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SUMMARY:CrossAsia Integrated Text Repository Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Brent Hou-leong Ho\, East Asia Department\, Berlin State Library (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin) \nAt the April meeting of the East Asian Digital Scholarship Series\, Matthias Kaun\, director of Berlin State Library’s East Asia Department\, introduced the CrossAsia platform (https://crossasia.org) to our audience. The CrossAsia Integrated Text Repository (ITR) currently archives about 355\,000 titles with 54.2 million pages of textual resources of East Asian research materials in various languages. Building on top of these resources\, CrossAsia provides a set of DH services for exploring and visualizing the large collections\, including two modes of full text searches\, an N-gram service\, and an exploration service. The ITR Explorer allows users to compare search results produced by different combinations of keywords using SET operations (AND – Intersection\, OR – Union and NOT – Subtraction). Users can then visualize the overlaps and differences of the search results\, and in terms of their distributions over time\, to understand how the keywords are jointly\, complementarily\, or uniquely represented in the collections and their interrelations. \nIn the EADS June workshop\, Dr. Brent Ho\, one of the developers behind the DH services of the CrossAsia platform\, will briefly talk about the ITR infrastructure and will demonstrate how to use the ITR services to bring new insights and perspectives to your research. East Asian researchers and librarians are welcomed to this workshop. \nThe East Asian Digital Scholarship Series\, initiated by James Cheng and 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. \nThe webinar will be conducted via Zoom. Participants will be required to register at http://bit.ly/EADS-ITR.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/crossasia-integrated-text-repository-workshop/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210621T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210623T075959
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SUMMARY:Meaningful Ageing: Shaping a Better Future for China’s Elderly
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, June 21\, 2021 – 8:30-10:30 PM EDT\nTuesday\, June 22\, 2021 – 8:30-10:30 AM EDT \nThe challenges presented by the ageing of China’s population are vast and complex. Not only does ageing have major impacts on labor supply\, savings\, economic growth and social and family relationships\, ageing also necessitates re-imagining social systems—such as healthcare\, eldercare\, pension and housing—in order to sustainably support the elderly population in ageing well and living a meaningful life in China. The government has made confronting these challenges a national policy priority\, as seen in the 14th Five-Year Plan. The prominence of ageing in this national policy planning blueprint and the issue’s inclusion in subsequent talks by senior policymakers signify its importance for ensuring sustainable economic and social development into the future. \nThis event\, hosted by the Harvard China Health Partnership and Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, seeks to develop new and innovative ideas to help China develop a health and eldercare system to meet the needs of its ageing population in light of demographic shifts. Over multiple sessions\, we will assemble an interdisciplinary group of experts to share their ideas\, research and practical experience that could be adapted to the Chinese cultural\, social and institutional contexts. \nFor a complete agenda and speaker list\, click here. \nPresented via Zoom\nRegistration Required\nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_-NZAPfx1Q5C72MMlwExV_Q
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/meaningful-ageing-shaping-a-better-future-for-chinas-elderly/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Conference and Workshops,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210624T100000
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SUMMARY:Arjun Subramaniam - A Military History of India Since 1972: Full Spectrum Operations and the Changing Contours of Modern Conflict
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Arjun Subramaniam\, Retired Air Vice Marshal\, IAF; President’s Chair of Excellence in National Security\, India’s National Defence College\nDiscussant: M. Taylor Fravel\, Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science; Director\, Security Studies Program\, Massachusetts Institute of Technology\nChair/Moderator: James Robson\, James C. Kralik and YunliLou Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations; Victor and William Fung Director of the Harvard University Asia Center \n\nPresented via Zoom\nRegistration Required\nRegister at: https://tinyurl.com/ctycbw69 \nArjun Subramaniam is the President’s Chair of Excellence in National Security at NDC. He is a retired fighter pilot from the IAF who has flown MiG-21s and Mirage-2000s. He has commanded a MiG-21 Squadron and a large flying base and held several operational\, staff\, and instructional assignments in the IAF. He is an airpower doctrinal expert having crafted the current IAF doctrine in 2012. He was awarded the Ati Vishisht Seva Medal for distinguished service by the President of India in 2011. A Ph.D. in Defence and Strategic Studies from the Univ of Madras\, he has been a Visiting Fellow at The Harvard Asia Center and Oxford Universities\, and a Visiting Professor at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy\, Ashoka and Jindal Universities. Currently\, he is also an Adjunct Faculty member at the Naval War College. He has lectured extensively at a wide range of Universities\, think tanks\, and war colleges in India and abroad including Harvard\, MIT\, Georgetown University\, Oxford\, Carnegie Endowment\, and the International Institute of Strategic Studies. His current areas of focus are international and regional security\, contemporary Indian military history\, airpower in integrated operations\, and the India-China security relationship. He is the author of four books including ‘India’s Wars: A Military History: 1947-1971’ and its newly-released sequel titled ‘A Military History of India since 1972: Full Spectrum Operations and the Changing Contours of Modern Conflict.’ \nM. Taylor Fravel is the Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science and Director of the Security Studies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Taylor studies international relations\, with a focus on international security\, China\, and East Asia. His books include Strong Borders\, Secure Nation: Cooperation and Conflict in China’s Territorial Disputes\, (Princeton University Press\, 2008)\, and Active Defense: China’s Military Strategy Since 1949 (Princeton University Press\, 2019). His other publications have appeared in International Security\, Foreign Affairs\, Security Studies\, International Studies Review\, The China Quarterly\, The Washington Quarterly\, Journal of Strategic Studies\, Armed Forces & Society\, Current History\, Asian Survey\, Asian Security\, China Leadership Monitor\, and Contemporary Southeast Asia. Taylor is a graduate of Middlebury College and Stanford University\, where he received his Ph.D. He also has graduate degrees from the London School of Economics and Oxford University\, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. In 2016\, he was named an Andrew Carnegie Fellow by the Carnegie Corporation. Taylor is a member of the board of directors of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations and serves as the Principal Investigator for the Maritime Awareness Project. \nJames Robson is the James C. Kralik and Yunli Lou Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and the William Fung Director of the Harvard University Asia Center. He is also the Chair of the Regional Studies East Asia M.A. program. Robson received his Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies from Stanford University in 2002\, after spending many years researching in China\, Taiwan\, and Japan. He specializes in the history of medieval Chinese Buddhism and Daoism and is particularly interested in issues of sacred geography\, local religious history\, and Chan/Zen Buddhism. He has been engaged in a long-term collaborative research project with the École Française d’Extrême-Orient studying local religious statuary from Hunan province. He is the author of Power of Place: The Religious Landscape of the Southern Sacred Peak [Nanyue 南嶽] in Medieval China (Harvard\, 2009)\, which was awarded the Stanislas Julien Prize for 2010 by the French Academy of Inscriptions and Belles-Lettres and the 2010 ToshihideNumata Book Prize in Buddhism. Robson is also the author of “Signs of Power: Talismanic Writings in Chinese Buddhism” (History of Religions 48:2)\, “Faith in Museums: On the Confluence of Museums and Religious Sites in Asia” (PMLA\, 2010)\, and “A Tang Dynasty Chan Mummy [roushen] and a Modern Case of Furta Sacra? Investigating the Contested Bones of ShitouXiqian.” His current research includes a long-term project on the history of the confluence of Buddhist monasteries and mental hospitals in East Asia.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/arjun-subramaniam-a-military-history-of-india-since-1972-full-spectrum-operations-and-the-changing-contours-of-modern-conflict/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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SUMMARY:Special Event - The State of Taiwan Studies: A Roundtable Discussion on Methods and Directions
DESCRIPTION:Read the transcript of the event here. \nPanelistsJaw-Nian Huang\, Assistant Professor\, Graduate Institute of Development Studies\, National Chengchi University\, TaiwanLawrence Zi-Qiao Yang\, Assistant Professor\, Institute of Social Research and Cultural Studies\, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University\, TaiwanKevin Wei Luo\, Doctoral Fellow\, Hou Family fellow in Taiwan Studies\, Harvard UniversityLev Nachman\, PhD in political science\, UC Irvine \nDiscussantChing-fang Hsu\, Postdoctoral Fellow\, Research Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences\, Ministry of Science and Technology\, Taiwan \nThis roundtable discussion brings together past and present Hou Family Doctoral Fellows in Taiwan Studies at the Fairbank Center\, to discuss current methodological approaches and emerging thematic directions in the study of Taiwanese history\, society\, and politics. Bridging across disciplinary fields such as media studies\, history\, and political science\, the panelists will share their research experiences amid resurging interest in Taiwan\, and envision how this renewed conversation can help jumpstart the next generation of Taiwan studies. \nPresented via Zoom Webinar \n\n\nTranscript: Download Transcript
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-state-of-taiwan-studies-a-roundtable-discussion-on-methods-and-directions/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Special Event,Taiwan
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210628T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210628T213000
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SUMMARY:Pivoting to a New Research Topic
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\nMichael Collins\, Yenching Academy (currently Council on Foreign Relations)\nBill Figueroa\, University of Pennsylvania\nYi Ci Lo\, UC Irvine\nTullia Fraser\, Durham University (currently University of Hong Kong) \n\nEmily Baum (University of California\, Irvine) and Denise Y. Ho (Yale University) present the second annual webinar series\, Doing Chinese History (in a New Era). Designed for—but not exclusive to—graduate students and junior scholars in Chinese history and Chinese studies\, these webinars aim to address persistent challenges in research and professional development. \nWebinar 1\, “Pivoting to a New Research Topic\,” features four speakers who are completing or have recently completed a thesis or dissertation\, and who have had to adapt their topics because of changing research conditions. Facing restrictions on research travel and archival access\, each of the speakers have modified their research agenda and made use of local and digital sources. This webinar addresses the challenge of the “research pivot\,” offering advice and experience from current and recent graduate students. \n\nPresented via Zoom\nRegistration Required\nRegister at: https://yale.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_COakdrS_Q8yIeroOQWB29Q(link is external) \n  \n\nThis series is sponsored by the Long US-China Institute (University of California\, Irvine) and the Council on East Asian Studies (Yale University)\, with support from: \n\nHoover Institution\, Project on China’s Global Sharp Power\, Stanford University\nCentre for Asian Research\, York University\nDepartment of History\, Simon Fraser University\nEast Asian Studies Program\, Johns Hopkins University\nInstitute of Asian Research\, UBC\nCenter for East Asian Studies\, Stanford University\nFairbank Center\, Harvard University\nEast Asian Studies Program\, UC Santa Cruz\nGlobal China Center\, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology\nHong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences\, University of Hong Kong
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/pivoting-to-a-new-research-topic/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210708T080000
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SUMMARY:Aging in China: Labor Participation\, Retirement\, Pension and Long-term Care Insurance
DESCRIPTION:China’s population is ageing rapidly at a rate that surpasses most of its Asian neighbors and advanced economies in the West. In 2015\, 10.5% of the population was aged 65+\, and this number is projected to grow to 26.1% by 2050. Evidencing increases in life expectancy\, the growth of the 80+ population from 22 million (or 1.5%) in 2015 to an expected 115 million (or 8.2%) by 2050 is particularly consequential. The challenges presented by the ageing of China’s population are vast and complex. This session examines the effect of ageing on economic growth\, labor market decisions and the opportunities and challenges in financing elder care to meet the needs of the ageing population. \nThis session brings together leading experts to share their research on these important issues. The session will start with a brief introduction by Winnie Yip\, followed by four presentations and commentaries and moderated discussions with discussants. There will be plenty of time for exchanges and interactions with the online audience as well. \nFor more information\, visit https://www.healtheconomics.org/page/PreCongressSessionJuly8-12pm-2pmGMT.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/aging-in-china-labor-participation-retirement-pension-and-long-term-care-insurance/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210719T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210719T213000
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SUMMARY:Archives\, Libraries\, and Databases in Taiwan
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\nFeng-yuan Hsu\, National Archives Administration\nShiuon Chu\, Academia Sinica\, Institute of Modern History\nHsi-yuan Chen\, Academia Sinica\, Institute of History and Philology and Academia Sinica Center for Digital Cultures\nHsiao Ya-Hung\, Academia Sinica\, Institute of Modern History Archives \nModerator:\nDavid Cheng Chang\, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology \nEmily Baum (University of California\, Irvine) and Denise Y. Ho (Yale University) present the second annual webinar series\, Doing Chinese History (in a New Era). Designed for—but not exclusive to—graduate students and junior scholars in Chinese history and Chinese studies\, these webinars aim to address persistent challenges in research and professional development. \nWebinar 2 builds on the popularity of last year’s webinars—especially one on digital sources(link is external) and one on archives outside of China(link is external)—to focus on research in Taiwan. This year we feature four scholars who are professional archivists as well as historians and invite them to introduce archival\, digital\, and library resources in Taiwan. Featured collections include those of Academia Sinica and the National Archives Administration. \nPresented via Zoom\nRegistration Required\nRegister at: https://yale.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_MrnuGNTpRtqNqTEeSYpMoQ(link is external) \nThis series is sponsored by the Long US-China Institute (University of California\, Irvine) and the Council on East Asian Studies (Yale University)\, with support from: \n\nHoover Institution\, Project on China’s Global Sharp Power\, Stanford University\nCentre for Asian Research\, York University\nDepartment of History\, Simon Fraser University\nEast Asian Studies Program\, Johns Hopkins University\nInstitute of Asian Research\, UBC\nCenter for East Asian Studies\, Stanford University\nFairbank Center\, Harvard University\nEast Asian Studies Program\, UC Santa Cruz\nGlobal China Center\, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology\nHong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences\, University of Hong Kong
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/archives-libraries-and-databases-in-taiwan/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210723T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210725T075959
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SUMMARY:Historical Network Research in Chinese Studies
DESCRIPTION:Friday July 23 – Satuday\, July 24\, 2021 | 9:00 – 11:30 AM EDT\nFriday July 30 – Satuday\, July 31\, 2021 | 9:00 – 11:30 AM EDT \nFor more information\, including an agenda and speaker list\, please visit: https://fccsdigitalchina.github.io/hnrcs2021/ \nNetwork analysis is a burgeoning field in East Asian digital humanities. In recent years\, the digitization of source materials\, the proliferation of databases\, as well as the development of digital tools\, have greatly facilitated the study of networks in Chinese studies. To promote interdisciplinary dialogue between network scholars specializing in different periods of China and beyond\, Henrike Rudolph and CHEN Song\, edited a special issue for the Journal of Historical Network Research. Based on stellar contributions to the special issue\, this conference showcases recent scholarship that applies the methodology and technology of network analysis to the study of diverse topics in Chinese history. \nThe conference features a mix of multi-paper panels\, project presentations\, and hands-on workshops. Multi-paper panels feature scholarship empowered by network analysis and stimulate further discussion on the methodology and its application to the study of Chinese history; project presentations give brief introductions to databases and web platforms for network analysis and visualization; and workshops are interactive and focus on technical know-hows and encourage more scholars to dip their toes in this field. We aim to strike a balance between workshops for beginners and those for scholars who have already had some experience with the network analysis approach. The conference will be held on Zoom and on the mornings of July 23\, 24\, 30\, and 31. To reach out to as wide an audience as possible\, the conference will be hosted by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. We will hold the conference from 9am to 11:30am EDT\, so that people from the US West Coast\, Europe and East Asia can all participate. \nRegistration is free but will allow for better planning. We use one Zoom link for all sessions on each conference day. Therefore\, attendees must register separately for each day of conference\, but they do not need to register separately for each individual session. We will send out pertinent materials (e.g.\, paper abstracts\, handouts\, links to data and software) prior to each day of conference. To receive these materials\, attendees must register no later than 11:59 p.m. EDT on July 21 (for July 23 and 24 sessions) and July 28 (for July 30 and 31 sessions). \nPresented via Zoom\nRegistration Required\nRegister at: https://fccsdigitalchina.github.io/hnrcs2021/#/registration
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/historical-network-research-in-chinese-studies/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
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SUMMARY:Nancy Steinhardt - Convergence and Entanglement:  Reconsidering the Mongol Architectural Narrative
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Nancy Steinhardt\, Professor of East Asian Art and Curator of Chinese Art\, University of Pennsylvania \nAmong approximately four hundred buildings that survive in China from the period of Mongolian rule\, 1271-1368\, about one percent have features that sharply distinguish them from the rest: a pagoda\, a minaret\, an observatory\, a mausoleum\, and rock-carved architecture are examples. The pagoda\, minaret\, and observatory are put forth in any study that seeks to prove the infiltration of foreign architecture into China during the Mongol century.\nWe are pleased to invite Professor Nancy Steinhardt\, Professor of East Asian Art at UPenn and Curator of Chinese Art at the University of Pennsylvania Museum\, to present part of her work on the narrative of Chinese architecture during Mongolian rule.\nThis lecture\, “Convergence and Entanglement: Reconsidering the Mongol Architectural Narrative” re-examines these buildings and their relation in the scope of Chinese architecture. The five buildings featured in this talk calls for a reconsideration of the impact of Mongolian rule on Chinese architecture\, guided by the themes of convergence and entanglement. The lecture comes as part of CAMLab Embodied Architecture project\, endeavoring to highlight the work of Chinese architects. \nNancy Steinhardt is Professor of East Asian Art and Curator of Chinese Art at the University of Pennsylvania where she has taught since 1982. She received her PhD at Harvard in 1981 and was a Junior Fellow at Harvard from 1978-81. Steinhardt taught at Bryn Mawr from 1981-1982. She has broad research interests in the art and architecture of China and China’s border regions\, particularly problems that result from the interaction between Chinese art and that of peoples to the North\, Northeast\, and Northwest. \nPresented via Zoom\nRegistration Required\nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ORWTbEjCRr6ByTiAXdGwDg
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/nancy-steinhardt-convergence-and-entanglement-reconsidering-the-mongol-architectural-narrative/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210730T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210801T075959
DTSTAMP:20260514T145306
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SUMMARY:Historical Network Research in Chinese Studies
DESCRIPTION:Friday July 23 – Satuday\, July 24\, 2021 | 9:00 – 11:30 AM EDT\nFriday July 30 – Satuday\, July 31\, 2021 | 9:00 – 11:30 AM EDT \nFor more information\, including an agenda and speaker list\, please visit: https://fccsdigitalchina.github.io/hnrcs2021/ \nNetwork analysis is a burgeoning field in East Asian digital humanities. In recent years\, the digitization of source materials\, the proliferation of databases\, as well as the development of digital tools\, have greatly facilitated the study of networks in Chinese studies. To promote interdisciplinary dialogue between network scholars specializing in different periods of China and beyond\, Henrike Rudolph and CHEN Song\, edited a special issue for the Journal of Historical Network Research. Based on stellar contributions to the special issue\, this conference showcases recent scholarship that applies the methodology and technology of network analysis to the study of diverse topics in Chinese history. \nThe conference features a mix of multi-paper panels\, project presentations\, and hands-on workshops. Multi-paper panels feature scholarship empowered by network analysis and stimulate further discussion on the methodology and its application to the study of Chinese history; project presentations give brief introductions to databases and web platforms for network analysis and visualization; and workshops are interactive and focus on technical know-hows and encourage more scholars to dip their toes in this field. We aim to strike a balance between workshops for beginners and those for scholars who have already had some experience with the network analysis approach. The conference will be held on Zoom and on the mornings of July 23\, 24\, 30\, and 31. To reach out to as wide an audience as possible\, the conference will be hosted by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. We will hold the conference from 9am to 11:30am EDT\, so that people from the US West Coast\, Europe and East Asia can all participate. \nRegistration is free but will allow for better planning. We use one Zoom link for all sessions on each conference day. Therefore\, attendees must register separately for each day of conference\, but they do not need to register separately for each individual session. We will send out pertinent materials (e.g.\, paper abstracts\, handouts\, links to data and software) prior to each day of conference. To receive these materials\, attendees must register no later than 11:59 p.m. EDT on July 21 (for July 23 and 24 sessions) and July 28 (for July 30 and 31 sessions). \nPresented via Zoom\nRegistration Required\nRegister at: https://fccsdigitalchina.github.io/hnrcs2021/#/registration
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/historical-network-research-in-chinese-studies-2/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210812T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210812T220000
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SUMMARY:Academic Jobs Outside of the United States
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\nRowena He\, Chinese University of Hong Kong\nTaomo Zhou\, Nanyang Technological University\nMary Brazelton\, Cambridge University\nCharles Chang\, Duke Kunshan \nEmily Baum (University of California\, Irvine) and Denise Y. Ho (Yale University) present the second annual webinar series\, Doing Chinese History (in a New Era). Designed for—but not exclusive to—graduate students and junior scholars in Chinese history and Chinese studies\, these webinars aim to address persistent challenges in research and professional development. \nWebinar 3 turns to the question of professional development and careers outside of American academia. The academic job market remains highly competitive\, and in recent years newly-minted PhDs have sought jobs around the world\, including in Europe and Asia. However\, students trained in the United States may be less familiar with both the international job search and the culture of universities abroad. This webinar brings together four professors who have recently taken jobs in China\, Hong Kong\, Singapore\, and the UK. They will discuss the application process\, academic life at their university\, and the challenges and opportunities of a different academic system. \nPresented via Zoom\nRegistration Required\nRegister at: https://yale.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_f9iQ0uFQSrS9hAURtrpslg(link is external) \n  \n\nThis series is sponsored by the Long US-China Institute (University of California\, Irvine) and the Council on East Asian Studies (Yale University)\, with support from: \n\nHoover Institution\, Project on China’s Global Sharp Power\, Stanford University\nCentre for Asian Research\, York University\nDepartment of History\, Simon Fraser University\nEast Asian Studies Program\, Johns Hopkins University\nInstitute of Asian Research\, UBC\nCenter for East Asian Studies\, Stanford University\nFairbank Center\, Harvard University\nEast Asian Studies Program\, UC Santa Cruz\nGlobal China Center\, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology\nHong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences\, University of Hong Kong
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/academic-jobs-outside-of-the-united-states/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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SUMMARY:Modern China Lecture Series featuring Jeremy Brown and Louisa Lim - Reassessing June Fourth: New Approaches and Sources on the Tiananmen Protests and Beijing Massacre
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:Jeremy Brown\, Professor\, Department of History\, Simon Fraser UniversityLouisa Lim\, Journalist and Lecturer\, University of Melbourne \nPart of the Modern China lecture series \n \n \n  \nHow significant were the events of June 1989 in the broader span of recent Chinese history?  How does the aftermath of the Beijing massacre help to explain events since then\, including what is happening in Hong Kong today?  How deep is the state-imposed amnesia about Tiananmen?  What is the future of June Fourth Studies?  Join authors Jeremy Brown and Louisa Lim for a discussion about these and other questions. \nJeremy Brown is Professor of History at Simon Fraser University.  He is the author of June Fourth: The Tiananmen Protests and Beijing Massacre of 1989 and City Versus Countryside in Mao’s China: Negotiating the Divide. \nDr. Louisa Lim is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Melbourne and the author of The People’s Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited\, which was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize.  She was a correspondent for NPR and BBC based in China for a decade.  Her new book Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong will be published in April 2022. \nImage courtesy: Holly Angell \n\n\nTranscript: Download Transcript
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/modern-china-lecture-series-featuring-jeremy-brown-in-conversation-with-louisa-lim/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Modern China Lecture
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SUMMARY:Film Screening - Happy Together
DESCRIPTION:Director: Wong Kar Wai \nOne of the most searing romances of the 1990s\, Wong Kar Wai’s emotionally raw\, lushly stylized portrait of a relationship in breakdown casts Hong Kong superstars Tony Leung and Leslie Cheung as a couple traveling through Argentina and locked in a turbulent cycle of infatuation and destructive jealousy as they break up\, make up\, and fall apart again and again. Setting out to depict the dynamics of a queer relationship with empathy and complexity on the cusp of the 1997 handover of Hong Kong—when the country’s LGBT community suddenly faced an uncertain future—Wong crafts a feverish look at the life cycle of a love affair that’s by turns devastating and deliriously romantic. Shot by ace cinematographer Christopher Doyle in both luminous monochrome and luscious saturated color\, Happy Together is an intoxicating exploration of displacement and desire that swoons with the ache and exhilaration of love at its heart-tearing extremes. —Janus Films \nHarvard IDs and masks required. Harvard affiliates can RSVP at hfastudentscreenings.eventive.org. Limited seating capacity. Questions related to this program or interest in joining the student curatorial group can be directed to Alex Vasile.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-screening-happy-together/
LOCATION:Harvard Film Archive\, Carpenter Center\, 24 Quincy St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210917T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210917T133000
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SUMMARY:Modern Chinese Humanities Seminar featuring Laurence Coderre - The Future Is Now: On Newborn Socialist Things
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Laurence Coderre\, Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies\, New York University \n \n \nRead the transcript of the event here. \nWhereas the contemporary era in China is often depicted in terms of rampant\, ideologically vacuous commodification\, the Cultural Revolution (1966-76) is typically cast as a time of ubiquitous politics and scarce goods. Indeed\, with the exception of the likeness and words of Mao Zedong\, the media and material culture of the Cultural Revolution are often characterized as a void out of which the postsocialist world of commodity consumption miraculously sprang fully formed. I instead argue that the Cultural Revolution media environment and the ways in which its constituent elements engaged contemporaneous discourses of materiality and political economy anticipated the widespread commodification now so closely associated with the Reform Period (1978-present). \nTo that end\, this talk offers a brief history of the “newborn socialist thing” (shehuizhuyi xinsheng shiwu)\, which\, as a technical term originating in the 1950s\, refers to a harbinger of a progressive future emerging in the present. Not only did newborn things\, always at odds with “old things\,” help define socialism as a transitional stage of development prior to communism\, they also promised to integrate the material and the social under one conceptual roof. I develop a historical methodology inspired by the relational nature of the newborn thing\, which traces fugitive constellations of objects\, bodies\, institutions\, and social formations pertaining to the Cultural Revolution’s media environment. Of particular interest are the forms of mediation enacted by and through these constellations and the dialectic they were often said to create with the commodity-form. \nLaurence Coderre is an assistant professor of East Asian Studies at New York University. She received her PhD in Chinese from UC Berkeley in 2015. Prior to moving to NYU\, she was a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Michigan. Coderre’s work focuses on Chinese socialist and postsocialist cultural production. She is the author of Newborn Socialist Things: Materiality in Maoist China (Duke\, 2021)\, which examines the material culture of the Cultural Revolution. Her research has appeared in Comparative Studies of Society and History\, Journal of Material Culture\, Modern Chinese Literature and Culture\, and Journal of Chinese Cinemas\, as well as numerous edited volumes. She is currently embarking on a new project on theory and the everyday in the late Mao era. \nPresented via Zoom Webinar
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/laurence-coderre-the-future-is-now-on-newborn-socialist-things/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210921T134500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210921T150000
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SUMMARY:Environment in Asia Series featuring Zhang Meng - Timber and Forestry in Qing China: Sustaining the Market
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Zhang Meng\, Assistant Professor of History\, Vanderbilt University \nPart of the Environment in Asia lecture series \n \n \nIn the Qing period\, China’s population tripled\, and the flurry of new development generated unprecedented demand for timber. Standard environmental histories have often depicted this as an era of reckless deforestation. The reality was more complex: as old-growth forests were cut down\, new economic arrangements emerged to develop renewable timber resources. Timber and Forestry traces the expansion of an interregional trade network to cover the entire basin of the Yangzi River. Of driving concern were questions of sustainability: How to maintain a reliable source of timber across decades and centuries? And how to sustain a business network across a thousand miles? Delving into rare archives to reconstruct property rights systems and business histories\, the book considers both the formal legal mechanisms and the informal interactions that helped balance economic profit with environmental management. This case from China has important implications for world-historical conversations on resource management\, commercialization\, and sustainable development. \nMeng Zhang (張萌) is Assistant Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. She received her B.A. in economics from Peking University (2010) and Ph.D. in history from UCLA (2017). Zhang is a historian of late imperial China\, with particular interests in economic and environmental transformations and transnational dynamics in the rise of global capitalism. Her first book\, Timber and Forestry in Qing China: Sustaining the Market (University of Washington Press\, 2021)\, reveals the complex reality of timber trade and resource management during the flurry of commercial development in Qing China. She is working on a second project that follows the social life of edible bird’s nests through the transnational construction of knowledge\, desire\, trade\, and credit across early modern China and Southeast Asia. \n\n\nTranscript: Download Transcript
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/environment-in-asia-lecture-series-featuring-zhang-meng/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Environment,Environment
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210927T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210927T130000
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SUMMARY:Investment Screening and Supply Chain Security: Japanese\, EU\, and U.S. Perspectives on China
DESCRIPTION:Panelists:\nSarah Bauerle-Danzman\, Assistant Professor\, Department of International Studies\, Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies\, Indiana University Bloomington\nSophie Meunier Aitsahalia\, Senior Research Scholar\, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs; Co-Director\, European Union Program at Princeton\, Princeton University\nKristin Vekasi\, Academic Associate\, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations\, Harvard University; Associate Professor\, Department of Political Science and School of Policy & International Affairs\, University of Maine \nModerator: Christina L. Davis\, Director\, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Professor of Government; Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor\, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study\, Harvard University \nFor more information\, please visit: https://programs.wcfia.harvard.edu/us-japan/panel-9-27-21 \nPresented via Zoom\nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAkcOiuqTIrHtGDut-qpTKogX-dwA9OLZXC
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/investment-screening-and-supply-chain-security-japanese-eu-and-u-s-perspectives-on-china/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210928T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210928T114500
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SUMMARY:Yangyang Cheng - Those Who Fall Behind Get Beaten Up: Can Science Build a Strong China?
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Yangyang Cheng\, Postdoctoral Fellow\, Yale Law School; Columnist at SupChina. \nFrom the last Chinese empire to the current People’s Republic\, generations of politicians and intellectuals have sought advanced science and technology to build a strong China. They pondered the relationship between East and West\, tradition and modernity\, national allegiance and cosmopolitan ideals. Their efforts have shaped the path of China’s development and mapped the contours of Chinese identity. \nIn this talk\, I will trace their accomplishments and regrets\, as well as lessons for today\, through the lives of two men from my hometown of Hefei\, born a century apart. One was late Qing’s most revered statesman. The other is one of the first two Nobel laureates from China. As the role of science and technology becomes one of the most contentious issues in U.S.-China relations\, their stories teach about the forces that propelled China’s rise\, the ways lives can be squeezed by geopolitics\, and the risks of using science for state power. \nYangyang Cheng is a particle physicist and essayist. Her writings have appeared in The New York Times\, MIT Technology Review\, and ChinaFile\, among other publications. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow at Yale Law School and a columnist at SupChina.| \nPresented via Zoom\nRegistration Required\nRegister at: https://asiacenter.harvard.edu/events/those-who-fallbehind-get-beaten-up-can-science-build-a-strong-china-1454 \nPart of the Science and Technology in Asia Seminar Series
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/yangyang-cheng-those-who-fall-behind-get-beaten-up-can-science-build-a-strong-china/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210929T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210929T134500
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Bonnie Glaser - How Great is the Risk of War Over Taiwan?
DESCRIPTION:  \n \n \nThere is an intense debate among experts over the likelihood of a near-term Chinese invasion of Taiwan. Senior US military officers have warned that a PRC military action could take place in the next six years. Such dire predictions are largely based on estimates of PLA capabilities. But even if China can seize and control Taiwan\, will it do so? Assessing the potential for such an attack also requires an understanding of Xi Jinping’s strategy toward Taiwan and his risk/benefit calculus. The policies of the United States and Taiwan\, and how they are viewed in Beijing\, also need to be taken into account. \nSpeaker: Bonnie Glaser\, Director\, Asia Program\, German Marshall Fund of the United States \n\n\nBonnie S. Glaser is director of the Asia Program at the German Marshall Fund of the United States. She was previously senior adviser for Asia and the director of the China Power Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Ms. Glaser is concomitantly a nonresident fellow with the Lowy Institute in Sydney\, Australia\, and a senior associate with the Pacific Forum. For more than three decades\, Ms. Glaser has worked at the intersection of Asia-Pacific geopolitics and U.S. policy. \n\n\n\n\nTranscript: Download Transcript
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-featuring-bonnie-glaser/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China,Critical Issues Confronting China Series,Taiwan,Taiwan Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210930T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210930T104500
DTSTAMP:20260514T145306
CREATED:20210920T204449Z
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SUMMARY:The Taliban Takeover and Central Asian Security: What Will Russia and China Do?
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\nAndrey Kortunov\, Director General\, Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC)\nYun Sun\, Senior Fellow and Co-Director of the East Asia Program and Director of the China Program\, Stimson Center\nZuhra Halimova\, Independent Consultant\, Dushanbe\, Tajikistan\nAkram Umarov\, Center for Governance and Markets at the University of Pittsburgh; Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow\, University of World Economy and Diplomacy \nModerators:\nNargis Kassenova\, Senior Fellow\, Program on Central Asia\, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies\nEdward Lemon\, President & CEO\, The Oxus Society \nThe withdrawal of U.S. forces and the speedy collapse of the Afghan government are creating a new security situation and transforming the geopolitical setting of Central Asia. Fears and concerns in the region are on the rise. What will Russia\, the traditional security provider\, and China\, the emerging provider\, do? How will they deal with these new challenges and opportunities? What are the choices facing Central Asian states\, and how much room for maneuver do they have? This roundtable will discuss the current policies of Russia\, China and Central Asian states\, and possible scenarios for future developments and their implications for the region and Eurasia at large. \nPresented via Zoom\nRegistration Required\nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Mv_PAcweTuG1C7kYtYQxsQ
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-taliban-takeover-and-central-asian-security-what-will-russia-and-china-do/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210930T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210930T180000
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SUMMARY:Fairbank Center Panel Discussion - Transnational Aging in the Chinese Diaspora
DESCRIPTION:  \n \n \nPanel Participants:Sara L. Friedman\, Professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies\, Indiana UniversityRussell King\, Professor of Geography\, University of SussexSarah Lamb\, Barbara Mandel Professor of Humanistic Social Sciences and Professor of Anthropology\, Brandeis UniversityAndrea Louie\, Professor of Anthropology\, Michigan State UniversityNicole Newendorp\, Associate Director and Lecturer\, Social Studies\, Harvard UniversityKen Chih-Yan Sun\, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Criminology\, Villanova University \nNearly 4.3 million immigrants in the United States are age sixty-five and over. Research predicts that the number of nonwhite elderly immigrants will continue to grow\, doubling to 36 percent of the senior population by 2050. Although the Covid-19 pandemic has changed the lives of older migrants\, the familial and social networks in which they are embedded remain in place and can translate into important protective resources. At the same time\, Chinese societies – e.g.\, mainland China\, Taiwan\, and Hong Kong – have experienced rapid and large-scale social and cultural transformation over the past few decades\, resulting in complex feelings and competing perspectives by older migrants on their homeland(s). In this workshop\, six scholars in the fields of migration\, aging\, and Chinese studies grapple with the new frontier of studies on migration and life transition by focusing on two recent ethnographies about transnational aging in the Chinese diaspora. One highlights Chinese immigrants who relocate to the US at a later life stage; the other examines long-term Taiwanese immigrants who spent decades navigating life in American society and transnationally. Through our conversation\, we seek to collaboratively rethink major issues and the understudied dimensions of aging and migration. \n\n\nTranscript: Download Transcript
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/fairbank-center-panel-discussion-transnational-aging-in-the-chinese-diaspora/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Gender Studies,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211004T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211004T173000
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SUMMARY:China Humanities Seminar Featuring Stephanie Balkwill - Another Cakravartin Ruler?: Feminist History and the History of Buddhism in Early Medieval China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Stephanie Balkwill\, Assistant Professor\, Buddhist Studies\, UCLA \nNorthern Wei 北魏 (386–534 CE) Empress Dowager Ling 靈 (d. 529) is commonly regarded as the last independent ruler of her dynasty\, which descended into terminal internecine war during her regency. As a ruler\, she inherited a deeply divided state. The move of the capital from Pingcheng to Luoyang in 494 created severe economic alienation for the northern peoples who had traditionally supported the rise of the dynasty\, just as it made them cultural outsiders to elite politics in the new capital. Although the Empress Dowager exacerbated such geographic and ethnic tensions in her time\, what is less known about her is that she also shaped Buddhist modalities of statecraft to legitimate her reign and\, seemingly\, attempt to manage her difficult empire. In this talk\, I will analyze the Empress Dowager’s program of state Buddhism and argue that like her famous contemporary in the South\, Emperor Wu 武 (r. 502–549) of the Liang 梁 (502–557)\, she\, too\, positioned herself as a universal Buddhist monarch in medieval China. In so doing\, I engage the question of how our understanding of Buddhist history changes when we put women into it and I propose a series of new questions\, which\, based in the study of women\, serve to elevate our understanding of the ways in which Buddhism became a dominant social force in early medieval China. \nPresented via Zoom\nRegistration Required\nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYuc-6vqjkjE9yzodSy0HtBA_edh2R_Xdx3
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-humanities-seminar-featuring-stephanie-balkwill-another-cakravartin-ruler-feminist-history-and-the-history-of-buddhism-in-early-medieval-china/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:China Humanities Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211005T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211005T173000
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SUMMARY:Modern China Lecture Series Featuring Isabella Weber - How China Escaped Shock Therapy: The Market Reform Debate
DESCRIPTION:  \n \n \nSpeaker: Isabella Weber\, Assistant Professor of Economics\, University of Massachusetts Amherst \nChina has become deeply integrated into the world economy. Yet\, gradual marketization has facilitated the country’s rise without leading to its wholesale assimilation to global neoliberalism. This book uncovers the fierce contest about economic reforms that shaped China’s path. In the first post-Mao decade\, China’s reformers were sharply divided. They agreed that China had to reform its economic system and move toward more marketization – but struggled over how to go about it. \nShould China destroy the core of the socialist system through shock therapy\, or should it use the institutions of the planned economy as market creators? With hindsight\, the historical record proves the high stakes behind the question: China embarked on an economic expansion commonly described as unprecedented in scope and pace\, whereas Russia’s economy collapsed under shock therapy. Based on extensive research\, including interviews with key Chinese and international participants and World Bank officials as well as insights gleaned from unpublished documents\, the book charts the debate that ultimately enabled China to follow a path to gradual reindustrialization. Beyond shedding light on the crossroads of the 1980s\, it reveals the intellectual foundations of state-market relations in reform-era China through a longue durée lens. Overall\, the book delivers an original perspective on China’s economic model and its continuing contestations from within and from without. \nIsabella M. Weber is a political economist working on China\, global trade and the history of economic thought. She is an Assistant Professor of Economics and the Research Leader for China of the Asian Political Economy Program at the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. \nPresented via Zoom Webinar \n\n\nTranscript: Download Transcript
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/modern-china-lecture-series-featuring-isabella-weber/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Modern China Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211006T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211006T101500
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China featuring Jeffrey S. Lehman - What Does U.S. Business Really Want From China?
DESCRIPTION:  \n \n \nSpeaker: Jeffrey Lehman\, Vice Chancellor and Professor of Law\, NYU Shanghai \nJeffrey Lehman is the Vice Chancellor of NYU Shanghai\, where he oversees all academic and administrative operations. Lehman is an internationally acclaimed leader in higher education\, having served as dean of the University of Michigan Law School\, the 11th president of Cornell University\, and the founding dean of the Peking University School of Transnational Law. \nPrior to joining the University of Michigan Law School\, Lehman served as a law clerk to Frank M. Coffin\, Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and Associate Justice John Paul Stevens of the United States Supreme Court. He then spent four years at Caplin & Drysdale\, a Washington\, DC law firm. Throughout his professional and academic career\, Lehman has volunteered his time and energy to nonprofit organizations that share his commitments in the fields of higher education\, law\, and technology. \nLehman received an undergraduate degree in mathematics from Cornell University\, an MPP from the University of Michigan\, and a JD from the University of Michigan Law School. He is a multi-award winner for his work both in the United States and abroad\, including the Friendship Award\, which is China’s highest honor for “foreign experts who have made outstanding contributions to the country’s economic and social progress.” Lehman is also a recipient of an honorary doctorate from Peking University. \nCheck back soon for more information! \nPresented via Zoom Webinar \n\n\nTranscript: Download Transcript
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-featuring-jeffrey-s-lehman/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211007T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211007T173000
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SUMMARY:China Economy Lecture Series featuring Yeling Tan - Disaggregating China\, Inc: State Strategies in the Liberal Economic Order
DESCRIPTION:  \n \n \nSpeaker: Yeiling Tan\, Assistant Professor\, Department of Political Science\, University of Oregon \nProfessor Yeling Tan discusses her book\, Disaggregating China\, Inc: State Strategies in the Liberal Economic Order. China’s entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001 represented an historic opportunity to peacefully integrate a rising economic power into the international order based on market-liberal rules. Yet current economic tensions between the US and China indicate that this integration process has run into trouble. To what extent has the liberal internationalist promise of the WTO been fulfilled? To answer this question\, this study breaks open the black box of the massive Chinese state and unpacks the economic strategies that central economic agencies as well as subnational authorities adopted in response to WTO rules demanding far-reaching modifications to China’s domestic institutions. The study explains why\, rather than imposing constraints\, WTO entry provoked divergent policy responses from different actors within the Chinese state\, in ways neither expected nor desired by the architects of the WTO. \nYeiling Tan is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Oregon\, and a non-resident scholar at the UC San Diego 21st Century China Center. From 2017-2020\, she was a fellow of the World Economic Forum’s Council on the Future of International Trade and Investment. From 2017-2019\, she was a member of the Georgetown University Initiative for U.S.-China Dialogue on Global Issues. In 2017-18\, she was a post-doctoral fellow at the Princeton-Harvard China and the World Program in Princeton University.  \n​Her research interests lie at the intersection of international and comparative political economy\, with an emphasis on China and the developing world. Two broad questions define her research agenda. First: how do the rules of globalization affect politics within authoritarian regimes such as China\, given that these rules require increasingly far-reaching modifications to domestic institutions? Second\, how do authoritarian regimes affect rule-making at the international level?  \nShe holds a PhD in Public Policy from Harvard University (2017)\, an MPA in International Development from the John F. Kennedy School of Government\, Harvard University (2011) and a BA (Honors\, Distinction) in International Relations and Economics from Stanford University (2002). Apart from research on globalization and China\, she has also worked in the public and non-governmental sectors on a range of issues including economic development\, international security policy\, global governance and governance innovations. \nCheck back soon for more information! \nPresented via Zoom Webinar \n\n\nTranscript: Download Transcript
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-economy-lecture-series-featuring-yeling-tan/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211007T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211007T213000
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SUMMARY:Modern Chinese Humanities Seminar Featuring Pang Laikwan - Economic Sovereignty in Contemporary China: The Biopolitical Subject as Garlic Chive
DESCRIPTION:  \n \n \nSpeaker: Pang Laikwan\, Professor of Cultural Studies\, Chinese University of Hong Kong \nThis paper focuses on the wide popularity of the meme and buzzword jiucai\, garlic chives\, on China’s internet to investigate the cultural and political subjectivity of the ordinary Chinese citizens in a time of fierce competition simply to survive\, largely known as neijuan\, involution. Through this investigation of the garlic chives meme\, the paper also updates Foucault’s theory of the biopolitics by investigating the deeply intertwined relation between the biological\, the economic\, and the political in contemporary Chinese governmentality. While the post-socialist PRC has developed a sophisticated economic rationality to legitimize its state sovereignty\, this economic sovereignty also strains the ordinary subjects so much that it begins to pose serious challenge to this legitimacy. \nPANG Laikwan is Professor of Cultural Studies at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. She is the author of a few books\, including\, more recently\, The Appearing Demos: Hong Kong During and After the Umbrella Movement (U of Michigan\, 2021)\, The Art of Cloning: Creative Production During China’s Cultural Revolution (Verso\, 2017)\, andCreativity and Its Discontents: China’s Creative Industries and Intellectual Property Rights Offenses (Duke UP\, 2012). She will be a CASBS fellow at Stanford University in the academic year of 2021-2022. \nPresented via Zoom Webinar \n\n\nTranscript: Download Transcript
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/pang-laikwan-economic-sovereignty-in-contemporary-china-the-biopolitical-subject-as-garlic-chive/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211007T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211007T220000
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SUMMARY:Weixia Gu - Dispute Resolution in China: Litigation\, Arbitration\, Mediation and their Interactions
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Weixia Gu\, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law\, University of Hong Kong \nFor more details\, including a Zoom link\, please visit http://www.law.harvard.edu/programs/eals/events.html.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/weixia-gu-dispute-resolution-in-china-litigation-arbitration-mediation-and-their-interactions/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:David Cheng Chang - Escaping From the Communists and Then From the Anti-Communists: A Prisoner’s Odyssey From Southwest China to Korea\, India\, and Argentina
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: David Cheng Chang\, Division of Humanities\, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; HYI-Radcliffe Institute Fellow\, 2021-22\nChair/discussant: Arunabh Ghosh\,  Associate Professor of History\, Harvard University \nBy the end of the Korean War\, only 88 out of more than 150\,000 Chinese and North Korean prisoners of war (POWs) refused to return to either side of their divided countries; instead\, they sought asylum in neutral nations. Using oral history interviews and archival documents from the United States\, Taiwan\, and India\, this talk charts the life history of Cheng Liren: from his education as a police academy cadet during the civil war and his first job as a police officer in his home province Guizhou in the final days of the Nationalist regime\, to his desperate enlistment in the Communist army\, desertion in Korea\, rise and fall as an anti-Communist POW leader on Koje and Cheju Islands\, his daring escape from fellow anti-Communist POWs at Panmunjom\, to his two-year sojourn in India\, and his final settlement and business success in Argentina. \nPresented via Zoom\nRegistration Required\nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJItd-qurD8rGNJBFrr8tS6X1695eSvlSswX \nMore info: https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/escaping-from-the-communists-and-then-from-the-anti-communists-a-prisoners-odyssey-from-southwest-china-to-korea-india-and-argentina/
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/david-chen-chang-escaping-from-the-communists-and-then-from-the-anti-communists-a-prisoners-odyssey-from-southwest-china-to-korea-india-and-argentina/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Environment in Asia Lecture Series featuring Ruth Mostern - The Yellow River: A Natural and Unnatural History
DESCRIPTION:  \n \n \n  \nSpeaker: Ruth Mostern\, University of Pittsburgh \nThis talk showcases Ruth Mostern’s new book: The Yellow River: A Natural and Unnatural History (Yale University Press\, 2021).  The Yellow River explains how environmentally transformative human activity has shaped the whole watershed and constituted the relationship between people and the river since Neolithic times.  The book demonstrates that the history of the relationship between people and the river is a history of soil as much as it is a history of water\, and that some of the most important episodes in Yellow River history transpired on the semi-arid lands of the Loess Plateau\, far from the riverbed itself. Using GIS and data analysis as well as close readings of historical sources\, the book reveals that although  the Yellow River floodplain was sometimes a site of frequent and devastating disasters\, this was only the case at times of certain decisions about public policy and infrastructure design. \nRuth Mostern is Associate Professor of History and Director of the World History Center at the University of Pittsburgh. She is the author of Dividing the Realm in Order to Govern: The Spatial Organization of the Song State (960-1276 CE) (Harvard Asia Center\, 2011) and the co-editor of Placing Names: Enriching and Integrating Gazetteers (Indiana University Press\, 2016). Her current book\, Following the Tracks of Yu: The Imperial and Ecological Worlds of the Yellow River is in contract at Yale University Press. She is currently PI on two NEH grants: one to develop content and infrastructure for an ecosystem of digital historical gazetteers\, and one to design and launch an interdisciplinary curriculum about water in Central Asia. \nCheck back soon for more information! \nPresented via Zoom Webinar \n\n\nTranscript: Download Transcript
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/environment-in-asia-lecture-series-featuring-ruth-mostern/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Environment,Environment
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SUMMARY:Panel Discussion - The Future of Africa-China Engagement/Relations
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\nMaria Adele Carrai\, Assistant Professor of Global China Studies\, NYU Shanghai; Associate\, Harvard University Asia Center\nFolashadé Soulé\, Senior Research Associate\, Global Economic Governance Programme\, Blavatnik School of Government\, University of Oxford\nLina Benabdallah\, Assistant Professor\, Politics and International Affairs Department\, Wake Forest University \nModerator: Emmanuel K. Akyeampong\, Ellen Gurney Professor of History and Professor of African and African American Studies; Oppenheimer Faculty Director of the Harvard University Center for African Studies \nSponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center; Co-sponsored by the Harvard University Center for African Studies and Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard University  \nPresented via Zoom Webinar.\nRegister here: https://tinyurl.com/4hs83am4
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/panel-discussion-the-future-of-africa-china-engagement-relations/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Modern China Lecture Series Featuring Fang Xiaoping - Pandemics and Politics in Mao’s China: The Rise of the Emergency Disciplinary State
DESCRIPTION:  \nSpeaker: Fang Xiaoping\, Assistant Professor of History\, School of Humanities\, Nanyang Technological University\, Singapore. \nDuring the 1961-1965 period\, a cholera pandemic ravaged the southeastern coastal areas of Mao’s China which was already suffering from lingering starvation\, class struggles\, political campaigns and geopolitical challenges of the Cold War. This lecture focuses on the first global pandemic that had plagued China after 1949 and the resulting large-scale but clandestine emergency response. Based on rare archival documents and in-depth interviews with the ever-dwindling witnesses of the pandemic\, this lecture examines the dynamics between disease and politics when the Communist Party was committed to restructuring society between the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution. The speaker argues that disease and its control were not only affected by the social restructuring that began in the 1950s and strengthened since 1961\, but also integral components of this. Quarantine\, mass inoculation\, epidemic surveillance and information control functionalised social control and political discipline\, and therefore significantly contributed to the rise of an emergency disciplinary state\, which exerted far-reaching impacts on its sociopolitical system and emergency response since Mao’s China\, including the COVID-19 pandemic. \nXiaoping Fang is an assistant professor of history at the School of Humanities of the Nanyang Technological University\, Singapore. He received his PhD in History from the National University of Singapore (NUS)\, where he majored in modern China and the history of science\, technology and medicine in East Asia from 2002 to 2008. He studied and worked at the Needham Research Institute\, Cambridge\, UK (2005-2006)\, the Asia Research Institute of the NUS (2008)\, the China Research Centre of the University of Technology\, Sydney\, Australia (2009-2013)\, and the National Humanities Center\, USA (2019-2020). His research interests focus on the history of medicine\, health\, and disease in twentieth-century China and the socio-political history of Mao’s China after 1949. He is the author of Barefoot Doctors and Western Medicine in China (Rochester\, NY: University of Rochester Press\, 2012) and China and the Cholera Pandemic: Restructuring Society under Mao (Pittsburgh\, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press\, 2021).   \nPresented via Zoom \n\n\nTranscript: Download Transcript
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/modern-china-lecture-series-featuring-fang-xiaoping/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Modern China Lecture
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