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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170501T160000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170502T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170502T180000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170503T123000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170503T160000
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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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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
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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:20260505T234007
CREATED:20170111T174144Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250130T154942Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170509T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170509T133000
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SUMMARY:Living on the Edge: Korean Brothels in Colonial Taiwan
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Jin Jungwon\, Associate Research Fellow\, Institute of Taiwan History\, Academia Sinica; HYI Visiting Scholar\nChair/Discussant: Elizabeth Remick\, Associate Professor\, Department of Political Science\, Tufts University\n\nHarvard-Yenching Institute lunch talk\, co-sponsored with the Korea Institute \nDespite its wide practice\, the sex trade and sex industry in Taiwan and Korea had never been put under governmental control before Japanese colonial rule. In the early stages of colonization\, the Japanese colonizers imposed their own laws and regulations on the two newly acquired colonies of Taiwan and Korea. Legislation stipulated that brothels and prostitutes had to be registered\, and prostitutes had to undergo regular checks for sexually transmitted diseases. \nPrevious studies on the history of colonial Korea have widely agreed that the traditional practices of the sex industry in Chosŏn Korea underwent significant changes during Japanese rule. However\, the issue of how state-regulated prostitution policies influenced Taiwanese society and shaped its sex industries requires further discussion. \nIn an attempt to understand how the Japanese state-regulated prostitution system was implemented in colonial Taiwan\, this talk focuses particularly on the emergence and spread of Korean prostitutes and brothels across Taiwan from the 1920’s onwards. By exploring the process of one-way migration of Korean prostitutes to Taiwan\, the talk seeks to bring to light the different survival strategies of Korean brothel operators in Taiwan and Korea\, and to offer new insights on the unique traits of the Taiwanese sex-trade market compared to Korea. \nhttps://harvard-yenching.org/events/living-edge-korean-brothels-colonial-taiwan
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/living-on-the-edge-korean-brothels-in-colonial-taiwan/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest,Gender Studies,Taiwan Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170510T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170510T140000
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SUMMARY:Visiting Scholar Presentations
DESCRIPTION:Join us to hear the Fairbank Center’s 2016-17 Visiting Scholars present on the projects that brought them to Harvard.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/visiting-scholar-presentations/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170522T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170522T173000
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SUMMARY:The U.S.\, China\, and the Future of the Korean Peninsula
DESCRIPTION:Join the Ash Center for a discussion on the U.S.\, China\, and the Future of the Korean Peninsula with Dr. Jin Park\, a Public Policy Scholar in residence at the Woodrow Wilson Center and former member of the Korean National Assembly. Dr Park will be introduced by Julia Lee\, a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Positive Organizations at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. Ash Center Director Tony Saich will serve as respondent\, and Ash Center China Programs Director Edward Cunningham will moderate. \nhttps://ash.harvard.edu/event/us-china-and-future-korean-peninsula
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-u-s-china-and-the-future-of-the-korean-peninsula/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170523T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170523T170000
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SUMMARY:Democratic Equality and Confucian Hierarchy
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Joseph Chan\, University of Hong Kong\nDiscussant: Archon Fung\, Harvard Kennedy School of Government \n**Please register HERE no later than Friday\, May 12.** \nNOTE: The paper will be circulated one week in advance to all seminar participants. \nJoseph Chan is professor of the Department of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Hong Kong. A leading scholar in Confucian political theory and perfectionism\, Chan has published many path-breaking articles in journals such as Philosophy and Public Affairs\, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies\, History of Political Thought\, Journal of Chinese Philosophy\, and Philosophy East and West\, among others. His recent book\, Confucian Perfectionism: A Political Philosophy for Modern Times (Princeton University Press\, 2014)\, proposes a novel normative theory called “moderate Confucian perfectionism\,” which justifies the perfectionist promotion of the Confucian conception of the good life in a way that is compatible with pluralism\, human rights\, and personal and moral autonomy. Chan is currently working on a new book project that aims to critically examine the moral foundations of the democratic ideals of popular sovereignty\, political equality\, and the right to vote and offer an alternative normative theory\, at the heart of which lie political meritocracy and certain forms of morally justifiable hierarchy.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/democratic-equality-and-confucian-hierarchy/
LOCATION:Safra Center for Ethics\, 124 Mt. Auburn St.\, Suite 520N\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170727T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170727T133000
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SUMMARY:Border-Crossing Ethics Textbooks in Late-Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth Century East Asia
DESCRIPTION:Recent changes in the United States and around the world\, together with Japan’s decision to make its traditional ethics a formal school subject beginning in 2018 reconfirm the need of ethics\, the universality of ethical values\, and locality of ethical practices in specific socio-cultural and political contexts. This talk presents a preliminary survey of how ethics as a branch of knowledge from the West was introduced to Japan and became part of the nation-building process of the country in late 19th century with the blooming of ethics textbooks. It also examines what made the transnational/transcultural journey of one of those textbooks possible through the case of Chūgaku rinrisho and its transformations in China and Vietnam. \nAbout the speaker: NGUYEN Nam is a lecturer of Vietnam National University in Ho Chi Minh City (since 1986)\, and Loyola University Chicago’s Vietnam Center. Having earned his MA (Regional Studies – East Asia) and PhD (East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Chinese Literature) from Harvard\, he worked as the manager of the Academic Program of the Harvard-Yenching Institute (HYI) from 2004 to 2010. His research interests focus on Sinology (especially Confucianism)\, comparative literature (dealing mainly with East Asia)\, translation studies\, and adaptation studies. He is also an associate of the HYI.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/border-crossing-ethics-textbooks-in-late-nineteenth-and-early-twentieth-century-east-asia/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170909T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170909T210000
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SUMMARY:An Ethics of Observation. Four Films by Wang Bing
DESCRIPTION:Three Sisters (San zimei)\nSeptember 9\, 7:00 pm\nSeptember 30\, 4:00 pm\nFrance/Hong Kong 2016\, DCP\, color\, 153 min. Mandarin with English subtitles \nHigh in the remote Yunnan Mountains live three sisters\, ages ten\, six and four\, abandoned by their mother and left largely alone by a father who must travel vast distances in search of work. This heart-wrenching portrait of family and fidelity is grounded in the remarkable intimacy of camera and subject that is Wang’s extraordinary gift\, allowing us to not only observe but to seemingly be a part of the daily rituals and rhythms of the girls\, who miraculously never appear to struggle against their plight\, instead abiding almost entirely within the everyday. Three Sisters is one of Wang’s most stark\, elemental and beautiful films; a raw\, unconventional beauty derives from the truth and subtlety of the unstated but everywhere palpable bonds connecting the children and their father\, despite the distances and hardships that threaten to tear them asunder. \nBitter Money (Ku Qian)\nSeptember 10\, 7:00 pm\nChina/France 2017\, DCP\, color\, 152 min. Mandarin with English subtitles \nA restless energy drives Bitter Money’s portrayal of the difficult lives of migrant garment workers who travel from rural Yunnan to the eastern city of Huzhou in search of scarce jobs and security. Like its uprooted subjects\, Bitter Money seems to be ceaselessly searching for a center\, a point of stability in a world set adrift by sleepless sweatshops and the crowds of slave laborers who fuel the world’s insatiable appetite for cheap and disposable goods. Bitter Money is arguably Wang’s most abstract film\, the work that moves toward yet ultimately denies a socioeconomic vantage point able to survey a larger terrain. Instead Wang is drawn\, again and again\, to the individual lives unraveling slowly before his camera\, trapped in a desperate cycle of endless work and impossible debt\, an existential condition rarely rendered with such sadness and truth than in Wang’s uncompromised cinema. \n‘Til Madness Do Us Part (Feng ai)\nSeptember 16\, 7:00 pm\nJapan/France/Hong Kong 2016\, DCP\, color\, 238 min. Mandarin with English subtitles \n‘Til Madness Do Us Part announced Wang Bing as the authentic heir to Frederick Wiseman with its gripping\, shape-shifting portrait of an isolated “asylum” whose exact mission remains troublingly unclear throughout the film’s almost four-hour length. Simultaneously prison\, hospital and refuge\, the unnamed institution is peopled by a sprawling community of patients/inmates who range from the clearly insane to incarcerated petty criminals to others who have been simply deposited by families unable to care for their weakest or eldest members. Shot over the course of two-and-a-half months\, ‘Til Madness Do Us Part takes place almost entirely within a single all-male floor of the asylum\, resulting in a film that restores the true meaning of the term immersive now used too frequently to superficially describe contemporary moving image art. Following Wang’s restless\, gliding camera\, the viewer drifts through the asylum\, gently observing but never privileging any of the men who drift\, tranquilized\, stunned\, sleepless\, lost. Never settling upon a single figure\, ‘Til Madness Do Us Part is instead a choral and decentered film that tests our roles as privileged viewers and as extensions of the cinema’s surveillance apparatus. So engrossed\, so immersed are we that a sudden burst of freedom becomes disorienting\, unnatural\, as we realize that we have become accustomed to the fluid enclosure of the asylum\, where night is day and day is night. \nTa’ang\nSeptember 18\, 7:00 pm\nHong Kong/France 2017\, DCP\, color\, 148 min. Burmese & Mandarin with English subtitles \nWith Ta’ang\, Wang offers invaluable and deeply moving cinematic testimony to the terrible plight of refugees victimized by the intractable conflicts that enflame so much of today’s world yet rarely receive the attention or solutions they so urgently demand. Ta’angis named for the Burmese ethnic minorities driven from Myanmar by the still-raging war between the Burmese Army and a strong insurgent movement that includes troops of the Ta’ang National Liberation Army. Wang’s haunting film inhabits the fragile camps and shelters of the refugees squatting in the border nether-zone\, fleeing from the imminent threat of violence embodied in the quickening sound of bombs that recurs throughout the film’s second half. At the heart of Ta’ang are the whispering groups that huddle quietly around the firesides at night\, telling stories\, sharing cold comforts and creating a vital yet fleeting community trapped in an anxious waiting\, bravely resolute despite the imminent threat of extinction.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/an-ethics-of-observation-four-films-by-wang-bing/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
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SUMMARY:An Ethics of Observation. Four Films by Wang Bing
DESCRIPTION:Three Sisters (San zimei)\nSeptember 9\, 7:00 pm\nSeptember 30\, 4:00 pm\nFrance/Hong Kong 2016\, DCP\, color\, 153 min. Mandarin with English subtitles \nHigh in the remote Yunnan Mountains live three sisters\, ages ten\, six and four\, abandoned by their mother and left largely alone by a father who must travel vast distances in search of work. This heart-wrenching portrait of family and fidelity is grounded in the remarkable intimacy of camera and subject that is Wang’s extraordinary gift\, allowing us to not only observe but to seemingly be a part of the daily rituals and rhythms of the girls\, who miraculously never appear to struggle against their plight\, instead abiding almost entirely within the everyday. Three Sisters is one of Wang’s most stark\, elemental and beautiful films; a raw\, unconventional beauty derives from the truth and subtlety of the unstated but everywhere palpable bonds connecting the children and their father\, despite the distances and hardships that threaten to tear them asunder. \nBitter Money (Ku Qian)\nSeptember 10\, 7:00 pm\nChina/France 2017\, DCP\, color\, 152 min. Mandarin with English subtitles \nA restless energy drives Bitter Money’s portrayal of the difficult lives of migrant garment workers who travel from rural Yunnan to the eastern city of Huzhou in search of scarce jobs and security. Like its uprooted subjects\, Bitter Money seems to be ceaselessly searching for a center\, a point of stability in a world set adrift by sleepless sweatshops and the crowds of slave laborers who fuel the world’s insatiable appetite for cheap and disposable goods. Bitter Money is arguably Wang’s most abstract film\, the work that moves toward yet ultimately denies a socioeconomic vantage point able to survey a larger terrain. Instead Wang is drawn\, again and again\, to the individual lives unraveling slowly before his camera\, trapped in a desperate cycle of endless work and impossible debt\, an existential condition rarely rendered with such sadness and truth than in Wang’s uncompromised cinema. \n‘Til Madness Do Us Part (Feng ai)\nSeptember 16\, 7:00 pm\nJapan/France/Hong Kong 2016\, DCP\, color\, 238 min. Mandarin with English subtitles \n‘Til Madness Do Us Part announced Wang Bing as the authentic heir to Frederick Wiseman with its gripping\, shape-shifting portrait of an isolated “asylum” whose exact mission remains troublingly unclear throughout the film’s almost four-hour length. Simultaneously prison\, hospital and refuge\, the unnamed institution is peopled by a sprawling community of patients/inmates who range from the clearly insane to incarcerated petty criminals to others who have been simply deposited by families unable to care for their weakest or eldest members. Shot over the course of two-and-a-half months\, ‘Til Madness Do Us Part takes place almost entirely within a single all-male floor of the asylum\, resulting in a film that restores the true meaning of the term immersive now used too frequently to superficially describe contemporary moving image art. Following Wang’s restless\, gliding camera\, the viewer drifts through the asylum\, gently observing but never privileging any of the men who drift\, tranquilized\, stunned\, sleepless\, lost. Never settling upon a single figure\, ‘Til Madness Do Us Part is instead a choral and decentered film that tests our roles as privileged viewers and as extensions of the cinema’s surveillance apparatus. So engrossed\, so immersed are we that a sudden burst of freedom becomes disorienting\, unnatural\, as we realize that we have become accustomed to the fluid enclosure of the asylum\, where night is day and day is night. \nTa’ang\nSeptember 18\, 7:00 pm\nHong Kong/France 2017\, DCP\, color\, 148 min. Burmese & Mandarin with English subtitles \nWith Ta’ang\, Wang offers invaluable and deeply moving cinematic testimony to the terrible plight of refugees victimized by the intractable conflicts that enflame so much of today’s world yet rarely receive the attention or solutions they so urgently demand. Ta’angis named for the Burmese ethnic minorities driven from Myanmar by the still-raging war between the Burmese Army and a strong insurgent movement that includes troops of the Ta’ang National Liberation Army. Wang’s haunting film inhabits the fragile camps and shelters of the refugees squatting in the border nether-zone\, fleeing from the imminent threat of violence embodied in the quickening sound of bombs that recurs throughout the film’s second half. At the heart of Ta’ang are the whispering groups that huddle quietly around the firesides at night\, telling stories\, sharing cold comforts and creating a vital yet fleeting community trapped in an anxious waiting\, bravely resolute despite the imminent threat of extinction.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/an-ethics-of-observation-four-films-by-wang-bing-2017-09-10/
LOCATION:Harvard Film Archive\, Carpenter Center\, 24 Quincy St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series - The U.S. and China: How Should We Assess the Policy of "Engagement?"
DESCRIPTION:Read event summary \nSpeaker: Orville Schell\, Asia Society \nOrville Schell is the Arthur Ross Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relationsat Asia Society in New York. He is a former professor and Dean at the University of California\, Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. Schell was born in New York City\, graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard University in Far Eastern History\, was an exchange student at National Taiwan University in the 1960s\, and earned a Ph.D. (Abd) at University of California\, Berkeley in Chinese History. He worked for the Ford Foundation in Indonesia\, covered the war in Indochina as a journalist\, and has traveled widely in China since the mid-70s. \nSchell is the author of fifteen books\, ten of them about China\, and a contributor to numerous edited volumes. His most recent books are: Wealth and Power\, China’s long March to the 21st Century; Virtual Tibet; The China Reader: The Reform Years; and Mandate of Heaven: The Legacy of Tiananmen Square and the Next Generation of China’s Leaders. He has written widely for many magazine and newspapers\, including The Atlantic Monthly\, The New Yorker\, Time\, The New Republic\, Harpers\, The Nation\, The New York Review of Books\, Wired\, Foreign Affairs\, the China Quarterly\, and the New York Times\, the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times. \nHe is a Fellow at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University\, a Senior Fellow at the Annenberg School of Communications at USC and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Schell is also the recipient of many prizes and fellowships\, including a Guggenheim Fellowship\, the Overseas Press Club Award\, and the Harvard-Stanford Shorenstein Prize in Asian Journalism.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-2/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China
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SUMMARY:East Asian Legal Studies Open House
DESCRIPTION:Join East Asian Legal Studies for an opportunity to meet EALS Faculty\, Staff\, Research Fellows\, and the 2017-2018 Visiting Scholars. \nLight refreshments will be served.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/east-asian-legal-studies-open-house/
LOCATION:Austin Hall Room 308\, 1515 Mass Ave\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest,Special Event
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SUMMARY:Asia Beyond the Headlines: One Belt/One Road in Historical and Global Context
DESCRIPTION:Chair: Professor Elizabeth Perry\, Henry Rosovksy Professor of Government; Director\, Harvard-Yenching Institute \nProfessor Mark Elliott\, Vice Provost of International Affairs;  Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History\, Harvard University \nProfessor Michael Szonyi\,  Professor of Chinese History; Director\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard University \nDr. William Overholt\, Senior Fellow\, Harvard University Asia Center \nAsia Beyond the Headlines Seminar Series\, Harvard University Asia Center; co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/asia-beyond-the-headlines-one-beltone-road-in-historical-and-global-context/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170915T173000
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CREATED:20170906T114342Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170906T114342Z
UID:5836-1505491200-1505496600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:I'd Rather Be Dead: Conflicts of Care at the End of Life
DESCRIPTION:Spaeaker: Karen Thornber\, Professor of Comparative Literature and East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University\nVictor and William Fung Director\, Harvard University Asia Center
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/id-rather-be-dead-conflicts-of-care-at-the-end-of-life/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170916T210000
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SUMMARY:An Ethics of Observation. Four Films by Wang Bing
DESCRIPTION:Three Sisters (San zimei)\nSeptember 9\, 7:00 pm\nSeptember 30\, 4:00 pm\nFrance/Hong Kong 2016\, DCP\, color\, 153 min. Mandarin with English subtitles \nHigh in the remote Yunnan Mountains live three sisters\, ages ten\, six and four\, abandoned by their mother and left largely alone by a father who must travel vast distances in search of work. This heart-wrenching portrait of family and fidelity is grounded in the remarkable intimacy of camera and subject that is Wang’s extraordinary gift\, allowing us to not only observe but to seemingly be a part of the daily rituals and rhythms of the girls\, who miraculously never appear to struggle against their plight\, instead abiding almost entirely within the everyday. Three Sisters is one of Wang’s most stark\, elemental and beautiful films; a raw\, unconventional beauty derives from the truth and subtlety of the unstated but everywhere palpable bonds connecting the children and their father\, despite the distances and hardships that threaten to tear them asunder. \nBitter Money (Ku Qian)\nSeptember 10\, 7:00 pm\nChina/France 2017\, DCP\, color\, 152 min. Mandarin with English subtitles \nA restless energy drives Bitter Money’s portrayal of the difficult lives of migrant garment workers who travel from rural Yunnan to the eastern city of Huzhou in search of scarce jobs and security. Like its uprooted subjects\, Bitter Money seems to be ceaselessly searching for a center\, a point of stability in a world set adrift by sleepless sweatshops and the crowds of slave laborers who fuel the world’s insatiable appetite for cheap and disposable goods. Bitter Money is arguably Wang’s most abstract film\, the work that moves toward yet ultimately denies a socioeconomic vantage point able to survey a larger terrain. Instead Wang is drawn\, again and again\, to the individual lives unraveling slowly before his camera\, trapped in a desperate cycle of endless work and impossible debt\, an existential condition rarely rendered with such sadness and truth than in Wang’s uncompromised cinema. \n‘Til Madness Do Us Part (Feng ai)\nSeptember 16\, 7:00 pm\nJapan/France/Hong Kong 2016\, DCP\, color\, 238 min. Mandarin with English subtitles \n‘Til Madness Do Us Part announced Wang Bing as the authentic heir to Frederick Wiseman with its gripping\, shape-shifting portrait of an isolated “asylum” whose exact mission remains troublingly unclear throughout the film’s almost four-hour length. Simultaneously prison\, hospital and refuge\, the unnamed institution is peopled by a sprawling community of patients/inmates who range from the clearly insane to incarcerated petty criminals to others who have been simply deposited by families unable to care for their weakest or eldest members. Shot over the course of two-and-a-half months\, ‘Til Madness Do Us Part takes place almost entirely within a single all-male floor of the asylum\, resulting in a film that restores the true meaning of the term immersive now used too frequently to superficially describe contemporary moving image art. Following Wang’s restless\, gliding camera\, the viewer drifts through the asylum\, gently observing but never privileging any of the men who drift\, tranquilized\, stunned\, sleepless\, lost. Never settling upon a single figure\, ‘Til Madness Do Us Part is instead a choral and decentered film that tests our roles as privileged viewers and as extensions of the cinema’s surveillance apparatus. So engrossed\, so immersed are we that a sudden burst of freedom becomes disorienting\, unnatural\, as we realize that we have become accustomed to the fluid enclosure of the asylum\, where night is day and day is night. \nTa’ang\nSeptember 18\, 7:00 pm\nHong Kong/France 2017\, DCP\, color\, 148 min. Burmese & Mandarin with English subtitles \nWith Ta’ang\, Wang offers invaluable and deeply moving cinematic testimony to the terrible plight of refugees victimized by the intractable conflicts that enflame so much of today’s world yet rarely receive the attention or solutions they so urgently demand. Ta’angis named for the Burmese ethnic minorities driven from Myanmar by the still-raging war between the Burmese Army and a strong insurgent movement that includes troops of the Ta’ang National Liberation Army. Wang’s haunting film inhabits the fragile camps and shelters of the refugees squatting in the border nether-zone\, fleeing from the imminent threat of violence embodied in the quickening sound of bombs that recurs throughout the film’s second half. At the heart of Ta’ang are the whispering groups that huddle quietly around the firesides at night\, telling stories\, sharing cold comforts and creating a vital yet fleeting community trapped in an anxious waiting\, bravely resolute despite the imminent threat of extinction.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/an-ethics-of-observation-four-films-by-wang-bing-2017-09-16/
LOCATION:Harvard Film Archive\, Carpenter Center\, 24 Quincy St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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UID:5786-1505736000-1505743200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Identity Politics and Organized Crime
DESCRIPTION:East Asian Legal Studies talk with Professor J. Mark Ramseyer\, Harvard Law School \nMark Ramseyer spent most of his childhood in provincial towns and cities in southern Japan\, attending Japanese schools for K-6. He returned to the U.S. for college. Before attending law school\, he studied Japanese history in graduate school. Ramseyer graduated from HLS in 1982. He clerked for the Hon. Stephen Breyer (then on the First Circuit)\, worked for two years at Sidley & Austin (in corporate tax)\, and studied as a Fulbright student at the University of Tokyo. After teaching at UCLA and the University of Chicago\, he came to Harvard in 1998. He has also taught or co-taught courses at several Japanese universities (in Japanese). In his research\, Ramseyer primarily studies Japanese law\, and primarily from a law & economics perspective. In addition to a variety of Japanese law courses\, he teaches the basic Corporations course. With Professors Klein and Bainbridge\, he co-edits a Foundation Press casebook in the field. \nCo-sponsored by the Program on US-Japan Relations and the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/identity-politics-and-organized-crime/
LOCATION:Austin Hall Room 308\, 1515 Mass Ave\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170918T173000
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CREATED:20170830T154845Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170830T154845Z
UID:5796-1505750400-1505755800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:What to Expect from the 19th Party Congress
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a discussion about what’s going to happen at the 19th Party Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Xiang Bing\, Dean of Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business\, will speak. Arne Westad\, S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations\, HKS\, will moderate. \nRefreshments will be served. \nThis event is cosponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies \nhttps://ash.harvard.edu/event/what-expect-19th-party-congress
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/what-to-expect-from-the-19th-party-congress/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest,Special Event
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170918T210000
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CREATED:20170906T123706Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170906T123706Z
UID:5846-1505761200-1505768400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:An Ethics of Observation. Four Films by Wang Bing
DESCRIPTION:Three Sisters (San zimei)\nSeptember 9\, 7:00 pm\nSeptember 30\, 4:00 pm\nFrance/Hong Kong 2016\, DCP\, color\, 153 min. Mandarin with English subtitles \nHigh in the remote Yunnan Mountains live three sisters\, ages ten\, six and four\, abandoned by their mother and left largely alone by a father who must travel vast distances in search of work. This heart-wrenching portrait of family and fidelity is grounded in the remarkable intimacy of camera and subject that is Wang’s extraordinary gift\, allowing us to not only observe but to seemingly be a part of the daily rituals and rhythms of the girls\, who miraculously never appear to struggle against their plight\, instead abiding almost entirely within the everyday. Three Sisters is one of Wang’s most stark\, elemental and beautiful films; a raw\, unconventional beauty derives from the truth and subtlety of the unstated but everywhere palpable bonds connecting the children and their father\, despite the distances and hardships that threaten to tear them asunder. \nBitter Money (Ku Qian)\nSeptember 10\, 7:00 pm\nChina/France 2017\, DCP\, color\, 152 min. Mandarin with English subtitles \nA restless energy drives Bitter Money’s portrayal of the difficult lives of migrant garment workers who travel from rural Yunnan to the eastern city of Huzhou in search of scarce jobs and security. Like its uprooted subjects\, Bitter Money seems to be ceaselessly searching for a center\, a point of stability in a world set adrift by sleepless sweatshops and the crowds of slave laborers who fuel the world’s insatiable appetite for cheap and disposable goods. Bitter Money is arguably Wang’s most abstract film\, the work that moves toward yet ultimately denies a socioeconomic vantage point able to survey a larger terrain. Instead Wang is drawn\, again and again\, to the individual lives unraveling slowly before his camera\, trapped in a desperate cycle of endless work and impossible debt\, an existential condition rarely rendered with such sadness and truth than in Wang’s uncompromised cinema. \n‘Til Madness Do Us Part (Feng ai)\nSeptember 16\, 7:00 pm\nJapan/France/Hong Kong 2016\, DCP\, color\, 238 min. Mandarin with English subtitles \n‘Til Madness Do Us Part announced Wang Bing as the authentic heir to Frederick Wiseman with its gripping\, shape-shifting portrait of an isolated “asylum” whose exact mission remains troublingly unclear throughout the film’s almost four-hour length. Simultaneously prison\, hospital and refuge\, the unnamed institution is peopled by a sprawling community of patients/inmates who range from the clearly insane to incarcerated petty criminals to others who have been simply deposited by families unable to care for their weakest or eldest members. Shot over the course of two-and-a-half months\, ‘Til Madness Do Us Part takes place almost entirely within a single all-male floor of the asylum\, resulting in a film that restores the true meaning of the term immersive now used too frequently to superficially describe contemporary moving image art. Following Wang’s restless\, gliding camera\, the viewer drifts through the asylum\, gently observing but never privileging any of the men who drift\, tranquilized\, stunned\, sleepless\, lost. Never settling upon a single figure\, ‘Til Madness Do Us Part is instead a choral and decentered film that tests our roles as privileged viewers and as extensions of the cinema’s surveillance apparatus. So engrossed\, so immersed are we that a sudden burst of freedom becomes disorienting\, unnatural\, as we realize that we have become accustomed to the fluid enclosure of the asylum\, where night is day and day is night. \nTa’ang\nSeptember 18\, 7:00 pm\nHong Kong/France 2017\, DCP\, color\, 148 min. Burmese & Mandarin with English subtitles \nWith Ta’ang\, Wang offers invaluable and deeply moving cinematic testimony to the terrible plight of refugees victimized by the intractable conflicts that enflame so much of today’s world yet rarely receive the attention or solutions they so urgently demand. Ta’angis named for the Burmese ethnic minorities driven from Myanmar by the still-raging war between the Burmese Army and a strong insurgent movement that includes troops of the Ta’ang National Liberation Army. Wang’s haunting film inhabits the fragile camps and shelters of the refugees squatting in the border nether-zone\, fleeing from the imminent threat of violence embodied in the quickening sound of bombs that recurs throughout the film’s second half. At the heart of Ta’ang are the whispering groups that huddle quietly around the firesides at night\, telling stories\, sharing cold comforts and creating a vital yet fleeting community trapped in an anxious waiting\, bravely resolute despite the imminent threat of extinction.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/an-ethics-of-observation-four-films-by-wang-bing-2017-09-18/
LOCATION:Harvard Film Archive\, Carpenter Center\, 24 Quincy St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170920T140000
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CREATED:20170803T165814Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170803T165814Z
UID:5420-1505910600-1505916000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series - This Is Sino Tap: My Life as a Chinese Rock Star
DESCRIPTION:Event Summary \nSpeaker: Kaiser Kuo\, Sinica Podcast/ChinaFile\, former member of the band Tang Dynasty \nKaiser previously worked as director for international communications for Chinese search engine Baidu. Before that he was a technology correspondent for Red Herring magazine\, and also worked as director of digital strategy\, China\, for Ogilvy & Mather in Beijing. He used to write a column for the foreigner-focused English-language magazine The Beijinger from 2001 to 2011. \nIn 2010\, Kaiser started the Sinica show\, a current affairs podcast that invites prominent China journalists and China-watchers to participate in uncensored discussions about Chinese political and economic affairs.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-2-2017-09-20/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170923T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170923T120000
DTSTAMP:20260505T234007
CREATED:20170911T144351Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170911T144351Z
UID:5853-1506157200-1506168000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Digital Research: Concepts\, Current State\, and Debates
DESCRIPTION:Part of the Digital China Initiative Workshop Series \nAs an introductory session for a series of workshops on digital tools and methods in China studies\, this first session will be an open discussion on the nature of data\, existing projects and research examples\, exploratory exercises of sample DH tools\, and debates on the advantages and disadvantages of using digital methods in areas pertaining the research topics of the participants. \n24-seat limit. Please RSVP at: https://goo.gl/forms/gP2uJJKOSYcfVvcu2 or contact Dr. Amelia Ying Qin: ying_qin@fas.harvard.edu
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/digital-research-concepts-current-state-and-debates/
LOCATION:Northwest Building\, Room B129\, 52 Oxford St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170925T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170925T133000
DTSTAMP:20260505T234007
CREATED:20170911T181405Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170911T181405Z
UID:5856-1506342600-1506346200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Hopkins-Nanjing Center Information Session
DESCRIPTION:Meet with a Hopkins-Nanjing Center (HNC) admissions representative to learn more about our graduate school program offerings in China\, as well as the application process\, fellowship opportunities and career outcomes for HNC graduates. Feel free to contact feneh1@jhu.edu to schedule a one-on-one appointment.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/hopkins-nanjing-center-information-session/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170925T170000
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CREATED:20170919T160522Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170919T160522Z
UID:5890-1506353400-1506358800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Co-ethnic Capital in Coastal China and India: The Developmental Diasporas of Guangdong and Kerala
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Kellee Tsai\, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/co-ethnic-capital-in-coastal-china-and-india-the-developmental-diasporas-of-guangdong-and-kerala/
LOCATION:Elaine Conference Room 300\, Chao Center\, Harvard Business School\, 25 Harvard Way\, Bostom\, MA\, 02163\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170926T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170926T140000
DTSTAMP:20260505T234007
CREATED:20170830T161232Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170830T161232Z
UID:5800-1506429000-1506434400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Sino-Japanese Relations: What Went Wrong after 1992
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Ezra Vogel\, Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus\, Harvard University. \nModerator: Susan Pharr\, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics and Director\, WCFIA Program on U.S.-Japan Relations\, Harvard University.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/sino-japanese-relations-what-went-wrong-after-1992/
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170927T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170927T140000
DTSTAMP:20260505T234007
CREATED:20170803T165814Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170803T165814Z
UID:5421-1506515400-1506520800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series - The Progression of Repression: Online Censorship and Physical Repression in China Today
DESCRIPTION:Event Summary \nSpeaker: Mary Gallagher\, University of Michigan \nMary Gallagher is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan\, where she is also the Director of the Center for Chinese Studies\, and a faculty associate at the Center for Comparative Political Studies at the Institute for Social Research.  Her research areas are Chinese politics\, comparative politics of transitional and developing states\, and law and society.  The underlying question that drives her research in all of these areas is whether the development of markets is linked to the sequential development of democratic politics and legal rationality.  Put simply\, she is interested in the relationships between capitalism\, law and democracy.  Her empirical research in China is used to explore these larger theoretical questions. \nProfessor Gallagher was a foreign student in China in 1989 atNanjing University.  She also taught at the Foreign Affairs College in Beijing from 1996-1997.  She was a Fulbright Research Scholar from 2003 to 2004 at East China University of Politics and Law in Shanghai\, China.  It was funded by the Fulbright Association and the National Science Foundation.  From 2005-2007 she was part of the public intellectual program for the National Committee on US-China Relations\, a program that brought together academics and policy makers working on US-China relations.  
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-2-2017-09-27/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China
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SUMMARY:Poetry Reading
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dang Zi\,\nTranslator: Eleanor Goodman \nZang Di\, who has been honored three times as one of China’s top ten poets\, is a featured poet at the Princeton Poetry Festival on October 5-6\, 2017. His new collection\, The Roots of Wisdom\, translated by award-winning translator Eleanor Goodman\, will be published at the same time by Zephyr Press. In this bilingual book\, Zang Di uses rich\, emotional language to explore the natural world\, including his beloved Weiming Lake at Peking University — his “Walden.” Zang Di will give readings at Harvard University’s Yenching Library (Common Room) on September 27\, and at Yale University during his visit to the U.S. \nZang Di 臧棣\, a poet\, critic\, translator\, and editor\, was born in Beijing in 1964. He was educated at Peking University\, where he received his Ph.D. in literature in 1997 and where he now teaches. Widely acknowledged as one of the leading poets and literary critics of his generation\, he has won numerous honors and awards\, including the Contemporary China’s Top Ten Prominent Young Poets Award (2005)\, China’s Top Ten Rising Poetry Critics Award (2007)\, the Chinese Poetry Biennial Top Ten Poets Award (2008)\, and the Poet of the Year Award (2008). Zang has published many collections of poetry\, including The Universe Is Flat (2008) and No-Name Lake (2010)\, and edited several major anthologies of modern and contemporary Chinese poetry\, as well as a collection of Chinese translations of Rilke’s poetry. He is the editor of the journal New Poetry Criticism. \nTranslator and poet Eleanor Goodman is a Research Associate at the Fairbank Center at Harvard University. Her translation of the book of poems\, Something Crosses My Mind\, by Wang Xiaoni (Zephyr\, 2014)\, won the 2015 Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize\, was short-listed for the 2015 Griffin International Poetry Prize\, and was the recipient of a 2013 PEN/Heim Translation Grant. Her first collection of her own poems\, Nine Dragon Island\, was a finalist for the Drunken Boat First Book Prize\, and was published in 2016 (Enclave Publishing House and Zephyr Press).
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/poetry-reading/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest,Special Event
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