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SUMMARY:Panel Discussion: Overcoming Challenges in the Research Environment in China
DESCRIPTION:Read the summary of the event here. \nPanelists:Elizabeth Perry\, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government at Harvard University and Director of the Harvard-Yenching InstituteDenise Ho\, Assistant Professor of 20th Century Chinese History\, Yale UniversityRobert Weller\, Professor of Anthropology\, Boston UniversityYuen Yuen Ang\, Associate Professor\, Department of Political Science\, University of Michigan \nModerator: Michael Szonyi\, Frank Wen-Hsiung Wu Memorial Professor of Chinese History and Director\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard University \nThis panel discussion will focus on guidance and advice for late-stage graduate students who are experiencing challenges accessing archives\, conducting interviews\, or who otherwise face the types of barriers faced when conducting research in China but are now intensified by the COVID-19 pandemic. \nRead the summary of the event here. \nPresented via Zoom Webinar \n***Note: This live discussion will NOT be simulcast on our YouTube channel nor available for viewing at a later date.***\nCo-sponsored by:
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/panel-discussion-overcoming-challenges-in-the-research-environment-in-china/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest,Special Event
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SUMMARY:Modern China Lecture Series Featuring Eugenia Lean - The Ideograph and a Cantonese Pun: Linguistic Divergence and Spurious Chinese Marks in Global Capitalism
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Eugenia Lean\, Professor of History and East Asian Languages and Cultures; Director\, Weatherhead East Asian Institute\, Columbia University \nBy examining two early legal cases featuring the alleged counterfeiting of Xiangmao Honey Soap\, this talk shows how the Chinese language and linguistic practices in Chinese commercial culture often stymied Western manufacturers and import companies’ attempts to pursue and prosecute suspected Chinese copycats. Xiangmao soap was featured in the first ever trademark litigation trial in China held in 1889. In that trial\, it became evident that the emerging global trademark regime was premised on an Orientalist understanding of the Chinese character as ideograph. A second case in 1919 that also featured the alleged counterfeiting of the Xiangmao brand then reveals how the homophonic nature of Chinese and the issue of dialect were often the basis of wordplay and punning in Chinese trademarks\, and that international trademark law was unable to accommodate these practices. The key legal premise that an offending trademark rested on its function to deceive the public prevented the system from recognizing (and thus\, successfully prosecuting) marks that while likely to have been emulative\, turned precisely on a knowing audience\, willing to purchase the “counterfeit” because of the witty pun or wordplay at work. Both bring to the fore how the emerging trademark regime was premised on romance languages and failed to appreciate the complexity of both the Chinese language and the nature of the Chinese consumer market. Hardly marks that purposefully deceived in acts of “passing off\,” so-called “spurious” marks aided (and arguably abetted) knowledgeable and appreciative consumers in their wily acts of consumption and were part of a larger market of rogue knock-offs in China that eluded the emerging trademark regime in the early twentieth-century and that continue to elude the global IP today. \nEugenia Lean received her BA from Stanford University (1990)\, and her MA (1996) and PhD (2001) from UCLA. She is interested in a broad range of topics in late imperial and modern Chinese history with a particular focus on the history of science and industry\, mass media\, consumer culture\, affect studies and gender\, as well as law and urban society. She is also interested in issues of historiography and critical theory in the study of East Asia. She is the author of Public Passions: the Trial of Shi Jianqiao and the Rise of Popular Sympathy in Republican China (UC Press\, 2007) which was awarded the 2007 John K. Fairbank prize for the best book in modern East Asian history\, given by the American Historical Association. \nProfessor Lean’s second book\, Vernacular Industrialism in China: Local Innovation and Translated Technologies in theMaking of a Cosmetics Empire\, 1900-1940 (Columbia University Press\, 2020)\, examines the manufacturing\, commercial and cultural activities of maverick industrialist Chen Diexian (1879-1940). It illustrates how lettered men of early twentieth century China engaged in “vernacular industrialism\,” the pursuit of industry and science outside of conventional venues that drew on the process of experimentation with both local and global practices of manufacturing and was marked by heterogeneous\, often ad hoc forms of knowledge and material work. \nPresented via Zoom \nAlso streaming on YouTube \n\n\nTranscript: Download Transcript
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/modern-china-lecture-series-featuring-eugenia-lean/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Modern China Lecture
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SUMMARY:Panel Discussion - Gaming with Chinese Characteristics
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: \nHeather Inwood\, Cambridge University\nNakamura Akinori\, Ritsumeikan University\nDeng Jian\, Peking University \nSpecial Guest:\nZhu Jiayin\, Founder/Editor of Chuapp \nOrganizers:\nDavid Der-wei Wang\, Harvard University\nYedong Sh-Chen\, Harvard University \nThis panel is co-sponsored by the Harvard Provostial Fund for the Arts and Humanities and the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation. It is a part of the “mediAsia: topics in media and area studies” event series. \nPresented via Zoom\nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_C63RM8E3QWCwC7Y4R5J7TQ
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/panel-discussion-gaming-with-chinese-characteristics/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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SUMMARY:Environment in Asia Series Featuring Ying Jia Tan - War and the Reconfiguration of China’s Energy Geography
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Ying Jia Tan\, Assistant Professor of History and East Asian Studies\, Wesleyan University \nIn Recharging China in War and Revolution\, 1882–1955 (Cornell University Press\, 2021)\, Ying Jia Tan argues that\, even in times of peace\, the Chinese economy operated as though still at war\, constructing power systems that met immediate demands but sacrificed efficiency and longevity. This talk explores the effects of China’s catastrophic loss of 97 percent of its power generating capacity during the Second Sino-Japanese War. It looks at how wartime mobilization accelerated China’s transition towards coal as the main fuel source for power generation\, led to the creation of a homegrown electrical equipment manufacturing industry\, and inspired a vision of national reconstruction driven by massive hydropower projects. Lessons from the electrification of wartime China reveals the strengths and limitations of state-driven initiatives aimed at alleviating power shortages\, which in turn\, offer insights into the common challenges facing China and Taiwan as they transition from fossil fuels to renewables. \nYing Jia Tan is assistant professor of history and East Asian Studies at Wesleyan University. is a historian of science and technology with allied interests in environmental history and the history of cartography. He teaches traditional and modern Chinese history\, as well as courses on maritime East Asia\, cartography\, and the Anthropocene. \nPresented via Zoom WebinarRegistration RequiredRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_jRhu4N8RSqGioDgdMqvjOw \nNote: this live lecture will not be simulcast on our YouTube channel nor available for viewing at a later date.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/ying-jia-tan-war-and-the-reconfiguration-of-chinas-energy-geography/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Environment,Environment
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Lecture Series featuring Naima Green-Riley - Pinyin and Paper Fans: China-Funded Education Programs in U.S. Schools
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Naima Green-Riley\, Ph.D. Candidate and Raymond Vernon Fellow\, Department of Government\, Harvard University; Former Consular Officer\, US. Consulate General\, Guangzhou\, China \nAlso streaming on YouTube \n\n\nTranscript: Download Transcript
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-lecture-series-featuring-naima-green-riley/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China,Critical Issues Confronting China Series
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SUMMARY:Modern Chinese Humanities Seminar Featuring Michel Hockx — The Shifting Limits of Reform: Literature and Censorship in China since 1979
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Michel Hockx\, Professor of Chinese Literature\, University of Notre Dame \nOn July 30\, 1979\, Deng Xiaoping addressed the fourth national conference of Chinese writers and artists. Towards the end of his speech he stated\, to collective sighs of relief\, that “the Party’s leadership of literature and the arts does not mean issuing orders\, nor requiring writers and artists to make themselves subservient to […] political tasks.” In doing so\, he redefined the relationship between CCP ideologues and creative producers\, which had become increasingly politicized during the first thirty years of Communist rule. He also set the template for later “important speeches” on art and literature by Party leaders\, which have been a core component of Chinese cultural policy ever since. Looking at leaders’ speeches as a genre of cultural production\, I show how each leader after Deng tried to confirm the post-1979 consensus that promised more freedom to cultural producers\, while at the same time indicating where the limits to that freedom might lie. The talk will engage with these speeches against three discrete backgrounds: the ongoing dismantlement of what was once the “socialist literary system\,” the claims made about Chinese censorship and “self-censorship” in American and European public opinion\, and the theoretical debates about structural censorship in the field of New Censorship Studies. \nMichel Hockx is professor of Chinese Literature in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures and director of the Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies at the University of Notre Dame. He has published widely\, both in English and in Chinese\, on topics related to modern Chinese literary culture\, especially early 20th-century Chinese magazine literature and print culture and contemporary Internet literature. His monograph Internet Literature in China was listed by Choice magazine as one of the “Top 25 Outstanding Academic Titles of 2015.” His current book project focuses on literary and cultural censorship in modern China from the early twentieth century to the present. Hockx studied Chinese language and literature at Leiden University in the Netherlands\, where he earned his Ph.D.\, and at Liaoning and Peking universities in China. From 1996-2016 he taught at SOAS\, University of London. In addition to his scholarly work he has also been active as a translator of modern Chinese literature into his native Dutch. \nPresented via Zoom Webinar \nAlso streaming on YouTube \n\n\nTranscript: Download Transcript
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/michel-hockx-the-shifting-limits-of-reform-literature-and-censorship-in-china-since-1979/
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SUMMARY:Panel Discussion - Taiwan Studies: New Questions and Challenges
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\nKevin Luo 羅巍\, Tsinghua University\nChih-Wei Chung 鍾秩維\, Fu Jen Catholic University\nSu-Yon Lee 李時雍\, National Taiwan University\nJaewoong Jeon 全在雄\, Harvard University\nLawrence Yang 楊子樵\, Yang Ming Chiao Tung University\nCheng-Heng Lu 盧正恆\, Yang Ming Chiao Tung University \nOrganizer:\nDavid Der-wei Wang 王德威\, Harvard University \nA bilingual workshop sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation\, and Hou Family Foundation \nPresented via Zoom\nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_sQ5ZItvGTXWJIg2wVNapuA
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/panel-discussion-taiwan-studies/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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SUMMARY:2021 Charles Neuhauser Memorial Lecture featuring Evan S. Medeiros — Competition\, Coexistence and the Future of US-China Relations
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Evan Medeiros\, Penner Family Chair in Asian Studies and the Cling Family Senior Fellow in US-China Relations\, Georgetown University \nEvan S. Medeiros is a professor and Penner family chair in Asia studies in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He has published several books and articles on East Asia\, U.S.-China relations\, and China’s foreign and national security policies. He regularly provides advice and commentary to global corporations and international media in his current role as Senior Advisor with The Asia Group. \nDr. Medeiros’ background is a unique blend of regional expertise and government experience. He served for six years on the staff of the National Security Council as director for China\, Taiwan\, and Mongolia and then as special assistant to the president and senior director for Asia. In the latter role\, Dr. Medeiros was President Barack Obama’s top advisor on the Asia-Pacific and was responsible for coordinating U.S. policy toward the Asia-Pacific across areas of diplomacy\, defense policy\, economic policy\, and intelligence. Prior to joining the White House\, Medeiros worked for seven years as a senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation. From 2007 to 2008\, he also served as policy advisor to Secretary Hank Paulson Jr.\, working on the U.S.-China Strategic Economic Dialogue at the U.S. Department of Treasury. \nDr. Medeiros holds a Ph.D. in international relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science\, an M.Phil in international relations from the University of Cambridge\, an M.A. in China studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London\, and a B.A. in analytic philosophy from Bates College. \nDr. Medeiros is a member of the Board of Directors of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations\, a member of the International Advisory Board of Cambridge University’s Centre for Geopolitics\, and a Life Member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is married to Bernadette Meehan\, and they have a daughter\, Amelia \nPresented via Zoom Webinar \nAlso streaming on YouTube
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/2021-charles-neuhauser-memorial-lecture-featuring-evan-s-medeiros-competition-coexistence-and-the-future-of-us-china-relations/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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SUMMARY:China Humanities Seminar Featuring Suyoung Son - Publisher at Work: Yu Xiangdou’s Images and Visualizing Intellectual Labor
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Suyoung Son\, Associate Professor\, Cornell University \nHow could intangible\, tacit intellectual labor be legible\, acknowledged\, and compensated? The relationship between authorship and authorial property was hotly debated in late imperial China when a flurry of fakes\, forgeries\, and counterfeits abounded in the commercial book market. My talk will use examples from Yu Xiangdou (ca. 1560-1637)\, one of the most successful commercial publishers in Jianyang\, to discuss how he claimed the hitherto invisible and therefore uncredited intellectual endeavor of making the books. Away from the prevailing conception that the images inserted in his printed books are portraits of Yu Xiangdou himself\, I will approach his images in terms of the highly conventionalized image-signs and argue that his images serve as a liminal link between incorporeal authorship and material proprietorship. \nPresented via Zoom\nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYpcOyuqTItH9XHfGGHtpzj0f6bGEsaGjG0
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-humanities-seminar-featuring-suyoung-son-materializing-authorship-in-early-modern-literary-marketplace/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:China Humanities Seminar
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SUMMARY:Panel Discussion - Cross-Strait Relations One Year After Biden's Election
DESCRIPTION:Panelists:\nSteven Goldstein\, Sophia Smith Professor of Government at Smith College Emeritus and director of the Taiwan Studies Workshop\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard University\nAlastair Iain Johnston\, Laine professor of China in World Affairs\, Department of Government\, Harvard University\nSara Newland\, Assistant Professor\, Department of Government\, Smith College\nSzue-chin Philip Hsu\, Professor of Political Science\, Department of Political Science\, National Taiwan University\nYi-Feng Tao\, Associate Professor of Political Science\, Department of Political Science\, National Taiwan University\nJohnny Chi-chen Chiang\, Congressman\, the Republic of China (Taiwan) and chairperson of Kuomingtan (March 2020 – October 2021)\nMark Chih-Wei Ho\, Congressman\, the Republic of China (Taiwan) and member of the Central Standing Committee\, the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) \nModerator:\nGeorge Yin\, National Service Postdoctoral Research Fellow\, Department of Political Science\, National Taiwan University and Adjunct Research Fellow\, Center for China Studies\, National Taiwan University \nOne year after Biden’s election\, cross strait and US-China relations seem more unstable than during the Trump administration. If the status quo is desirable\, what can the U.S. and Taiwan do to maintain the status quo? This hybrid webinar brings together US and Taiwan scholars\, in addition to Taiwanese policymakers\, to explore the drivers of increasing tensions in the cross-strait area\, and to examine the credibility of proposed solutions. \nPresented via Zoom Webinar and from the Legislative Yuan in Tapei\n\nRegister for the Zoom Webinar at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_2RgCTSP7RLS04cd00ao9mw\n\nRegister for the in-person event in Taipei at: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe93zzXCSxzSLmYB0uLD1GSCUH01UFjTTQEoRvd_HY8NvdZFg/viewform \nLocation for the in-person event is: The Legislative Yuan\, Room 801\, No. 1\, Sec. 1\, Jinan Rd.\, Zhongzheng District\, Taipei City\, Taiwan 100台北市中正區濟南路一段1號，群賢樓801\nPlease note: this event will not be simulcast on our YouTube channel.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/panel-discussion-cross-strait-relations-one-year-after-bidens-election/
LOCATION:The Legislative Yuan\, Room 801\, No. 1\, Sec. 1\, Jinan Rd.\, Zhongzheng District\, Taipei\, Taiwan
CATEGORIES:Special Event,Taiwan
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Lecture Series Featuring Scott Rozelle - Early Childhood Development in Rural China: The Biggest (or Smallest?) Challenge That China Faces That No One Knows About
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Scott Rozelle\, Helen F. Farnsworth Senior Fellow and the co-director of the Center on China’s Economy and Institutions\, Stanford University \nScott Rozelle is the Helen F. Farnsworth Senior Fellow and the co-director of Stanford Center on China’s Economy and Institutions in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research at Stanford University. He received his BS from the University of California\, Berkeley\, and his MS and PhD from Cornell University. Previously\, Rozelle was a professor at the University of California\, Davis and an assistant professor in Stanford’s Food Research Institute and department of economics. He currently is a member of several organizations\, including the American Economics Association\, the International Association for Agricultural Economists\, and the Association for Asian Studies. Rozelle also serves on the editorial boards of Economic Development and Cultural Change\, Agricultural Economics\, the Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics\, and the China Economic Review. \nHis research focuses almost exclusively on China and is concerned with: agricultural policy\, including the supply\, demand\, and trade in agricultural projects; the emergence and evolution of markets and other economic institutions in the transition process and their implications for equity and efficiency; and the economics of poverty and inequality\, with an emphasis on rural education\, health and nutrition. \nPresented via Zoom WebinarRegistration RequiredRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_e8FiHfV1QPuSdM6ZqZicWw \nAlso streaming on YouTube \n\n\nTranscript: Download Transcript
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-lecture-series-featuring-scott-rozelle/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China
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SUMMARY:Symposium - Social Technology for Eldercare in China and Global Aging
DESCRIPTION:Panelists:Ann Forsyth\, Ruth and Frank Stanton Professor of Urban Planning\, Harvard Graduate School of DesignFawwaz Habbal\, Executive Dean for Education and Research\, Harvard John A. Paulson School Of Engineering And Applied SciencesEric Krakauer\, Associate Professor\, Harvard Medical School\, Directs the Global Palliative Care Program\, Massachusetts General HospitalJing\, Jun\, Professor\, School of Social Sciences Tsinghua UniversityChen\, Hongtu\, Assistant Professor of Psychology\, Harvard Medical SchoolPan\, Tianshu\, Professor\, School of Social Development and Public Policy\, Fudan UniversityWinnie Yip\, Professor of the Practice of Global Health Policy and Economics\, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.David Bloom\, Clarence James Gamble Professor of Economics and Demography\, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.Conor Walsh\, Paul A. Maeder Professor\, Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied SciencesTarun Khanna\, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor\, Harvard Business SchoolSue Levkoff\, Professor\, University of South CarolinaEllen Seely\, Professor of Medicine\, Harvard Medical SchoolAn\, Ning Hefei University of Technology \n\n\n\nModerator: Chen Hongtu\, Assistant Professor of Psychology Harvard Medical SchoolPresented via ZoomRegister at:https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_JytENc47RcmShXKwJL6ksA
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/symposium-social-technology-for-eldercare-in-china-and-global-aging/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Chih-ming Wang - Re-Articulations: Foreign Literature Studies in Taiwan
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Chih-ming Wang\, Associate Research Fellow\, Institute of European and American Studies\, Academia Sinica; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2021-22\nChair/discussant: David Wang\, Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature\, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University \nThis talk revisits the institutional and intellectual history of foreign literature studies in Taiwan through the lenses of colonial modernity and traveling theory. It contends that the discipline of foreign literature studies is fundamentally a project of re-articulation—not only to introduce the Western canon in local contexts\, but moreover to resignify it in the global/local nexus for social political transformations. It is particularly wedded to the formation of the Taiwan-China division born out of the civil war and Cold War contexts in 1949. To explain the political meanings of its discipline formations\, I will focus on two examples: CT Hsia’s literary modernism as a form of anti-Romanticism in the Cold War era and the translation of subjectivity as zhutixing in the post-martial law Taiwan. Whereas Hsia in the 1950s intended literary criticism to be a means for political rectification in modern China\, the translingual birth of zhutixing in the 1990s literalized the power of theory in the making of postcolonial Taiwan. \nA Harvard-Yenching Institute Visiting Scholar talk \nPresented via Zoom\nRegister at https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEucOCpqTwiEtX3ewPRvf8kfFeqWZvmZKl7 \nMore information: https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/rearticulations-foreign-literature-studies-in-taiwan/
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/chih-ming-wang-re-articulations-foreign-literature-studies-in-taiwan/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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SUMMARY:Panel Discussion - Combatting Anti-Asian Racism and Misogyny: Perspectives from Harvard Alumni
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\nKei Ashizawa (MC/MPA 2017) U.S – Japan Relations Community Organizer and Attorney at Law\nAaron Huang (MPP 2020) U.S. Foreign Service Officer\nJenny Lu Mallamo (MPP 2013) Deputy Director\, Global Communications & Media Relations at Council on Foreign Relations\nRebecca Yang (MPP 2015) Business Advisor of U.S. Education & State and Local Government\, Worldwide Public Sector\, Amazon Web Services \nModerator: Soojin Kwon (MPP) Managing Director\, MBA Admissions and Student Experience\, University of Michigan\, Ross School of Business\nWelcoming Remarks: Jacy Su (MPP 2023) \nThis public discussion will highlight key challenges of racism\, misogyny\, and other discrimination faced by our Asian and Asian-American community from the perspective of Harvard alumni. The panel will share insights on their own experiences while here at Harvard\, in the professional world\, and relate what has changed over time – progress\, regress – as well as highlight current work that remains to be done. \nPresented via Zoom\nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/3916364028803/WN_wtMS6kDITwea6x1Q6suTyA \n 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/panel-discussion-combatting-anti-asian-racism-and-misogyny-perspectives-from-harvard-alumni/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
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SUMMARY:Honghong Tinn – Manufacturing Electronics in Taiwan\, 1966-1975: Emulation\, Innovation\, and Entrepreneurship
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Honghong Tinn\, University of Minnesota \nCheck back soon for more information! \nPresented via Zoom\nRegistration Required\nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUoceChqTgvGNY7dLnS5_mIdbCPifM4qpy1 \nPart of the Science and Technology in Asia Seminar Series
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/manufacturing-electronics-in-taiwan-1966-1975-emulation-innovation-and-entrepreneurship/
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SUMMARY:Modern China Lecture Series Featuring Joan Judge - China’s Mundane Revolution:  Vernacularizing Science and Scientizing the Vernacular in the Long Republic\, 1894-1955
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Joan Judge\, Professor\, Department of History\, York University \nWhat can we learn from intellectual detritus? Focusing on cheap print\, vernacular daily-use knowledge\, and common readers in the Long Republic (1895-1955)\, this talk argues that the books an age discards as slipshod and unscientific\, and the readers it disparages as superstitious and ignorant\, comprise the broad epistemic terrain from which historical change is actualized. Premised on the notion that what we currently know about China’s iconic 20th-century revolutions does not explain enough\, it shifts our attention from innovation to ingenuity\, from “knowledge what” to “knowledge how\,” from the momentous to the mundane—without losing sight of the momentous. The talk first introduces a project on “China’s Mundane Revolution” that is based on some 500\, largely unstudied\, daily-use texts\, together with material gathered from the interstices of various archives. It then zeros in on one of the “how to” topics in the study: “how to treat a cholera infection.” Examining the ways individual common readers might have approached “the most spectacular ‘new’ disease of the nineteenth century\,” the example highlights the dynamic processes of scientizing vernacular and vernacularizing scientific forms of knowledge. It also raises questions about the ways these processes align—or misalign—with the various iterations of mass politics in this critical period. \nJoan Judge is a 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship\, member of the Royal Society of Canada and a Professor in the Department of History at York University in Toronto\, Canada.She is the author of Republican Lens: Gender\, Visuality\, and Experience in the Early Chinese Periodical Press (University of California Press\, 2015)\, The Precious Raft of History: The Past\, the West\, and the Woman Question in China (Stanford University Press\, 2008)\, Print and Politics: ‘Shibao’ and the Culture of Reform in Late Qing China (Stanford University Press\, 1996)\, and co-editor of Women Warriors and National Heroes: Global Histories (Bloomsbury Academic\, 2020)\, Women and the Periodical Press in China’s Global Twentieth Century: A Space of Their Own? (Cambridge University Press\, 2018)\, and Beyond Exemplar Tales: Women’s Biography in Chinese History (University of California Press\, 2011). She is currently engaged in an SSHRC-funded project\, China’s Mundane Revolution: Cheap Print\, Vernacular Knowledge\, and Common Reading in the Long Republic\, 1894–1955. \nPresented via Zoom \nAlso streaming on YouTube \n\n\nTranscript: Download Transcript
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/modern-china-lecture-series-featuring-joan-judge/
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CATEGORIES:Modern China Lecture
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Xuefei Ren - Governing the Urban in China and India
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Xuefei Ren\, Associate Professor\, Department of Sociology\, Michigan State University \nXuefei Ren is a comparative urbanist whose work focuses on urban development\, governance\, architecture\, and the built environment in global perspective.She is the author of three award-winning books: Governing the Urban in China and India: Land Grabs\, Slum Clearance\, and the War on Air Pollution (Princeton University Press\, 2020)\, Urban China (Polity\, 2013)\, and Building Globalization: Transnational Architecture Production in Urban China (University of Chicago Press\, 2011). She is currently working on two new projects. The first project examines the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on urban governance in six countries\, including China\, the United States\, Canada\, Germany\, Brazil and South Africa. The second project compares culture-led revitalization in post-industrial cities\, with Detroit\, Harbin\, and Turin as case studies. Her research has been supported by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars\, Andrew Mellon Foundation\, and the American Council of Learned Societies. She has been selected as a Public Intellectual Fellow of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations (2021-2023). She received her PhD in Sociology from the University of Chicago. \nPresented via Zoom WebinarRegistration Required \nAlso streaming on YouTube \n\n\nTranscript: Download Transcript
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-featuring-xuefei-ren/
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CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China
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SUMMARY:China Economy Lecture featuring Stephen Kaplan - Globalizing Patient Capital: The Political Economy of Chinese Finance in the Americas
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Stephen Kaplan\, Associate Professor of Political Science and Economic Affairs\, George Washington UniversityDiscussant: Laura Alfaro\, Warren Alpert Professor of Business Administration\, Harvard Business School \nThis book explores how China’s state-led capitalism affects national level governance. China\, as the world’s largest saver\, has more than doubled its overseas banking presence since the 2008 global financial crisis. Compared to the West’s private-sector capital\, China’s overseas financing is a distinct form of patient capital that marshals the country’s vast domestic financial resources to create commercial opportunities internationally. Its long-term horizon\, high risk tolerance\, and lack of policy conditionality have allowed developing economies to sidestep the fiscal austerity tendencies of Western markets and multilaterals. Employing a multi-method research strategy that includes statistical tests and extensive field research from across China and Latin America\, this book finds that China’s patient capital endows national governments more room to maneuver in formulating their domestic economic policies. This book also evaluates the potential costs of Chinese financing\, raising the question of how Chinese lenders will deal with developing nations’ ongoing struggles with debt and dependency. \nGlobalizing Patient Capital is targeted toward a broad audience within political science\, economics\, Latin American politics\, and Asian studies but is especially relevant for scholars of the political economy of finance\, globalization and development\, the politics of economic policymaking\, and US-China relations. By disaggregating the structure of international finance\, this book also offers new insights about globalization and development\, demonstrating that the type of international capital (state vs. market) can influence the extent of national-level policy discretion. \nPresented via Zoom WebinarRegistration Required \nAlso streaming on YouTube \nCo-sponsored by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies\, Harvard University \n\n\nTranscript: Download Transcript
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-economy-lecture-featuring-stephen-kaplan-globalizing-patient-capital-the-political-economy-of-chinese-finance-in-the-americas/
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SUMMARY:Environment in Asia Series - Greening East Asia: The Rise of the Eco-Developmental State
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:Ashley Esarey\, Associate Professor\, Department of Political Science\, University of AlbertaJoanna Lewis\, Distinguished Associate Professor of Energy and Environment and Director of the Science\, Technology and International Affairs Program (STIA)\,Georgetown UniversityMary Alice Haddad\, John E. Andrus Professor of Government\, Chair and Professor of East Asian Studies\, and Professor of Environmental Studies\, Wesleyan UniversityStevan Harrell\, Professor Emeritus\, Department of Anthropology and School of Environmental and Forest Sciences\, University of Washington \nModerator: Ling Zhang\, Boston College \nAshley Esarey is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Alberta. He received his PhD in Political Science from Columbia University and was An Wang Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University. His research concerns political communication in China\, elite politics\, renewable energy policy\, and Taiwanese politics. He was co-author (with Lu Hsiu-lien) of My Fight for a New Taiwan: One Woman’s Journey from Prison to Power. His co-edited books include Taiwan in Dynamic Transition: Nation Building and Democratization and Greening East Asia: The Rise of the Eco-Developmental State\, both published by the University of Washington Press in 2020. \nJoanna Lewis is Provost’s Distinguished Associate Professor of Energy and Environment and Director of the Science\, Technology and International Affairs Program (STIA) at Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. Her research examines political and technical determinants of energy and climate policy\, particularly in China. She is the author of the award-winning book Green Innovation in China\, and was a Lead Author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report. \nMary Alice Haddad is the John E. Andrus Professor of Government\, Chair and Professor of East Asian Studies\, and Professor of Environmental Studies at Wesleyan University. A Fulbright and Harvard Academy scholar\, she is the author of Effective Advocacy: Lessons from East Asia’s Environmentalists (MIT press\, forthcoming 2021)\,  Building Democracy in Japan (Cambridge\, 2012) and Politics and Volunteering in Japan (Cambridge\, 2007)\, and she co-edits the new Elements in Politics and Society in East Asia series from Cambridge University Press. Her current work concerns environmental politics in East Asia\, as well as how urban diplomacy is connecting and transforming policy around the world. \nStevan Harrell retired in 2017 from the Department of Anthropology and the School of Environmental and Forest Sciences at the University of Washington. A special issue of Human Ecology on Social-Ecological System Resilience in China\, co-edited with Denise M. Glover and Jack Patrick Hayes\, will appear in February. He is writing an ecological history of modern China\, provisionally entitled either Intensification and its Discontents or The Great Un-Buffering. He also edits the University of Washington Press series\, Studies on Ethnic Groups in China. \nPresented via Zoom WebinarRegistration Required \nAlso streaming on YouTube \n\n\nTranscript: Download Transcript
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/environment-in-asia-series-greening-east-asia/
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SUMMARY:Wang Junyang - The State's Handling of Petitioners through the Judiciary since the Abolition of Re-education through labor system in China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Wang Junyang\, Associate Professor\, School of Political Science and Public Administration\, Shandong University; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2021-22\nChair/discussant: Yuhua Wang\, Frederick S. Danziger Associate Professor of Government\, Harvard University \nHarvard-Yenching Institute Visiting Scholar talk \nPresented via Zoom\nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUrdumuqzsoG9XHE9HvJVHOv09wnZ3-zQ6d
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/wang-junyang-legalized-repression-the-states-handling-of-petitioners-through-the-judiciary-since-the-abolition-of-re-education-through-labor/
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SUMMARY:Association for Asian Studies New England Regional Conference
DESCRIPTION:The 2021 Association of Asian Studies New England Regional Conference is hosted by Harvard University’s Asia-related centers\, including: Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard University Asia Center\, Harvard-Yenching Institute\, Korea Institute\, Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute\, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations\, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs\, and Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies \n\nPresented via ZoomRegister at https://bit.ly/NEAAS2021 \nWhile there is no registration fee\, we suggest that attendees donate to the Association for Asian Studies at a level that is comfortable for them. \n\n8:30 – 8:45 AM EST Welcome and Introduction8:45 – 10:15 AM EST Panel A1-A510:30 – 11:45 AM EST Panel B1-B512:00 – 1:15 PM EST Keynote1:45 – 3:15 PM EST Panel C1-C53:30 – 5:00 PM EST Panel D1-D55:00 – 5:10 PM EST Conclusion \n8:30 – 8:45 AM EST  \nWelcome and Opening RemarkProfessor Elizabeth J. PerryFormer President\, Association for Asian Studies (2007-08)Director\, Harvard-Yenching InstituteHenry Rosovsky Professor of Government\, Harvard University \nTo be followed by Zoom logistics guidelines by Mark Grady\, the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies  \n8:45 – 10:15 AM EST(The following 6 panels take place simultaneously) \nPanel A1     Liquid State: The Politics of Dam ConstructionChair/Discussant: Prof. Rohan D’Souza (Kyoto University)Hydrosociality and Power in the Struggle over the Ishiki DamCharlotte Ciavarella and Joshua Linkous (Harvard University) \nHydropower Dams and Politics of River Development in VietnamNga Dao (York University) \nDam Politics in South Vietnam during the Cold War: The Case of the Da Nhim DamChu Duy Ly (National University of Singapore\, currently a visiting fellow at the Harvard-Yenching Institute) \nLearning from the Tennessee Valley Authority: Hydropower Cooperation between China and the United States in the 1940sXiangli Ding (Rhode Island School of Design) \nUrbanization and Rural Politics in the Ch’ungju Flood ZoneWill Sack (Harvard University) \nPanel A2     Margin(s) and Center(s) of Empire and Literature: Wang Wei and Meng HaoranChair: Christopher M. B. Nugent (Williams College) \nMeng Haoran and Wang Wei in the Eyes of Their ContemporariesPaul W. Kroll (University of Colorado) \n‘I’m at leisure (閑 haen) in the mountains (山 sraen)\, but I have to turn back (還 hwaen) now and close (關 kwaen) my gate’: Rhyme-Words and Poetic ArgumentStephen Owen (Harvard University) \nPlowing at a Distance: Perspectives on Agricultural Labor in the Poems of Wang WeiChristopher M. B. Nugent (Williams College) \nWang Wei as a Case study for Classical Chinese Poetry in TranslationCathy Shen (Harvard University) \nPanel A3     Knowledge\, Books\, and TextChair: Prof. Si Nae Park (Harvard University) \nMaking Different: Reproducing the Histories of Koryŏ in the Twentieth CenturyGraeme R. Reynolds (Yale University) \nMaking Dungan Literary History: Formation of the Sinophone Muslim Literary Tradition of Central AsiaKenneth J. Yin (City University of New York) \nChoi Namsŏn in the Transnational Publication WorldJeonghun Choi (Harvard University) \nThe Construction of Knowledge Archive in Early Modern South AsiaSushmita Banerjee (University of Delhi\, Indi) \nFlowing with Wind and Stream: The Affect of Fengliu 風流 in the Hongzhi Edition of The Story of the Western Wing 西廂記Xiaoyue Luo (University of Colorado\, Boulder) \nPanel A4     Gender and SexualityChair: Prof. Rachel Joo (Middlebury College) \nSubfertility as an Active Planning for Pregnancy in Neoliberal South KoreaJean Young Kim (University of Texas at Austin) \nThe Saigon Sisters: Privileged Women in the ResistancePatricia D. Norland (Independent writer) \nProtest with a party: The Semiotic Landscaping of Metro Manila Pride March as Southern PraxisChristian Go (National University of Singapore\, currently a visiting fellow at the Harvard-Yenching Institute) \nJapan’s Gay Seoul: Behind the Scene at a Korean ‘Snack Bar’ in TokyoAlbert Graves (Doshisha University) \nAttraction as a Mode of Power: Matchmaking\, Romantic Fetish\, and the State in Contemporary ChinaShanni Zhao (Harvard University) \nPanel A5     Chinese State and GovernanceChair: Prof. Elizabeth J. Perry (Harvard University) \nNumbers\, Fiscal Capacity\, and Capacity-Building in China\, 1500-1800Liu Ziang (London School of Economics and Political Science) \nLocal Deliberations and Market Development during the Mao EraKristine Li (Brown University) \nEchoes of Revolution and Civil War: Party Building in Chinese Counties\, 1949- 2005.Zheng Zhang (Chinese University of Hong Kong \nWhen Clans Meet Power: Elite Competition and Rural Governance in ChinaMeina Cai (University of Connecticut) \nPanel A6      Narrative and TranslationChair: Prof. David Wang (Harvard University) \nForgetting as Knowing: Knowledge and Wisdom in Zhuangzi’s Stories from Inner ChaptersShangtong Cui (Harvard University) \nWar\, World Literature\, and the “Real”: Futabatei Shimei and the Problem of Literary Translation in the Post-Russo–Japanese War Period in JapanYuki Ishida (Columbia University) \nTranscultural Dialogues: Eileen Chang’s Autobiographical FictionJessica Tsui-yan Li (York University) \nVisual and Poetic Imagination in The Four Seasons\, A Ming Handscroll in the Metropolitan MuseumMo Zhang (University of Pennsylvania) \n10:30 – 11:45 AM EST(The following 5 panels take place simultaneously) \nPanel B1     Revisiting East Asia through Mission Collections in New EnglandChair: Sharon Yang (Harvard University) \nDigital Frontiers: The China Historical Christian DatabaseAlex Mayfield (Boston University) \nThe Archival Collections on East Asia at the Yale Divinity LibraryChristopher Anderson (Yale University) \nHarvard-Yenching Missionary CollectionSharon Li-shiuan Yang (Harvard-Yenching Library) \nThe Ricci Institute: A Global Resource for the Interdisciplinary Study of Christianity in East AsiaMark Mir and M. Antoni Ucerler (Boston College) \nMissionary Research Library: More than TheologyLeah Edelman (Columbia University Libraries) \nPanel B2     Knowledge Production in State-building during the Early PRCChair: Prof. Sigrid Schmalzer (University of Massachusetts Amherst) \nWoven Together: Cotton Trade and the Making of Trade Practices in Cold War Asia\, 1950-1959Bohao Wu (Harvard University) \nLearning through Hosting: Cameroonian Delegations to the PRC and Chinese Knowledge Production on Africa\, 1956-1965Caitlin Barker (Michigan State University) \nHistory Education in Shanghai’s Secondary Schools in the 1950sGuanhua Tan (University of Massachusetts Amherst) \nQuantifying Rural China: Wartime Land Reform\, Statistics\, and State Fiscal Capacity in North China (1946-1949)Xiaoyu Gao (University of Chicago) \nPanel B3     Constitutions and CitizenshipChair: Prof. Tyler Giannini (Harvard University) \nThe Use of Programmatic Beliefs in EU-China Trade Disputes in the WTO DSMSalvatore FP Barillà (University of Edinburgh) \nMyanmar Citizenship Laws: Making Rohingya Muslims StatelessRonan Lee (Queen Mary University of London) \nObstructive Constitutionalism: Democratic Transitions and Pre-Emptive Authoritarian Constitution-Making in Southeast AsiaJohn Chua (Harvard University) \nPanel B4     Folklore\, Ghosts\, Monsters\, and the FantasticalChair: Prof. James Robson (Harvard University) \nEncountering ghosts: haunting and intercommunal relations in Phang NgaChantal Croteau (University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor) \nTender Warriors Against the Pandemic in Japan: Kumamon\, Quaran & AmabieMichael L. Maynard ( Temple University) \nViral Monsters for a Viral Era: Japan’s Folkloric Response to COVID-19Isabel Bush (Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies) \nA Space of the Subordinate: On the Development of “The Three-body Problem” FandomShuwen Yang (UCLA) \nPanel B5     IdentityChair: Prof. Arunabh Ghosh (Harvard University) \nPower and Identity of the Manchu and Mongol Bannermen in Qing: A Study of Household Economies by Means of Confiscation Inventory ListsYitong Qiu (London School of Economics and Political Science) \nVietnamese International Students in the Asian American Movement (1968-1975)Cai Barias (University of Massachusetts Amherst) \n“In-between” Asian Americans: Falling through the intersectional cracks of LiminalityKristin Kim (Korea University \nDocumentary Betrayal: Migrant Worker\, the Aesthetics of Cruelty\, and Fabulating OtherwiseYufan Chen (Harvard University) \nMigration\, Race and Nation: Chinese Views in Comparative and Global Context\, 1900s-1940sLisong Liu (Massachusetts College of Art and Design) \nHistory\, Identity and Hong Kong: A Constructivist Approach to the De-colonisation of British Hong KongMatthew Hurst (University of Oxford) \n  \n12:00 – 1:15 PM EST KeynoteProfessor Hy V. LuongPresident\, Association for Asian StudiesProfessor of Anthropology\, University of Toronto \n  \nLocal Culture or Global Neoliberal Ideology?:Reflections on a Shifting Intellectual Landscape \n  \n1:45 – 3:15 PM EST(The following 4 panels take place simultaneously) \nPanel C1     Assessing China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Strategic Evolution and the European CaseChair: Prof. Nargis Kassenova (Harvard University) \nFrom Ambiguity to Articulation: Belt and Road Initiative’s Dynamic Process in ChinaMin Ye (Boston University) \nBurning (Atlantic) Bridges? China’s Rise in Europe and its Implications for U.S. Grand StrategyThomas Cavanna (Tufts University) \nFrom Maritime Silk Road to Health Silk Road: Belt and Road Initiative’s Dynamic Process in EuropeGrant Rhode (Boston University) \nPanel C2     Thinking through the Asian Diaspora\, Racial Oppression\, and Intersectional Identity \nLabor’s Advocacy for Whiteness and Chinese Exclusion in Defense of the “American Standard of Living”Pat Reeve (Suffolk University) \nWang Hao\, the Chinese Diaspora\, and PhilosophyMontgomery Link (Suffolk University) \nEvangelical Christianity\, Sex and the Massacre of Asian American Women in Atlanta on March 16\, 2021Amy Fisher (Suffolk University) \nA Feminist Critique of Anti-Asian Violence in the Context of U.S.-China RelationMicky Lee (Suffolk University) \nThe Invisibility and Microaggression Experiences of Asians in USA: How can we Understand and Reduce their Adverse Impact on Psychological WellbeingSukanya Ray (Suffolk University) \nPanel C3     Empire and ColonialismChair: Prof. Sugata Bose (Harvard University) \nDandelions\, Airships\, and the Long Way Around: Orientating Nakayama Miki’s Divine Parental GuidanceMichaela Leah Prostak (Brown University) \nSacred Maneuvers: Maulana Azad and the Career of Muslim Nationalism in British IndiaAneeq Ejaz (Dartmouth College) \nSir Robert Hart and the territorialization of Qing rule in aboriginal TaiwanGeorges Moraitis (Queen’s University Belfast) \nIndustrial Whaling and the Expansion of the Japanese Maritime Empire\, 1890- 1912Fynn Holm (Harvard University) \nDiscursive Empire: The Shifting Definitions of Japan’s Empire in Manchuria (1905–37)Yuting Dong (Harvard University) \nPanel C4     MilitaryChair: Prof. Michael Szonyi (Harvard University) \nAmerican Trash\, Japanese Treasure: Military Garbage in Occupied JapanConnor Mills (Dartmouth College) \nSoldering Across Space and Time: “Taiwanese” Servicemen Under the Japanese and U.S Empires (1930s – 1970s)Shang Yasuda (University of Pennsylvania) \nThe Rhythms of Commodification: Mid-Qing Military Horse ProvisioningCharles Argon (Princeton University) \nNeoliberalism and the Political Economy of Bangladesh MilitaryMatt M. Husain (The University of British Columbia) \n  \n3:30 – 5:00 PM EST(The following 5 panels take place simultaneously) \nPanel D1      More than the Sum of it Parts: Piecing together Chinese Fragment Histories in the Harvard Art MuseumsChair: Sarah Lauren (Harvard University) \nSeeing through the Cracks: Kharakhoto Fragments in the HAM CollectionVictoria Andrews (Harvard University) \nPutting Face to Place: Fragments from Warner’s “Elephant Chapel”Isabel McWilliams (Harvard University) \nFrom Henan to Harvard: Three Sixth-century Buddhist Heads in ContextMichael Norton (Harvard University) \nReframing Tianlongshan: Facing the Past and Looking AheadSarah Laursen (Harvard Art Museums) \nPanel D2      Nation\, Religion\, and Society in Modern Korea: Examinations of Religious Freedom & Restriction\, Modern Social Engagement\, and (Inter)National Identity and BelongingChair: Prof. Kyuhoon Cho (University of Regina) \nRational Restriction on Religion? How North Korea Conceives of Religious FreedomJohn G. Grisafi (Yale University) \nShifts in the Social Engagement of Modern Korean BuddhismJusung Lee (Yale University) \nGeorge May’s Lost Town: Remembering Yongsan Garrison through Seoul American High School\, 1974-2019Karis Ryu (Yale University) \nPanel D3     International Relations and International PoliticsChair: Prof. Mesrob Vartavarian (Harvard University) \nMaking Sense of China’s Western Neighbourhood Diplomacy: A Neoclassical Realist ArgumentGiulia Sciorati (University of Trento) \nWrestling with the Past: Sumō and the Restoration of Japan-China Relations in the 1970sErik Esselstrom (University of Vermont) \nBefore the Storm Comes: Diplomatic Exchanges between Mongols\, Korea\, and Japan Before 1274 Bun’ei CampaignLina Nie (University of Southern California) \nHegemony and Indirect Balancing in Mainland Southeast AsiaPaul Un (University of Chicago) \nPanel D4     Places and CitiesChair: Prof. Nicole Newendorp (Harvard University) \nDecoy of the Gods: Votive Artillery at Asuke Hanchimangū Shrine and Population Politics in a Shrinking Suburb of Japan’s Fourth Largest CityChristopher S. Thompson (Ohio University) \nCollective Construction: Building “Community” and “Chumchon” in BangkokHayden Shelby (University of Cincinnati)\, Trude Renwick (Hong Kong University) \nThe Timing of the largest flower market in AsiaRui Sun (Chinese University of Hong Kong\, currently a visiting fellow at the Harvard-Yenching Institute) \nSeeing Time in Space: Temporality of Symbolic Landscape in LaosAnna Koshcheeva (Cornell University) \nPanel D5     PerformanceChair: Prof. Alex Zahlten (Harvard University) \nSecularizing Bollywood: Mother Images in Popular Hindi CinemaLiangdong Chen (Beijing Normal University\, currently a visiting fellow at the Harvard-Yenching Institute) \nA Centennial Portrait: Ballets Performed in 2021 for 100th Year of the Chinese Communist Party’s FoundingEva Shan Chou (City University of New York) \n“Even if it Means our Battles to Date are Meaningless”: The Anime Gundam Wing and Postwar History\, Memory\, and Identity in JapanGenevieve R Peterson (University of Massachusetts Boston) \nLocal Performing Arts and Recovery from the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami: A Descriptive Qualitative StudyAkiko Iizuka (Utsunomiya University) \nMusical Borrowing for Career Advancement: Daechwita in K-popSunhong Kim (University of Michigan)
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SUMMARY:Uyghur Culture Fest and Call to Action
DESCRIPTION:The Harvard Human Rights Working Group is hosting a Uyghur culture fest and call to action together with members of Boston’s Uyghur community on Monday\, December 6 from 6:00-7:15 pm\, featuring Uyghur music\, food\, and art. This event will include opportunities to learn Uyghur calligraphy and dance\, to hear a reading from a Uyghur poet\, and to learn about the language and history of the Uyghur people. Speakers will share their own families’ experiences in the Uyghur genocide and provide information about ways to support Uyghur freedom. Registration is encouraged but not required; RSVP here. \nIt is important to us that everyone feels comfortable attending this event; to that end\, nobody at this event will be photographed without their prior permission.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/uyghur-culture-fest-and-call-to-action/
LOCATION:Barker Center\, Thompson Room\, 12 Quincy St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211208T123000
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Cheng Li - Forecasting Personnel Changes at the 20th Party Congress
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Cheng Li\, Director\, John L. Thornton China Center\, Brookings InstitutionModerator/Discussant: Elizabeth J. Perry\, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government and Director of the Harvard-Yenching Institute\, Harvard University \nCheng Li is the director of the John L. Thornton China Center and a senior fellow in the Foreign Policy program at Brookings. He is also a director of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations. Li focuses on the transformation of political leaders\, generational change\, the Chinese middle class\, and technological development in China. \nLi grew up in Shanghai during the Cultural Revolution. In 1985\, he came to the United States\, where he received a master’s in Asian studies from the University of California\, Berkeley and a doctorate in political science from Princeton University. From 1993 to 1995\, he worked in China as a fellow sponsored by the Institute of Current World Affairs in the U.S.\, observing grassroots changes in his native country. Based on this experience\, he published a nationally acclaimed book\, “Rediscovering China: Dynamics and Dilemmas of Reform” (1997). \nLi is also the author or the editor of numerous books\, including “China’s Leaders: The New Generation” (2001)\, “Bridging Minds Across the Pacific: The Sino-U.S. Educational Exchange 1978-2003” (2005)\, “China’s Changing Political Landscape: Prospects for Democracy” (2008)\, “China’s Emerging Middle Class: Beyond Economic Transformation” (2010)\, “The Road to Zhongnanhai: High-Level Leadership Groups on the Eve of the 18th Party Congress” (in Chinese\, 2012)\, “The Political Mapping of China’s Tobacco Industry and Anti-Smoking Campaign” (2012)\, “China’s Political Development: Chinese and American Perspectives” (2014)\, “Chinese Politics in the Xi Jinping Era: Reassessing Collective Leadership” (2016)\, “The Power of Ideas: The Rising Influence of Thinkers and Think Tanks in China” (2017)\, and “Middle Class Shanghai: Reshaping U.S.-China Engagement” (Spring 2021). He is currently completing a book manuscript with the working title “Xi Jinping’s Protégés: Rising Elite Groups in the Chinese Leadership”. He is the principal editor of the Thornton Center Chinese Thinkers Series published by the Brookings Institution Press. \nPresented via Zoom WebinarRegistration Required \nAlso streaming on YouTube \n\n\nTranscript: Download Transcript
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-featuring-cheng-li/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China,Critical Issues Confronting China Series
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SUMMARY:Mengmeng Yang - The Syntax of “NP zhi (之) VP” in Old Chinese
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Mengmeng Yang\, Associate Research Professor\, Institute of Linguistics\, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2021-22\nChair/discussant: C.-T. James Huang\, Professor of Linguistics\, Harvard University \nThis talk focuses on the syntax of the “NP zhi VP” (主之谓) structure (eg. 皮之不存\,毛将安附?)\, which is one of the most typical and frequently used structures in Old Chinese. It is tentatively proposed that zhi\, as a functional head\, functions as a nonfinite INFL and projects a nonfinite clause in the form of “NP zhi VP”. According to this analysis\, the syntactic difference between “NP zhi VP” and the canonical “NP VP” clause without zhi lies in the fact that the former is nonfinite whereas the latter is finite. If this analysis is on the right track\, “NP zhi VP” and its counterparts like “NP VP” in Old Chinese\, “NP de VP” (“NP 的 VP”) in Contemporary Chinese\, as well as the gerundive V-ing structure and to-infinitive in English\, can all be characterized as different instantiations of the abstract “NP F VP” structure (F=functional category). They differ from each other only in different values of F. \nMore info: https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/the-syntax-of-np-zhi-%e4%b9%8b-vp-in-old-chinese/ \nHarvard-Yenching Institute Visiting Scholar talk \nPresented via Zoom\nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEvdeGrqTguH9xse7Os4eq446EqAXSItXWI \n 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/mengmeng-yang-the-syntax-of-np-zhi-%e4%b9%8b-vp-in-old-chinese/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211210T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211210T120000
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SUMMARY:Art Study Center Seminar at Home\, with Hong Chun Zhang
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\nHong Chun Zhang\, Artist\nJerrica Li\, Harvard College Class of ’22\, founder\, The Wave magazine\, Harvard University\nSarah Laursen\, Alan J. Dworsky Associate Curator of Chinese Art\, Division of Asian and Mediterranean Art\, Harvard Art Museums \nIn her work\, Kansas-based Chinese artist Hong Chun Zhang reimagines the world around her as enveloped in hair. In conversation with The Wave\, Harvard’s Asian literary and arts magazine\, Zhang will explore how her identity\, the environment\, and the dual pandemics are woven into her recent work. \nPresented via Zoom\nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_PhWLKYlLT56HBdT_K3xXxQ \nMore information: https://harvardartmuseums.org/calendar/art-study-center-seminar-at-home-with-hong-chun-zhang
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/art-study-center-seminar-at-home-with-hong-chun-zhang/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211213T091500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211213T104500
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CREATED:20211201T145745Z
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SUMMARY:Japan\, the U.S.\, and Economic and Security Policy Linkages in the Taiwan Strait
DESCRIPTION:Panelists:\nTain Jy Chen\, Professor of Economics\, Taipei School of Economics and Political Science; Professor Emeritus\, National Taiwan UniversitySadamasa Oue\, Senior Fellow\, Asia Pacific Initiative; Lt. Gen. (retired)\, Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF)Shelley Rigger\, Brown Professor of Political Science\, Davidson CollegeDaniel Russel\, Vice President\, International Security and Diplomacy\, Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI)Moderator: 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 \nMore information: https://programs.wcfia.harvard.edu/us-japan/panel-12-13-21 \nPresented via Zoom\nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAvdOGoqT8qHdyTPk93XDdtrGffSR8AeicM \nThis seminar is part of the Special Series on Policy Innovations in Crises\, supported by a grant from the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership (CGP).
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/japan-the-u-s-and-economic-and-security-policy-linkages-in-the-taiwan-strait/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211214T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211214T114500
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SUMMARY:Carla Nappi  – How to Come Apart: Decomposing a History of Translation in China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Carla Nappi\, The University of Pittsburgh \nCheck back soon for more information! \nPresented via Zoom\nRegistration Required\nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0sfuyuqzstHNLcP21UNFfqiHHReSkx1_H7 \nPart of the Science and Technology in Asia Seminar Series
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/carla-nappi-how-to-come-apart-decomposing-a-history-of-translation-in-china/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211214T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211214T163000
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SUMMARY:Yang Lichao - Children’s Dimensions of Poverty: Qualitative Studies in Urban China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Yang Lichao. Associate Professor\, Chinese Academy of Social Management/School of Sociology\, Beijing Normal University; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2021-22\nChair/discussant: Nicole Newendorp\, Lecturer on Social Studies\, Harvard University \nPoverty is multidimensional but with disagreement as to the most important dimensions. This is especially true of child poverty partly because children are seldom asked systematically to describe their experience of poverty. Fifty-five children\, aged between eight and 12 and attending two schools in Hangzhou and Beijing China\, each participated in several hours of interviews and discussion about experiencing poverty. Integrating their understanding with perspectives of parents and teachers suggests nine dimensions of poverty: four structural (material deprivation\, limiting home environment\, constrained education; restricted opportunities); three relational (violence\, negative social relations\, lack of confidence); and two core (shame; neglected agency). \nMore info: https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/childrens-dimensions-of-poverty-qualitative-studies-in-urban-china/ \nHarvard-Yenching Institute Visiting Scholar talk \nPresented via Zoom\nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAvcuyvrzgrG9CbnLONF4qml-Nh1KMCEHBA \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/yang-lichao-childrens-dimensions-of-poverty-qualitative-studies-in-urban-china/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220121T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220131T075959
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SUMMARY:Harvard Film Archive Film Screening - Tabooed Initiation: Two Early Films by Mou Tun-Fei
DESCRIPTION:I Didn’t Dare Tell You / Bugan gen ni jiang\, 78 minutes\, Taiwan\, 1969. Mandarin with English subtitles.\nThe End of the Track / Pao Dao Zhongdian\, 90 minutes\, Taiwan\, 1970. Mandarin with English subtitles. \nRecently discovered by the Taiwan Film & Audiovisual Institute\, I Didn’t Dare Tell You and The End of the Track debuted at the 2018 Taiwan International Documentary Festival and have since toured the world. Encompassing a wide affective spectrum—from repressed yearning to mournful regrets\, from abusive love to homoerotic desire—they represent the tabooed initiation of a visionary director whose versatile career has yet to be fully appreciated. \nThis virtual series was curated and coordinated by Harvard University’s East Asian Film & Media Working Group. \nFor more information on each film\, as well as virtual screening information\, visit https://watchhfa.eventive.org/welcome.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/harvard-film-archive-film-screening-tabooed-initiation-two-early-films-by-mou-tun-fei/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest,Film Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220126T123000
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series Featuring Jennifer Pan - Wielding Welfare to Support Autocracy
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Jennifer Pan\, Associate Professor of Communication\, Stanford University\nModerator: William Overholt\, Senior Research Fellow\, Harvard Kennedy School \nJennifer Pan is an Associate Professor of Communication at Stanford University. Her research focuses on political communication and authoritarian politics. Pan uses experimental and computational methods with large-scale datasets on political activity in China and other authoritarian regimes to answer questions about how autocrats perpetuate their rule. How political censorship\, propaganda\, and information manipulation work in the digital age. How preferences and behaviors are shaped as a result. \nHer book\, Welfare for Autocrats: How Social Assistance in China Cares for its Rulers (Oxford\, 2020) shows how China’s pursuit of political order transformed the country’s main social assistance program\, Dibao\, for repressive purposes. Her work has appeared in peer reviewed publications such as the American Political Science Review\, American Journal of Political Science\, Comparative Political Studies\, Journal of Politics\, and Science. \nShe graduated from Princeton University\, summa cum laude\, and received her Ph.D. from Harvard University’s Department of Government. \nPresented via Zoom Webinar\nRegister at https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_bgayHfbUSx6w_9SbH2BsdQ \nThis seminar will not be recorded for delayed viewing.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-featuring-jennifer-pan-wielding-welfare-to-support-autocracy/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China Series
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