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SUMMARY:2023 China Law Symposium: Reacquainting with China through Common Interests - Blockchain from a Chinese Perspective
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2023 China Law Symposium: Reacquainting with China through Common InterestsThe Harvard Law School China Law Association (CLA) will host its annual China Law Symposium\, “Reacquainting with China through Common Interests\,” over the first two weeks of April. This year\, we are highlighting topics of common interest to China and the United States\, ranging across the public and private sectors. The panels will feature issues on disability law\, education in China\, US-China climate change collaborations\, antitrust law\, and blockchain technology.This Symposium is cosponsored by the Harvard Law School East Asian Legal Studies Department\, the Harvard Antitrust Association\, and the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology. Food/snacks will be provided at each speaker event. RSVP: bit.ly/CLA2023Symposium \n\n\n\nSchedule: \n\n\n\nDiscussing Disability Law in ChinaMon\, April 3\, 12:15–1:15 pm ET | WCC 2012 \n\n\n\nAntitrust in China: Debunking the Myth and Unravelling the IntricaciesTues\, April 4\, 12:15–1:15 pm ET | WCC 2012Double Reduction Policy in China: An Educational Double-Edged Sword?Tues\, April 4\, 8:00–9:00 pm ET | WCC 1015Blockchain from a Chinese PerspectiveMon\, April 10\, 12:15–1:15 pm ET | WCC 2004Collaborating on Climate ChangeWed\, April 12\, 12:15–1:15 pm ET | WCC 2009 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/2023-china-law-symposium-reacquainting-with-china-through-common-interests-blockchain-from-a-chinese-perspective/
LOCATION:WCC 2004\, Wasserstein Hall\, 1585 Massachusetts Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:China Humanities Seminar featuring Nicholas Standaert - The Chinese Gazette in European Sources: Joining the Global Public in the Early Qing Dynasty
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Nicolas Standaert\, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium) \n\n\n\nThe Chinese gazette as a publicly available government publication was distributed in a variety of formats since the twelfth century. Little is known\, however\, about its form and content before 1800. By looking at European sources\, this presentation shows how they offer a unique way of expanding the knowledge about the gazette of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Its interconnected history illustrates how the Chinese gazette\, as translated by European missionaries\, became a major source for reflections on state and society by Enlightenment thinkers. It thus joined a global public much earlier than so far assumed. \n\n\n\nNicolas Standaert is Professor of Sinology at KU Leuven (Belgium) (1993-) and Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts of Belgium (2003-). His major research interest is the cultural contacts between China and Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In this field he has led multiple research projects on rituality\, visual culture\, historiography\, and print culture. He is the author of The Chinese Gazette in European Sources: Joining the Global Public in the Early and Mid-Qing Dynasty (Brill\, 2022); The Intercultural Weaving of Historical Texts: Chinese and European Stories about Emperor Ku and His Concubines (Brill\, 2016); Chinese Voices in the Rites Controversy: Travelling Books\, Community Networks\, Intercultural Arguments (Institutum Historicum Societatis Iesu\, 2012)\, among many others. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-humanities-seminar-featuring-nicholas-standaert-the-chinese-gazette-in-european-sources-joining-the-global-public-in-the-early-qing-dynasty/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:China Humanities Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230410T203000
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SUMMARY:Urban China Series featuring Su Xiaobo: Urbanization and the Political Economy of Border Control in China
DESCRIPTION:Zoom meeting link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPhoto by 瑞丽江的河水 – Own work\, CC BY-SA 4.0\, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=70263825 (License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) \n\n\n\nSpeaker: Su Xiaobo\, University of Oregon \n\n\n\nBorder cities in hinterland China have been reshaped as hotbeds of investment ever since the implementation of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). They have become new economic centers to facilitate cross-border flows between China and neighboring countries. Meanwhile\, border security remains a key political task to state authorities in these cities. Using Ruili in southern Yunnan as a case study\, this paper examines urbanization at the edge of China’s national territory and how border control\, transnational migrant management\, and industrialization are integrated into this process. On the one hand\, Ruili uses its geoeconomic advantages—proximity to Myanmar\, and attractiveness to Myanmar migrant workers—to attract domestic investment from other Chinese cities for industrial production and cross-border trade. On the other hand\, the Ruili municipal government is assigned responsibility for managing cross-border migrant flows and maintaining social stability. Economic development and border politics are intertwined to shape Ruili’s urbanization trajectory in which cross-border trade and border security play a significant role in shaping land use\, development policies\, and population management in border cities. Thus\, an analysis of the political economy of border control can shed new light on China’s urbanization at the border. \n\n\n\n ​Xiaobo Su is Professor and Head in the Department of Geography\, University of Oregon. His research interest is in border politics\, urban entrepreneurialism\, and transnational regionalization in China. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/urban-china-series-featuring-su-xiaobo/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Urban China Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230411T160000
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SUMMARY:Chinese Politics and Foreign Policy Series featuring Tyler Jost - Authoritarian Arming: Domestic Threats and the Origins of China’s Military Modernization
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Tyler Jost\, Assistant Professor of Political Science\, International & Public Affairs and Watson Institute Assistant Professor of China Studies\, Brown University. \n\n\n\nSince the late 1980s\, China has transformed the People’s Liberation Army by expanding its budget. Existing scholarship tends to attribute the expanding defense budget to China’s economic growth and external threats. This project instead explores the role of domestic politics. In order to guard against violent removal from power\, autocrats use distributional and institutional concessions to win favor with coercive organizations\, such as the military. As such\, elevated threats to political survival — such as leader transitions or mass demonstrations —  can lead to increases in defense budgets even in the absence of changes to economic growth or external threat. The project uses original data on China’s defense budgets since the late 1970s to evaluate candidate explanations. The preliminary analysis finds support for explanations emphasizing economic growth and domestic threats\, but limited support that variation in external threats have systematically shaped China’s defense budgets. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/chinese-politics-and-foreign-policy-series-featuring-tyler-jost-authoritarian-arming-domestic-threats-and-the-origins-of-chinas-military-modernization/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S250\, 1730 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Chinese Politics and Foreign Policy
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230411T160000
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SUMMARY:Beijing Olympiad: First Time as Mass Spectacle\, Second Time as Digital Ornament
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Cassandra Xin Guan\, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow\, MIT Center for Art\, Science & Technology \n\n\n\nThe opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympics was notable for its spectacular deployment of the mass human ornament. In 2022\, a second Olympic opening ceremony took place amidst a global pandemic and rising geopolitical tension between China and the US. This time around the hot and noisy masses that thrilled American television viewers with their coordinated precision have vanished from the scene of representation. In documentations of the two events: one hot\, one cold; one crowded\, one empty; one bursting with life\, one eerily devoid of humanity—we see a thermal-aesthetic inversion that assigns representational values to an under-theorized historical interval between China’s first and second Olympic Games. This talk will tarry with the chronotopic form of this interval\, with\, that is\, the time-space of historical figuration. Drawing attention to the emergence of a nationalist imaginary determined by the paradox of automation\, I ask what global forces are responsible for the cooling of the mass spectacle’s hot noise\, and what happens to the efficacy of the vitalized icon when the masses exit the mass ornament? \n\n\n\nCassandra Xin Guan is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at The MIT Center for Art\, Science & Technology. She holds a PhD in Modern Culture and Media from Brown University and was Dean’s Faculty Fellow in the Program of Science\, Technology\, Society (STS). She is currently working on two books in tandem: “Maladaptive Media: ‘Life’ and Other Works of Animation” and “Imagine There’s No Human: China in Animation.” Her writings have appeared in October\, Screen\, and Critical Inquiry. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/beijing-olympiad-first-time-as-mass-spectacle-second-time-as-digital-ornament/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230412T110000
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SUMMARY:Yu-Yueh Tsai - Indigenous DNA as A Metaphor: Scientific Debate on the Rediscovery of Taiwanese Ancestry and Nation-Building
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Yu-Yueh Tsai\, Associate Research Fellow\, Institute of Sociology\, Academia Sinica; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2022-23Chair: Sheila Jasanoff\, Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies\, Harvard Kennedy School \n\n\n\nThe development of genealogical science in the twenty-first century has important implications for national and racial/ethnic construction. In Taiwan\, genetic research on the origins of Taiwanese has involved racial/ethnic issues but also the dispute over Taiwan’s national identity with the People’s Republic of China\, which claims that “we have the same roots” or “blood is thicker than water.” After the end of martial law (1945-1987)\, scientific research on multi-origins and genetic makeup of Taiwanese emerged. In particular\, Marie Lin\, M.D.\, widely known as “the mother of the research on Taiwanese blood\,” and her teams have been devoted to revealing the origins of the ethnic groups in Taiwan. My research pushes the concept of co-production between science and politics (Jasanoff\, 2004) further by addressing the “nationalization of biomedicine” and the “biomedicalization of the nation”. I explore how Taiwan’s changing identity politics\, including the emergence of the new categorization of four great ethnic groups\, multiculturalism\, and Taiwanese nationalism\, has profoundly influenced genetic research on Taiwanese genealogy and how scientific findings produced in the lab have then spilled out into both Taiwan and the PRC through journals\, media\, history textbooks\, and public disputes since the 1990s. For genealogical science to play a constructive role in identity-making\, this research shows that we need to remain vigilant to genetic technology\, scientific knowledge formation\, and methodology by looking at scientists’ works and discourses through an STS perspective to extend the epistemological reflection. \n\n\n\nHarvard-Yenching Institute Visiting Scholar talk \n\n\n\nSeating is limited. Masks are required for all in-person audience members.Info: https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/indigenous-dna-as-a-metaphor-scientific-debate-on-the-rediscovery-of-taiwanese-ancestry-and-nation-building/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/yu-yueh-tsai-indigenous-dna-as-a-metaphor-scientific-debate-on-the-rediscovery-of-taiwanese-ancestry-and-nation-building/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230412T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230412T131500
DTSTAMP:20260511T012938
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China featuring Isaac Kardon - China's Maritime Power and the Law of the Sea
DESCRIPTION:Register for hybrid zoom attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRead our blog post on the event: China’s New Maritime “Rules” in Asia Could Lead to Conflict \n\n\n\nSpeaker: Isaac Kardon\, Senior Fellow\, Asia Program\, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace \n\n\n\nDiscussant: Takuhiro Ikeda\, Senior Fellow\, Harvard University Asia Center; Former Vice Admiral\, Japan Maritime Self Defense Force \n\n\n\nWho makes “the rules” of international order? The international law of the sea is one of the oldest and most significant bodies of rules governing international relations — and also one of the most hotly contested. China’s maritime disputes are a crucible for the emerging international order of the 21st century. In these disputes\, China is at odds with all of its regional neighbors over how the law of the sea should govern boundaries\, resources\, and dispute resolution. At the strategic level\, disputes over navigational rules engage the United States and its allies and their interest in navigation on\, above\, and below the contested waters of East Asia. China’s claimed maritime rights and interests offer unique insights into China’s emerging vision for international rules\, the role of state sovereignty in the international order\, and the future of great power competition in the oceans and beyond. \n\n\n\nCo-sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center and the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations\, Weatherhead Center For International Affairs \n\n\n\nAlso via Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_CQmXvPNYRfuN9YBaYKMJ8w \n\n\n\n\n\nYouTube recording of “Critical Issues Confronting China featuring Isaac Kardon – China’s Maritime Power and the Law of the Sea”\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-featuring-isaac-kardon-chinas-law-of-the-sea/
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:20230412T121500
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SUMMARY:2023 China Law Symposium: Reacquainting with China through Common Interests - Collaborating on Climate Change
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2023 China Law Symposium: Reacquainting with China through Common InterestsThe Harvard Law School China Law Association (CLA) will host its annual China Law Symposium\, “Reacquainting with China through Common Interests\,” over the first two weeks of April. This year\, we are highlighting topics of common interest to China and the United States\, ranging across the public and private sectors. The panels will feature issues on disability law\, education in China\, US-China climate change collaborations\, antitrust law\, and blockchain technology.This Symposium is cosponsored by the Harvard Law School East Asian Legal Studies Department\, the Harvard Antitrust Association\, and the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology. Food/snacks will be provided at each speaker event. RSVP: bit.ly/CLA2023Symposium \n\n\n\nSchedule: \n\n\n\nDiscussing Disability Law in ChinaMon\, April 3\, 12:15–1:15 pm ET | WCC 2012 \n\n\n\nAntitrust in China: Debunking the Myth and Unravelling the IntricaciesTues\, April 4\, 12:15–1:15 pm ET | WCC 2012Double Reduction Policy in China: An Educational Double-Edged Sword?Tues\, April 4\, 8:00–9:00 pm ET | WCC 1015Blockchain from a Chinese PerspectiveMon\, April 10\, 12:15–1:15 pm ET | WCC 2004Collaborating on Climate ChangeWed\, April 12\, 12:15–1:15 pm ET | WCC 2009 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/2023-china-law-symposium-reacquainting-with-china-through-common-interests-collaborating-on-climate-change/
LOCATION:WCC 2009\, Wasserstein Hall\, 1585 Massachusetts Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230412T170000
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SUMMARY:Mikael Bauer - Under the Gaze of Jion: Kōfukuji’s Heian Period Internal Ritual Network
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Mikael Bauer\, McGill University \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/mikael-bauer-under-the-gaze-of-jion-kofukujis-heian-period-internal-ritual-network/
LOCATION:Barker Center\, Thompson Room\, 12 Quincy St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138
CATEGORIES:Buddhist Studies Forum
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230413T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230413T173000
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SUMMARY:Liu Shouying - What is Chinese-Style Modernization? Interpreting the Key Concept from the 20th Party Congress
DESCRIPTION:Register for hybrid zoom attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Liu Shouying\, Dean\, School of Economics\, Renmin University of China \n\n\n\nAlso via Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_kWAxH7BoQ8q90TVUW8NOWQ \n\n\n\n\n\nYouTube recording of “Liu Shouying – What is Chinese-Style Modernization? Interpreting the Key Concept from the 20th Party Congress”\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/liu-shouying-what-is-chinese-style-modernization-interpretating-the-key-concept-from-the-20th-party-congress/
LOCATION:Room S030\, CGIS South\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:China Economy Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230417T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230417T180000
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SUMMARY:What China’s Coolest Rock Band Can Tell Us About the Nation’s Cultural Shifts
DESCRIPTION:Read our blog post on the event: What China’s Hottest Rock Band Can Tell Us About the Nation’s Cultural Shifts \n\n\n\nSpeakers:Ren Ke\, member\, Wu Tiao RenZheng Lin\, Visiting Scholar\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies; Associate Professor\, Sun Yat Sen UniversityYuhua Wang\, Professor of Government\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nWu Tiao Ren (五条人) began in Guangzhou as a small\, counterculture band singing quirky lyrics in the Min dialect of Guangdong. But in 2020\, they exploded onto China’s music scene when they pulled a stunt on the national TV show “Big Band.” Instead of the more anodyne song the band had rehearsed\, on live TV they shocked the organizers with a provocative song about a kid who is languishing in jail. The band didn’t win the competition\, but their gutsy action quickly made them an internet sensation. \n\n\n\nGiven their fiercely earthy\, anti-pop act\, what’s surprising is that Wu Tiao Ren have blown up in popularity. Why does Wu Tiao Ren attract such big audiences? Aside from cutting-edge art\, do they also reflect the complex new cultural and social mechanics of today’s China?  \n\n\n\nJoin us as Ren Ke\, one of the band’s key members\, shares his perspectives with Prof. Zheng Lin from Sun Yat-sen University\, who is doing research on Wu Tiao Ren. She will share thoughts on how the band’s fiercely local rock music plays with both language and imagery\, revealing a unique\, grassroots village-in-the-city (城中村) culture that has cropped up in Guangzhou. She will explore how the culture of counterfeits (shanzhai 山寨and dakou 打口) has helped shape their art and contributed to urbanization\, and\, ultimately\, globalization in China.  \n\n\n\nHarvard Prof. Yuhua Wang will add perspectives on how this new cultural phenomenon fits into Chinese history. \n\n\n\nPoster credit: Hu Design Studio \n\n\n\n\n\nLecture available on YouTube at: https://youtu.be/xl2tbo7n_Gc. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/what-chinas-coolest-rock-band-can-tell-us-about-the-nations-cultural-shifts/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230417T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230417T220000
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SUMMARY:Urban China Series featuring Zhang Jipeng - Hukou Reform\, Return Migration\,and Implications for Urban Development in China
DESCRIPTION:zoom meeting link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Zhang Jipeng\, Shandong University \n\n\n\nIn recent years\, China has made remarkable progress in Hukou reform. Based on government policy documents and our fieldwork\, we construct a quantitative measure of Hukou registration barriers in Chinese cities. First-tier and some second-tier cities set high criteria for local Hukou registration that have become more stringent over time\, while other cities have much lower requirements. Drawing on household survey data\, we show that stricter Hukou restrictions lead to a significant increase in return migration\, especially among those with rural Hukou\, low education level\, and poor health status. Finally\, we estimate the effects of further loosening Hukou restrictions\, finding that granting Hukou to migrants in lower-tier cities would increase educational attainment\, but impose fiscal strains on top-tier cities. \n\n\n\nJipeng Zhang is a Professor of Economics and a Research Fellow of the Institute of State Governance at the Shandong University. His research interests are public economics\, migration and urban development\, with a focus on China’s public finance\, Hukou reform\, and poverty alleviation resettlement. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/urban-china-series-featuring-zhang-jipeng/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Urban China Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230419T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230419T120000
DTSTAMP:20260511T012938
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SUMMARY:Xinyu Chen - Power Market Reform Coupled with Carbon Neutral Transition in China: Status and Prospects
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Xinyu Chen\, Professor\, Huazhong University of Science and Technology; Alumnus (Postdoctoral Fellow and Research Associate) and Associate\, Harvard-China Project \n\n\n\nPresented via Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcrcuyqrDMrHdxuBhSsoM_QkFET4OUq2wX7.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/xinyu-chen-power-market-reform-coupled-with-carbon-neutral-transition-in-china-status-and-prospects/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230419T144500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230419T160000
DTSTAMP:20260511T012938
CREATED:20230412T181443Z
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SUMMARY:The Future of the U.S.-Philippines Alliance: A Conversation with Martin Romualdez\, Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Philippines
DESCRIPTION:RSVP Required\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Martin Romualdez\, Speaker of the House of Representatives of the PhilippinesPlease join the Asia-Pacific Initiative and the Defense Project for a conversation with Martin Romualdez\, Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Philippines. The Speaker will deliver remarks on the future of the U.S.-Philippines alliance\, the foreign and defense policy of the Philippines under President Marcos\, and evolving geopolitics in the Indo-Pacific region. His remarks will be followed by a conversation moderated by Eric Rosenbach (Co-Director of the Belfer Center). \n\n\n\nAdvance registration is required\, and attendance is limited to current Harvard affiliates (students\, staff\, faculty\, fellows) who are Harvard ID holders. Confirmed attendees will receive a confirmation email. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-future-of-the-u-s-philippines-alliance-a-conversation-with-martin-romualdez-speaker-of-the-house-of-representatives-of-the-philippines/
LOCATION:Wexner W-434 A.B\, 19 Eliot St\, Cambridge\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230421T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230421T170000
DTSTAMP:20260511T012938
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SUMMARY:An Introduction to Generative AI for East Asian Studies
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis workshop introduces the use of generative AI. Generative AI refers to a category of artificial intelligence algorithms that generate new outputs based on data. Unlike traditional AI systems that recognize patterns and make predictions\, generative AI can create new content in the form of texts as well as images and audio. It enables one to work across languages (e.g.\, asking for answers in English about a text in classical Chinese). The workshop will cover the theory behind it\, the common misconceptions about it\, and showcase several tools. We will offer use case demonstrations for summarization\, data cleaning\, and visualization. Use cases may involve Chinese texts\, but the techniques can be applied to across East Asian Studies. Organized by the Digital China Initiative of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and China Biographical Database project. \n\n\n\nThis is an in-person event that will not be recorded or live-streamed. \n\n\n\nWe recommend that attendees register for a ChatGPT account: (https://chat.openai.com/chat). You can also use its alternatives\, such as Microsoft New Bing\, Google Bard\, Notion AI\, etc.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/an-introduction-to-generative-ai-for-east-asian-studies/
LOCATION:Yenching Auditorium\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230424T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230424T180000
DTSTAMP:20260511T012938
CREATED:20230330T164446Z
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SUMMARY:China Humanities Seminar featuring Meimei Zhang - Immortalizing the Ephemeral: Qin Inscriptions from the Song Dynasty (960-1279)
DESCRIPTION:Register for hybrid zoom attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Meimei Zhang\, Occidental College \n\n\n\nThis paper examines the Song dynasty literati’s ming 銘 inscriptions on the qin 琴\, a seven-string plucked instrument that is also known as zither or guqin. The tradition of inscribing musical instruments can be traced back to bronze bells and chime stones in the Shang and Zhou dynasties\, which bore pithy messages primarily functioning as historiographical and musicological records. From the Tang dynasty onward\, with the qin featuring prominently in the private sphere of literati\, inscriptions on the qin became a form of literary marginalia—an innovation that they used to test literary skills\, engage with the material contingency of the instrument\, and inquire into the essence of music and sound. By mapping out the thematic and stylistic typology of these writings\, this paper argues that qin inscriptionsconstituted a site in which theorizations and interpretations of the core discourses on music and its connoisseurship\, zhiyin (one who knows the tone) and ganying (correlative resonance)\, were made available from the variegated perspectives of inter-human\, human-object\, object-cosmos\, or human-cosmos relationships. By employing and playing with a repertoire of literary rhetoric and philosophical discussions\, Song authors celebrated qin’s distinctive musicality and materiality in inscriptions not only as public implements\, but also as biographical objects\, music relics from the high antiquity\, and philosophical emblems that specified ways of thinking with the qin and its sound. \n\n\n\nMeimei Zhang is Assistant Professor of Chinese Studies at Occidental College. Her research interests include literary representations of music and sound\, social and cultural history of musical instruments\, poetics of money\, and the intersections of literature and Buddhism. She is currently preparing a monograph\, tentatively entitled The Qin and the Changing Literati Soundscape of Song Dynasty China\, which employs an interdisciplinary range of object\, sound\, and literary theories to investigate the Song literati’s literary representation of the qin (the seven-string Chinese zither)\, and how thinkers during this period shifted their world engagement with questions of perception\, embodiment\, and sociality away from the dominant paradigm of vision towards a thinking of circulation and shared atmospheres of sound. Her writings will be featured in the forthcoming Journal of Song-Yuan Studies and the Journal of American Oriental Studies. Her work has been supported by the CUHK-CCK Foundation Asia-Pacific Centre for Chinese Studies\, etc. \n\n\n\nAlso via Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJctceqgqz0qE9wWndTTTCWX-cSb1WQkEXT8 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-humanities-seminar-featuring-meimei-zhang-immortalizing-the-ephemeral-qin-inscriptions-from-the-song-dynasty-960-1279/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:China Humanities Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230424T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230424T220000
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SUMMARY:Urban China Series featuring Leif Johnson - Building infrastructure\, building the urban: Migrant labor in a Shanghai fiber-optic reconstruction project
DESCRIPTION:zoom meeting link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Leif Johnson\, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University \n\n\n\nWhile scholars have long tracked China’s rapid infrastructural development\, the everyday labor of migrant workers in infrastructural construction has often been rendered as a natural and uncomplicated aspect of rural-urban migration. In response\, I trace the development of a long-term telecommunications infrastructure reconstruction project in Shanghai from the perspective of the workers who implement it at ground level. Like other infrastructure projects across China\, this reconstruction of the city’s fiber-optic network relies on labor drawn from a low-wage\, precarious\, and largely informal migrant workforce that is not expected to be incorporated into the city as urban residents. Through participant observation of the everyday experience of migrant men on construction sites and in dormitories\, I emphasize the gendered and classed geographies of migrant construction labor as key elements the production of high-tech infrastructure that is paradoxically central to imaginations of the city’s position as a modern world city. In the process\, I theorize the production of both technical knowledge about infrastructure and physical infrastructures themselves through ostensibly low-skilled migrant labor\, providing a novel understanding of migration policy and the spatialities of construction as key factors in Chinese urban infrastructure. \n\n\n\nLeif Johnson is assistant professor of China Studies at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University. Trained as a geographer at the University of Kentucky\, his research centers on rural-urban migration in China\, with an emphasis on the ways that boundaries of the urban are constructed through everyday gendered practice. His current research and writing focuses on the experiences of men who migrate into the construction industry in the Yangtze river delta\, using participant-observation on infrastructure construction teams to better understand how cities are built and maintained\, and how the construction industry reinscribes borders between rural and urban space. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/urban-china-series-featuring-leif-johnson/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Urban China Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230426T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230426T190000
DTSTAMP:20260511T012939
CREATED:20230201T180725Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230201T180726Z
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SUMMARY:Xiaotian Yin - Mantra and Icon: Verbalizing and Visualizing Sitatapatrā in Buddhist Art of Inner Asia and China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Xiaotian Yin\, Harvard University \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/xiaotian-yin-mantra-and-icon-verbalizing-and-visualizing-sitatapatra-in-buddhist-art-of-inner-asia-and-china/
LOCATION:Barker Center\, Thompson Room\, 12 Quincy St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138
CATEGORIES:Buddhist Studies Forum
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230427T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230427T153000
DTSTAMP:20260511T012939
CREATED:20230419T154813Z
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SUMMARY:Asia and the Russia's War on Ukraine
DESCRIPTION:In-person attendees\, register at https://forms.gle/zntgppbURiWLKch87Remote attendees via Zoom\, register at https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_i1W35PQSRoGfeMlV-Maizg#/registration \n\n\n\nHow does Asia respond to Russia’s war in Ukraine? And what are the implications for Asian security and stability? While Japan and South Korea have sided with the West and supported Ukraine\, China\, and North Korea are deepening ties with Russia. China’s strategic alignment with Russia and the growing tensions in the Taiwan Strait heighten the fears over a military escalation. India\, as well as several Southeast Asian countries\, have not condemned the war. The speakers will discuss security implications for the Asian order and Asia’s responses to the war. \n\n\n\n12:00 PM: Welcome and Introductions by 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\n12:10 PM: Keynote by The Honorable Dmytro Kuleba\, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine and Q&A  \n\n\n\n1:10 PM: Presentation by Yaena Kwon\, TV Journalist at ZDF and WDR; Fellow\, Harvard University Asia Center \n\n\n\nCo-moderated by James Robson and Yaena Kwon \n\n\n\n1:30 PM: Coffee Break  \n\n\n\n1:45 -3:30 PM:  Panel discussion \n\n\n\nChristina 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\nLucy Hornby\, Editor\, Enodo Economics; Visiting Scholar\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies; Senior Associate\, Freeman Chair in Chinese Studies (CSIS); Former China Correspondent\, Financial Times\, and Reuters. \n\n\n\nDavid Kang\, Maria Crutcher Professor of International Relations\, University of Southern California \n\n\n\nNishank Motwani\, Researcher; Master of Public Administration candidate\, Harvard Kennedy School \n\n\n\nUk Yang\, National Security Researcher\, Asan Institute for Policy Studies; Government Consultant \n\n\n\nModerator: Yaena Kwon\, TV Journalist at ZDF and WDR; Fellow\, Harvard University Asia Center \n\n\n\nA light lunch will be served from 11:00 AM -12:00 PM. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/asia-and-the-war-in-ukraine/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230502T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230502T114500
DTSTAMP:20260511T012939
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SUMMARY:Emily Baum - From Cold War to COVID-19: Acupuncture as Soft Power in the PRC
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Emily Baum \n\n\n\nPresented via Zoom. Register at: https://scholar.harvard.edu/seow/STinAsia \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/emily-baum-from-cold-war-to-covid-19-acupuncture-as-soft-power-in-the-prc/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230503T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230503T180000
DTSTAMP:20260511T012939
CREATED:20230425T173310Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230425T173312Z
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SUMMARY:The Tormented Alliance: American Servicemen and the Occupation of China\, 1941–1949
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Zach Fredman\, Duke Kunshan University \n\n\n\nCommentator: Jesus Solis\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nThis session will take place in person\, with an option for remote access. \n\n\n\nPlease register in advance to receive the paper and the Zoom link: https://forms.gle/6Akw4qqVYAxeNYZX7 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-tormented-alliance-american-servicemen-and-the-occupation-of-china-1941-1949/
LOCATION:History Department Conference Room\, Robinson Hall\, 35 Quincy St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230505T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230505T130000
DTSTAMP:20260511T012939
CREATED:20230425T152352Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230618T220109Z
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SUMMARY:2023 Gender Studies Workshop - The Chinese Family Romance
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:Emma Jinhua Teng\, MITTing Guo\, The Chinese University of Hong KongYangyang Cheng\, Yale UniversityCarlos Rojas\, Duke UniversityEileen Cheng-yin Chow\, Duke UniversityJie Li\, Harvard UniversityTina Lu\, Yale UniversityOrganizers:Eileen Cheng-yin Chow\, Duke UniversityWai-Yee Li\, Harvard UniversityEllen Widmer\, Wellesley CollegeXu Man\, Tufts UniversityCatherine Yeh\, Boston University \n\n\n\nSchedule of Events \n\n\n\n9:00-9:15 “The Chinese Family Romance” – opening remarks by Eileen Cheng-yin Chow9:15-9:45 Emma Jinhua Teng (MIT)“Transnational and Interracial Family Romance: Rethinking Chinese mixed race in the early 20th Century“9:45-10:15 Ting Guo (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)“Daddy Supreme: Gender Politics and the Reinvention of Confucianism in Contemporary China” (via zoom) \n\n\n\n10:15-10:45 Yangyang Cheng (Yale)“‘Of the Virus and God\, Orange Peels and the Party’ — A Transnational Chinese Family during Covid-19” \n\n\n\n10:45-11:15 Carlos Rojas (Duke)“Chen Xue and Taiwanese Queer Family Narratives” \n\n\n\n11:15-11:45 Eileen Cheng-yin Chow (Duke)“Family/stories/dispersal: everything\, everywhere\, all at once” \n\n\n\n11:45-12:30 RoundtableModerated by Jie Li (Harvard) and Tina Lu (Yale)\, and including China Gender Studies Workshop conveners Wai-yee Li\, Xu Man\, Catherine Yeh\, Ellen Widmer\, and all participants  \n\n\n\nYangyang Cheng is a Research Scholar in Law and Fellow at Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center\, where her work focuses on the development of science and technology in China and US‒China relations. Her essays on these and related topics have appeared in The New York Times\, The Guardian\, The Atlantic\, The New Statesman\, WIRED\, VICE\, MIT Technology Review\, Los Angeles Review of Books\, and many other publications\, and have received awards from the Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA)\, Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA)\, and Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Born and raised in China\, Cheng received her PhD in physics from the University of Chicago and her bachelor’s from the University of Science and Technology of China’s School for the Gifted Young. Before joining Yale\, she worked on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) for over a decade\, most recently at Cornell University and as an LHC Physics Center Distinguished Researcher at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. https://law.yale.edu/yangyang-cheng \n\n\n\nEileen Cheng-yin Chow has worked as a cram school English teacher\, literary translator\, book designer\, fudge and candy maker\, conference interpreter\, short order cook\, magazine photographer\, film subtitler\, and lowly PA on set for Warner Brothers and Beijing Film Studios. \n\n\n\nEileen is currently Associate Professor of the Practice in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies\, and Director of Graduate Studies of the Asian/Pacific Studies Institute at Duke University. Additionally at Duke\, Eileen is a founding/core faculty member in the Asian American Diaspora Studies Program\, the first such program in the U.S. South; and is the founding director of Duke Story Lab\, a humanities lab dedicated to the study of stories and the communities that coalesce around them. Elsewhere\, she is Director of the Shewo Institute of Chinese Journalism at Shih Hsin University in Taipei\, Taiwan\, and serves on the editorial boards of Biographical Literature\, the LA Review of Books\, Asia Society’s China Books Review\, and Third State Books; and with Carlos Rojas\, is co-editor of the Sinotheory book series for Duke UP. Eileen’s teaching and research interests include literature\, film and visual studies\, popular culture (anime/manga\, fandoms\, media technologies)\, diaspora studies\, and the histories of Chinatowns around the world. Academic details at https://scholars.duke.edu/person/eileen.chow; or find her @chowleen on Twitter. \n\n\n\nTing Guo is Assistant Professor of Cultural and Religious Studies\, Chinese University of Hong Kong\, focusing on religion\, politics\, and gender in transnational Asia. She is writing her first book\, Politics of Love: Religion\, Secularism\, and Love as a Political Discourse in Modern China. She co-hosts a Mandarin podcast called 時差 in-betweenness (@shichapodcast). https://www2.crs.cuhk.edu.hk/faculty-staff/teaching-faculty/guo-ting \n\n\n\nJie Li is a professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University.  She is the author of Shanghai Homes: Palimpsests of Private Life and Utopian Ruins: A Memorial Museum of the Mao Era.  She also co-edited Red Legacies in China: Cultural Afterlives of the Communist Revolution.  Her forthcoming book is entitled Cinematic Guerrillas: Propaganda\, Projectionists and Audiences in Socialist China.  She is now working on a cultural history of radios\, loudspeakers\, and noise in twentieth-century China. https://ealc.fas.harvard.edu/people/jie-li \n\n\n\nCarlos Rojas teaches modern Chinese cultural studies at Duke University. He is Professor of Chinese Cultural Studies; Gender\, Sexuality\, and Feminist Studies; and Arts of the Moving Image. Full bio: https://scholars.duke.edu/person/c.rojas \n\n\n\nEmma J. Teng is the T.T. and Wei Fong Chao Professor of Asian Civilizations at MIT. She teaches classes in Chinese culture\, Chinese migration history\, Asian American history\, East Asian culture\, and women’s and gender studies.  \n\n\n\nFor full bio: https://history.mit.edu/people/emma-teng/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/2023-gender-studies-workshop-the-chinese-family-romance/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230505T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230505T114000
DTSTAMP:20260511T012939
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SUMMARY:Asia and Russia’s War on Ukraine: A Conversation with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: The Honorable Dmytro Kuleba\, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine \n\n\n\nModerator: Yaena Kwon\, Fellow\, Harvard University Asia Center; TV Journalist at ZDF and WDR \n\n\n\nCo-sponsored by the Asia Center; Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies; Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute; Korea Institute; Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute; Program on U.S.-Japan Relations\, WCIA; and Reischauer Institute for Japanese Studies\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nPresented via Zoom webinar. Register here: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_TTwjuoczTIyPcBkaqEBr7Q#/registration \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/asia-and-russias-war-on-ukraine-a-conversation-with-the-minister-of-foreign-affairs-of-ukraine/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230509T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230509T153000
DTSTAMP:20260511T012939
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SUMMARY:Visiting Scholars Present: Parks in Modern China\, Xinjiang\, Water Conservancy Projects\, and More
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\nFairbank Center visiting scholars will share their research in China studies with the Harvard community. This workshop-style event will feature current research on parks in Modern China\, Xinjiang\, water conservancy projects\, land development in China\, and American China studies. There will be an opportunity for Q & A discussion following each short presentation. Please join us for all or some of the workshop! Lunch will be provided from 12:30 pm to participants. Welcome and introduction at 12:50 pm. Presentations begin at 1:00 pm. \n\n\n\nSchedule of Presentations\n\n\n\n1:00 – 1:25 pm  | Zheng Lin\, Associate Professor\, Sun Yat-Sen University.How Parks Shape Modern China: Culture\, Politics and Everyday Life (1900-1950) \n\n\n\n1:30 – 1:55 pm | Xiongfei Zheng\, Professor\, Beijing Normal University.Land and Social Development II: Land Rent Theory and Its Contemporary Practice in China \n\n\n\n1:55 – 2:05 pm Break \n\n\n\n2:05 – 2:30 pm | Miwa Shimada\, Associate Professor\, Faculty of Law\, Keio University.Water Conservancy Projects and National Integration in Modern and Contemporary China — Focusing on the influence of American and Japanese water engineers      \n\n\n\n2:35 – 3:00 pm | Hua Yang\, Professor\, Shandong University.Research on American Chinese Studies in China (1978-2018)      \n\n\n\nIn-person attendance only:3:05 – 3:30 pm | Yajun Bao\, Professor\, Beijing Normal University.Rethinking the Xinjiang Issue through the Perspective of Governance: A focus on the 2010s   \n\n\n\n——— \n\n\n\nLocation: CGIS South\, Room S153 | 1730 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts 02138  \n\n\n\nOrganizer: Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/visiting-scholars-present-parks-in-modern-china-xinjiang-water-conservancy-projects-and-more/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Room S153\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230511T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230511T203000
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SUMMARY:Shehuo: Zhang Xiao’s Photography of Rural China
DESCRIPTION:Advance registration required\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Zhang Xiao\, 2018 Robert Gardner Fellow in Photography\, Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nIn conversation with: Ou Ning\, Artist\, Curator\, Writer \n\n\n\nContemporary photographer Zhang Xiao explores the impact of rapid economic change and urbanization on Chinese rural landscapes and traditions. In this conversation with artist and scholar Ou Ning\, Zhang will share his aesthetic approach to documenting Shehuo (社火\, “community fire”)\, a cultural festival held in Northern China that commemorates the Chinese Lunar New Year. From 2007 to 2019\, Zhang photographed the dynamic performances and parades that are part of Shehuo\, capturing their beauty and intricacy\, while also noting how China’s economic and technological growth has influenced this ancient celebration. The images will be featured in the exhibition Shehuo: Community Fire opening Saturday\, May 13 at the Peabody Museum. \n\n\n\nPresented in Mandarin with English translation. \n\n\n\nA reception and exhibition preview will follow in the galleries of the Peabody Museum. Free parking at the 52 Oxford Street Garage. \n\n\n\nPresented by the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology and Harvard Museums of Science & Culture in collaboration with the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nThis event is part of ArtsThursdays\, a university-wide initiative supported by Harvard University Committee on the Arts (HUCA). \n\n\n\n《社火：张晓摄影中的中国乡村》特别活动：展览预告和对谈 \n\n\n\n5月11日星期四，晚上6:00-8:30麻省剑桥市牛津街24号，Geological 讲堂　（Geological Lecture Hall） \n\n\n\n免费对公众开放 | 请预先注册 \n\n\n\n请预先注册 \n\n\n\n张晓，2018年哈佛大学皮博迪考古和民族学博物馆罗伯特·加德纳摄影奖学金的获得者 \n\n\n\n与艺术家、策展人和作家欧宁的对谈 in conversation with Ou Ning \n\n\n\n当代摄影师张晓在他的作品中探索经济巨变和城市化对中国乡土景观和传统的影响。在他和学者欧宁的对话中，张晓将分享他记录社火（一种庆祝中国农历新年的文化节日）的美学方法。从2007年到2019年，张晓致力于对于社火的动态表演和游行的拍摄，捕捉了它们的美和复杂性，同时也关注中国经济和技术发展对于这个古老庆典的重塑。这些图片的部分节选将在皮博迪博物馆的《社火》 展览中展出，于５月１３日星期六开幕 \n\n\n\n普通话对谈，提供英文翻译 \n\n\n\n酒会和展览预告将在皮博迪博物馆的展厅内举行。52 Oxford Street停车场提供免费停车服务 \n\n\n\n与费正清中国研究中心合作呈现 \n\n\n\n该活动是哈佛大学艺术委员会 (HUCA)支持的全校性活动艺术星期四(ArtsThursdays) 的一部分 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/shehuo-zhang-xiaos-photography-of-rural-china/
LOCATION:Geological Lecture Hall\, 24 Oxford Street\, 24 Oxford St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230516T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230516T110000
DTSTAMP:20260511T012939
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SUMMARY:Visiting Scholars Present: Taiwan Studies
DESCRIPTION:Fairbank Center visiting scholars will share the work of Taiwan filmmaker Edward Yang\, research on Qing Dynasty Taiwan war preparations\, and new findings on U.S. views of U.S.-China AI competition. Please join us for this fascinating workshop!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister for hybrid zoom attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPresenters: \n\n\n\nRuochen Bo\, 2022-23 Hou Family Pre-doctoral Fellow in Taiwan Studies \n\n\n\nBo will talk about the iconic Taiwan filmmaker and one of his most important films: “Edward Yang and Education: A Brighter Summer Day (1991)“ \n\n\n\nNan-Hsu Chen\, 2022-23 Hou Family Post-doctoral Fellow in Taiwan Studies \n\n\n\nChen will talk about “Everyday Problems and Wartime Transportation in Taiwan\, 1884-85” \n\n\n\nChia-hung Tsai\, Professor\, National Chengchi University \n\n\n\nTsai will present on: “American Opinion on AI Competition between the US and China” \n\n\n\nAlso via Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_vY8L4xhtTS2X-JKmxqKZsg \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/visiting-scholars-present-taiwan-studies/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S250\, 1730 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event,Taiwan,Taiwan Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230522T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230522T100000
DTSTAMP:20260511T012939
CREATED:20230515T134430Z
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SUMMARY:China's Clean Energy Engagement in Central Asia
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers:Yipeng Zhou\, Coordinator\, Imperiia Project / A.M. in Regional Studies–REECAChristoph Nedopil\, Director\, Green Finance and Development Center\, Fanhai International School of Finance\, Fudan UniversityAlmas Chukin\, Managing Partner\, Visor Kazakhstan \n\n\n\nModerator: Nargis Kassenova\, Senior Fellow; Director\, Program on Central Asia\, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies \n\n\n\nChina has become a global leader in clean energy in recent years. Exporting renewable energy technologies and equipment is at the core of China’s plan to go green while remaining prosperous. The five Central Asian countries can benefit from this drive and capitalize on Chinese investments and financing\, technological exchange\, and knowledge sharing in their pursuit of a clean energy transition. Chinese firms have already become important investors in solar and wind farms in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. However\, to fully benefit from these opportunities\, Central Asian countries should carefully consider a number of challenges\, including potential financial and technological dependence and the ramifications of China’s economic slowdown. The panel will feature a presentation of the recent Renewable Energy Transition in Central Asia (RETCA) project publication on the topic. \n\n\n\nPresented via Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_WpPzzG2wSzKElYbeHl-_YA#/registration.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/chinas-clean-energy-engagement-in-central-asia/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230911T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230911T170000
DTSTAMP:20260511T012939
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SUMMARY:Semiconductors and Geopolitics Symposium: The Future of the Global Semiconductor Industry
DESCRIPTION:open to Harvard ID holders – click here to register for waitlist\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n***This event is now at capacity. To add your name to the waitlist\, please click the link above. You will be notified by the event organizers if your entry can be confirmed.*** \n\n\n\nAgainst a backdrop of rising U.S.-China tensions\, both countries have accelerated policies to restrict key exports in technological areas critical to economic competitiveness. The global semiconductor industry – largely located in Taiwan – sits at the center of this struggle\, undergoing a fundamental transformation that is affecting supply chains\, investment\, trade\, labor\, national security\, and cost.  \n\n\n\nIn the U.S.\, a defensive industrial policy to limit sensitive exports is being combined with a proactive policy to coordinate with allies to revitalize the American semiconductor manufacturing industry. Spurred on by the passage of the U.S. CHIPS and Science Act of November 2022\, American and international semiconductor manufacturing companies are launching or expanding operations in emerging manufacturing hubs across the U.S. Efforts to develop the semiconductor ecosystem include constructing new manufacturing facilities\, coordinating with suppliers and downstream customers\, adapting to local regulatory environments\, and building the talent central to staffing new facilities.  \n\n\n\nYet significant challenges remain\, relating to talent shortages\, rising costs of a fragmenting supply chain\, partial ecosystems\, striking workplace differences between the U.S. and Taiwan\, and a host of other impediments to success. On Monday\, September 11th\, leading academics and industry experts will come together to discuss the challenges confronting the semiconductor industry – ranging from supply chain to industrial policy and geopolitics.  \n\n\n\n8:30am-9amWelcome: Tony Saich (Harvard Kennedy School) and W. John Kao (President\, National Tsing Hua University)9am-10:30amRisk & Global Value Chains: Where is the Leverage?Speakers: Chin-Tay Shih (National Tsing Hua University)Willy Shih (Harvard Business School)Kazumi Nishikawa (Ministry of Economy\, Trade & Industry\, Japan)Chair: Chris Miller (Tufts University) \n\n\n\n10:30am-10:45am Break10:45am-12pmTalent & Eco-systems: What Drives the Shortage?Speakers: Rachel Lipson (US CHIPS Office)Burn J. Lin (National Tsing Hua University)Chair: Edward Cunningham (Harvard Kennedy School) \n\n\n\n12pm-12:30pm Break12:30pm-1:30pm Lunch1:45pm-3:15pmGeopolitics & Free Trade: What are Costs of Current Tensions?Speakers: Becky Fraser (Qualcomm)Chang-Tai Hsieh (University of Chicago)Mark Wu (Fairbank Center\, Harvard University)Chair: Joseph Nye (Harvard Kennedy School) \n\n\n\n3:15pm-3:30pm Break3:30pm-5pmFrom Reshoring to ‘Friendshoring’: Can Industrial Policy Work for Semiconductors?Speakers: Fiona Murray (MIT)Tain-Jy Chen (Taipei School of Economic and Political Science)Chair: Chang-Tai Hsieh (University of Chicago) \n\n\n\nCo-sponsored by: •    Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia\, Harvard Kennedy School•    Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard University•    Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government\, Harvard Kennedy School•    Taipei School of Economics and Political Science\, National Tsing Hua University \n\n\n\nSupported by: Taipei School of Economics and Political Science Foundation  \n\n\n\nOpen to Harvard ID holders. Waitlist Registration: https://hksexeced.tfaforms.net/f/event-registration?c=7014V000002XtlNQAS \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/semiconductors-and-geopolitics-symposium-the-future-of-the-global-semiconductor-industry/
LOCATION:Malkin Penthouse\, Littauer Building\, 79 JFK St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230914T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230914T193000
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SUMMARY:Objects of Addiction: Opium\, Empire\, and the Chinese Art Trade
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Sarah Laursen\, Alan J. Dworsky Associate Curator of Chinese Art\, Harvard Art Museums \n\n\n\nObjects of Addiction explores the entwined histories of the opium trade and the Chinese art market between the late 18th and early 20th centuries. The first section examines the origins of the opium trade in Asia\, the participation of Massachusetts merchants\, and opium’s devastating effects on Chinese people\, both in China and the United States. The second section highlights the history of imperial art collecting in China and demonstrates the growing appetite for Chinese art in Europe and the United States after the Opium Wars (1839–42\, 1856–60)\, which led to the formation of Harvard’s Chinese art collections. A special section of the exhibition investigates parallels between China’s opium crisis and the opioid epidemic in Massachusetts today.  \n\n\n\nThe program will take place in Menschel Hall on the Lower Level of the Harvard Art Museums. Please enter via the entrance on Broadway. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/objects-of-addiction-opium-empire-and-the-chinese-art-trade/
LOCATION:Harvard Art Museum\, Menschel Hall\, Lower Level\, 32 Quincy St\, cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230918T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230918T131500
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SUMMARY:Xiconomics: What China’s Dual Circulation Strategy Means for Global Business
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:Andrew Cainey\, Founding Director of the UK National Committee on China; Senior Fellow\, Royal United Services InstituteMark Wu\, Henry L. Stimson Professor\, Harvard Law School; Director\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies \n\n\n\nJoin us for an illuminating dialogue between Andrew Cainey\, founding director of the UK National Committee on China and senior fellow at the Royal United Services Institute\, and Professor Mark Wu\, the Director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University. This conversation\, moderated by Professor Wu\, will delve into the complexities of China’s Dual Circulation Strategy and its impact on global business. \n\n\n\nLunch will be provided. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/xiconomics-what-chinas-dual-circulation-strategy-means-for-global-business/
LOCATION:WCC 2009\, Wasserstein Hall\, 1585 Massachusetts Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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