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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250310T163000
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SUMMARY:Panel Discussion — Three Years In\, Prospects for Peace? China-Russia-North Korea Relations on the Third Anniversary of Putin’s Ukraine War
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:Andrew S. Erickson\, Professor of Strategy\, U.S. Naval War College China Maritime Studies Institute; Visiting Scholar\, Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesEmily J. Holland\, Assistant Professor\, Naval War College Russia Maritime Studies Institute; former postdoctoral fellow\, Davis CenterVitaly Kozyrev\, Distinguished Professor of Political Science & International Studies\, Endicott CollegeSeong-hyon Lee\, Visiting Scholar\, Harvard University Asia Center; Senior Fellow\, George H.W. Bush Foundation for US-China Relations \n\n\n\nModerator: Mark Wu\, Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law\, Harvard Law School; Director\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies \n\n\n\nFebruary 24\, 2025 marks the three-year anniversary of Putin’s devastating Ukraine invasion. Among its many reverberations are ramifications for Sino-Russian relations\, which continue to deepen despite lingering differences between the great powers and the revisionist autocrats leading them. Emerging and potential impacts include increasing energy and resource transactions\, alignment in the form of international strategic coordination and demonstrations of their partnership on the world stage\, collaboration in military technology and operations\, and maritime-security advances. And what role is North Korea playing in this complex geopolitical dance? Expert panelists will discuss these complicated dynamics and pressing issues as the Trump Administration pursues a conclusion to the devastating Russia-Ukraine War while Beijing\, Moscow\, and Peongyang strive to shape events in their favor. \n\n\n\nThis event is co-sponsored by the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies\, Harvard University and the Korea Institute\, Harvard University. \n\n\n\nAndrew S. Erickson is a Professor of Strategy in the U.S. Naval War College (NWC)’s China Maritime Studies Institute\, which he helped establish and has served as Research Director\, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He testifies periodically before Congress and briefs leading officials\, including the Secretary of Defense. Erickson helped to escort the Commander of China’s Navy on a visit to Harvard and subsequently to establish\, and to lead the first iteration of\, NWC’s first naval officer exchange program with China. He has received the Navy Superior Civilian Service Medal\, NWC’s inaugural Civilian Faculty Research Excellence Award\, and NBR’s inaugural Ellis Joffe Prize for PLA Studies. His research focuses on Indo-Pacific defense\, international relations\, technology\, and resource issues. Dr. Erickson was a 2019-2022 Visiting Scholar. \n\n\n\nEmily Holland is an assistant professor in the Russia Maritime Studies Institute at the U.S. Naval War College. Previously\, she was an assistant professor at the U.S. Naval Academy\, a postdoctoral fellow at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University and a visiting fellow at the German Institute for Economic Research (Berlin) and the European Council on Foreign Relations (Berlin). Professor Holland’s research has appeared in The Journal of International Affairs\, Newsweek and Lawfare\, among other publications. \n\n\n\nVitaly Kozyrev is Distinguished Professor of Political Science and International Studies at Endicott College in Beverly\, MA\, and Associate in Research at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University. His major interest is great power politics\, East-West relations\, international conflict\, and the political economy of regionalism and regional integration. \n\n\n\nSeong-Hyon Lee is a Senior Fellow at the George H.W. Bush Foundation for U.S.-China Relations\, focusing his research on South and North Korea. He received his Ph.D. from Tsinghua University and a Master of Theological Studies from Harvard University. Dr. Lee was formerly the Director of the Center for Chinese Studies at the Sejong Institute in Seoul\, South Korea\, a Pantech Fellow at the Stanford Korean Studies Program\, and a Visiting Scholar at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard University. He has provided briefings regarding the implications of China’s rise on South Korea and U.S.-China relations to South Korean presidential candidates. \n\n\n\nMark Wu is the Director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University and the Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law at Harvard Law School\, where he teaches international trade and international economic law. He recently returned to Harvard after serving as Senior Advisor in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative. Prior to academia\, Wu worked as an engagement manager for McKinsey & Co.\, where he focused on high-tech companies. He began his career as an economist and operations officer for the World Bank in China\, working on environmental\, urban development\, health\, and rural poverty issues.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/panel-discussion-three-years-in-prospects-for-peace-china-russia-north-korea-relations-on-the-third-anniversary-of-putins-ukraine-war/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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SUMMARY:China Economy Lecture featuring Qiao Liu — How to Understand China's Economy?
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Qiao Liu\, Professor of Finance; Dean\, Guanghua School of Management\, Peking University \n\n\n\nAs China’s economy shifts from high-speed growth to a medium-to-high-speed growth stage\, maintaining an economic growth rate of around 5% per year has become a more frequently anchored goal when China plans its economic work and formulate macro policies. At the same time\, pessimistic narrative about China’s economic prospects gradually emerged and begin to pervade mainstream media. China’s economic miracle over the past four decades has benefited from productivity growth in the process of industrialization and the “government + market” growth paradigm. In the future\, the biggest challenge for China’s economic and social development is to maintain the growth rate of total factor productivity (TFP). Different from most industrialized economies that have been experiencing an inadequate TPF growth of less than one percent per year\, the driving forces for China’s continued productivity growth are real\, which is cause for optimism. \n\n\n\nQiao Liu is Dean and professor of finance at Guanghua School of Management\, Peking University. He is a leading authority on economics and finance in China and is recognized form his academic work in corporate finance\, financial markets and the Chinese economy. He was named the Chang Jiang Scholar Special Term Professor by the Ministry of Education\, a Distinguished Young Scholar by the National Science Foundation of China and the Most Influential Economist of 2017 by China Newsweek. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-economy-lecture-featuring-qiao-liu-understanding-the-chinese-economy/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:China Economy Lecture
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SUMMARY:Urban China Lecture Series Featuring Zhao Yawei — Escaping to Dalifornia: Lifestyle Migration in Urban China
DESCRIPTION:Zoom meeting link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker:  Zhao Yawei\, University of ManchesterThis presentation explores the intersection of migration studies and urban studies\, focusing on the case of Dali\, a small city that has experienced urban transformations due to lifestyle migration. During the past decade\, newcomers have flocked to this city\, some of whom called it Dalifornia as its atmosphere reminds them of California. The first part of the talk examines the relationship between lifestyle migration and urbanization through the lens of “extended urbanization.” The notion\, introduced by Henri Lefebvre and then developed by Neil Brenner and other urban theorists\, is used to unpack socio-spatial changes of Dali. I argue that extended urbanization has unfolded in a distinct mode that I call lifestyle-oriented urbanization\, in addition to tourism urbanization that is already happening in the city. At the local scale\, urban processes extend from cities to peri-urban areas\, while at the national scale\, urban processes extend from economically prominent cities like Beijing and Guangzhou to peripheral places like Dali. The second part of the talk zooms in on how lifestyle migrants have contributed to lifestyle-oriented urbanization in Dali by means of three forms of place-making: creative\, aesthetic\, and transgressive. Overall\, this presentation discusses how lifestyle migration sparks socio-spatial transformations in peripheral places that are often overlooked in urban studies and how these changes have\, in turn\, sustained lifestyle migration. \n\n\n\nYawei Zhao is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Human Geography at the University of Manchester. Her research focuses on digital technologies and infrastructures within the urban context\, and she is particularly interested in how peripheral places have been transformed by the fast-growing digital economy. Yawei also works on the intersection of lifestyle migration and urbanization. Her research has been funded by the British Academy\, IJURR Foundation\, and Mitacs Canada\, and it has appeared in Environment and Planning E\, Cities\, Geoforum\, Housing Studies\, and Urban Geography\, among others. \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 Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. \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-zhao-yawei/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Urban China Series
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SUMMARY:HYI Annual Roundtable — Authoritarianism in Hong Kong
DESCRIPTION:Panelists:John P. Burns\, Emeritus Professor and Honorary Professor of Politics and Public Administration\, the University of Hong KongMichael C. Davis\, Global Fellow\, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; Senior Research Scholar\, Weatherhead East Asia Institute\, Columbia University; Professor of Law and International Affairs\, O.P. Jindal Global University\, IndiaVictoria Tin-bor Hui\, Associate Professor\, Department of Political Science\, University of Notre DameRana Mitter\, S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations\, Harvard Kennedy SchoolKellee Tsai\, Dean\, College of Social Sciences and Humanities\, Northeastern University \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\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/hyi-annual-roundtable-authoritarianism-in-hong-kong/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250312T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250312T131500
DTSTAMP:20260508T174424
CREATED:20250122T192912Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250227T175110Z
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Martin Whyte and Scott Rozelle — Getting Ahead in Today’s China: From Optimism to Pessimism
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:Martin K. Whyte\, John Zwaanstra Professor of International Studies and Sociology\, Emeritus; Former Acting Director\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies 2007-2008\, Harvard UniversityScott Rozelle\, Helen F. Farnsworth Senior Fellow and Co-Director\, Stanford Center on China’s Economy and Institutions\, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research\, Stanford University. \n\n\n\nModerator: Ya-Wen Lei\, Professor of Sociology\, Harvard 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-martin-whyte-and-scott-rozelle-getting-ahead-in-todays-china-from-optimism-to-pessimism/
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:20250324T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250324T130000
DTSTAMP:20260508T174424
CREATED:20250122T161650Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250122T161651Z
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SUMMARY:Margarita Estévez-Abe — Citizenship and Multiculturalism in East Asia: A Comparative Study of Marriage Migration in Japan\, South Korea and Taiwan
DESCRIPTION:Register for zoom attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Margarita Estévez-Abe\, Associate Professor\, Political Science Department\, Syracuse University Moderator: Susan Pharr\, Edwin O. Reischauer Research Professor of Japanese Politics; Senior Advisor\, Program on US-Japan Relations\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nAlso via Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwpfuGqqDsjH9LgCaHUWTqRhSIkadozzBwd \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/margarita-estevez-abe-citizenship-and-multiculturalism-in-east-asia-a-comparative-study-of-marriage-migration-in-japan-south-korea-and-taiwan/
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:20250327T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250327T143000
DTSTAMP:20260508T174424
CREATED:20250319T163902Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250319T164857Z
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SUMMARY:Layered Taiwan: Interwoven Pasts and Multiple Futures
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nModerated by Robert Weller\, Boston University Department of Anthropology \n\n\n\nProgram Schedule9:00 AM Morning Opening Reception \n\n\n\n9:15 AM Welcoming Remarks from BUCSA Director Robert Hefner9:20 AM Welcoming Remarks by TECO-Boston Education Director Cynthia Huang9:25 AM Opening Remarks by Rob Weller and Daigengna Duoer\, Overview of the conference theme & Q&A format9:30 AM Lung-chih Chang\, Director\, National Museum of Taiwan History\, “Representing the Multiple Histories of an Island Nation: The Case of the National Museum of Taiwan History”10:20 AM Coffee Break10:35 AM Scott Simon\, Department of Anthropology\, University of Ottawa\, “Indigenous Peoples and States: Layers of History in Taiwan’s Archipelago”11:25 AM Lunch11:55 AM Catherine Tsai\, East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University\, “Becoming Japanese: Naturalization and Memories of the Taiwanese Diaspora in the Yaeyama Islands\, 1960- 1972”12:45 PM Coffee Break1:00 PM Daigengna Duoer\, Department of Religion\, Boston University “Strata of Sovereignty: Buddhist Relic Diplomacy in Cold-War Taiwan”2:00 PM Panel Discussion & Closing RemarksReigster at: https://bostonu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5hkRjs26vCwqmNg \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/layered-taiwan-interwoven-pasts-and-multiple-futures/
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:20250327T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250327T140000
DTSTAMP:20260508T174424
CREATED:20250221T211759Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250227T181444Z
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SUMMARY:Asia’s Border Conflicts & Indigenous Approaches to Peace and Healing
DESCRIPTION:Panelists: Hana Shams Ahmed\, Ph.D. Candidate\, Department of Social Anthropology\, York University\, CanadaBinalakshmi Nepram\, Fellow\, Harvard University Asia Center; Founder-Director\, Manipur Women Gun Survivors Network & Global Alliance of Indigenous Peoples\, Gender Justice\, and PeaceWai Wai Nu\, Founder and Executive Director of the Women Peace Network in MyanmarEnghebatu Togochung\, Director\, Southern Mongolian Human Rights Information Center  \n\n\n\nModerator: Sugata Bose\, Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs\, Harvard University  \n\n\n\nAsia is home to some of the most complex and long-standing border conflicts worldwide. From the South China Sea to the Himalayas\, and from the Indo-Myanmar frontier to the Korean Peninsula\, territorial disputes and border-related tensions significantly influence regional geopolitics. These conflicts often stem from historical grievances\, colonial legacies\, and competing nationalisms. \n\n\n\nAsia also hosts roughly 260 million Indigenous Peoples—three-quarters of the global total—making it the region with the greatest cultural diversity. Beyond state-centric approaches to border disputes\, many Indigenous communities maintain cross-border relationships\, employ traditional peacebuilding mechanisms\, and practice unique forms of conflict resolution. These knowledge systems provide valuable insights into alternative paths for reconciliation\, healing\, and sustainable peace. \n\n\n\nThis panel discussion will bring together scholars\, policymakers\, Indigenous leaders\, and civil society representatives to examine Indigenous-led peace-building initiatives\, evaluate their relevance to current border challenges\, and develop actionable strategies for reconciliation and healing. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/asias-border-conflicts-indigenous-approaches-to-peace-and-healing/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250401T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250401T183000
DTSTAMP:20260508T174424
CREATED:20250313T161012Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250331T190257Z
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SUMMARY:Trump’s U.S.\, Xi’s China\, and Our Future: An Evening with the Award-Winning Creators of Face-Off: The U.S. vs China
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers: Jane Perlez\, Former Beijing Bureau Chief\, The New York Times Rana Mitter\, S.T. Lee Chair in U.S.-Asia Relations\, Harvard Kennedy School Mia Lobel\, Executive Producer\, Face-Off: U.S. vs China Frank Zhou ’26\, Associate Producer\, Face-Off: U.S. vs China \n\n\n\n****THE EVENT VENUE HAS CHANGED TO CGIS S030.**** \n\n\n\nCurious what China’s rise means for you as a young American or international student? Want an inside look at how Pulitzer-winning New York Times reporter and leading producer craft longform reporting into an award-winning podcast? Want to hear one of the world’s leading experts break down what’s next in America’s competition with the world’s second-largest economy? Join a panel and meet-and-greet with top reporters and experts to celebrate Face-Off: The U.S. vs China | Season Two\, an award-winning podcast from Airwave Media supported by the Carnegie Corporation and Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.Dumplings will be served.Register at: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScoKcNAy8bBu0ybwvkpExt7xxvr_4OWYTGjdl2tuFcm1EI0zQ/viewform. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/trumps-u-s-xis-china-and-our-future-an-evening-with-the-award-winning-creators-of-face-off-the-u-s-vs-china/
LOCATION:Room S030\, CGIS South\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250401T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250401T220000
DTSTAMP:20260508T174424
CREATED:20250130T143048Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250313T161411Z
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SUMMARY:Urban China Lecture Series Featuring  Samantha Vortherms — Manipulating Authoritarian Citizenship
DESCRIPTION:Zoom meeting link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker:   Samantha Vortherms\, University of California\, Irvine \n\n\n\nIn Manipulating Authoritarian Citizenship\, Samantha Vortherms examines the institutions constructing authoritarian citizenship in the crucial case of China—where internal citizenship regimes control who can and cannot become a local citizen through the household registration system (hukou). She highlights how autocrats use internal citizenship regimes to create particularistic membership in citizenship\, creating a model of citizenship outside of the liberal democratic ideal. Vortherms shows how local governments explicitly manipulate local citizenship membership not only to ensure political security and stability\, but also\, crucially\, to advance economic development. This transition from subjecthood to citizenship also allows space for individual agency in the local naturalization decision—whether to change one’s hukou or not—that further creates variation in access to citizenship rights in China. \n\n\n\nSamantha Vortherms is an Assistant Professor at University of California\, Irvine’s Department of Political Science. She’s also a faculty affiliate at UCI’s Long U.S.-China Institute; Philosophy\, Political Science\, and Economic program; and a Non-resident Scholar at UC San Diego’s 21st Century China Center. She received her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 2017 and was a Shorenstein Postdoctoral Fellow in Contemporary Asia at Stanford University’s APARC. From 2014-2016\, she was a Visiting Research Fellow at the National School of Development’s China Center for Health Economics Research at Peking University. \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 Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. \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-samantha-vortherms/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Urban China Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250402T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250402T131500
DTSTAMP:20260508T174424
CREATED:20250122T190536Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250331T132202Z
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Wang Feng — The End of the Miracle: How a Shrinking Population Impacts China’s Future
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Feng Wang\, Professor\, Sociology\, UC IrvineDiscussant: Xiang Zhou\, Professor of Sociology\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nChina’s spectacular economic growth of the past four decades is a happy outcome of numerous historical junctures and opportunism. One pivotal factor was China’s population\, particularly its healthy and literate rural population on the eve of the economic take-off. China’s hyper-growth era commenced at the same time as the large migration flows is coming to an end\, and as the country embarks on an irreversible journey of population aging and decline. In this talk Professor Wang revisits the crucial role of China’s population in its economic transformation\, explore the forces shaping the country’s demographic future\, and highlights the social and political challenges as well as the opportunities\, that China faces as China enters a post hyper-growth era. \n\n\n\nWANG Feng is a professor of sociology at the University of California\, Irvine. He is a scholar with expertise in global demographic change\, social inequality\, public policy\, and comparative population and social history. Between 2010 and 2013\, he was a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and directed the Brookings-Tsinghua Center for Public Policy in Beijing. He is the author of several award-winning books in his research areas and has contributed to many other publications. His latest book\, China’s Age of Abundance: Origins\, Ascendance\, and Aftermath\, examines the underlying forces driving China’s four-decade-long historical transformations. He is a 2024 Guggenheim Fellow. \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-wang-feng-the-end-of-the-miracle-how-a-shrinking-population-impacts-chinas-future/
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:20250403T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250403T163000
DTSTAMP:20260508T174424
CREATED:20250318T113740Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250318T113759Z
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SUMMARY:Rong Ma — Powering a Just Transition: The Impacts of Place-Based Solar Expansion in Rural China
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Rong Ma\, Associate Professor\, China Agricultural University; Alumnus (Visiting Fellow) and Collaborator\, Harvard-China Project \n\n\n\nThis paper examines a solar subsidy program in China designed to alleviate poverty among rural households in the country’s most impoverished regions through solar resource development. The empirical findings indicate a substantial increase in firm entry in treated villages\, accompanied by a marked structural transformation characterized by a reduction in self-employment and a shift in land use from farmland to built-up areas. This surge in firm entry appears to be driven primarily by improvements in local electricity availability and reliability\, as well as upgrades in local transportation infrastructure. Correspondingly\, the analysis identifies a notable rise in local nightlight intensity and a reduction in regional nightlight disparities. Moreover\, treated villages experience significant improvements in air quality\, largely attributable to decreased pollutant emissions from nearby thermal power plants. By elucidating the impacts of place-based renewable energy policies\, this study underscores their potential to foster a more equitable energy transition. \n\n\n\nDr. Rong Ma is an Associate Professor at China Agricultural University\, College of Economics and Management. He is also a former Visiting Fellow and Collaborator with the Harvard-China Project. He obtained his Ph.D. in Economics from Tsinghua University. His research focuses on environmental economics and energy economics. \n\n\n\nSponsored by the Harvard-China Project on Energy\, Economy\, and Environment at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/powering-a-just-transition-the-impacts-of-place-based-solar-expansion-in-rural-china/
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:20250403T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250403T174500
DTSTAMP:20260508T174424
CREATED:20250220T191440Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250314T143712Z
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SUMMARY:China Economy Lecture featuring Lizhi Liu — From Click to Boom: The Political Economy of E-Commerce in China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Lizhi Liu\, Assistant Professor\, McDonough School of Business\, Georgetown University \n\n\n\nIn merely two decades\, China has transformed from a digital newcomer to the world’s largest e-commerce market\, with 800 million users and nearly 50% of global retail sales. In From Click to Boom\, Lizhi Liu examines how China’s e-commerce boom is inherently “paradoxical\,” why it addresses a core political economy question of institutional development\, and how it illuminates a digital development path for developing countries. She also explores the profound impact of e-commerce on China’s economic governance and state-business relations. The talk will draw on extensive interviews\, original surveys\, tens of millions of proprietary data points\, and a rare field experiment conducted across three Chinese provinces. \n\n\n\nLizhi Liu is an Assistant Professor at the McDonough School of Business and a faculty affiliate of the Department of Government at Georgetown University. Her research focuses on politics of trade and technology. Her work has been published in leading journals and university presses\, including American Economic Review: Insights and Princeton University Press. Liu’s research has received funding from institutions such as the Gates Foundation and has earned multiple accolades\, including recognition from the China-Britain Business Council as one of the “Best Books on China from 2024” and the 2020 Ronald Coase Award for Best Dissertation in Institutional and Organizational Economics. In 2021\, she was named one of Poets&Quants’ Top 50 Undergraduate Business Professors. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-economy-lecture-featuring-lizhi-liu/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:China Economy Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250404T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250404T170000
DTSTAMP:20260508T174424
CREATED:20250319T165654Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250319T165655Z
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SUMMARY:Reading Sinophone Women Writers
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Li Zishu 黎紫書Lu Pin 鹿苹Lin Zhao 林棹Dorothy Tse 謝曉虹Moderators:David Der-wei Wang\, Harvard UniversityMingwei Song\, Wellesley CollegeDingru Huang\, Tufts University \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/reading-sinophone-women-writers/
LOCATION:Plimpton Room (133)\, Barker Center\, 12 Quincy St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250404T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250406T150000
DTSTAMP:20260508T174424
CREATED:20250403T194257Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250403T194258Z
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SUMMARY:Harvard College China Forum 2025 | April 4th - 6th
DESCRIPTION:Founded in 1997\, Harvard College China Forum (HCCF) is dedicated to a constructive dialogue on the challenges\, trends\, and issues affecting China. The Forum aims to engage leaders in business\, academia\, and politics in a discourse that offers insights and generates ideas. HCCF is North America’s leading and longest-running student-run conference on China. The annual Forum takes place every April in Boston\, Massachusetts. Over a thousand attendees and nearly a hundred speakers attend the forum\, making it the largest of its kind.You can find the full list of speakers for this 28th annual conference here: 2025 Harvard College China Forum Speakers.The event is free for Harvard undergraduates. Register to attend here. For further questions\, please email: contact@harvardchina.org. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/harvard-college-china-forum-2025-april-4th-6th/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250404T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250404T200000
DTSTAMP:20260508T174424
CREATED:20250227T182534Z
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: Wang Bing's Youth Trilogy - Youth (Spring) Qingchun
DESCRIPTION:More than two decades after making his monumental West of the Tracks (2002)\, documentary auteur Wang Bing (b. 1967) has released a new cinematic fresco of Chinese workers. Whereas his debut work memorializes the declining Socialist industrial complex in Northeast China and its aging employees\, the Youth trilogy chronicles the plights of young migrant workers struggling with the vagaries and pressures of a free capitalist market. Between 2014 and 2019\, Wang Bing and his crew shot around 2\,600 hours of footage in the garment-making township of Zhili\, near Shanghai\, with hundreds of thousands of seasonal laborers from all over the country sewing children’s clothes in some 18\,000 workshops. The three installments of Youth—Spring\, Hard Times and Homecoming—premiered in competition at the Cannes\, Locarno and Venice film festivals\, respectively. Taken together\, this documentary trilogy not only provides a nuanced\, empathetic and critical look at China’s fashion industry\, but could also inspire in its audiences alternative experiences of time\, space and the material fabric of our lives.  \n\n\n\nYouth (Spring) QingchunThe first in Wang Bing’s opus centered on young migrant laborers in Zhili employs his trademark long takes and fixed camera setups\, contrasting routine days of sewing\, stitching and scissoring with bustling street scenes and after-hours sequences set in the workers’ cramped living quarters\, chancing upon dramas that inevitably emerge from such a repetitive\, cloistered and threadbare existence. While Zhili’s privatized structure and incentive-based production model allows for certain advantages over the kind of centrally governed factories seen in earlier Wang films like West of the Tracks (2002)\, it also leaves employees at the mercy of predatory managers\, a situation the director depicts as an endless tug-of-war for better pay. With textbook rigor\, Wang captures a new economic reality that\, for all it promises\, has only fostered a new form of exploitation. – Jordan Cronk \n\n\n\nDirected by Wang Bing \n\n\n\nFrance/Hong Kong/Luxembourg/Netherlands 2023\, DCP\, color\, 215 min. Mandarin with English subtitles \n\n\n\nGeneral Admission Tickets $10\, $8 Non-Harvard student\, seniors\, Harvard faculty and staff. Harvard students admitted free to regularly priced shows. \n\n\n\nSpecial event tickets (for in-person appearances) $15 – $20. \n\n\n\nTickets go on sale 30 minutes prior to show time at the box office and are also available in advance on the HFA website. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-screening-wang-bings-youth-trilogy/
LOCATION:Harvard Film Archive\, Carpenter Center\, 24 Quincy St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250405T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250405T200000
DTSTAMP:20260508T174424
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: Wang Bing's Youth Trilogy - Youth (Hard Times) Qingchun: Ku
DESCRIPTION:More than two decades after making his monumental West of the Tracks (2002)\, documentary auteur Wang Bing (b. 1967) has released a new cinematic fresco of Chinese workers. Whereas his debut work memorializes the declining Socialist industrial complex in Northeast China and its aging employees\, the Youth trilogy chronicles the plights of young migrant workers struggling with the vagaries and pressures of a free capitalist market. Between 2014 and 2019\, Wang Bing and his crew shot around 2\,600 hours of footage in the garment-making township of Zhili\, near Shanghai\, with hundreds of thousands of seasonal laborers from all over the country sewing children’s clothes in some 18\,000 workshops. The three installments of Youth—Spring\, Hard Times and Homecoming—premiered in competition at the Cannes\, Locarno and Venice film festivals\, respectively. Taken together\, this documentary trilogy not only provides a nuanced\, empathetic and critical look at China’s fashion industry\, but could also inspire in its audiences alternative experiences of time\, space and the material fabric of our lives.  \n\n\n\nYouth (Hard Times) Qingchun: Ku \n\n\n\nFocusing on the factory laborers’ economic struggles and workplace conflicts\, the second installment of Youth follows multiple narrative threads that stretch and tighten\, sometimes to a breaking point of violence and despair. A young woman keeps making mistakes and must redo several batches of trousers\, while her colleagues discuss ways to dodge the manager’s surveillance. Just released from police detention after an altercation with his boss\, a young man searches in vain for his lost account book. Parents pore over sewing machines while their child plays with scissors and cell phones. From the balcony outside their shop\, a group of workers watch their indebted boss beat up a fabric supplier and run away without paying their wages\, so they sell the shop’s sewing machines while the landlord cuts the power and water of their living quarters. In another dark dorm\, a worker who made tons of unsold denim recounts his participation in a labor riot and the ensuing police brutality. The exhaustion of overtime and deadlines thus alternates with the anxiety of dead time and wasted time\, accruing into the bitterness at the core of Wang Bing’s trilogy. \n\n\n\nDirected by Wang Bing \n\n\n\nFrance/Luxembourg/Netherlands 2024\, DCP\, color\, 226 min. Mandarin with English subtitles \n\n\n\nGeneral Admission Tickets $10\, $8 Non-Harvard student\, seniors\, Harvard faculty and staff. Harvard students admitted free to regularly priced shows. \n\n\n\nSpecial event tickets (for in-person appearances) $15 – $20. \n\n\n\nTickets go on sale 30 minutes prior to show time at the box office and are also available in advance on the HFA website. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-screening-wang-bings-youth-trilogy-2/
LOCATION:Harvard Film Archive\, Carpenter Center\, 24 Quincy St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: Wang Bing's Youth Trilogy - Youth (Homecoming) Qingchun: Gui
DESCRIPTION:More than two decades after making his monumental West of the Tracks (2002)\, documentary auteur Wang Bing (b. 1967) has released a new cinematic fresco of Chinese workers. Whereas his debut work memorializes the declining Socialist industrial complex in Northeast China and its aging employees\, the Youth trilogy chronicles the plights of young migrant workers struggling with the vagaries and pressures of a free capitalist market. Between 2014 and 2019\, Wang Bing and his crew shot around 2\,600 hours of footage in the garment-making township of Zhili\, near Shanghai\, with hundreds of thousands of seasonal laborers from all over the country sewing children’s clothes in some 18\,000 workshops. The three installments of Youth—Spring\, Hard Times and Homecoming—premiered in competition at the Cannes\, Locarno and Venice film festivals\, respectively. Taken together\, this documentary trilogy not only provides a nuanced\, empathetic and critical look at China’s fashion industry\, but could also inspire in its audiences alternative experiences of time\, space and the material fabric of our lives.  \n\n\n\nYouth (Homecoming) Qingchun: Gui \n\n\n\nThe final installment of the Youth trilogyzooms in on a handful of workers as they return to their villages for the Lunar New Year\, meanwhile zooming out spatially from Zhili’s garment workshops to China’s vast countryside. After seeking payment of their owed wages\, Mu Fei and Dong Minyan board a packed train to Yunnan and take a van up a hazardous mountainside road. In homes decorated with giant Chairman Mao portraits\, their parents speak of illnesses and injustices\, debts and expenses. Firecrackers\, a confetti gang\, bride-carrying and karaoke create an exuberant atmosphere at Shi Wei’s and Liang Xianglian’s wedding. From the southwest mountains\, the film moves to the lower Yangtze River to celebrate the God of Prosperity and another wedding banquet. After the holidays\, the bride Fang Lingping takes her husband to Zhili and teaches him to sew. The last third of the film revisits familiar characters from Spring and Hard Times such as Lin Shao and Chen Wenting\, no longer teenagers in love but young parents\, uncertain how the cycles of seasonal labor will shape their children’s future. \n\n\n\nDirected by Wang Bing \n\n\n\nFrance/Luxembourg/Netherlands 2024\, DCP\, color\, 160 min. Mandarin with English subtitles \n\n\n\nGeneral Admission Tickets $10\, $8 Non-Harvard student\, seniors\, Harvard faculty and staff. Harvard students admitted free to regularly priced shows. \n\n\n\nSpecial event tickets (for in-person appearances) $15 – $20. \n\n\n\nTickets go on sale 30 minutes prior to show time at the box office and are also available in advance on the HFA website. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-screening-wang-bings-youth-trilogy-youth-homecoming-qingchun-gui/
LOCATION:Harvard Film Archive\, Carpenter Center\, 24 Quincy St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:China's Future: Navigating Geopolitics in a New Era
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers:David J. Firestein\, President and CEO of the George H. W. Bush Foundation for U.S.-China Relations \n\n\n\nAndrew S. Erickson\, Professor of Strategy\, U.S. Naval War College China Maritime Studies Institute; Fairbank Center Visiting Scholar \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/chinas-future-navigating-geopolitics-in-a-new-era/
LOCATION:Room L-166\, Littauer Building\, 79 JFK St.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Chen Chunxiao — Chinese Migrants in the Middle East during the Mongol-Yuan Period: Settlements and Activities
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Chen Chunxiao\, Associate Professor\, Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2024-25 \n\n\n\nChair/Discussant: Mark Elliott \, Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History; Vice Provost for International Affairs\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nHYI Visiting Scholar Talk \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/chen-chunxiao-settlements-and-activities-of-chinese-immigrants-in-west-asia-during-the-mongol-era/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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SUMMARY:Urban China Lecture Series Featuring Qiao Shitong — Neighborhood Democratization in Urban China
DESCRIPTION:Zoom meeting link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Qiao Shitong\, Professor of Law and Ken Young-Gak Yun and Jinah Park Yun Research Scholar\, Duke University \n\n\n\nBased on six-year fieldwork across China including over 200 in-depth interviews\, this book provides an ethnographic account of how hundreds of millions of Chinese homeowners practice democracy in and beyond their condominium complexes. Using interviews\, survey data\, and a comprehensive examination of laws\, policies and judicial decisions\, this book also examines how the party-state in China responds to the risks and benefits brought by neighborhood democratization. Moreover\, this book provides a framework to analyze different approaches to the authoritarian dilemma facing neighborhood democratization which may increase the regime’s legitimacy and expose it to the challenge of independent organizations at the same time. Lastly\, this book identifies conditions under which neighborhood democratization can succeed. \n\n\n\nShitong Qiao is Professor of Law and Ken Young-Gak Yun and Jinah Park Yun Research Scholar at Duke University. He also taught property and comparative law at the University of Hong Kong and New York University and was Law and Public Affairs fellow at Princeton University. Professor Qiao employs mixed methods to explore the relationship between political power\, law\, and private ordering. He has published numerous articles in the top Chinese and US law journals and a prize-winning book about law and marketization\, Chinese Small Property: The Co-Evolution of Law and Social Norms (Cambridge University Press\, 2017). \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\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-qiao-shitong/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Urban China Series
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Chenggang XU — How Will China's Institutional Problems Cripple its Economy?
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Chenggang XU\, Senior Research Scholar\, Stanford Center on China’s Economic and Institutions; Visiting Fellow\, Hoover Institution\, Stanford University; Visiting Professor\, Department of Finance\, Imperial College London \n\n\n\nDiscussant: Meg Rithmire\, James E. Robison Professor of Business Administration\, Harvard Business School \n\n\n\nChenggang Xu is a Senior Research Scholar at the Stanford Center on China’s Economic and Institutions\, and a Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University\, and a Visiting Professor\, Department of Finance\, Imperial College London. \n\n\n\nChenggang received his PhD in Economics from Harvard University in 1991. He previously taught at the University of Hong Kong as Chung Hon-Dak Professor of Economics\, at Tsinghua University as Special-term Professor of Economics\, at Seoul National University as World-Class University Professor of Economics\, and at LSE as Reader of Economics. He was the President of the Asian Law and Economics Association.  He was a first recipient of China Economics Prize (2016) and a recipient of the Sun Yefang Economics Prize (2013).  \n\n\n\nChenggang’s research is in political economics\, institutional economics\, law and economics\, development economics\, transition economics and the Chinese political economy. His research and opinions have been covered widely in the Greater China area and in the world. He is currently a board member of the Ronald Coase Institute (RCI) and a research fellow of the CEPR. \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-chenggang-xu-how-will-chinas-institutional-problems-cripple-its-economy/
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:Film Screening + Discussion – River Elegy (河殇)\, Episodes 1 & 2 featuring Rana Mitter and Yasheng Huang
DESCRIPTION:Rana Mitter\, ST Lee Chair in US-Asia Relations\, Harvard Kennedy SchoolYasheng Huang\, Epoch Foundation Professor of Global Economics and Management\, MIT Sloan School of ManagementModerator: Dorinda (Dinda) Elliott\, Executive Director\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard University \n\n\n\n\n“It may have been the most important television program ever broadcast in the history of the world.”—Rana Mitter\, BBC Radio 4’s In Our Time\, “The May Fourth Movement\,” December 9\, 2021 \n\n\n\n\nJoin us for a special screening of River Elegy (河殇)\, the landmark 1988 Chinese documentary series that ignited nationwide debate with its bold critique of China’s historical path and traditional culture. The event will feature a panel discussion with distinguished scholars Rana Mitter (Harvard University)\, Yasheng Huang (MIT)\, and Fairbank Center Executive Director Dorinda (Dinda) Elliott. \n\n\n\nWe will present a newly restored digital transfer of the series’ first two episodes\, “In Search of a Dream” and “Destiny”\, both in Chinese with newly translated English-language subtitles. \n\n\n\nFirst aired on CCTV1 in June 1988\, River Elegy uses the color “yellow” (symbolizing the Yellow River and the Yellow Emperor) as a metaphor for cultural and political stagnation\, contrasting it with “blue” (representing the open sea and maritime exploration) as a symbol of modernity and openness. Through poetic narration and a provocative visual collage of archival footage\, the series critiques China’s Confucian traditions and historical isolationism\, arguing that these forces hindered the country’s progress in the 20th century. It calls instead for reform\, global engagement\, and celebrates the economic liberalization taking place under Deng Xiaoping. \n\n\n\nRiver Elegy struck a deep chord with a generation navigating the tensions of modernization. Its writer\, Su Xiaokang\, quickly became one of China’s most prominent public intellectuals. The documentary received high-level endorsement from Party figures including former president Yang Shangkun\, Deng Pufang (son of Deng Xiaoping)\, and premier Zhao Ziyang—each of whom supported and even hosted special screenings of the series. But following the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests—which some scholars argue were partly catalyzed by River Elegy’s widespread influence—the series was banned amid a sweeping political crackdown. \n\n\n\nDecades later\, River Elegy remains a powerful historical document. Its themes continue to resonate\, particularly as the liberal values that the series championed—democracy\, human rights\, the rule of law—appear increasingly embattled\, not only in China\, but also in the United States and around the world. \n\n\n\nRana Mitter is ST Lee Chair in US-Asia Relations at the Harvard Kennedy School. He is the author of several books\, including Forgotten Ally: China’s World War II (2013)\, which won the 2014 RUSI/Duke of Westminster’s Medal for Military Literature\, and was named a Book of the Year in the Financial Times and Economist. His latest book is China’s Good War: How World War II is Shaping a New Nationalism (Harvard\, 2020). His writing on contemporary China has appeared recently in Foreign Affairs\, the Harvard Business Review\, The Spectator\, The Critic\, and The Guardian. He has commented regularly on China in media and forums around the world\, including at the World Economic Forum at Davos. His recent documentary on contemporary Chinese politics “Meanwhile in Beijing” is available on BBC Sounds. He is co-author\, with Sophia Gaston\, of the report “Conceptualizing a UK-China Engagement Strategy” (British Foreign Policy Group\, 2020). He won the 2020 Medlicott Medal for Service to History\, awarded by the UK Historical Association. He previously taught at Oxford\, and is a Fellow of the British Academy.Yasheng Huang is Epoch Foundation Professor of Global Economics and Management at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. From 2013 to 2017\, he served as an associate dean in charge of MIT Sloan’s global partnership programs and its action learning initiatives. His previous appointments include faculty positions at the University of Michigan and at Harvard Business School. He is the author of 11 books in both English and Chinese and of many academic papers and news commentaries. His book\, The Rise and the Fall of the EAST: How Exams\, Autocracy\, Stability\, and Technology Brought China Success\, and Why They Might Lead to Its Decline\, was published by Yale University Press in 2023. He is collaborating with Chinese academics on a book project\, The Needham Question\, based on a comprehensive database on Chinese historical inventions and politics. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-screening-discussion-river-elegy-%e6%b2%b3%e6%ae%87-episodes-1-2-featuring-rana-mitter-and-yasheng-huang/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film Screening
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SUMMARY:Lin Chen — Contested Sociocultural Spaces of Aging in Rural China: From Older Adults’ Lived Experiences
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Lin Chen\,  Associate Professor\, Department of Social Work\, Fudan University; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2024-25 \n\n\n\nChair/Discussant: Arthur Kleinman\, Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nHYI Visiting Scholar Talk \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/lin-chen-contested-sociocultural-spaces-of-aging-in-rural-china-from-older-adults-lived-experiences/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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