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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200708T193000
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SUMMARY:Digital Sources for Chinese History
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\nJianye He\, Librarian for Chinese Collections\, UC Berkeley\nKwok leong Tang\, Digital China Fellow of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard University\nIan Chapman\, China Studies Reference and Instruction Specialist\, University of Washington\nAmanda Shuman\, post-doc researcher and database manager\, Institute of Chinese Studies\, University of Freiburg\nKarl Gerth\, Hwei-Chih and Julia Hsiu Chair in Chinese Studies and Professor of History\, UC San Diego \nSponsored by the Long US-China Institute (University of California\, Irvine) and the Council on East Asian Studies (Yale University)\, with support from Harvard University’s Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, the Johns Hopkins University\, Simon Fraser University History Department\, the University of Chicago\, the University of Washington\, and York University. \nRegistration required.\nClick here to register.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/digital-sources-for-chinese-history/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200806T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200806T133000
DTSTAMP:20260511T181739
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SUMMARY:The River Dragon Has Indeed Come! –– Chinese Floods and Flood Management in 2020 and in the Past
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies · The River Dragon has indeed come! Chinese Floods and Flood Management in 2020 and in the past\nSpeakers:\nClark ALEJANDRINO\, Trinity College\nChris COURTNEY\, Durham University\nXiangli DING\, Rhode Island School of Design\nYan GAO\, University of Memphis \nModerator: Ling Zhang\, Boston College \nAbout the Speakers:\n \nClark Alejandrino teaches at Trinity College. Clark finished a Ph.D. in East Asian Environmental History at Georgetown University. He specializes in the environmental history of China\, especially its climate and animal history\, covering the fifth to the twentieth century in his research. He is currently preparing a book manuscript on typhoons in the history of the South China coast and preparing to embark on a new project exploring the history of migratory birds in East Asia. At Trinity\, he teaches courses on Chinese history\, environmental history\, world history\, and Pacific history. \nChris Courtney teaches at Durham University (UK). Chris is a social and environmental historian of China\, specializing on the history of Wuhan and its hinterland. His previous research focused upon the history of nature-induced disasters in the 19th and 20th centuries. His monograph The Nature of Disaster in China examined the history of the 1931 Central China Flood. It was awarded the 2019 John K Fairbanks Prize. Chris has also published on topics including the history of environmental religion\, fire disasters\, and Maoist flood (mis)management. His current research focuses on the problem of heat in modern Chinese cities. Using a combination of archival and oral history he is examining how people coped with extreme temperatures through a period of rapid cultural\, political and technological change. He explores how emergent technologies such as ice factories\, electric fans\, and air conditioning transformed the cultural and social landscape of urban China. \nXiangli Ding teaches at the Rhode Island School of Design. His research interests focus on the confluence of nature\, technologies\, economy and political forces in modern China and how that confluence has changed Chinese people’s lives and their relationship with the natural environment. His first book project\, Transforming Waters: Hydroelectricity\, State Making and Social Changes in 20th-Century China\, examines the rise of hydroelectricity in modern China and argues that political powers aided by hydro-technologies consumed not only the natural resources at an unprecedented pace and scale\, but also marginalized local communities in the making of the modern hydropower regime. \nYan Gao teaches at the University of Memphis. Yan specializes in social and environmental history of late imperial and modern China\, and her research focuses on water management of the central Yangzi region. She obtained her Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University and held a few research and teaching positions around the world. She was a Carson fellow at the Rachel Carson Center of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München\, a visiting post-doctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin\, and a Research Associate at the Global Asia Initiative of Duke University. She has published several scholarly articles. Yan is finalizing a book entitled “Yangzi Waters: Transforming the Water Regime in Late Imperial China.” \nPart of the Environment in Asia series at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard University \nThis event is a Zoom webinar. Registration is required.\nClick here to register.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-river-dragon-has-indeed-come-chinese-floods-and-flood-management-in-2020-and-in-the-past/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Environment
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200827T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200827T103000
DTSTAMP:20260511T181739
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SUMMARY:A Celebration of Rudolf G. Wagner
DESCRIPTION:Join family\, friends\, and colleagues as we celebrate the life of Fairbank Center Associate Rudolf Wagner through words\, photographs\, and music. We look forward to seeing you there.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/a-celebration-of-rudolf-g-wagner/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200903T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200903T093000
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SUMMARY:Panel Discussion: Maintaining Peace in China-India Relations
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\nKishore Mahbubani\, Distinguished Fellow\, Asia Research Institute\, NUS\nSelina Ho\, Assistant Professor and Program Chair\, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy\, National University of Singapore\nShen Dingli\, Professor\, Institute of International Studies\, Fudan University\nTarun Khanna\, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor\, Harvard Business School; Faculty Director\, Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute\, Harvard University\nKanti Bajpai\, Director\, Centre on Asia and Globlisation and Wilmar Professor of Asian Studies\, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy\, National University of Singapore\nManjari Chatterjee Miller\, Associate Professor of International Relations\, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies\, Boston University \nChairperson: James Crabtree\, Associate Professor in Practice\, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy\, National University of Singapore \nThe China-India relationship is one of the keys to international security\, the future of Asia\, and the well-being of nearly 3 billion people. Since early May 2020\, border tensions between the two powers have underlined the potential for conflict. In 2017\, their armies faced off for 73 days. At the same time\, they have built a system of engagement designed to manage conflict and their larger rivalry. Their leaders meet regularly\, they hold talks on the border quarrel\, they have a series of confidence building measures\, and they trade and invest with each other. They also cooperate multilaterally. \nWhat are the drivers of the relationship? How can they manage conflict and rivalry? Are there cooperative steps forward\, now and looking ahead? Two years ago\, the Centre on Asia and Globalization in the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore\, set out to answer these and other vital questions by working with Routledge UK to produce the Routledge Handbook of China-India Relations. The book was published earlier this year. It assembled experts from China\, India\, Singapore\, other parts of Asia\, Australia\, Brazil\, Europe\, and the United States and has 35 chapters on a range of China-India issues. \nThis is a co-sponsored event hosted by the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore\, the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute\, the Harvard University Asia Center\, and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. \nPresented via Zoom Webinar.\nRegistration Required.\nRegister at https://nus-sg.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Sjly22JCSZWfHPBcMn4ZTQ. 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/panel-discussion-maintaining-peace-in-china-india-relations/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200909T123000
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series Featuring Evan Feigenbaum - US-China Relations: Where We're Headed
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Evan A. Feigenbaum\, Vice President for Studies\, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace \nEvan A. Feigenbaum is vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace\, where he oversees research in Washington\, Beijing and New Delhi on a dynamic region encompassing both East Asia and South Asia. He is also the 2019-20 James R. Schlesinger Distinguished Professor at the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia. Initially an academic with a PhD in Chinese politics from Stanford University\, Feigenbaum’s career has spanned government service\, think tanks\, the private sector\, and three major regions of Asia. \nFrom 2001 to 2009\, he served at the U.S. State Department as deputy assistant secretary of state for South Asia (2007–2009)\, deputy assistant secretary of state for Central Asia (2006–2007)\, member of the policy planning staff with principal responsibility for East Asia and the Pacific (2001–2006)\, and an adviser on China to Deputy Secretary of State Robert B. Zoellick\, with whom he worked closely in the development of the U.S.-China senior dialogue. \nPart of the Critical Issues Confronting China Series \nPresented via Zoom Webinar
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/evan-feigenbaum-us-china-relations-where-were-headed/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China,Critical Issues Confronting China Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200915T110000
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SUMMARY:Chinese Language Resources
DESCRIPTION:The Harvard-Yenching Library is offering online bibliographic orientation sessions via Zoom to introduce you to the most important resources in Chinese\, Japanese and Korean language resources. \nRegister in advance for this meeting:\nhttps://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMpd-2hqTopHdfnfVovpSg7mzMWFAZsH8Le\n\nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/chinese-language-resources/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200916T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200916T134500
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CREATED:20200630T142105Z
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series Featuring Lily Wu - The Crisis of China's Investment Environment
DESCRIPTION:Read the transcript for the event here. \nSpeaker: Lily Wu\, Chief Investment Officer\, China Prosper Group \n\nIn over 40 years of opening and reform (改革开放\, foreign and domestic direct investment has been a critical economic growth driver\, and change driver. However\, both drivers face significant challenges today\, which could limit their role or efficacy in the future. What is the state of China’s investment environment today\, how did we get here\, and what is the outlook? \n\nLily Wu is Chief Investment Officer Taiwan private equity investment company China Prosper Group. She has 30 years of investment research\, and investment management experience in China\, for various Taiwan investment companies and US brokerages Salomon Brothers and Bankers Trust. She graduated from Caltech with a BS in engineering\, and attended Peking University for post-graduate work in history as a Thomas Watson Fellow in 1985. \n\n\n  \nPart of the Critical Issues Confronting China Series \nPresented via Zoom Webinar
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/webinar-lily-wu-the-crisis-of-chinas-investment-environment/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China,Critical Issues Confronting China Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200921T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200921T140000
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CREATED:20200826T162332Z
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SUMMARY:Olga Lomová - European Dream About Chinese Poetry in Sinological Research:  The Cases of Vasiliv Alekseyev (1881–1951)  and Jaroslav Průšek (1906–1980)
DESCRIPTION:[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”3.22″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.25″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.27.4″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”]Via Zoom Meeting \nSpeaker: Olga Lomová\, Charles University in Prague \nIt is a well-known fact that since the late nineteenth century many Western modernists were fascinated by ancient Chinese poetry believed to be congenial to their new aesthetics. While Ezra Pound is a notorious example in the English-speaking world\, Pauline Yu and others have also demonstrated the crucial role of a much lesser known French poet and translator Judith Gautier (1845-1917) in promoting her version of Chinese poetry around Europe. Early translations of Chinese poetry by Western poets were shaped rather by their own taste for literary experiment than by serious inquiry into the complexity of Chinese poetic art\, and they are justly not included in the history of western sinology. However\, there were also sinologists who did substantial pioneering research into the history of Chinese literature and whose interest in the subject was nevertheless driven by similar modernist sensibility. I will present two European scholars who were among the first to write about Chinese poetry in European scholarship\, and discuss how the modernist aesthetics shaped their research. Using the cases of a Russian scholar V. Alexeyev\, and a Czech Jaroslav Průšek\, I will ask a question: how much preconceived notions about Chinese poetry inspired by earlier translations conditioned their understanding of Chinese literature\, and to what extent they helped them arrive at a breakthrough in Chinese literature studies. \nOlga Lomová is professor of Chinese literature at Charles University in Prague. Her research and teaching comprise Chinese poetry\, literary aesthetics\, and translation. She frames her research in questions of intellectual transformation in 20th century China\, interplay of ideology and culture in the PRC\, and history of sinological research in Europe with special focus on the Prague School. Currently she heads a research group on intercultural communication between East and West within a large transdisciplinary project KREAS at the Charles University Faculty of Arts. \nConducted via Zoom Meeting.\nRegistration Required.\nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0sf-2qqj8qEt1suBi_342kgpb6delQCu5E\n[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/olga-lomova-european-dream-about-chinese-poetry-in-sinological-research-the-cases-of-vasiliv-alekseyev-1881-1951-and-jaroslav-prusek-1906-1980/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200921T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200921T183000
DTSTAMP:20260511T181739
CREATED:20200918T133244Z
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SUMMARY:Opening Event\, Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar in Book History
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\nCynthia Brokaw\, Brown University\nAlex Csiszar\, Harvard University\nKathryn James\, Yale University \nPresented via Zoom.\nRegistration Required\nRegister at https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEpf-mvqDsiGtAblBeWA3ymZhyloJtgcQs4
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/opening-event-mahindra-humanities-center-seminar-in-book-history/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200922T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200922T180000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20250130T154941Z
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SUMMARY:MODERN CHINA LECTURE SERIES FEATURING Sören Urbanksy - Beyond the Steppe Frontier: A History of the Sino-Russian border
DESCRIPTION:Read the transcript of the event here. \nSpeaker: Sören Urbanksy\, Research Fellow\, German Historical Institute Washington \nThe Sino-Russian border\, once the world’s longest land border\, was special in many ways. It not only divided the two largest Eurasian empires\, it was also the place where European and Asian civilizations met\, where nomads and sedentary people mingled\, where the imperial interests of Russia and later the Soviet Union clashed with those of Qing and Republican China and Japan\, and where the world’s two largest Communist regimes hailed their friendship and staged their enmity. In this talk\, Sören Urbansky will discuss his recent book\, Beyond the Steppe Frontier: A History of the Sino-Russian border\, which examines the demarcation’s remarkable transformation—from a vaguely marked frontier in the seventeenth century to its twentieth-century incarnation as a tightly patrolled barrier girded by watchtowers\, barbed wire\, and border guards. \nPart of the Modern China Lecture Series \nPresented via Zoom Webinar
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/soren-urbanksy-modern-china-lecture/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Modern China Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200922T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200922T203000
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SUMMARY:Confronting Disinformation: A Conversation with Audrey Tang
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Audrey Tang\, Taiwan Digital Minister in charge of Social Innovation\nModerator: Joan Donovan\, Research Director\, Shorenstein Center on Media\, Politics and Public Policy\, Harvard University \nAudrey Tang is Taiwan’s Digital Minister in charge of Social Innovation. Audrey is known for revitalizing the computer languages Perl and Haskell\, as well as building the online spreadsheet system EtherCalc in collaboration with Dan Bricklin. In the public sector\, Audrey served on Taiwan national development council’s open data committee and K-12 curriculum committee; and led the country’s first e-Rulemaking project. In the private sector\, Audrey worked as a consultant with Apple on computational linguistics\, with Oxford University Press on crowd lexicography\, and with Socialtext on social interaction design. In the social sector\, Audrey actively contributes to g0v (“gov zero”)\, a vibrant community focusing on creating tools for the civil society\, with the call to “fork the government.” \nDr. Joan Donovan is the Research Director of the Shorenstein Center on Media\, Politics and Public Policy. Dr. Donovan leads the field in examining internet and technology studies\, online extremism\, media manipulation\, and disinformation campaigns. Dr. Donovan leads The Technology and Social Change Project (TaSC). TaSC explores how media manipulation is a means to control public conversation\, derail democracy\, and disrupt society. TaSC conducts research\, develops methods\, and facilitates workshops for journalists\, policy makers\, technologists\, and civil society organizations on how to detect\, document\, and debunk media manipulation campaigns. \nRegistration for this event is required\, details on how to join the webinar will be sent to registered participants before the event.\nRegister here. \nThis event is cosponsored by The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation and The Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. \nQuestions? Contact Allie Henske at allie_henske@hks.harvard.edu
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/confronting-disinformation-a-conversation-with-audrey-tang/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200923T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200923T130000
DTSTAMP:20260511T181739
CREATED:20200910T150231Z
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SUMMARY:East Asian Legal Studies Open House
DESCRIPTION:Please join East Asian Legal Studies to meet EALS faculty\, staff\, and scholars. \nThe Zoom link to this event will be published at: http://www.law.harvard.edu/programs/eals/events.html
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/east-asian-legal-studies-open-house-3/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200923T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200923T134500
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CREATED:20200817T142344Z
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series Featuring Robert Ross - Rising China in Perspective:  Global Threat or Great Power Competitor
DESCRIPTION:Read the transcript of the event here. \nSpeaker: Robert S. Ross\, Professor of Political Science\, Boston College; Fairbank Center Associate \nPart of the Critical Issues Confronting China Series \nPresented via Zoom Webinar
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/robert-ross-xi-jinping-donald-trump-and-us-china-relations/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China,Critical Issues Confronting China Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200925T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200925T111500
DTSTAMP:20260511T181739
CREATED:20200828T140921Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200828T140921Z
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SUMMARY:Digital China Series - Long Live the Digital Scholarship Project!
DESCRIPTION:Read the transcript for the event here. \nPresenters:\nPeter Bol\, Harvard University\, China Biographical Database\nGrace Fong\, McGill University\, Ming-Qing Women’s Writings\nAndrew Gordon\, Harvard University\, Japan Disasters Digital Archive Project\nHelen Hardacre\, Harvard University\, Constitutional Revision Research Project \nIt is difficult to start a digital scholarship project. Maintaining it for decades is even more difficult. In this year’s first forum of the East Asian Digital Scholarship Series\, we invite the founders of four long-running North American-based projects. Peter Bol\, Grace Fong\, Andrew Gordon\, and Helen Hardacre will share their experiences in building and leading digital scholarship projects. \nThe East Asian Digital Scholarship Series\, founded by Feng-en Tu and Sharon Yang\, has been a monthly luncheon at Harvard-Yenching Library. This year\, the Series will be conducted remotely and is sponsored by Harvard-Yenching Library with the support of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies\, and Korea Institute. The Series will cover a wide range of topics in East Asian digital scholarship. \nPart of the Digital China Series \nPresented via Zoom Webinar
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/long-live-the-digital-scholarship-project/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200928T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200928T173000
DTSTAMP:20260511T181739
CREATED:20200908T130309Z
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SUMMARY:Ann Heirman - Protecting Insects in Medieval Chinese Buddhism: Daoxuan's Vinaya Commentaries
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Ann Heirman\, Ghent University \nBuddhist texts generally prohibit the killing of all sentient beings. This is certainly the case in vinaya (disciplinary) texts\, which contain strict guidelines on the preservation of all human and animal life. When these vinaya texts were translated into Chinese\, they formed the core of Buddhist behavioural codes\, influencing both monastic and lay followers. Chinese vinaya masters\, such as Daoxuan 道宣 (596–667) and Yijing 義淨 (635–713)\, wrote extensive commentaries and accounts\, introducing Indian concepts into the Chinese environment. In this lecture\, we focus on an often neglected aspect of inflicting harm on sentient beings: namely\, the injury that may be caused to some of the world’s smallest animals – insects. Some insects produce economically valuable products\, such as silk and honey; others\, such as mosquitoes and bedbugs\, are annoying or dangerous; and still others are innocent victims of essential human activities\, such as earthworms that are killed when farmland is tilled. Yet\, all of these are sentient beings that – according to Buddhist principles – should not be harmed or killed. What this implies for Chinese vinaya masters\, and especially the highly influential Daoxuan\, is the core question of this lecture. As we will see\, their responses are mixed\, but they always attempt to remain true to the basic principles of Buddhism.Please contact coordinator Guttorm Gundersen for a link to the event: gundersen@g.harvard.edu
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/ann-heirman-protecting-insects-in-medieval-chinese-buddhism-daoxuans-vinaya-commentaries/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Buddhist Studies Forum
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200928T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200928T203000
DTSTAMP:20260511T181739
CREATED:20200923T142615Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200923T142615Z
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SUMMARY:Jinying Li - Walled Media\, Mediating Walls
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Jinying Li\, Brown University \nAs the global digital network promises boundless access to limitless information\, we are facing increasing layers of mounting walls in digital media: the Great Firewall (GFW)\, the Facebook Walls\, the virtual walls in virtual realities…. The existence of the walls shatters the myth of an infinitely open\, borderless digital space\, and highlights the significant functions of certain types of digital apparatus in managing\, controlling\, and mediating information\, knowledge\, and experience. A wall\, in its graphic signification and structural function\, is not only a boundary for demarcation but also a surface for expression. It is an object of both blockage and revelation. Drawing upon the “window” metaphor\, I argue that it is the wall rather than the window that fundamentally structures and defines digital media. Shifting the metaphor from “window” to ”wall” is a theoretical reconsideration of modern media not simply as systems of visual representation but as spatial organization. \nJinying Li is Assistant Professor of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University\, where she teaches media theory\, animation\, and digital culture in East Asia. Her essays have been published in Film International\, Mechademia\, the International Journal of Communication\, Journal of Chinese Cinemas\, Asiascape\, Asian Cinema\, and Camera Obscura. She co-edited two special issues on Chinese animation for the Journal of Chinese Cinemas\, and a special issue on regional platforms for Asiascape: Digital Asia. She recently completed her first book\, Geek Pleasures: Anime\, Otaku\, and Cybernetic Affect and began her second book project\, Walled Media and Mediating Walls. Jinying is also a filmmaker and has worked on animations\, feature films\, and documentaries. Two documentary TV series that she produced were broadcasted nationwide in China through Shanghai Media Group (SMG). She is one of the co-writers of animated feature film Big Fish and Begonia (Dayu Haitang\, 2016) \nThe talk is part of the ongoing East Asian Media Ecologies lecture series. Following a ten-minute presentation by Professor Li are an extended conversation and Q&A with the moderators and attendees.\nMade possible by the generous support of the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations. \nPresented via Zoom.\nLog on at: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/91095850811?pwd=TlBHM3hDL1kwSkJaQmhFdi9hVG1Ndz09\nMeeting password: 254290
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/jinying-li-walled-media-mediating-walls/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200930T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200930T134500
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series Featuring Jorge Heine - China and the Global South: From Debt Diplomacy to Dependency?
DESCRIPTION:Read the transcript of the event here. \nSpeaker: Jorge Heine\, Research Professor\, Boston University; Former Ambassador of Chile to China (2014-2017)\, to India (2003-2007) and to South Africa ( 994-1999)\, and Cabinet Minister in the Chilean Government \nPart of the Critical Issues Confronting China Series \nPresented via Zoom Webinar
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/jorge-heine-china-and-the-global-south-from-debt-diplomacy-to-dependency/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China,Critical Issues Confronting China Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201005T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201005T180000
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SUMMARY:Nicolas Tackett - The Mechanics of Cultural Change in China in a Period of Disunity
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Nicolas Tackett\, University of California Berkeley \nSituated at the epicenter of the “Tang-Song Transition\,” the tenth-century interregnum between the Tang and Song dynasties was a period of rapid change. This talk will focus on the dramatic evolution of Chinese political culture\, as reflected in new political ideals\, new ideas of Chinese space\, and a new elite sense of identity. What underlying mechanisms account for these developments? Datasets and examples taken from an on-going book project suggest that cultural change was spurred by the particularities of the tenth century as a period of disunity. Although Chinese civilization has evolved continuously throughout its long history\, change during periods of disunity was driven by distinct causative factors\, which included political instability\, inter-regime competition\, elite migrations\, not to mention the process of reunification itself. \nNicolas Tackett is Professor of History at U.C. Berkeley. He is the author of two books. The Destruction of the Medieval Chinese Aristocracy (2014) examines how a network of powerful families survived at the pinnacle of political power for centuries only to disappear into oblivion suddenly and completely at the turn of the 10th c. The Origins of the Chinese Nation (2017) argues that a national consciousness emerged in China in the eleventh century (i.e.\, much earlier than typically assumed)\, and explores how this new consciousness was a product of the diplomatic environment of 11th-c. Northeast Asia. \nPresented via Zoom.\nRegistration required.\nRegister at https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIuf-uqrz8uGNdQbNpKcTEXXRzRvo5dR5Vb
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/nicolas-tackett-the-mechanics-of-cultural-change-in-china-in-a-period-of-disunity/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201007T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201007T134500
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series Featuring Rosemary Foot - China\, the UN\, and Human Protection: Beliefs\, Power\, Image
DESCRIPTION:Read the transcript of the event here. \nSpeaker: Rosemary Foot\, Senior Research Fellow in International Relations at the University of Oxford; Emeritus Fellow of St Antony’s College; Research Associate of Oxford’s China Centre \nPart of the Critical Issues Confronting China Series \nPresented via Zoom Webinar
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/rosemary-foot-china-the-un-and-human-protection-beliefs-power-image/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China,Critical Issues Confronting China Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201007T223000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201007T233000
DTSTAMP:20260511T181739
CREATED:20200916T143113Z
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UID:9632-1602109800-1602113400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:COVID and Telemedicine: Experience from China\, India\, and the U.S.
DESCRIPTION:Panelists:\nHongqiao Fu\, Assistant Professor in Health Economics and Policy in School of Public Health\, Peking University\nAjay Nair\, CEO\, Swasth Digital Health Foundation\nAtveev Mehrotra\, Associate Professor of Health Care Policy\, Harvard Medical School \nModerator: Winnie Chi-Man Yip\, Professor of Global Health Policy and Economics\, Harvard School of Public Health; Director\, Harvard China Health Partnership; Interim Director\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. \nIn many countries\, telemedicine is playing an important role in COVID-19 pandemic response and may have an increased role in non-COVID-19 service delivery going forward. Join us for a discussion of telemedicine in the three largest countries of the world–China\, India\, and the United States. Panelists will discuss the policies around insurance coverage\, pricing\, and quality of telemedicine and the role that telemedicine may have in the regular health care delivery system for years to come. \nSponsored by Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and Harvard China Health Partnership. Co-sponsored by the Mittal South Asia Institute and the Harvard University Asia Center. This panel discussion is presented as part of “24 Hours of Harvard\,” a special feature of Worldwide Week at Harvard 2020.\n\nThis discussion will be streamed online at https://worldwide.harvard.edu/24hh-24-hours-harvard. No pre-registration is necessary.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/covid-and-telemedicine-experience-from-china-india-and-the-u-s/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201013T180000
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SUMMARY:Modern China Lecture Series Featuring Gina Anne Tam - Dialect and the Making of Modern China: From Republican Revolutionaries to Hong Kong Protesters
DESCRIPTION:Read the transcript for the event here. \nSpeaker: Gina Anne Tam\, Assistant Professor of History\, Trinity University \nTaking aim at the conventional narrative that standard\, national languages transform ‘peasants’ into citizens\, this talk will trace the history of the Chinese nation and national identity on fangyan – languages like Shanghainese\, Cantonese\, and dozens of others that are categorically different from the Chinese national language\, Mandarin. It shows how\, on the one hand\, linguists\, policy-makers\, bureaucrats and workaday educators framed fangyan as non-standard ‘variants’ of the Chinese language\, subsidiary in symbolic importance to standard Mandarin. I simultaneously highlight\, on the other hand\, the 1920s folksong collectors\, communist-period playwrights\, contemporary hip-hop artists and popular protestors in Hong Kong who argued that fangyan were more authentic and representative of China’s national culture and its history. From the late Qing through the present\, these intertwined visions of the Chinese nation – one spoken in one voice\, one spoken in many – interacted and shaped one another\, and in the process\, shaped the basis for national identity itself. \nGina Anne Tam is an assistant professor of Chinese history at Trinity University in San Antonio\, Texas. She received her Ph.D. from Stanford University in 2016\, and her research and teaching focus on the construction of collective identity– national belonging\, ethnicity and race– in modern China. In addition to her book Dialect and Nationalism in China\, 1860-1960\, she has also published peer-reviewed work in Twentieth-Century China\, and has written about the relevance of her work to current events in Foreign Affairs\, The Nation\, and Dissent. Her new project will be a global history of Chinese restauranteurs and the making of pan-Asian cuisine in the twentieth century. \nPart of the Modern China Lecture Series \nPresented via Zoom Webinar
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/gina-anne-tam-modern-china-lecture/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Modern China Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201014T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201014T134500
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CREATED:20200817T144803Z
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series Featuring Suisheng Zhao - China Re-examines Global Governance
DESCRIPTION:Read the transcript of the event here. \nSpeaker: Suisheng (Sam) Zhao\, Professor and Executive Director of the Center for China-US Cooperation at Josef Korbel School of International Studies\, University of Denver \nPart of the Critical Issues Confronting China Series \nPresented via Zoom Webinar
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/suisheng-zhao-china-re-examines-global-governance/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China,Critical Issues Confronting China Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201014T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201014T210000
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SUMMARY:Chinese Language Resources
DESCRIPTION:The Harvard-Yenching Library is offering online bibliographic orientation sessions via Zoom to introduce you to the most important resources in Chinese\, Japanese and Korean language resources. \nRegister in advance for this meeting:\nhttps://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0pdO-grz4pG9ch-VhtIx9tM_Bncj7GvyLt\nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/chinese-language-resources-2/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201015T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201015T103000
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SUMMARY:Repatriation and Reintegration of ISIS Affiliates in Central Asia
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\nVera Mironova\, Writer; Center Associate\, Davis Center\nFarukh Chariyev\, Project Component Manager\, NGO “Barqaror Hayot”\nRustam Azizi\, Deputy Director\, Center for Islamic Studies under the President of the Republic of Tajikistan\nModerator: Nargis Kassenova\, Senior Fellow\, Program on Central Asia\, Davis Center \nAround 5\,000-10\,000 individuals from post-Soviet Eurasia traveled to Syria and Iraq to join ISIS and other armed groups fighting there between 2012 and 2019. Now\, some of them are repatriated to their home countries\, while many remain in prisons and detention camps in the Middle East. What will happen to ISIS affiliates returning to Central Asia? Will they be prosecuted or released once repatriated? And how can governments ensure their integration in the civilian society back home? The roundtable will address these questions and offer policy recommendations. \n\n\n\nWatch live on YouTube. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nMore info: https://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/events/repatriation-and-reintegration-isis-affiliates-central-asia.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/repatriation-and-reintegration-of-isis-affiliates-in-central-asia/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201019T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201019T173000
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SUMMARY:Sonam Kachru - The Questions of Milinda: How To Use a Philosophical Classic and (perhaps) find a Literary Gem.
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Sonam Kachru\, University of Virginia \nMy goal is practical—How shall an intelligent reader make use of the remarkable though forbidding work\, The Questions of Milinda (Milindapañha)? The Pāli work can seem discouragingly heterogenous. My guide is intended to overcome that\, seeking to facilitate productive (and even potentially transformative) encounters with the text. It is divided into two parts\, each part emphasizing distinct ways of approaching (sometimes overlapping parts of) the work. In Part One we will consider how to think about two features that are said to make the discourse (kathā) of Nāgasena aesthetically captivating (citra)\, the use of illustrative examples and arguments. In Part Two\, we shall explore a small section of the work which constitutes a complete dramatic unit\, so to speak\, and one which is worthy of being taken up “as a work of art\,” to borrow T. W. Rhys Davids’ characterization. As I read it\, the text contains a drama concerned with the nature\, salience and even tragedy of thought. I conclude with a discussion of the text’s own meta-poetic suggestions for readers and the practice of wise reasoning as a way of reading and a way of life. \nPresented via Zoom.\nRegistration Required.\nRegister here: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAlfuqsqD8jHNWLB7LYEyAB7Vw4IarTG2JH
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/sonam-kachru-the-questions-of-milinda-how-to-use-a-philosophical-classic-and-perhaps-find-a-literary-gem/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Buddhist Studies Forum
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201019T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201019T220000
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SUMMARY:Bruce Rusk - Information and Its Objects:  Provenancing the Censers of the Xuande Court
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Bruce Rusk\, University of British Columbia \n\nThis presentation examines the textual existence of material objects in early modern China\, arguing that a new concept of the archive refigured the relationship between document and thing. The use of textual sources to understand the material culture of the past of course had a long history\, particularly in antiquarian studies; writing about ancient objects had an equally long pedigree. By the early eighteenth century\, however\, some writers grounded claims about artifacts in a new vision of textual sources as documents drawn from an archive. The model of the state archive (dang’an 檔案/dangzi 檔子\, Manchu dangse)\, a vital tool of governance in the Qing\, may have shaped the use of documents in other epistemic domains. I examine the case of the Xuande lu 宣德爐\, copper-alloy incense burners attributed to the early-Ming court\, and the various “registers” (pu 譜) that describe them and their provenance. These texts were crafted to support of tenuous claims\, since both the books and the artifacts whose history they provide are forgeries. Borrowing the concept of “documentality” from library studies\, I show how relations of documentation between artifact as document and document as object create a network of epistemological connections that establish meaning and value in the world. \nBruce Rusk (PhD History\, UCLA\, 2004) is Associate Professor in the Department of Asian Studies\, University of British Columbia. He studies the cultural history of early modern China (14th to 18th centuries)\, focusing on cultural practices of authentication and deception\, on the history of philology\, and cultural uses of writing and books. He has published a monograph on the history of classical scholarship (Critics and Commentators: The Book of Poems as Classic and Literature\, Harvard Asia Center\, 2012) and a co-translation of a short story collection (Zhang Yingyu\, The Book of Swindles: Selections from a Late Ming Collection\, with Christopher Rea\, Columbia UP\, 2017); is a co-editor of the forthcoming Literary Information in China: A History (with Jack Chen\, Anatoly Detwyler\, Liu Xiao\, and Christopher Nugent; Columbia UP\, 2021). He is currently writing a study of material and textual forgery in early modern and modern China. \n\nRegister in advance for this meeting:\nhttps://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0rde2hpjIpG9xhdYG4cfxKe9yowMMQNvme
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/bruce-rusk-information-and-its-objects-provenancing-the-censers-of-the-xuande-court/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201021T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201021T103000
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SUMMARY:Deng Yanhua - Value Clashes\, Power Competition and Community Trust: Why an NGO’s Earthquake Recovery Program Faltered in Rural China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Deng Yanhua\, Professor\, School of Social and Behavioral Sciences\, Nanjing University; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2020-21\nChair/discussant: Anthony Saich\, Daewoo Professor of International Affairs\, Harvard Kennedy School \nNGOs in rural China cannot operate successfully and achieve their goals if they lose the trust of the people they aim to serve and the grassroots leaders they must work with. Following the 2008 Sichuan earthquake\, an environmental NGO in P village became entangled in competition with village cadres and value clashes with villagers who had their own understanding of development\, sustainability and environmentalism. Initially\, “borrowed power” from higher-level governments enabled the ENGO to enter the community fairly smoothly and to gain a degree of trust\, but disputes with villagers (over home construction\, organic agriculture and eco-tourism) and a power struggle with local cadres (over their role in the village) triggered resistance that ultimately drove the ENGO out. The story of P village is a cautionary tale about power relationships and community micropolitics. “Borrowed power” from above is no match for opposition from below on two fronts. Sadly\, however\, “success” in expelling the ENGO has not meant success more broadly. P village’s economic performance remains weak and old divisions between the powerful and powerless have re-emerged\, as lack of trust in outsiders has been replaced with a lack of trust in insiders. \nPresented via Zoom\nRegistration Required\nRegister at: https://harvard.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_2cmQYapggeGGx3D \nhttps://harvard-yenching.org/events/value-clashes-power-competition-and-community-trust-why-ngo-s-earthquake-recovery-program
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/deng-yanhua-value-clashes-power-competition-and-community-trust-why-an-ngos-earthquake-recovery-program-faltered-in-rural-china/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201021T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201021T211500
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UID:9806-1603310400-1603314900@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series Featuring Wang Gungwu - How Political Heritage and Future Progress Shape the China Challenge
DESCRIPTION:Read the transcript of the event here. \nSpeaker: Wang Gungwu\, University Professor\, National University of Singapore \nWang Gungwu is University Professor\, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences\, National University of Singapore (NUS) since 2007\, and Emeritus Professor of Australian National University since 1988. He is Foreign Honorary Member of the History Division of the American Academy of Arts and Science and former President of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. \nHe received his BA and MA from University of Malaya (UM) in Singapore\, and PhD at SOAS\, London. His early teaching career was in the UM History Department at Singapore and then at Kuala Lumpur\, and held the History Chair at UM in KL (1963-1968). He was then appointed to the Chair of Far Eastern History at The Australian National University (1968-1986). From 1986 to 1995\, he was Vice-Chancellor (President) of The University of Hong Kong. In Singapore\, he was Director of the East Asian Institute till 2007. \nHis books include The Nanhai Trade: The Early History of Chinese Trade in the South China Sea. New Edition (1998); The Chinese Overseas: From Earthbound China to the Quest for Autonomy (2000); Anglo-Chinese Encounters since 1800: war\, trade\, science and governance (2003); Divided China: Preparing for reunification\, 883-947 (2007); Renewal: The Chinese State and the New Global History (2013); and Another China Cycle: Committing to Reform (2014). \nPart of the Critical Issues Confronting China Series \nPresented via Zoom Webinar
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/wang-gungwu-how-political-heritage-and-future-progress-shape-the-china-challenge/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China,Critical Issues Confronting China Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201022T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201022T133000
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SUMMARY:Lyle Goldstein and Vitaly Kozyrev — From a ‘Marriage of Convenience’ to the ‘Axis of Authoritarianism’: Evaluating the Russia-China Relationship in the 21st Century
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\nLyle Goldstein\, Research Professor\, China Maritime Studies Institute (CMSI)\, Naval War College\nVitaly Kozyrev\, Professor\, Political Science and International Studies\, Endicott College \n\n\n\nWatch live on YouTube. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nExamining contemporary Russia-China relations\, assessments by Western scholars yield a wide variety of perspectives and conclusions.  Some view the relationship as inherently brittle\, lacking in genuine substance and shot through with historical mistrust.  At the other end of the spectrum\, some hold that the relationship represents the most ominous possible threat to Western-style democracies.  This presentation will summarize and attempt to categorize these wide-ranging conclusions\, demonstrating that realists\, liberals and constructivists have all developed distinct interpretations of the Russia-China relationship and its meaning for global security.  Employing a case study approach\, this research makes detailed probes into Russia-China cooperation in five specific domains\, including Central Asia\, the Korean Peninsula\, the Arctic\, the Middle East\, and in the military domain more generally.  These case studies offer preliminary conclusions for a larger book-length study that aims to be one of the first truly comprehensive studies of this complex and consequential bilateral relationship.  Results to date illustrate a path between the two analytical extremes.  The relationship has already produced some very significant results in the given case studies.  On the other hand\, the threat of further developing Russia-China relations should not be exaggerated\, even as the subject demands increased scholarly attention. \nMore info: https://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/events/%E2%80%98marriage-convenience%E2%80%99-%E2%80%98axis-authoritarianism%E2%80%99-evaluating-russia-china-relationship-21st
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/lyle-goldstein-and-vitaly-kozyrev-from-a-marriage-of-convenience-to-the-axis-of-authoritarianism-evaluating-the-russia-china-relationship-in-the-21st-cen/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201023T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201023T133000
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SUMMARY:Environment in Asia Lecture Series Featuring David Fedman and Ian M. Miller - East Asian Forestry and Empires
DESCRIPTION:Read the transcript of the event here.\n\n\nSpeakers:\nDavid Fedman\, Assistant Professor of History\,University of California\, Irvine\nIan M. Miller\, Assistant Professor of History\, St. John’s University\nModerator: Ling Zhang\, Boston College\n\n  \nDavid Fedman is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California\, Irvine. He is the author of Seeds of Control: Japan’s Empire of Forestry in Colonial Korea (University of Washington Press\, 2020). His other publications include “The Ondol Problem and the Politics of Forest Conservation in Colonial Korea” (Journal of Korean Studies\, Vol. 23\, 2018)\, which was awarded the 2019 Joel A. Tarr Envirotech Article Prize. \nIan M. Miller is Assistant Professor of History at St. John’s University in New York. He is the author of Fir and Empire: The Transformation of Forests in Early Modern China (University of Washington Press\, 2020). His current research is on the role of lineage organizations in regulating village environments\, provisionally titled Ancestral Shade: Kinship and Ecology in South China. \nPart of the Environment in Asia Lecture Series \nPresented Via Zoom Webinar
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/east-asian-forestry-and-empires-a-conversation-with-environmental-historians-david-fedman-and-ian-m-miller/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Environment,Environment
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