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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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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220202T140000
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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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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220207T113000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220209T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220209T133000
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CREATED:20220128T154636Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220210T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220210T130000
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CREATED:20220111T150221Z
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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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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220217T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220217T131500
DTSTAMP:20260516T070633
CREATED:20220118T174653Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220221T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220221T173000
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CREATED:20220209T153241Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220707T204309Z
UID:24561-1645459200-1645464600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
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
DTSTAMP:20260516T070633
CREATED:20220131T144142Z
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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:20260516T070633
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220303T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220303T210000
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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:20260516T070633
CREATED:20220223T145415Z
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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
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CREATED:20220216T140057Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220420T220859Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220307T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220307T190000
DTSTAMP:20260516T070633
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220309T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220309T140000
DTSTAMP:20260516T070633
CREATED:20220120T160714Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220809T174312Z
UID:11328-1646829000-1646834400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China series featuring John Haigh
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: John Haigh\, Co-Director\, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government; Lecturer in Public Policy\, Harvard Kennedy SchoolModerator: William Overholt\, Senior Research Fellow\, Harvard Kennedy School \nJohn Haigh is Co-Director of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government and Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. He teaches a seminar on business and government interactions to second year Master in Public Policy students (BGP-150Y); a seminar on business and public policy for students in the second year of the Kennedy School and Harvard Business School joint degree program (HBS 5222); and a module on corporate citizenship and public policy (BGP-231M). He focuses on teaching general management skills along with addressing issues of competition\, technology\, innovation and regulation.  From 2005 through 2017 he served as the Executive Dean of the Kennedy School\, engaging in strategic decisions and overseeing the operating and financial activities of the school. \nFrom 1996 through 2005 he was an officer at AT&T and subsequently AT&T Wireless\, where he held a variety of strategy and leadership positions. At AT&T he initially focused on strategy and business development issues and was later promoted to President of AT&Ts International Ventures. He then was Senior Vice President of AT&T Wireless’s emerging initiatives efforts developing new wireless services.  Prior to joining AT&T he was at Mercer Management Consulting for 13 years\, where he was a partner.  His work focused on strategy issues in multiple industries including telecommunications\, transportation\, energy\, and the environment.   Haigh holds a BA from Grinnell College\, where he was Phi Beta Kappa and the President’s Medalist\, and an MPP from the John F. Kennedy School of Government. \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-john-haigh/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China,Critical Issues Confronting China Series
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UID:11290-1646841600-1646845200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Contemporary Chinese Society Lecture Series featuring Eli Friedman - The Urbanization of People: The Politics of Development\, Labor Markets\, and Education in the Chinese City
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Eli Friedman\, Chair and Associate Professor\, Department of International and Comparative Labor\, ILR School\, Cornell University \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-eli-friedman-the-urbanization-of-people-the-politics-of-development-labor-markets-and-education-in-the-chinese-city/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Contemporary Chinese Society
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220310T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220310T140000
DTSTAMP:20260516T070633
CREATED:20220111T150716Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220707T204227Z
UID:24536-1646913600-1646920800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Wendy Leutert - The Reform & Global Expansion of Chinese State-Owned Enterprises
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Wendy Leutert\, Assistant Professor\, East Asian Languages and Cultures\, Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies\, Indiana University Bloomington. \nDiscussant: Meg Rithmire\, F. Warren MacFarlan Associate Professor in Business\, Government\, and International Economy\, Harvard Business School. \nHosted by the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government\, Harvard Kennedy School \nPresented via Zoom\nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_MULQyAnBS52u1kSTQIGNNw
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/wendy-leutert-the-reform-global-expansion-of-chinese-state-owned-enterprises/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220321T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220321T133000
DTSTAMP:20260516T070633
CREATED:20220309T153859Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220707T204230Z
UID:25349-1647864000-1647869400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Chinese Religions Seminar featuring Vincent Goossaert - Social Networks of the Gods in Late Imperial Spirit-Writing Altars
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Vincent Goossaert\, Professor of Daoism and Chinese Religions\, École Pratique des Hautes Études \n\n\n\nChinese social life is saturated with interactions with entities other than living humans – ancestors\, suffering souls\, gods\, animal spirits… A wide repertoire of ritual techniques regulates these interactions; some of them\, aim at limiting those with dangerous entities\, but this talk is interested in those that instead aim at cultivating mutually beneficial relationships. By exploring both narrative and ritual sources from the modern era (16th-20th century)\, we will see that these ritual techniques promote a process of subjectivation in both humans and non-humans. It is as subjects that humans and their usually invisible interlocutors can form bonds and social networks. We will see\, through the case of spirit-writing cults\, how Social Network Analysis (SNA) extended to spirits allows us to think afresh the question of the status of non-humans in China and beyond. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/chinese-religions-seminar-featuring-vincent-goossart-social-networks-of-the-gods-in-late-imperial-spirit-writing-altars/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220321T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220321T210000
DTSTAMP:20260516T070633
CREATED:20220318T134211Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220707T204232Z
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SUMMARY:Kazuyuki Motohashi - Japan's High-Tech Competitiveness in an Era of U.S.-China Decoupling
DESCRIPTION:Topics:\n\n\nDigital China\, Digital China\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Kazuyuki Motohashi\, Professor\, Graduate School of Engineering\, University of Tokyo. \n\n\n\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. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/kazuyuki-motohashi-japans-high-tech-competitiveness-in-an-era-of-u-s-china-decoupling/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220322T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220322T170000
DTSTAMP:20260516T070633
CREATED:20220111T141617Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220809T174448Z
UID:24533-1647964800-1647968400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Contemporary Chinese Society featuring Bin Xu - Chairman Mao’s Children: Generation and the Politics of Memory in China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Bin Xu\, Associate Professor of Sociology\, Emory University \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-featuring-bin-xu-chairman-maos-children-generation-and-the-politics-of-memory-in-china/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Contemporary Chinese Society
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220322T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220322T180000
DTSTAMP:20260516T070633
CREATED:20220131T150014Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220420T005707Z
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SUMMARY:China Humanities Seminar featuring Yiqun Zhou - A Book for Hard Times: Wu Mi and Dream of the Red Chamber
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Yiqun Zhou\, Stanford University \nThis talk examines the role that Dream of the Red Chamber played in the life and work of Wu Mi 吳宓 (1894-1978)\, a pioneer in the study of Comparative Literature in China and a cultural conservative known for his staunch resistance to the prevailing New Culture Movement. Long condemned to infamy and oblivion because his ideological positions were at odds with the mainstream\, Wu has seen a comeback in the past two or three decades.\nIn opposition to the interpretations in vogue in the 1910s-1920s\, which treated Dream either as the author’s autobiography or as a roman à clef about Qing politics\, Wu advocated an approach that was literary and comparative. From 1942 to 1949\, during the Sino-Japanese War and the subsequent civil war\, Wu’s public lectures on Dream drew large crowds and became local sensations. In the remaining years of Wu’s life\, especially during the Cultural Revolution\, he constantly turned to Dream for emotional support and spiritual consolation. By looking at how reading\, studying\, and lecturing on Dream were bound up with the quests\, trials\, and tribulations in Wu’s Quixotic career\, this talk tackles questions about the relationship between literature and politics\, the relevance of classics in modern times and to the general public\, and the use of comparison in the study of traditional Chinese literature.\n \nPresented via Zoom\nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEuduyprj8rGdNrb_9TYuSjN09QXjAQ-laK
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-humanities-seminar-featuring-yiqun-zhou-a-book-for-hard-times-wu-mi-and-dream-of-the-red-chamber/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:China Humanities Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220323T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220323T140000
DTSTAMP:20260516T070633
CREATED:20220124T151433Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220809T174531Z
UID:24537-1648038600-1648044000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Hanming Fang - Population Aging\, Pension System\, and Retirement Income Security in China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Hanming Fang\, Joseph M. Cohen Term Professor of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania. \nProfessor Fang\, is an applied microeconomist with broad theoretical and empirical interests focusing on public economics\, including topics such as discrimination\, social insurance\, and welfare reform\, health insurance markets\, and population aging. In 2008\, Professor Fang was awarded the 17th Kenneth Arrow Prize by the International Health Economics Association (iHEA) for his research on the sources of advantageous selection in the Medigap insurance market. He was elected as a Fellow of the Econometric Society in 2018. \nProfessor Fang is currently working on issues related to insurance markets\, particularly the interaction between the health insurance reform and the labor market\, and the alternative health insurance reform proposals. He also studies the Chinese economy\, particularly on issues related to political economy\, population aging and social security. \nPresented via ZoomAlso 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-hanming-fang-a-look-at-chinas-pension-system/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220324T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220324T173000
DTSTAMP:20260516T070633
CREATED:20220312T165325Z
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SUMMARY:Taiwan Studies Workshop Featuring Lev Nachman - Why is Unification So Unpopular in Taiwan? It’s the PRC Political System\, Not Just Culture
DESCRIPTION:Topics:\n\n\nDigital China\, Digital China\n\n\n\n\nRegister now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Lev Nachman\, Hou Family Fellow in Taiwan Studies\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard UniversityLev Nachman received his Ph.D. from the University of California\, Irvine. His dissertation Movement Parties in Contested States: Taiwan’s Post- Sunflower Movement Parties focuses on contested states\, examining why some flourish while others decline.Also Streaming on YouTube \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTranscript: Download Transcript \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/taiwan-studies-workshop-featuring-lev-nachman-why-is-unification-so-unpopular-in-taiwan-its-the-prc-political-system-not-just-culture/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Taiwan,Taiwan Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220324T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220324T220000
DTSTAMP:20260516T070633
CREATED:20220315T130018Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220420T005756Z
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SUMMARY:The Legacy of Koxinga in South East Asia: Chia Joo-ming and Nanyang Narrative
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers:Chia Joo-ming\, Writer\, Sinagpore \n\n\n\nKo Chia-cian\, National Taiwan University \n\n\n\n Liu Hsiu-mei\, National Dong-hwa University \n\n\n\nOrganizer: David Der-wei Wang\, Harvard University \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-legacy-of-koxinga-in-south-east-asia-chia-joo-ming-and-nanyang-narrative/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220328T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220331T210000
DTSTAMP:20260516T070633
CREATED:20220323T143205Z
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SUMMARY:2022 Harvard Law School China Law Symposium: Charting a New Course through Uncertainties
DESCRIPTION:Topics:\n\n\nDigital China\, Digital China\n\n\n\n\nRegister now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Harvard Law School China Law Association (CLA) will host its annual China Law Symposium\, “Charting a New Course through Uncertainties\,” from Monday\, March 28th to Thursday\, March 31st. The Symposium brings together prominent legal scholars and practitioners to shed light on major developments in US-China relations. Attendees will have the opportunity to hear from and engage with leading experts from various fields regarding some of the cutting-edge issues pertaining to law\, policy\, and business in China. \n\n\n\nThis year’s Symposium offers panels on the future of the WTO\, the Belt and Road Initiative\, the Chinese and U.S. capital markets\, intellectual property and technology exchanges\, and a keynote speech feature Mr. Stephen Orlins\, President of the National Committee on United States-China Relations.  \n\n\n\nWe cordially invite you to join us as we explore ways to chart a new course through uncertainties that loom over the Pacific. The complete Symposium schedule\, including panels\, speakers\, and registration links\, can be found at https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/cla/china-law-symposium/. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/2022-harvard-law-school-china-law-symposium-charting-a-new-course-through-uncertainties/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220330T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220330T140000
DTSTAMP:20260516T070633
CREATED:20220120T143130Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220309T164719Z
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Iza Ding - The Performative State: Public Scrutiny and Environmental Governance in China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Iza (Yue) Ding\, Assistant Professor of Political Science\, University of Pittsburgh\nModerator: Michael Szonyi\, Frank Wen-Hsiung Wu Memorial Professor of Chinese History and Director\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard University \nWhat does the state do when public expectations exceed its governing capacity? The Performative State shows how the state can shape public perceptions and defuse crises through the theatrical deployment of language\, symbols\, and gestures of good governance—performative governance. Iza Ding unpacks the black box of street-level bureaucracy in China through ethnographic participation\, in-depth interviews\, and public opinion surveys. She demonstrates with vivid detail how China’s environmental bureaucrats deal with intense public scrutiny over pollution when they lack the authority to actually improve the physical environment. Bureaucrats assuage public outrage by appearing responsive and benevolent before citizens. But performative governance is hard work. Environmental bureaucrats paradoxically work themselves to exhaustion even when they cannot effectively implement environmental policies. Instead of achieving “performance legitimacy” through actual good governance and its desirable outcomes\, the state can shape public opinion with theatrical performance of goodwill and sincere effort. The book also explains why performative governance sometimes fails at impressing its audience\, and when governance becomes less performative and more substantive.   \nIza Ding is an assistant professor of political science and public policy at the University of Pittsburgh. Her research examines two interconnected issues that are becoming more challenging and consequential than ever: environmental and climate politics and policy\, and the politics of autocracy and democracy. Her articles have appeared in World Politics\, Comparative Political Studies\, Democratization\, Studies in Comparative and International Development\, and China Quarterly. Her book The Performative State: Public Scrutiny and Environmental Governance in China is forthcoming with Cornell University Press in summer 2022.  \nPresented via Zoom webinar\nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_1knAizOSR-ih45-cmS5-rQ \nAlso streaming on YouTube
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-featuring-iza-ding/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China,Critical Issues Confronting China Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220330T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220330T160000
DTSTAMP:20260516T070633
CREATED:20220322T124238Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220707T204233Z
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SUMMARY:Michael McElroy - Decarbonizing India's Economy
DESCRIPTION:Topics:\n\n\nDigital China\, Digital China\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Michael B. McElroy\, Gilbert Butler Professor of Environmental Studies at Harvard University; Chair of the Harvard-China Project on Energy\, Economy and Environment \n\n\n\nIndia\, the second most populous country on the planet\, has enormous energy demands. It is investing billions in renewable power\, with the goal of generating 50 percent of its energy requirement from renewables by 2030. Join Professor Michael B. McElroy as he explores India’s path to a decarbonized power system. Co-sponsored by the Harvard-China Project on Energy\, Economy and Environment and the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute at Harvard University. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/michael-mcelroy-decarbonizing-indias-economy/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220330T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220330T203000
DTSTAMP:20260516T070633
CREATED:20220315T172507Z
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SUMMARY:Marites V. Detug - Philippine Presidential Election and the South China Sea: Navigating Maritime Dispute with China
DESCRIPTION:Topics:\n\n\nDigital China\, Digital China\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Marites D. Vitug\, Author\, Rock Solid: How the Philippines Won Its Maritime Case Against China; Chair Emeritus of the Board\, Journalism for Nation Building Foundation; Editor-at-Large\, Rappler \n\n\n\nChair: James Robson\, James C. Kralik\, and Yunli Lou Professor\, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations; Harvard College Professor; Victor and William Fung Director\, Asia Center\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nPart of the Asia Center’s Philippines Lecture Series \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/marites-v-detug-philippine-presidential-election-and-the-south-china-sea-navigating-maritime-dispute-with-china/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220331T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220331T131500
DTSTAMP:20260516T070633
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LAST-MODIFIED:20220707T204231Z
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SUMMARY:Victor Seow - Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia
DESCRIPTION:Topics:\n\n\nDigital China\, Digital China\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Victor Seow\, Assistant Professor of the History of Science\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nDiscussants:Megan A. Black\, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyConevery Bolton Valencius\, Boston CollegeGabriela Soto Laveaga\, Harvard UniversityModerator: Shigehisa Kuriyama\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nYou may choose to attend this event in person\, or register for the Zoom link using the button above. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/victor-seow-carbon-technocracy-energy-regimes-in-modern-east-asia/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220405T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220405T144500
DTSTAMP:20260516T070633
CREATED:20220131T150202Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220707T204155Z
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SUMMARY:China Humanities Seminar featuring Yuri Pines - The Great Unity (da yitong 大一統) Ideal: The Key to China's Imperial Longevity?
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Yuri Pines\, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem \nOne of the most notable features of imperial China is the exceptional durability of the imperial political system. Having been formed in the aftermath of Qin 秦 unification (221 BCE)\, this system lasted intact for 2132 years\, until the abdication of the child emperor Puyi 溥儀 on February 12\, 1912. For sure\, the empire was not indestructible —to the contrary\, it underwent manifold crises\, including longer or shorter periods of political disintegration. Yet\, remarkably\, the unified empire was repeatedly resurrected at the very least in “China proper” (roughly comparable to the territory under the control of the founding Qin dynasty). Such repeated resurrections of a huge territorial entity spanning more than twenty centuries are not attested to elsewhere in world history.In my talk I want to argue that the key to understanding the reasons for the imperial resurrections lies within the realm of ideology and the dominant political culture. The idea that peace and stability in “All-under-Heaven” is attainable only in a unitary state ruled by a single omnipotent monarch was formed in the centuries preceding the Qin unification\, at the apex of political fragmentation of the Warring States period (Zhanguo 戰國\, 453-221 BCE). Having become the common desideratum of the competing “Hundred Schools of Thought\,” the ideal of “Great Unity” remained fundamental to Chinese political culture for millennia to come. By denying legitimacy to any but unifying regimes\, this ideal facilitated common quest for reunification during the periods of fragmentation. The notion that “Stability is in Unity” became China’s foremost self-fulfilling prophecy.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-humanities-seminar-featuring-yuri-pines/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:China Humanities Seminar
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