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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
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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
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201013T160000
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201024T090000
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SUMMARY:Left-Wing South
DESCRIPTION:Co-hosts:\nDavid Der-wei Wang\, Harvard University\nLetty Chen\, Washington University in St. Louis \nSpecial Guests:\nWang Anyi\, Fudan University\nNg Kim Chew\, National Chi Nan University \nPresenters:\nTu Hang\, Harvard University\nJessica Tan\, Harvard University\nKang Ling\, Fudan University\nNicholas Wong\, Hong Kong University\nPo-hsi Chen\, Yale University\nChung Chih-wei\, National Taiwan University \nJoin us for an online workshop on the rich legacies of left-wing thoughts and practices in the Sinophone South (Hong Kong\, Taiwan\, Singapore\, etc.). Young scholars from across the world will present on their most recent research\, and two renowned writers—Wang Anyi and Ng Kim Chew—will join our discussion. The workshop will be held in Chinese. \nThe workshop is sponsored by the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation. \nRegistration required: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0oduiqpzgpH920iAXTi-t1N3OAYMIOblc0
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/left-wing-south/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201027T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201027T180000
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SUMMARY:Modern China Lecture Series Featuring Fei-Hsien Wang - Everybody Loves Qianlong: Vernacular Fantasies\, Cultural Consumption\, and the “Prosperous Age” in Post-Imperial China
DESCRIPTION:Read the transcript of the event here. \nSpeaker: Fei-Hsien Wang\, Associate Professor\, Department of History\, Indiana University Bloomington \nExamining a wide range of cultural products and genres from the late nineteenth century to the present\, this talk traces the evolution of the vernacular myths and popular fantasies about Emperor Qianlong (1711-1799). As China’s cultural economy and political climate transforms overtime\, new stories and myths about Qianlong emerge to satisfy the changing desires of the audience as well as the political authorities. These popular cultural products have gradually shaped a common historical memory that takes the place of Qing “history” in most (Han) Chinese audience’s minds\, despite generations of specialists’ effort to debunk it. The voracious fascination with this most accomplished Manchu emperor\, however\, has been an uneasy one. At the core of the vernacular fantasies of Qianlong lies the unsolved tension between the modern Han/Chinese nationalism and the legacy of a non-Han “prosperous age” (shengshi). The unofficial endorsement by the PRC leaders of using High Qing to talk about a great China further prolongs the career of the vernacular Qianlong. \nFei-Hsien Wang is a historian of modern China\, with a particular interest in how information\, ideas\, and practices were produced\, transmitted\, and consumed across different societies in East Asia. Fei-Hsien Wang’s research has revolved around the relations between knowledge\, commerce\, and political authority after 1800. \nCo-sponsored by the Joint Center for History and Economics. \nPart of the Modern China Lecture Series \nPresented via Zoom Webinar
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/fei-hsien-wang-modern-china-lecture/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Modern China Lecture
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SUMMARY:Arnika Fuhrmann - In the Mood for Texture: Bangkok as a Chinese City
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Arnika Fuhrmann\, Associate Professor\, Department of Asian Studies\, Cornell University. \nWhat does it mean to imagine “Asia” beyond the reductive visions of contemporary policy? This project explores the contemporary visual culture of Chinese pasts and colonial modernities\, revived across the cinemas\, new media\, hospitality venues\, and other material sites of East and Southeast Asia. Examining the doubling of Hong Kong\, Bangkok\, and Shanghai across these sites\, it investigates how a transregional Chinese modernity that emerged under\, but always exceeded\, conditions of colonial and national governance informs the present. As film directors such as Wong Kar-wai and hotels\, bars\, and clubs revive 1930s Shanghai and 1960s Hong Kong modernities—and exploit the Chinese past of Bangkok’s old European trading quarters—this redeployment of (semi-)colonial histories and Chinese urban pasts is emerging as a primary signifier of the good life and understandings of Asia in the present. The deployment of this twentieth century translocal Chinese modernity points to enduring regional imaginaries that diverge from global notions of “China Rising\,” the People’s Republic’s own Belt and Road Initiative\, or the policies of the Association for Southeast Asian Nations. Bangkok—as a Chinese city—stands at the center of these prominent\, transregional revivals in which media and urban design projects speak of radically different desires than those of current policy. \nArnika Fuhrmann is an Associate Professor in the Department of Asian Studies at Cornell University. Her work on contexts in Southeast Asia is informed by affect\, gender\, urban and media theory. Her book Ghostly Desires: Queer Sexuality and Vernacular Buddhism in Contemporary Thai Cinema (Duke University Press\, 2016) examines how Buddhist-coded anachronisms of haunting figure struggles over sexuality\, personhood\, and notions of collectivity in contemporary Thai cinema and political rhetoric. She is currently working on a project called Digital Futures: South/east Asian Media Temporalities and the Expansion of the Sphere of Politics. \nThe talk is part of the ongoing East Asian Media Ecologies lecture series. Following a ten-minute presentation by Professor Fuhrmann are an extended conversation with the moderators and a Q&A with the attendees.  \nA zoom link will be posted closer to the event.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/arnika-fuhrmann-in-the-mood-for-texture-bangkok-as-a-chinese-city/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Daniel S. Markey and Andrew Small — China’s Western Horizon: Beijing and the New Geopolitics of Eurasia
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\nDaniel S. Markey\, Senior Research Professor\, International Relations\, School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)\, John Hopkins University\nAndrew Small\, Senior Transatlantic Fellow\, Asia Program\, The German Marshall Fund of the United States\nModerator: Nargis Kassenova\, Senior Fellow\, Program on Central Asia\, Davis Center; Associate Professor\, KIMEP University \n\n\n\nWatch live on YouTube. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nUnder the ambitious leadership of President Xi Jinping\, China is transforming its wealth and economic power into potent tools of global political influence. But its foreign policy initiatives\, such as the Belt and Road Initiative\, are shaped and redefined as they confront the ground realities of local and regional politics outside China. Daniel S. Markey\, in his new book China’s Western Horizon\, describes and analyzes these complex processes in South Asia\, Central Asia\, and the Middle East. Drawing from extensive interviews\, travels\, and historical research\, he provides the in-depth studies of the dynamics that China’s involvement in Pakistan\, Kazakhstan and Iran has created. Markey anticipates that China’s expanding influence will not bring greater stability and peace to this difficult part of the world\, and might exacerbate conflicts within and among Eurasian states. He argues that U.S. policy makers should have a clear grasp of local histories\, interests and relationships to effectively advance America’s specific diplomatic\, economic\, and security interests in Eurasia\, whether in common cause with Beijing or when working at cross purposes. At this event\, Daniel S. Markey will present some of the key arguments of his book. Andrew Small will discuss the book and provide an overview of the European perspectives on China’s engagement in Eurasia. Policy options for U.S. and European policy makers will be explored. \nMore info: https://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/events/china%E2%80%99s-western-horizon-beijing-and-new-geopolitics-eurasia
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/daniel-s-markey-and-andrew-small-chinas-western-horizon-beijing-and-the-new-geopolitics-of-eurasia/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series Featuring William Overholt - The Logic & Illogic of China-US Decoupling
DESCRIPTION:Read the transcript of the event here. \nSpeaker: William Overholt\, Senior Research Fellow\, Harvard Kennedy School \nPart of the Critical Issues Confronting China Series \nPresented via Zoom Webinar
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/william-overholt-the-logic-illogic-of-china-us-decoupling/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China,Critical Issues Confronting China Series
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SUMMARY:Hsiang-an Wang - The Academia Sinica Digital Humanities Research Platform
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Hsiang-an Wang\, Academia Sinica Center for Digital Cultures \nLaunched in October 2018\, the Academia Sinica Digital Humanities Research Platform (https://idh.ascdc.sinica.edu.tw/member/) is an one-stop platform of source materials\, digital tools\, and collaboration that enables big data analysis for innovative research. Combining open access and crowd collaboration\, it enables search\, keyword tagging\, statistical analysis\, text comparison\, etc. for over 47\,000 Chinese digital texts (~7.6 billion words) from Academia Sinica\, Kyoto University\, and more. The English version of the platform was added in 2020\, allowing big data analysis of English texts. In the October webinar of the East Asian Digital Scholarship series\, Dr. Wang Hsiang-an will introduce the platform to us. \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. \nPresented via Zoom.\nRegistration Required\nRegister at https://link.ws/eads-oct20. \nThe presentation will not be recorded.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/hsiang-an-wang-the-academia-sinica-digital-humanities-research-platform/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
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SUMMARY:Fairbank Center Inaugural Director's Seminar: Impact of COVID-19 on China’s Economy
DESCRIPTION:Read a summary of the event here. \nModerator and Commentator: Lawrence H. Summers\, Charles W. Eliot University Professor and President Emeritus\, Harvard University; Secretary of the Treasury for President Clinton; Director of the National Economic Council for President Obama.\n\nPresenter: Martin Raiser\, World Bank Country Director for China and Mongolia\n\nCommentators:\nDwight Perkins\, Harold Hitchings Burbank Research Professor of Political Economy\, Harvard University\nYang Yao\, Professor and Director at the China Center for Economic Research (CCER) and Dean of the National School of Development (NSD)\, Peking University. \nHost: Chi-Man (Winnie) Yip\, Professor of the Practice of Global Health Policy and Economics in the Department of Global Health and Population\, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Director of the Harvard China Health Partnership; Acting Director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies \nCOVID-19 has caused catastrophic economic\, social and psychological costs that have far-reaching implications on human welfare. This session examines the effects of COVID-19 on the economy of China\, the first country hit by COVID-19 and the first major economy that is gradually re-opening. \nThis discussion will reference the World Bank’s most recent findings on COVID’s effects on China’s economy. For highlights\, or to download the full report\, please visit the World Bank’s China Economic Update page. \nSponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. Co-sponsored by the Harvard China Health Partnership. \nPart of the Fairbank Center Director’s Seminar Series \nPresented via Zoom Webinar
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/fairbank-center-inaugural-directors-seminar-impact-of-covid-19-on-chinas-economy/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Director's Seminar
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SUMMARY:Lucas R. Bender - The Eternal Frontier of China’s Cosmopolitan Empire: Changing Attitudes Towards Ethnocultural Others in Tang-Dynasty Texts
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Lucas R. Bender\, Yale University \nThe seventh and early-eighth centuries have often been considered the period of “China’s Cosmopolitan Empire” on account of their relative tolerance of religious and ideological diversity\, their acceptance of significant “foreign” populations in the capital and on the borderlands\, and their active recruitment of non-“Han” ethnicities into the military and civil ranks. At the same time\, however\, surviving texts from this period also evince attitudes no less xenophobic than those found in texts from the ninth through eleventh centuries\, when scholars have often claimed that China became less open to ethnocultural others. This talk will argue that what changes between these periods are not\, in fact\, contemporary attitudes towards “the barbarians\,” who were almost universally reviled in surviving texts from throughout the Tang. Instead\, changing ideas about texts themselves\, and about the ways that texts should ideally operate within the world\, produced a transformation in how longstanding and relatively unchanging tropes about ethnocultural others were understood and deployed. The apparent decline of elite “cosmopolitan” attitudes from the seventh century to the tenth thus reflects\, in significant part\, a shift in literary theory. \nLucas Rambo Bender is Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages & Literatures at Yale University. He graduated from Harvard’s Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations in 2016. His book on the great Tang-dynasty poet Du Fu is forthcoming in the summer of 2021 from the Harvard University Asia Center Press\, and he is currently at work on a second project\, about the oft-remarked but rarely-interrogated “pluralism” of the late Chinese middle ages. \nPresented via Zoom.\nRegistration required.\nRegister at https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcrc-yvrD8oH9KrvPpFFw9ytwB2Uicb5hlH.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/lucas-r-bender-the-eternal-frontier-of-chinas-cosmopolitan-empire-tropes-of-identity-and-difference-in-the-tang-dynasty/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series Featuring Jeffrey A. Bader: Implications of the Election for Policy toward China
DESCRIPTION:Read the transcript of the event here. \nSpeaker: Jeffrey Bader\, Senior Fellow\, John L. Thornton China Center\, Brookings Institution \nJeffrey Bader is a senior fellow in the John L. Thornton China Center at the Brookings Institution. \nFrom 2009 until 2011\, Bader was special assistant to the president of the United States for national security affairs at the National Security Council. In that capacity\, he was the principal advisor to President Obama on Asia. \nBader served from 2005 to 2009 as the director of the China Initiative and\, subsequently\, as the first director of the John L. Thornton China Center. \nDuring his three decade career with the U.S. government\, Bader was principally involved in U.S.-China relations at the State Department\, the National Security Council\, and the Office of the United States Trade Representative. In 2001\, as assistant U.S. trade representative\, he led the United States delegation in completing negotiations on the accession of China and Taiwan into the World Trade Organization. \nBader served as a Foreign Service officer in the People’s Republic of China\, Hong Kong\, Taiwan\, Namibia\, Zambia\, Congo\, and the United States Mission to the United Nations. During the 1990s\, he was deputy assistant secretary of state responsible for China\, Hong Kong\, Taiwan\, and Southeast Asia; director of Asian affairs at the National Security Council; and director of the State Department’s Office of Chinese Affairs. He served as U.S. ambassador to Namibia from 1999 to 2001. \nBader is the author of “Obama and China’s Rise: An Insider’s Account of America’s Asia Strategy\,” published in 2012 by Brookings Institution Press. He is president and sole proprietor of Jeffrey Bader LLC\, which provides assistance to companies with interests in Asia. \nBader received a bachelor’s degree from Yale University and a master’s and doctorate in European history from Columbia University. He speaks Chinese and French. \nPart of the Critical Issues Confronting China Series \nPresented via Zoom Webinar
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/jeffrey-a-bader-implications-of-the-election-for-policy-toward-china/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China,Critical Issues Confronting China Series
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SUMMARY:Jie Qiao - Impact of COVID-19 on Maternal and Child Health in China and Its Global Lessons
DESCRIPTION:A RECORDING OF THIS EVENT MAY BE FOUND AT: https://harvard.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=110ef590-303f-41dd-b32d-ac6b00e637fb \nSpeaker: Jie Qiao\, Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering\, Director of Peking University Third Hospital \nDiscussants:\nMichelle Williams\, Dean\, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health\nAna Langer\, Professor of the Practice of Public Health and Coordinator of the Dean’s Special Initiative on Women and Health\, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health\nWinnie Yip\, Professor of the Practice of Global Health Policy and Economics\, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Director\, Harvard China Health Partnership; Acting Director\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies \nWhat can we learn from China’s experience in managing maternal and child care during the COVID-19 pandemic? Join us for a discussion of recent experience\, global lessons\, and potential areas for China-U.S. collaboration. \nJie Qiao is Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering\, Director of Peking University Third Hospital. During the COVID-19 pandemic\, Dr. Qiao lead the Hubei medical aid team of Peking University which was responsible for critical and maternal care\, and as early as February 2020\, she wrote in The Lancet about the impact of COVID-19 on maternal and neonatal health (read here). Her own research focuses on the molecular mechanism of human gametogenesis and embryo development\, infertility pathology and clinical treatments\, the protection and preservation of female fertility\, as well as developing new pre-implantation diagnosis methods. She has led teams to achieve a number of technical and theoretical breakthroughs in the systematic study of human embryonic development and has made many landmark contributions to the development of reproductive medicine. \nThis event is presented by the Harvard China Health Partnership as part of the ongoing series\, China and Global Experience with COVID-19\, and is co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. \nPresented via Zoom Webinar\nRegistration required\nRegister at https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_oafy7vs8TRSxkeZoVmdsgA. 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/jie-qiao-impact-of-covid-19-on-maternal-and-child-health-in-china-and-its-global-lessons/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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SUMMARY:Environment in Asia Series Featuring Judith Shapiro and Yifei Li - Authoritarian Environmentalism and Chinese Ecological Civilization
DESCRIPTION:Read the transcript of the event here. \nSpeakers:\nJudith Shapiro\, Director of the Masters in Natural Resources and Sustainable Development for the School of International Service\, American University \nYifei Li\, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at NYU Shanghai\,Global Network Assistant Professor\, New York University; Residential Fellow at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society\, Munich \n  \n\n\nYifei Li is Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at NYU Shanghai and Global Network Assistant Professor at NYU. In the 2020-2021 academic year\, he is also Residential Fellow at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society in Munich. His research concerns both the macro-level implications of Chinese environmental governance for state-society relations\, marginalized populations\, and global ecological sustainability\, as well as the micro-level bureaucratic processes of China’s state interventions into the environmental realm. He has received research support from the United States National Science Foundation\, the University of Chicago Center in Beijing\, and the China Times Cultural Foundation\, among other extramural sources. He is coauthor (with Judith Shapiro) of China Goes Green: Coercive Environmentalism for a Troubled Planet. His recent work appears in Current Sociology\, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research\, Environmental Sociology\, Journal of Environmental Management\, and other scholarly outlets. He received his Master’s and Ph.D. degrees in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Bachelor’s from Fudan University. \nJudith Shapiro is Director of the Masters in Natural Resources and Sustainable Development for the School of International Service at American University and Chair of the Global Environmental Politics program. She was one of the first Americans to live in China after U.S.-China relations were normalized in 1979\, and taught English at the Hunan Teachers’ College in Changsha\, China. She has also taught at Villanova\, the University of Pennsylvania\, the University of Aveiro (Portugal) and the Southwest Agricultural University in Chongqing\, China. She was a visiting professor at Schwarzman College\, Tsinghua University. Professor Shapiro’s research and teaching focus on global environmental politics and policy\, the environmental politics of Asia\, and Chinese politics under Mao. She is the author\, co-author or editor of nine books\, including (with Yifei Li) China Goes Green: Coercive Environmentalism for a Troubled Planet (Polity 2020)\, China’s Environmental Challenges (Polity 2016)\, Mao’s War against Nature (Cambridge University Press 2001)\, Son of the Revolution (with Liang Heng\, Knopf 1983)\, After the Nightmare (with Liang Heng\, Knopf 1987)\, Cold Winds\, Warm Winds: Intellectual Life in China Today (with Liang Heng\, Wesleyan University Press 1987)\, Debates on the Future of Communism (co-edited with Vladimir Tismaneanu\, Palgrave 1991)\, and\, together with her mother Joan Hatch Lennox\, Lifechanges: How Women Can Make Courageous Choices (Random House\, 1991). Dr. Shapiro earned her Ph.D. from American University’s School of International Service. She holds an M.A. in Asian Studies from the University of California\, Berkeley and another M.A. in Comparative Literature from the University of Illinois\, Urbana. Her B.A. from Princeton University is in Anthropology and East Asian Studies. \nPart of the Environment in Asia Lecture Series \nPresented Via Zoom Webinar
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/judith-shapiro-and-yifei-li-authoritarian-environmentalism-and-chinese-ecological-civilization/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Environment,Environment
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SUMMARY:Eviatar Shulman - What is a Discourse (Sutta)? Reconsidering the Nature of Early Buddhist Scripture
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Eviatar Shulman\, Hebrew University of Jerusalem \nWe commonly speak of the Buddha’s “discourses” – sutta\, sūtra – knowing that they were not just spoken by him (or “him”) in this way\, but nevertheless taking these texts as a clear category of authorized Buddhist speech\, which scholars then ask to what degree they return to the Buddha himself; even if they are not historical utterances of the historical Buddha\, they are the closet we can get to understanding his ideas and practices. While much of scholarly practice today still hopes to skin a discourse of its mythology and popular sentiments to reveal the earlier layers of the teaching\, and while many scholars compare discourses in different languages in the quest for their original core\, it is time to see these texts for what they are – literary masterpieces\, which generate and channel rich patterns of Buddhist emotion and imagination\, and that engage with the Buddha devotionally while contemplating his figure and hoping to feel his unique presence. This talk will focus on some of the literary\, poetic\, and contemplative dimensions of the texts\, in an attempt to understand what a discourse was for the early Buddhists. Specifically\, we will investigate the idea that the texts are\, in certain cases\, a meditative practice\, so that the text is in itself the reflection upon the teaching\, rather than being some formulized representation of them. \nPresented Via Zoom.\nRegistration required.\nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEqceyrqD0pGdW8y-zm51z1273EjYQsqisj%C2%A0
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/eviatar-shulman-what-is-a-discourse-sutta-reconsidering-the-nature-of-early-buddhist-scripture/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Buddhist Studies Forum
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SUMMARY:Fairbank Center Director's Seminar: Impact of COVID-19 on Mental Health in China\, India\, and the United States
DESCRIPTION:Read the transcript of the event here. \nModerator: Arthur Kleinman\, Professor of Medical Anthropology\, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine\, Harvard Medical School; Professor of Psychiatry\, Harvard Medical School; Rabb Professor\, Department of Anthropology\, Harvard University Faculty of Arts and Sciences. \nPanelists:\nXiao Shuiyuan\, Professor\, Central South University\, Xianya School of Public Health\nYifeng Xu\, President\, Shanghai Mental Health Center; Head & Professor\, Department of Psychiatry\, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine; Director\, WHO/Shanghai Collaborating Center for Research and Training in Mental Health\nVikram Patel\, The Pershing Square Professor of Global Health and Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow\, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine\, Harvard Medical School; Professor\, Department of Global Health and Population\, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Co-Founder and Member of Managing Committee\, Sangath\nCindy Liu\, Director\, Developmental Risk and Cultural Resilience Laboratory\, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Assistant Professor of Pediatrics\, Harvard Medical School \nHost and Commentator: Winnie Yip\, Professor of Global Health Policy and Economics\, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Director\, Harvard China Health Partnership; Acting Director\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies \nSponsored by the Harvard China Health Partnership and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. Cosponsored by the Mittal South Asia Institute. \nPart of the Fairbank Center Director’s Seminar Series \nPresented via Zoom Webinar
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/fairbank-center-directors-seminar-impact-of-covid-19-on-mental-health-in-china-india-and-the-united-states/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Director's Seminar
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SUMMARY:Modern China Lecture Series Featuring Covell Meyskens - Mao's Massive Military Industrial Campaign to Defend Cold War China
DESCRIPTION:Read the transcript of the event here. \nSpeaker: Covell Meyskens\, Assistant Professor of Chinese History\, Naval Postgraduate School \nIn 1964\, the Chinese Communist Party made a momentous policy decision. In response to rising tensions with the United States and Soviet Union\, a top-secret massive military-industrial complex in the mountains of inland China was built\, which the CCP hoped to keep hidden from enemy bombers. Mao named this the Third Front. The Third Front received more government investment than any other developmental initiative of the Mao era\, and yet this huge industrial war machine\, which saw the mobilization of 15 million people\, was not officially acknowledged for over a decade and a half. Drawing on a rich collection of archival documents\, memoirs\, and oral interviews\, Covell Meyskens provides the first history of the Third Front campaign. He shows how the militarization of Chinese industrialization linked millions of everyday lives to the global Cold War\, merging global geopolitics with local change. \nCovell Meyskens is Assistant Professor of Chinese history in the National Security Affairs Department at the Naval Postgraduate School. He works on capitalist and anti-capitalist development in modern China\, especially as it relates to building big infrastructure projects. His first book\, Mao’s Third Front: Militarization of Cold War China\, published by Cambridge University Press\, examines how the Chinese Communist Party industrialized inland regions in order to protect socialist China from American and Soviet threats. His second book project\, The Three Gorges Dam: Building a Hydraulic Engine for China\, analyzes state-led efforts to transform China’s Three Gorges region into a hydraulic engine to power national development in the twentieth century. Currently\, he is in the process of developing a third project on changing conceptions of national security in modern China. Dr. Meyskens also curates a website of images of everyday life in Maoist China. Meyskens is the author of articles and book chapters on Chinese railroads\, the Three Gorges Dam\, Sino-North Korean relations\, Maoist visual culture\, globalization\, radio in Mao’s China\, and racial violence in the Pacific War. \nPart of the Modern China Lecture Series \nPresented via Zoom Webinar
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/covell-meyskens-modern-china-lecture/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Modern China Lecture
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SUMMARY:China and the World in the Post-COVID-19 Era
DESCRIPTION:What will the impact be of COVID-19 on the global economy and how will that impact global health and the potential for global collaboration for a healthier future? Join “China and the World in a Post-COVID-19 Era” to gain perspectives on the post-pandemic outlook for trade and investment\, sustainable development\, collaborations in public health\, and mental and psychological health. With an in-person and Zoom-based audience of academics\, policymakers\, medical practitioners\, and social entrepreneurs\, the forum features keynote speakers Jeffrey D. Sachs (Columbia University) and Jeffrey Koplan (Emory University) as well as discussants from Chinese and U.S. universities\, Chinese government officials\, and social entrepreneurs. \nOpening:\n\nQizhu Tang (唐其柱)\, Vice President\, Wuhan University; Dean\, Wuhan University School of Medicine\nJuhua Xiao (肖菊华)\, Vice-Governor of Hubei Province\nHonghui Chen (陈红辉)\, Vice-Mayor of Wuhan\nXiankang Dou (窦贤康)\, President\, Wuhan University\nMark Elliott (欧立德)\, Vice-Provost for International Affairs\, Harvard University; and Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History\, Faculty of Arts and Sciences\, Harvard University\n\nSession I: Broader Implications on Global Health and Psycho-Social Impacts\n\nWinnie Yip (叶志敏)\, Professor of Global Health Policy and Economics\, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Interim Director\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard University\nJeffrey Koplan\, Vice-President for Global Health\, Emory University; Former Director\, U.S. Centers for Disease Control\nBarry Bloom\, Joan and Jack Jacobson Research Professor of Public Health\, Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases\, and Former Dean\, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health\nRuiping Xiao (肖瑞平)\, Director\, Institute of Molecular Medicine\, Peking University; Associate Editor \, New England Journal of Medicine\nShekar Saxena\, Professor of Global Mental Health\, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health\n\nSession II: The Future Under Global Economic Integration\n\nSong Min (宋敏)\, Dean of School of Economics and Management\, Wuhan University\nJeffrey D. Sachs\, University Professor and Director\, Center for Sustainable Development\, Columbia University\nYao Yang (姚洋)\, Dean\, National School of Development at Peking University\nBert Hofman (郝福满)\, Director of the East Asian Institute at National University of Singapore\, Professor of Practice at the Lee Kuan Yew School\n\nClosing:\n\nWannian Liang (梁万年\, Executive Associate Dean of Tsinghua University\, Vanke School of Public Health; former Director-General of Healthcare Reform\, National Health Commission of China\nWilliam Hsiao (萧庆伦)\, Emeritus Professor of Economics\, Department of Health Policy and Management\, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health\nDongsheng Chen (陈东升)\, Chairman of Dong Fureng Research Institute of Wuhan University; Founder\, Chairman and CEO of Taikang Insurance Group\n\nOrganized by Wuhan University (School of Medicine\, and School of Economics and Management)\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard University\, and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; and sponsored by the Taikang Public Health and Epidemic Control Fund. \nResources:\n\nPlease see additional information in the program agenda here.\nRegistration required. Register here.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/harvard-wuhan-forum-china-and-the-world-in-the-post-covid-19-era/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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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.\n\nWhen: Nov 12\, 2020 11:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)\n\nRegister in advance for this meeting:\nhttps://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIqdOyurjotGNQFReBoL3L0wpgjXm0IhIlk\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-3/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Fairbank Center Director's Seminar - Myths and Realities in Sino-American Relations
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: William Overholt\, Senior Research Fellow\, Harvard Kennedy SchoolModerator: Lawrence H. Summers\, Charles W. Eliot University Professor and President Emeritus\, Harvard University; Secretary of the Treasury for President Clinton; Director of the National Economic Council for President Obama. \nIntroduction by: Winnie Chi-Man Yip\, Professor of Global Health Policy and Economics\, Department of Global Health and Population; Faculty Director\, Harvard China Health Partnership\, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health; Interim Director\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies \nCo-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government\, Harvard Kennedy School. \nPart of the Fairbank Center Director’s Seminar Series \nPresented via Zoom Webinar \n\n\nTranscript: Download Transcript
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/fairbank-center-directors-seminar-americas-china-policy-a-better-path-forward/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Director's Seminar
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