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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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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
DTSTAMP:20260508T160015
CREATED:20180131T201344Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180131T201344Z
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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:20260508T160015
CREATED:20170919T162825Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180207T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180207T203000
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CREATED:20180122T150637Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180122T150637Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180208T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180208T133000
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CREATED:20180111T172009Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180209T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180211T075959
DTSTAMP:20260508T160015
CREATED:20180125T144939Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180125T144939Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180212T160000
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180212T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180212T180000
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CREATED:20180201T141533Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180221T123000
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180221T193000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180222T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180222T133000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180222T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180222T180000
DTSTAMP:20260508T160015
CREATED:20180208T201815Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180208T201815Z
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180223T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180223T140000
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CREATED:20180208T202444Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180208T202444Z
UID:6592-1519387200-1519394400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180226T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180226T180000
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UID:5937-1519660800-1519668000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180227T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180227T170000
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UID:6616-1519743600-1519750800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
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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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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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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SUMMARY:Wang Liping - More than Affirmative Action: China’s Preferential Policy in Historical and Comparative Perspective
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Wang Liping\,  Peking University; Visiting Scholar\, Harvard-Yenching Institute\nChair/discussant: Lei Ya-Wen\,  Harvard University \nWith the ethical appeal of equality and justice as well as a more cohesive society\, affirmative action has been in place for many years around the world. Such measures\, going by various names depending on the context and perceived acceptability\, have attained their goals to varying degrees in different countries even though the debates around them are never silenced. In many countries adopting such policies\, the political logic of preferential policies has long influenced policy construction and a dilemma ensues: affirmative policies are enduring or even expanding while doubts and questions about such measures are bubbling up. With the rapid increase in diversity in many dimensions\, old and new\, the situation in China is more pressing. The talk will focus on China’s preferential policies in historical and comparative perspective\, hoping to gain a better understanding of such policies and to advance more constructive discussions about the affirmative action dilemma in China and beyond. \nHarvard-Yenching Institute lunch talk \nhttps://harvard-yenching.org/events/more-affirmative-action-china-s-preferential-policy-historical-and-comparative-perspective \n  \n 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/wang-liping-more-than-affirmative-action-chinas-preferential-policy-in-historical-and-comparative-perspective/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Bilahari Kausikan: US-China Competition for Influence in Southeast Asia
DESCRIPTION:Read event summary here \nSpeaker: Bilahari Kausikan\, Ambassador-at-Large at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs\, Singapore \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-3-2018-02-21/
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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SUMMARY:Stephen Owen: Translation in its Kinds
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Stephen Owen\, EALC\, Harvard University \nThe Poetry of Du Fu:\nThe Complete Poetry of Du Fu presents a complete scholarly translation of Chinese literature alongside the original text in a critical edition. Scholars know that there is scarcely a Du Fu poem whose interpretation is uncontested. A reader with a basic understanding of the language of Chinese poetry can use this to facilitate reading Du Fu\, which can present problems for even the most learned reader. \nThe Poetry of Ruan Ji:\nThe poetry of Ruan Ji has been previously translated several times\, with one fully scholarly translation of both the poetry and the Fu (poetic expositions). The present translation not only provides a facing page critical Chinese text\, it addresses two problems that have been ignored or not adequately treated in earlier works.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/stephen-owen-translation-in-its-kinds/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
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SUMMARY:Those Waters Giving Way
DESCRIPTION:An overview of Michael Cherney’s artistic process and recent works. The art combines photography with the subject matter\, aesthetics\, materials and formats traditionally associated with classical Chinese painting\, which allows for viewing the present day environment and landscape in China through the lens of art history. In addition to the presentation\, the artist will guide the audience through viewing several handscrolls\, albums and other works \n“One would be hard-pressed to find a ‘more Chinese’ artist than Qiu Mai (Michael Cherney). Photographer\, calligrapher\, and book artist\, Qiu Mai’s work is done with the great sophistication that draws on the subtleties of China’s most scholarly and esoteric traditions. Based in Beijing and a successful artist whose works have been collected by The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Department of Asian Art (the first photographic works ever to enter the collection of that department)\, Qiu Mai’s art is less provocative than it is intellectually engaging\, meditative\, and often simply beautiful.  What is provocative is his identity:  Qiu Mai is the Chinese name for Michael Cherney\, born in New York of Jewish parentage. Cherney’s work is the cutting-edge demonstration of artistic globalization:  if Asian artists can so readily ‘come West\,’ then what is to prevent large numbers of future Western artists from ‘going Asian’? Or\, like Qiu Mai/Michael Cherney\, going both ways at once\, both American and Chinese\, modern and traditional.”\n– Jerome Silbergeld\, P. Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Professor of Chinese Art History\, Princeton University \nCo-sponsored by the Harvard-China Project
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/those-waters-giving-way/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Environment,Environment,Events of Interest,Exhibitions,Special Event
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SUMMARY:Joseph Esherick: Bandits and Bolsheviks: the Shaanxi-Gansu Base Area before Mao
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Joseph W. Esherick\, Professor Emeritus\, University of California\, San Diego \nIn the fall of 1935\, Mao read a newspaper article about a Communist base in Northern Shaanxi. He redirected the Long March to that base\, which would become the Yan’an-centered “revolutionary holy land” from which the Chinese Communist Party would rise to power during the War of Resistance against Japan and the following Civil War. Yan’an during the war provided Mao and his colleagues an unprecedented degree of security\, and that era has been much studied. We know much less about the formation of the base that provided him sanctuary.  That is the subject of Esherick’s inquiry. \nJoseph W. Esherick is a social historian of social movements in modern China. His dissertation and first monograph\, Reform and Revolution in China: the 1911 Revolution in Hunan and Hubei explored the social background of China’s republican revolution.  His book on The Origins of the Boxer Uprising won the Fairbank Prize of the American Historical Association and the Levenson Prize of the Association for Asian Studies.  His most recent monograph\, Ancestral Leaves\, explored the tumultuous history of nineteenth and twentieth-century China through the successive generations of one family.  In 1988\, Esherick began a project on the Chinese Communist revolution in Northern Shaanxi\, then set it aside for many years in hopes of greater archival access. That hope never materialized\, and he has now returned to the project with such documentary and fieldwork materials he has been able to obtain. After forty years of teaching at the University of Oregon and the University of California at San Diego\, Esherick retired in 2012 and now lives in Berkeley\, California.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/joseph-esherick-bandits-and-bolsheviks-the-shaanxi-gansu-base-area-before-mao/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S354\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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SUMMARY:The Rise of New  Religions in Asia
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: \nHelen Hardacre\, Harvard University\nAdam Lyons\, Harvard University\nFrank Korom\, Boston University\nAmanda Lucia\, University of California Riverside\nRobert Hefner\, Boston University\nJuliane Schober\, Arizona State University\nGareth Fisher\, Syracuse University\nChien-yu Julia Huang\, City Colleges of Chicago\nWei-ping Lin\, National Taiwan University\n\n\nMore Info: www.bu.edu/asian/2018/01/03/the-rise-of-new-religions-in-asia/
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-rise-of-new-religions-in-asia/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Conference and Workshops,Events of Interest,Special Event
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SUMMARY:Gu Zheng - The Body as a Means for Political Mobilization: Portrait Photography between Journalism and Propaganda and Minli Pao’s coverage of the assassination of Song Jiaoren
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Gu Zheng\, Fudan University; Visiting Scholar\, Harvard-Yenching Institute\nChair/discussant: Eugene Wang\, Harvard University \nSong Jiaoren (Sung Chiao-jen\, 1882-1913) was a revolutionist and founder of the Kuomintang (KMT). He was assassinated in March 1913 in Shanghai after leading the KMT to victory in China’s first democratic election. This talk will investigate how members of the KMT who owned the Minli Pao (民立报)\, published in Shanghai as both a mouthpiece of the revolutionary party and mass media\, produced and used images of Song’s corpse for the purpose of mobilizing the masses to protest the assassination. This talk will explore portrait photography’s function and practice between propaganda and journalism\, and its usage as a means of visual mobilization from three aspects: production\, distribution and consumption in Republican Shanghai. \nHarvard-Yenching Institute lunch talk
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/gu-zheng-the-body-as-a-means-for-political-mobilization-portrait-photography-between-journalism-and-propaganda-and-minli-paos-coverage-of-the-assassination-of-song-jiaoren/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
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SUMMARY:Chinese Popular Culture at the Beginning of the 20th and 21st Centuries
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\n Zheng Yanqing\,  Chinese Academy of Social Sciences: “Popular Culture and the Public Sphere”\nShao Yanjun\, Peking University:  “Internet Fiction and Imagined Community”\nChristopher Rea\, University of British Columbia: “Of Spongers\, Sharpers\, and Cannibal Eunuchs: The Swindle Story around the World.” \nThe event is sponsored by the Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/chinese-popular-culture-at-the-beginning-of-the-20th-and-21st-centuries/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Evelyn (Chiung-yun) Liu - When Fantastic Narrative Encounters Empirical Knowledge: Imagining the World in "The Eunuch Sanbao's Voyage to the Western Ocean"
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Evelyn (Chiung-yun) Liu\,  Academia Sinica\, HYI Visiting Scholar \nThe Eunuch Sanbao’s Voyage to the Western Ocean\, a late-sixteenth century novel loosely based on the historical expeditions commanded by Zheng He (1371-1433)\, is a peculiar mixture of factual accounts of foreign lands and fantastic narrative. In this work\, popular Buddhist and Daoist figures living in a mythological landscape encounter a new worldview based on firsthand geographical accounts of maritime voyages recorded as early as the fourteenth century. While the novel is often regarded as a literary failure\, a hodgepodge in which the author imitates and copies earlier texts and jumbles them together\, this talk proposes to understand such “failure” as a multi-faceted response to the rapidly expanding cognitive sphere of that time. Taking the novel as a cultural product of the late Ming book market\, we will examine the author’s choices of source materials in connection to his target reader\, the strategies he employs to maneuver between the exotic and the familiar\, and the epistemological disjunctions he faces in the attempt to create a narrative that encompasses “the end of the Western Ocean.”  We will also look at the possible changes in the conception of “the world” revealed through the ways in which the author negotiates between empirical geography and Buddhist/Daoist cosmologies. \nChiung-yun Evelyn Liu is an Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy\, Academia Sinica\, Taiwan. She earned her B.A. from National Taiwan University\, M.A. from Columbia University and Ph.D. from Harvard University. Her research interests include literature of the fantastic\, mediations on historical memory\, and the intersection of knowledge production\, cultural imagination and psychological responses to the foreign in late imperial China. She is completing a book manuscript\, which investigates how moral value\, memory politics\, literary sensibility and commercial media worked together in shaping and transforming historical memories. Her next project explores the function of sentiment in the process of knowledge reception and reformulation; particularly how Chinese literati coped with turbulent dynastic transitions and unsettling cross-cultural encounters through encyclopedic writing as means of reordering and comprehending the changing world.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-humanities-seminar-2018-02-26/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:China Humanities Seminar,Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Film Screening - China's Van Goghs
DESCRIPTION:The documentary screening will be followed by a Q&A with Producer and Director Kiki Tianqi Yu via Skype\, moderated by Benny Shaffer\, PhD Candidate in Media Anthropology. \n About the film:\nChina’s Van Goghs (Mandarin with English subtitles\, 80 min\, HD) \nUntil 1989\, Dafen Village on the outskirts of Shenzhen\, China was little more than a rural hamlet. It now has a population of 10\,000\, which includes hundreds of peasants-turned-oil painters. In their studios\, and even in its alleyways\, Dafen’s painters produce thousands of replicas of world-famous Western paintings. No one thinks much of an order for 200 Van Goghs. To meet deadlines\, painters sleep on the floor between clotheslines strung with reproduced masterpieces. In 2015\, the revenue from painting sales was over $65 million. In China’s Van Goghs\, directors Haibo Yu and Kiki Tianqi Yu follow one of the village’s most celebrated painters\, Xiaoyong Zhao\, who with the help of his family members has painted around 100\,000 Van Goghs. After all these years\, Zhao feels a profound affinity with Van Gogh. Having never seen Van Gogh’s original paintings\, Zhao’s biggest dream is to travel to Amsterdam to see the works of his legendary inspiration. After struggling and saving up for many years\, he fulfills his dream. The documentary not only presents how this painter pursues his vision\, but also tells the human story of challenge and struggle throughout his journey\, which is ultimately emblematic of the transformative journey that China is undergoing from “Made in China” to “Created in China.” \nAfter its premier at International Documentary Filmfestival Amsterdam (IDFA) in 2016\, China’s Van Goghs has been shown at Helsinki Documentary Film Festival DocPoint\, Thessaloniki Film Festival\,  Visions Du Reel\, New Zealand International Film Festival\, DMZ Docs South Korea\, British Film Institute London’s special program\, and over twenty other film festivals. It has won Best Feature Documentary (international co-production) at Beijing International Film Festival and Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival\, as well as Best Feature Documentary at Los Angeles Chinese Film Festival. \nAbout the Directors: \nProducer and Co-director:\nKiki Tianqi YU is a filmmaker\, scholar\, and film curator. Originally from China\, Kiki studied film and sociology at the University of Westminster and the University of Cambridge. Having lectured in China\, she is currently Lecturer in Filmmaking at the University of the West of Scotland. Yu has published on first person documentary\, Chinese cinema\, amateur cinema and memory in Studies in Documentary Film\, Journal of Chinese Cinemas\, Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art\, and other publications. She is the author of the forthcoming monograph My ‘Self’ On Camera: First Person Documentary Practice in an Individualizing China (Edinburg University Press\, 2018)\, and the co-editor of China’s iGeneration: Cinema and Moving Image Culture for the 21st Century (2014). Her films include Photographing Shenzhen (2007)\, Memory of Home (2009)\, and the feature-length documentary China’s Van Goghs (IDFA\, 2016)\, which won seven international awards and screened at over twenty film festivals. \nCo-director and Cinematographer:\nYU Haibo is a filmmaker and a well-known Chinese documentary photographer. He serves as the Director of the Shenzhen Professional Photographers Association and the Chief Photo Editor of Shenzhen Economic Daily. His most prominent photo series\, “China Dafen Oil Painting Village\,” won the 49th World Press Photography Contest in 2006\, and was acquired by the San Francisco Modern Art Museum\, and V&A Museum\, London. Yu is a pioneer in surrealist photography in China through his work “On the Other Riverside of the Illusion Chain\,” which won the top prize at the 15th National Photography Exhibition in 1988. Since 1989\, he has been working on documentary photography\, and his photo series including “Tibet\,” “Music Youth\,” “China’s Urban Expansion\,” have won many prizes and been exhibited internationally. Yu published a book Living in China’s Shenzhen (2008)\, and a photo-essay film One Man’s Shenzhen (2012). \nThis event is sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. Emergent Visions is a screening and discussion series that showcases new and innovative works of digital cinema from China.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-screening-chinas-van-goghs/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Emergent Visions Film Screening,Film Screening
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