BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies - ECPv6.15.12.2//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20180311T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20181104T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20190310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20191103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20200308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20201101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20210314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20211107T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191202T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191202T133000 DTSTAMP:20260511T002041 CREATED:20191119T201559Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191119T201559Z UID:8982-1575288000-1575293400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Michelle Miao - Relational Justice: Reconciling Murder in China DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Michelle Miao\,  Assistant Professor\, Chinese University of Hong Kong; HYI Visiting Scholar\nChair/discussant: William Alford\, Jerome A. and Joan L. Cohen Professor of Law\, Harvard Law School \nThis talk analyzes and theorizes individual behaviors and social practices surrounding offender-victim reconciliation in murder cases in China. It explains that this partially-judicial process was enabled and shaped by\, respectively\, the role of the state\, market forces and socio-cultural ties amongst individuals. Using the concept of relational justice\, the talk explains\, from a socio-cultural perspective\, that interpersonal networks underpin the conception of justice in China. This nexus between relations and justice may explain why the judicial regulation of social conflicts focuses on the repair and restoration of social relations. The talk also illustrates that the economic transformations in China during the past decades led to the commodification of interpersonal relations. In this way\, the talk provides an alternative approach for understanding the conception\, process and function of justice in contemporary China. Rather than merely focusing on the concept of rule of law as a measurement of good governance\, this talk explains why the notion of rule by relations might be also useful to articulate the logics of China’s judicial realism. \nhttps://harvard-yenching.org/events/relational-justice-reconciliating-murder-china \n  \n  URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/michelle-miao-relational-justice-reconciliating-murder-in-china/ LOCATION:Massachusetts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191204T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191204T100000 DTSTAMP:20260511T002041 CREATED:20191106T163506Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191106T163506Z UID:8893-1575450000-1575453600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Urban Rusnak - Energy Connectivity and Investment Disputes in Eurasia DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Urban Rusnák\, Secretary General\, Energy Charter Secretariat\nModerator: Mark Wu\, Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law\, Harvard Law School\nOpening remarks: Rawi Abdelal\, Herbert F. Johnson Professor of International Management\, Harvard Business School; Director\, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies \nJoin the Negotiation Task Force for a guest lecture by Urban Rusnák\, Secretary General of the Energy Charter Secretariat\, about the challenges of investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) in the context of Eurasian energy connectivity. URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/urban-rusnak-energy-connectivity-and-investment-disputes-in-eurasia/ LOCATION:Massachusetts CATEGORIES:Events of Interest END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191204T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191204T133000 DTSTAMP:20260511T002041 CREATED:20190820T134011Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190820T134011Z UID:8460-1575461700-1575466200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Zheng Jiyong - North Korea's Social-Economy Development and China's North Korea Policy DESCRIPTION:Read event summary here \nSpeaker: Zheng Jiyong\, Director & Professor\, Center for Korean Studies\, Fudan University URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-6/ LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China,Critical Issues Confronting China Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191204T154500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191204T173000 DTSTAMP:20260511T002041 CREATED:20191106T154609Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191106T154609Z UID:8892-1575474300-1575480600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Elizabeth Ingleson - Making Made In China: Race\, Labor\, and Politics in U.S.-China Trade 1971-1980 DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Elizabeth Ingleson\, Southern Methodist University \nInterested attendees should e-mail marinoauffant@gmail.com for a copy of the pre-circulated paper. \nPart of the Harvard International & Global History Seminar (HIGHS) series\, a forum for cutting-edge work in the fields of international and global history. URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/elizabeth-ingleson-making-made-in-china-race-labor-and-politics-in-u-s-china-trade-1971-1980-2/ LOCATION:History Department Conference Room\, Robinson Hall\, 35 Quincy St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States CATEGORIES:Events of Interest END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191204T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191204T203000 DTSTAMP:20260511T002041 CREATED:20191024T175507Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191024T175507Z UID:8820-1575486000-1575491400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Robert Spengler III - Fruit from the Sands: The Silk Road Origins of the Foods We Eat DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Robert Spengler III \nFrom almonds and apples to tea and rice\, many foods that we consume today have histories that can be traced out of prehistoric Central Asia along the tracks of the Silk Road to kitchens in Europe\, America\, China\, and elsewhere in East Asia. The exchange of goods\, ideas\, cultural practices\, and genes along these ancient routes extends back five thousand years\, and organized trade along the Silk Road dates to at least Han Dynasty China in the second century BC. Robert Spengler presents a broad array of archaeological\, botanical\, and historical evidence\, narrating the story of the origins and spread of agriculture across Inner Asia and into Europe and East Asia. Through the preserved remains of plants found in archaeological sites\, he identifies the regions where our most familiar crops were domesticated and follows their routes as people carried them around the world\, shaping the course of human history. \nMembers and students: Free\nNon-members: $5.00 \nRobert Spengler III is studying the paleoeconomy and ecology of Central Asia from the third millennium B.C. onward and has ongoing research projects in Kazakhstan\, Uzbekistan\, Turkmenistan\, China\, and Mongolia. While he has used several methods in the archaeobotanical sciences\, he primarily analyzes macrobotanical remains. Through this research he has shown that farming was an important part of the economy across eastern Central Asia for at least four millennia and that many important crops spread through this region in prehistory. Through his archaeobotanical studies\, he is helping to fill in the last major gaps in the global map of agricultural spread\, and showing how important the Silk Road was in the spread of specific crops and technologies. \nRegister at my.arboretum.harvard.edu or call 617-384-5277. URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/robert-spengler-iii-fruit-from-the-sands-the-silk-road-origins-of-the-foods-we-eat/ LOCATION:Hunnewell Building\, Arnold Arboretum\, 125 Arborway\, Jamaica Plain\, MA\, 02130\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191205T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191205T173000 DTSTAMP:20260511T002041 CREATED:20191121T142327Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191121T142327Z UID:8985-1575536400-1575567000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Jin Ping Mei and the World: Translation and Transculturation — A Symposium in Honor of David Roy (1933-2016) DESCRIPTION:The Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University will convene a symposium on Jin Ping Mei (The Plum in the Golden Vase) in honor of David Tod Roy (1933 – 2016)\, Professor Emeritus of the University of Chicago\, on December 5\, 2019\, at Harvard University. \nFor more information\, visit https://scholar.harvard.edu/jpm URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/jin-ping-mei-and-the-world-translation-and-transculturation-a-symposium-in-honor-of-david-roy-1933-2016/ LOCATION:Massachusetts CATEGORIES:Events of Interest END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191206T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191206T133000 DTSTAMP:20260511T002041 CREATED:20191202T145110Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191202T145110Z UID:8993-1575634500-1575639000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Carma Hinton - From Goddess to Demon? Musings on the Transformation of Female Imagery in Paintings of Central Asia and China from the Late Tang to the Song Dynasties DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Carma Hinton\, Asia Center Visiting Scholar; Clarence J. Robinson Professor of Visual Culture and Chinese Studies\, George Mason University\nChair: Jie Li\, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities\, Harvard University\n \nAsia Center Fellows Seminar URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/carma-hinton-from-goddess-to-demon-musings-on-the-transformation-of-female-imagery-in-paintings-of-central-asia-and-china-from-the-late-tang-to-the-song-dynasties/ LOCATION:CGIS South Room S354\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191210T161500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191210T180000 DTSTAMP:20260511T002041 CREATED:20191115T162931Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191115T162931Z UID:8979-1575994500-1576000800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Justin Lin - Seventy Years of China's Economic Development: Reflections on Modern Economics DESCRIPTION:Listen to this event on our podcast: \n \nRead and download the transcript for this event here. \nSpeaker: Justin Yifu Lin\,\nWorld Bank Chief Economist\, 2008-2012\nDean\, Institute of New Structural Economics\nDean\, Institute for South-South Cooperation and Development\nProfessor and Honorary Dean\nNational School of Development\nPeking University \nCo-sponsored by:\nHarvard College Association of U.S.-China Relations\nHarvard College China Forum\nInternational Relations on Campus URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/justin-lin-seventy-years-of-chinas-economic-development-reflections-on-modern-economics/ LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States CATEGORIES:Special Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191213T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191213T153000 DTSTAMP:20260511T002041 CREATED:20191202T144048Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191202T144048Z UID:8989-1576245600-1576251000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Jane Perlez - The Cultural Revolution Revisited: 1967-2019 DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Jane Perlez\, 2019 Joan Shorenstein Center Fellow\, Beijing Bureau Chief for The New York Times.\nModerator: Lucy Hornby\, 2020 Nieman Fellow\, Deputy Beijing Bureau Chief for the Financial Times. \nLong before she was Beijing bureau chief for The New York Times\, Jane Perlez was an accidental tourist at the peak of China’s Cultural Revolution. Join us as she screens rare footage and talks about her impressions of a 1967 trip to Shanghai and cities around China\, when Red Guards turned China upside down. URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/jane-perlez-the-cultural-revolution-revisited-1967-2019/ LOCATION:Taylor Seminar Room\, Lippman House\, 1 Francis Ave.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States CATEGORIES:Events of Interest END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200114T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200114T130000 DTSTAMP:20260511T002041 CREATED:20200103T151155Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200103T151155Z UID:9008-1579003200-1579006800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Shen Hongyu - The Evolving Role of Chinese Courts in International Commercial Dispute Resolution DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Judge Shen Hongyu\, The Supreme People’s Court of China; Visiting Scholar\, The Center for Chinese Legal Studies\, Columbia Law School URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/shen-hongyu-the-evolving-role-of-chinese-courts-in-international-commercial-dispute-resolution/ LOCATION:Morgan Courtroom\, Austin Hall\, 1515 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States CATEGORIES:Events of Interest END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200123T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200221T075959 DTSTAMP:20260511T002041 CREATED:20200127T154602Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200127T154602Z UID:9064-1579766400-1582271999@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Exhibition - Life in Singapore: Views from Migrant Workers DESCRIPTION:[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”]\n [et_pb_row admin_label=”row”]\n [et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”]Organized by: Yong Han Poh\, Harvard College ’20 \nExhibition Reception: Thursday\, February 6\, 2020; 4:15 p.m.\nAsian Centers’ Lounge\, 1st Floor\, CGIS South\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge \nSponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, the Harvard University Asia Center\, and the Mahindra Humanities Center with additional support from Migrant Writers Singapore and Migrant Workers Photography Festival[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column]\n [/et_pb_row]\n [/et_pb_section] URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/exhibition-life-in-singapore-views-from-migrant-workers/ LOCATION:Asian Centers Lounge\, 1730 Cambridge St. First Floor\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200127T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200127T180000 DTSTAMP:20260511T002041 CREATED:20200103T151333Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200103T151333Z UID:9009-1580140800-1580148000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Paize Keulemans - Acoustic Immersion and Iconic Extraction in Three Kingdoms History\, Fiction\, and Videogames DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Paize Keulemans\, Princeton University \nWhat are the ludic attractions of a fifteenth-century novel?  What role is played by historical narrative in a twenty-first-century game?  How is a character developed in text and in pixels\, in words\, painting\, or on a (computer) screen?  And how is the noise and confusion of a third-century battle digitally reproduced in the songs programmed for Sony’s Playstation? This talk investigates a classical tale of ancient China\, The Three Kingdoms\, tracing its transformation through time\, across nations\, and\, most notably\, across different media platforms\, from history to poetry and from novel to video-game. The aim decidedly is NOT to simply to fix a classic\, textual “origin” to contemporary media\, but rather to bring 21st-century game and 16th-century text\, ancient history and contemporary play together in a creative tension.  To do so\, we will focus on two complementary aspects of literary and ludic interaction applicable both to premodern text and contemporary game: acoustic immersion and iconic extraction. URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/paize-keulemans-acoustic-immersion-and-iconic-extraction-in-three-kingdoms-history-fiction-and-videogames/ LOCATION:Massachusetts CATEGORIES:China Humanities Seminar ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200130T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200130T133000 DTSTAMP:20260511T002041 CREATED:20200115T160137Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200115T160137Z UID:9034-1580385600-1580391000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Qu Tongli - Emergence of Modern Humans in China: Behavioral Perspectives DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Qu Tongli\, Associate Professor in Archaeology\, Peking University; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2019-20\nChair/discussant: Amy Clark\, College Fellow – Archaeology\, Department of Anthropology\, Harvard University \nChina has been the focus of discussion on modern human origins. Human fossils found recently in South China show that modern humans emerged in China in the early Late Pleistocene (ca. 100ka BP)\, and add new clues to the modern human origins. However\, the appearance of modern humans in North China is in a more blurred picture due to the paucity of fossils. This talk attempts to look at the issue through examining the pattern of animal resource exploitation in the Late Pleistocene. Zooarchaeological studies of the sites in northern China show a subsistence pattern characterized by hunting large mammals\, especially the adult individuals during the early and middle Late Pleistocene\, which is similar with that of Neanderthals in the west of Eurasia. In the late Late Pleistocene subsistence strategies changed\, represented by a broadened diet and intensive exploitation. Meanwhile\, bone and antler tools appeared around 30ka BP in the north. According to these changes\, together with the appearance of novel lithic technology\, we suggest that modern humans appeared in North China around 30ka BP. \nEmergence of modern humans in China: behavioral perspectives URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/qu-tongli-emergence-of-modern-humans-in-china-behavioral-berspectives/ LOCATION:Massachusetts CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200204T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200204T133000 DTSTAMP:20260511T002041 CREATED:20200115T161317Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200115T161317Z UID:9035-1580817600-1580823000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Wang Xiying - Intimacy\, Desire\, and Reproduction: Women Living with HIV/AIDS in Beijing DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Wang Xiying\, Professor\, Faculty of Education\, Beijing Normal University; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2019-20\nChair/discussant: Susan Greenhalgh\, John King and Wilma Cannon Fairbank Research Professor of Chinese Society\, Department of Anthropology\, Harvard University \nThis talk focuses on understanding the daily lives of women living with HIV/AIDS (WLHA) and their coping strategies of the illness within the current Chinese society. Selecting intimacy\, desire and reproduction as three key concepts to explore their lives\, this talk is attentive to the ways in which gender inequality is played out in their practices of romantic and intimate relationships\, womanhood and motherhood\, marriage and family\, sexuality and reproductive health. Through the narrative of their lives\, the talk attempts to provide a brief sketch of HIV/AIDS history in China\, and illustrate how the HIV/AIDS issue is deeply related to broader social issues including unsafe blood and plasma selling\, massive scale of migration\, spreading of drug use\, emerging LGBT communities and sexual revolution. This talk depicts the institutional and social structure transformation embedded within WLHA’s personal experience in the fast-changing contemporary China. \nhttps://harvard-yenching.org/events/intimacy-desire-and-reproduction-women-living-hivaids-beijing URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/wang-xiying-intimacy-desire-and-reproduction-women-living-with-hiv-aids-in-beijing/ LOCATION:Massachusetts CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200204T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200204T180000 DTSTAMP:20260511T002041 CREATED:20200103T152619Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200103T152619Z UID:9010-1580833800-1580839200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Annual Neuhauser Lecture Featuring Ambassador Samantha Power - China\, the UN\, and the Future of Human Rights DESCRIPTION:Watch this event on YouTube: \n \nListen to this event on Soundcloud: \n \nRead and download the transcript for this event here. \nSpeaker: Samantha Power\nU.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations\, 2013-2017\nAnna Lindh Professor of the Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy\, Harvard Kennedy School of Government\nWilliam D. Zabel Professor of Practice in Human Rights\, Harvard Law School \nAmbassador Samantha Power is the Anna Lindh Professor of the Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and the William D. Zabel Professor of Practice in Human Rights at Harvard Law School. \nFrom 2013 to 2017 Power served as the 28th U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations\, as well as a member of President Obama’s cabinet. In this role\, Power became the public face of U.S. opposition to Russian aggression in Ukraine and Syria\, negotiated the toughest sanctions in a generation against North Korea\, lobbied to secure the release of political prisoners\, helped build new international law to cripple ISIL’s financial networks\, and supported President Obama’s path-breaking actions to end the Ebola crisis. \nFrom 2009 to 2013\, Power served on the National Security Council as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights\, where she focused on issues including atrocity prevention\, UN reform\, LGBT and women’s rights\, the protection of religious minorities\, and the prevention of human trafficking. \nBefore joining the U.S. government\, Power was the founding executive director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Kennedy School. \nPower’s book\, “A Problem from Hell”: America and the Age of Genocide won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2003. Power is also the author of the New York Times bestseller Chasing the Flame: One Man’s Fight to Save the World (2008) and the editor\, with Derek Chollet\, of The Unquiet American: Richard Holbrooke in the World (2011). Her most recent book\, The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir (2019)\, was a New York Times\, Wall Street Journal\, and USA Today bestseller\, and was selected as one of the best books of 2019 by the New York Times\, Washington Post\, Economist\, NPR\, and TIME. Power began her career as a journalist\, reporting from places such as Bosnia\, East Timor\, Kosovo\, Rwanda\, Sudan\, and Zimbabwe and has twice been named to TIME’s “100 Most Influential People” list. \nPower earned a B.A. from Yale University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. She immigrated to the United States from Ireland at the age of 9 and today lives in Concord\, Massachusetts with her husband Cass Sunstein and their two young children. URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/annual-neuhauser-lecture-featuring-ambassador-samantha-power-china-the-un-and-the-future-of-human-rights/ LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States CATEGORIES:Special Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200205T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200205T130000 DTSTAMP:20260511T002041 CREATED:20200115T201649Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200115T201649Z UID:9036-1580904000-1580907600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Lan Yan - The House of Yan: A Family at the Heart of a Century of Chinese History DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Lan Yan\, Vice Chairman of Investment Banking\, Lazard; Chairman and CEO\, Lazard of Greater China URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/lan-yan-the-house-of-yan-a-family-at-the-heart-of-a-century-of-chinese-history/ LOCATION:Morgan Courtroom\, Austin Hall\, 1515 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200205T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200205T130000 DTSTAMP:20260511T002041 CREATED:20200127T135924Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200127T135924Z UID:9060-1580904000-1580907600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Kwok-Leong Tang - Digital China Lab: Preparation for Digital Scholarship in Chinese Studies DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Kwok-Leong Tang\, Digital China Fellow\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard University \nDigital China Lab is a series of workshops on data collecting and wrangling\, which will be offered by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies this semester. Kwok-leong will talk about the difficulties faced by humanities students in engaging with digital methodologies and explain his rationale for planning the workshops. \nKwok-Leong Tang provides support and consultation to anyone interested in adopting digital tools and methods in their research related to Chinese studies. He received his Ph.D. in history and Asian studies from Pennsylvania State University\, where he worked as a postdoctoral teaching fellow after graduation. URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/kwok-leong-tang-digital-china-lab-preparation-for-digital-scholarship-in-chinese-studies/ LOCATION:Massachusetts CATEGORIES:Events of Interest END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200206T161500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200206T173000 DTSTAMP:20260511T002041 CREATED:20200116T133215Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200116T133215Z UID:9038-1581005700-1581010200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Alice Chen and Joseph Fewsmith - The Implications of Taiwan's Presidential and Parliamentary Elections DESCRIPTION:You’re invited to a panel discussion on Taiwan’s January 11th presidential and parliamentary elections with Alice Chen MPA/ID 2022 and Joseph Fewsmith\, Professor of International Relations and Political Science at Boston University and a fellow at Harvard’s Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. This discussion will be moderated by Ash Center Director and Daewoo Professor of International Affairs Tony Saich. The panel will unpack the results of last month’s elections and discuss their impact on Taiwan and the Asia-Pacific region more broadly. \n  URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/alice-chen-and-joseph-fewsmith-the-implications-of-taiwans-presidential-and-parliamentary-elections/ LOCATION:Land Lecture Hall\, 4th Floor\, Belfer Building\, Harvard Kennedy School\, 79 JFK St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200207T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200207T140000 DTSTAMP:20260511T002041 CREATED:20200127T155030Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200127T155030Z UID:9068-1581077700-1581084000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Yong Han Poh - Life in Singapore: Views from Migrant Workers DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Yong Han Poh\, Harvard College\, ’20\nChair: Nicole Newendorp\, Lecturer on Social Studies; Assistant Director of Undergraduate Studies\, Harvard University URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/yong-han-poh-life-in-singapore-views-from-migrant-workers/ LOCATION:Massachusetts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200210T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200210T130000 DTSTAMP:20260511T002041 CREATED:20200127T153406Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200127T153406Z UID:9063-1581336000-1581339600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Wen-Chin Wu - How does China’s Foreign Aid Undermine the Effectiveness of US Foreign Policy? —Evidence from UN General Assembly Voting Data DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Wen-Chin Wu\, Assistant Research Fellow\, Institute of Political Science\, Academia Sinica; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2019-20\nChair/discussant: Christina Davis\, Professor of Government\, Harvard University; Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor\, Radcliffe Institute \nThe economic rise of China is inspiring a burgeoning literature on how China uses its economic power to influence other countries’ domestic politics and foreign policy. In this study\, I analyze how China’s foreign aid discourages its recipients from complying with US foreign policy goals in the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). Previous studies have shown that the US can successfully lobby other states to support its position in votes on UN resolutions that it deems important to US interests\, such as those on human rights issues. In this study\, I use a new dataset on Chinese foreign aid and hypothesize that the emergence of China as a major donor makes developing countries less dependent on US aid. In particular\, third countries would be less likely to comply with the US on important votes in the UNGA if they receive more aid from China. \nhttps://harvard-yenching.org/events/how-does-china-s-foreign-aid-undermine-effectiveness-us-foreign-policy-evidence-un-general URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/wen-chin-wu-how-does-chinas-foreign-aid-undermine-the-effectiveness-of-us-foreign-policy-evidence-from-un-general-assembly-voting-data/ LOCATION:Massachusetts CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200211T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200211T200000 DTSTAMP:20260511T002041 CREATED:20200205T181623Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200205T181623Z UID:9082-1581444000-1581451200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Sean Sylvia - The Quality of Primary Care in Rural China: Evidence from Mystery Patients DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Sean Sylvia\, Assistant Professor\, Department of Health Policy and Management\, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/sean-sylvia-the-quality-of-primary-care-in-rural-china-evidence-from-mystery-patients/ LOCATION:Harvard Chan School\, Building 1\, Room 1208\, 677 Huntington Ave\, Boston\, MA\, 02115\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200212T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200212T133000 DTSTAMP:20260511T002041 CREATED:20200106T155303Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200106T155303Z UID:9015-1581509700-1581514200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Kent Calder - Super Continent: BRI and the Emergence of an Integrated Eurasia DESCRIPTION:Read event summary here \nSpeaker: Kent Calder\, Johns Hopkins University \nKent Calder serves as Vice Dean for Faculty Affairs and International Research Cooperation at JHU. He is also Director of the Edwin O. Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies\, and served from 2016-2018 as Director of Asia Programs. Before arriving at Johns Hopkins SAIS in 2003\, Calder served as Special Advisor to the U.S. Ambassador to Japan\, Japan Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies\, Professor at Princeton University\, Lecturer on Government at Harvard\, and as the first Executive Director of Harvard University’s Program on US-Japan Relations. Calder received his PhD from Harvard University in 1979\, where he worked under the direction of Edwin O. Reischauer. A specialist in East Asian political economy\, he has spent eleven years living and researching in Japan and four years elsewhere in East Asia. In 2014\, he was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun\, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon. Calder’s most recent works include Circles of Compensation: Economic Growth and the Globalization of Japan (Stanford\, 2017); Singapore: Smart City\, Smart State (Brookings\, 2017); Asia in Washington (Brookings\, 2014); and The New Continentalism: Energy and Twenty-First Century Eurasian Geopolitics (Yale\, 2012) URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-7/ LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200213T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200213T183000 DTSTAMP:20260511T002041 CREATED:20200205T174331Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200205T174331Z UID:9080-1581613200-1581618600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Kwok-leong Tang - Digital China Lab: Web Scraping without Coding DESCRIPTION:Registration Form: https://d.pr/SgidPR \nThis workshop will introduce tools and basic skills to extract and collect data from web pages. It is intended for participants who have no familiarity with programming and coding. Participants will use two Chrome extensions to parse information from websites and learn basic knowledge of HTML\, CSS\, and JavaScript. In order to maintain the best interaction between the instructor and participants\, each session is limited to twelve participants. Priority will be given to graduate students and on a first-come\, first-served basis. \n\nSession One: Thursday\, Feb 13 2020 (Registration deadline: Feb 11)\nSession Two: Thursday\, Feb 27 2020 (Registration deadline: Feb 25)\n\n(Both sessions offer the same content.) \nPlease bring your laptop with Google Chrome installed. A Google account is needed.  \nPlease contact Kwok-leong (kwokleongtang@fas.harvard.edu) if you have any questions. \n  URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/kwok-leong-tang-digital-china-lab-web-scraping-without-coding/ LOCATION:Massachusetts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200214T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200214T163000 DTSTAMP:20260511T002041 CREATED:20200127T145500Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200127T145500Z UID:9062-1581692400-1581697800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Daniel Koss - Where the Party Rules: The Rank and File of China’s Communist Party DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Daniel Koss\, Lecturer\, EALC\, Harvard University \nIn most non-democratic countries\, today governing forty-four percent of the world population\, the power of the regime rests upon a ruling party. Contrasting with conventional notions that authoritarian regime parties serve to contain elite conflict and manipulate electoral-legislative processes\, this book presents the case of China and shows that rank and-file members of the Communist Party allow the state to penetrate local communities. Subnational comparative analysis demonstrates that in ‘red areas’ with high party saturation\, the state is most effectively enforcing policy and collecting taxes. Because party membership patterns are extremely enduring\, they must be explained by events prior to the Communist takeover in 1949. Frontlines during the anti-colonial Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945) continue to shape China’s political map even today. Newly available evidence from the Great Leap Forward (1958-1961) and the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) shows how a strong local party basis sustained the regime in times of existential crisis. \nThis event is part of the Harvard-Yenching Library Book Talk Series\, in which faculty discuss their recent publications. The event is open to all. Light refreshments will be served. URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/daniel-koss-where-the-party-rules-the-rank-and-file-of-chinas-communist-party/ LOCATION:Massachusetts CATEGORIES:Events of Interest END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200218T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200218T160000 DTSTAMP:20260511T002041 CREATED:20200127T135258Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200127T135258Z UID:9058-1582034400-1582041600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Dirk van der Kley - Less is More…The New BRI in Central Asia DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dirk van der Kley\, Program Director for Policy Research\, China Matters \nXi Jinping’s Belt and Road Initiative has changed significantly in Central Asia in the last few years. In particular\, direct Chinese government lending through Eximbank to Central Asian states has completely dried up. Instead the focus has shifted to smaller investment projects that create jobs for Central Asians and exports for Central Asian states\, while also providing benefits for Chinese companies. This is a much tougher task than just building infrastructure. It forces Chinese companies to operate in challenging business environments in Central Asia in key sectors. This presentation will systematically examine how these changes are paying out in each Central Asian state. It will demonstrate that Chinese companies have their own agency. For example\, they still try to shift debt burdens onto recipient states through hidden means or joint ventures with Central Asian state-owned enterprises. \n  URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/dirk-van-der-kley-less-is-morethe-new-bri-in-central-asia/ LOCATION:Massachusetts CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200219T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200219T133000 DTSTAMP:20260511T002041 CREATED:20200106T155426Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200106T155426Z UID:9016-1582114500-1582119000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Jude Blanchette - What's Communist about the Communist Party of China? DESCRIPTION:Read event summary here \nSpeaker: Jude Blanchette – Center for Strategic and International Studies \nThe speaker will explore the extant ideological and institutional legacies of socialism and Marxism within the current day CCP. URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/jude-blanchette-critical-issues-confronting-china-series/ LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200219T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200219T170000 DTSTAMP:20260511T002041 CREATED:20200212T140349Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200212T140349Z UID:9131-1582124400-1582131600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Mark Elliott and Kirsten Weld - The Public Face of History series: The Historian Confronting Political Controversies DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\nMark Elliott\, Vice Provost for International Affairs; Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History\, Harvard University\nKirsten Weld\, Professor of History\, Harvard University URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/mark-elliott-and-kirsten-weld-the-public-face-of-history-series-the-historian-confronting-political-controversies/ LOCATION:History Department Conference Room\, Robinson Hall\, 35 Quincy St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States CATEGORIES:Events of Interest END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200220T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200220T164500 DTSTAMP:20260511T002041 CREATED:20200218T153135Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200218T153135Z UID:9139-1582212600-1582217100@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Xi Yang - China's Coal-to-Gas Policy for Residential Heating: Between the Shadow and the Light DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Xi Yang\, Visiting Researcher\, Harvard-China Project; Associate Professor\, China University of Petroleum Beijing \nUnder the pressure of improving its environmental governance\, China has strengthened its coal substitution policy known as “coal-to-gas” in residential heating in Northern region. This bold policy sets strict gas replacement targets for “26 + 2” key cities. However\, China suffered from severe gas shortages in the 2017-2018 winter\, which aroused widespread concern. Maintaining the natural gas balance became thus a challenging task for China\, especially with the policy extended nationwide. Also\, the contribution of gas substitution to air quality improvement remains uncertain. In the context of the Paris Agreement\, the feasibility of China’s gas substitution policy is vital not only for the accomplishment of its NDCs (Nationally Determined Contributions)\, but also to global decarbonization. Based on scenario analysis with the bottom-up MAPLE (China Multi-pollutant Abatement Planning and Long-term benefit Evaluation) model\, this talk will address current debates and discuss the potential impact of the coal-to-gas policy. URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/xi-yang-chinas-coal-to-gas-policy-for-residential-heating-between-the-shadow-and-the-light/ LOCATION:Pierce Hall 100F\, 29 Oxford St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States CATEGORIES:Events of Interest END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200224T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200224T180000 DTSTAMP:20260511T002041 CREATED:20200128T155606Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200128T155606Z UID:9071-1582560000-1582567200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Zvi Ben-Dor Benite - "The 18th Brumaire of Yuan Shikai\," By Mao Zedong: History\, Classical Commentary\, and Politics. DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Zvi Ben-Dor Benite\, New York University \nTaking a small comment by the young Mao Zedong in his “Classroom Notes” as its point of departure\, this talk revisits the very early days after the fall of the last dynasty. It ties them to events in post-revolutionary France and the late Han period. It ends and begins with a comment on the relationship between Mao Zedong Thought\, Mao Studies\, and Chinese History. \nZvi Ben-Dor Benite teaches in the Department of History and the Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University. He studied pre-modern and modern Chinese History in Jerusalem\, in China\, and later at UCLA. His research centers on the interaction between religions in world history and cultural and intellectual exchanges across vast space and deep time. He is the author of The Dao of Muhammad: A Cultural History of Muslims in Late Imperial China (Harvard\, 2005); The Ten Lost Tribes: A World History (Oxford\, 2009); and co-editor and translator of Modern Middle Eastern Jewish Thought: Writings on Identity\, Culture\, and Politics (Brandeis\, 2013); and an edited volume on Sovereignty (Columbia University Press 2017). URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/zvi-ben-dor-benite-the-18th-brumaire-of-yuan-shikai-by-mao-zedong-history-classical-commentary-and-politics/ LOCATION:Massachusetts CATEGORIES:China Humanities Seminar ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200225T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200331T075959 DTSTAMP:20260511T002041 CREATED:20200227T141202Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200227T141202Z UID:9180-1582617600-1585641599@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Exhibition - Elegy to a Uyghur Dreamscape DESCRIPTION:Photographs by Lisa Ross \nSponsored by the Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies\, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and Harvard Asia Center Arts Initiative; with support from the Provostial Fund Committee\, Office of the Dean of Arts and Humanities URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/exhibition-elegy-to-a-uyghur-dreamscape/ LOCATION:Japan Friends of Harvard Concourse\, CGIS South\, Lower Level\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR