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SUMMARY:Ja Ian Chong — Northeast Asia Is for Deterrence and Southeast Asia Is (Mostly) for Free-Riding: Understanding Divergent Responses to Maintaining Order
DESCRIPTION:Register for hybrid zoom attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Ja Ian Chong\, Associate Professor\, Political Science\, National University of Singapore \n\n\n\nModerator: Mark Wu\, Henry L. Stimson Professor\, Harvard Law School; Director\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies \n\n\n\nThe focus of Ja Ian Chong’s teaching and research is on international relations\, especially IR theory\, security\, Chinese foreign policy\, and international relations in the Asia-Pacific. Of particular interest are issues that stand at the nexus of international and domestic politics\, such as influences on nationalism and the consequences of major power competition on the domestic politics of third countries. In addition to their academic background\, they have experience working in think-tanks both in Singapore and in the United States. The speaker is the author of External Intervention and the Politics of State Formation–China\, Indonesia\, Thailand\, 1893-1952 (Cambridge\, 2012)\, which received the 2013 Best Book Award from the International Security Studies Section of the International Studies Association. \n\n\n\n Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies.Also via Zoom.Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEqf-6opz4rGNecwwA132Vq1rTroCFdQ7hv#/registration \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/ja-ian-chong-northeast-asia-is-for-deterrence-and-southeast-asia-is-mostly-for-free-riding-understanding-divergent-responses-to-maintaining-order/
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:20240909T180000
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SUMMARY:Wan-an Chiang — Global Taipei: Bridging Tradition and Innovation
DESCRIPTION:Register for in-person attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Wan-an Chiang\, Mayor\, Taipei Moderator: Anthony Saich\, Director\, Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia and Daewoo Professor of International Affairs\, Harvard Kennedy School \n\n\n\nCo-sponsored by the Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics\, Bloomberg Center for Cities at Harvard University\, and Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University \n\n\n\nPlease register with a valid Harvard email address to attend in-person. This event will also be livestreamed on YouTube. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/wan-an-chiang-global-taipei-bridging-tradition-and-innovation/
LOCATION:JFK Jr. Forum\, Harvard Kennedy School\, 79 John F. Kennedy St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240916T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240916T190000
DTSTAMP:20260511T171036
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SUMMARY:Linking East and West: Yue-Sai Kan and her Cross-Cultural Influence
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Yue-Sai Kan\, television host\, producer\, author\, entrepreneur and humanitarianDiscussant: Min Ye\, Professor of International Relations\, Boston University Pardee School of Global Studies \n\n\n\nYue-Sai Kan\, often referred to as ‘The Oprah of China’\, is a renowned media entrepreneur\, bestselling author\, and philanthropist. Her talk promises to offer unique insights into China’s transformation over four decades and the importance of cross-cultural understanding. \n\n\n\nA book signing for her book\, “The Most Famous Woman in China\,” follows the discussion. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/linking-east-and-west-yue-sai-kan-and-her-cross-cultural-influence/
LOCATION:Boston University Tsai Performance Center\, 685 Commonwealth Ave.\, Boston\, Massachusetts\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240917T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240917T173000
DTSTAMP:20260511T171036
CREATED:20240812T154251Z
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SUMMARY:Modern China Lecture Series featuring Rebecca Nedostup - "War Being" in Mid Twentieth Century China and Taiwan
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Rebecca Nedostup\, Associate Professor of History\, Associate Professor of East Asian Studies\, Brown UniversityTwo decades of intense hot and cold war in China and Taiwan between the 1930s and 1950s produced not only significant economic\, political\, and environmental changes\, but notable consequences for the epistemological structuring of everyday experience. Using examples of shifting conceptions of physical and cosmological refuge found in Jiangsu\, Sichuan\, and Taiwan\, I suggest some ways in which the scale and conduct of warfare during this period challenged but did not entirely erase extant conceptions of space and time. Although national and geopolitical frameworks threatened to eclipse alternate ways in which people made community among the living and the dead\, knowledge and projections of spatial and chronological arrangements were still intimately tied to the social networks that activated them – even as such networks were themselves in flux. The tension between state utilizations of population displacement and the self-conception and self-organization of the displaced themselves would set the stage for the large-scale social experiments and new migration patterns of the late twentieth century. \n\n\n\nRebecca Nedostup is a historian of twentieth-century China and Taiwan at Brown University. She works on displacement and emplacement; the social and political roles of the living and the dead in times of disruption; and the relationship of transitional justice and historical consciousness. Her book Superstitious Regimes: Religion and the Politics of Chinese Modernity looked at the modern categorization of religious practice and its social and political ramifications. Her next book. War Being\, is on the making and unmaking of community among people displaced by conflict across China and Taiwan from the 1930s through the 1950s. More broadly\, she is interested in ritual studies\, critical archive studies\, digital ontologies\, and historic preservation. She is faculty director of the Choices program\, and was previously Visiting Chair of Taiwan Studies at the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) and Leiden University Institute for Area Studies (LIAS). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/modern-china-lecture-series-featuring-rebecca-nedostup/
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:20240919T122000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240919T132000
DTSTAMP:20260511T171036
CREATED:20240906T160836Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240906T160904Z
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SUMMARY:EALS Open House
DESCRIPTION:The East Asian Legal Studies program at Harvard Law School supports research and teaching on the law and legal history of the nations and peoples of East Asia\, their interaction with the United States\, and their impact on global order. Please join us at our Open House to learn about upcoming EALS events and opportunities for students\, and to meet faculty\, staff\, visiting scholars\, and other students interested in law and East Asia! \n\n\n\nSavory and sweet pastries\, coffee\, Wong Lo Kat\, sikhye\, and hojicha will be provided. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/eals-open-house/
LOCATION:Austin Hall Room 308\, 1515 Mass Ave\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240920T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240920T160000
DTSTAMP:20260511T171036
CREATED:20240903T184408Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240909T142414Z
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SUMMARY:Digital China Initiative Workshop — GenAI for Literary Sinitic Studies
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis workshop is designed to introduce the world of Generative AI (GenAI) and its applications in Literary Sinitic Studies. Tailored for beginners with no prior experience in AI\, this session will explore how GenAI can revolutionize various aspects of research\, learning\, and analysis in Literary Sinitic Studies. \n\n\n\nTarget Audience: \n\n\n\n\nStudents\, researchers\, and professionals in Literary Sinitic Studies\n\n\n\nIndividuals interested in leveraging AI for academic or professional work related to China\n\n\n\nNo prior background in AI or computer science is required\n\n\n\n\nWorkshop Objectives: \n\n\n\n\nIntroduce the concept of GenAI and its potential in Literary Sinitic Studies\n\n\n\nExplore various practical applications of GenAI in the field\n\n\n\nDevelop basic prompt engineering skills for effective use of GenAI chatbots.\n\n\n\n\nAlso held on September 27 and October 4 \n\n\n\nRegister here. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/digital-china-initiative-workshop-genai-for-literary-sinitic-studies/
LOCATION:Room 202\, 61 Kirkland St.\, 61 Kirkland St.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240923T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240923T170000
DTSTAMP:20260511T171036
CREATED:20240903T190441Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240903T190516Z
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SUMMARY:Joel Mokyr — China and the West – Two Paths to the Twentieth Century
DESCRIPTION:Digital China\, Digital China\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Joel Mokyr\, Robert H. Strotz Professor of Arts and Sciences & Professor of Economics and History\, Northwestern University \n\n\n\nJoin Joel Mokyr as he discusses his book “Two Paths to the Twentieth Century: Culture and Institutions in Europe and China\, 1000-2000” coauthored with Avner Greif and Guido Tabellini. Forthcoming with Princeton University Press\, it explores a millennium of Eurasian economic history. Mokyr conducts research on the economic history of Europe\, and specializes in the period 1750-1914. His current research is concerned with the understanding of the economic and intellectual roots of technological progress and the growth of useful knowledge in European societies\, as well as the impact that industrialization and economic progress have had on economic welfare. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/joel-mokyr-china-and-the-west-two-paths-to-the-twentieth-century/
LOCATION:Goldman Room\, Adolphus Busch Hall\, 27 Kirkland St.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240924T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240924T220000
DTSTAMP:20260511T171036
CREATED:20240913T161934Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240913T163137Z
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SUMMARY:Urban China Lecture Series featuring Huang Binling & Yuan Zhenyu
DESCRIPTION:zoom meeting link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers: Huang Binling & Yuan Zhenyu\, Shenzhen Sketch Landscape Design \n\n\n\nMore information coming soon. \n\n\n\nThis event series is sponsored by the MIT Sustainable Urbanization Lab\, the University of British Columbia’s School of Community and Regional Planning\, and the Harvard University Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. \n\n\n\nPresented via Zoom Meeting.Meeting link: https://mit.zoom.us/j/93343229272 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/urban-china-lecture-series-featuring-huang-binling-yuan-zhenyu/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Urban China Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240925T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240925T131500
DTSTAMP:20260511T171036
CREATED:20240812T145439Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240822T141022Z
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Eyck Freymann and Hugo Bromley - Avalanche Decoupling: Economic Contingency Planning for Taiwan Crisis
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:Eyck Freymann\, Hoover Fellow\, Stanford UniversityHugo Bromley\, Postdoctoral Research Associate\, Centre for Geopolitics\, University of CambridgeMore information coming soon. \n\n\n\nEyck Freymann is a Hoover Fellow at Stanford University\, where he studies the geopolitics of climate change and strategic deterrence in the Taiwan Strait. Trained as an economic historian and China specialist\, he is also the Indo-Pacific Director at Greenmantle\, a New York-based advisory firm\, and a Non-Resident Research Fellow with the China Maritime Studies Institute at the U.S. Naval War College. \n\n\n\nFreymann’s first book\, One Belt One Road: Chinese Power Meets the World\, is assigned on undergraduate and graduate syllabi at Harvard\, Cambridge\, Columbia\, Peking University\, and elsewhere. His writings on other current affairs topics have appeared in The Wall Street Journal\, Foreign Affairs\, The Economist\, War on the Rocks\, Foreign Policy\, The Atlantic\, and other venues. \n\n\n\nBefore Hoover\, Freymann held concurrent postdoctoral fellowships at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center and the Columbia-Harvard China & the World Program. He earned his doctorate in China Studies from Balliol College\, University of Oxford; two masters degrees in China Studies from Harvard University and the University of Cambridge\, where he was a Henry Scholar; and a bachelors degree cum laude with highest honors in East Asian History from Harvard College. \n\n\n\nHugo Bromley is a historian of English manufacturing and British political economy and geopolitics\, focusing on the early eighteenth century. His recently submitted PhD\, completed at Cambridge\, looked at how textile manufacturers and their employees shaped the formation of Britain after 1688\, and the role of the British state in the global economy immediately before the Industrial Revolution. At the Centre for Geopolitics\, he will coordinate the forthcoming project on the applied history of the UK Union\, as well as continuing his own research. He has also been appointed as an affiliated postdoctoral research associate at Robinson College. \n\n\n\nHugo previously worked for the Centre as a Research Assistant on the Baltic Geopolitics Programme\, which he will continue to support. He also hosted a short podcast series on the Geopolitics of Finance\, which is available online at On Geopolitics. He completed his undergraduate studies at the LSE and his MPhil at here at Cambridge. Away from academia\, he has worked as a researcher at the International Financial Law Review and as a reporter at IFLR Practice Insight. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-featuring-eyck-freymann-and-hugo-bromley-avalanche-decoupling-economic-contingency-planning-for-taiwan-crisis/
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:20240925T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240925T200000
DTSTAMP:20260511T171036
CREATED:20240913T192342Z
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SUMMARY:Calligraphy Art Lecture and Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Wang Dongling\, Professor of Calligraphy and Director of the Modern Calligraphy Research Center\,  China Academy of Art\, Hangzhou \n\n\n\nPaper and ink provided. Register at: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScyPdekMiEDa5XhgdmLmHn26csGN_s0FnHG38zBttjS3J422g/viewform  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/calligraphy-art-lecture-and-workshop/
LOCATION:Gund Hall Room 111\, 48 Quincy St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240926T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240926T163000
DTSTAMP:20260511T171036
CREATED:20240919T174954Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240923T141500Z
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SUMMARY:Combatting Digital Misinformation: Lessons from Taiwan — A Conversation with Audrey Tang
DESCRIPTION:Register now for event waitlist\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n***WAITLIST REGISTRATION ONLY***This event’s pre-registration has reached its capacity. You may register for the waitlist\, and we will notify you if a space becomes available.Speaker: Audrey Tang\, Inaugural Minister for Digital Affairs\, Taiwan (2022-2024) \n\n\n\nTaiwan sits on the front lines of global misinformation campaigns.  From election interference to fake news stories\, Taiwanese society faces a regular influx of activities by nefarious actors attempting to distort information.  What lessons can Taiwan offer for how to combat misinformation in a polarized political environment\, while protecting speech and promoting a thriving democracy?  Join us for a discussion with Audrey Tang\, Taiwan’s former Minister for Digital Affairs\, moderated by Professor Mark Wu\, Co-Director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society and Director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. \n\n\n\nCo-sponsored by the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. \n\n\n\nThis is an in-person only event. Seating is limited and pre-registration is required. Register at: https://forms.gle/Qt6aA8BGg4TkS7Vs7.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/combatting-digital-misinformation-lessons-from-taiwan-a-conversation-with-audrey-tang/
LOCATION:BKC Multipurpose Room 515\, Lewis Law Center\, 1557 Mass. Ave. 5th Floor\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Special Event,Taiwan
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240926T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240926T190000
DTSTAMP:20260511T171036
CREATED:20240919T183944Z
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SUMMARY:JFK Jr. Forum — Building a Digital Democracy
DESCRIPTION:Register for in-person attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPanelists:Audrey Tang\, Former Minister of Digital Affairs\, Taiwan Megan Smith\, Former Chief Technology Officer of the United StatesDanielle Allen\, James Bryant Conant University Professor and Director of the Allen Lab for Democracy Renovation\, Harvard UniversityMathias Riss\, Berthold Beitz Professor in Human Rights\, Global Affairs and Philosophy and Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nAround the world\, innovative developments in digital civic infrastructure are being created to advance the public good and build thriving democratic societies. Drawing from global\, U.S.\, and municipal examples\, panelists will explore how technology is being used to transform political institutions\, civil society\, and political culture to support more representative\, transparent\, responsive\, and participatory democracy\, and how these infrastructures can be designed to protect individual human rights and democratic systems. \n\n\n\nPlease register with a valid Harvard email address to attend in-person. All JFK Jr. Forums are publicly livestreamed on their YouTube channel. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/jfk-jr-forum-building-a-digital-democracy/
LOCATION:JFK Jr. Forum\, Harvard Kennedy School\, 79 John F. Kennedy St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240927T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240927T160000
DTSTAMP:20260511T171036
CREATED:20240903T184551Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240918T200753Z
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SUMMARY:Digital China Initiative Workshop — GenAI for Literary Sinitic Studies
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis workshop is designed to introduce the world of Generative AI (GenAI) and its applications in Literary Sinitic Studies. Tailored for beginners with no prior experience in AI\, this session will explore how GenAI can revolutionize various aspects of research\, learning\, and analysis in Literary Sinitic Studies. \n\n\n\nTarget Audience: \n\n\n\n\nStudents\, researchers\, and professionals in Literary Sinitic Studies\n\n\n\nIndividuals interested in leveraging AI for academic or professional work related to China\n\n\n\nNo prior background in AI or computer science is required\n\n\n\n\nWorkshop Objectives: \n\n\n\n\nIntroduce the concept of GenAI and its potential in Literary Sinitic Studies\n\n\n\nExplore various practical applications of GenAI in the field\n\n\n\nDevelop basic prompt engineering skills for effective use of GenAI chatbots.\n\n\n\n\nAlso held on September 20 and October 4 \n\n\n\nRegister here. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/digital-china-initiative-workshop-genai-for-literary-sinitic-studies-2/
LOCATION:Room 202\, 61 Kirkland St.\, 61 Kirkland St.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240927T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240927T160000
DTSTAMP:20260511T171036
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SUMMARY:Flying Flowers and Scattered Snow (飞花散雪): A Performance of Calligraphy by Wang Dongling
DESCRIPTION:Wang Dongling 王冬龄\, one of China’s most highly regarded contemporary ink painters\, will demonstrate his luan shu (“chaotic script”) calligraphy in a special event in the Calderwood Courtyard. In this energetic performance\, he will draw upon ancient texts and brush-painting traditions to create a large gestural work focused on the exalted West Lake poems of Su Dongpo (1037–1101). Located in Hangzhou\, West Lake has served as a source of inspiration for generations of poets\, scholars\, and artists\, including Wang. \n\n\n\nWang Dongling is professor of calligraphy and director of the Modern Calligraphy Research Center at the China Academy of Art\, Hangzhou. He has held three solo exhibitions at the National Art Museum of China\, and his work has been exhibited and acquired internationally. Like many artists of his generation\, Wang’s education was interrupted by the Cultural Revolution (1966–76)\, but working outside the constraints of conventional art schools granted him the freedom to explore novel techniques. He returned to his studies in the late 1970s\, incorporating foreign approaches into his work throughout the 1980s and 1990s. \n\n\n\nThe Harvard Art Museums offer free admission every day\, Tuesday through Sunday. Please see the museum visit page to learn about our general policies for visiting the museums. \n\n\n\nThis program is made possible in part through the support of Shining (Christina) Sun. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/flying-flowers-and-scattered-snow-%e9%a3%9e%e8%8a%b1%e6%95%a3%e9%9b%aa-a-performance-of-calligraphy-by-wang-dongling/
LOCATION:Harvard Art Museums\, 32 Quincy St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Susan Greenhalgh - Soda Science: Making the World Safe for Coca-Cola
DESCRIPTION:Register for hybrid zoom attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Susan Greenhalgh\, John King and Wilma Cannon Fairbank Research Professor of Chinese Society Emerita\, Department of Anthropology\, Harvard UniversityModerator: Nicole West Bassoff\, PhD Candidate in Public Policy\, Harvard Kennedy School \n\n\n\nThe 1990s were tough times for the soda industry. In the United States\, obesity rates were exploding. Public health critics pointed to sugary soda as a main culprit and advocated for soda taxes that might decrease the consumption of sweetened beverages—and threaten the revenues of the giant soda companies. In her new book\, Soda Science\, Greenhalgh tells the story of how\, during 1995-2015\, industry leader Coca-Cola mobilized allies in academia to create a soda-defense science that would protect profits by advocating exercise\, not dietary restraint\, as the priority solution to obesity\, a view few experts accept. Anthropologist and science studies specialist Susan Greenhalgh discovers a hidden world of science-making—with distinctive organizations\, social networks\, knowledge-making practices\, and ethical claims—dedicated to creating industry-friendly science and keeping it under wraps. Coke’s research isn’t fake science\, she argues; it was real science\, conducted by real and eminent scientists\, but distorted by its aim. By tracing the birth\, maturation\, death\, and effects of this global science project as it spread in two sites – the U.S. and China – Soda Science reveals the cunning ways giant corporations come to shape our diets\, lifestyles\, and health to their own needs. \n\n\n\nNote: This is a science studies talk about Prof. Greenhalgh’s new book; a talk for China Studies scholars will be scheduled at a later date.Also via Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwsf-2hrjIjHtc03BEGIDG1RTmuG2cUDQUx#/registration \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/susan-greenhalgh-soda-science-making-the-world-safe-for-coca-cola/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Room S050\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:China Humanities Seminar featuring Matthew Wild — When was Qing Poetry? Huang Jingren and the Ancient Song
DESCRIPTION:**NOTE UPDATED DATE***Speaker: Matthew Wild\, Preceptor in Literary Sinitic\, Harvard University. \n\n\n\nThis talk examines the poetics of time at the height of Qing empire. It offers a new approach to the work of the Qing poet Huang Jingren (1749–1783) against his subsequent appropriation by early twentieth-century writers who claimed Huang as a proleptic modern Chinese author born to the wrong era. The central focus of discussion will be an overlooked set of ritual songs that Huang Jingren presented to the Qianlong emperor in 1776. Composed in an ancient form called the “Nao song\,” these hymns proclaim the glories of the Second Jinchuan War (1771–1776)\, the longest and most intensive of the famous Qianlong military campaigns. I offer close readings to explore how Huang’s Nao songs exalt the emperor’s Jinchuan conquest by inventing new archaic language\, transcribing a quintessentially eighteenth-century event—involving elite Manchu warriors\, Jesuit military advisors\, advanced ballistics technology\, and Tibetan Buddhist tantric rituals—into the sublime symbolic register of remotest time. By taking seriously Huang’s investment in antiquity as a mode for historicizing his present\, this talk aims to open a new horizon for the study of Qing literature. \n\n\n\nMatthew Wild is Preceptor in Literary Sinitic at Harvard University. His research focuses on classical poetry in Chinese and Literary Sinitic cultures\, with special interests in performance\, print culture\, traditional literary criticism\, and the history of textual scholarship. He is preparing a book manuscript titled Singing in Time: Philology and the Lyric Imagination in Eighteenth-Century China\, which explores the role of ancient-style poetry within the mid-Qing archaeological and philological movement known as kaozheng\, or “evidential scholarship.” He received his BA in Chinese from Reed College and his PhD in East Asian Languages and Cultures from the University of California\, Berkeley. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-humanities-seminar-featuring-matthew-wild-when-was-qing-poetry-huang-jingren-and-the-ancient-song/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:China Humanities Seminar
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SUMMARY:PRC @ 75 Series – Symposium: The People's Republic of China at 75
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Joseph Fewsmith\, Professor of International Relations\, Pardee School of Global Studies\, Boston UniversityElizabeth Perry\, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government\, Harvard UniversityAnthony Saich\, Director\, Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia; Daewoo Professor of International Affairs\, Harvard Kennedy SchoolYuhua Wang\, Professor of Government\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nModerator:Mark Wu\, Director\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies; Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law\, Harvard University  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/symposium-the-peoples-republic-of-china-at-75/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241002T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241002T174500
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Oriana Skylar Mastro — The Future of Great Power Competition: Will China’s Strategy Succeed?
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Oriana Skylar Mastro\, Center Fellow\, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and Courtesy Assistant Professor of Political Science\, Stanford University; Non-resident Scholar\, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace \n\n\n\nModerator: Andrew S. Erickson\, Professor of Strategy\, China Maritime Studies Institute\, U.S. Naval War College; Fairbank Center Visiting Scholar \n\n\n\nOriana Skylar Mastro is a Center Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and Courtesy Assistant Professor of Political Science at Stanford University where her research focuses on Chinese military and security policy\, Asia-Pacific security issues\, war termination\, and coercive diplomacy. She is also a nonresident scholar\, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She was previously an assistant professor of security studies at Georgetown University. Mastro continues to serve in the United States Air Force Reserve for which she currently works at the Pentagon as Deputy Director of Reserve China Global Strategy. For her contributions to U.S. strategy in Asia\, she won the Individual Reservist of the Year Award in 2016 and 2022 (FGO). She holds a B.A. in East Asian Studies from Stanford University and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Politics from Princeton University.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-featuring-oriana-skylar-mastro/
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:20241004T120000
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SUMMARY:PRC @ 75 Series – Film Screening – Remembering the 1980s: The Documentary Series Tiananmen\, featuring an introduction by Yuhua Wang & Q+A with Rowena Xiaoqing He and Shi Jian
DESCRIPTION:Introduction: Yuhua Wang\, Professor of Government\, Harvard UniversityQ+A Discussion: Rowena Xiaoqing He\, Senior Research Fellow\, University of Texas Austin; author of Tiananmen Exiles: Voices of the Struggle for Democracy in ChinaProgrammer: Sam Maclean\, Communications Manager\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies \n\n\n\nFollowed by a Zoom Q+A with filmmaker Shi Jian\, co-director of Tiananmen \n\n\n\nThe eight-part documentary series Tiananmen\, about life in Beijing in the 1980s\, was produced with official sanction by a brilliant young team of filmmakers at China Central Television (CCTV). It had a planned airing commencement date of National Day — October 1\, 1989 — to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the People’s Republic of China. However\, production halted in the spring of 1989\, when students calling for democracy and an end to corruption took to the streets in Beijing. Following the violent crackdown on June 4th\, CCTV canceled the series\, concluding that any with the title “Tiananmen”—regardless of its political slant—would be too controversial to air. \n\n\n\nBut co-directors Shi Jian (时间) and Chen Jue (陈爵) decided to finished Tiananmen independently. The series was invited to screen at the Hong Kong Film Festival\, in 1992\, but the Chinese film delegation boycotted it\, and the screening was canceled. Since then\, the full documentary has only screened publicly once (in Chicago\, this past summer). \n\n\n\nThis historic series weaves a tapestry of sociopolitical life whose scope stretches from the survivors of the pre-revolution imperial court to the competitive struggles sparked by the transition to a planned economy\, to liberalization in the shadow of the not-too-distant Cultural Revolution\, to the vibrant artist communities and counterculture movements\, and ultimately\, to what registers as a sense of guarded optimism about China’s 21st century trajectory. \n\n\n\nYuhua Wang (王裕华) is Professor of Government at Harvard University\, whose research focuses on two aspects of the politics of state building. He looks at what contributes to the emergence of effective and durable statehood\, and after an effective state emerges\, how it can be constrained. Professor Wang’s third book\, The Rise and Fall of Imperial China: The Social Origins of State Development (2022\, Princeton University Press) won the 2023 Lubbert Best Book Award in Comparative Politics from the American Political Science Association. His articles have appeared in American Political Science Review\, Annual Review of Political Science\, British Journal of Political Science\, Comparative Political Studies\, Comparative Politics\, and China Quarterly. \n\n\n\nRowena Xiaoqing He (何曉清) is a China specialist and historian of modern China. She is interested in the nexus of history\, memory\, and power\, and their implications for the relationship between academic freedom and public opinion\, human rights and democratization\, and youth values and nationalism. Her first book\, Tiananmen Exiles: Voices of the Struggle for Democracy in China\, was named Top Five Books 2014 by the Asia Society’s China File. The book has been reviewed in the New York Review of Books\, Wall Street Journal\, Financial Times\, New Statesman\, Spectator\, Christian Science Monitor\, China Journal\, Human Rights Quarterly\, and other international periodicals. Her research has been supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada\, Harvard University’s Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton\, and the National Humanities Center. Dr. He received the Harvard University Certificate of Teaching Excellence for three consecutive years for the Tiananmen courses that she created. She joined the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2019 and received the Faculty of Arts Outstanding Teaching Award in 2020 and 2021. In 2023\, she was denied a Hong Kong work visa to return to her position as an Associate Professor of History. Her op-eds have appeared in the Washington Post\, The Nation\, The Guardian\, The Globe and Mail\, and The Wall Street Journal. She was designated among the Top 100 Chinese Public Intellectuals 2016. Born and raised in China\, she received her Ph.D. from the University of Toronto. \n\n\n\nThe Fairbank Center’s film screening series explores the largely unseen early history of independent film in China\, beginning in the late 1980s\, aiming to unearth films long-suppressed by Chinese authorities to fill out the narrative of modern film history in the PRC. \n\n\n\nTiananmen’s 8 parts will screen in groups of two throughout Friday\, October 4\, with short breaks: \n\n\n\n12:00 PM: Introduction by Yuhua Wang\, Professor of Government\, followed by Part 1: “The Old City” (56 min.)\, about survivors of the imperial court\, including interviews with the last living imperial eunuch and Puyi’s family members\, and Part 2: “Residences” (51 min.)\, which explores everyday life in courtyard homes. \n\n\n\n2:15 PM: Part 3: “On the Street” (52 min.)\, about various forms of commerce and social activities\, and Part 4: “On Stage” (54 min.)\, a survey of theater actors\, street performers\, and rock musicians. \n\n\n\n4:15 PM: Part 5: “Going Places” (48 min.)\, about intellectual life at universities and inside private enterprises\, and Part 6: “Guest Performers” (48 min.)\, which follows foreigners who live and work in Beijing. \n\n\n\n6:00 PM: Part 7: “On the Way” (50 min.)\, about entrepreneurs in the entertainment industry\, including ad agencies and models\, and Part 8: “Memories” (1 hour)\, a look at China’s history of sociopolitical unrest. \n\n\n\nThe final episode will be followed by a Zoom Q+A with Rowena Xiaoqing He and Tiananmen co-director Shi Jian. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\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/big-waves-great-earthquakes-film-screening-no-3-remembering-the-1980s-the-documentary-series-tiananmen-featuring-an-introduction-by-yuhua-wang/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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SUMMARY:Digital China Initiative Workshop — GenAI for Literary Sinitic Studies
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis workshop is designed to introduce the world of Generative AI (GenAI) and its applications in Literary Sinitic Studies. Tailored for beginners with no prior experience in AI\, this session will explore how GenAI can revolutionize various aspects of research\, learning\, and analysis in Literary Sinitic Studies. \n\n\n\nTarget Audience: \n\n\n\n\nStudents\, researchers\, and professionals in Literary Sinitic Studies\n\n\n\nIndividuals interested in leveraging AI for academic or professional work related to China\n\n\n\nNo prior background in AI or computer science is required\n\n\n\n\nWorkshop Objectives: \n\n\n\n\nIntroduce the concept of GenAI and its potential in Literary Sinitic Studies\n\n\n\nExplore various practical applications of GenAI in the field\n\n\n\nDevelop basic prompt engineering skills for effective use of GenAI chatbots.\n\n\n\n\nRegister here. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/digital-china-initiative-workshop-genai-for-literary-sinitic-studies-3/
LOCATION:Room 202\, 61 Kirkland St.\, 61 Kirkland St.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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SUMMARY:China Economy Lecture featuring Scott Kennedy — The Slow Tech Dragon: The Material and Ideational Sources of a Slumping Economy
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Scott Kennedy\, Senior Adviser and Trustee Chair in Chinese Business and Economics\, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)Compared to a decade ago\, China’s S&T capabilities have grown substantially. Nevertheless\, the country’s growth prospects have diminished considerably. This presentation attempts to explain this paradox by analyzing how China’s political economy is shaping the material and ideational foundations of growth. \n\n\n\nScott Kennedy is senior adviser and Trustee Chair in Chinese Business and Economics at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). A leading authority on Chinese economic policy and U.S.-China commercial relations\, Kennedy has traveled to China for 36 years. Ongoing focuses include China’s innovation drive\, Chinese industrial policy\, U.S.-China relations\, and global economic governance.  \n\n\n\nKennedy hosts the China Field Notes podcast\, featuring on-the-ground voices from China\, and the Trustee Chair co-runs the Big Data China initiative\, which introduces pathbreaking scholarly research to the policy community. From 2000-2014\, Kennedy was a professor at Indiana University (IU)\, where he established the Research Center for Chinese Politics & Business and was the founding academic director of IU’s China Office. Kennedy received a PhD in political science from George Washington University\, his MA from Johns Hopkins-SAIS\, and his BA from the University of Virginia.  \n\n\n\nPart of Worldwide Week at Harvard 2024 | October 5 – 12\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-economy-lecture-featuring-scott-kennedy/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:China Economy Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241008T103000
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SUMMARY:Karine Chemla - Historiography and History of Mathematical Symbolism: A View from Chinese Sources
DESCRIPTION:Register for Zoom session\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker:  Karine Chemla\, Director of Research\, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique \n\n\n\nThe common historiography of mathematical symbolism holds that it is a “European invention.” This view has been disputed based on Arabic\, Sanskrit and Chinese sources. These challenges to the mainstream historiography\, however\, tacitly accept the common understanding of what mathematical symbolism means. In this talk\, I question how we commonly conceive of mathematical symbolism\, suggesting that this conception was essential to the claim of its “Europeanness.” I further argue that sources from the ancient world help us understand mathematical symbolism better\, showing that it has a much longer and more global history than previously thought. \n\n\n\nPart of the Science and Technology in Asia series. Sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center. Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies \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/karine-chemla-historiography-and-history-of-mathematical-symbolism-a-view-from-chinese-sources/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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SUMMARY:Dongsheng Zang — China’s Reception of the AI Revolution
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dongsheng Zang\, Associate Professor of Law\, University of Washington School of LawDongsheng Zang joined the faculty at University of Washington School of Law full-time in 2006\, after serving as a visiting assistant professor in 2005-06. His teaching and research areas include international law and comparative study of Chinese law. In recent years\, his research has focused on technology\, democracy\, and the constitution in the global context\, with particular emphasis on the United States and China. He holds an S.J.D. and LL.M. from Harvard Law School\, in addition to an LL.M. from Renmin University (Beijing) and LL.B. from Beijing College of Economics. His doctoral dissertation\, One-Way Transparency: The Establishment of the Rule-Based International Trade Order and the Predicament of Its Jurisprudence\, was awarded the 2004 Yong K. Kim ’95 Memorial Prize. \n\n\n\nCoffee and light snacks will be provided. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/dongsheng-zang-chinas-reception-of-the-ai-revolution/
LOCATION:Austin Hall Room 308\, 1515 Mass Ave\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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SUMMARY:PRC @ 75 Series — Bao Pu — An Insider’s View of Mao’s Reign: The Life of Bao Tong\, Communist Reformer
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Bao Pu\, Founder\, New Century Press\, Hong Kong \n\n\n\nDiscussant: Michael Puett\, Director\, Harvard University Asia Center; Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History and Anthropology\, Harvard University  \n\n\n\nMao Zedong’s 26-year reign profoundly shaped the People’s Republic of China. And yet while there have been numerous social\, political\, and economic analyses of the PRC\, the driving forces behind Mao’s policies and the inner workings of power politics at the highest levels of the Chinese Communist Party remain poorly understood due to lack of critical information. \n\n\n\nDrawing from a collection of largely unpublished private letters\, rare publications\, and archival records connected to Bao Tong\, the late Communist Party reformer and political secretary to Party General Secretary Zhao Ziyang\, Bao’s son Bao Pu weaves his father’s experiences during Mao’s reign into a single coherent narrative. The analysis traces Bao’s personal arc\, from the young idealist who joined the Party at age of 16 to disillusioned reformer who became one of the Party’s most outspoken critics. Bao Pu uncovers surprising insights into power dynamics at China’s highest levels\, enriched by visuals from Bao Tong’s personal archives and photographs. \n\n\n\nBao Tong was the highest-ranking Chinese official imprisoned over the pro-democracy protests in Tiananmen Square that ended in a bloody crackdown in 1989. Before that\, as Political Secretary of the CCP’s Central Committee’s Politburo Standing Committee\, he had worked on officially sanctioned plans for political reform. He was released from prison in 1997 and died in 2022 at the age of 90. \n\n\n\nBao began his career in the CCP’s Organization Department in July 1949 and remained deeply engaged with the Party’s central operations throughout his tenure. He worked closely with his mentor\, An Ziwen\, the Minister of the Organization Department\, contributing to the drafting of key documents during the turbulent years leading up to Mao’s Cultural Revolution when both them were purged. \n\n\n\nIn 1977\, Bao made a significant comeback by contributing to the drafting of Deng Xiaoping’s speech at the National Science Conference\, a pivotal moment that helped Deng rise to become the supreme leader of China. In the early 1980s\, Bao served as the secretary to Premier Zhao Ziyang and eventually ascended to the role of Political Secretary of the CCP’s Central Committee’s Politburo Standing Committee. By the late 1980s\, Bao was entrusted by General Secretary Zhao Ziyang with preparation for the Political Reform program\, which was approved at the CCP’s 13th Party Congress. \n\n\n\nHowever\, the momentum of these reforms came to a halt following the Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989\, leading to Bao’s imprisonment as the highest-ranking official to oppose Deng Xiaoping’s handling of the event. In his later years\, Bao continued to be an outspoken critic of the CCP. \n\n\n\nBao Pu is the Publisher and Founder of New Century Press in Hong Kong\, best known for its Chinese-language memoirs and contemporary histories of politics\, titles including Prisoner of the State: The Secret Journal of Premier Zhao Ziyang and The Origins of the Cultural Revolution\, by Harvard Professor Roderick MacFarquhar. Bao was awarded the Jeri Laber Interntational Freedom to Publish Award in 2010. He is the son of Bao Tong. \n\n\n\nPart of Worldwide Week at Harvard 2024 | October 5 – 12\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/bao-pu-an-insiders-view-of-maos-reign-the-life-of-bao-tong-communist-reformer/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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SUMMARY:Yao Yu — China’s Natural Rubber Plantation in the 1950s: A Global View
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Yao Yu\, Professor\, History\, East China Normal University; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2024-25Chair/Discussant: Victor Seow\, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences\, Harvard University \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/yao-yu-chinas-natural-rubber-plantation-in-the-1950s-a-global-view/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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SUMMARY:CID Speaker Series: China and the Global Economy
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:David Yang\, Director\, Center for History and Economics and Professor of EconomicsJie Bai\, HKS Associate Professor of Public PolicyMark Wu\, Director\, Fairbank Center for China Studies; Henry L. Stimson Professor of LawShengqiao Lin\, CID and Fairbank Center Post-Doctoral Fellow \n\n\n\nThe need for policy and public engagement with China—through rigorous analysis\, informed perspectives and constructive dialogue— has never been more urgent. Learn more about the Harvard Center for International Development’s new initiative\, China and the Global Economy\, and how you can get involved. This will be an interactive discussion featuring CID researchers.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/cid-speaker-series-china-and-the-global-economy/
LOCATION:Ellwood Democracy Lab – Rubenstein 414AB\, 79 JFK St.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Digital China Initiative Workshop — Beyond Chatbots: RAG and Agent
DESCRIPTION:register here\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis workshop delves deeper into advanced applications of Large Language Models (LLMs) beyond simple chatbot interfaces. Participants will explore how to leverage APIs to connect various tools with LLMs\, build private knowledge bases for more accurate and context-specific generation\, and utilize agents to expand the capabilities of LLMs in Literay Sinitic Studies. \n\n\n\nTarget Audience: \n\n\n\n\nFaculty and students in Literary Sinitic Studies with basic familiarity with GenAI and looking to implement more advanced AI solutions in their work\n\n\n\n\nWorkshop Objectives: \n\n\n\n\nUnderstand the concept and importance of APIs in connecting LLMs with other tools\n\n\n\nLearn how to implement Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) for Literary Sinitic Studies\n\n\n\nExplore the use of AI agents to enhance LLM capabilities in research and analysis\n\n\n\n\nAlso held October 18 and 25. \n\n\n\nRegistration Page \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/digital-china-initiative-workshop-beyond-chatbots-rag-and-agent/
LOCATION:Room 202\, 61 Kirkland St.\, 61 Kirkland St.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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SUMMARY:Amit Prasad — Contestations over Stem Cell Ethics and the US-China Tech War: What Should We Do with Their Orientalist and Colonial Framing?
DESCRIPTION:Register for Zoom session\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker:  Amit Prasad\, Associate Professor of History and Sociology\, Georgia Tech  \n\n\n\nPart of the Science and Technology in Asia series. Sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center. Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies \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/amit-prasad-contestations-over-stem-cell-ethics-and-the-us-china-tech-war-what-should-we-do-with-their-orientalist-and-colonial-framing/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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SUMMARY:Urban China Lecture Series featuring Zhang Lei - Urban Planning and Planners in China: Continuity and Change
DESCRIPTION:zoom meeting link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers: Zhang Lei\, Renmin UniversityProfessional planning in China has changed over the past four decades\, shifting from a focus on market-oriented reforms to a focus on the environment and people-centered practice. This lecture will discuss these changes at three different scales. First\, what has changed along with the transition in the urban planning system?  Second\, I examine the role local leaders play in drafting master plans\, showing that the degree of emphasis on environmental issues varies with the personal characteristics of party secretaries and mayors. I find that the education and age of local leaders have a significant effect on environmental concerns in master plans\, while their work experience and state mandate do not. Third\, I examine the role community planners have played in the case of Beijing\, showing that they play hybrid roles as technical experts\, advocates and communicators in their daily practice\, yet they exhibit a limited understanding of their role as communicative planners and how to effectively involve the public in the planning process. \n\n\n\nLei Zhang is a Professor of Urban Planning in the School of Public Administration and Policy at Renmin University of China. He completed his Ph.D. in planning at the University of Tokyo. He serves on several academic committees within the Urban Planning Society of China\, including as the secretary-general of the Planning Implementation Committee.  His research focuses on explaining institutional diversity and evolution in urban planning and development control\, and in particular\, the changing role of political power and public involvement in plans and planning in China and other East Asian Countries. He also explores the role of informal institutions in shaping place and space in China’s mega-cities. \n\n\n\nThis event series is sponsored by the MIT Sustainable Urbanization Lab\, the University of British Columbia’s School of Community and Regional Planning\, and the Harvard University Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. \n\n\n\nPresented via Zoom Meeting.Meeting link: https://mit.zoom.us/j/93343229272 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/urban-china-lecture-series-featuring-zhang-lei/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Urban China Series
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring David Zweig — China’s Battle for Talent and Technology
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: David Zweig\, Professor Emeritus\, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; Distinguished Visiting Professor of Taipei School of Economics and Political Science\, National Tsinghua University\, Taiwan; Vice President\, Center for China and Globalization (Beijing) \n\n\n\nIn the mid-1990s\, China’s hope for a “reverse brain drain” of overseas scientists\, academics\, and entrepreneurs stalled. So\, in 2001\, Jiang Zemin introduced China’s ‘Diaspora Option\,’ to encourage PRC-born Chinese living abroad to “serve the country” without “returning to the country.” Through a multipronged array of programs organized by government ministries and the CCP\, these former citizens have transferred their knowledge back home\, some to repay or strengthen their former homeland\, others from self-interest.  \n\n\n\nIn 2018\, the Trump Administration declared war on China’s efforts to access this information through the “China Initiative.” Hundreds of Chinese were investigated\, their research was disrupted\, and more than 100 were fired. Yet almost none were found guilty of espionage or theft of intellectual property. \n\n\n\nThis seminar documents China’s “over-the-top” effort to gain the help of these talented Chinese\, as well as the US government’s harsh effort to disrupt the transfer of US technology to China. It tells the stories of unknown victims of that campaign. It also highlights the harm this war has brought to Sino-American scientific collaboration. \n\n\n\nDavid Zweig (Ph.D.\, The University of Michigan\, 1983) is Professor Emeritus\, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology\, Distinguished Visiting Professor of Taipei School of Economics and Political Science\, National Tsinghua University\, Taiwan\, and Vice-President of the Center for China and Globalization (Beijing). He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard in 1984-85\, and received the Humanities and Social Sciences Prestigious Fellowship\, Research Grants Council\, Hong Kong\, 2013-14. For 15 years\, he directed the Center on China’s Transnational Relations at HKUST. \n\n\n\nHe has surveyed hundreds of Chinese who returned home and many who remain abroad. In 2012\, he briefed Li Yuanchao\, Director of the Organization Department of the CCP\, about why his 1000 Talents Plan was struggling. He was an expert witness in the defense of two Chinese professors under the Trump Administration’s “China Initiative.” \n\n\n\nHe has authored or edited ten books\, including Internationalizing China and China’s Brain Drain to the U.S.(Routledge). Over 40\,000 students have taken his two online classes with COURSERA on domestic Chinese Politics and on China and the World. \n\n\n\nThis talk is based on his new book\, The War for Chinese Talent in America: The politics of technology and knowledge in Sino-U.S. relations which was published in the Asia Shorts Series of the Association of Asian Studies and is distributed by Columbia University Press. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-featuring-david-zweig/
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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