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Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Christopher Carothers – When Autocrats Clean House: Xi Jinping’s Anti-Corruption Campaign and Its Consequences
Speaker: Christopher Carothers, Post-doctoral Fellow, Center for the Study of Contemporary China, University of PennsylvaniaModerator: Nara Dillon, Senior Lecturer on Government, Harvard University Corruption is rampant in many authoritarian regimes,
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Moses on the Plain: Shuang Xuetao and New Dongbei Literature
Presented via ZoomTopics: Speakers:双雪涛 Shuang Xuetao, Writer程异 Jeremy Tiang, Translator张学昕 Zhang Xuexin, Critic罗鹏 Carlos Rojas, Scholar, Translator陶建 Eric Abrahamsen, TranslatorBrian Lax, Editor Organizers:王德威 David Der-wei Wang, Harvard University宋伟杰 Weijie Song, Rutgers University
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Contemporary Chinese Society Lecture Series featuring Rachel Stern – Performing Legality: When and Why Chinese Government Leaders Show Up in Court
Speaker: Rachel E. Stern, Professor of Law and Political Science, Pamela P. Fong and Family Distinguished Chair in China Studies, UC Berkeley School of Law Rachel E. Stern is a
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India’s Evolving Partnerships with Africa and the China Factor
Presented via ZoomTopics: Panelists: W. Gyude Moore, Senior Policy Fellow, Center for Global Development; Lecturer at the University of Chicago’s Harris School for Public Policy; Former Minister of Public Works, LiberiaHannah Ryder, CEO,
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Adam P. Liff – The U.S.-Japan Alliance and Taiwan
Presented via ZoomTopics: Speaker: Adam P. Liff, Associate Professor of East Asian International Relations, Hamilton Lugar School of Global & International Studies; Director, 21st Century Japan Politics and Society Initiative, Indiana University.
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Buddhist Studies Forum Featuring Julia Cross – Relic Transfers and Statue-Reliquaries in Medieval Japan
Presented via ZoomTopics: Speaker: Julia Cross, Postdoctoral Associate in East Asian Studies and Lecturer in Religious Studies, Yale University Prior to the medieval period, Buddha relics (Sk. śarīra; dhātu) in Japan were typically
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China Humanities Seminar featuring Ronald Egan – Su Shi Beyond Poetry: The Invention of a New Kind of Informal Prose
Speaker: Ronald Egan, Stanford University Su Shi 蘇軾 (1037-1101) is remembered first as a poet in various forms (shi 詩, ci 詞, and fu 賦) and only then as a prose stylist.
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Taiwan Studies Workshop featuring Jaewoong Jeon – Sugar and Commodity Form: Manifestations in Colonial Taiwan and Korea
Presented via ZoomTopics: Speaker: Jaewoong Jeon, Postdoctoral Fellow in Global History, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs; Postdoctoral Fellow in Taiwan Studies, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University Moderator: Steven Goldstein, Sophia
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Gender Studies Workshop: Gender, Family, and Law
Presented via ZoomSpeakers:Bettine Birge, Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Southern CaliforniaYing Zhang, Associate Professor and Director of the Institute for Chinese Studies, The Ohio State UniversityMara Yue Du,
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Environment in Asia series featuring Michael J. Hathaway – What a Mushroom Lives For: Matsutake Mushrooms and the Worlds They Make
Speaker: Michael J. Hathaway, Professor of Anthropology and Director of the David Lam Center for Asian Studies, Simon Fraser University This talk introduces the second book in an academic trilogy
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Victor Seow – Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia
Presented via ZoomTopics: Speaker: Victor Seow, Assistant Professor of the History of Science, Harvard UniversityCommentator: Paul Sabin, Yale University Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia is a study of the
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Buddhist Studies Forum featuring Halvor Eifring – Let the mind wander towards the Pure Land: Two 19th-Century Chinese Monks on How to Treat Spontaneous Thought
Presented via ZoomTopics: Speaker: Halvor Eifring, University of Oslo Mind wandering has been an issue within contemplative traditions for more than two thousand years. How to go about your meditation or prayer
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