Gu Zheng – The Body as a Means for Political Mobilization: Portrait Photography between Journalism and Propaganda and Minli Pao’s coverage of the assassination of Song Jiaoren
Speaker: Gu Zheng, Fudan University; Visiting Scholar, Harvard-Yenching Institute Chair/discussant: Eugene Wang, Harvard University Song Jiaoren (Sung Chiao-jen, 1882-1913) was a revolutionist and founder of the Kuomintang (KMT). He was assassinated in March 1913 in Shanghai after leading the KMT to victory in China’s first democratic election. This talk will investigate how members of the KMT who owned […]
Chinese Popular Culture at the Beginning of the 20th and 21st Centuries
Speakers: Zheng Yanqing, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences: "Popular Culture and the Public Sphere" Shao Yanjun, Peking University: "Internet Fiction and Imagined Community" Christopher Rea, University of British Columbia: "Of Spongers, Sharpers, and Cannibal Eunuchs: The Swindle Story around the World." The event is sponsored by the Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation.
Evelyn (Chiung-yun) Liu – When Fantastic Narrative Encounters Empirical Knowledge: Imagining the World in “The Eunuch Sanbao’s Voyage to the Western Ocean”
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Evelyn (Chiung-yun) Liu, Academia Sinica, HYI Visiting Scholar The Eunuch Sanbao's Voyage to the Western Ocean, a late-sixteenth century novel loosely based on the historical expeditions commanded by Zheng He (1371-1433), is a peculiar mixture of factual accounts of foreign lands and fantastic narrative. In this work, popular Buddhist and Daoist figures living in a […]
Film Screening – China’s Van Goghs
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesThe documentary screening will be followed by a Q&A with Producer and Director Kiki Tianqi Yu via Skype, moderated by Benny Shaffer, PhD Candidate in Media Anthropology. About the film: China’s Van Goghs (Mandarin with English subtitles, 80 min, HD) Until 1989, Dafen Village on the outskirts of Shenzhen, China was little more than a […]
Kishore Mahbubani – Is the Chinese Government Legitimate?
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesRead a summary of the event here. Speaker: Kishore Mahbubani, National University of Singapore
Nathan Vedal – Philology as a Discipline in Pre-Modern China
Boylston Hall Room 203 Boylston Hall, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Nathan Vedal, Visiting Fellow, Center for Humanities and Information, Penn State Organizer: Technical Traditions in Greece and Rome: Between Theory and Practice, Harvard University GSAS Workshop
Jing Tsu – Thinking Small in the Literary Cosmos
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Jing Tsu, Yale University More than ten years after Sinophone studies, is it breaking up? This talk begins with a recent skirmish over the fraught term and its export. In the attempt to bring faraway and neglected kins into its fold, Sinophone studies is facing open resistance where writers are choosing not to belong or subscribe. Yet, this talk suggests, […]
Jeff Wasserstrom and Maura Cunningham — China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know
Harvard Coop 1400 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeakers: Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom and Maura Elizabeth Cunningham Harvard Coop Book Talk In this fully revised and updated third edition of China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know®, Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom and Maura Elizabeth Cunningham provide cogent answers to urgent questions regarding the world's newest superpower and offer a framework for understanding China's meteoric […]
I-Mei Hung – Encountering DocuSky: Right Here Right Now
Northwest Building, Room B129 52 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: I-Mei Hung, Research Center for Digital Humanities, National Taiwan University Digital China Initiative Workshop Series 我們正在經歷一個橋接的世代，一個從傳統跨越數位的世代。 在2018的春天，孤獨的人文研究之路，綻放了一朵美麗的雲彩–DocuSky。 DocuSky數位人文學術研究平台為著人文學者的研究需要而開發，以數位科技協作人文研究。學者可上傳自己的研究材料，透過各式數位工具，進行文本格式轉換、後設資料整理，憑藉自己之力建置數位資料庫；也能夠對自己掌握的材料進行文本探勘與分析，從多元的視角，挖掘潛藏於材料中的議題線索與脈絡；在傳統的線性觀察之外，以視覺化的呈現，探索文本的時空與計量資訊。 此時此地，讓我們一起來遇見DocuSky~ (此教程由國立臺灣大學數位人文研究中心提供，中英文交互使用) We’re experiencing a ‘bridge generation’, a generation to cross over from the traditional to the digital. In the spring of 2018, on the lonely road of humanities research a scintillating cloud—DocuSky—has blossomed. DocuSky Collaboration […]
Dennis Blair and Taylor Fravel – China, the U.S., and East Asia’s Maritime Disputes
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeakers: Admiral Dennis Blair, Chairman of the Board and Distinguished Senior Fellow, Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA; U.S. Director of National Intelligence (2009-10); Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Pacific Command (1999-2002) Taylor Fravel, Associate Professor of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Moderator: Susan Pharr, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics and Director, WCFIA Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, […]
Scott Kennedy – The Fat Tech Dragon: Commercial and Strategic Implications of China’s Hi-Tech Drive
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Scott Kennedy, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) China’s high-tech drive has drawn both fierce criticism for being unfair and breathless praise for its recent successes. This presentation attempts to cut through the hyperbole on both sides to examine the evolution of China’s high-tech policies and its recent performance record. Chinese technology policy […]
Asia’s Growing Generation Gap: Causes and Consequences
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesHarvard-Yenching Institute Annual Roundtable Note: This event will begin at 4:15 pm and conclude at 6:15 pm. Panelists: Cho Haejoang, Emerita, Department of Cultural Anthropology, Yonsei University, Korea Ishida Hiroshi, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo, Japan Teresa Kuan, Department of Anthropology, Chinese University of Hong Kong Shen Yifei, Department of Sociology, Fudan […]