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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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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
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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
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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/
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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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UID:11213-1639134000-1639137600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
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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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211213T104500
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UID:11256-1639386900-1639392300@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
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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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211214T114500
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UID:11037-1639477800-1639482300@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
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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UID:11228-1639494000-1639499400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
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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UID:11311-1642752000-1643615999@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
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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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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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220126T173000
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UID:11298-1643212800-1643218200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Tatsuya Nakanishi - Chinese-Speaking Muslims’ Responses to Islamic Intellectual Trends from West\, South and Central Asia during the Nineteenth Century
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Tatsuya Nakanishi\, Associate Professor\, Institute for Research in Humanities\, Kyoto University; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2021-22\nChair/discussant: Ali Asani\, Murray A. Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures\, Harvard University \nHYI Visiting Scholars Talk \nPresented via Zoom\nRegistration link: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEocuyrrDwiGdZ8o3s2RwLBWoSR8cKtEDE8 \nMore information: https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/chinese-speaking-muslims-responses-to-islamic-intellectual-trends-from-west-south-and-central-asia-during-the-nineteenth-century/
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/tatsuya-nakanishi-chinese-speaking-muslims-responses-to-islamic-intellectual-trends-from-west-south-and-central-asia-during-the-nineteenth-century/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220131T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220131T130000
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UID:11338-1643630400-1643634000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Yves Tiberghien -Why Has the East Asian Covid Model Diverged over Delta and Omicron?
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Yves Tiberghien\, Professor of Political Science; Konwakai Chair in Japanese Research\, University of British Columbia\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 \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). Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard University; and the Takemi Program in International Health\, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. \nPresented via Zoom\nRegister at : https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMsdOqrqT8rGtGD48jFl-U4msV05QRhwBA0
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/yves-tiberghien-why-has-the-east-asian-covid-model-diverged-over-delta-and-omicron/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220201T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220201T173000
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UID:11288-1643731200-1643736600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Contemporary Chinese Society Lecture Series featuring Ethan Michelson - Decoupling: Gender Injustice in China’s Divorce Courts
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Ethan Michelson\, Professor of Sociology\, Professor and Chair\, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures\, Indiana University-Bloomington; Professor of Law\, IU Maurer School of Law \nPresented via Zoom \nAlso streaming on YouTube \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTranscript: Download Transcript
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/contemporary-chinese-society-lecture-series-featuring-ethan-michelson-decoupling-gender-injustice-in-chinas-divorce-courts/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Contemporary Chinese Society
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220202T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220202T140000
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UID:11316-1643805000-1643810400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring William Alan Reinsch - China as Best Customer and Biggest Threat – Trade Policy in the Biden Era
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: William Alan Reinsch\, Senior Adviser and Scholl Chair in International Business\, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)Moderator: William Overholt\, Senior Research Fellow\, Harvard Kennedy School \nWilliam Reinsch holds the Scholl Chair in International Business at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and is a senior adviser at Kelley\, Drye & Warren LLP. Previously\, he served for 15 years as president of the National Foreign Trade Council\, where he led efforts in favor of open markets\, in support of the Export-Import Bank and Overseas Private Investment Corporation\, against unilateral sanctions\, and in support of sound international tax policy\, among many issues. From 2001 to 2016\, he concurrently served as a member of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission. He is also an adjunct assistant professor at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy\, teaching courses in globalization\, trade policy\, and politics. \nReinsch also served as the under secretary of commerce for export administration during the Clinton administration. Prior to that\, he spent 20 years on Capitol Hill\, most of them as senior legislative assistant to the late Senator John Heinz (R-PA) and subsequently to Senator John D. Rockefeller IV (D-WV). He holds a B.A. and an M.A. in international relations from the Johns Hopkins University and the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies respectively. \nCheck back soon for more information! \nPresented via Zoom Webinar \nAlso streaming on YouTube \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTranscript: Download Transcript
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-featuring-william-alan-reinsch/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China,Critical Issues Confronting China Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220207T100000
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UID:11299-1644228000-1644233400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Environment in Asia Series featuring Brian Lander - The Ecology of China’s Early Political Systems
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Brian Lander\, Assistant Professor of History\, Brown UniversityDiscussant: Ling Zhang\, Associate Professor\, Department of History\, Boston College \nBy encouraging us to rethink familiar historical processes through an ecological lens\, the field of environmental history provides new insights into the past. Lander’s book The King’s Harvest uses such an ecological perspective to examine the formation of political organizations in early China. Early political systems literally ran on solar energy stored in the grain that common farmer paid in tax\, so we should think of them as organizations dedicated to mobilizing photosynthetic energy. Early states devoted much of that energy to assembling large groups of men to fight with other groups of armed men\, but they also used it to expand farmland\, build infrastructure\, and increase the human population in the interests of increasing their tax income. This paper will use these insights to explore the history of the state and empire of Qin (c. 800-207 BCE). Qin established the centralized bureaucratic empire which became the standard model of political organization in China\, bequeathing subsequent empires with administrative skills that helped them thoroughly transform East Asia’s environments. \nBrian Lander studies the environmental history and archaeology of early China. He is an assistant professor of history at Brown University and a fellow at the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society. He teaches history and environmental studies. \nPresented via Zoom \nAlso streaming on YouTube \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTranscript: Download Transcript
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/environment-in-asia-series-featuring-brian-lander-the-ecology-of-chinas-early-political-systems/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Environment
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220209T133000
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UID:11342-1644408000-1644413400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:China’s Role in the World: Is China Exporting Authoritarianism?
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\nElizabeth Economy\, Senior Fellow\, Hoover Institution\, Stanford University\nSheena Chestnut Greitens\, Associate Professor\, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs\, University of Texas at Austin\nNaima Green-Riley\, PhD Candidate\, Department of Government\, Harvard University\nMaria Repnikova\, Assistant Professor in Global Communication\, Department of Communication\, Georgia State University \nChair: Alastair Iain Johnston\, The Governor James Albert Noe and Linda Noe Laine Professor of China in World Affairs\, Department of Government\, Harvard University \nPresented via Zoom\nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_7sSQgf7qS7in8ta-L_IJFg \n\n \nThis event is hosted by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs\, co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center’s Critical Issues Confronting China Series. \n\n \nThis event will not be recorded for delayed viewing.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/chinas-role-in-the-world-is-china-exporting-authoritarianism/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Critical Issues Confronting China
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UID:24535-1644494400-1644498000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Yuen Yuen Ang - Does Corruption Really Disappear as Countries Grow Richer?
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Yuen Yuen Ang\, Associate Professor of Political Science\, University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor\nDiscussant: Patrick O. Okigbo\, founder of Nextier and M-RCBG senior fellow \nThis webinar is part of M-RCBG’s weekly Business & Government Series. Yuen Yuen Ang is the author of How China Escaped the Poverty Trap (2016) and China’s Gilded Age: The Paradox of Economic Boom and Vast Corruption (2020). In 2021\,she was named by Apolitical among the Top 100 Most Influential Academics in Government. She is also the inaugural recipient of the Theda Skocpol Prize for Emerging Scholar from the American Political Science Association for “impactful contributions to comparative politics.” \nHosted by the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government\, Harvard Kennedy School\nThis event is being co-hosted by the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation and the Harvard University Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. \nPresented via Zoom\nRegister at https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_o7m6hgkMRp-vG5WcVOmuVQ
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/yuen-yuen-ang-does-corruption-really-disappear-as-countries-grow-richer/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220216T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220216T140000
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UID:11303-1645014600-1645020000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Guobin Yang - Listening to the Wuhan Lockdown
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Guobin Yang\, Grace Lee Boggs Professor of Communication and Sociology\, Annenberg School for Communication and the Department of Sociology\, University of PennsylvaniaModerator/discussant: Nara Dillon\, Senior Lecturer on Government\, Harvard University \nThe sealing off of Wuhan from January 23 to April 8\, 2020 was an extraordinary historical event in modern world history. Recently published by Columbia University Press\, Guobin Yang’s The Wuhan Lockdown recounts this history by presenting a galaxy of scenes and characters. This talk introduces the main features of the book and then zooms in on one theme – that of voice. The lockdown of the city was a period of life marked by both loud voices of shouting and yelling and by quiet voices of reflection and rumination. What did residents in Wuhan try to say in their loud or quiet ways? Who heard their voices? Who listened? \nGuobin Yang is the Grace Lee Boggs Professor of Communication and Sociology at the Annenberg School for Communication and the Department of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania\, where he directs the Center on Digital Culture and Society and serves as deputy director of the Center for the Study of Contemporary China. He is the author of The Wuhan Lockdown (2022)\, The Red Guard Generation and Political Activism in China (2016)\, and The Power of the Internet in China: Citizen Activism Online (2009). He is also the editor or co-editor of six books\, including Engaging Social Media in China: Platforms\, Publics and Production (2021). \nPresented via Zoom \nAlso streaming on YouTube \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTranscript: Download Transcript
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-featuring-guobin-yang-listening-to-the-wuhan-lockdown/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China,Critical Issues Confronting China Series
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220217T131500
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UID:11310-1645099200-1645103700@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Nirupama Rao - The Fractured Himalaya
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Nirupama Rao\, Former Foreign Secretary of India and Ambassador to the United States and China\nChair: Sugata Bose\, Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs \nPart of the Borders in Modern Asia Seminar Series \nCo-sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, and the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute \nPresented via Zoom webinar.\n Register here: https://tinyurl.com/4pv9m7zk. 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/nirupama-rao-the-fractured-himalaya/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220221T173000
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SUMMARY:Buddhist Studies Forum Featuring Keng Ching - Towards a New Interpretation of Dignāga's Mental Perception (mānasa-pratyakṣa): Clues from the Notion of Simultaneous Mental Consciousness
DESCRIPTION:Topics:\n\n\nDigital China\, Digital China\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/buddhist-studies-forum-featuring-keng-ching-towards-a-new-interpretation-of-dignagas-mental-perception-manasa-pratyak%e1%b9%a3a-clues-from-the-notion-of-simultaneous-mental-consciousness/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Buddhist Studies Forum
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220228T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220228T190000
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CREATED:20220131T144142Z
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UID:11343-1646067600-1646074800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:China Humanities Seminar featuring Yuhang Li - Engineering Religious Bliss at the Qing Court: Jile shijie in the Beihai Park
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Yuhang Li\, University of Wisconsin-Madison\n \nIn 1770\, with the purpose of presenting an unusual surprising gift to his mother Empress Dowager Chongqing (1692-1777) for her eightieth birthday\, Emperor Qianlong (1711-1799) ordered the imperial architectural department to construct a Buddhist compound named jile shijie or blissful land on the northern shore of imperial Beihai Park next to the Forbidden City. Inside of the main hall\, instead of conventional Buddhist icons staged on the lotus pedestals\, an innovative three-dimensional clay mountain site scenery adorned with various deities from the Pure Land occupies the interior space. Jile shijie\, a synonym for the Western Paradise and Pure Land\, has been consistently visualized and contemplated since early medieval China. But the jile shijie built for Empress Dowager Chongqing is a standalone case which creates the experience of religious joy through a site scenery. The Pure Land is usually experienced as a future connected to death\, which one literally cannot experience as present.  However\, Qianlong’s filial gift allows his mother to feel the required affect in this world\, by juxtaposing transcendence and immanence.  The absolute future of the Pure Land\, a future that one experiences only after one has no more future on earth\, becomes present at least in part\, in a man-made small-scale western paradise. In this paper\, I will discuss the surviving architecture\, sculptural mountain preserved in old photographs\, imperial documents on the design process\, and Qianlong’s own writings on the given subject. Through unpacking the layers of this site\, I will demonstrate how a liminal temporality of religious joy is materialized.\n\nPresented via Zoom\nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJItceysrD4pHNV5JMpAvPFyIiRrTG8AWRxb
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-humanities-seminar-featuring-yuhang-li-engineering-religious-bliss-at-the-qing-court-jile-shijie-in-the-beihai-park/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:China Humanities Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220302T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220302T103000
DTSTAMP:20260512T181712
CREATED:20220119T161944Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220707T204224Z
UID:11318-1646211600-1646217000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:POSTPONED: Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Xingxing Wang - Chinese Policy Toward North Korea
DESCRIPTION:Regrettably\, this event has been postponed and will be rescheduled for a future date. \nSpeaker: Xingxing Wang\, Professor& Director\, Research Center for Strategy of Korean Peninsula\, School of International Relations and Public Affairs\, Shanghai International Studies UniversityModerator: William Overholt\, Senior Research Fellow\, Harvard Kennedy School \nOver the last decade\, Dr. Wang has conducted research at the Institute for Far Eastern Studies at Kyungnam University—among several other universities in South Korea— Her research primarily concerns Northeast Asian studies\, particularly focusing on the intersection between China\, the Korean Peninsula and China-U.S. relations. \nPresented via Zoom WebinarRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_P5pV4WDCTM2g-rEXGIDHXg \nAlso streaming on YouTube
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-featuring-xingxing-wang-chinese-policy-toward-north-korea/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China,Critical Issues Confronting China Series
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220303T210000
DTSTAMP:20260512T181712
CREATED:20220223T151542Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220420T220127Z
UID:24871-1646335800-1646341200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Victoria Chen - Coastal Formosan\, Nuclear Austronesian\, and beyond: How do Formosan languages Inform Theories of Austronesian Expansion?
DESCRIPTION:Topics:\n\n\nDigital China\, Digital China\n\n\n\n\nRegister now\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Indigenous languages of Taiwan feature two patterns of morphological discrepancy. First\, only some possess a symmetrical morphological paradigm associated with a phenomenon known as ‘noun-verb homophony’. Second\, only a handful of the languages allow the Proto-Austronesian stative affix ma- to be used in a transitive clause. This talk addresses how these two foci of variation inform our understanding of the Austronesian diaspora and further explains how new comparative data on these phenomena offers a simpler answer to two ongoing debates in the field. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/victoria-chen-coastal-formosan-nuclear-austronesian-and-beyond-how-do-formosan-languages-inform-theories-of-austronesian-expansion/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220304T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220304T133000
DTSTAMP:20260512T181712
CREATED:20220223T145415Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220707T204225Z
UID:24865-1646395200-1646400600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Cancan Liao - The Interpretations of “Heaven”: Encounter\, Conflict and Accommodation between Chinese Literati and European Jesuits in late Ming China
DESCRIPTION:Digital China\, Digital China\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\n\n\nLate Ming and Early Qing was a period during which China underwent a transformation both on intellectual thoughts and society life\, influenced with Western natural science (more precisely\, natural philosophy) and Catholicism transmitted by European Jesuits. In the course of cultural exchange\, the interpretations of “heaven” were manifested in different intellectual levels\, including philosophy\, theology and astronomical calendar. \n\n\n\nThis talk focuses on Xu Guangqi and Fang Yizhi\, two representative figures of cultural exchange but with different attitudes towards western learning in late Ming China\, and presents how they confronted the conflict and competition in discourse between Neo-Confucianism and Western learning\, how both sides tried to find an accommodation. The presentation particularly introduces image-numerology in study on The Book of Change which became an important medium of integration between Confucianism and western natural philosophy\, and shows traditional Chinese science has its thought resources in philosophy. If this is the case\, beyond the usual perspectives of responding to the “Needham Problem” from history of science and intellectual history\, the philosophical perspective on this issue actually reflects the complexity of universality and diversity in science as well as in culture. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/cancan-liao-the-interpretations-of-heaven-encounter-conflict-and-accommodation-between-chinese-literati-and-european-jesuits-in-late-ming-china/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220307T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220307T183000
DTSTAMP:20260512T181713
CREATED:20220216T140057Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220420T220859Z
UID:24735-1646672400-1646677800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Norihisa Baba - Sanskrit vs Pāli: Buddhaghosa’s Linguistic Turn and its Impacts on Mainland Southeast Asia
DESCRIPTION:Topics:\n\n\nDigital China\, Digital China\n\n\n\n\nRegister now\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/norihisa-baba-sanskrit-vs-pali-buddhaghosas-linguistic-turn-and-its-impacts-on-mainland-southeast-asia/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Buddhist Studies Forum
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220307T190000
DTSTAMP:20260512T181713
CREATED:20220131T144401Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220302T173102Z
UID:11344-1646672400-1646679600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:China Humanities Seminar featuring David Mozina - Ritual and Relationship in Daoist Practice
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: David Mozina\, Author\, Knotting the Banner \n\n \nMore information coming soon!
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-humanities-seminar-featuring-david-mozina-ritual-and-relationship-in-daoist-practice/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:China Humanities Seminar
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