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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
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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
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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
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CREATED:20170324T134843Z
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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
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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:20260505T151625
CREATED:20170306T212941Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170408T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170408T163000
DTSTAMP:20260505T151625
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170410T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170410T130000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170410T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170410T180000
DTSTAMP:20260505T151625
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170411T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170411T180000
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CREATED:20170315T140056Z
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UID:5022-1491926400-1491933600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:The Souls of China: The Return of Religion After Mao
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Ian Johnson is a Pulitzer-Prize winning writer focusing on society\, religion\, and history. He works out of Beijing and Berlin\, where he also teaches and advises academic journals and think tanks. \nJohnson has spent over half of the past thirty years in the Greater China region\, first as a student in Beijing from 1984 to 1985\, and then in Taipei from 1986 to 1988. He later worked as a newspaper correspondent in China\, from 1994 to 1996 with Baltimore’s The Sun\, and from 1997 to 2001 with The Wall Street Journal\, where he covered macro economics\, China’s WTO accession and social issues. 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-souls-of-china-the-return-of-religion-after-mao-2/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170412T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170412T140000
DTSTAMP:20260505T151625
CREATED:20160923T153519Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160923T153519Z
UID:3579-1491998400-1492005600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Environment in Asia Seminar: "Layer upon Layer: Experience\, Ecology\, Engineering\, Heritage\, and (most of all) History in the Making of China's Agricultural Terraces”
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Sigrid Schmalzer\, University of Massachusetts Amherst \nProfessor Schmalzer’s research focuses on social\, cultural\, and political aspects of the history of science in modern China. Her first book\, The People’s Peking Man: Popular Science and Human Identity in Twentieth-Century China\, was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2008 and won the Sharlin Memorial Award from the Social Science History Association. Her second book\, Red Revolution\, Green Revolution: Scientific Farming in Socialist China\, was released by University of Chicago Press in 2016 (a podcast interview with Schmalzer about the book is available from the New Books Network). She is also the co-editor of a volume intended for the undergraduate classroom titled Visualizing Modern China: Image\, History\, and Memory\, 1750-Present. Her shorter writings have been published in numerous edited volumes and scholarly journals\, including Isis\, Journal of American-East Asian Relations\, Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences\, East Asian History\, and Geographical Review. She was also the lead organizer for a conference held at UMass 11-13 April 2014\, “Science for the People: The 1970s and Today\,” which brought together students\, scholars in Science and Technology Studies\, and former members of the 1970s-1980s group Science for the People and is archived here: https://science-for-the-people.org. Her research has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation\, Fulbright\, the Social Science Research Council\, the American Philosophical Society\, and the D. Kim Foundation. \nLunch will be provided
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/environment-in-asia-seminar-sigrid-schmalzer/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Environment,Environment
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170412T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170412T140000
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series: China - End of the Reform Era
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Professor Carl Minzner\, Fordham University School of Law \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-2017-04-12/
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:20170418T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170418T180000
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CREATED:20170111T174626Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250130T154942Z
UID:4667-1492531200-1492538400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Modern China Lecture Series: Ryōdōraku (良導絡) in New China:   Sino-Japanese Medical Exchange in the 1950s and the Role of Machines in East Asian Medical Modernity
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Ruth Rogaski\, Vanderbilt University \nIn December of 1957\, a medical delegation from the People’s Republic of China visited Japan as part of a decade-long series of semi-official cultural exchanges between the two former enemies. The delegation brought back a “Nakatani Ryōdōraku electrodermometer”—a scientific apparatus which\, according to its inventor\, Nakatani Yoshio\, could be used to demonstrate an electromagnetic phenomenon on the surface of the human body that was remarkably similar to the meridians of Chinese medicine. My paper uses this episode of medical mobility to explore the role of machines in attempts to establish the ontological basis for Chinese medicine in twentieth century East Asia. \nProbing the “electrical genealogy” of the Nakatani machine in Japan since the Meiji period illuminates how Japanese physicians pursued the scientific underpinnings of traditional medical concepts by creatively employing trends in European and Russian physiological research. While most Sino-Japanese exchanges around the modernization of traditional medicine were interrupted by the war (although some practitioners sought medical unity through empire in the 1930s and 40s)\, medical exchanges were renewed surprisingly quickly in the 1950s. Chinese translations of Japanese texts about the biological basis of acupuncture entered into ongoing PRC debates about the nature of meridians– debates that had emerged in China in the 1930s and continued in the politically complex era of medical reform in the 1950s. The arrival of the Nakatani machine highlighted the schisms among Chinese physicians regarding the role of science and classical theories in modernizing Chinese medicine. In conclusion\, the paper examines the continuing use of the Ryōdōraku machine (and similar devices) in acupuncture practice today\, and considers the century-long desire to visualize the invisible in Chinese medicine.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/modern-china-lecture-series-ruth-rogaski/
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:20170419T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170419T140000
DTSTAMP:20260505T151625
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UID:4778-1492605000-1492610400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series: China's Economic Statecraft in Asia and Europe
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr. James Reilly\, Associate Professor\, Department of Government and International Relations\, University of Sydney \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-2017-04-19/
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:20170420T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170420T140000
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CREATED:20170414T144609Z
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UID:5125-1492689600-1492696800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:The February 28th Incident: Imperial Legacies and War Aftermath in Taiwan\, 1947
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Victor Louzon\, Postdoctoral Scholar at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute\, Columbia University \nThe February 28th Incident\, as the 1947 Taiwanese rebellion against Guomindang rule and its bloody suppression are known\, is perhaps the most notorious episode in modern Taiwanese history. This talk offers new insights on this event\, exploring the dynamics of decolonization and demobilization in Taiwan\, and of Republican China’s troubled war aftermath. It also discusses the debates and memory wars that surround the Incident in present-day Taiwan.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-february-28th-incident-imperial-legacies-and-war-aftermath-in-taiwan-1947/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest,Special Event,Taiwan,Taiwan Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170421T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170421T140000
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CREATED:20170420T172155Z
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UID:5178-1492776000-1492783200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:State Legitimation and Popular Political Participation in the Early Modern Era: England 1560-1640\, Japan 1660-1868\, and China 1720-1840
DESCRIPTION:Professor Wenkai He\, Radcliffe/Yenching Fellow\, Harvard University;  Associate Professor\, Hong Kong University Science and Technology\, Division of Social Science \nChair:  Professor David Howell\, Professor of Japanese History\, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University \nAsia Center Seminar Series
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/state-legitimation-and-popular-political-participation-in-the-early-modern-era-england-1560-1640-japan-1660-1868-and-china-1720-1840/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170424T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170424T180000
DTSTAMP:20260505T151625
CREATED:20170329T130758Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170329T130758Z
UID:5078-1493049600-1493056800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:China’s Banking Transformation: The Untold Story
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: James Stent\, Independent Director and Chairman of the Audit Committee of XacBank of Mongolia. \nPundits have been predicting the impending collapse of the Chinese banking system. The collapse has not happened. What have these pundits been missing? Why have their predictions not materialized? \nJames Stent\, author of China’s Banking Transformation: the Untold Story (Oxford University Press 2017) discusses the strengths and drivers of Chinese banking that arise from being embedded in the Chinese political economy and shaped by both international best practice and traditional cultural factors. A Western analytical framework will miss these essential factors and lead to wrong conclusions. Stent demonstrates that the banking system can be used as a prism for understanding how the contemporary Chinese political economy works. \nStent has made a career in banking in Asia. He served for 13 years as an independent director of two Chinese banks between the years 2003 and 2016\, providing him with an insider’s view of how the transformation of Chinese banks proceeded.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/chinas-banking-transformation-the-untold-story/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest,Special Event
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UID:5128-1493060400-1493071200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:"Behemoth": Film Screening and Discussion with Director Zhao Liang
DESCRIPTION:Beginning with a mining explosion in Mongolia and ending in a ghost city west of Beijing\, documentarian Zhao Liang’s new film Behemoth details\, in one breathtaking sequence after another\, the social and environmental devastation driven by the totality of humankind’s desire and greed. After the screening\, Director Liang will attend via Skype for a discussion with Gen Carmel of the LEF Foundation and Crows & Sparrows. The discussion will be interpreted by Canaan Morse\, a Ph.D. candidate in Chinese Literature at Harvard. \nBehemoth is co-presented by The DocYard; Crows & Sparrows; the Harvard-China Project\, Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences; and the Environment in Asia Series\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. \nFree admission to holders of a current Harvard ID\, sponsored by Harvard-China Project and Harvard-Global Institute \nEvent website: https://chinaproject.harvard.edu/event/behemoth
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/behemoth-film-screening-and-discussion-with-director-zhao-liang/
LOCATION:Brattle Theater\, 40 Brattle St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Environment,Events of Interest,Film Screening,Special Event
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170425T140000
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UID:4830-1493121600-1493128800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Trump and Asia: Business as Usual? U.S.-Asia Business and Trade in the Trump Era
DESCRIPTION:The Asia-related centers at Harvard University continue our new “Trump and Asia” series with a look at international business and trade between the U.S. and Asia. \nListen again on the Fairbank Center’s podcast: \n \nSpeakers: \nWilliam Kirby \nT. M. Chang Professor of China Studies; Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration; Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor; Director of the Harvard China Fund; former Director of the Fairbank Center \n  \nMireya Solis  \nSenior Fellow – Foreign Policy\, Center for East Asia Policy Studies\, and Philip Knight Chair in Japan Studies at the Brookings Institute \n  \nMark Wu  \nAssistant Professor of Law\, Harvard Law School \n  \nModerated by Tarun Khanna \nJorge Paulo Lemann Professor at the Harvard Business School\, Director of Harvard University South Asia Institute \n  \nChaired by Andrew Gordon \nVictor and William Fung Acting Director of the Harvard University Asia Center; Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History  \n  \nThis event will be livestreamed on the Fairbank Center’s Facebook page\, and an audio podcast of the event will be available on our podcast.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/trump-and-asia-business-as-usual-u-s-asia-business-and-trade-in-the-trump-era/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170426T140000
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UID:4779-1493209800-1493215200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series: Corruption in China on the Eve of the 19th Party Congress
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Michael Forsythe\, The New York Times \nCo-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Harvard University Asia Center \n 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-2017-04-26/
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:20170428T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170428T173000
DTSTAMP:20260505T151625
CREATED:20170111T180058Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170111T180058Z
UID:4676-1493382600-1493400600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Gender Studies Workshop: Women and Friendship in Dynastic China
DESCRIPTION:Participants:\nBeverly Bossler\, University of California\, Davis\nRon Egan\, Stanford University\nGrace Fong\, McGill University\nEileen Chow\, Duke University\nMaram Epstein\, University of Oregon\nXu Man\, Tufts University \nOrganized by:\nWai Yee Li\, Harvard University\nEllen Widmer\, Wellesley College \nAGENDA \n12:45-1:00 p.m.   Welcoming remarks \nFirst Panel\nChair:              Wai-yee Li\nDiscussant:     Xu Man \n1:00-1:30 p.m.      Beverly Bossler\, “Terms of Endearment: Expressions of Love and Affection in Song China”\n1:30-2:00 p.m.      Ronald Egan\, “Friendship in Li Qingzhao’s Writings”\n2:00-2:30 p.m.      Ellen Widmer\,  “A Friend and a Patron: Hu Zixia’s Contribution to the Life and Work of Wang Duanshu”\n2:30-3:00 p.m.      Discussion \n3:00-3:30 p.m.      Break \nSecond Panel\nChair:              Ellen Widmer\nDiscussant:     Eileen Chow \n3:30-4:00 p.m.      Grace Fong\, “In the Absence of Discourse: Articulations of Female Friendship in Late Imperial China”\n4:00-4:30 p.m.      Maram Epstein\, “Women’s Routes to Personhood in Nineteenth Century Chinese Fiction: Friendship\, Filial Piety\, and Daoist Transcendence”\n4:30-5:00 p.m.      Wai-yee Li\, “Friendship in the World of Late Ming Courtesans”\n5:00-5:30 p.m.      Discussion
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/gender-studies-workshop/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170428T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170428T153000
DTSTAMP:20260505T151625
CREATED:20170414T193643Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170414T193643Z
UID:5145-1493388000-1493393400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Ecologies of Enclosure: Reconfiguring the Black Soldier Fly for Urban Waste Management in Guangzhou
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Amy Zhang\, Fairbank Center An Wang Post-Doctoral Fellow \n 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/ecologies-of-enclosure-reconfiguring-the-black-soldier-fly-for-urban-waste-management-in-guangzhou/
LOCATION:HUCE Seminar Room 440\, 26 Oxford St. - Museum of Comparative Zoology\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Environment,Environment,Events of Interest,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170501T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170501T180000
DTSTAMP:20260505T151625
CREATED:20170331T164317Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231107T152515Z
UID:5088-1493654400-1493661600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Reischauer Lecture Series - Empire and Righteous Nation: 600 Years of China-Korea Relations
DESCRIPTION:Day One Focus:\nChina and Korea from 1392 (the beginning of the Choson state) to the late 19th century\nMay 1\, 2017 | 4pm – 6pm \nTsai Auditorium\, CGIS South Building\, 1730 Cambridge Street \nDiscussant: Kirk W. Larsen\, Brigham Young University \n \nDay Two Focus:\nChina and Korea in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries \nMay 2\, 2017 | 4pm – 6pm \nBelfer Case Study Room\, CGIS South Building\, 1730 Cambridge Stree \nDiscussant: Ezra F. Vogel\, Harvard University \n \nDay Three Focus:\nContemporary China and the Two Koreas\nMay 3\, 2017 | 4pm – 6pm \nBelfer Case Study Room\, CGIS South Building\, 1730 Cambridge Street \nDiscussant: Sung Yoon Lee\, Tufts University \n \nSpeaker: Odd Arne Westad is the S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations at Harvard University\, where he teaches at the Kennedy School of Government.  He is an expert on contemporary international history and on the eastern Asian region. \nBefore coming to Harvard in 2015\, Westad was School Professor of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).  While at LSE\, he directed LSE IDEAS\, a leading center for international affairs\, diplomacy and strategy. \nProfessor Westad won the Bancroft Prize for The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times. The book\, which has been translated into fifteen languages\, also won a number of other awards.  Westad served as general editor for the three-volume Cambridge History of the Cold War\, and is the author of  the Penguin History of the World (now in its 6th edition).  His most recent book\, Restless Empire: China and the World since 1750\, won the Asia Society’s book award for 2013. \nListen Again on the Fairbank Center Podcast:
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/reischauer-lecture-series-empire-and-righteous-nation-600-years-of-china-korea-relations/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest,Special Event
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170501T180000
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UID:5099-1493654400-1493661600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:China Humanities Seminar: Forging a Master Key: Li Yu’s 李漁 Theory of Universal Theater
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: S.E. Kile\, University of Michigan \nStudies of Li Yu’s theorization of playwriting and theatrical performance have generally focused on his creation of a new technical vocabulary for playwriting and performance\, the relationship between his theory’s tenets and his own playwriting practice\, and the impact of profit-seeking on his ideas. I propose that using technology as an analytical category to examine Li Yu’s linguistic and generic experimentation in his plays and in Xianqing ouji (Leisure Notes\, 1671) reveals calculated and strategic efforts to make it possible for his products – in this case\, his plays – to be most easily transmitted across the entire empire. \nI begin by presenting some of Li Yu’s efforts to cater to an empire-wide audience in his theorization of the language of plays: I consider first his prioritization and standardization of dialogue\, and second\, his updating of old plays and “generic translation” of plays of Northern provenance into new\, universal forms. In creating an ever more regulated generic form\, these changes made theater more accessible for audiences\, but not for playwrights or performers. To conclude\, I examine the innovative ways in which Li Yu sought to transmit performance itself through generic and technological experimentation. \n  \nS.E. Kile is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Michigan. A specialist in late Ming and early Qing literature and culture\, Kile is currently finishing a monograph on the maverick literatus Li Yu. This manuscript approaches texts as material objects and technological innovations: as things that can enfold imagined worlds and transport those lively and inventive worlds across time and space. Recent publications have appeared in differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies and Chinese Oral and Performing Literatures (CHINOPERL).
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-humanities-seminar-forging-a-master-key-li-yus-%e6%9d%8e%e6%bc%81-theory-of-universal-theater/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:China Humanities Seminar,Events of Interest
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170502T180000
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UID:5090-1493740800-1493748000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Reischauer Lecture Series - Empire and Righteous Nation: 600 Years of China-Korea Relations
DESCRIPTION:Day Two Focus:\nLate 19th Century and 20th Century\nSpeaker: Odd Arne Westad is the S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations at Harvard University\, where he teaches at the Kennedy School of Government.  He is an expert on contemporary international history and on the eastern Asian region. \nBefore coming to Harvard in 2015\, Westad was School Professor of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).  While at LSE\, he directed LSE IDEAS\, a leading center for international affairs\, diplomacy and strategy. \nProfessor Westad won the Bancroft Prize for The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times. The book\, which has been translated into fifteen languages\, also won a number of other awards.  Westad served as general editor for the three-volume Cambridge History of the Cold War\, and is the author of  the Penguin History of the World (now in its 6th edition).  His most recent book\, Restless Empire: China and the World since 1750\, won the Asia Society’s book award for 2013.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/reischauer-lecture-series-empire-and-righteous-nation-600-years-of-china-korea-relations-2017-05-02/
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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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170503T140000
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UID:4780-1493814600-1493820000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series: Fifty Years with China - A Canadian Perspective
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Bernard Frolic\, Professor Emeritus\, Department of Political Science\, York 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-2017-05-03/
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:20170503T180000
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UID:5091-1493827200-1493834400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Reischauer Lecture Series - Empire and Righteous Nation: 600 Years of China-Korea Relations
DESCRIPTION:Day Three Focus:\nChina’s relations with North and South Korea Today\nSpeaker: Odd Arne Westad is the S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations at Harvard University\, where he teaches at the Kennedy School of Government.  He is an expert on contemporary international history and on the eastern Asian region. \nBefore coming to Harvard in 2015\, Westad was School Professor of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).  While at LSE\, he directed LSE IDEAS\, a leading center for international affairs\, diplomacy and strategy. \nProfessor Westad won the Bancroft Prize for The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times. The book\, which has been translated into fifteen languages\, also won a number of other awards.  Westad served as general editor for the three-volume Cambridge History of the Cold War\, and is the author of  the Penguin History of the World (now in its 6th edition).  His most recent book\, Restless Empire: China and the World since 1750\, won the Asia Society’s book award for 2013.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/reischauer-lecture-series-empire-and-righteous-nation-600-years-of-china-korea-relations-2017-05-03/
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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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170504T143000
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UID:5134-1493892000-1493908200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Berggruen Workshop: Perspectives on Chinese Thought in the World
DESCRIPTION:This workshop celebrates the partnership between the Berggruen Institute and the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics\, thereby also taking advantage of the presence of the first group of Berggruen Fellows at Harvard. The topic of the workshop\, also related to a major concern of the Berggruen Institute\, is “Perspectives on Chinese Thought in the World.” Some of the presenters work on China in a rather straightforward way\, others don’t\, but China\, and thus Chinese thought\, concerns us all\, and increasingly so. One way or another\, the talks will address how it does. Advance reading of papers is not expected\, though papers are available for some of the talks (upon request). \nOn February 9\, 2017\, the workshop convened for a successful session\, featuring Viren Murthy\, Tongdong Bai\, and Sungmoon Kim\, before the organizers were compelled to postpone the afternoon panels due to the onset of a blizzard. These panels have now been rescheduled as a featured event that will kick off the Center’s 30th Anniversary Celebration\, May 4-6\, 2017. \n**Please register HERE no later than Monday\, April 24.** \nThursday\, May 4\, 2017\n\n10:00am – 10:15am:  Opening Remarks \nDanielle Allen\, Tongdong Bai\, and Mathias Risse\, Organizers \n\n10:15am – 11:45am:  Morning Session \nMelissa Williams\, “Minben Legitimacy\, Western Legitimacy: A Framework for Comparative Research” \nAnna Sun\, “The Irreligious Kingdom: Perceptions of Chinese Religious Life Today”\n   \n12:00pm – 1:00pm:  Lunch (on site) \n\n1:00pm – 2:15pm:  Afternoon Session \nTongdong Bai\, “A Confucian Version of Human and Animal Rights” \nMathias Risse\, “Thinking about Global Justice in the Age of the Rise of China” \n\n2:15pm:  Closing Remarks
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/berggruen-workshop-perspectives-on-chinese-thought-in-the-world/
LOCATION:Safra Center for Ethics\, 124 Mt. Auburn St.\, Suite 520N\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conference and Workshops,Events of Interest,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170506T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170507T183000
DTSTAMP:20260505T151625
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UID:5182-1494061200-1494181800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:East Asian Media Studies Conference
DESCRIPTION:The East Asian Media Studies Conference will present a snapshot of a young and still-forming field of inquiry. It will provide a space for discussing the question of field formation and the interventions that such work allows for. In this respect\, the conference is associated with the asia-theory-visuality conference held in Princeton in November 2015. We are hoping to create a space that breaks down the divide between presenters and the audience\, and engages everyone in the process of actively reflecting on the evolution of the field. Texts associated with the keynote will be precirculated so that the keynote addresses can serve as an opportunity for dialogue and critique; panelists will be called on to explicitly reflect on how their work relates to broader developments within the field; and graduate students will moderate lunchtime discussions on future directions in East Asian media studies. \nFor more information\, visit https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/eams.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/east-asian-media-studies-conference/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, CGIS South\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Conference and Workshops,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170508T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170508T180000
DTSTAMP:20260505T151625
CREATED:20170111T174144Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250130T154942Z
UID:4663-1494259200-1494266400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Can Computation Change the Study of Chinese Culture and History?
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Richard Jean So\, University of Chicago \nThe emergence of large corpora of digitized cultural and historical texts and new methods in text mining and analysis have made possible a new form of computational analysis for the humanities and China Studies. The question and challenge is whether these new methods and “data” will enrich our study of Chinese culture and history or simply “tell us what we already know.” In this talk\, I utilize a large corpus of Republican-era Chinese cultural and political journals and methods in Natural Language Processing to demonstrate that indeed\, computation can not only reframe and challenge existing scholarship in China Studies\, but produce radically new interpretations and arguments\, as well as entire new conceptual frameworks for the study of modern China. I specifically develop a case study focused on the evolution and transformation of the era’s cultural discourse in relation to other significant discourses\, such as politics and media. \n 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/modern-china-lecture-series-richard-so/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Modern China Lecture
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