legislative Priorities and Texts\, 1979-1987 \nChung Chih-wei \n“Harbor Songs” between Men: The Perverse Lyricism in 1980s’ Taiwanese Nationalists \nPo-hsi Chen \nAn Isle of Socialism Unwritten: The Pro-Unification Leftist Literary Historiography in Taiwan \nPanel Four: Contesting Voices and Networks\, 1990s-2016 \n1pm – 3pm \nDiscussant: Michael Berry \nKyle Shernuk \nSinophone Tidalectics\, or the Transculturation of Identity in the Age of Globalization \nLily Wong \nAffective Labor and the Sinophone Lens in “The Fourth Portrait”  \nDalton Lin \nCan-Kicking in International Disputes: Parallel Self-Interest\, Behind-the-Scene Diplomacy\, and Lessons for Rapprochement Attempts \nJaw-Nian Huang \nBetween State and Market: Institutional Origins of Media Self-censorship in Taiwan\, 1949-2016 \nRoundtable  \n3:30pm – 5:30pm \nDiscussant: Mei Chia-ling
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/taiwan-studies-new-directions-and-connections/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Conference and Workshops,Taiwan,Taiwan Studies
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170408T163000
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UID:5018-1491645600-1491669000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Taiwan Studies: New Directions and Connections
DESCRIPTION:Workshop for Taiwan Studies: New Directions and Connections \n  \nOrganizer: Professor David Der-wei Wang\, Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature\, Harvard University \nSponsors: Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies \nDiscussants: David der-wei Wang\, Michelle Yeh\, Michael Berry\, Mei Chia-ling \n  \nFRIDAY\, APRIL 7\, 1PM – 5PM \nPanel One: (Post-)Colonial Identities and Sentimentalities\, 1934-1949 \n1pm – 3pm \nDingru Huang \nMapping a Strange Home: Weng Nao\, the Kōenji Neighborhood of Tokyo\, and Taiwanese literature in the 1930s \nChun -yu Lu \nLovable Foe: Sentimentalizing Morality in Wartime Taiwan\, 1937-1945 \nDominic Meng-Hsuan Yang \nTrauma and Diaspora of 1949: History\, Memory\, and Literature in Taiwan’s Mainlander Studies  \n  \n  \nPanel Two: Reinvention and Remembrance\, 1950s-1970s \n3:30pm – 5pm \nYang Fu-min \nWhen “Wen” becomes Knowledge: Bing-ing Hsieh’s “How I Write” \nCheng-chieh Chang \nRemembering Taiwan’s Activism in 1960s-70s \nLo Yichen \nOf the Civil Law Family: The Troubling Concept for Legal Transplantation in Taiwan \n  \n  \nSATURDAY APRIL 8\, 10AM – 5:30PM\n*Please note. Saturday’s sessions will now be held in the Common Room\, 2 Divinity Avenue\, Cambridge MA* \nPanel Three: Politics and Poetics\, 1979-1980s \n10am – 11:30am \nKevin Luo \nRevisiting Authoritarianism and Democratization in Taiwan: Analyzing Legislative Priorities and Texts\, 1979-1987 \nChung Chih-wei \n“Harbor Songs” between Men: The Perverse Lyricism in 1980s’ Taiwanese Nationalists \nPo-hsi Chen \nAn Isle of Socialism Unwritten: The Pro-Unification Leftist Literary Historiography in Taiwan \n  \n  \nPanel Four: Contesting Voices and Networks\, 1990s-2016 \n1pm – 3pm \nKyle Shernuk \nSinophone Tidalectics\, or the Transculturation of Identity in the Age of Globalization \nLily Wong \nAffective Labor and the Sinophone Lens in “The Fourth Portrait”  \nDalton Lin \nCan-Kicking in International Disputes: Parallel Self-Interest\, Behind-the-Scene Diplomacy\, and Lessons for Rapprochement Attempts \nJaw-Nian Huang \nBetween State and Market: Institutional Origins of Media Self-censorship in Taiwan\, 1949-2016 \n  \nRoundtable  \n3:30pm – 5:30pm \n 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/taiwan-studies-new-directions-and-connections-2017-04-08/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Conference and Workshops,Taiwan,Taiwan Studies
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170410T130000
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CREATED:20170111T175444Z
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UID:4673-1491822000-1491829200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Modern China Lecture: Governing the Souls of Chinese Modernity
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Andrew Kipnis\, Professor of Anthropology in the College of Asia and the Pacific at The Australian National University\n\nPhilippe Descola argues that human societies can be categorized by the ways in which they utilize broad assumptions about interiority and physicality\, where interiority refers to something similar to what Edward Tyler and James Frazer meant by “soul”. In Descola’s scheme\, traditional Chinese culture\, which gives play to infinite variability in both interiority and physicality\, is strongly “analogist”. In contrast\, Descola defines modern\, Western societies as “naturalist”. We moderns see nature or physicality as universally fixed\, but culture or interiority as variable. Contemporary China is rapidly modernizing and scientising. In Descola’s terms\, its culture should be transitioning from an analogist one to a naturalist one. Through an examination of practices of memorialisation and funerary ritual in urban China\, as well as Chinese Communist Party attempts to steer the evolution of these practices in reaction to “modernity\,” this paper attempts to tease out what is modern about the conceptions of soul implicit in contemporary Chinese dealings with death.\n\nAndrew Kipnis is Professor of Anthropology in the College of Asia and the Pacific at The Australian National University. His most recent book is From Village to City: Social Transformation in a Chinese County Seat (University of California Press\, 2016). For ten years he was co-editor of The China Journal.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/modern-china-lecture-series-andrew-kipnis/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Modern China Lecture
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UID:5107-1491840000-1491847200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:History in Images\, History in Words: In Search of Facts in Documentary Filmmaking
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Carma Hinton\, Robinson Professor of Visual Culture and Chinese Studies\, George Mason University\nComments by: Gerald Peary\, Suffolk University \nSponsored by the BU’s Pardee School of Global Studies Center for the Study of Asia\, Center for the Humanities\, BU Arts Initiative\, the Institute for the Study of Muslim Societies & Civilizations\, the Department of World Languages & Literatures\, and Women’s\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies (WGS) Program
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/history-in-images-history-in-words-in-search-of-facts-in-documentary-filmmaking/
LOCATION:Boston University Photonics Center\, 8 St. Mary's Street\, 9th Floor\, Boston\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest,Special Event
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