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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180910T153000
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SUMMARY:Gufran Beig - Anatomy of Extreme Pollution Event in a Megacity: Delhi
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Gufran Beig\, Project Director\, System of Air Quality Forecasting and Research\, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology\, Ministry of Earth Sciences\, Government of India; Fellow\, Indian Academy of Sciences; World Meteorological Organization Norbert Gerbier-Mumm International Award \nA Harvard-China Project Research Seminar \nMegacities are engines of growing pollution. Delhi is cursed by its geography to be prone to various meteorological phenomena acting in different times of the year that contribute to high pollution levels. Climate change is poised to worsen air quality and by the end of the century\, more than half of the world’s population will be exposed to increasingly stagnant atmospheric conditions\, with the tropics and subtropics bearing the brunt of the poor air quality. India’s capital\, Delhi\, is reported to be one of the megacities in the world that are worst affected by asthma. Delhi experienced an environmental emergency in early November 2017 when levels of toxic PM2.5 particles surpassed WHO guidelines by 25 times for a prolonged period of time (a week). In this talk\, we will demonstrate the role that monsoon dynamics played in linking and mixing dust emitted from a large\, natural dust storm\, 3000km away in the Middle East\, with smoke from agriculture fires in northwest India. Understanding the multi-scale nature of such events is important for improving our abilities to forecast these events and developing effective air quality management strategies. \nSponsored by China Project\, Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/gufran-beig-anatomy-of-extreme-pollution-event-in-a-megacity-delhi/
LOCATION:Pierce Hall 100F\, 29 Oxford St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Environment,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180911T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180911T180000
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SUMMARY:Jennifer Altehenger - A History of Legal Lessons: law\, propaganda\, and the state in socialist China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Jennifer Altehenger\, King’s College London \nIn 2016\, the PRC embarked on the seventh five-year plan for the popularization of law. Today\, the dissemination of basic legal knowledge is an established part of CCP governance\, closely associated with the extensive legal reforms that followed the death of Mao Zedong in 1976. Yet people learned about laws under state auspices throughout the twentieth-century (and before). Following the establishment of the PRC in 1949\, the CCP carried out numerous campaigns to get people to study and implement key national laws such as the Marriage Law\, Election Law\, and state constitutions. Teaching and learning laws was part of mass line politics\, intended to make laws accessible and transform people into law-making and law-abiding socialist citizens who contributed to China’s liberation. This talk – part of research for a recent book – shows why the CCP cared about disseminating laws from early on\, how law propaganda was produced\, circulated\, and censored\, and how people responded to learning about laws. Far from a simple propaganda exercise\, law propaganda contributed to fostering a legal culture in China that bolstered and threatened CCP rule at the same time. \nJennifer Altehenger is a Lecturer in Contemporary Chinese History at King’s College London. She is the author of Legal Lessons: Popularizing Laws in the People’s Republic of China\, 1949-1989 (Harvard University Asia Center\, 2018) and has also published on the history of propaganda production\, information\, lexicography\, political satire\, and on Communist China’s links to other socialist countries before 1989. Funded by the British Academy and an Arts and Humanities Research Council leadership fellowship\, her current work examines the social\, economic\, and cultural history of everyday material culture and industrial design in China after 1949.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/jennifer-altehenger-modern-china-lecture-series/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Modern China Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180912T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180912T140000
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SUMMARY:David Barboza - Business and the State
DESCRIPTION:Read event summary here \nSpeaker: David Barboza – The New York Times
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-lecture-series-2-2018-09-19/
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:20180913T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180913T180000
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SUMMARY:Rob Efird - Nature for Nurture: Environmental Education\, Nature Experience\, and the Healthy Chinese Child
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Robert Efird\, Professor of Anthropology and Asian studies\, Seattle University \nFor the past 15 years\, the Chinese Ministry of Education’s attempt to promote environmental education in public schools has faced nearly insurmountable structural obstacles. By contrast\, there is a growing popular embrace of the value of nature exposure for children’s health and well-being. Drawing upon nearly a decade of fieldwork\, this talk discusses the challenges that formal environmental education has faced in China\, as well as the reasons behind the rise of “nature education” (ziran jiaoyu)\, the proliferation of “nature schools” (ziran xuexiao) and the revival of natural history (bowuxue). In particular\, we will explore how these developments are related to new ideas concerning children’s healthy development\, including the concept of “nature-deficit disorder” (ziran queshizheng) popularized by American journalist Richard Louv. \nRob Efird is Professor of Anthropology and Asian Studies at Seattle University. His research on environmental learning in China includes several book chapters\, articles in the Journal of Contemporary China and Environmental Education Research\, and a co-edited volume (with John Chi-Kin Lee) entitled Schooling for Sustainable Development Across the Pacific (Springer\, 2014). He spent a year in Kunming as a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar during 2011-2012\, and was a National Committee on U.S.-China Relations Public Intellectual Program Fellow from 2014 to 2016. \n  \nDiscussant: Robert Weller\, Professor of Anthropology\, Boston University \nDr. Robert Weller’s work concentrates on China and Taiwan in comparative perspective. His actual research topics\, however\, are eclectic—running from ghosts to politics\, rebellions to landscape paintings. Perhaps what unites everything is an interest in finding the limits to authority in all its settings.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/rob-efird-environment-in-asia-lecture-series/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Environment,Environment
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180914T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180914T130000
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SUMMARY:Jennifer Hsieh -  Noise\, Decibels\, and the Paradox of Reproducibility in Urban Taiwan
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Jennifer Hsieh\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies \nJennifer Hsieh holds a Ph.D. in anthropology from Stanford University and comes to the Fairbank Center from the University of Amsterdam where she was a Vossius Fellow. \nPart of the Graduate Music Forum Friday Lunch Talk Series
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/jennifer-hsieh-noise-decibels-and-the-paradox-of-reproducibility-in-urban-taiwan/
LOCATION:Davison Room\, Music Building\, 3 Oxford St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest,Taiwan Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180914T131500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180914T144500
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CREATED:20180911T184823Z
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UID:7569-1536930900-1536936300@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:David Yang - Historical Traumas and the Roots of Political Distrust: Political Inference from the Great Chinese Famine
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: David Yang\, Assistant Professor\, Department of Economics\, Harvard University \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChairs:\nMelissa Dell\, Faculty Associate. Assistant Professor of Economics\, Department of Economics\, Harvard University\nClaudia Goldin\,Henry Lee Professor of Economics\, Department of Economics\, Harvard University\nNathan Nunn\, Frederic E. Abbe Professor of Economics\, Department of Economics\, Harvard University
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/david-yang-historical-traumas-and-the-roots-of-political-distrust-political-inference-from-the-great-chinese-famine/
LOCATION:Littauer Center\, Room M16\, 1805 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180917T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180917T173000
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CREATED:20180821T132420Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180821T132420Z
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SUMMARY:Martha Hanson - Heaven and Earth Are Within One's Grasp (Qian Kun zai wo 乾坤在握): The Handy Mind in Late Imperial Chinese Medicine
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Professor Marta Hanson\, Johns Hopkins \nPart of the Harvard University Asia Center Science and Technology Seminar Series
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/martha-hanson-heaven-and-earth-are-within-ones-grasp-qian-kun-zai-wo-%e4%b9%be%e5%9d%a4%e5%9c%a8%e6%8f%a1-the-handy-mind-in-late-imperial-chinese-medicine/
LOCATION:Room 469\, Science Center\, 1 Oxford St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180918T161500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180918T173000
DTSTAMP:20260508T014855
CREATED:20180813T134442Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180813T134442Z
UID:7497-1537287300-1537291800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Tony Saich and Jesse Turiel - Polling China: Understanding Public Opinion Across China
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Tony Saich\, Ash Center Director\, and Jesse Tureil\, PhD candidate\, Boston University \nJoin us for a conversation with Ash Center Director and Daewoo Professor of International Affairs Tony Saich and Jesse Turiel\, a PhD candidate from Boston University as they discuss their groundbreaking public opinion survey project in China. Starting in 2003\, Saich developed a series of surveys to measure satisfaction with various levels of government in China. Through 2016\, the survey project ultimately captured opinion data from 32\,000 individual respondents\, making it the most ambitious public opinion research project conducted on a nationwide scale to date in China.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/tony-saich-and-jesse-turiel-polling-china-understanding-public-opinion-across-china/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180919T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180919T140000
DTSTAMP:20260508T014855
CREATED:20180801T150558Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180801T150558Z
UID:7378-1537360200-1537365600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Leta Hong Fincher - The Feminist Awakening in China
DESCRIPTION:Read the event summary here \nSpeaker: Leta Hong Fincher\, Author \nListen to Leta Hong Fincher’s podcast interview with the Fairbank Center’s “Harvard on China” podcast: \n \nRead and download the transcript for this podcast here. \nLeta Hong Fincher 洪理达 is author of the book Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China (Verso 2018). \nOn the eve of International Women’s Day in 2015\, the Chinese government arrested five feminist activists and jailed them for 37 days. The Feminist Five became a global cause célèbre\, with Hillary Clinton speaking out on their behalf\, and activists inundating social media with #FreetheFive messages. But the Feminist Five are only symbols of a much larger feminist movement of university students\, civil rights lawyers\, labor activists\, performance artists and online warriors that is prompting an unprecedented awakening among China’s urban\, educated women. In Betraying Big Brother\, journalist and scholar Leta Hong Fincher argues that the popular\, broad-based movement poses a unique threat to China’s authoritarian regime today. \nThrough interviews with the Feminist Five and other leading Chinese activists\, Hong Fincher illuminates both the challenges they face and their “joy of betraying Big Brother\,” as Wei Tingting—one of the Feminist Five—wrote of the defiance she felt during her detention. Tracing the rise of a new feminist consciousness now finding expression through the #MeToo movement\, and describing how the Communist regime has suppressed the history of its own feminist struggles\, Betraying Big Brother is a story of how the movement against patriarchy could reconfigure China and the world. \nLeta’s critically acclaimed book\, Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China (Zed 2014) was named one of the top 5 China books of 2014 by the Asia Society’s ChinaFile\, one of the best foreign policy books in 2014 by FP Interrupted and one of the best Asian books of 2014 by Asia House. Leftover Women was named on New Left Review’s list of favorite books to read for International Women’s Day in 2017 and 2016. In 2018\, it was named on Time Out Beijing’s list of best books on women in modern China. \nLeta has written for the New York Times\, Washington Post\, The Guardian\, Dissent Magazine\, Ms. Magazine\, BBC\, CNN and others. She is the recipient of the Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi award for television feature reporting. Fluent in Mandarin\, Leta is the first American to receive a Ph.D. from Tsinghua University’s Department of Sociology in Beijing. She has a master’s degree from Stanford University and a bachelor’s degree with high honors from Harvard University. She has often been quoted by news organizations such as BBC\, CNN\, Washington Post\, The Guardian\, Wall Street Journal\, TIME and The Economist on the subject of women and feminism in China. Named by the Telegraph as an “awesome woman to follow on Twitter\,” Leta was a Mellon Visiting Assistant Professor at Columbia University and recently moved to New York.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/leta-hong-fincher-critical-issues-confronting-china-lecture-series/
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:20180919T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180919T180000
DTSTAMP:20260508T014855
CREATED:20180821T132727Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180821T132727Z
UID:7505-1537372800-1537380000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Jing-Bao Nie - In search of a Benevolent Polity: Eldery Suicide in China and a Confucian Socio-Ethical Vision of Eldercare
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Professor Jing-Bao Nie\, University of Otago\, New Zealand\nChair: Professor Arthur Kleinman\, Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology\, Harvard University; Professor of Medical Anthropology and Professor of Psychiatry\, Harvard Medical School \nPart of the Asia Center Seminar Series
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/jing-bao-nie-in-search-of-a-benevolent-polity-eldery-suicide-in-china-and-a-confusion-socio-ethical-vision-of-eldercare/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180920T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180920T140000
DTSTAMP:20260508T014855
CREATED:20180917T183023Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180917T183023Z
UID:7581-1537446600-1537452000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Jing-Bao Nie - Reclaiming a sense of common humanity: a Chinese vision for transcultural and global bioethics
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Jing-Bao Nie\, University of Otago \nLunch will be available.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/jing-bao-nie-reclaiming-a-sense-of-common-humanity-a-chinese-vision-for-transcultural-and-global-bioethics/
LOCATION:TMEC Building\, Harvard Medical School\, Room 106\, 260 Longwood Ave\, Boston\, MA\, 02115\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180921T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180921T140000
DTSTAMP:20260508T014855
CREATED:20180801T162534Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180801T162534Z
UID:7389-1537532100-1537538400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:China's War on Smuggling: Law\, Economic Life\, and the Making of the Modern State\, 1842–1965
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Professor Philip Thai\, Assistant Professor of History\, Northeastern University\nChair: Professor Arunabh Ghosh\, Assistant Professor of History\, Harvard University \nAsia Center Seminar Series
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/chinas-war-on-smuggling-law-economic-life-and-the-making-of-the-modern-state-1842-1965/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180924T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180924T133000
DTSTAMP:20260508T014855
CREATED:20180911T184236Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180911T184236Z
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SUMMARY:Lan Pei-Chia - Raising Global Families: Global Parenting and Class Inequality in Taiwan
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Prof. Lan Pei-Chia\, National Taiwan University\nChair: Prof. Andrew Gordon\, Harvard University; Acting Director\, Harvard-Yenching Institute \nhttps://harvard-yenching.org/events/raising-global-families-global-parenting-and-class-inequality-taiwan \nBased on in-depth interviews with ethnic Chinese parents from more than a hundred families in Taiwan and Boston\, my new book Raising Global Families examines how parents navigate transnational mobilities and negotiate cultural boundaries to cope with uncertainties and insecurities in the changing society and globalized world. I coined the term “global security strategies” to describe their childrearing practices that often lead to the unintended consequences of magnifying parental insecurity. This talk focuses on the distinct strategies of “global parenting” across the class spectrum in Taiwan. The professional middle class employ divergent educational strategies to pursue cosmopolitan parenting: some prefer international school and prioritize global competitiveness while some others choose Western-influenced alternative curriculums to orchestrate children’s natural growth. By contrast\, working-class Taiwanese men seek wives from China and Southeast Asia to escape the marriage squeeze\, but the transnational connections of immigrant mothers are hardly recognized as a valuable cultural capital by the state and school until the recent “New Southbound Policy.” \nAbout the speaker: Pei-Chia Lan is Distinguished Professor of Sociology\, Director of Global Asia Research Center\, and Associate Dean of the College of Social Sciences at National Taiwan University. She was a postdoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley\, a Fulbright scholar at New York University\, and a Yenching-Radcliffe fellow at Harvard University. Her major publications include Global Cinderellas: Migrant Domestics and Newly Rich Employers in Taiwan (Duke 2006\, ASA Sex and Gender Book Award and ICAS Book Prize) and Raising Global Families: Parenting\, Immigration\, and Class in Taiwan and the US (Stanford 2018). \nHarvard-Yenching Institute talk\, co-sponsored with the Sociology Dept.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/lan-pei-chia-raising-global-families-global-parenting-and-class-inequality-in-taiwan/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180925T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180925T160000
DTSTAMP:20260508T014855
CREATED:20180906T190515Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180906T190515Z
UID:7561-1537885800-1537891200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:East Asian Legal Studies Open House
DESCRIPTION:An opportunity to meet EALS Faculty\, Staff\, Research Fellows\, and the 2018-2019 Visiting Scholars \nRemarks at 3:00 p.m. \nLight refreshments will be served.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/east-asian-legal-studies-open-house-2/
LOCATION:Austin Hall Room 308\, 1515 Mass Ave\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180925T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180925T180000
DTSTAMP:20260508T014855
CREATED:20180801T175201Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250130T154942Z
UID:7398-1537891200-1537898400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Panel Discussion: The End of Concern: Maoist China\, Activism\, and Asian Studies
DESCRIPTION:Panelists:\nFabio Lanza\, University of Arizona\nEllen Schrecker\, Yeshiva University\nAndrew Gordon\, Harvard University\nJoseph Esherick\, University of California San Diego\nSugata Bose\, Harvard University\nLien-Hang Nguyen\, Columbia University\nBruce Cumings\, University of Chicago \nModerator: Karen Thornber\, Harvard University Asia Center \nOrganized by: Arunabh Ghosh\, Harvard University \nCo-Sponsored by:\nFairbank Center for Chinese Studies\nHarvard University Asia Center\nReischauer Institute for Japanese Studies\nKorea Institute\nMittal South Asia Institute \nListen again on Soundcloud:
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/panel-discussion-the-end-of-concern-maoist-china-activism-and-asian-studies/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Conference and Workshops,Events of Interest,Modern China Lecture,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180926T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180926T140000
DTSTAMP:20260508T014855
CREATED:20180801T144436Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180801T144436Z
UID:7324-1537965000-1537970400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Frank Lavin - Is China ready for the international major leagues?
DESCRIPTION:Read the event summary here \nSpeaker: Ambassador Frank Lavin\, CEO of Export Now
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-lecture-series-2-2018-09-26/
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:20180926T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180926T180000
DTSTAMP:20260508T014855
CREATED:20180801T175335Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250130T154941Z
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SUMMARY:Fabio Lanza - Liberation through Labor? The Urban Commune Experiment in Beijing
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Fabio Lanza\, University of Arizona \nIn the years between 1958 and 1962\, the Urban Commune movement was promoted as a radical effort to change the daily lives of city residents. By inserting women into the “productive” life of factory work\, the movement also aimed at achieving a new form of everyday\, based on a true equality of gender relationships\, one achieved through the shared creativity of manual labor. While the movement failed\, it nonetheless brought to the fore some of the crucial tensions that marred the search for a socialist everyday: between participatory democracy and state hierarchy\, between production and liberation\, and between labor and gender equality.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/fabio-lanza-modern-china-lecture-series/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Modern China Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180926T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180926T200000
DTSTAMP:20260508T014855
CREATED:20180925T151433Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180925T151433Z
UID:7639-1537984800-1537992000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:China's Anti-Poverty Miracle?
DESCRIPTION:Panelists:\nLu Mai\nSecretary General\, China Development Research Foundation\nRohini Pande\nRafik Hariri Professor of International Political Economy\, Harvard Kennedy School\nAnthony Saich\nDaewoo Professor of International Affairs and Director\, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation\, Harvard Kennedy School\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGraham Allison (Moderator)\nDouglas Dillon Professor of Government\, Harvard Kennedy School
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/chinas-anti-poverty-miracle/
LOCATION:JFK Jr. Forum\, Harvard Kennedy School\, 79 John F. Kennedy St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180927T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180927T180000
DTSTAMP:20260508T014855
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SUMMARY:Panel Discussion - Strongman Politics in the 21st Century
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\nElsa Clavé\, Harvard University Asia Center\nAyşe Kadıoğlu\, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies\, Harvard University\nJoseph Fewsmith\, Boston University\nValerie Sperling\, Clark University \nModerator:\nThomas Vallely\, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation\, Harvard Kennedy School \nListen again on Soundcloud: \n \nAs the role of “strongman” leaders on the world stage appears to be on the rise\, this panel examines “strongman politics” in a comparative context. In May 2018\, Time Magazine proclaimed in an article that “The ‘Strongmen Era’ Is Here” (Time\, May 3\, 2018). Highlighting Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping’s tightening authoritarianism in Russia and China\, and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan\, Rodrigo Duterte\, and Viktor Orbán’s undermining of democratic norms in Turkey\, the Philippines\, and Hungary\, it certainly appears that Huntington’s post-Cold War “third wave” of democratization is witnessing a strongman-inspired reversal. But does this entail a new “era” of authoritarianism advance as the United States rhetorically withdraws from its global leadership role? \nThis panel examines the role of politically-strong male leaders in authoritarian countries in a comparative context. Elsa Clavé\, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Harvard University Asia Center\, examines the 2016 election of Duterte in the Philippines; Ayşe Kadıoğlu\, Visiting Scholar at Harvard’s Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies\, looks at Erdoğan’s reversal of Turkey’s previous move towards democratization; Joseph Fewsmith\, Professor Political Science at Boston University\, compares Xi Jinping’s consolidation of power in China to Mao’s historical rise at Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party; and Valerie Sperling\, Professor of Political Science at Clark University\, interrogates the cult-like masculinity of Vladimir Putin’s image as a “manly” leader in post-Soviet Russia. \nRegarding her upcoming discussion of the presidency of Duterte at the panel\, Asia Center Postdoctoral Fellow Elsa Clavé\, a historian of the Philippines working on the expression of authority and power in its Muslim periphery\, stated “President Duerte is not only a populist; he was elected and stays extremely popular for various other reasons. Understanding these reasons is essential to understanding the present society and the direction it is taking. Models and theory are a good approach to reality\, but reality exceeds both. A conversation between different fields and disciplines will help\, I hope\, to refine the model.” \nThe panel is moderated by Thomas Vallely\, Senior Advisor at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation\, Harvard Kennedy School\, and a specialist on Southeast Asia\, and introduced by Karen Thornber\, Director of the Harvard University Asia Center. \nCo-sponsoring Centers:\nAsh Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation\, Harvard Kennedy School\nWeatherhead Center for International Affairs\, Harvard University\nHarvard University Asia Center\nFairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard University\nDavis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies\, Harvard University\nMinda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies\, Harvard University
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/panel-discusison-strong-man-politics-in-the-21st-century/
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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SUMMARY:Wen-Yi Huang - Families Divided: Migration and Those Left Behind in Fifth- and Sixth-Century China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Wen-Yi Huang\, An Wang Post-Doctoral Fellow\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard University \nIn this talk I explore the impact of migration on family members left behind\, particularly those whose parents\, children\, siblings\, and spouses were forcibly moved to the Northern Wei (386-534 CE) from four successive southern states of Eastern Jin (317-420 CE)\, Liu-Song (420-479 CE)\, Southern Qi (479-502 CE)\, and Liang (502-557 CE). I will do so by asking three questions: how did the families recover the migrants in a time of conflict? How did they repatriate the remains of the migrants across political divides and spatial distance? How did they cope with the consequences of their husbands or fathers’ dual marriages on both sides of the border? The talk highlights the agency of the left-behind families in the migration process\, their changing relationships with the migrants\, and the shifting meaning of home. Examining the roles of the state in the split-families issue\, it also seeks to illuminate the state’s influence on migration at the private\, familial scale. \n 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-humanities-seminar-2/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:China Humanities Seminar,Environment
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181002T180000
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SUMMARY:Tansen Sen - India\, China\, and the World: A Connected History
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Tansen Sen\, New York University Shanghai \nBy focusing on the early material exchanges\, transmissions of knowledge and technologies between ancient India and ancient China; the networks of exchange during the colonial period; and some of the less-known facets of interactions between the Republic of India and the People’s Republic of China\, this presentation argues that the analysis of India-China connections must extend beyond the traditional frameworks of nation-states or bilateralism. Instead\, it is proposed that that a wide canvas of space\, people\, objects\, sources\, and timeframe is needed to fully comprehend the interactions between India and China in the past and during the contemporary period. It is argued that these interactions were multidirectional\, involved people from diverse parts of the world\, and were not constrained by the entities called “India” and “China.” The presentation also examines the ideas of “connected histories\,” “circulatory connections\,” “convergence\,” “contact zones\,” and “disjuncture” as the conceptual methods for studying transregional and transcultural connections and exchanges. \nTansen Sen is Professor of history and the Director of the Center for Global Asia at NYU Shanghai\, and Global Network Professor at New York University. Previously he was a faculty at the City University of New York and the founding head of the Nalanda Sriwijaya Center at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies\, Singapore. He is the author of Buddhism\, Diplomacy\, and Trade: The Realignment of Sino-Indian Relations\, 600-1400 (2003; 2016) and India\, China\, and the World: A Connected History (2017; 2018). He has co-authored (with Victor H. Mair) Traditional China in Asian and World History (2012)\, edited Buddhism across Asia: Networks of Material\, Cultural and Intellectual Exchange (2014)\, and co-edited (with Burkhard Schnepel) Travelling Pasts: The Politics of Cultural Heritage in the Indian Ocean World (under review). He is currently working on a book about Zheng He’s maritime expeditions in the early fifteenth century and co-editing (with Engseng Ho) the Cambridge History of the Indian Ocean\, volume 1.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/tansen-sen-modern-china-lecture-series/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Modern China Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181002T171500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181002T190000
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SUMMARY:William Alford -  Learn from the Past to Appreciate the Present\, That is What Makes One a Teacher 溫故而知新\,可以為師矣: Confucius\, Cohen (s) and Contemporary China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: William P. Alford\, Jerome A. and Joan L. Cohen Professor of East Asian Legal Studies\, Harvard University \nDean John F. Manning invites you to join the Harvard Law School Community and Friends in honoring William P. Alford on the occasion of his appointment as the Jerome A. and Joan L. Cohen Professor of East Asian Legal Studies. Come to “Learn from the Past to Appreciate the Present\, That is What Makes One a Teacher溫故而知新\,可以為師矣”:Confucius\, Cohen (s) and Contemporary China\, a talk by William P. Alford on Tuesday\, October 2\, 2018 in the Wasserstein Caspersen Clinical Building Milstein West (room 2019) at Harvard Law School at 5:15 p.m. All are welcome. There will be a reception following the talk.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/william-alford-learn-from-the-past-to-appreciate-the-present-that-is-what-makes-one-a-teacher%e6%ba%ab%e6%95%85%e8%80%8c%e7%9f%a5%e6%96%b0%e5%8f%af%e4%bb%a5%e7%82%ba%e5%b8%ab%e7%9f%a3-c/
LOCATION:Milstein West\, Wasserstein Hall\, 1585 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181003T130000
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SUMMARY:Jerome A. Cohen - Law and Power in China and in Its Foreign Relations
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Jerome A. Cohen\, Professor of Law\, NYU School of Law; Of Counsel\, Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison; Founding Director\, East Asian Legal Studies Program \nEast Asian Legal Studies\nLunchtime Talk Series
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/jerome-a-cohen-law-and-power-in-china-and-in-its-foreign-relations/
LOCATION:Room 111 Austin West\, Harvard Law School\, 1515 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181003T130000
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SUMMARY:Su-Bing Chang - Taiwan Biographical Database: An Introduction
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Su-bing Chang\, Professor\, National Taiwan University; Visiting Scholar\, Fairbank Center \nPlease RSVP to Feng-en Tu (hyl.eadh@gmail.com)
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/su-bing-chang-taiwan-biographical-database-an-introduction/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181003T140000
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SUMMARY:Tony Saich - Xi’s Policy Challenges: Some Questions for Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Read the event summary here \nSpeaker: Tony Saich\, Harvard Kennedy School
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-lecture-series-2-2018-10-03/
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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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181003T150000
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SUMMARY:Anna Sun - Turning Ghosts into Ancestors: Ritual\, Gender\, and the Afterlife in Contemporary Urban China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Anna Sun\, Kenyon College\, Visiting Associate Professor of Women’s Studies and East Asian Religions \nLunch will be provided.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/anna-sun-turning-ghosts-into-ancestors-ritual-gender-and-the-afterlife-in-contemporary-urban-china/
LOCATION:Andover Hall\, Braun Room\, 45 Francis Avenue\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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SUMMARY:Ho Ming-Sho - Standoff and Improvisation in Eventful Protests: Taiwan’s Sunflower Movement and Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Ho Ming-Sho\, National Taiwan University\, HYI Visiting Scholar \nChair/discussant: Paul Chang\, Harvard University \nTaiwan’s Sunflower Movement and Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement of 2014 belong to an unusual case of “eventful protests” for their large-scale and intensive participation as well as radical transformation in consequences\, which require new conceptual tools to make sense of their trajectories. The speaker will develop the notion of “standoff” to understand the contentious interaction between protesters and the government. While these two incidents are not so-called “leaderless” movements\, sustained occupation will not be possible without voluntary and the on-the-spot strategic responses among grassroots participation. Theorized as “improvisation”\, the talk will also examine the functions and the limits of these bottom-up contributions. With growing institutionalization of the research field of social movement and contentious politics\, mostly focusing on the routinized social protests in democracy\, the notions such as standoff and improvisation call attention to the rare\, albeit significant moments when people are able to make their own history. \nhttps://harvard-yenching.org/events/standoff-and-improvisation-eventful-protests-taiwan-s-sunflower-movement-and-hong-kong-s
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/ho-ming-sho-standoff-and-improvisation-in-eventful-protests-taiwans-sunflower-movement-and-hong-kongs-umbrella-movement/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
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UID:7390-1538741700-1538748000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:The Complex India-China Strategic Relationship: Can the Two Asian Powers Rise Peacefully?
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Professor Arjun Subramaniam\, Visiting Professor\, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy\, Tufts University; former Visiting Scholar\, Harvard University Asia Center\nChair: Arne Westad\, S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations\, Harvard Kennedy School \nAsia Center Seminar Series
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-complex-india-china-strategic-relationship-can-the-two-asian-powers-rise-peacefully/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181009T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181009T180000
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SUMMARY:Adrian Zenz - Recent Developments in Xinjiang
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Adrian Zenz\, Lecturer in social research methods\, European School of Culture & Theology\, Germany\nModerator: Mark Elliott\, Vice Provost\, International Affairs\, Harvard University \nCo-Sponsored by: \nFairbank Center for Chinese Studies\nCommittee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies\nEast Asian Legal Studies Program\, Harvard Law School\nPrince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program\n \nListen again on our Soundcloud: \n \nDownload and read the transcript of this event here.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/adrian-zenz-recent-developments-in-xinjiang/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181010T123000
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SUMMARY:Andrew Mertha - Externalizing Fragmented Authoritarianism: Using History to Anticipate Challenges for Belt and Road
DESCRIPTION:Read the event summary here \nSpeaker: Andrew Mertha\, George and Sadie Hyman Professor and Director of China Studies at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)\, Johns Hopkins University
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-lecture-series-2-2018-10-10/
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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