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SUMMARY:Michael Beeman — Walking Out: America’s New Trade Policy in the Asia-Pacific and Beyond
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Michael Beeman\, Visiting Scholar\, Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center\, Stanford UniversityModerator: Mark Wu\, Henry L. Stimson Professor\, Harvard Law School; Director\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Also via Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIldeyrqzsvHt1-rpjNby98mM_q0kt89fUF#/registration \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/michael-beeman-walking-out-americas-new-trade-policy-in-the-asia-pacific-and-beyond/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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SUMMARY:The Role of Long-Duration Storage in Decarbonizing China's Power Sector
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Haiyang Jiang\, Postdoctoral Fellow\, Harvard-China Project \n\n\n\nThe increasing integration of renewable energy sources introduces significant long-term uncertainty to power systems\, creating challenges for maintaining energy balance over extended periods. Traditionally\, coal-fired generation has provided the flexibility needed to address these imbalances. However\, as coal-fired generation is phased out\, long-duration storage emerges as a promising solution to mitigate the risks of long-term imbalances in renewable-dominated power systems. This talk will explore the critical role of long-duration storage in advancing the decarbonization of China’s power sector. \n\n\n\nDr. Haiyang Jiang is a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Harvard-China Project at Harvard University. He earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Tsinghua University in 2023 and was a visiting student at the Harvard-China Project in 2022. His research focuses on power system modeling and planning\, long-duration energy storage\, and assessing long-term inadequacy risks in the power sector. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-role-of-long-duration-storage-in-decarbonizing-chinas-power-sector/
LOCATION:Pierce Hall Room 301\, 29 Oxford St.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250204T113000
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SUMMARY:Du Ying - The Cinematic Cold War Between the US and the PRC: Hong Kong\, 1950s–1960s
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Du Ying\, Professor\, Chinese Literature\, East China Normal University; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2024-25Chair/Discussant\, David Wang\,  Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nThis talk examines the policies and strategies of the United States and the People’s Republic of China in controlling cinematic production and access in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia during the 1950s and 1960s. By comparing these approaches\, it offers new insights into the complex interplay between global and local forces in shaping Cold War cinematic ecosystems. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/du-ying-the-cinematic-cold-war-between-the-us-and-the-prc-hong-kong-1950s-1960s/
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:20250204T161500
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SUMMARY:Andrew Collier — The Decline of China’s Property Market and the Global Economy
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Andrew Collier\, Senior Fellow\, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government\, Harvard Kennedy School \n\n\n\nFrom 1992 until the boom ended in 2021\, Chinese home property sales grew at an average rate of 25 percent per year. China was awash in new construction — often in the middle of empty fields far from city centers. In the United States and Europe real estate generally is less than 10 per cent of fixed asset investment. It was much higher in China. Real estate investment grew rapidly from 4 per cent of GDP in 1997 to 15 per cent of GDP in 2014\, accounting for 15 per cent of fixed asset investment and 15 per cent of urban employment. In some cities it topped 40 percent of local investment. China has built more housing per person than any major European country even though its GDP per capita is only one-third as high. \n\n\n\nHowever\, concerned about a speculative bubble\, the leadership crashed the market in 2020 with a new set of rules\, the “Three Red Lines\,” forcing developers to halt or slow construction. As a result\, China has lost its top contributor to economic growth and is struggling to replace it. What does this mean for geopolitics? Slowing Chinese growth will weaken the country’s global position militarily and politically and force the leadership to make hard choices about economic allocation. \n\n\n\nThis study group / discussion is open to all HUID holders. Registration is not necessary.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/andrew-collier-the-decline-of-chinas-property-market-and-the-global-economy/
LOCATION:Room L-163\, Littauer Building\, 79 JFK St.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250205T160000
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SUMMARY:Modern China Lecture featuring Tong Lam — Let the Ore Speak: Extractivism and China’s Early Cold War Mobilization
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Tong Lam\,  Associate Professor\, Department of History\, University of Toronto \n\n\n\nFrom Chairman Mao’s “receiving” of an ore in Zhongnanhai to the nationwide mapping of mineral resources and the mass movement for sighting and reporting minerals\, the 1950s marked the beginning of what could be described as China’s age of extractivism. The intensifying interactions between humans and nonhumans in socialist China had profound global and planetary consequences that continue to resonate today.Tong Lam’s research areas include the modern and contemporary history of China\, science and technology\, politics and aesthetics\, urbanism\, and empire. His first book\, A Passion for Facts: Social Surveys and the Construction of the Chinese Nation-State\, 1900-1949 (2011)\, analyzes the profound consequences of the emergence of the technology of the “social fact” and social survey research in modern China. Professor Lam’s current research examines China’s urban infrastructures\, ruins and ruination\, as well as the renewed imperial ambitions of the later Qing empire. As a visual artist\, he uses photographic and cinematographic techniques to dissect contemporary China’s transformation\, as well as Cold War ruins around the world. He has published a photo-essay book\, Abandoned Futures (2013)\, and has exhibited his work internationally. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/modern-china-lecture-featuring-tong-lam/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S250\, 1730 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:FCCS Modern China
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250210T121500
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SUMMARY:Symposium: “Vision for Tomorrow: Law\, Technology\, and Prosperity for a Thriving Global Community\,”
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us at the Harvard Law School China Law Association’s annual China Law Symposium\, “Vision for Tomorrow: Law\, Technology\, and Prosperity for a Thriving Global Community\,” in celebration of the Lantern Festival. This three-day event features six engaging panels with lunch/dinner provided\, and concludes with a festive Lantern Festival Social.SCHEDULE OF EVENTSFEBRUARY 10\, 202512:15 – 1:30 PMNavigating Disputes: Global Commerce and Dispute ResolutionLocation: WCC 2012Speakers: Shaoyi Che\, Managing Partner\, YoungZeal LLPHuawei Sun\, Senior Counsel\, Zhong Lun Law FirmBob Tseng\, Managing Partner\, TWL Law GroupModerator: Katniss Li\, S.J.D. Candidate6:00 – 7:15 PM Chinese Americans and the LawLocation: WCC 1015Speakers: William Lee\, Partner\, WilmerHaleJi Li\, John S. and Marilyn Long Professor of US-China Business and Law\, University of California\, Irvine School of LawPatrick Toomey\, Deputy Director\, ACLU National Security ProjectModerator: Michael Tian\, J.D. Candidate ‘25FEBRUARY 11\, 202512:15 – 1:30 PM Divorce\, Domestic Violence\, and Gender Inequality in ChinaLocation: WCC B010Speakers: Xin He\, Professor\, Faculty of Law\, University of Hong KongKe Li\, Associate Professor of Political Science\, John Jay College of Criminal Justice\, City University of New YorkModerator: Selina Chu\, J.D. Candidate ‘266:00 – 7:15 PM AI\, Technology\, and CybersecurityLocation: WCC 1015Speakers: Gilad Abiri\, Associate Professor of Law\, Peking University School of Transnational LawDavid Pan\, Partner\, Llinks Law Offices LLPDongsheng Zang\, Associate Professor of Law\, University of WashingtonModerator: Kevin Wei\, J.D. Candidate ‘26FEBRUARY 12\, 202512:15 – 1:30 PM Antitrust and Innovation in China’s EconomyLocation: WCC B010Speakers: Carol Xianxiao Liu\, Counsel\, Axinn\, Veltrop & Harkrider LLPDaniel Sokol\, Carolyn Craig Franklin Chair in Law and Professor of Law and Business\, USC Gould School of Law and Marshall School of BusinessWentong Zheng\, Professor of Law\, University of Florida\, Levin College of LawModerator: Tiffany Chu\, J.D. Candidate ‘266:00 – 7:15 PM Future of the Chinese EconomyLocation: WCC 1015Speakers: William Alford\, Jerome A. and Joan L. Cohen Professor of Law\, Harvard Law SchoolYasheng Huang\, Epoch Foundation Professor of Global Economics and Management at MIT Sloan School of ManagementBing Xiang\, Founding Dean\, Cheung Kong Graduate School of BusinessModerator: Michael Tian\, J.D. Candidate ‘257:20 – 9:30 PM Lantern Festival SocialLocation: WCC 1015 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/symposium-vision-for-tomorrow-law-technology-and-prosperity-for-a-thriving-global-community/
LOCATION:WCC\, Harvard Law School\, 1585 Massachusetts Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250211T203000
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SUMMARY:Urban China Lecture Series Featuring Bruce Pang — China's Property Market: Navigating the Evolving Landscape
DESCRIPTION:Zoom meeting link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Bruce Pang\, Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) Greater China \n\n\n\nFor the past three decades\, the real estate sector has been a cornerstone of China’s economic growth\, social development\, and urbanization. Commercial real estate\, in particular\, has thrived due to vigorous domestic growth and seamless integration into the global marketplace\, resulting in a mature\, diverse\, and thriving sector. As China pledges to shift its long-accustomed investment-driven growth model to a “quality over quantity” paradigm\, the property market is undergoing significant transformations\, with slower growth and disparities among sub-sectors.This lecture will explore these transformative dynamics and offer a forward-looking perspective on China’s real estate market\, including both the residential property sphere and key segments within the commercial property sector. By utilizing official data and JLL’s proprietary data\, we find that China’s property market serves as a proxy that can effectively reflect the country’s short-term cyclical headwinds and longer-term mega-trends. This includes China’s reshaped landscape in investment\, consumption\, financial\, and services sectors\, its urbanization and demographic outlook\, among others. We conclude that time and patience are still needed for China’s emerging industries and domestic consumption to regain growth momentum and offset the pressure on economic expansion\, especially as policymakers demonstrate a higher tolerance for slower growth and more focus on the domestic market.Bruce Pang is the Chief Economist and Head of Research at Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) Greater China. He also is a member of the Chief Economist Forum in China\, a Distinguished Senior Research Fellow at the National Institution for Finance and Development (NIFD)\, and a Research Fellow at the Center for Housing and Urban Development of Shanghai Jiao Tong University. In addition\, he holds adjunct faculty positions at the Chinese University of Hong Kong\, Fudan University\, Renmin University of China\, Sun Yat-sen University\, among others. Bruce holds a PhD degree in Economics from the University of Hong Kong as well as an MA from the University of Chicago and an MSc from HKUST. He has authored papers in peer-reviewed academic journals and industry journals\, focusing on macroeconomics\, policy analysis\, real estate economics\, financial markets\, and asset allocation strategies. \n\n\n\nWe would like to thank the MIT Sustainable Urbanization Lab\, the University of British Columbia’s School of Community and Regional Planning\, and the Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies for supporting this event. Please subscribe to our mailing list if you’d like to receive e-mail notifications: http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/urbanchinaseminar. \n\n\n\nJoin Zoom Meeting: https://mit.zoom.us/j/97147498753 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/urban-china-lecture-series-featuring-bruce-pang/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Urban China Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250213T100000
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SUMMARY:Beijing’s Multiple Facets from the Qing to the Present (1644-2025)
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers:XU Yamin\, Department of History\, Lemoyne College Eugenio Menegon\, Department of History\, Boston UniversityDaigengna Duoer\, Department of Religion\, Boston UniversityCathy Yeh\, World Languages and Literatures\, Boston UniversityMA Zhao\, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures\, Washington University in St. LouisMin Ye\, Pardee School of Global Studies\, Boston UniversityJorge Heine\, Pardee School of Global Studies\, Boston University \n\n\n\nPresentations followed by Q&A and conversations on the history of Beijing\, past\, present\, and future\, at the intersection of urban history\, politics\, religion\, literature\, and the arts. The meeting is open to faculty\, graduate students\, and advanced undergraduates.Register at: https://bostonu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bmFCX0ScZP4RU8K?Q_CHL=qr \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/beijings-multiple-facets-from-the-qing-to-the-present-1644-2025/
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:20250213T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250213T133000
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SUMMARY:China Initiative: Impacts and Implications – Law\, Science\, and U.S.-China Relations 
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers: Patrick Toomey\, National Security Project Deputy Director\, ACLUGang Chen\, Professor\, MIT Mechanical EngineeringYasheng Huang\, Professor\, MIT Sloan SchoolEdgar Chen\, Special Advisor\, National Asian Pacific American Bar Association  \n\n\n\nThe China Initiative\, launched under the Trump administration\, led to the wrongful prosecution of Chinese American scientists\, including MIT Professor Gang Chen. With discussions of its possible revival\, this talk will explore its legal and social impact\, its effects on the scientific community\, and what its return could mean for U.S.-China relations.  \n\n\n\nSponsored by China Law Association. For more info\, contact Ying Zhou at yzhou@jd25.law.harvard.edu \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-initiative-impacts-and-implications-law-science-and-u-s-china-relations/
LOCATION:WCC 2012\, Wasserstein Hall\, 1585 Massachusetts Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250213T160000
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SUMMARY:Peking Opera\, Shanghai Style: From Mei Lanfang to Shi Yihong海上京劇：從梅蘭芳到史依弘
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Shi Yihong\, Shanghai Jingju Theatre CompanyModerator: David Der-wei Wang\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nSponsors:East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard UniversityFairbank Center for Chinese StudiesChiang Ching-kuo Foundation \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/peking-opera-shanghai-style-from-mei-lanfang-to-shi-yihong%e6%b5%b7%e4%b8%8a%e4%ba%ac%e5%8a%87%ef%bc%9a%e5%be%9e%e6%a2%85%e8%98%ad%e8%8a%b3%e5%88%b0%e5%8f%b2%e4%be%9d%e5%bc%98/
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:20250214T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250215T171500
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SUMMARY:The 28th Annual Harvard East Asia Society Conference — Flow: A Symposium
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Harvard East Asia Society (HEAS) Graduate Student Conference is an annual event that provides an interdisciplinary forum for graduate students to exchange ideas and discuss current research on topics related to Asia. The conference invites young scholars to present their research to their peers and renowned scholars in relevant fields. Participants will also meet others in their research area and forge new professional relationships. \n\n\n\nThis year’s conference is titled “Flow: A Symposium.”Flow is about time\, dynamics\, and fluidity. It reflects East Asia as a region nourished by rivers\, seasonal winds\, and maritime routes. How can the idea of flow help us rethink and even unlearn the studies of East Asia? This title advances the notion of global East Asia as an infinite set of critical inquiry\, lifting the theoretical\, historical\, and empirical boundaries of East Asia Studies beyond any territorial borders. The committee welcomes scholarship whose subjects\, approaches\, and/or methodologies take a step back in reflection on the idea of East Asia in ways that “go with the flow” rather than “off the beaten track.” We also invite scholarship engaged with local\, national\, regional\, and transnational\, as well as (trans)historical and interdisciplinary studies. \n\n\n\nMore information can be found on our website: https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/heasconference  \n\n\n\nQuestions or concerns can be directed to heasconference@gmail.com. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-28th-annual-harvard-east-asia-society-conference-flow-a-symposium/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Conference and Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250218T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250218T150000
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SUMMARY:Weixin XU — Ukraine Every Day: An Artist’s Diary of 1\,090 Digital Drawings
DESCRIPTION:Artist Weixin XU has been working on his art project “Ukraine Every Day” since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Xu has completed almost 700 works using an iPad application. The portfolio includes portraits of soldiers\, political figures\, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky\, as well as scenes of the war. These images give voice to the artist’s hope for justice\, peace\, and resolution and his solidarity with the people of Ukraine. \n\n\n\nWeixin XU was born in Urumqi\, Xinjiang province\, in 1958\, and now lives and works in New York and Beijing. He received a BA from the Xi’an Academy of Arts and an MFA from the Zhejiang Academy of Arts. Xu has combined his interest in universal human conditions with a stark Realist style that is deeply rooted in China’s modern art history. His most recent works are single-person portrait series\, whose subjects share the same historic time or environment\, merging personal and collective narratives. Xu’s critically acclaimed works have been exhibited and collected by public institutions and private collections in China. Solo exhibitions include Song of Workers (Shanghai Art Museum\, 2007)\, Chinese Historical Figures: 1966-1976（Today Art Museum\, Beijing\, 2007)\, and China Image: Portrait in Circulation (Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard University\, 2011). He is currently a professor of painting and the former executive dean of the School of Arts\, Renmin University\, Beijing. In 2016\, Xu had his first major solo exhibition in USA at the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/weixin-xu-an-artists-diary-of-1090-digital-drawings/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Room S153\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250218T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250218T220000
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SUMMARY:Urban China Lecture Series Featuring Koji Hirata — Local Governments and Central SOEs: Historical Evidence from Angang
DESCRIPTION:Zoom meeting link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker:  Koji Hirata\, Monash University \n\n\n\nThis presentation examines the city of Anshan in Liaoning Province as a case study to explore the interactions between large state-owned enterprises and local governments in Mao-era China. Anshan was home to China’s largest steel enterprise at the time\, Anshan Iron and Steel Works (Angang). Although Angang was primarily controlled by the central government\, the Chinese Communist Party Anshan City Committee and the Anshan City Government still exerted a degree of influence over its operations. \n\n\n\nThe relationship between Angang and city authorities of Anshan underwent changes throughout the Mao era. During the First Five-Year Plan (1953-57)\, China adopted a centralized governance model based on the Soviet example\, and Angang often disregarded city government policies\, such as urban planning. However\, during the Great Leap Forward and the early Cultural Revolution\, Mao Zedong decentralized economic decision-making\, granting greater power to local governments. This shift significantly increased the influence of the city’s CCP committee and government on Angang—a transformation reflected in the so-called “Angang Constitution\,” authored by the CCP Anshan City Committee and praised by Chairman Mao.The study highlights the complexities of Maoist China’s planned economy\, demonstrating the dynamic interactions between industrial and urban authorities. These interactions reflected competing visions within the CCP leadership on how China should be governed. \n\n\n\nKoji Hirata is a Senior Research Fellow (Senior Lecturer) in History at Monash University in Australia. He earned his Ph.D. in history at Stanford University. Before joining Monash\, he was a Research Fellow (JRF) at Emmanuel College\, University of Cambridge. His research focuses on modern China\, Japan\, and Russia/Soviet Union with broader implications for the global history of capitalism and socialism. His new book\, Making Mao’s Steelworks: Industrial Manchuria and the Transnational Origins of Chinese Socialism\, was recently published by Cambridge University Press in December 2024. He is currently working on a new book project about Mao-era China’s foreign economic relations. \n\n\n\nWe would like to thank the MIT Sustainable Urbanization Lab\, the University of British Columbia’s School of Community and Regional Planning\, and the Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies for supporting this event. Please subscribe to our mailing list if you’d like to receive e-mail notifications: http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/urbanchinaseminar. \n\n\n\nJoin Zoom Meeting: https://mit.zoom.us/j/97147498753 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/urban-china-lecture-series-featuring-koji-hirata/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Urban China Series
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Jianbo Huang — Can China Live Without Religion?
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Jianbo Huang\, Professor of Anthropology\, East China Normal University \n\n\n\nChina is often labeled as the least religious nation in the world\, yet its people express a rich tapestry of spirituality. This talk reveals that Chinese citizens engage with a broad spectrum of religious and spiritual traditions—frequently in informal settings and beyond traditional institutional boundaries. These practices are driven by diverse personal motivations and deep-rooted cultural imperatives. Neither political pressures nor the forces of modernization and rationalization have eradicated religious influence in China. Rather\, religious life in China endures and adapts\, demonstrating that economic or material progress cannot substitute for the profound meaning offered by spiritual practices. Understanding this dynamic interplay is essential for anticipating China’s future trajectory.Jianbo Huang is Professor of anthropology at East China Normal University (ECNU)\, director of the Institute of Anthropology\, and the Center of Ethnicity and Development. Before joining ECNU in 2014\, he was a faculty member of anthropology institute\, Renmin University of China since 2005. After receiving his PH.D. in anthropology from Central Minzu University in 2003\, he was post-doc fellow at the Institute of Anthropology and Ethnology\, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences\, in 2003-2005\, and at the Institute of Studies of Religion\, Baylor University\, in 2007-2008. He received numerous funds from both the state social science foundation of China and international funds\, and was named as Shanghai Shuguang Scholar in 2015. \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-jianbo-huang-can-china-live-without-religion/
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:China Economy Lecture Featuring Heng Wang — How is China Affecting the International Economic Order?
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Heng Wang\, Professor\, Yong Pung How School of Law\, Singapore Management UniversityModerator: Mark Wu\, Henry Stimson Professor of Law\, Harvard Law School; Director\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies \n\n\n\nChina’s practices\, such as those under the extra-regional Belt and Road Initiative\, are selectively reshaping international economic order. More recently\, China’s role in the international economic governance has been evolving rapidly\, affected by a range of new dynamics\, ranging from central bank digital currency to artificial intelligence. Meanwhile\, external factors — such as the policy measures of the new Trump administration — will both influence and be influenced by China’s engagement with the international economic system. \n\n\n\nNotably\, the shifting landscape features increasing and likely unprecedented complexities. It spans technological\, regulatory\, geoeconomic and other dimensions\, including environmental implications of digitalization such as energy\, water\, raw materials demands\, and the challenge of e-waste. Both the “hardware” (e.g. new infrastructure) and “software” (e.g. emerging standards and institutions\, agreements\, practices) would develop\, reshaping key aspects of the transnational economic system. China’s unique approach to international economic governance will carry long-term implications. The talk will explore how China is affecting the international economic order in the new context of the digital age and a multipolar world —and what this means for the future. \n\n\n\nHeng Wang is a Professor at Yong Pung How School of Law\, Singapore Management University. Previously\, he was a professor at UNSW Sydney. Heng is a recipient of major grants and awards\, including being named Australia’s research field leader in international law by The Australian newspaper. His work has often been cited in intergovernmental organisation documents. He is a member of the World Economic Forum’s AI Governance Alliance\, Future of Blockchain and Digital Assets Initiative\, and Technology\, Innovation and Systemic Risk Initiative. He has advised or been a (keynote) speaker at events organised by esteemed institutions\, including the Asian Development Bank\, APEC\, Bundesbank\, CPMI/BIS\, HCCH\, ICC\, ICSID\, IMF\, INTERPOL\, MAS\, UNDP\, UNCITRAL\, the World Bank\, the WTO\, and the private sector. His research evolves to explore the future of international economic governance\, including that of the international financial system\, and solutions to risks. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-economy-lecture-featuring-heng-wang-how-is-china-reshaping-the-international-economic-order/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S250\, 1730 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:China Economy Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250221T093000
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SUMMARY:Taiwan Studies+
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Moira Weigel\, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature\, Harvard University Sarah Plovnick\, Hou Family Postdoctoral Fellow in Taiwan Studies\, Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesYedong Sh-Chen\, Ph.D. Candidate in East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard UniversityChang-Min Yu\, Associate Professor\, National Taiwan UniversityHardy Stewart\, Hou Family Predoctoral Fellow in Taiwan Studies\, Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesChia-wei Lai\, Ph.D. Candidate in Art History\, National Taiwan UniversityLei Ying\, Assistant Professor of Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Amherst CollegeWill Sack\, Ph.D. Candidate in History\, Harvard UniversityKevin Luo\, Assistant Professor of Political Science\, University of Minnesota\, Twin CitiesWei-An Tsai\, S.J.D. Candidate\, Harvard Law SchoolJosh Freedman\, Postdoctoral Fellow\, Center for the Study of Contemporary China\, University of PennsylvaniaRichard Yu-Cheng Shih\, Postdoctoral Research Fellow\, Mahindra Humanities Center\, Harvard UniversityDingru Huang\, Assistant professor of East Asian Comparative Literature\, Tufts UniversityKyle Shernuk\, Assistant Professor of Modern Chinese Literature and Culture\, Georgetown University \n\n\n\nModerators: David Der-wei Wang\, Harvard UniversityKevin Luo\, University of Minnesota\, Twin Cities \n\n\n\nIn light of heightened global attention toward Taiwan in recent years\, how should scholars approach the study of Taiwan’s history\, culture\, politics\, and the environment? And how might a ‘Taiwan perspective’ contribute to broader discussions of regional and global interest? This emerging scholars symposium seeks to address these critical issues through a multi-method and multi-scalar approach\, in order to expand the scope of Taiwan Studies beyond traditional disciplinary and geopolitical boundaries.Sponsors: Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesEast Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard UniversityDepartment of Political Science at the University of Minnesota\, Twin Cities.Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/taiwan-studies/
LOCATION:Plimpton Room (133)\, Barker Center\, 12 Quincy St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250223T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250223T160000
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: This Woman (這個女人)
DESCRIPTION:Purchase tickets\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDirected by Alan Zhang (China\, 2023\, 90 min.). Mandarin with English subtitles.  \n\n\n\nIn her striking debut feature\, filmmaker Alan Zhang explores the life of a 35-year-old woman who\, after losing her decade-long job during the COVID-19 pandemic\, returns to her hometown from Beijing. As she works to support herself\, her parents\, and her child\, she navigates intimate relationships and embarks on a profound journey of self-discovery. Deftly blurring the line between documentary and fiction\, This Woman delves into the role of women in contemporary Chinese society\, questioning the expectations imposed on them and their pursuit of freedom. Awarded the Special Jury Prize at Visions du Réel\, Zhang—a feminist activist\, artist\, and filmmaker—delivers a timely and courageous work that invites reflection and dialogue. \n\n\n\nWatch the trailer. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-screening-this-woman-%e9%80%99%e5%80%8b%e5%a5%b3%e4%ba%ba/
LOCATION:Museum of Fine Arts\, Remis Auditorium\, 465 Huntingon Ave\, Boston\, Massachusetts\, 02115\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest,Film Screening
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SUMMARY:Esther Hu — Soong Mayling and Wartime China\, 1937-1945: Deploying Words as Weapons
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Esther Hu\, Research Affiliate\, Boston University Center for the Study of Asia\, Pardee School of Global StudiesChair: William Kirby\, T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies; Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration; Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor; Director\, Harvard China Fund \n\n\n\nSoong Mayling and Wartime China\, 1937-1945: Deploying Words as Weapons focuses on the First Lady of China’s timely and critical contributions in the areas of war\, women’s work\, and diplomacy during China’s War of Resistance as inflected through gender. This book explores Soong Mayling through her own words by examining her speeches\, essays\, letters\, telegrams\, and news reports during the war period. How did Madame Chiang Kai-shek’s gender identity shape her interactions with other Chinese women\, the male military and political leadership in the Republic of China\, and the broader global public? How did Confucianism’s cardinal virtues and Chinese Christianity converge in Soong Mayling’s work and worldview? What were her main contributions as Secretary-General of the Chinese Air Force? Drawing on Chinese archival materials such as Chiang Kai-shek’s diaries and other records around the world\, Esther Hu provides a historically informed perspective of the First Lady’s legacy within the context of World War II history\, international cultural and military affairs\, and transnational geopolitics. \n\n\n\nBefore joining the faculty of Boston University in 2005 as an Assistant Professor in the Humanities\, Professor Hu had taught at Cornell University (John S. Knight Institute\, First-Year-Writing Seminars) and Chung Yuan Christian University (College of Humanities and Education). \n\n\n\nProfessor Hu is an Associate in Research at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University and a Fellow of the International History Institute at Boston University. Dr. Hu has published many essays\, book reviews\, and encyclopedia entries and is the English translator of Soong Mayling’s Chinese-language pictorial biography\, A Legacy of Grace and Resilience: Soong Mayling and her Era (2023; 2nd Ed. 2024). \n\n\n\nLunch will be provided. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/esther-hu-soong-mayling-and-wartime-china-1937-1945-deploying-words-as-weapons/
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:20250225T200000
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SUMMARY:Hang Tu — 𝘚𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘙𝘦𝘱𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤: 𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘦 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘢𝘰𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘗𝘢𝘴𝘵
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Hang Tu\, Assistant Professor of Chinese Studies\, National University of SingaporeModerator: David Wang\, Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature\, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nHow does emotion shape the landscape of public intellectual debate? In Sentimental Republic\, Hang Tu proposes emotion as a new critical framework to approach a post-Mao cultural controversy. As it entered a period of market reform\, China did not turn away from revolutionary sentiments. Rather\, the post-Mao period experienced a surge of emotionally charged debates about red legacies\, ranging from the anguished denunciations of Maoist violence to the elegiac remembrances of socialist egalitarianism. \n\n\n\nSentimental Republic chronicles forty years (1978–2018) of bitter cultural wars about the Maoist past. It analyzes how the four major intellectual clusters in contemporary China—liberals\, the left\, cultural conservatives\, and nationalists—debated Mao’s revolutionary legacies in light of the postsocialist transition. Should the Chinese condemn revolutionary violence and “bid farewell to socialism”? Or would a return to revolution foster alternative visions of China’s future path? Tu probes the nexus of literature\, thought\, and memory\, bringing to light the dynamic moral sentiments and emotional excess at work in these post-Mao ideological contentions. By analyzing how rival intellectual camps stirred up melancholy\, guilt\, anger\, and resentment\, Tu argues that the polemics surrounding the country’s past cannot be properly understood without reading the emotional trajectories of the post-Mao intelligentsia. \n\n\n\nSponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies  \n\n\n\nPresented via Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_sbCTCYhfSfSaNkjASXM6kw#/registration \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/hang-tu-%f0%9d%98%9a%f0%9d%98%a6%f0%9d%98%af%f0%9d%98%b5%f0%9d%98%aa%f0%9d%98%ae%f0%9d%98%a6%f0%9d%98%af%f0%9d%98%b5%f0%9d%98%a2%f0%9d%98%ad-%f0%9d%98%99%f0%9d%98%a6%f0%9d%98%b1%f0%9d%98%b6/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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SUMMARY:Urban China Lecture Series Featuring Amy Zhang - Circular Ecologies: Environmentalism and Waste Politics in Urban China
DESCRIPTION:Zoom meeting link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker:  Amy Zhang\, New York University \n\n\n\nAfter four decades of reform and development\, China is confronting a domestic waste crisis. Starting in the early 2000s\, Chinese policymakers came to see waste management as an object of environmental governance central to the creation of “modern” cities. China’s cities started experiments with the circular economy\, in which technology and new policy could convert all forms of waste back into resources. Based on long-term research in Guangzhou\, this talk details the implementation of technologies and infrastructures to modernize a mega-city’s waste management system. Waste’s transformation revealed uncomfortable truths about China’s mode of environmental governance: a preference for technology over labor\, the aestheticization of order\, and the expropriation of value in service of an ecological vision. Waste’s afterlives exhibited a propensity to draw together diverse matters and objects. The talk shows how in disputes and practices around waste\, diverse waste matter in transformation created temporary and emergent social and ecological interdependencies and gave rise to new political sentiments and actions across diverse urban dwellers.  \n\n\n\nAmy Zhang is a sociocultural anthropologist and political ecologist whose research investigates environment\, technology\, labor\, and urban life. Her first book Circular Ecologies: Environmentalism and Waste Politics in Urban China (Stanford University Press\, 2024) explores how waste infrastructures\, materials and their technical interventions ground and condition the forms\, possibilities and limits of China’s emerging urban environmental politics. Other writings appear in Cultural Anthropology\, Current Anthropology\, Science\, Technology and Human Values\, China Perspectives\, e-flux Architecture\, LIMN\, Made in China and Can Science and Technology save China? among others. She is assistant professor of Anthropology at New York University. \n\n\n\nZoom Meeting Link: https://mit.zoom.us/j/97147498753 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/urban-china-lecture-series-featuring-amy-zhang/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Urban China Series
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Admiral James Stavridis\, USN (Ret.) — Crisis Scenario: Imagining U.S.-China Relations and War in the Pacific
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Admiral James Stavridis\, USN (Ret.)\,  Partner and Vice Chair\, Global Affairs\, The Carlyle Group; Chair of the Board of Trustees\, Rockefeller Foundation \n\n\n\nAdmiral James Stavridis is Partner and Vice Chair\, Global Affairs of The Carlyle Group and Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Rockefeller Foundation\, following five years as the 12th Dean of The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. A retired 4-star officer in the U.S. Navy\, he led the NATO Alliance in global operations from 2009 to 2013 as Supreme Allied Commander with responsibility for Afghanistan\, Libya\, the Balkans\, Syria\, counter piracy\, and cyber security. He also served as Commander of U.S. Southern Command\, with responsibility for all military operations in Latin America from 2006-2009. He earned more than 50 medals\, including 28 from foreign nations in his 37-year military career. \n\n\n\nEarlier in his military career he commanded the top ship in the Atlantic Fleet\, winning the Battenberg Cup\, as well as a squadron of destroyers and a carrier strike group – all in combat. In 2016\, he was vetted for Vice President by Hillary Clinton and subsequently invited to Trump Tower to discuss a cabinet position in the Trump Administration. \n\n\n\nAdmiral Stavridis earned a PhD in international relations and has published fourteen books and hundreds of articles in leading journals around the world\, including the recent novel “2034: A Novel of the Next World War\,” which was a New York Times bestseller and “To Risk It All: Nine Conflicts and The Crucible of Decision.” His most recent book “The Restless Wave: A Novel of the United States Navy” was published in October 2024. His 2012 TED talk on global security has close to one million views. Admiral Stavridis is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist and Chief International Security Analyst for NBC News. \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-admiral-james-stavridis-usn-ret-crisis-scenario-imagining-u-s-china-relations-and-war-in-the-pacific/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China,Critical Issues Confronting China Series
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250227T133000
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SUMMARY:Trump 2.0: Journalistic Insights on U.S. - Asia Relations
DESCRIPTION:Panelists:Yevgenia Albats\, Editor-in-Chief & CEO\, The New TimesSteven L Herman\, Former Asia and White House Broadcast News CorrespondentJosh Rogin\, Lead Global Security Analyst for Washington Post IntelligenceEdward Wong\, Diplomatic Correspondent\, The New York Times  \n\n\n\nModerator: James Robson\, James C. Kralik and Yunli Lou Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations; Harvard College Professor; Director\, Harvard-Yenching Institute \n\n\n\nThis discussion will explore the impact of President Trump’s second term on Asia\, examining shifting geopolitical dynamics in the region through insights from seasoned journalists.  \n\n\n\nSponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center\, and Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Reischauer Institute for Japanese Studies\, Korea Institute\, Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/trump-2-0-journalistic-insights-on-u-s-asia-relations/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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SUMMARY:Li Miao — Retaining Desire for Social Mobility Within and Beyond Schooling: A Longitudinal Ethnography of Migrant Youth in China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Li Miao\, Professor\, Department of Sociology\, Shandong University; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2024-25Chair/Discussant: Emily Hannum\, Professor of Sociology and Education; Associate Dean\, School of Arts & Sciences\, University of Pennsylvania \n\n\n\nBased on the results of China’s seventh national population census in 2020\, 71.09 million children of migrant-peasant workers have participated in rural-urban migration for family reunion and educational purposes. How do they make sense of the value of schooling and their prospects for upward mobility in an increasingly stratified society? Drawing on ethnographic data from a longitudinal study (2011 to the present)\, this talk examines the educational experiences of a group of migrant youth over ten years of circular migration between Beijing and Zouping\, a county-level city in Shandong Province. These youth retain desire for upward mobility by resisting “gratitude education” in urban schools\, questioning the incorporation of live-streaming technologies in rural education\, forming the “shehui ren” (society man) subculture\, and exploring opportunities in the gig economy. Their sustained efforts highlight the obstacles posed by structural and institutional constraints in the larger society. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/li-miao-retaining-desire-for-social-mobility-within-and-beyond-schooling-a-longitudinal-ethnography-of-migrant-youth-in-china/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250228T122000
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SUMMARY:Fu Hualing in Conversation With Bill Alford
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Professor Fu Hualing\, Dean of the Faculty of Law; Warren Chan Professor in Human Rights and Responsibilities\, University of Hong Kong \n\n\n\nDiscussant: Bill Alford\, Jerome A. and Joan L. Cohen Professor of Law\, Harvard Law School \n\n\n\nFu Hualing is Professor of Law and holder of the Warren Chan Professorship in Human Rights and Responsibilities at the University of Hong Kong. He holds an LL.B. from Southwestern University in China\, an M.A. from University of Toronto and a Doctor of Jurisprudence degree from OsgoodeHall. \n\n\n\nProfessor Fu’s current research focuses on the rise of human rights lawyering in China and its implications for political and legal reform in China\, the politics of anti-corruption enforcement\, popular justice (including China’s evolving use of mediation processes)\, and a critical re-assessment of rule of law reform in China in the past four decades. His other research areas include the constitutional status of Hong Kong\, in particular central-local relationships in the Hong Kong context and national security legislation. \n\n\n\nProfessor Fu has published widely in various books and journals\, and as a believer in collaborative approaches to scholarship has co-edited a number of significant studies including Hong Kong’s Constitutional Debate: Conflict over Interpretation (HKU Press 2000); National Security and Fundamental Freedoms: Hong Kong’s Article 23 Under Scrutiny(HKU Press 2005); Liu Xiaobo\, Charter 08 and the Challenges of Political Reform in China (HKU Press 2012); Mediation in Contemporary China (Wildy\, Simmonds and Hill 2017); Transparency Challenges Facing China (Wildy\, Simmonds and Hill 2018); Socialist Law in Socialist East Asia (Cambridge University Press 2018); Authoritarian Legality in Asia: Formation\, Development and Transition (Cambridge University Press 2020); The National Security Law of Hong Kong: Restoration and Transformation (HKU Press 2022); and Regime Type and Beyond: The Transformation of Police in Asia (Cambridge University Press 2023). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/fu-hualing-in-conversation-with-bill-alford/
LOCATION:Austin Hall Room 308\, 1515 Mass Ave\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:China Humanities Seminar featuring Robert Ashmore — Song and its Powers: Revisiting the Question of the “Musicality” of the Song-poems of Li He 李賀 (790–816)
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Robert Ashmore\, Associate Professor and Chair\, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures\, University of California Berkeley \n\n\n\nLi He’s own writings\, as well as comments from his contemporaries and later critics\, persistently note the centrality of song and musical traditions to his distinctiveness as a poet—from early on\, his works themselves were often referred to not simply as shi 詩 or “poems\,” but rather as geshi 歌詩—i.e.\, “song-poems.” Traditions linking Li He and his works to contemporary Tang musical repertoires\, and particularly to imperial musical institutions\, emerged early on in his reception history\, and to a significant degree shaped his image in readers’ minds. These early accounts\, however\, prove on closer scrutiny either inconclusive or positively refutable. This essay will attempt an alternative (though perhaps in the end complementary) approach to the question of Li He’s “musicality.” Rather than straining to substantiate concrete connections between Li He and contemporary musical performance\, this discussion will follow up on cues within Li He’s works to explore the imaginative spaces of song and musicality as these would have appeared to a young aspirant to imperial service at the turn of the ninth century. In this specifically medieval world of acoustics\, musicality\, and song\, it is precisely those features that most diverge from our own tacit assumptions that may offer the most tangible critical payoff for our reading and appreciation of this seemingly anomalous and enigmatic writer. \n\n\n\nRobert Ashmore is Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures\, UC Berkeley. His research focuses on the literary and scholarly traditions of medieval China from the third to tenth centuries\, with particular emphasis on traditions of interpretation and hermeneutics. He is author of The Transport of Reading: Text and Understanding in the World of Tao Qian (353–427) and The Poetry of Li He. He is currently completing work on a book titled Bodies of Interpretation: Performance and Hermeneutics in Chinese Classicist Traditions. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-humanities-seminar-featuring-robert-ashmore-song-and-its-powers-revisiting-the-question-of-the-musicality-of-the-song-poems-of-li-he-%e6%9d%8e%e8%b3%80-790/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:China Humanities Seminar
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SUMMARY:Modern China Lecture Series Featuring Yixin Chen — Famine and Rebellion: The Counterrevolutionary Case of the Chinese People’s Life-Saving Army in the Western Stream Villages\, 1959-1960.
DESCRIPTION:register for hybrid zoom attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Yixin Chen\, Professor of History\, University of North Carolina Wilmington.  \n\n\n\nThis talk explores why numerous cases of counterrevolutionary groups emerged in rural China during the Great Leap Forward famine of the late 1950s\, despite the brutal and large-scale Suppression of Counterrevolutionaries campaigns earlier that decade. Focusing on the case of the “Chinese People’s Life-Saving Army\,” formed by peasants in the Western Stream (xixi) Production Brigade in southern Anhui Province in 1960\, this study highlights how the group’s grain-stealing actions were not acts of political rebellion but survival strategies during the famine. Far from fitting the state’s definition of counterrevolutionary behavior\, these actions represented collective resistance to starvation. The study argues that local authorities and judicial institutions played a central role in politically overinterpreting these struggles for food. Through the excessive use of state violence and ideological overreach\, acts of self-preservation were reframed as counterrevolutionary offenses. This mischaracterization contributed significantly to the dramatic increase in rural counterrevolutionary group cases during the Great Leap famine. \n\n\n\nYixin Chen earned his Ph.D. from Washington University in St. Louis and is a professor of history at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. His book\, When Food Became Scarce: How Chinese Peasants Survived the Great Leap Forward Famine (Cornell University Press\, 2024)\, provides a grassroots analysis of why some peasants survived while others in the same village\, despite facing identical food shortages\, did not. The book argues that the natural environment and lineage-based social mechanism played crucial roles in peasant survival during this prolonged ordeal. An expanded Chinese edition of the book\, titled Jingyan Jihuang (Experiencing the Famine)\, authored by Chen\, was published by the Chinese University of Hong Kong Press in January 2025. Professor Chen specializes in the socioeconomic history of modern China and has published extensively in academic journals in the U.S.\, China\, and Hong Kong\, in both English and Chinese. In 2009\, he received the Vernon Carstensen Memorial Award for the best article published in Agricultural History. He is currently working on a book that explores organized peasant counterrevolutionaries in Mao’s China. \n\n\n\nAlso via Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_hOiD_AYoTeKJI3XpNB7Jmw \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/modern-china-lecture-series-featuring-yixin-chen-famine-and-rebellion-the-counterrevolutionary-case-of-the-chinese-peoples-life-saving-army-in-the-wester-stream-villages-1959-1960/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Modern China Lecture
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Jeremy Daum — Unchained Watchdog: How China's Supervision Commission Escapes Legal Bounds
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Jeremy Daum\, Senior Research Scholar in Law and Senior Fellow\, Paul Tsai China Center\, Yale University \n\n\n\nDiscussant: Bill Alford\, Jerome A. and Joan L. Cohen Professor of Law; Director of East Asian Legal Studies Program\, Harvard Law School \n\n\n\n***PLEASE NOTE THE TIME AND VENUE FOR THIS LECTURE DIFFERS FROM OTHERS IN THIS SERIES*** \n\n\n\nIn 2018\, China amended its constitution to establish the Supervision System as a fourth branch of government focused on preventing and correcting abuses of state power. The reform was framed as shifting the ongoing anti-corruption campaign from the opaque\, extra-legal party discipline system to a more transparent and uniform legal process. The result\, however\, is sometimes less that the discipline system has been bound by law\, than that law has been bound to the discipline system. By examining the development\, duties\, and institutional relationships of the new supervision commissions\, Daum argues that this further integration of the Party and state risks the legitimacy of both. \n\n\n\nJeremy Daum is a Senior Research Scholar in Law and Senior Fellow at the Paul Tsai China Center. He is based in Beijing\, and has more than a decade of experience working in China on collaborative legal reform projects. His principal research focus is criminal procedure law\, with a particular emphasis on the protection of vulnerable populations such as juveniles and the mentally ill in the criminal justice system. He is also an authority on China’s “social credit system.” Jeremy has spoken about these issues at universities throughout China and the United States and has co-authored a book on U.S. capital punishment jurisprudence for Chinese readers. He is the founder and contributing editor of the collaborative translation and commentary site Chinalawtranslate.com\, dedicated to improving mutual understanding between legal professionals in China and abroad. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/how-chinas-supervision-commission-escapes-legal-bounds/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China,Critical Issues Confronting China Series
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SUMMARY:Jishun Zhang — Revolution in the Lilong and Its Legacy: Revisiting Shanghai Residents’ Committees in the Mao Zedong Era
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Jishun Zhang\, 2024-25 Professor Emeritus of the Si-Mian Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities of East China Normal University; Fairbank Center 2024-2025 Visiting Scholar \n\n\n\n*This talk will be presented in Mandarin* \n\n\n\nFrom April to May 2022\, Shanghai’s 61-day COVID-19 lockdown saw the sudden reassertion of the once-dormant Residents’ Committees. Their resurgence raises critical questions: Is this the same institution as before? Why did it appear absent for decades? Did it dissolve or integrate into broader institutional frameworks? Was its revival driven by lingering revolutionary mobilization\, a resurgence of Mao-era campaign-style governance\, or specific contingencies? These inquiries underscore the enduring significance of grassroots governance in the PRC. The 2022 lockdown offers a lens to reassess Shanghai’s Residents’ Committees beyond the 1949 divide and challenge the assumed rupture of 1979\, highlighting both continuities and transformations in CCP urban governance. \n\n\n\nJishun Zhang is Professor Emeritus of the Si-Mian Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities of East China Normal University. She studies the history of modern China\, with a focus on Shanghai’s history. Her research specifically focuses on grassroots social governance and cultural transformation in the Mao era. She is working with Professor Yuhua Wang in the Harvard University Department of Government on her current project\, “The Lane Revolution and Its Legacy: Revisiting Shanghai Neighborhood Committees in Mao’s Era.”  \n\n\n\nProfessor Zhang’s books include Chinese Intellectuals’ Views on America\, 1943-1953\, (Fudan University Press\, 1999) and A City Displaced: Shanghai in the 1950s (Social Sciences Academic Press\, 2015). Zhang is a graduate of Beijing Normal University and Fudan University\, where she received her Ph.D. She was a Visiting Scholar at the Institute of East Asia Studies at UC Berkeley in 1994-95 and was a coordinate professor in the Harvard-Yenching Institute in 2012-2013. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/jishun-zhang-revolution-in-the-lilong-and-its-legacy-revisiting-shanghai-residents-committees-in-the-mao-zedong-era/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Room S153\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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SUMMARY:Border of Water and Ice: The Yalu River and Japan's Empire in Korea and Manchuria
DESCRIPTION:Register for hybrid zoom access\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Joseph Seeley\, Assistant Professor\, Department of History\, University of VirginiaChair: Victor Seow\, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nBorder of Water and Ice explores the significance of the Yalu River as a strategic border between Korea and Manchuria (Northeast China) during a period of Japanese imperial expansion into the region. The Yalu’s seasonal patterns of freezing\, thawing\, and flooding shaped colonial efforts to control who and what could cross the border. The unpredictable movements of water\, ice\, timber-cutters\, anti-Japanese guerrillas\, smugglers\, and other borderland actors spilled outside the bounds set by Japanese colonizers\, even as imperial border-making reinforced Japan’s wider political and economic power. Drawing on archival sources in Japanese\, Korean\, Chinese\, and English\, Border of Water and Ice tells the story of the river and the imperial Japanese border haphazardly imposed on its surface from 1905 to 1945 to show how rivers and other nonhuman actors play an active role in border creation and maintenance. Emphasizing the tenuous\, environmentally contingent nature of imperial border governance\, Border of Water and Ice argues for the importance of understanding history across the different seasons. \n\n\n\nJoseph Seeley is an Assistant Professor in the University of Virginia’s Corcoran Department of History and specialist in the histories of Korea\, the Japanese Empire\, and East Asian environments and borderlands. His book Border of Water and Ice (Cornell University Press) examines the Yalu River boundary between northern Korea and China during a period of Japanese expansion in the region. Drawing on previously unexamined sources in Chinese\, Korean\, and Japanese\, he argues that the seasonally freezing\, thawing\, and flooding river was a critical actor in imperial border creation and contestation. As part of his multilingual research on Korean history\, Seeley has also published on topics such as animal disease control in colonial Korea\, US-Korean diplomatic history\, Korean tiger-human relations\, and the history of Japanese colonial zoos in Seoul and Taipei. Prior to joining the History faculty at UVA Seeley completed his doctoral studies at Stanford University\, where his research was supported by the Korea Foundation and the Freeman Spogli Institute. Before Stanford he earned a bachelor’s degree in History with a minor in Korean from Brigham Young University.To attend this event online\, please register here. \n\n\n\nKorea ColloquiumCo-sponsored by Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and Program on U.S.-Japan Relations \n\n\n\nGenerously supported by the Young-Chul Min Memorial Fund at the Korea Institute\, Harvard University \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/border-of-water-and-ice-the-yalu-river-and-japans-empire-in-korea-and-manchuria/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Room S050\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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SUMMARY:Chinese Companies Going Global with Han Kun 汉坤 
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAs Chinese companies expand globally\, they face regulatory scrutiny\, geopolitical challenges\, and cross-border disputes. Whether you’re a founder\, investor\, or legal professional\, this is a must-attend event to understand the opportunities and challenges for Chinese companies going global. Experts from Han Kun Law Offices—including former partners from White & Case and Kirkland & Ellis—will share insights on navigating Rednote’s impact and managing compliance risks in global expansion. \n\n\n\nLunch will be provided. \n\n\n\nInterested in deeper insights? In addition to the lunch talk\, you can join a closed-door session with Han Kun partners after the talk. Indicate your interest when filling out the registration form: https://forms.gle/RrTYtxmc1ZvocDf36 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/chinese-companies-going-global-with-han-kun-%e6%b1%89%e5%9d%a4/
LOCATION:WCC 1015\, Wasserstein Hall\, 1585 Massachusetts Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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