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SUMMARY:2024 Harvard China Law Symposium - Longevity: Building Resilient Bridges
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin the Harvard Law School China Law Association’s annual China Law Symposium\, “Longevity: Building Resilient Bridges\,” celebrating the Lunar New Year. This three-day event features lunch & dinner panels\, concluding with a festive Lunar New Year social. \n\n\n\nFor more information\, including a detailed agenda\, visit https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/cla/china-law-symposium/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/2024-harvard-china-law-symposium-longevity-building-resilient-bridges/
LOCATION:WCC\, Harvard Law School\, 1585 Massachusetts Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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SUMMARY:2024 Charles Neuhauser Memorial Lecture featuring Ambassador Robert Lighthizer — China and the Trade Trap
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Amb. Robert Lighthizer\, 18th United States Trade Representative (2017-2021) \n\n\n\nThe American government and public increasingly doubt the benefits of our economic relations with the People’s Republic of China. Since 2018\, the United States has raised tariffs on Chinese imports\, imposed restrictions on the export of high-tech American goods to Chinese firms\, and limited Chinese investment in the American market. Join us for a discussion with former U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer\, a key architect of many of these changes\, as we examine the merits of these policies and explore the future direction of U.S. economic relations with China. \n\n\n\nThe Annual Charles Neuhauser Memorial Lecture is designed to present the perspectives of scholars whose work about China link the academic world and government service. \n\n\n\nAbout the Speaker:Robert E. Lighthizer served as the 18th United States Trade Representative from 2017 to 2021.   \n\n\n\nAn experienced trade negotiator and litigator\, Ambassador Lighthizer spearheaded several historic trade agreements as USTR\, ushering in a new era of fair\, balanced\, and reciprocal trade for U.S. workers\, producers\, and businesses.  Significant among these accomplishments\, the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA)  rebalanced and modernized trade in North America\, expanded U.S. market access\, protects our workers and the environment\, and incentivize manufacturing in the United States.   \n\n\n\nHe also negotiated important trade agreements with South Korea and Japan greatly expanding U.S. trade opportunities in those countries and established a groundbreaking paradigm for digital trade.  \n\n\n\nAfter confronting China on its abusive trade practices\, Ambassador Lighthizer negotiated  the U.S.-China Phase One Economic and Trade Agreement\, a fully-enforceable agreement that addresses China’s discriminatory treatment of U.S. companies\, intellectual property theft\, and currency manipulation \, while maintaining tariffs on key Chinese products and increasing China’s purchases of U.S. goods and services.   \n\n\n\nHe also brought attention to systemic issues and outdated\, ineffective rules at the World Trade Organization (WTO)\, placing unprecedented pressure on the WTO’’s Appellate Body and working with our trade partners on wider reforms. \n\n\n\nAt the time he was chosen by President Trump to serve as USTR\, Ambassador Lighthizer had been a partner at Skadden\,Arps for over 30 years. Before that\, Ambassador Lighthizer served as Deputy USTR for President Ronald Reagan and negotiated over two dozen bilateral international agreements\, including agreements on steel\, automobiles\, and agricultural products.  As Deputy USTR\, he served as Vice Chairman of the Board of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation. \n\n\n\nPrior to becoming Deputy USTR\, Ambassador Lighthizer was Chief of Staff of the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance under Chairman Bob Dole.  In this position\, he was a key player in enacting the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981 – the most significant tax reform in decades – and other elements of the Reagan economic program. \n\n\n\nAmbassador Lighthizer earned a Bachelor’s degree at Georgetown University and his Juris Doctor from Georgetown University Law Center. He is a native of Ashtabula\, Ohio. He writes and speaks often on issues of international economics\, trade\, China and U.S. politics. \n\n\n\nAmbassador Lighthizer recently published a book on trade policy\, its importance for America and what was accomplished in the Trump administration entitled No Trade Is Free: Changing Course\, Taking On China and Helping America’s Workers.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/2024-charles-neuhauser-memorial-lecture-featuring-ambassador-robert-lighthizer-china-and-the-trade-trap/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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SUMMARY:Yu Dong - Exploration of Food Resources by a Neolithic Community in Northern China: Perspectives from Stable Isotope Analysis
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Yu Dong\, Professor\, Institute of Cultural Heritage\, Shandong University; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2023-24 \n\n\n\nChair/Discussant: Noreen Tuross\, Landon T. Clay Professor of Scientific Archaeology\, Harvard University \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/yu-dong-exploration-of-food-resources-by-a-neolithic-community-in-northern-china-perspectives-from-stable-isotope-analysis/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China featuring Ji Li - How Rising Geopolitical Tensions are Impacting Chinese Firms Overseas
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Ji Li\, John & Marilyn Long Professor of US-China Business and Law\, University of California – Irvine \n\n\n\nRising geopolitical tensions have significantly amplified the risk of international trade and investment for Chinese firms. How do they cope with it? What is the role of law? How do their coping strategies implicate US-China relations? These important questions have received little academic attention. To narrow the gap\, Ji Li conducted multi-year surveys of Chinese companies operating in the US\, about 180 interviews with business and legal professionals\, and archival research involving numerous legal documents. The study found a theoretically and empirically nuanced picture featuring firm-level variations based on multiple factors such as ownership structure and cultural differences. Notably\, the coping strategies\, especially legal strategies\, adopted by Chinese firms have lasting impacts on both US law and US-China relations.  \n\n\n\nProfessor Li joined UCI Law in July 2019 as the John S. and Marilyn Long Professor of U.S.-China Business and Law. Prior to the appointment\, he was Professor of Law and Zhuang Zhou scholar at Rutgers University and a member of the Associate Faculty of the Division of Global Affairs. \n\n\n\nProfessor Li received a Ph.D. in political science from Northwestern University and a J.D. from Yale Law School where he was an Olin Fellow in Law\, Economics and Public Policy. After law school\, he practiced corporate and tax law for several years in the New York office of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP. \n\n\n\nProfessor Li’s teaching and scholarship explores a broad range of topics including Chinese law and politics\, international business transactions\, contracts\, comparative law\, and empirical legal studies. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-featuring-ji-li/
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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SUMMARY:Mingwei Song - Fear of Seeing: A Poetics of Chinese Science Fiction
DESCRIPTION:Digital China\, Digital China\n\n\n\n\nRegister for zoom webinar\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Mingwei Song\, Wellesley College \n\n\n\nSpecial Guests:Mu Ming\, Science Fiction WriterYan Feng\, Fudan University \n\n\n\nCohosts:David Der-wei Wang\, Harvard UniversityJie Li\, Harvard Univeristy \n\n\n\nPresented via Zoom. Register: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_5kFBIXkeQdSBPFNyJkoEAg#/registration \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/mingwei-song-fear-of-seeing-a-poetics-of-chinese-science-fiction/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240212T120000
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SUMMARY:Craig Allen - China’s Economic Development Model: Implications for US-Japan Relations
DESCRIPTION:Register for hybrid zoom attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Craig Allen\, President\, US-China Business CouncilModerator: Christina L. Davis\, Director\, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics\, Department of Government\, Harvard University \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/craig-allen-chinas-economic-development-model-implications-for-us-japan-relations/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240212T180000
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SUMMARY:The China Challenge and America's Future
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us for a special conversation with Mike Gallagher and Raja Krishnamoorthi\, the Chairman and Ranking Member of the Select Committee on the Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party. This conversation will be moderated by former Assistant Secretary of Defense and Douglas Dillon Professor of Government Graham Allison\, and Director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs Meghan O’Sullivan. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-china-challenge-and-americas-future/
LOCATION:JFK Jr. Forum\, Harvard Kennedy School\, 79 John F. Kennedy St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240213T153000
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SUMMARY:Jiajun Zou - Is Examination Success the Result of Geographical Luck? New Ming Provincial Examination Dataset and Its Macro Social and Historical Implications
DESCRIPTION:Register for hybrid zoom attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Jiajun Zou\, Ph.D. Candidate in History\, Emory University  \n\n\n\nJiajun Zou introduces a fresh perspective to Ming dynasty studies with his pioneering dataset of 92\,000 juren profiles. In his presentation\, Zou will share his journey in assembling this comprehensive dataset\, utilizing a mix of CBDB resources\, computational techniques\, and prompt engineering via ChatGPT. He will then present statistical and macro-level evidence of a geographical bias within the examination system\, underscoring how proximity to examination centers at both the provincial and national levels significantly impacted odds of success. Zou contends that the examination system displayed a clear proximity bias\, favoring those closer to central hubs in terms of outlasting and exhausting their group competitors over time. The challenges faced by peripheral prefectures and regions are attributed not to a lack of talent—as some of the most distant prefectures produced the highest number of juren in China but only a handful of jinshi. Moving beyond the narratives of educational and intellectual traditions\, Zou explores whether rising costs of competition\, influenced by geographical and social dynamics\, shifted the balance of political power in Ming China. This presentation aims to highlight the value of a macro analytical approach using a large dataset to reveal hidden trends and to encourage modern scholars to independently tackle research challenges with innovative digital techniques. \n\n\n\nAlso via Zoom. Reigster: https://bit.ly/exam-luck \n\n\n\nAn event sponsored by China Biographical Database Project (CBDB) and Digital China Initiative (DCI)\, Harvard University \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/jiajun-zou-is-examination-success-the-result-of-geographical-luck-new-ming-provincial-examination-dataset-and-its-macro-social-and-historical-implications/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S250\, 1730 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240214T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240214T131500
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China featuring Meg Rithmire - Can the Chinese Financial System be Effective?
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Meg Rithmire\, F. Warren McFarlan Associate Professor of Business Administration\, Harvard Business SchoolModerator: Daniel Koss\, Associate Senior Lecturer on East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nThe last 25 years have been turbulent ones for the PRC’s financial system. Efforts at liberalization in the early 2000s accelerated early in Xi Jinping’s tenure\, only to be met with a stock market crisis in 2015\, a crackdown on official and private sector market participants\, and then a serious reconfiguration of financial system governance. Now China appears on the verge of another stock market crisis. To transition from export and investment-driven growth to domestic consumption and innovation requires a modern financial system\, but modern financial systems do not tend to thrive under authoritarian rule. Is it possible for the CCP to develop deep financial markets? What do financial developments in China mean for its growth trajectory and its role as international financier? \n\n\n\nMeg Rithmire (任美格) is an associate professor in the Business\, Government\, and International Economy Unit\, where she teaches the course of the same name in the MBA required curriculum. Professor Rithmire holds a Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University\, and her primary expertise is in the comparative political economy of development with a focus on China. Her first book\, Land Bargains and Chinese Capitalism (Cambridge University Press\, 2015)\, examines the role of land politics\, urban governments\, and local property rights regimes in the Chinese economic reforms. A new project investigates the influence of diasporas\, and the overseas Chinese communities in particular\, in the progress of economic and political reforms in the homeland. She is a faculty associate at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard. In 2015\, she won the Faculty Teaching Award in the Required Curriculum at Harvard Business School. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-featuring-meg-rithmire/
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:20240216T120000
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SUMMARY:Harvard East Asia Society Conference 2024 - Knots: Complex Legacies and Imagined Futures of East Asia
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Harvard East Asia Society (HEAS) Graduate Student Conference is an annual event which provides an interdisciplinary forum for graduate students to exchange ideas and discuss current research on topics related to Asia. The conference allows young scholars to present their research to both their peers and to renowned scholars in relevant fields. All panels will be moderated by Harvard University faculty. The conference will also allow participants to meet others in their research area conducting similar research and to forge new professional relationships.The theme of this year’s conference is: Knots: Complex Legacies and Imagined Futures of East Asia. The knot is a traditional form of art that can be found throughout China\, Korea\, and Japan\, made from the orderly connection of different individual threads. The committee chose the figure of the knot to represent the intertwined memories\, legacies\, and histories of interaction between and throughout the different parts of the region we now call East Asia. We thus welcomed scholarship that attempts to bridge different spaces\, times\, and disciplines\, which includes (but is not limited to) history\, philosophy\, religion\, literature\, art history\, sociology\, anthropology\, archaeology\, economics\, political science\, gender studies\, environmental studies\, and law. Please find the conference schedule and booklet here. \n\n\n\nFor detailed information\, visit: https://linktr.ee/harvard_heas \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/harvard-east-asia-society-conference-2024-knots-complex-legacies-and-imagined-futures-of-east-asia/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240220T153000
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SUMMARY:Transport and Communication in Late Imperial China: Routes and Costs
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Ruoran Cheng\, Ph.D. candidate at the London School of Economics. \n\n\n\nRuoran Cheng will introduce his work on transport routes and costs in the Ming and Qing dynasties. Using techniques from geographic information science and data from historical route books\, he has proposed a more accurate and comprehensive account of transport routes. Based on this and other data he has constructed the relative costs of different modes of transportation from 1202 to 1890. Currently\, he is also working on the connection between trade potential proxied by natural routes and the location of economic activities proxied by archeological sites in China for a period spanning from Neolithic villages (7000 BP) to the unified empire (2000 BP) \n\n\n\nSponsored by the China Biographical Database Project\, China Historical GIS\, and the Digital China Initiative \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/transport-and-communication-in-late-imperial-china-routes-and-costs/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Room S001\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240220T171500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240220T183000
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SUMMARY:Special Presentation - China-Russia Relations Two Years into Putin’s Ukraine War: How Strong\, For How Long? 
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:Andrew S. Erickson\, Professor of Strategy\, U.S. Naval War College (NWC) China Maritime Studies Institute (CMSI); Visiting Professor\, Government Department\, Harvard University; Associate in Research\, Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesJulia Famularo\, Post-Doctoral Fellow\, Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesVitaly Kozyrev\, Distinguished Professor of Political Science & International Studies\, Endicott CollegeAlexandra Vacroux\, Executive Director\, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies\, Harvard UniversityModerator: Mark Wu\, Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law\, Harvard Law School; Director\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies \n\n\n\nThis event is co-sponsored by the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies\, Harvard University. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/special-presentation-friends-with-no-limits-assessing-the-strength-of-china-russia-relations/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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SUMMARY:Urban China Lecture Series featuring Shaun SK Teo - Two Experiments in Theorizing (with) Urban China
DESCRIPTION:Zoom meeting link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Shaun SK Teo\, Assistant Professor\, Department of Geography\, National University of Singapore \n\n\n\nIs Chinese urbanization unique? What can we learn from Chinese urbanization? How might cases in urban China be integrated into global discussions on urban governance and transformation? This talk addresses these burning questions. Chinese urbanization presents rich cases for an engaged pluralism in urban studies. It has the potential to contribute to the revision of existing theoretical frameworks and to create new starting points for analysis between urban China and a wider range of contexts globally. These arguments are instantiated through two experiments to build concepts from and with a case study of a collaborative urban redevelopment project in Shenzhen. The first experiment is a comparative analysis between Shenzhen and a similar case in London. The second experiment builds elements for the re-theorization of Chinese state entrepreneurialism by conceptualizing from the ground in Shenzhen. Both experiments contribute to studies of urban governance by demonstrating the variegated logics and forms of emerging post-growth state programs and politics\, including those which allow parts of society to selectively influence policymaking. \n\n\n\nShaun SK Teo is Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography\, National University of Singapore. His research focuses on urban governance and its underpinning state-society politics\, theorizing from a ‘global East’ perspective. Ongoing research topics include municipal statecraft\, gentrification and informality. Shaun’s current research is a comparative analysis of the geographies of youth urban activisms  in Taipei\, and Bangkok and Singapore\, thinking specifically about how we can rethink urban activisms through the variegated practices of youth \n\n\n\nZoom Meeting Link: https://mit.zoom.us/j/92743598127 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/urban-china-lecture-series-featuring-shawn-sk-teo/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Urban China Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240223T113000
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SUMMARY:Sophie Ling-chia Wei - A Sage Embellished with Elements of “Chinoiserie”: The Making of Jesus in the Jesuit Figurist Translations of Chinese Classics
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Sophie Ling-chia Wei\, Associate Professor\, Department of Translation\, Chinese University of Hong Kong; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2023-24Chair/Discussant: James Robson\, James C. Kralik and Yunli Lou Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nWhen Christianity was introduced to China in the Ming and Qing dynasties\, translations of sacred texts and stories of biblical figures were employed for the purpose of proselytization. The Jesuit Figurists’ translations took on lives of their own\, going on to create impact through new and interesting parallels between Chinese mythological figures and the image of Jesus Christ. The making of Jesus in the hands of the Jesuit Figurists revealed their intention of establishing a communal space between Christianity and Chinese history and culture. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/sophie-ling-chia-wei-a-sage-embellished-with-elements-of-chinoiserie-the-making-of-jesus-in-the-jesuit-figurist-translations-of-chinese-classics/
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:20240223T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240223T163000
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SUMMARY:Generative AI for Chinese Studies - Introductory Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDigital China Initiative is organizing two workshops on how to apply generative AI for Chinese studies. The first workshop\, on 23 Feb 2024\, will introduce basic GenAI concepts\, writing prompts\, and examples of domain-specific tasks (language learning\, data extraction\, etc.). The second workshop\, on 5 April\, will cover how to use open-source large language models on local devices\, query through APIs\, and basic concepts of retrieval augment generation. \n\n\n\nThe workshops will be limited to 45 attendees each to ensure enough space and a quality learning environment. The following order of preference will apply: graduate students and faculty\, undergraduate students\, and Harvard affiliates. \n\n\n\nIn the introductory workshop\, we will work with the AI Sandbox created by HUIT and other commercial tools like Microsoft Copilot. Attendees should have a laptop that can access these services with them. \n\n\n\nIn the advanced workshop\, we will try out open-source large language models such as Qwen and Taiwan LLM. We will show how to access them through APIs. The workshop also covers an overview of retrieval augment generation that can offer more precise and domain-specific information. For these tasks\, attendees may need a laptop with 16GB of ram and at least 10 GB of SSD storage. They also have to install some software before attending the workshop. More information will be provided after enrollment confirmation.Registration:Introductory workshop: https://forms.office.com/r/AgLqaMvUk9Advanced workshop: https://forms.office.com/r/N9eRjE0RUL \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/generative-ai-for-chinese-studies-introductory-workshop/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240226T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240226T173000
DTSTAMP:20260511T032014
CREATED:20240123T175555Z
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SUMMARY:China Humanities Seminar featuring Michelle Wang - Terrestrial Diagrams in Early China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Michelle H. Wang\, Associate Professor of Art History and Humanities\, Reed College \n\n\n\nIn The Art of Terrestrial Diagrams in Early China (University of Chicago Press\, 2023)\, Michelle H. Wang explores the diagrammatic tradition of rendering space in early China. The book centers on maps (ditu) excavated from three tombs that date from the fourth to the second century BCE and constitute the entire known corpus of early Chinese maps. Unlike extant studies that draw heavily from the history of cartography\, the book offers an interdisciplinary account of the diversity of forms and functions in early Chinese ditu to argue that these pictures did not simply represent natural topography and built environments but rather made and remade worlds for the living and the dead. In this talk\, Wang will provide an overview of the leading questions and methods that underpin the project\, a case study that exemplifies their application\, and a proposal for future lines of inquiry. \n\n\n\nMichelle H. Wang is Associate Professor of Art History and Humanities at Reed College. She specializes in art and archaeology of tenth century BCE to third century CE China\, with an emphasis on early notational systems. Her research interests include artisanal practice\, history of technology\, excavated texts\, and mortuary culture. Her work has appeared in journals such as Artibus Asiae and Art History. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-humanities-seminar-featuring-michelle-wang-terrestrial-diagrams-in-early-china/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Room S050\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:China Humanities Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240227T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240227T181500
DTSTAMP:20260511T032014
CREATED:20240131T183843Z
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SUMMARY:Special Presentation featuring Christopher Rea - From Zhuangzi’s Gourd to Cinderella’s Pumpkin: Gua 瓜 as a Vehicle for the Imagination
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Christopher Rea\, Professor of Chinese\, Former Director of the Centre for Chinese Research\, University of British ColumbiaModerator: David Der-wei Wang\, Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nThe Daoist philosopher Zhuangzi tells us that one remedy for a lack of imagination is to take your gourd for a ride. Confucius makes a point about usefulness by comparing himself to a gourd (or is it a melon?). Gua 瓜 (cucurbits)—which include gourds\, melons\, pumpkins\, squash\, and bitter melon—abound in Chinese philosophy\, art\, poetry\, historiography\, and storytelling\, notably in late imperial novels such as Jin Ping Mei\, Journey to the West\, and Story of the Stone. Why? Christopher Rea argues that gua have several qualities that account for their enduring popularity in the figurative imagination\, including their sound\, shape\, seasonality\, variety\, and abundance. \n\n\n\nThis talk shares examples of how the cucurbitaceae—a vast family that is as diverse in its metaphorical usages as in its species—has been used in Chinese and other contexts as a vehicle for the imagination. The humble gua 瓜 has been used to represent ideas of consequence\, both physical—human anatomy\, China\, the earth—and conceptual—moral peril\, wealth\, glory days. Gua are a vehicle for rethinking the taxonomies that drive cultural historiography\, the distinctions scholars make between here and there\, this and that. In particular\, this talk will focus on why gua associations tend to be overripe\, and on how Chinese (and non-Chinese) sources have used melons and their kin to represent time itself. \n\n\n\nChristopher Rea is Professor of Chinese and former Director of the Centre for Chinese Research at the University of British Columbia. He is the creator of the Chinese Film Classics Project\, whose website ChineseFilmClassics.org hosts the world’s largest online collection of early Chinese films with English subtitles\, as well as film clips\, essays\, links\, and an online course on early Chinese films. The websiteand the course are companions to his book Chinese Film Classics\, 1922-1949 (Columbia\, 2021)\, which has a Chinese edition forthcoming. Rea is also the author of the Levenson Prize-winning The Age of Irreverence: A New History of Laughter in China (California\, 2015; Rye Field\, 2018) and the co-author of Where Research Begins: Choosing a Research Project That Matters to You (and the World) (with Thomas Mullaney; Chicago\, 2022)\, which is also available in Chinese\, Japanese\, Korean\, and Polish. He is currently working on a second volume of The Book of Swindles (Columbia\, 2017) and on a cultural history of gua 瓜. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/special-presentation-featuring-christopher-rea-from-zhuangzis-gourd-to-cinderellas-pumpkin-gua-%e7%93%9c-as-a-vehicle-for-the-imagination/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S250\, 1730 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240228T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240228T131500
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China featuring Minxin Pei - Surveillance in a Leninist Party-State: Understanding China’s Preventive Repression
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Minxin Pei\, Tom and Margot Pritzker ’72 Professor of Government and George R. Roberts Fellow\, Claremont McKenna College \n\n\n\nChina’s surveillance state has attracted much attention in the media\, but there is little serious research on its organization\, scope\, and operational tactics.  Evidence gathered from hundreds of local yearbooks and police gazettes shows that the backbone of China’s surveillance state is an extensive network of informants and labor-intensive surveillance tactics which are made possible and run effectively by the Party’s Leninist organizational structure.  The adoption of hi-tech surveillance came relatively late – probably around 2010.  The Chinese Leninist party-state has the organizational capacity unmatched by other forms of dictatorship in building and maintaining an extensive and labor-intensive network of surveillance to implement preventive repression against potential threats.  Hi-tech capabilities strengthen such surveillance\, but do not and cannot substitute the underlying organizational structure.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-featuring-minxin-pei/
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:20240229T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240229T131500
DTSTAMP:20260511T032014
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SUMMARY:Daniel H. Rosen - Spillover Implications of a China Growing 0-2%
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Daniel H. Rosen\, Founding Partner\, Rhodium Group \n\n\n\nEducators\, policymakers and business leaders need to decide how to respond to the implications of China’s economic slowdown. Options have not been adequately considered because the extent of the slowdown has not been understood and acknowledged. Even today international organizations\, governments\, and prominent public intellectuals endorse rosy assumptions that would not be taken seriously elsewhere. It’s time to talk about the slow growth era in China. To set the table for that\, the structural economic problems that reduce China’s potential growth to 0-2% must be recognized.  \n\n\n\nLunch will be served. It is being co-sponsored by the Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. \n\n\n\nAlso via Zoom. Register: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_F-x26T87QLqzaHmkQfnORg#/registration \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/daniel-h-rosen-spillover-implications-of-a-china-growing-0-2/
LOCATION:Wex-434ab Conference Room\, Harvard Kennedy School\, 79 JFK St.\, Camrbidge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240305T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240305T173000
DTSTAMP:20260511T032014
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SUMMARY:Modern China Lecture Series featuring Fa-Ti Fan - Disaster Governance and Political Participation in China: From the Mao Era to the Present
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Fa-Ti Fan\, Professor of History\, Binghamton University\, State University of New York \n\n\n\nThis talk discusses the modes of disaster governance and crisis management in China from the early Mao to the post-Covid era. We will start with the 1960s-70s when China was going through severe political crises\, natural disasters\, and geopolitical challenges. We will then broaden the timeframe and trace major similarities and changes in disaster governance from the early years of the communist regime to the present. My main focus is on state policies\, but I will also discuss political participation from various social and political groups in times of disaster or crisis. \n\n\n\nProfessor Fan is a historian of science and of modern China. His research and teaching have focused on three related areas – history of environmental sciences\, 20th-century China\, and science and empire. He is the author of British Naturalists in Qing China: Science\, Empire\, and Cultural Encounter (2004; Chinese translation 2011) and dozens of essays on a range of topics in history and in science studies. He is currently completing two books\, one on earthquakes in communist China and the other on science and politics in republican China. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/modern-china-lecture-series-featuring-fa-ti-fan-disaster-governance-and-political-participation-in-china-from-the-mao-era-to-the-present/
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:20240305T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240305T183000
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CREATED:20240221T145830Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240221T145832Z
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SUMMARY:Elizabeth Perry - Public Health\, National Strength and Regime Legitimacy: China’s Patriotic Health Campaign
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Elizabeth J. Perry\,  Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government\, Harvard University; Director\, Harvard-Yenching Institute \n\n\n\nThis talk focuses on China’s longest-lived mass movement: the Patriotic Health Campaign(PHC). Introduced by Mao Zedong in 1952 during the Korean War\, the PHC continues even today\, having recently played a role in Xi Jinping’s Zero-Covid effort. The talk will question the official characterization of the PHC as a “uniquely Chinese” approach to sanitation and epidemic control\, noting the influence of the American Tuberculosis Movement and YMCA health campaigns\, while at the same time emphasizing the central importance of public health in the legitimation of Chinese Communist rule\, from revolutionary days to the present. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/elizabeth-perry-public-health-national-strength-and-regime-legitimacy-chinas-patriotic-health-campaign/
LOCATION:Pardee School of Global Studies\, Boston University\, 121 Bay State Rd\, Boston\, Massachusetts\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240306T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240306T131500
DTSTAMP:20260511T032014
CREATED:20240227T173641Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240302T192828Z
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China featuring Wang Hui - China as a Multi-Ethnic Society: From Empire to Nation State
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Wang Hui\, Changjiang Scholar Professor\, Department of Chinese Literature and the Department of History\, Tsinghua University; Director\, Tsinghua Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences \n\n\n\nModerator/Discussant: Peter K. Bol\, Charles H Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard Univsersity \n\n\n\nWang Hui‘s research interests includes Chinese intellectual history\, Chinese literature\, and social theory. His recent publications include The Rise of Modern Chinese Thought and China’s Twentieth Century.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-featuring-wang-hui/
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:20240308T091500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240309T134500
DTSTAMP:20260511T032014
CREATED:20240226T142031Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240226T142033Z
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SUMMARY:Echoes of the Past\, Visions for the Future: The Power of Ideas to Navigate the China- West Divides
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:Tiziana Lippiello\, Ca’ FoscariMichael Puett\, Harvard UniversityAnna Irene Baka\, Harvard University; Ca’ FoscariBryan Van Norden\, Vassar CollegeTao Jiang\, Rutgers UniversityHsinning Liu\, Academia SinicaWen Yu\, Boston CollegeBenjamin Gallant\, Harvard UniversityKaren Turner\, Harvard University; College of the Holy CrossFranklin Perkins University of Hawai’iDimitra Amarantidou\, University of MacauLisa Raphals\, University of California\, RiversideWang Hui\, Tsinghua UniversityPeter Bol\, Harvard University \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/echoes-of-the-past-visions-for-the-future-the-power-of-ideas-to-navigate-the-china-west-divides/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240308T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240308T130000
DTSTAMP:20260511T032014
CREATED:20240129T193036Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240129T193037Z
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SUMMARY:Ma Ran - Un/bounding the Great Wall: Sino-Japanese Documentary Media Connections in the Long 1980s
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Ma Ran\,  Associate Professor\, Cultural Studies and Screen Studies\, Nagoya University\, Japan; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2023-24 \n\n\n\nChair: Jie Li\, Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nSpanning the late 1970s and early 1990s\, a series of coproduced documentaries featuring Japanese entities in consistent partnership with China Central Television (CCTV)\, have emerged. Emblematic of the Sino-Japanese “techno-friendship\,” these projects launched spectacular trans-China voyages undertaken by transnational film and television teams along the routes and territories across the Silk Road\, the Yangtze River\, and the Yellow River. This talk highlights the Great Wall project\, encompassing CCTV’s Wang Changcheng (Odyssey of the Great Wall) and Tokyo Broadcasting System Television (TBS)’s Banri no chōjō (the Great Wall); both aired in 1991. \n\n\n\nThese projects arguably constitute an epistemological-technological nexus wherein the CCTV crews explore “what could be documentary(-making)” through/out the location shooting; leveraging the nexus\, the Japanese teams gain privileged access to locations and infrastructural networks\, enabling them to configure a multilayered Sino-fantasy\, underpinned by documentary epistephilia toward Chinese histories\, cultural heritages\, and post-Cultural Revolution conditions of the PRC. \n\n\n\nI contemplate the Great Wall project’s dis/continuation of the techno-friendship mode. CCTV and TBS have used their journeys along the Great Wall territories to work through disparate landscape-affective assemblages while negotiating East Asian (post-)Cold War geopolitics. While the Sino-fantasy of Banri no chōjō is drastically reterritorialized by its studio-staged reportage on the Tiananmen Incident\, Wang Changcheng reinvents a self-scrutinizing gaze upon “China” in the aftermath of Tian’anmen\, innovatively realigning the political aesthetics of documentary (jilupian). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/ma-ran-un-bounding-the-great-wall-sino-japanese-documentary-media-connections-in-the-long-1980s/
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:20240318T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240318T133000
DTSTAMP:20260511T032014
CREATED:20240202T161850Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240202T161853Z
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SUMMARY:Julie Tian Miao - State Inc. And Asian Diasporas in Knowledge Spaces
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Julie Tian Miao\, Associate Professor in Property and Economic Development\, University of Melbourne; Visiting Scholar\, Harvard University Asia Center  \n\n\n\nModerator: Anthony J. Saich\, Daewoo Professor of International Affairs; Director\, Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia\, Harvard Kennedy School \n\n\n\nDrawing insights from three relevant yet largely separated fields of scholarship on diaspora\, science policies\, and (extra-)territorial development\, Professor Julie Miao will conceptualize and assess how Asian tech diasporas experience knowledge space as an assemblage of ‘ethnoscape’ and ‘ideoscape’ – terms used by Appadurai\, 1990 to chart the global landscapes of modernity. Focusing on Chinese\, Japanese\, and Korean diasporas working in biotech and related sectors in the Boston Metropolitan area\, her study used ethnography and thick descriptions to examine the forming of Asian diasporas’ lived and worked experience as part of the ethnoscape and how it is shaping and shaped by the ideoscape of their homeland. Emerging evidence shows that inter-generation differences in the forming and evolving of an ethnoscape are much stronger than the inter-nationality differences; the stereotypical views about Asia and Asian people are as much self-reinforced as they are externally imposed. Most Asian tech diaspora members aim to embed themselves in the host country’s science and technology landscape\, and it is the United States’ extraterritorial and national security policies that are exerting a far more significant impact on their career projections and ambitions compared to their homeland. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/julie-tian-miao-state-inc-and-asian-diasporas-in-knowledge-spaces/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Room S153\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240319T122000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240319T132000
DTSTAMP:20260511T032014
CREATED:20240313T153855Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240313T153857Z
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SUMMARY:Michelle Miao - Health Code Apps as Social Control in China: Empirical Findings from the Pandemic
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Michelle Miao\, Associate Professor of Law\, Chinese University of Hong Kong; Fellow\, Stanford University Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences \n\n\n\nMichelle Miao is Associate Professor of Law at Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). Her major areas of research include ethics of technological innovation\, comparative law\, criminal justice\, law and society\, and rule of law and authoritarianism. As a CUHK-Stanford University Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences Fellow for 2023-2024\, she is working on a project exploring the interaction between artificial intelligence and the shifting paradigm of authoritarian governance. Professor Miao is an awardee of the American Society of Comparative Law’s Hessel Yntema Prize for the most outstanding scholarship by a scholar under 40 years of age. \n\n\n\nBoxed lunch will be provided. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/michelle-miao-health-code-apps-as-social-control-in-china-empirical-findings-from-the-pandemic/
LOCATION:Morgan Courtroom\, Austin Hall\, 1515 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240319T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240319T173000
DTSTAMP:20260511T032014
CREATED:20240123T172706Z
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SUMMARY:Modern China Lecture Series featuring Christopher Courtney - Heat and the Urban Environment of Modern China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Christopher Courtney\, Associate Professor of Modern Chinese History\, Durham University \n\n\n\nThroughout history\, people living in Chinese cities have often had to contend with extreme heat. Although this is natural feature of the climate\, it has been exacerbated by anthropogenic processes\, which have transformed cities into urban heat islands. Drawing upon a variety of sources\, including oral histories collected in the “furnace city” of Wuhan\, this paper examines how people have understood and sought to cope with the problem of extreme heat in China since the beginning of the twentieth century. It describes how\, at the beginning of this era\, traditional ideas about heat toxins and malign qi were challenged by biomedical theories about thermoregulation\, eventually forming the syncretic blend of ideas about heat and health that exists in China today. This paper then examines how new technologies\, such electric fans\, air-conditioning\, and refrigeration\, promised to alleviate the effects of extreme heat. Yet it describes how these technologies met with resistance\, from those who believed that unnatural forms of thermal comfort could injure your health. The paper continues by exploring how\, in the austere years following 1949\, bourgeois cooling technologies were rejected in favour of a new modes of heat governance. While the Maoist state promoted alternative technologies\, such as the air raid shelter air-conditioning and earth refrigerators\, most people relied upon even humbler technologies\, such as bamboo beds and hand fans. Finally\, this paper describes how\, since the 1990s\, China has witnessed the inexorable rise of cooling technologies. Air-conditioning and refrigeration have helped to reshape cities and transform lifestyles yet have had a dramatic effect upon the environment.  \n\n\n\nChris Courtney is an Associate Professor in Modern Chinese History at the University of Durham\, UK. His research focusses largely upon the environmental and social history of Wuhan. His monograph The Nature of Disaster in China (published in Chinese as 龙王之怒)examined the history of the 1931 Central China Flood. He has also published on topics including the history of environmental religion\, fire disasters\, and Maoist flood (mis)management. Over the past few years\, he has been collaborating with colleagues at the National University of Singapore on a project examining the historical and contemporary problem of heat in Asian cities. His next monograph is tentatively entitled A World History Wuhan.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/modern-china-lecture-series-featuring-christopher-courtney/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Modern China Lecture
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SUMMARY:Big Waves\, Great Earthquakes Screening No. 1 - China's First Environmental Film - Big Tree County\, featuring an introduction by Iza Ding
DESCRIPTION:Introduction: Iza Ding\, Associate Professor of Political Science\, Northwestern UniversityModerator: Sam Maclean\, Communications Manager\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies \n\n\n\nThe screening will be followed by a Zoom Q&A with filmmaker Hao Zhiqiang. \n\n\n\nThe Fairbank Center’s Big Waves\, Great Earthquakes screening series presents its first film\, China’s First Environmental Film – Big Tree County (1992). \n\n\n\nBig Waves\, Great Earthquakes explores the largely unseen early history of independent film in China\, beginning in the late 1980s. Wu Wenguang— who’s usually credited as China’s first independent filmmaker— has likened the emotions of this era to a “big wave”; Wu’s contemporary\, Wen Pulin\, was working independently even earlier\, documenting the avant-garde arts scene in Beijing with his legendary\, but never-completed\, film The Great Earthquake. This screening series will unearth films long-suppressed by Chinese authorities in order to rewrite the narrative of modern film history in China. \n\n\n\nFilmmaker Hao Zhiqiang has said that he wants to capture “the soul of the Chinese people” with his work. His first two films do this by showing how larger forces (the wind-like momentum of history and a town that cut down the giant tree it was named after) can render society helpless to change. Wind (1988) is the first independently produced animated film ever made in China; it  meditates on the legacy of the Cultural Revolution\, and how it shaped the social and political attitudes of many artists and intellectuals in the late 1980s. Big Tree County (1992) may well be China’s first environmental film: While working at CCTV in the early ‘90s\, Hao was inspired by a newspaper article describing a sulfur-iron mining town to haul his station’s equipment hundreds of miles to the border of Sichuan\, Yunnan\, and Guizhou provinces and film a village whose “Big Tree” had been chopped down decades earlier to build the pollution-spewing\, labor-exploiting sulfur-iron mine that came to define the town. This modest but rigorous example of “direct cinema” documentary registers a forceful sociopolitical activism and an uncommon concern for environmental issues. \n\n\n\nIza Ding is Associate Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University. Her research explores modernity and its discontents\, especially in areas related to the environment\, climate change\, bureaucracy\, populism\, nationalism\, morality\, political memory\, and ideology. Her recent publications include The Performative State: Public Scrutiny and Environmental Governance in China (Cornell University Press 2022)\, and articles in World Politics\, Comparative Political Studies\, Democratization\, Studies in Comparative International Development\, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management\, and China Quarterly. She is working on a book-length monograph on the global historical waves of environmentalism. She received her Ph.D in Government from Harvard University and her BA in Political Science and Russian and Eastern European Studies from the University of Michigan. \n\n\n\nWind directed by Hao Zhiqiang. China\, 1988\, animated\, 7 min.Big Tree County directed by Hao Zhiqiang. China\, 1992\, documentary\, 42 min. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-screening-big-tree-county-featuring-an-introduction-by-iza-ding/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film Screening
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SUMMARY:Mitchell Presnick - US-China Business Relations: Past\, Present\, and Future
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Mitchell Presnick\, Visiting Fellow\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies  \n\n\n\nMr. Presnick will lead a fireside chat about his 30 years in China from 1988 – 2019. Topics will include serving on Budweiser’s（百威啤酒) China market entry team\, founding the China practice of APCO Worldwide (安可顾问)\, a Washington\, D.C. based global advisory and advocacy firm\, founding Super 8 Hotels China (中国速8酒店连锁) an economy hotel chain with over 1100 locations\, and serving as board member and vice chair of the American Chamber of Commerce in China during China’s accession to the GATT (now WTO).  \n\n\n\nWe will also explore current opportunities and challenges inherent in US-China business relations in the post-engagement era.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/mitchell-presnick-us-china-business-relations-past-present-and-future/
LOCATION:Room K354\, CGIS Knafel\, 1737 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Harvard-Yenching Institute Annual Roundtable - Gender and Populist Nationalism in Asia
DESCRIPTION:Panelists:Hyaeweol Choi\, C. Maxwell and Elizabeth M. Stanley Family and Korea Foundation Chair in Korean Studies\, University of IowaIza Ding\, Associate Professor of Political Science\, Northwestern UniversityTanika Sarkar\, Retired Professor\, Jawaharlal Nehru University; Visiting Professor\, Ashoka UniversityChizuko Ueno\, Professor Emerita\, The University of Tokyo\, Ph.D in Sociology \n\n\n\nChair: Elizabeth J. Perry \,Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government\, Harvard University; Director\, Harvard-Yenching Institute \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/harvard-yenching-institute-annual-roundtable-gender-and-nationalist-populism-in-asia/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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