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SUMMARY:Lex Berman - A Practical Approach to GIS and Spatial Thinking for China Research
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Lex Berman\, GIS Specialist & Web Services Manager\, Center for Geographic Analysis \nSpatial Humanities is a synthesis between traditional historical and textual research methods and the use of geographic information systems to find spatial relationships.  Exploring the spatial aspects of data\, and examining how those change over time\, we can develop interesting visualizations\, and also discover new questions to pursue in our research. In this Workshop we will introduce general concepts of spatial thinking and querying of spatial data\, browse Chinese datasets available for your research\, and provide a basic hands-on guide to using QGIS software.  The QGIS instruction will be brief\, covering how to open GIS datasets\, create thematic maps\, and prepare your maps for print publication. \n24-seat limit. Light refreshments.\nRSVP at https://goo.gl/5x3LMA\nQuestions: ying_qin@fas.harvard.edu
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/lex-berman-a-practical-approach-to-gis-and-spatial-thinking-for-china-research/
LOCATION:Northwest Building\, Room B129\, 52 Oxford St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171204T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171204T183000
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SUMMARY:CANCELED: Jing Tsu - Key Strokes: What Made the Chinese Script Revolution?
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Jing Tsu\, Yale University \nIt is tempting to understand the Chinese script revolution of the modern era as part of a familiar narrative of vengeance.  The Chinese language was idealized then disparaged by the Europeans\, on this view\, banished then revived only to play a mere prop in different fantasies about the Orient.  That Chinese was simplified and romanized into pinyin in the twentieth century–both claimed as Mao’s achievements–merged readily with the narrative of China’s rise in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries\, especially with the new emphasis on “innovation.”  In contrast to this satisfying story\, I will talk about the underside of this history\, one that did not enjoy big moments or one-time victories in telegraphy\, typewriting\, or the digital age but drew from the energy and failures of Chinese and non-Chinese alike\, who each put a different arc on how this history could have developed–but sometimes did not.  Emerging from this process is the one change that truly changed everything\, which will be the focus of this lecture. \nJing Tsu\, a new Guggenheim Fellow\, is a literary scholar and cultural historian of modern China at Yale University. She is the first person to be tenured and become Professor of Chinese Literature and Comparative Literature at Yale\, and author of four books (two co-edited). She is currently writing a new book about how China entered the IT era\, The Kingdom of Characters: Language Wars and China’s Rise to Global Power\, a remarkable tale that uncovers what happened to the Chinese script in the age of the Western alphabet (under contract with Riverhead at Penguin Random House). Her research spans literature\, linguistics\, science and technology\, typewriting and digitalization\, diaspora studies\, migration\, nationalism\, and theories of globalization\, and she has written for The New York Times.  \nAt Yale\, Tsu is also a Senior Research Fellow at the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies\, a member of the Executive Committee of both the Whitney Humanities Center and the Humanities Program\, as well as a faculty affiliate of WGSS (Women’s\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies) and ER&M (Ethnicity\, Race\, and Migration).
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-humanities-seminar-2017-12-04/
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:20171205T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171205T133000
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SUMMARY:Daisy Yan Du - Plasmatic Empire: Animated Filmmaking in the Manchukuo Film Association\, 1937-1945
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Daisy Yan Du\, Assistant Professor\, Division of Humanities\, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; HYI Visiting Scholar\nChair/discussant: Jie Li\, Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University \nThis talk examines animated filmmaking in the Manchukuo Film Association (Manying\, 1937-1945)\, which played an important role in shaping wartime film culture in Northeast China and other Japanese-occupied areas such as North China and Shanghai. Some studies have been conducted on Manying films\, but they have focused on documentaries\, newsreels\, and fictional live-action films\, and do not systematically address the cinematic form of animation. Since animation is a different medium\, an in-depth study of it will provide a unique perspective from which to understand Manying and the complicated wartime culture of Manchukuo\, China\, and Japan. The major theoretical problem that this talk tries to address is the convoluted relationship between animation and politics. On the one hand\, animation\, often regarded as a fantasy art form intended for an audience of children\, is widely known for its escapist and apolitical tendencies as it features fairytales\, folklore\, and talking animals. On the other hand\, animation\, due to its kinship with caricature and cartoon\, can be used as a powerful weapon to disseminate ideologies to both children and adults. In a politically fraught time when the non-political could be highly politicized\, how do we locate and dislocate Manying and its animation on the spectrum between escapism and political propaganda? \nAnimated films to be screened during the talk:\nTerrible Lice (Kepa de shizi\, 1943\, in Chinese)\nDreaming to be Emperor (Huangdi meng\, 1947\, in Chinese)\nCapturing the Turtle in the Jar (Wengzhong zhuobie\, 1948\, in Chinese)
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/daisy-yan-du-plasmatic-empire-animated-filmmaking-in-the-manchukuo-film-association-1937-1945/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171206T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171206T140000
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SUMMARY:Meg Rithmire - State-Business Relations Under Xi Jinping: The End of an Era?
DESCRIPTION:Event Summary \nProfessor Meg Rithmire\, F. Warren McFarlan Associate Professor of Business of Administration\, Harvard Business School
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-2-2017-10-18-2017-12-06/
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:20171207T123000
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SUMMARY:Nicholas Burns - U.S. Foreign Policy\, Trump\, and China
DESCRIPTION:As President Trump returns from his first visit to China as Commander-in-Chief\, how is U.S. foreign policy reacting to a new administration in Washington and a new rising power in Beijing? Join Ambassador and Harvard Kennedy School Professor Nicholas Burns in conversation with Jeeyang Rhee Baum\, Ezra Vogel\, and Odd Arne Westad\, moderated by Michael Szonyi. \nSpeaker:\nAmbassador (Ret.) Nicholas Burns\, Roy and Barbara Goodman Family Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Relations\, Harvard Kennedy School; Former U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs \nDiscussants:\nEzra Vogel\, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus\, Harvard University\nOdd Arne Westad\, S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations\, Harvard Kennedy School\nJeeyang Rhee Baum\, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy\, Harvard Kennedy School \nModerator:\nMichael Szonyi\, Director\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and Professor of Chinese History \n  \nListen again to this panel discussion on Soundcloud:\n \nThis event is sponsored by Harvard’s Ash Center for Democratic Governance\, and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/nicholas-burns-u-s-foreign-policy-trump-and-china/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 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:20171208T093000
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SUMMARY:Mediating Religion: Text and Object in Chinese Religion
DESCRIPTION:9:30 AM     Workshop Opens \n9:45-10:45     Playing with Corpses: Assembling Bodies for the Dead in Southwest China \nSpeaker: Erik Mueggler\, University of Michigan \nThis paper describes the ritualization of death in a “minority” community in Yunnan Province\, China\, called Júzò in the local Tibeto-Burman language. Here\, people are heir to an extraordinary range of resources for working on the dead\, including abundant poetic language. Work on the dead takes the form of making them material and immaterial. Social personhood\, involving relations among living and dead\, is mutual entanglement through shared substance; dead persons are subjected to a long labor of disentanglement with the final goal of severing them from the shared world of matter and memory. Through work on the dead\, people assess social relations and envision the cosmological foundations of the social world. In this context\, a long history of official interventions meant to reform death ritual has been deeply consequential. \nThe focus of this paper is the assembly of fully social dead bodies in the reform era\, when death rituals were re-established after a hiatus of two decades.  To attend to the active fashioning of dead bodies is to build on the focus that the tradition of the anthropology of death has maintained on the corpse and its transformations\, while running counter to that tradition’s tendency to take dead bodies as given\, if problematic\, entities left over after death. In Júzò\, kinship begins with the assembly of dead bodies. Living bodies are made through generative relations of nurture and care; dead bodies are made through the materialization and actualization of ideal relations. Procreation and bodily health among humans and domestic animals and plants depends on life substance channeled through filial relations with dead parents. This process depends upon the successful fabrication of dead bodies out of idealized\, formal images of the relations in which the dead were once suspended in life. Through work on the dead\, the dead body is made into the image of an entire social world. This world contrasts with another social whole\, “society\,” the foundation of political discourse in the socialist era and post-socialist eras. \n11:00-12:00    Mother Ghost Seeks a Human Son-in-Law: Ghost Shrines in Taiwan \nSpeaker: Wei-ping Lin\, National Taiwan University \nThis article\, inspired by the studies of material religion\, reconsiders the concept of ghosts and the relationships they build with humans by means of a detailed analysis of a particular type of religious architecture\, namely the ghost shrine. Ghost shrines in Taiwan are usually located outside of settlements; compared to temples\, they are shabby\, isolated\, and off the beaten track. By studying the material composition\, naming\, and rites of these shrines\, this paper will show how ghosts are conceived of as asocial and individual beings\, gathering mostly in single-sexed groups. This forms the basis for understanding the central incident investigated here of a “mother ghost seeking a human son-in-law.” In contrast to previous research that describes human-ghost relations in terms of the troublemaking and threatening roles of ghosts\, this story importantly shows that it is not only ghosts who take advantage of human beings. Motivated by greed\, humans also cross the spatial boundary separating humans and ghosts to coerce the latter for their own selfish ends. By dramatizing the gender contrast of ghosts and humans\, the story of the mother ghost epitomizes people’s ridicule and condemnation of human greed. \n12:00 PM      Lunch on your own \n1:30-2:30     Envisioning Paradise: Maitreya’s Utopia in Medieval Mural Paintings at Dunhuang \nSpeaker: April Hughes\, Boston University \nMaitreya Buddha’s terrestrial paradise was one possible afterlife for medieval practitioners.  My paper considers how Maitreya’s earthly utopia was imagined visually in the cave-temple mural paintings at Dunhuang by examining the following episodes: the three assemblies; scenes related to the Wheel-Turning King; and scenes of daily life in the paradise.  I argue that in retelling the Maitreya story the artists established a distinct version of the narrative.  In these murals\, the painters not only opted to depict specific scenes from the broader Maitreya story\, they also modified and enhanced elements that were derived from the canonical scriptures. \n2:45-3:45     The Stuff of Power:  Politics\, Ideology\, and Virtue in China’s Mid-19th Century Civil War \nSpeaker: Tobie Meyer-Fong\, Johns Hopkins University \nA military handbook compiled in central China during the Taiping Civil War dedicates significant attention to the physical appearance\, practical function\, moral affinities\, and political power of material artifacts mobilized by or against the Taiping cause.  The objects are never presented as politically neutral; they reveal absolute ‘moral truths’ otherwise obscured by the fog of war. First\, the authors use things (of power) to elevate and denigrate the Taiping polity as an aspiring\, but ultimately failed\, dynastic regime.  To that end\, they catalogue and in many cases illustrate the politically charged objects in circulation in Taiping territory. At the same time\, the legitimacy of these politically charged artifacts had to be negated; they had to be fake\, flimsy\, or insufficient.  Second\, the authors use objects\, including food and clothing\, to document social and regional difference\, and thus to reveal the Taiping and their adherents as a core group of violent and uncouth savages surrounded by an outer layer of coerced captives looking to flee.  Finally\, the handbook describes manifestations of virtue in the material world by way of the strange behavior of objects\, including especially human remains. Here\, the textual representation of material objects produced moral and political boundaries between self and other\, orthodox and heterodox\, civilized and savage.  A consideration of how objects functioned in this text provides insight into how the authors of this text\, and by extension\, the Qing and their militia allies\, used “things” to articulate their ideological and strategic agendas in the context of the Taiping Civil War. \n4:00-5:00     Texts and Objects in Statues: New Vantage Points onto Chinese Local Religion \nSpeaker: James Robson\, Harvard University  \nOver the past ten years or so I have been involved with a large-scale collaborative research project on small polychrome statuettes from Hunan province.  The first phase of the project involved cataloguing five collections of statues that total around 8\,000 images.  Now that the cataloguing is completed we are able to move into the next phase of analysis. What is most distinctive—and of scholarly importance—about these images is that they have a small niche carved into the back that contains (among other things) materia medica and manuscripts that were interred at the time of consecration. The manuscripts provide us with an unprecedented amount of information about the date of the image\, its precise provenance\, the patrons\, and the reasons for the statue’s consecration. Scholars of Chinese religion are often frustrated by the fact their sources only allow them access to rather elite levels of practice. These statuettes\, dating from the Qing dynasty to the present\, however\, take us down to the level of village and even domestic religious practice.  In this talk\, I intend to tack back and forth between the documents inside of the statues and what we can know from other types of local sources to see what new vantage points they provide us onto the local religious landscape of Hunan province. I also intend to introduce some recent research the I have done on some of the non-textual objects inside the statues and how we might also utilize them in developing a more complete sense of the contours of that religious landscape.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/chinese-religions-workshop/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S354\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conference and Workshops,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171212T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171212T180000
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SUMMARY:Yasheng Huang - China’s Venture Capital Industry: Examining Its Role in Funding Start-ups
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Yasheng Huang\, International Program Professor in Chinese Economy and Business and Professor of Global Economics and Management\, MIT Sloan School of Management
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/yasheng-huang-china-economy-lecture/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171213T120000
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SUMMARY:Kevin O'Brien - China's Disaffected Insiders
DESCRIPTION:Event Summary \nSpeaker: Professor Kevin O’Brien\, Walter and Elise Haas Professor of Asian Studies; Alann P. Bedford Professor of Asian Studies; Professor of Political Science; Director\, Institute of East Asian Studies\, University of California\, Berkeley
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-2-2017-12-13/
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:20180129T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180129T180000
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SUMMARY:Paul W. Kroll - Personal Moments in Medieval Chinese Poetry
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Paul W. Kroll\, University of Colorado \nMedieval Chinese poetry\, like most self-consciously traditional literature\, embraces learning\, presumption\, and intertextuality with ardor. Scholarship delights to roam in these fields which provide rich fare for the mind. But those moments that suddenly engage the heart (a somewhat neglected organ in the postmodern era) affect us at a deeper level. It is for these irregular but personally cherished splendors and miseries that one continues to read throughout a lifetime. In this lecture readings and interpretations will be offered especially from two medieval poets with rather contradictory histories—Lu Zhaolin 盧照鄰 from the mid-seventh century and Jiang Yan 江淹 from the late fifth century. Reflecting on their works may also prod us to consider the critical limits latent in the reputed “death of the author.” \nPart of the Fairbank Center China Humanities Seminar Series
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-humanities-seminar-2018-01-29/
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:20180131T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180131T133000
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SUMMARY:Liao Yang - When Buddha *Tejaprabha Came to Yunnan: Regional Characteristics and His Place in the Local Pantheon
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Liao Yang (Professor\, Institute of Ethnology & Anthropology\, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Visiting Scholar\, Harvard-Yenching Institute) \nChair/discussant: Eugene Wang (Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art\, Department of History of Art and Architecture\, Harvard University) \nHarvard-Yenching Institute lunch talk \nhttps://harvard-yenching.org/events/when-buddha-tejaprabha-came-yunnan-regional-characteristics-and-his-place-local-pantheon
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/liao-yang-when-buddha-tejaprabha-came-to-yunnan-regional-characteristics-and-his-place-in-the-local-pantheon/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180202T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180202T170000
DTSTAMP:20260507T161013
CREATED:20180110T194241Z
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SUMMARY:A roundtable discussion on "Encountering China: Michael Sandel and Chinese Philosophy"
DESCRIPTION:Participants:\nMichael Sandel (Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government\, Harvard University)\nJoseph C.W. Chan (Professor\, Department of Politics and Public Administration\, University of Hong Kong)\nChaibong Hahm (President\, The Asan Institute for Policy Studies\, Korea)\nTatsuo Inoue (Professor\, Graduate Schools for Law and Politics\, University of Tokyo\, Japan)\nHongmei Qu (Professor\, Department of Philosophy\, Jilin University\, China) \nChaired by Elizabeth Perry (Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government\, Harvard University; Director\, Harvard-Yenching Institute) \nOrganized by the Harvard-Yenching Institute \nThe roundtable is held in conjunction with the publication of Encountering China: Michael Sandel and Chinese Philosophy (Harvard University Press\, January 2018\, https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674976146). In the book\, leading scholars of Chinese philosophy explore points of contact between Michael Sandel’s work and the Confucian and Daoist traditions. In a concluding chapter\, Professor Sandel replies to their commentaries. This roundtable will seek to elaborate and expand upon this dialog between Western and Chinese political thought\, and to assess the response to Sandel’s work in China\, Japan\, and South Korea. Following the roundtable\, a book signing by Professor Sandel will be held in the CGIS concourse\, with copies of the book available to purchase. \nhttps://harvard-yenching.org/events/roundtable-discussion-encountering-china-michael-sandel-and-chinese-philosophy \n 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/a-roundtable-discussion-on-encountering-china-michael-sandel-and-chinese-philosophy/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180202T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180202T173000
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SUMMARY:Colin P.C. Jones - Searching for a Social Order: The Sociology and Afterlives of Law in Japanese-Occupied China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Colin P.C. Jones\, Reischauer Institute Postdoctoral Fellow (Ph.D. Japanese History\, Columbia 2017)\nModerator: Andrew Gordon\, Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History\, Harvard University \nThis talk connects the legal history of the Japanese empire to the broader history of legal and social thought in the twentieth century. It examines the design\, execution\, and long afterlife of the North China Rural Customary Law Survey. Conducted from 1940 to 1944\, the survey was unprecedented for the ethnographic approach it took to its subject. Through interviews with Chinese villagers\, its researchers sought to uncover the intricate web of customary practices\, associational norms\, and religious beliefs that coordinated and regulated daily life independently of the state—or what survey’s designer\, Suehiro Izutarō\, called the “living law.” I trace this concept to its inception in Habsburg Central Europe and show how\, through its implementation in northern China\, it continues to shape our understanding of East Asian legal systems. \n 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/colin-p-c-jones-searching-for-a-social-order-the-sociology-and-afterlife-of-law-in-japanese-occupied-china/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180205T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180205T180000
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SUMMARY:Fu Gang  傅剛 - A Study of the Western Han Bamboo Slip Text\, "Fan yin\," in the Collection of Peking University 北京大學藏西漢竹簡《反淫》的整理與研究
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Fu Gang\, 傅剛\, Peking University \nModerator: Xiaofei Tian\,  EALC\, Harvard University \nThe talk will be given in Chinese.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/fu-gang-a-study-of-the-western-han-bamboo-slip-text-fan-yin-in-the-collection-of-peking-university-%e5%8c%97%e4%ba%ac%e5%a4%a7%e5%ad%b8%e8%97%8f%e8%a5%bf%e6%bc%a2%e7%ab%b9%e7%b0%a1%e3%80%8a/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180207T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180207T140000
DTSTAMP:20260507T161013
CREATED:20170919T162825Z
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UID:5894-1518006600-1518012000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Deborah Davis - China's Changing Families
DESCRIPTION:Read event summary here \nSpeaker: Dr. Deborah Davis\, Yale University \nDeborah S. Davis’ primary teaching interests are inequality and stratification\, contemporary Chinese society\, and methods of fieldwork. In addition to teaching at Yale\, she runs a summer fieldwork seminar where Yale students work collaboratively with students from Hong Kong and China. Davis is currently a Trustee of the Yale China Association and serves as Associate Editor of The Journal of Asian Studies\, and on the editorial board of The China Quarterly and The China Review. In 2004 she helped launch the Yale China Health Journal. At Yale she has served as Director of Academic Programs at the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization\, Chair of the Department of Sociology\, Chair of the Council of East Asian Studies\, Director of Graduate Studies in both East Asian Studies and Sociology\, Member of the Publications Committee for Yale Press\,  and co-chair of the Women Faculty Forum .
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-3/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China Series,Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Jennifer Rudolph and Michael Szonyi - The Coop Event Series/ "The China Questions" Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Join the editors and contributors to The China Questions for a book launch at the Harvard Coop’s Event Series. \nMany books offer information about China\, but few make sense of what is truly at stake. The questions addressed in this unique volume provide a window onto the challenges China faces today and the uncertainties its meteoric ascent on the global horizon has provoked. \nIn only a few decades\, the most populous country on Earth has moved from relative isolation to center stage. Thirty-six of the world’s leading China experts—all affiliates of the renowned Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University—answer key questions about where this new superpower is headed and what makes its people and their leaders tick. They distill a lifetime of cutting-edge scholarship into short\, accessible essays about Chinese identity\, culture\, environment\, society\, history\, or policy. \nChina has already captured the world’s attention. The China Questions takes us behind media images and popular perceptions to provide insight on fundamental issues. \nJoin editors Jennifer Rudolph and Michael Szonyi\, and contributors Peter Bol\, Andrew Erickson\, Susan Greenhalgh\, Wai-yee Li\, and Karen Thornber\, at the Harvard Coop to discuss the book and the key questions it raises about China’s future. \nEditors \nJennifer Rudolph\, Associate Professor of Modern Chinese political History\, Worcester Polytechnic Institute \nMichael Szonyi\, Professor of Chinese History\, Harvard University \nContributors \nPeter Bol\, Vice Provost for Advances in Learning\, and Charles H Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard university \nAndrew Erickson\, Professor of Strategy\, Naval War College \nSusan Greenhalgh is Professor of Anthropology\, Harvard University \nWai-yee Li\, Professor of Chinese Literature\, Harvard University \nKaren Thornber\, Professor of Comparative Literature\, and East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University \n 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/jennifer-rudolph-and-michael-szonyi-the-coop-event-series-the-china-questions-book-launch/
LOCATION:Harvard Coop\, 1400 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Environment,Events of Interest,Special Event
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180208T133000
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UID:6463-1518091200-1518096600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Xu Lanjun - Leftist Print Culture and New Notions of “Chineseness”: Hu Yuzhi\, Shanghai Book Co.\, and Overseas Chinese Youth in Cold War Southeast Asia
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Xu Lanjun (Associate Professor of Chinese Studies\, the National University of Singapore; Visiting Scholar\, Harvard-Yenching Institute\nChair/discussant: David Wang (Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature\, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University) \nHarvard-Yenching Institute lunch talk \nhttps://harvard-yenching.org/events/xu-lanjun-february-8-2018
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/xu-lanjun-leftist-print-culture-and-new-notions-of-chineseness-hu-yuzhi-shanghai-book-co-and-overseas-chinese-youth-in-cold-war-southeast-asia/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180211T075959
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UID:6497-1518163200-1518335999@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:(De)Constructing Boundaries - The 21st Harvard East Asia Society Conference
DESCRIPTION:Harvard East Asia Society 21st Annual Conference: (De)Constructing Boundaries\nHarvard University\, February 9-10\, 2018 \nSpecial Panel: The Art of Narrating China\nDiscussant: Professor Eugene Wang (Harvard University)\nLocation: CGIS S030 Doris and Ted Lee Gathering Room\nSPECIAL TIME: 3:30 – 5:30 \nGu Zheng\, Professor and Vice-Director of the Research Center for Visual Culture at Fudan University\, Visiting Scholar at the Harvard-Yenching Institute \nHa Jin\, Professor and Director of Creative Writing Program\, Boston University Award-winning author of the 1999 National Book Award\, and the 2000/2005 Pen/Hemingway \nHao Jian\, Professor at the Beijing Film Academy\, Visiting Scholar at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. Widely-published film critic and screenwriter. \nDonny Liang\, Producer at Arclight Film and Fellow at the Harvard University Asia Center. Past productions include many Chinese blockbusters such as Tiny Times. \nOpening Remarks: Xiaofei Tian\, Chair\, RSEA\, Harvard University\n \nKeynote Remarks:\nKaren Thornber\, Harvard University\nJohn Park\, Harvard Kennedy School \nClosing Remarks: James Robson\, Harvard University \nDownload the full conference schedule here. \nFor more information\, visit https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/heasconference/home.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/deconstructing-boundaries-the-21st-harvard-east-asia-society-conference/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, CGIS South\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180212T180000
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SUMMARY:Bryan Lowe - Preaching to the Periphery: Buddhism in Provincial Villages in Ninth-Century Japan
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Bryan Lowe\, Vanderbilt University \nThis paper looks at itinerant preaching in early ninth-century Japan with a particular focus on sermons intended for provincial villagers. In contrast to most studies of this period\, which address sectarian founders\, I will highlight figures peripheral to dominant scholarly accounts: minor monks\, provincial patrons\, and destitute villagers. I will introduce a ninth-century collection of homiletic notes\, known as the Draft of Tōdaiji Liturgies (Tōdaiji fujumon kō)\, as well as related archaeological and narrative evidence that illuminate Buddhism as a lived religion in the provinces. These sources show how monks crafted doctrines aimed at their provincial and sometimes impoverished audiences. They taught that joining one’s palms could replace almsgiving and depicted the village as manifesting the body of Vairocana. I will argue that a study of these individuals and teachings prompt a reassessment  of the development of Buddhism in ancient and medieval Japan.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/buddhist-studies-forum-2018-02-12/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Buddhist Studies Forum
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180212T180000
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SUMMARY:Q&A Session—China’s Environmental Challenges 2018: Summer Undergraduate Research Assistantships in China
DESCRIPTION:Interested in research in China this summer? Join Harvard-China Project staff and a participating Tsinghua University professor to learn more about our fully-funded research assistantships opportunity. No knowledge of Chinese language is required. The Harvard-China Project on Energy\, Economy\, and Environment will provide generous financial support for six Harvard undergraduates to spend the summer in China conducting research on China’s energy and environmental future under the guidance of an English-speaking professor at a leading university\, from June 15 to August 16\, 2018. The research topics\, ranging from groundwater contamination and carbon trading to algae-based carbon capture and solar PV production\, are listed on our website.\n\n \nSponsored by Harvard-China Project on Energy\, Economy and Environment\, Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences\n \nhttps://chinaproject.harvard.edu/summerprogram2018
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/qa-session-chinas-environmental-challenges-2018-summer-undergraduate-research-assistantships-in-china/
LOCATION:Pierce Hall 100F\, 29 Oxford St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180221T140000
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SUMMARY:Lyle Goldstein - Meeting China Halfway: The Future of the Korean Peninsula and Beyond
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr. Lyle Goldstein\, Naval War College \nDr. Goldstein is a professor in the Strategic Research Department of the Naval War College in Newport\, Rhode Island. He was director of the Naval War College’s China Maritime Studies Institute from 2006-2011\, which was established to improve mutual understanding and maritime cooperation with China. Proficient in Chinese and Russian\, Professor Goldstein has conducted extensive field research in both China and Russia. His research on Chinese defense policies\, especially concerning naval development\, has been published in China Quarterly\, International Security\, Jane’s Intelligence Review\, Journal of Strategic Studies\, and U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings. Professor Goldstein’s first book\, which compared proliferation crises and focused particularly on Chinese nuclear strategy\, was published by Stanford University Press in 2005. He is the co-editor of the United States Naval Institute books China’s New Nuclear Submarine Force (2007)\, China’s Energy Strategy: The Impact on Beijing’s Maritime Policies (2008) and China Goes to Sea: Maritime Transformation in a Comparative Historical Context (2009). Recently\, his research focus has been on further development of China’s Coast Guard and related cooperation issues. He earned a PhD from Princeton University in 2001 and has an MA from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. Dr. Goldstein has also worked in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. \n  \nCo-Sponsored by the Korea Institute\, Harvard University
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-3-2018-03-07/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China Series
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SUMMARY:Andrew Field - Nightlife in Shanghai: From the Jazz Age 1920s to the Current Age of the Super-Wealthy
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Andrew Field\, Associate Dean of Undergraduate Programs\, Duke Kunshan University\, China \nIn the 1920s\, Shanghai became known worldwide for its nightlife as the city learned to dance to the rhythms of the American jazz age. The war years of the 1940s and the Communist Revolution of the 1950s put an end to the city’s dance halls and cabarets\, but the reform era of the 1980s saw the revival of dancing in the city. By the 1990s\, more sophisticated discos\, bars\, and lounges arose in the city as it internationalized. More recently\, a caste of super-wealthy Chinese known as fu er dai (“wealthy second generation”) has taken over the most exclusive club spaces in the city\, spending thousands of dollars per night\, and signifying the growing gap between wealth and poverty in China. \nAndrew Field (B.A.\, Asian Studies\, Dartmouth College; Ph.D.\, East Asian Languages and Cultures\, Columbia University) has taught at universities in America\, Australia\, China\, and Korea\, and is currently Associate Dean of Undergraduate Programs at Duke Kunshan University in China. He is the author of Shanghai’s Dancing World: Cabaret Culture and Urban Politics (2010) and Mu Shiying: China’s Lost Modernist (2014)\, and co-author with James Farrer of Shanghai Nightscapes: A Nocturnal Biography of a Global City (2015).
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/andrew-field-nightlife-in-shanghai-from-the-jazz-age-1920s-to-the-current-age-of-the-super-wealthy/
LOCATION:Huntington Hall 10-250\, 222 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Tang Xiaobing - The Road to the Chinese Communist Revolution: How Petty Intellectuals Gathered and Accepted Leftist Ideologies in 1920s and 1930s Shanghai
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Tang Xiaobing (Associate Professor\, History Department\, East China Normal University; Visiting Scholar\, Harvard-Yenching Institute)\nChair/discussant: Elizabeth Perry (Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government\, Harvard University; Director\, Harvard-Yenching Institute) \nHarvard-Yenching Institute lunch talk \nhttps://harvard-yenching.org/events/tang-xiaobing-february-22-2018
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/tang-xiaobing-the-road-to-the-chinese-communist-revolution-how-petty-intellectuals-gathered-and-accepted-leftist-ideologies-in-1920s-and-1930s-shanghai/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180222T180000
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UID:6589-1519315200-1519322400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Michael Szonyi - Book Talk: The Art of Being Governed: Everyday Politics in Late Imperial China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Michael Szonyi\, Author; Director\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies; Professor of Chinese History\, Harvard University \nChair: Karen Thornber\, Victor and William Fung Director\, Harvard University Asia Center; Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and of Comparative Literature\, Harvard University \nDiscussants:\nPeter Bol\, Charles H. Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations; Vice Provost for Advances in Learning\, Harvard University\nIan J. Miller\, Professor of History\, Harvard University \nAsia Center Special Event
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/michael-szonyi-book-talk-the-art-of-being-governed-everyday-politics-in-late-imperial-china/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest,Special Event
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180223T140000
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SUMMARY:Daisy Yan Du - An Animated Wartime Encounter:Princess Iron Fan and the Chinese Connection in Early Japanese Animation
DESCRIPTION:Speaker:Daisy Yan Du\, Harvard-Yenching Visiting Scholar: Assistant Professor\, Division of Humanities\, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology \nAsia Center Seminar Series
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/daisy-yan-du-an-animated-wartime-encounterprincess-iron-fan-and-the-chinese-connection-in-early-japanese-animation/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Special Event
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SUMMARY:Dan Arnold - Personalism and the Mādhyamika Recuperation of Conventional Truth: Some Heretical Thoughts
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dan Arnold\, University of Chicago \nOver the years\, I have advanced an interpretation of Madhyamaka that frames Nāgārjuna’s arguments in terms suggested by some contemporary debates in philosophy of mind. Nāgārjuna can thus be understood to reject the reductionist elaboration of anātmavāda that was epitomized for him by Ābhidharmika philosophy\, and as doing so for the reason that the Ābhidharmika’s own project depends for its intelligibility on the “conventionally real” (saṃvṛtisat) world. This talk will suggest that that point can be understood in terms of Nāgārjuna’s having had affinities with the so-called pudgalavādin “school” of thought. While there has been some philological work suggesting such affinities\, this talk will focus on philosophical considerations that recommend this view – and\, as well\, on some methodological reasons for thinking this reading is not tantamount to attributing a “heretical” view to Nāgārju \nDan Arnold is a scholar of Indian Buddhist philosophy\, which he engages in a constructive and comparative way. Considering Indian Buddhist philosophy as integral to the broader tradition of Indian philosophy\, he has particularly focused on topics at issue among Buddhist schools of thought (chiefly\, those centering on the works of Nāgārjuna and of Dharmakīrti)\, often considering these in conversation with critics from the orthodox Brahmanical school of Pūrva Mīmāṃsā. His first book – Buddhists\, Brahmins\, and Belief: Epistemology in South Asian Philosophy of Religion (Columbia University Press\, 2005) – won an American Academy of Religion Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion. His second book – Brains\, Buddhas\, and Believing: The Problem of Intentionality in Classical Buddhist and Cognitive-Scientific Philosophy of Mind (Columbia University Press\, 2012) – centers on the contemporary philosophical category of intentionality\, taken as useful in thinking through central issues in classical Buddhist epistemology and philosophy of mind. This book received the Toshihide Numata Book Prize in Buddhism\, awarded by the Center for Buddhist Studies at the University of California\, Berkeley (see below for more information). He is presently working on an anthology of Madhyamaka texts in translation\, to appear in the series “Historical Sourcebooks in Classical Indian Thought.” His essays have appeared in such journals as Philosophy East and West\,the Journal of Indian Philosophy\, Asian Philosophy\, the Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies\, the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy\, and Revue Internationale de Philosophie.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/buddhist-studies-forum-2018-02-26/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Buddhist Studies Forum
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SUMMARY:Ya-Wen Lei: The Contentious Public Sphere: Law\, Media\, and Authoritarian Rule in China
DESCRIPTION:Deparment of Sociology Colloquium Series \nSpeaker: Ya-Wen Lei\, Harvard University. \nIn this talk\, I will situate my book\, The Contentious Public Sphere: Law\, Media\, and Authoritarian Rule in China\, in relation to one of the department’s traditions and discuss issues related to disciplinary boundaries. I will then discuss how the book speaks to the relationship between globalization\, institutions\, social networks\, and political culture. I will conclude by discussing how I am moving forward and what I am working on next.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/ya-wen-lei-the-contentious-public-sphere-law-media-and-authoritarian-rule-in-china/
LOCATION:William James Hall\, Room 1550\, 33 kirkland st\, cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:David Dollar - Challenges to China's Economy: At Home and Abroad
DESCRIPTION:Read event summary here \nSpeaker: David Dollar\, Brookings Institution \nDavid Dollar is a senior fellow in the John L. Thornton China Center at the Brookings Institution. From 2009 to 2013\, Dollar was the U.S. Treasury’s economic and financial emissary to China\, based in Beijing\, facilitating the macroeconomic and financial policy dialogue between the United States and China. Prior to joining Treasury\, Dollar worked 20 years for the World Bank\, serving as country director for China and Mongolia\, based in Beijing (2004-2009). His other World Bank assignments focused on Asian economies\, including South Korea\, Vietnam\, Cambodia\, Thailand\, Bangladesh\, and India.  Dollar also worked in the World Bank’s research department. His publications focus on economic reform in China\, globalization\, and economic growth.  He also taught economics at University of California Los Angeles\, during which time he spent a semester in Beijing at the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in 1986. He has a doctorate in economics from New York University and a bachelor’s in Chinese history and language from Dartmouth College.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-3-2018-02-28/
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,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180301T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180301T173000
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UID:6695-1519920000-1519925400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Paul Clifford: The China Paradox - At the Front Line of Economic Transformation
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Paul Clifford\, Author\nRespondent: Jie Bae\, Harvard Kennedy School\nModerator: Tony Saich\, Harvard Kennedy School \nHKS Professor Jie Bae will serve as a respondent\, and Tony Saich will moderate. The event will be next Thursday\, 3/1\, 4:15-5:30 at the Ash Center. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/paul-clifford-the-china-paradox-at-the-front-line-of-economic-transformation/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180305T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180305T140000
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SUMMARY:Stalemate Across the Taiwan Strait: A Trip Report
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: \nMichael Szonyi\, Director\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\nSteven Goldstein\, Sophia Smith Professor of Government\, Emeritus\, Smith College\nRobert Ross\, Professor of Political Science\, Boston College
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/stalemate-across-the-taiwan-strait-a-trip-report/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Taiwan,Taiwan Studies
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SUMMARY:Eric Greene - Repentance in the Formation of Chinese Buddhism
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Eric Greene\, Yale University \nThe ritual activity that in China was known as chanhui 懺悔 – often understood to mean “confession” or “repentance” – was without doubt one the central forms of Buddhist practice in medieval China. Despite this\, scholars have often disagreed concerning\, firstly\, what “repentance” even means in the Chinese or Buddhist contexts\, as well as the best way of understanding the relationship between Chinese Buddhist chanhui and its Indian Buddhist antecedents on the one hand\, and pre-Buddhist Chinese religious ideologies on the other. In this talk I will attempt to offer some new ways of thinking about some of these questions that will help us understand how “repentance” came to serve within early medieval Chinese Buddhism (roughly 200-600 AD) not so much as one mode of Buddhist activity among many\, but as a unifying frame for understanding the ultimate point of all forms of Buddhist practice whatsoever. \nEric Greene is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies. He received his B.A. in Mathematics from Berkeley in 1998\, followed by his M.A. (Asian Studies) and Ph.D. (Buddhist Studies) in 2012. He specializes in the history of medieval Chinese Buddhism\, particularly the emergence of Chinese forms of Buddhism from the interaction between Indian Buddhism and indigenous Chinese culture. Much of his recent research has focused on Buddhist meditation practices\, including the history of the transmission on Indian meditation practices to China\, the development of distinctly Chinese forms of Buddhist meditation\, and Buddhist rituals of confession and atonement. He is currently writing a book on the uses of meditative visionary experience as evidence of sanctity within early Chinese Buddhism. In addition to these topics\, he has published articles on the early history of Chan (Zen) Buddhism\, Buddhist paintings from the Silk Roads\, and the influence of modern psychological terminology on the Western interpretation of Buddhism. He is also presently working on a new project concerning the practice of translation – from Indian languages to Chinese – in early Chinese Buddhism. He teaches undergraduate classes on Buddhism in East Asia\, Zen Buddhism\, ritual in East Asian Buddhism\, and mysticism and meditation in Buddhism and East Asia\, and graduate seminars on Chinese Buddhist studies and Chinese Buddhist texts. \nAfter completing his Ph.D. in 2012\, Eric took a position at the University of Bristol (UK)\, where he taught East Asian Religions until coming to Yale in 2015.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/buddhist-studies-forum-2018-03-05/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Buddhist Studies Forum,China Humanities Seminar
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