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SUMMARY:Wang Shu-Li - The Heritage Complex in China
DESCRIPTION:Topics:\n\n\nDigital China\, Digital China\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Wang Shu-Li\, Assistant Research Fellow\, Institute of Ethnology\, Academia Sinica; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2021-2022Chair/Discussant: William Fash\, Bowditch Professor of Central American and Mexican Archaeology and Ethnology\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nMore Info: https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/the-heritage-complex-in-china/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/wang-shu-li-the-heritage-complex-in-china/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
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SUMMARY:He Zhaohui - The Bookwheel: A Cross-Cultural Story
DESCRIPTION:Topics:\n\n\nDigital China\, Digital China\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: He Zhaohui\, Professor\, Institute for Advanced Confucian Studies\, Shandong University; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2021-2022 \n\n\n\nChair/Discussant: Ann Blair\, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor\, Harvard UniversityMore Info: https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/the-bookwheel-a-cross-cultural-story/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/he-zhaohui-the-bookwheel-a-cross-cultural-story/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220512T200000
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SUMMARY:Chen Long and Yang Yuanchen - China's Real Estate Sector: Bubble\, Bail-Out\, or Further Growth?
DESCRIPTION:Topics:\n\n\nDigital China\, Digital China\n\n\n\n\nRegister now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers:CHEN Long\, Co-Founder and Partner\, PlenumYANG Yuanchen\, Economist\, International Monetary Fund \n\n\n\nModerators:Jinlin Li and Richard Yarrow\, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government\, Harvard Kennedy School \n\n\n\nChinese businesses employing tens of millions of people rely on property development— from steel to construction to banking. China’s property sector faced a crisis this past year\, with talk of the bankruptcy of Evergrande and threats of a debt crisis and sharp slowdown in China’s overall economy. As China faces renewed covid lockdowns alongside official calls to keep GDP growth at 5.5% for 2022\, how are changes in real estate markets affecting the growth and vitality of other businesses and sectors across China’s economy? \n\n\n\nPlease join experts on China’s real estate sector and macroeconomy for this discussion. Speakers’ presentations will be followed by Q&A. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/chen-long-and-yang-yuanchen-chinas-real-estate-sector-bubble-bail-out-or-further-growth/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220530T210000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220530T220000
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SUMMARY:Advanced Institute for Global Chinese Studies Launch Ceremony
DESCRIPTION:Join Lingnan University in Hong Kong as it celebrates the launch of its Advanced Institute for Global Chinese Studies (AIGCS). AIGCS’s mission is to foster in-depth scholarly exchanges among institutions and scholars in Chinese studies throughout the world in ways that enhance Lingnan’s international prominence for integrating the finest Chinese and Western liberal arts education. With “Global” and “advanced” as its defining features\, the Institute is steadfastly dedicated to pursuing global vision\, promoting global collaboration\, and achieving global impact in the studies of Chinese culture. \n\n\n\nWelcome and introduction   \n\n\n\nWelcoming remarks by Zong-qi Cai\, Institute Director (Welcoming speech by Leonard Kwok Hon Cheng\, Lingnan President Introductory video about AIGCS\n\n\n\nCongratulatory speeches:   \n\n\n\nProf. Michael A. Szonyi\, Director of the Fairbank Center; Frank Wen-Hsiung Wu Memorial Professor of Chinese History\, Harvard University   Prof. David Der-wei Wang\, Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature\, Harvard UniversityProf. YUAN Xingpei\, Director of the International Academy for Chinese Studies\, Peking University; Professor LIU Yucai\, Peking UniversityMs. Jennifer Crewe\, Associate Provost and Director of Columbia University PressMr. Robert Dilworth\, Director of Journals Department\, Duke University Press\n\n\n\nConcluding remarks  MOK Ka-ho\, Vice-President of Lingnan University Presented via ZoomMeeting ID: 884 452 4677 Passcode: 03370044   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/aigcs-launch-ceremony/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220602T210000
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SUMMARY:Jun Jing - Meaningful Dying and End of Life Care in China
DESCRIPTION:Topics:\n\n\nDigital China\, Digital China\n\n\n\n\nRegister now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nImproving end of life care in China represents one particularly important opportunity to enhance the well-being of the country’s older adult population as they enter their final phase of life. Designing effective end of life care policies and programs for Chinese communities necessitates asking fundamental questions about the factors that enable people to die meaningfully\, including: \n\n\n\nDoes meaningful death signify only what is good for people themselves as individuals?How does one know what is best for oneself?What roles do doctors or families play in making critical end of life decisions?Is personal autonomy the sole criterion for advanced care planning?\n\n\n\nTo answer these questions\, Dr. Jun JING\, Professor of Social Anthropology at Tsinghua University\, will discuss narratives on death and dying in mainland China based on hundreds of interviews conducted with family relatives\, physicians\, nurses\, social workers\, and voluntary workers in the field of palliative care. Dr. Jing will explore how these narratives relate to what he calls the “social ecology of healthcare\,” defined as the social values governing healthcare systems\, life-and-death decisions\, and the corresponding behavioral patterns. \n\n\n\nThe event will be moderated by Dr. Winnie Yip\, Professor of Global Health Policy and Economics and Faculty Director of the Harvard China Health Partnership. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/jun-jing-meaningful-dying-and-end-of-life-care-in-china/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220728T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220728T100000
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SUMMARY:Lessons for East Asia from Eastern Europe’s Institutional Changes and Governing Challenges
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers:Bojan Bugarič\, Professor at the University of Sheffield and former Deputy Interior Minister of SloveniaLance Liangping Gore\, Senior Research Fellow at the NUS East Asian InstituteJacques Rupnik\, Professor at CERI-Sciences Po and former advisor to President Vaclav Havel and to the European Commission \n\n\n\nModerated by: Richard Yarrow\, Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School and Visiting Fellow at the National University of Singapore \n\n\n\nIn the 1980s\, governing systems of Eastern Europe were in a state of turmoil. Few people trusted political leaders or regimes’ ideologies. Large\, little-changed bureaucracies were unable to cope with growing pressure for social and economic improvement. By the late 1980s\, widespread protests shook political systems across the region\, leading to a period of steady\, inconsistent political changes and reform attempts across the region.Thirty years after the first elections following the end of the Warsaw Pact\, what can countries in Asia learn from the governing challenges and development of new political institutions in Eastern Europe? This webinar brings experts on Eastern European politics to discuss causes of political turmoil in the 1980s\, the challenges of reforming Eastern Europe’s political structures\, and why Eastern European countries experienced varied outcomes in their institutional development. Through this analysis\, panelists will comment on lessons for East Asia to learn from Eastern Europe’s political changes. \n\n\n\nThis event is the first part of a two-part series of panels. One can register for the second part\, on economic challenges and transition\, at https://nus-sg.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_IVgHUfzMQAiGAnef7aNwLQ?timezone_id=America%2FNew_York. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/lessons-for-east-asia-from-eastern-europes-institutional-changes-and-governing-challenges/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220803T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220803T100000
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SUMMARY:Lessons for East Asia from Eastern Europe’s Economic Challenges and Transformation
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers:Lajos Bokros\, Professor at Central European University and former Minister of Finance of HungaryMarcin Piatkowski\, Professor at Kozminski University\, author of Europe’s Growth Champion\, and former visiting scholar at Harvard’s Center for European StudiesDwight Perkins\, Professor Emeritus in the Harvard Economics Department\, former Director of the Fairbank Center and the Harvard Institute for International Development \n\n\n\nModerated by: Richard Yarrow\, Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School and Visiting Fellow at the National University of Singapore \n\n\n\nIn the 1980s\, Eastern European economies were stagnant or in decline. Mass shortages and unemployment combined with decaying institutions to throw economies and societies in turmoil. Three decades later\, Eastern Europe has transformed. Of the 23 countries to become high income since 1992\, nine are in Eastern Europe. In the 1980s\, Poland had a lower per capita GDP than Suriname; today\, the total GDP of the EU states in Eastern Europe is larger than the GDP of Russia. In much of the region\, corruption has declined\, while education\, health\, and other social and economic indicators have improved.How did these changes occur\, and what dilemmas did Eastern European countries encounter during the transformation of their economies and institutions? This webinar brings experts from across Eastern Europe to discuss causes behind Eastern Europe’s economic problems\, and the challenges of rejuvenating economies and institutions after the end of the Cold War. In doing so\, panelists will discuss the potential lessons that East Asian countries can learn from the challenges and successes of Eastern Europe’s economic reforms and transformation. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nThis event is the second part of a two-part series of panels. One can register for the first part\, on governing challenges\, at https://nus-sg.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_IVgHUfzMQAiGAnef7aNwLQ?timezone_id=America%2FNew_York. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/lessons-for-east-asia-from-eastern-europes-economic-challenges-and-transformation/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220816T090000
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SUMMARY:In Search for a New Architecture for New China— Zhang Kaiji and Chinese Modern Architecture in the 1950s
DESCRIPTION:Topics:\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOrganizer:Harvard CAMLab \n\n\n\nAcademic Convenor:Jeffrey W. CODYFormer Senior Project Specialist\, Building & Sites Department\, Getty Conservation Institute \n\n\n\nWU JiangFormer Vice-President of Tongji UniversityAcademician of the French Academy of Architecture \n\n\n\nPanelist:FAN SizhengTeaching Professor\, College of Technology\, Architecture and Applied Engineering\, Bowling Green State University \n\n\n\nCHENG LizhenAssociate Professor\, School of Architecture and Design\, Beijing Jiaotong UniversityAuthor of Architect\, ZHANG Kaiji \n\n\n\nCHANG Yung HoPrincipal Architect FCJZProfessor of the Practice MIT \n\n\n\nLAI DelinMorgan Endowed Chair in Fine Arts\, Department of Fine Arts\, University of LouisvilleForeword Writer of Architect\, ZHANG Kaiji \n\n\n\nLI ShiqiaoWeedon Professor in Asian Architecture\, Architecture + Architectural History\,Director of the PhD in the Constructed Environment Program\, School of Architecture\, University of Virginia \n\n\n\nModerator:ZHANG QinAssociate in Research\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard UniversityAssociate\, Harvard CAMLab \n\n\n\nMIN JiajianProject Lead\, Harvard CAMLab \n\n\n\nInterpreter:ZHU NingResearcher\, Harvard CAMLab \n\n\n\nAbstract:Zhang Kaiji (1912-2006)\, graduated from the Department of Architectural Engineering of the Central University in 1935\, is one of the most outstanding Chinese architects of the second generation. In the dynamic period of political and cultural transformation\, the division and collision of different ideologies contributed to Zhang Kaiji’s architectural practice. In his 71 years of profession\, he synthesized different ideologies and design theories\, practiced with a wide range of typologies\, focused on various issues of the built environment\, and elevated the professional and technical exploration to a humanistic\, social and historical level. \n\n\n\nOn the occasion of the 110th anniversary of Mr. Zhang Kaiji’s birth and the upcoming release of the new book “Architect Zhang Kaiji”\, Harvard CAMLab China Builders Project launched this Academic Symposium. This event was academically convened by Professor Jeff Cody and Professor Wu Jiang. It is an honor to invite architect Chang Yung Ho\, son of Zhang Kaiji\, Professor Cheng Lizhen\, the author of “Architect Zhang Kaiji”\, Professor Lai Delin\, the foreword writer of “Architect Zhang Kaiji”\, and many other influential scholars. Starting from this new book\, we will focus on Zhang Kaiji’s influence on Chinese modern architecture and urban planning\, and more importantly\, the underlying social\, cultural and economic context in the 1950s\, as well as the meaning of “New Architecture for New China” in a broader context. \n\n\n\nSchedule:(120mins in total) \n\n\n\nPart I Introduction 10minsIntroduction to Harvard CAMLab\, Symposium\, Panelists\, Topic and Background \n\n\n\nPart II Panel Talk 55minsEach Convenor/Panelist will have 10 mins to address the topic with their related research. \n\n\n\nPart III Discussion and Q&A 45minsAcademic Convenors will summarize panel talks and start the discussion and the group dialogue. \n\n\n\nPart IV Event Summary 10mins \n\n\n\nSymposium in both Chinese and English with Simultaneous InterpretingThis virtual workshop is open to the public with registration. It will be recorded and the edited version will be released to the public online\, or in other forms on the Harvard CAMLab platform. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/in-search-for-a-new-architecture-for-new-china-zhang-kaiji-and-chinese-modern-architecture-in-the-1950s/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220908T082000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220909T131500
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SUMMARY:Youth Political Mobilization & Socialization in Contemporary China: The Centenary of the Communist Youth League
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2022 marks the 100th anniversary of the official establishment of the Chinese Communist Youth League (中国共产主义青年团\, CYL)\, one of the largest youth political organizations in the world. As the Chinese Communist Party’s assistant and reserve force\, the CYL is the Party’s main channel to socialize youth in the official political discourse and practices\, and mobilize them to support the current system. Despite the importance of the organization\, English-language academic work on its history\, politics and multifaceted role in contemporary China remains sporadic.The CYL’s centenary offers an opportunity to bring together scholars from different disciplines to discuss their research and insights on Chinese youth political socialization and mobilization\, with particular attention to the League and connected youth organizations. The Ash Center\, working with Dr. Jérôme Doyon (University of Edinburgh)\, Dr. Sofia Graziani (University of Trento) and Dr. Konstantinos Tsimonis (King’s College London)\, is pleased to organize an online seminar\, taking place on September 8th and 9th\, examining emerging scholarship related to communist youth organizations in China.  \n\n\n\nEvent Schedule Thursday\, September 8th • Introduction: 8:20-8:30 AM by Tony Saich\, Daewoo Professor of International Affairs\, Harvard Kennedy School • Panel 1: The Mobilization of Youth during the Chinese Communist Party’s Early Years: 8:30-10:30 AM  • Panel 2: The Socialization and Co-optation of Young Chinese: 11:00 AM-1:00 PMFriday\, September 9th  • Panel 3: Youth Organizations and State-Society Relations: 8:30-10:30 AM • Panel 4: Youth Narratives and Propaganda: 11:00 AM-1:00 PM • Concluding Remarks: 1:00-1:15 PM with Stanley Rosen\, Professor of Political Science from the University of Southern CaliforniaDay 2 registration link: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_0YAGp8NPRjyltJQPKgD1TQ\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/youth-political-mobilization-socialization-in-contemporary-china-the-centenary-of-the-communist-youth-league/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220912T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220912T220000
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SUMMARY:Christine Wong - Local Finance Under Siege: Unpacking the Paralysis of Fiscal Policy on the Eve of the 20th Party Congress
DESCRIPTION:Zoom Meeting link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Christine Wong\, National University of Singapore \n\n\n\nLocal finances are under stress.  In the first seven months of 2022 tax revenues were down 14%\, and land revenues 32%\, yet payroll and other expenditures have to be met\, including the Covid-related bills for mass testing and other containment measures.  Since 2021 social media has been flooded with posts reporting steep pay cuts for civil servants even in rich coastal regions.  National aggregate data show social spending trending downward in GDP-shares.  This seminar looks at the crisis in local finance that has accelerated through the pandemic\, with local governments increasingly underfunded and tied down by contradictory policies.  I will argue that local fiscal problems caused the government to under-deliver on its announced fiscal stimulus programs in both 2020 and 2021\, a scenario on-track to be repeated in 2022 despite the massive injection of special project bonds.  \n\n\n\nChristine Wong is currently Visiting Research Professor at the East Asia Institute\, National University of Singapore.  She has previously taught at the Schwarzman College at Tsinghua University\, the University of Melbourne\, Oxford\, University of Washington\, University of California at Santa Cruz and Berkeley\, and at Mount Holyoke College.  She has also held senior positions at the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank. Christine has published widely on China’s public finance and rural development.  Her recent publications include “Reforming public finance for the new era” (CPC Futures)\, “Why China’s 2022 fiscal stimulus will fall short” (EAI Commentary No. 53)\, “China’s 2022 budget and the fate of local government finance” (EAI Background Brief No. 1644)\, and “Plus ça Change: Three Decades of Fiscal Policy and Central–Local Relations in China” (China – an International Journal). \n\n\n\nWe would like to thank the MIT Sustainable Urbanization Lab\, the School of Community and Regional Planning at the University of British Columbia\, and the Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. for supporting this event.  Please subscribe to our mailing list if you’d like to receive e-mail notifications: http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/urbanchinaseminar. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/christine-local-finance-under-siege-unpacking-the-paralysis-of-fiscal-policy-on-the-eve-of-the-20th-party-congress/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220920T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220920T190000
DTSTAMP:20260508T190929
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SUMMARY:Panel Discussion - Making Meritocracy: Lessons from China and India\, from Antiquity to the Present
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:Tarun Khanna\, Jorge Paolo Lemann Professor at Harvard Business School; Faculty Director of the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nMichael Szonyi\, Frank Wen-Hsiung Wu Memorial Professor of Chinese History\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nAjantha Subramanian\, Mehra Family Professor of South Asian Studies and Professor of Anthropology and South Asian Studies; Chair of the Anthropology Department\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nModerator: James Robson\, James C. Kralik and Yunli Lou Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations; William Fung Director of the Asia Center\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nWhat can India and China\, the world’s most populous countries\, teach us about meritocracy? In Making Meritocracy\, Professors Tarun Khanna and Michael Szonyi have gathered over a dozen experts from a range of disciplines to discuss how these two societies have addressed the issue of building meritocracy historically\, philosophically\, and in practice. India and China have considered how to identify and promote merit for centuries\, and their attempts at developing meritocracies in the past\, present\, and future holds lessons for each other\, and for the rest of the world. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/panel-discussion-making-meritocracy-lessons-from-china-and-india-from-antiquity-to-the-present/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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SUMMARY:Chinese Politics and Foreign Policy Workshop featuring Fiona Cunningham - China’s Search for Coercive Leverage in the Information Age: Past\, Present\, Future
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Fiona Cunningham\, University of Pennsylvania \n\n\n\nFiona Cunningham is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. She is also a Faculty Fellow at Perry World House and affiliated with the Center for the Study of Contemporary China and the Christopher H.. Browne Center for International Politics at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research interests lie the intersection of technology and conflict\, with an empirical focus on China. Fiona’s current book project explains how and why China threatens to use space weapons\, cyber attacks and conventional missiles as substitutes for nuclear threats in limited wars. Her research has been published in International Security\, Security Studies\, The Texas National Security Review\, and The Washington Quarterly\, and has been featured in the New York Times and the Economist. Fiona’s work has been supported by the Stanton Foundation\, Smith Richardson Foundation\, and the China Confucius Studies Program. She has held fellowships at the Renmin University of China in Beijing\, the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University\, the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University\, and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Fiona received her Ph.D. in Political Science from MIT in 2018. She holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of New South Wales and a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Sydney\, both with first class honors. From 2019 to 2021\, she was an Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at the George Washington University. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/chinese-politics-and-foreign-policy-workshop-featuring-fiona-cunningham/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Room S050\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Chinese Politics and Foreign Policy
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SUMMARY:Victor Fan - The Insight-Image: Illuminating the Reality of Deleuze's Time-Image
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Victor Fan\, King’s College London \n\n\n\n     In Zen Buddhism\, the notion of here and now is the key to attain––or return to––paññā/prajñā (insight). On a day-to-day basis\, we live each moment with a preoccupation of the past and an anticipation for the future. Our retrospection and expectation produce afflictions such as avarice\, anger and frustration\, as well as delusion. Our penchant for living every moment as a recollection of the past and an anticipation for the future is also propelled by our belief that our existence endures in time; that such afflictions and suffering are both inevitable; and that our self and all the other sentient beings and objects arise out of their self-natures. But as Nāgārjuna (150–250 CE) argues\, the past does not exist\, as its existence has already perished; the future does not exist\, as its existence has yet to arise. If the present is an extension of the past\, and if it extends itself to become the future\, the present does not exist either. Rather\, it is a lived point-instant that instantiates an assemblage of interdependent conditions. But how does the cinema\, as an image-consciousness\, disconceal insight? \n\n\n\n     In Cinema Illuminating Reality [2022]\,I conduct a comparative reading of here and now with Gilles Deleuze’s reading of Henri Bergson’s notion of time. I do so in order to reconfigure Deleuze’s notion of the time-image into the insight-image. For Deleuze\, the time-image is characterized as a pure optical and sound situation\, which draws the consciousness’s attention to the present of the present as a sense-formation and a thought-formation. In other words\, Deleuze’s time-image is capable of generating a mindfulness of the here and now: that each moment is an instantiation of an ecology of interdependent conditions that affect\, and are affected by\, one another. In my presentation\, I will demonstrate how insight can be attained or returned to via the formational process of the image-consciousness. I will also conduct a close reading of Pema Tseden’s Tharlo [2015] to examine how mindfulness is mobilized as a technology that gives the consciousness an agency over its own becoming. \n\n\n\n     Victor Fan is Reader in Film and Media Philosophy\, King’s College London and a film festival consultant. He is the author of Cinema Approaching Reality: Locating Chinese Film Theory (University of Minnesota Press\, 2015)\, Extraterritoriality: Locating Hong Kong Cinema and Media (Edinburg University Press\, 2019)\, and Cinema Illuminating Reality: Media Philosophy through Buddhism (University of Minnesota Press\, 2022).His articles appeared in journals including Camera Obscura\, Journal of Chinese Cinemas\, Screen\, and Film History. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/victor-fan-the-insight-image-illuminating-the-reality-of-deleuzes-time-image/
LOCATION:Barker Center\, Thompson Room\, 12 Quincy St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138
CATEGORIES:Buddhist Studies Forum
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220926T160000
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SUMMARY:China Humanities Seminar - Writing and Reading “Local Court Drama” in Late Imperial China: Texts\, Genres\, and Identities 
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Tian Yuan Tan 陳靝沅: Shaw Professor of Chinese\, University of Oxford \n\n\n\nRecent reprint projects have given researchers much improved access to the vast corpus of Chinese court dramatic texts kept in palace archives and private collections\, which in turn presents a challenge: how do we unpack the complex textual web and varied forms contained therein? I am interested in ways of reading court drama in connection with the wider textual and cultural worlds. This talk will focus on a body of texts that I call “local court drama” – playtexts that were presented to the emperor from across various regions\, produced on occasions ranging from the celebration of imperial birthdays to welcoming the sovereign on tours. We will look at the textual problems and the generic labels applied\, literary models invoked\, and identities represented in the process.  \n\n\n\nTian Yuan Tan 陳靝沅 is the Shaw Professor of Chinese at the University of Oxford and a Professorial Fellow of University College. His main areas of research include Chinese literary history and historiography\, text and performance\, and cross-cultural literary interactions. He is currently working on “Linking the Textual Worlds of Chinese Court Theater\, ca. 1600-1800” (TEXTCOURT)\, a research project funded by the European Research Council.   \n\n\n\nThis event takes place in person and via Zoom. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-humanities-seminar-writing-and-reading-local-court-drama-in-late-imperial-china-texts-genres-and-identities/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:China Humanities Seminar
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SUMMARY:Urban China Series featuring Yang Zhan - "Keep Moving\, Little Bees!": Real Estate Promotion and the Financial Roots of Urban Precariousness in China
DESCRIPTION:Join zoom meeting\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Yang Zhan\, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology\, The Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityDevelopers in China’s real estate industry organize temporary workers\, or “little bees\,” to promote sales. Most developers rely on high-interest loans\, and must repay their creditors as quick as possible to keep the chain of funding intact\, reduce risk\, and secure profits. Thus\, little bees are pushed to sell quicker\, rather than to sell more units. Due to this hyper-financialization\, time on the market becomes a key management target. The little bees aim to convert random encounters on the street into meaningful business relationships. This conversion is facilitated by maps\, numbers and speculative culture. Moreover\, the demands on sales time are exploitative because in the Chinese real estate market there is a discrepancy between agency and responsibility: Even though little bees’ daily movements are beyond their control\, they shoulder immense responsibility\, suffer from physical and psychological stress\, and are fired at little cost to management. Analyzing this entanglement with time and financialization provides critical insight into urban precariousness in China. \n\n\n\nYang Zhan is an Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology in the Department of Applied Social Sciences at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She was selected a research fellow of China India Institute at New School for Social Research in 2021. Zhan’s research interests include infrastructure of development\, urbanization and migration\, mobility and temporality\, voluntarism and anthropological theory.  Zhan is the winner of 2020 Eduard B. Vermeer Prize for the Best Article and was shortlisted for Holland Prize in 2022. Zhan’s articles have appeared in Urban Studies\, Cities\, Positions\, Dialectical Anthropology\, Urban Anthropology\, Anthropological Forum\, China Information\, Pacific Affairs\, among others. Zhan is currently working on a book manuscript tentatively titled Brutal Temporary: Venturing Migrants and the Politics of Future on China’s Urban Fringe. \n\n\n\nWe would like to thank the MIT Sustainable Urbanization Lab\, the School of Community and Regional Planning at the University of British Columbia\, and the Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. for supporting this event.  Please subscribe to our mailing list if you’d like to receive e-mail notifications: http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/urbanchinaseminar. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/urban-china-series-featuring-yang-zhan-keep-moving-little-bees-real-estate-promotion-and-the-financial-roots-of-urban-precariousness-in-china/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220929T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220929T173000
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SUMMARY:Modern China Lecture Series featuring Yajun Mo - Touring China: A History of Travel Culture\, 1912–1949
DESCRIPTION:Register For Hybrid Zoom session\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Yajun Mo\, Boston CollegeWhen and under what circumstances did modern tourism infrastructure emerge and expand in China? How did the development of tourism shape print media and travel culture? This talk\, based on Yajun Mo’s recently published book\, Touring China: A History of Travel Culture\, 1912-1949\, explores these questions by tracing the roots of China’s domestic tourism to the first half of the twentieth century. More than simply introducing new practices and values associated with leisure mobility to the urban middle class\, tourism and travel culture in the Republican period\, Mo argues\, enabled Chinese citizens to imagine an inherent unity to their country despite its territorial fragmentation. \n\n\n\nProfessor Mo teaches courses on modern China and women’s and gender history. Her research focus on China’s production of its national image. She is currently at work on a book manuscript entitled From Shanghai to Shangri-La: Zhuang Xueben and China’s Ethnographic Frontier. It focuses on the life and work of Shanghai photographer Zhuang Xueben\, whose explorations and photography of the Sino-Tibetan frontiers in the 1930s and 1940s provide one of the broadest and most striking visual records of the region and its diverse peoples. This project won a Henry Luce Foundation/ ACLS Program in China Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship. Professor Mo’s first book\, Touring China: A History of Travel Culture\, 1912-1949\, explores how early twentieth century Chinese sightseers described the destinations that they visited\, and how their travel accounts gave Chinese readers a means to imagine their vast country. Drawing on an extensive range of sources\, this book de-Westernizes the history of tourism in China. In addition to original research\, Professor Mo has also been active in academic translation and has translated academic writings in both directions—from English to Chinese and from Chinese to English—forging connections with academic communities in both Anglophone and Sinophone worlds. \n\n\n\nThis talk will also be available on Zoom. To register\, visit https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_-7dfmQhnR_ywX9BK2rkN-Q \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/modern-china-lecture-series-featuring-yajun-mo/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S354\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Modern China Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220930T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221021T190000
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SUMMARY:Film Screenings - The Face of Time: Recent Films by Tsai Ming-Liang
DESCRIPTION:Rare and valuable is the filmmaker who expands one’s conception of the cinematic art; rarer still is the filmmaker who enlarges one’s notion of the term “director.” Malaysian-born\, Taiwan-based auteur Tsai Ming-liang (b. 1957) accomplished the former with his rigorous\, uncompromising and reputation-defining features of the nineties and early 2000s\, and ever since his self-declared retirement from narrative filmmaking after 2013’s Stray Dogs\, he has been anything but inactive while exploring the endless permutations of what it means to be an image maker in the 21st century. Among the many formally adventurous international filmmakers who have struck out for greener pastures in the past decade upon finding the commercial prospects of arthouse cinema distribution increasingly deficient\, Tsai has dabbled in the gallery space\, the black box theater\, virtual reality and the independently run exhibition space as venues to both showcase his uncategorizable work and influence how he produces it. Along the way\, he has transformed his very approach to capturing filmic material\, and where once a pithy precis for his films existed—Antonioni-esque studies of alienated Taiwanese youth\, for instance—there is no longer such a firm summary for exactly what a Tsai Ming-liang project looks like or how it operates.Tsai Ming-Liang and his collaborators will appear in person at film screenings on October 10 and 14.For more information on this series\, including a complete listing of showtimes and information on purchasing tickets\, visit https://harvardfilmarchive.org/programs/the-face-of-time-recent-films-by-tsai-ming-liang.  \n\n\n\nThis event is co-sponsored by the Harvard Film Archive and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-screenings-the-face-of-time-recent-films-by-tsai-ming-liang/
LOCATION:Harvard Film Archive\, Carpenter Center\, 24 Quincy St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest,Film Screening
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SUMMARY:Jae-Jung Suh - Diatribes and Dialogues over the Past: “History Problems” and Regional Orders in Northeast Asia
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Jae-Jung Suh\, Professor\, Department of Politics and International Studies\, International Christian University; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2022-23 \n\n\n\nChair/Discussant: Paul Y. Chang\, Associate Professor of Sociology\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nIn this talk\, I propose to re-analyze the history of the historical contentions in Northeast Asia as that of the regional actors’ attempts to manage their differences over national identities and their relationships in the context of the region’s shifting power balance. On the one hand\, the states and civil society actors in the region have been held together by a shared past salient and meaningful to all of them\, jointly creating a common transnational discursive sphere among themselves—a regional order. On the other hand\, they have been molding and remolding that regional order in different shapes by endowing their common past with sometimes convergent\, and sometimes contradictory\, meanings. I postulate that the regional actors’ perception of others’ legitimacy and their framework of meaning may be combined in four possible ways to shape the nature of the region’s order—nationalist spheres\, parallel national spheres\, contentious regional sphere\, and regional public sphere—and that Northeast Asia’s regional order has since the end of the Asia Pacific War evolved from parallel national spheres to a regional public sphere to a contentious regional sphere. \n\n\n\nMore info: https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/diatribes-and-dialogues-over-the-past-history-problems-and-regional-orders-in-northeast-asia/ \n\n\n\nIn-person talk – Seating is limited. Masks are required for audience members. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/jae-jung-suh-diatribes-and-dialogues-over-the-past-history-problems-and-regional-orders-in-northeast-asia/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221003T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221003T133000
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SUMMARY:East Asian Legal Studies Open House
DESCRIPTION:Take advantage of this opportunity to meet EALS Faculty\, Staff\, Research Fellows\, and the 2022-2023 Visiting Scholars.Remarks begin at 12:45pm.Food will be provided. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/east-asian-legal-studies-open-house-4/
LOCATION:WCC Milstein East C\, Harvard Law School
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221005T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221005T131500
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Yanzhong Huang -  Is Zero Covid Crippling Xi Jinping’s Domestic Agenda?
DESCRIPTION:Register now for hybrid zoom attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRead our blog post on the event: Is ‘Zero-COVID’ Crippling Xi Jinping’s Domestic Agenda? Five Unintended Consequences \n\n\n\nSpeaker: Yanzhong Huang\, Professor and Director\, Center for Global Health Studies\, Seton Hall University \n\n\n\nChina’s zero-Covid policy\, while shielding the country from Covid-19 and facilitating state control over society\, also has compounded\, even undermined its ability to cope with other domestic challenges by generating unintended\, and often undesirable outcomes in Chinese society.  The downstream impacts or unintended consequences include but are not limited to: 1) economic slowdown and rising youth unemployment rate; 2) the reduced desires of young couples to form families and reproduce; 3) increased mental health issues; 4) ) growing non-communicable disease burden; and 5) setback for the healthcare reform. In the meantime\, singled-minded pursuit of zero-Covid has stretched thin bureaucratic and fiscal capacity\, highlighting and exacerbating the inadequacy of the state capacity in addressing the growing domestic challenges.    \n\n\n\nIs ‘Zero-COVID’ Crippling Xi Jinping’s Domestic Agenda? Five Unintended Consequences Event summary by Austin Jordan\n\n\n\n“Is Zero Covid Crippling Xi Jinping’s Domestic Agenda?” poster\n\n\n\nDr. Yanzhong Huang joined the School of Diplomacy and International Relations in the fall of 2003. He directs the School’s Center for Global Health Studies\, which examines global health issues from a foreign policy and security perspective. He is also a Senior Fellow for Global Health at the Council on Foreign Relations and the founding editor of Global Health Governance: The Scholarly Journal for the New Health Security Paradigm. \n\n\n\nHe has written extensively on global health governance\, health diplomacy\, health security\, public health in China and East Asia. He has published numerous reports\, journal articles\, and book chapters\, including articles in Survival\, Foreign Affairs\, Bioterrorism and Biosecurity\, and Journal of Contemporary China\, as well as op-ed pieces appearing in New York Times\, International Herald Tribune\, The Diplomat\, and CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS\, among others. In 2006\, he coauthored the first scholarly article that systematically examines China’s soft power. His book\, Governing Health in Contemporary China\, looks at the health care reform\, government ability to address disease outbreaks\, and food and drug safety in China. Most recently\, he was listed by Inside Jersey magazine as one of New Jersey’s “20 exceptional intellects who are changing the world.” He is frequently consulted by major media outlets\, the private sector\, and governmental and non-governmental organizations on global health issues and China. He was a research associate of the National Asia Research Program\, a public intellectuals fellow of the National Committee on US-China Relations\, a visiting senior research fellow at the National University of Singapore and a visiting fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington\, DC. \n\n\n\nDr. Huang received his Ph.D. degree in political science from the University of Chicago. In summer 2006\, he obtained a certificate from MIT’s Professional Program on Combating Bioterrorism and Pandemics. During 1992-1993\, he was a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Chinese and American Studies\, Nanjing\, China. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-featuring-yanzhong-huang-how-zero-covid-has-compounded-chinas-ability-to-address-other-domestic-challenges/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China,Critical Issues Confronting China Series
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221007T133000
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SUMMARY:Ya-wen Lei - The Gilded Cage: Techno-State Capitalism in China 
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Ya-wen Lei\, Associate Professor\, Department of Sociology\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nUsing Daniel Bell’s work as a springboard\, I analyze the emergent post-industrial society in China\, focusing on China’s techno-development from the mid-2000s to the present day. Noting the extraordinary transformation of China’s economy and society during this time\, some scholars have compared China’s post-reform period to the Gilded Age in the United States. By contrast\, I seek to highlight the darker implications of these changes\, what I refer to collectively as China’s “gilded cage.” I use this term to capture not so much a literal space as the dynamic processes and relations set in motion by the Chinese state’s effort to move from an economy relying on labor-intensive\, export-oriented manufacturing to what I call “techno-state capitalism”—a system characterized by the unprecedented rise of tech capital and an asymmetrically symbiotic relationship between tech capital and the state. The drive towards techno-state capitalism has included: (1) the proliferation of technological and legal instruments established by the state and large tech companies to regulate work and life\, and enhance legibility\, valuation\, efficiency\, and behavior modification; (2) the legal\, economic\, and cultural subordination of work\, workers\, and forms of capital deemed “obsolete” or “low-end” to those valorized as “high-tech” or “high-end\,” despite China’s official socialist ideology; and (3) the intensified subjection of both “low-end” and “high-end” workers and capital to the precarious and despotic rule by instruments. In this talk\, I will explain how this sweeping\, lopsided\, and unchecked rule by instruments came to be\, and discuss the contradictions between the state and different kinds of capital and labor that have followed in its wake. \n\n\n\nYa-Wen Lei is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Harvard University. She is also affiliated with the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard. Trained in both law and sociology\, she holds a J.S.D. from Yale Law School and a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Michigan. After graduating from University of Michigan in 2013\, She was a Junior Fellow at the Society of Fellows at Harvard University (2013-2016). She is the author of The Contentious Public Sphere: Law\, Media\, and Authoritarian Rule in China (Princeton University Press\, 2018). Her second book\, The Gilded Cage: Techno-State Capitalism in China\, is forthcoming with Princeton University Press in Fall 2023. Her work has appeared in American Sociological Review and American Journal of Sociology\, among other peer-reviewed journals. Her publications have received various awards from the American Sociological Association\, the Law and Society Association\, and The China Quarterly. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/ya-wen-lei-the-gilded-cage-techno-state-capitalism-in-china/
LOCATION:William James Hall\, Room 1550\, 33 kirkland st\, cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Contemporary Chinese Society
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221010T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221010T210000
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SUMMARY:Film Screening and Discussion - Afternoon (Na ri xia wu)
DESCRIPTION:Directed by Tsai Ming-liang.Taiwan\, 2015\, DCP\, color\, 137 min.Mandarin with English subtitles. \n\n\n\nIn-person discussion with the director follows the film screening. \n\n\n\nAs if created to refute the notion that artists are notoriously aloof about discussing their own work\, Afternoon ostensibly grants Tsai’s devoted audience an all-access peek behind the curtain of his decades-long artistic partnership with his muse Lee Kang-sheng. Filmed in one two-hour-long wide shot broken up by periodic cuts to black in the half-furnished mountain home purchased by Tsai and Lee\, this rigorous documentary presents a wide-ranging heart-to-heart between two artistic soulmates whose very dispositions—in both their cinematic collaborations and public appearances—skew toward the introverted and nonverbal. The results are surprisingly light and meandering\, with Tsai playing the gregarious\, vulnerable inquisitor and Lee the deadpan object of fascination\, his sparsely deployed remarks often tinged with good-natured teasing. No topic is out of bounds\, as they discuss their films\, their career ambitions (or lack thereof)\, their travels\, their peculiar relationship that is neither fully platonic nor romantic\, their anxieties and their sense of morality. What elevates it beyond a niche DVD supplement and into something consistent with Tsai’s worldview is the extreme patience it exhibits in the observation of human behavior. The content of what is said is only part of the appeal. Arguably more fascinating is the process by which these feelings are gradually\, circuitously articulated\, an alchemy we are invited to witness in hypnotic real time.For more information and tickets: https://harvardfilmarchive.org/calendar/afternoon-2022-10 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-screening-and-discussion-afternoon-na-ri-xia-wu/
LOCATION:Harvard Film Archive\, Carpenter Center\, 24 Quincy St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221011T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221011T173000
DTSTAMP:20260508T190930
CREATED:20220829T150506Z
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SUMMARY:Modern China Lecture featuring Philip Thai -  Communist China’s Capitalist Front: The China Resources Company in Cold War Hong Kong
DESCRIPTION:REgister for Hybrid Zoom Attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Philip Thai\, Northeastern University \n\n\n\nThe China Resources Company is a Hong Kong-based\, Chinese state-owned conglomerate with diverse businesses interests in real estate\, retail\, pharmaceuticals\, energy\, and other industries. Today\, it is one of the largest corporations in the world and currently ranked no. 70 on the Fortune Global 500. During the Cold War\, China Resources operated as a front company advancing the economic and geopolitical interests of the People’s Republic. Most importantly\, it served as the primary commercial intermediary between China and Hong Kong\, supplying the British colony with food\, petroleum\, and other essential supplies for decades before and after “Reform and Opening.” This talk will trace the development of the company and explore its role in circumventing international embargoes\, promoting foreign trade\, and operating in Hong Kong. It will consider how the history of China Resources could address critical questions in the history of Hong Kong and the Cold War more generally. \n\n\n\nPhilip Thai is Associate Professor of History and Asian Studies at Northeastern University. A historian of Modern China and East Asia\, he has research and teaching interests that include legal history\, economic history\, and diplomatic history. He is the author of China’s War on Smuggling: Law\, Economic Life\, and the Making of the Modern State and the forthcoming Diplomatic History journal article\, “Hong Kong in the U.S.-UK War on Drugs\, 1970–1980”. During the 2022-23 academic year\, Professor Thai will be in residence at Harvard Radcliffe Institute as an American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Frederick Burkhardt Fellow working on his new project\, a history of underground economies across “Greater China” during the Cold War. \n\n\n\nThis event is also available on Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_lflaHpU3QsScF0HGYvNxvA \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/modern-china-lecture-featuring-philip-thai/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Modern China Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221012T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221012T131500
DTSTAMP:20260508T190930
CREATED:20220927T162812Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230622T203724Z
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring John K. Culver: How China's Catastrophic Success\, US Strategic Blunders Fueled Rivalry
DESCRIPTION:Register for hybrid zoom attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRead our blog post on the event: Ex CIA Analyst: China and U.S. in “Existential Struggle” between Democracy and Authoritarian Rule \n\n\n\nSpeaker: John Culver\, Senior Fellow\, Atlantic Council’s Global China Hub; Former Senior Intelligence Officer\, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)  \n\n\n\nJohn K. Culver is a nonresident senior fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Global China Hub and a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) senior intelligence officer with thirty-five years of experience as a leading analyst of East Asian affairs\, including security\, economic\, and foreign-policy dimensions. \n\n\n\nPreviously as national intelligence officer for East Asia from 2015 to 2018\, Culver drove the Intelligence Community’s support to top policymakers on East Asian issues and managed extensive relationships inside and outside government. He produced a large body of sophisticated\, leading-edge analysis and mentored widely on analytic tradecraft. He also routinely represented the Intelligence Community to senior US policy\, military\, academic\, private-sector and foreign-government audiences. \n\n\n\nCulver is a recipient of the 2013 William L. Langer Award for extraordinary achievement in the CIA’s analytic mission. He was a member of the Senior Intelligence Service and CIA’s Senior Analytic Service. He was also awarded the Distinguished Career Intelligence Medal. \n\n\n\nEx CIA Analyst: China and U.S. in “Existential Struggle” between Democracy and Authoritarian Rule Event summary by Dorinda Elliott\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-featuring-john-k-culver/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China,Critical Issues Confronting China Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221013T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221013T123000
DTSTAMP:20260508T190930
CREATED:20220929T164633Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221003T175834Z
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SUMMARY:Zhang Changdong - Taxation and State Building Contradiction: Grassroots State Reconfiguration under Tax State Transition in Rural China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Zhang Changdong\, Peking University; HYI Visiting Scholar 2022-23Chair/discussant: Elizabeth J. Perry\, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government at Harvard University; Director of the Harvard-Yenching Institute. \n\n\n\nTaxation is regarded as an important dynamic in state building\, and plays a crucial role in driving the process of bureaucratization. However\, this process could be contradictory under certain circumstances. Through an in-depth examination of taxation and state building in rural China\, we find that the state strategically uses different institutional building strategies in different periods to penetrate the rural society for different purposes. We develop a two by two matrix by combining concentration and centralization\, as a typology of micro institutional building strategies\, to describe the evolution of institutional strategies and cadre’s roles. Specifically\, we find that after the market transition in 1980s and 1990s\, the tax state transition\, especially the abolition of agricultural taxes in early 2000s\, marks a transition from penetration for extraction to non-penetration with non-extraction. Using unique datasets which combines individual\, village and county/province level data\, we focus on the dynamic on the role of village cadres which reflects the evolution of institutional strategies. We test the hypotheses of village cadres’ income (dis)advantage before and after abolition of agriculture taxes which depended on village or upper-level government fiscal conditions\, respectively. We find that before the tax state transition village cadres as tax farmers had income advantages over ordinary peasants regardless the village and county fiscal conditions. But after the transition they turned to semi-bureaucrats and lost their income advantage in most regions all over China. They only held advantages in those fiscally-rich regions. This research indicates that the state building in rural China is associated with the ending of taxation power rather than a development of taxation capacity which led to state involution. This study contributes to taxation and state building literature by revealing this contradiction\, and complement to the market transition debate by bringing taxation back in. \n\n\n\nIn-person talk – Seating is limited. Masks are required for all audience members. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/zhang-changdong-taxation-and-state-building-contradiction-grassroots-state-reconfiguration-under-tax-state-transition-in-rural-china/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221013T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221013T180000
DTSTAMP:20260508T190930
CREATED:20220928T130357Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230622T203923Z
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SUMMARY:Panel Discussion - What Does China’s Rise Mean for the United States?
DESCRIPTION:Register for hybrid zoom attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFor decades Americans have described China as a rising power. That description no longer fits: China has already risen. What does this mean for the US–China relationship? For the global economy and international security?  \n\n\n\nJoin the Fairbank Center for a panel discussion to explore these questions and celebrate the release of The China Questions 2: Critical Issues in US-China Relations. \n\n\n\nSpeakers:Andrew Erickson\, Professor of Strategy and Research Director\, Naval War College’s China Maritime Studies InstituteMeg Rithmire\, F. Warren MacFarlan Associate Professor in the Business\, Government\, and International Economy Unit\, Harvard Business SchoolMin Ye\, Associate Professor of International Relations\, Boston University Pardee School of Global Studies \n\n\n\nModerator: Maria Adele Carrai\, Assistant Professor of Global China Studies at NYU Shanghai\, Harvard University Asia Center AssociateAlso available on Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_rHUJi2YdT0mn32olwdHFKA \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/panel-discussion-what-does-chinas-rise-mean-for-the-united-states/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221014T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221015T173000
DTSTAMP:20260508T190930
CREATED:20221004T134449Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221013T135132Z
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SUMMARY:Navigating Asia: Interdisciplinary Conversations in Honor of Ezra Vogel
DESCRIPTION:This conference is organized to honor and celebrate the late Professor Ezra Vogel’s role as the inaugural Director of the Harvard Asia Center and his commitment to transnational scholarship.  \n\n\n\nDay 1: Friday\, October 14\, 2022 \n\n\n\n4:00-5:00pm Welcome:James Robson (Victor and William Fung Director\, Harvard Asia Center; James C. Kralik and Yunli Lou Professor\, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University)Opening Remarks:Neil Rudenstine (President Emeritus\, Harvard University\, 1991-2001)Keynote:“Why America Needs an Ezra Vogel for Southeast Asia” Professor Chan Heng Chee (Ambassador-at-Large\, Singapore’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs\, former Singaporean Ambassador to the United States 1996-2012; Singapore’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations; Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute; Chair of Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities\, Singapore University of Technology and Design)Reception to follow5:00-6:00pmDay 2: Saturday\, October 15\, 20228:15-8:45am Coffee and Continental Breakfast 8:45-9:00am Opening Comments by Arthur Kleinmen (Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology\, Professor of Medical Anthropology in Global Health and Social Medicine\, Professor of Psychiatry\, Harvard Medical School; Former Director of the Asia Center\, Harvard University) \n\n\n\n9:00-10:30am Panel 1: Governance and LeadershipModerator: Elizabeth J. Perry (Director\, Harvard-Yenching Institute; Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government\, Former Director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard University)Panelists:Christina L. Davis (Director\, Program on US-Japan Relations\, Harvard University; Professor\, Department of Government\, Harvard University)Cheng Li (Director\, John L. Thornton China Center and Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy\, Brookings Institute)Eun Mee Kim (President\, Ewha Woman’s University; Professor\, Graduate School of International Studies; former Dean\, Graduate School of International Studies; and former Director\, Institute for Development and Human Security)Nakano Koichi (Professor\, Sophia University)Doreen Lee (Professor of Anthropology; Acting Director\, Asia and the World Program\, Northeastern University)10:30-10:45am Coffee Break10:45am-12:15pmPanel 2: Regional RelationsModerator: Arunabh Ghosh (Professor\, Department of History\, Harvard University) and Carter Eckert (Yoon Se Young Professor of Korean History\, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University)Panelists:Selina Ho (Assistant Professor and Co-Director of the Centre on Asia and Globalisation\, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy\, National University of Singapore)Andrew Mertha (Inaugural Director\, SAIS China Global Research Center; George and Sadie Hyman Professor of China Studies\, John’s Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies)Hirano Kenichiro (Professor Emeritus Tokyo University and Waseda University; Executive Director\, Toyo Bunko)Li Tingjiang (Professor\, Faculty of Law\, Chuo University\, Japan; Director\, Center for Japanese Studies\, Tsinghua University\, Beijing)John D. Ciorciari (Associate Dean for Research and Policy Engagement; Professor of Public Policy; Director\, International Policy Center and Weiser Diplomacy Center\, University of Michigan)12:15-1:15pm Lunch  \n\n\n\n1:15-2:45pmPanel 3: Political Economy and MarketsModerator: Mark Wu (Director of Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies; Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law\, Harvard University)Panelists:William Overholt (Senior Research Fellow\, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government\, Harvard Kennedy School)Kristen Looney (Assistant Professor of Asian Studies and Government\, Georgetown University)Meg Rithmire (F. Warren MacFarlan Associate Professor in the Business\, Government\, and International Economy Unit\, Harvard Business School)Steven Vogel (Il Han New Professor of Asian Studies; Professor of Political Science and Political Economy; Director\, Political Economy Program\, University of California\, Berkeley)2:45-3:00pm Coffee Break 3:00-4:30pmPanel 4: Asia in a Global ContextModerator: Sugata Bose (Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs\, Harvard University)Panelists: Manjari Chatterjee Miller (Senior Fellow for India\, Pakistan\, and South Asia\, Council on Foreign Relations; Associate Professor of International Relations; Director of the Rising Powers Initiative\, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies\, Boston University)Aniket De (Ph.D. student in History\, Harvard University)Engseng Ho (Professor of Cultural Anthropology\, Duke University; Muhammad Alagil Distinguished Visiting Professor in Arabia Asia Studies\, Asia Research Institute\, National University of Singapore)Ambassador Shyam Saran (President of India International Centre; Former Foreign Secretary of India; Indian Ambassador to Myanmar\, Nepal\, and Indonesia)Karen L. Thornber (Harry Tuchman Levin Professor in Literature\, Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations; Interim Chair\, Regional Studies East Asia\, Former Director of the Asia Center\, Harvard University) \n\n\n\n4:30-5:30pmPanel 5: Reflecting on Ezra Vogel and His LegacyModerator: James Robson (Victor and William Fung Director\, Harvard Asia Center; James C. Kralik and Yunli Lou Professor\, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University)Panelists:Charlotte Ikels (Professor Emerita of Anthropology\, Case Western Reserve University)Richard E.  Dyck (Owner and President\, TGK-Japan)Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good (Professor Emerita of Global Health and Social Medicine\, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine\, Harvard Medical School)Mary C. Brinton (Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology; Director\, Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies\, Harvard University)Chunli Li (Director\, International Center for Chinese Studies; Professor\, Faculty of Economics\, Aichi University) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/navigating-asia-interdisciplinary-conversations-in-honor-of-ezra-vogel/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221014T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221014T220000
DTSTAMP:20260508T190930
CREATED:20220928T143826Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221013T185729Z
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SUMMARY:Film Screening and In-Person Director Discussion - Days (Rizi)
DESCRIPTION:Directed by Tsai Ming-liang.With Lee Kang-sheng\, Anong Houngheuangsy.Taiwan/France\, 2020\, DCP\, color\, 127 min.Mandarin with English subtitles. \n\n\n\nIn-person discussion with the director follows the film screening.Featuring remarks by Jie Li\, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities\, Harvard University. \n\n\n\nEver since Tsai prematurely announced his retirement from filmmaking following the release of Stray Dogs\, his output has had a diminishing relationship to narrative\, and Days provides only the slimmest shell of one. Instead\, the director submits to the lengthy observation of two men at different points in their lives: Kang (Lee Kang-sheng) and Non (Anong Houngheuangsy)\, emblems of solitude in late middle age and young adulthood\, respectively. Kang passes his time with silent meditations on nature and experimental acupuncture sessions for his ailing neck (a nod to Lee’s actual decades-long condition)\, while Non lives a solitary urban existence in a cramped apartment. Their day-to-day rituals provide more than enough raw material for Tsai’s ever-patient camera\, which captures slow nighttime walks and ritualized meal preparation with the same rapt attention and Zen-like indifference to conventional action. In the lone concession to narrative expectation\, Kang and Non eventually meet in a prolonged scene of cathartic physical intimacy\, but Tsai’s delicate touch leaves the film in a state of poignant anticlimax\, raising unsentimental questions about what constitutes fulfilling human connection.More information and tickets: https://harvardfilmarchive.org/programs/the-face-of-time-recent-films-by-tsai-ming-liang \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-screening-and-in-person-director-discussion-days-rizi/
LOCATION:Harvard Film Archive\, Carpenter Center\, 24 Quincy St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221017T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221017T131500
DTSTAMP:20260508T190930
CREATED:20221012T141633Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221013T215707Z
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SUMMARY:Panel Discussion: China and Japan in the Global Politics of Climate Change
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers:Kelly Sims Gallagher\, Academic Dean; Professor of Energy and Environmental Policy; Director\, Climate Policy Lab; Co-Director\, Center for International Environment & Resource Policy\, The Fletcher School Tufts University \n\n\n\nMiranda Schreurs\, Professor of Environment and Climate Policy\, School of Government\, Bavarian School of Public Policy\, Technical University of Munich \n\n\n\nModerator: Christina L. Davis\, Director\, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics\, Department of Government; and Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor\, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nThis seminar is part of the Special Series on Policy Innovations in Crises\, supported by a grant from the Japan Foundation. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/panel-discussion-china-and-japan-in-the-global-politics-of-climate-change/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221017T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221017T133000
DTSTAMP:20260508T190930
CREATED:20220914T132139Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221015T131358Z
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SUMMARY:The Founding Generation: A Celebration of the Publication of Dr. Nongji Zhang's Book on the People's Republic of China's First Generation of Legal Scholars\, 1949-1992
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Nongji Zhang\, Librarian for East Asian Law\, Harvard Law School LibraryPanelists: William P. Alford\, Jerome A. and Joan L. Cohen Professor of Law\, Director\, East Asian Legal Studies Program\, Harvard Law SchoolGuo Rui\, Associate Professor\, Renmin University of ChinaMargaret Woo\, Professor of Law\, Northeastern University School of Law \n\n\n\nCosponsored by East Asian Legal Studies\, Harvard Law School\, and the Harvard Law School LibraryLunch will be provided \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-founding-generation-a-celebration-of-the-publication-of-dr-nongji-zhangs-book-on-the-peoples-republic-of-chinas-first-generation-of-legal-scholars-1949-1992/
LOCATION:WCC 2036 Milstein East A\, Harvard Law School
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