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SUMMARY:Kent Calder - Super Continent: BRI and the Emergence of an Integrated Eurasia
DESCRIPTION:Read event summary here \nSpeaker: Kent Calder\, Johns Hopkins University \nKent Calder serves as Vice Dean for Faculty Affairs and International Research Cooperation at JHU. He is also Director of the Edwin O. Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies\, and served from 2016-2018 as Director of Asia Programs. Before arriving at Johns Hopkins SAIS in 2003\, Calder served as Special Advisor to the U.S. Ambassador to Japan\, Japan Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies\, Professor at Princeton University\, Lecturer on Government at Harvard\, and as the first Executive Director of Harvard University’s Program on US-Japan Relations. Calder received his PhD from Harvard University in 1979\, where he worked under the direction of Edwin O. Reischauer. A specialist in East Asian political economy\, he has spent eleven years living and researching in Japan and four years elsewhere in East Asia. In 2014\, he was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun\, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon. Calder’s most recent works include Circles of Compensation: Economic Growth and the Globalization of Japan (Stanford\, 2017); Singapore: Smart City\, Smart State (Brookings\, 2017); Asia in Washington (Brookings\, 2014); and The New Continentalism: Energy and Twenty-First Century Eurasian Geopolitics (Yale\, 2012)
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-7/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China Series
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SUMMARY:Kwok-leong Tang - Digital China Lab: Web Scraping without Coding
DESCRIPTION:Registration Form: https://d.pr/SgidPR \nThis workshop will introduce tools and basic skills to extract and collect data from web pages. It is intended for participants who have no familiarity with programming and coding. Participants will use two Chrome extensions to parse information from websites and learn basic knowledge of HTML\, CSS\, and JavaScript. In order to maintain the best interaction between the instructor and participants\, each session is limited to twelve participants. Priority will be given to graduate students and on a first-come\, first-served basis. \n\nSession One: Thursday\, Feb 13 2020 (Registration deadline: Feb 11)\nSession Two: Thursday\, Feb 27 2020 (Registration deadline: Feb 25)\n\n(Both sessions offer the same content.) \nPlease bring your laptop with Google Chrome installed. A Google account is needed.  \nPlease contact Kwok-leong (kwokleongtang@fas.harvard.edu) if you have any questions. \n 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/kwok-leong-tang-digital-china-lab-web-scraping-without-coding/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200214T150000
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SUMMARY:Daniel Koss - Where the Party Rules: The Rank and File of China’s Communist Party
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Daniel Koss\, Lecturer\, EALC\, Harvard University \nIn most non-democratic countries\, today governing forty-four percent of the world population\, the power of the regime rests upon a ruling party. Contrasting with conventional notions that authoritarian regime parties serve to contain elite conflict and manipulate electoral-legislative processes\, this book presents the case of China and shows that rank and-file members of the Communist Party allow the state to penetrate local communities. Subnational comparative analysis demonstrates that in ‘red areas’ with high party saturation\, the state is most effectively enforcing policy and collecting taxes. Because party membership patterns are extremely enduring\, they must be explained by events prior to the Communist takeover in 1949. Frontlines during the anti-colonial Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945) continue to shape China’s political map even today. Newly available evidence from the Great Leap Forward (1958-1961) and the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) shows how a strong local party basis sustained the regime in times of existential crisis. \nThis event is part of the Harvard-Yenching Library Book Talk Series\, in which faculty discuss their recent publications. The event is open to all. Light refreshments will be served.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/daniel-koss-where-the-party-rules-the-rank-and-file-of-chinas-communist-party/
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200218T140000
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SUMMARY:Dirk van der Kley - Less is More…The New BRI in Central Asia
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dirk van der Kley\, Program Director for Policy Research\, China Matters \nXi Jinping’s Belt and Road Initiative has changed significantly in Central Asia in the last few years. In particular\, direct Chinese government lending through Eximbank to Central Asian states has completely dried up. Instead the focus has shifted to smaller investment projects that create jobs for Central Asians and exports for Central Asian states\, while also providing benefits for Chinese companies. This is a much tougher task than just building infrastructure. It forces Chinese companies to operate in challenging business environments in Central Asia in key sectors. This presentation will systematically examine how these changes are paying out in each Central Asian state. It will demonstrate that Chinese companies have their own agency. For example\, they still try to shift debt burdens onto recipient states through hidden means or joint ventures with Central Asian state-owned enterprises. \n 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/dirk-van-der-kley-less-is-morethe-new-bri-in-central-asia/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200219T121500
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SUMMARY:Jude Blanchette - What's Communist about the Communist Party of China?
DESCRIPTION:Read event summary here \nSpeaker: Jude Blanchette – Center for Strategic and International Studies \nThe speaker will explore the extant ideological and institutional legacies of socialism and Marxism within the current day CCP.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/jude-blanchette-critical-issues-confronting-china-series/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China Series
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SUMMARY:Mark Elliott and Kirsten Weld - The Public Face of History series: The Historian Confronting Political Controversies
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\nMark Elliott\, Vice Provost for International Affairs; Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History\, Harvard University\nKirsten Weld\, Professor of History\, Harvard University
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/mark-elliott-and-kirsten-weld-the-public-face-of-history-series-the-historian-confronting-political-controversies/
LOCATION:History Department Conference Room\, Robinson Hall\, 35 Quincy St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200220T153000
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SUMMARY:Xi Yang - China's Coal-to-Gas Policy for Residential Heating: Between the Shadow and the Light
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Xi Yang\, Visiting Researcher\, Harvard-China Project; Associate Professor\, China University of Petroleum Beijing \nUnder the pressure of improving its environmental governance\, China has strengthened its coal substitution policy known as “coal-to-gas” in residential heating in Northern region. This bold policy sets strict gas replacement targets for “26 + 2” key cities. However\, China suffered from severe gas shortages in the 2017-2018 winter\, which aroused widespread concern. Maintaining the natural gas balance became thus a challenging task for China\, especially with the policy extended nationwide. Also\, the contribution of gas substitution to air quality improvement remains uncertain. In the context of the Paris Agreement\, the feasibility of China’s gas substitution policy is vital not only for the accomplishment of its NDCs (Nationally Determined Contributions)\, but also to global decarbonization. Based on scenario analysis with the bottom-up MAPLE (China Multi-pollutant Abatement Planning and Long-term benefit Evaluation) model\, this talk will address current debates and discuss the potential impact of the coal-to-gas policy.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/xi-yang-chinas-coal-to-gas-policy-for-residential-heating-between-the-shadow-and-the-light/
LOCATION:Pierce Hall 100F\, 29 Oxford St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Zvi Ben-Dor Benite - "The 18th Brumaire of Yuan Shikai\," By Mao Zedong: History\, Classical Commentary\, and Politics.
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Zvi Ben-Dor Benite\, New York University \nTaking a small comment by the young Mao Zedong in his “Classroom Notes” as its point of departure\, this talk revisits the very early days after the fall of the last dynasty. It ties them to events in post-revolutionary France and the late Han period. It ends and begins with a comment on the relationship between Mao Zedong Thought\, Mao Studies\, and Chinese History. \nZvi Ben-Dor Benite teaches in the Department of History and the Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University. He studied pre-modern and modern Chinese History in Jerusalem\, in China\, and later at UCLA. His research centers on the interaction between religions in world history and cultural and intellectual exchanges across vast space and deep time. He is the author of The Dao of Muhammad: A Cultural History of Muslims in Late Imperial China (Harvard\, 2005); The Ten Lost Tribes: A World History (Oxford\, 2009); and co-editor and translator of Modern Middle Eastern Jewish Thought: Writings on Identity\, Culture\, and Politics (Brandeis\, 2013); and an edited volume on Sovereignty (Columbia University Press 2017).
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/zvi-ben-dor-benite-the-18th-brumaire-of-yuan-shikai-by-mao-zedong-history-classical-commentary-and-politics/
CATEGORIES:China Humanities Seminar
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SUMMARY:Exhibition - Elegy to a Uyghur Dreamscape
DESCRIPTION:Photographs by Lisa Ross \nSponsored by the Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies\, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and Harvard Asia Center Arts Initiative; with support from the Provostial Fund Committee\, Office of the Dean of Arts and Humanities
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/exhibition-elegy-to-a-uyghur-dreamscape/
LOCATION:Japan Friends of Harvard Concourse\, CGIS South\, Lower Level\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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SUMMARY:Zhai Shaodong - Ground Stone Tool Production: A Forsaken Craft During Early Urbanization in China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Zhai Shaodong\, Associate Professor\, Institute of Archaeology\, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2019-20\nChair/discussant: Rowan Flad\, John E. Hudson Professor of Archaeology\, Department of Anthropology\, Harvard University \nIn China\, ground stone tools emerged during the transition period from the Paleolithic to the Neolithic time. However\, they did not take the place of knapped stone tools as the main production tools until the Yangshao Culture. This process coincided with the change from hunting and gathering to agriculture and sedentism. Therefore\, ground stone tools greatly supported agricultural development and sedentism. If there were ground stone tools\, there was ground stone tool production. Currently\, there are not many clues about ground stone tool production during and before the Yangshao Culture in the Central Plains of China\, but there are some related data from Taosi\, Erlitou and Yin Ruins. These three sites also represented the early urbanization process in China. This talk will compare ground stone tool production at these three sites in order to see the status of ground stone tool production during early urbanization in the Central Plains of China \nhttps://harvard-yenching.org/events/ground-stone-tool-production-forsaken-craft-during-early-urbanization-china
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/zhai-shaodong-ground-stone-tool-production-a-forsaken-craft-during-early-urbanization-in-china/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200225T163000
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SUMMARY:Jessica Brandt and Torrey Taussig - China\, Russia\, and Europe’s Authoritarian Challenge
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\nJessica Brandt\, Head of Policy and Research\, Alliance for Securing Democracy; Fellow\, The German Marshall Fund of the United States\nTorrey Taussig\, Research Director\, Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship\, Harvard Kennedy School \nChair: Sebastián Royo\, Professor of Government\, Suffolk University; Visiting Scholar 2019-2020\, Local Affiliate and Seminar Co-chair\, CES\, Harvard University \nhttps://ces.fas.harvard.edu/events/2020/02/china-russia-europe-authoritarian
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/jessica-brandt-and-torrey-taussig-china-russia-and-europes-authoritarian-challenge/
LOCATION:Adolphus Busch Hall\, 27 Kirkland St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200226T121500
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SUMMARY:Lenora Chu -  Lessons from China: The World's Largest Education System
DESCRIPTION:Read event summary here \nSpeaker: Lenora Chu – International Correspondent\, Christian Science Monitor; Author\, Little Soldiers \nBased on journalistic research as well as her own experiences as a parent navigating the Chinese education system\, Lenora will illuminate the impact of culture on education and global competitiveness\, discuss differences between Chinese and Western systems\, and detail their strengths and challenges. \nLenora Chu is a journalist and author of the award-winning Little Soldiers\, a narrative account of China’s education system (HarperCollins\, 2017). She is also currently a Berlin-based international correspondent for the nonprofit news organization Christian Science Monitor. With 15 years’ experience in the U.S. and China\, Lenora’s work illuminates the intersection of culture\, education\, policy and global competitiveness — a passion borne in part of growing up with Chinese parents in America. \nIn 2019\, she was named to the public intellectuals program of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations. As a commentator\, Lenora has appeared on NPR\, CBS\, BBC\, and the CBC\, and her articles and op-eds have been published in The Wall Street Journal\, The New York Times\, The Cut and Business Insider\, among others.  Her first book won ASJA’s 2018 nonfiction prize and was also shortlisted for Stanford’s Saroyan International Prize. A former media and management consultant\, Lenora is the past president of the Shanghai Foreign Correspondents’ Club. She holds degrees in engineering and journalism from Stanford and Columbia Universities.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/lenora-chu-critical-issues-confronting-china-series/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China Series
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SUMMARY:Kwok-leong Tang - Digital China Lab: Web Scraping without Coding
DESCRIPTION:Registration Form: https://d.pr/SgidPR \nThis workshop will introduce tools and basic skills to extract and collect data from web pages. It is intended for participants who have no familiarity with programming and coding. Participants will use two Chrome extensions to parse information from websites and learn basic knowledge of HTML\, CSS\, and JavaScript. In order to maintain the best interaction between the instructor and participants\, each session is limited to twelve participants. Priority will be given to graduate students and on a first-come\, first-served basis. \n\nSession One: Thursday\, Feb 13 2020 (Registration deadline: Feb 11)\nSession Two: Thursday\, Feb 27 2020 (Registration deadline: Feb 25)\n\n(Both sessions offer the same content.) \nPlease bring your laptop with Google Chrome installed. A Google account is needed.  \nPlease contact Kwok-leong (kwokleongtang@fas.harvard.edu) if you have any questions.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/kwok-leong-tang-digital-china-lab-web-scraping-without-coding-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200228T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200228T140000
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SUMMARY:Panel Discussion - Going Viral: The Coronavirus and its Regional and Global Implications
DESCRIPTION:Watch again on YouTube: \n \nListen again on Soundcloud: \n \nRead and download the transcript for this event here. \nSpeakers:\nBarry Bloom\, Joan L. and Julius H. Jacobson Research Professor of Public Health\, Harvard Chan School of Public Health\nHoward Markel\, George E. Wantz Distinguished Professor of the History of Medicine; Director\, Center for the History of Medicine\, University of Michigan\nElanah Uretsky\, Assistant Professor\, International and Global Studies\, Brandeis University\nWinnie Chi-Man Yip\, Professor of the Practice of International Health Policy and Economics\, Harvard Chan School of Public Health\n\nModerator: Arthur Kleinman\, Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology; Professor of Medical Anthropology in Global Health and Social Medicine; Professor of Psychiatry\, Harvard Medical School \nAsia Beyond the Headlines Seminar Series\, Harvard University Asia Center.  Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the China Health Partnership\, Harvard Chan School of Public Health
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/panel-discussion-going-viral-the-coronavirus-and-its-regional-and-global-implications/
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:20200302T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200302T200000
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SUMMARY:Panel Discussion - The COVID-19 Outbreak: Local and Global Decisions During Uncertainty
DESCRIPTION:Please click here to watch/listen to our recent panel discussion on COVID-19 (Coronavirus).  \nPanel Discussants:\nGabriel Leung\, Dean\, Faculty of Medicine\, Helen and Francis Zimmern Professor in Population Health\, University of Hong Kong; Member of the World Health Organization expert team on COVID19; and Harvard Chan MPH Alumnus\nBarry Bloom\, Joan L. and Julius H. Jacobson Research Professor of Public Health\nWilliam Hsiao\, K.T. Li Research Professor of Economics\nMarc Lipsitch\, Professor of Epidemiology\nAlex Ng\, Vice President of Tencent Healthcare; Former Deputy Director of China Program\, Head of Health and Innovation\, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; and Harvard Chan MPH Alumnus\nWinnie Yip(Moderator)\, Professor of the Practice of International Health Policy and Economics \nJoin the Harvard China Health Partnership for a special dinner seminar featuring a panel of speakers—from Harvard and Asia—to learn and discuss complex questions such as: \n\nWhat could China have done differently in light of incomplete and uncertain knowledge of the new virus?\nIs China’s response unique to its governance structure or are there global lessons to be drawn?\nWhat did China learn and not learn from SARS in 2003 and why?\nHas ten years of health reform in China\, plus quadrupled government spending on health\, prepared China better for this outbreak?\nWhat is the role of social media and digital health in this outbreak?\n\nhttps://sites.sph.harvard.edu/china-health-partnership/event/chp-seminar-coronavirus/ \n 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/panel-discussion-the-covid-19-outbreak-local-and-global-decisions-during-uncertainty/
LOCATION:Kresge Building\, G2 – bad duplicate\, 677 Huntington Ave\, Boston\, MA\, 02155\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200303T180000
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SUMMARY:Chien-Huei Wu - Economic-Security Nexus: The US-China Trade War and its Implication for Taiwan
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Chien-Huei Wu\, Associate Research Professor\, Institute of European and American Studies\, Academia Sinica
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/chien-huei-wu-economic-security-nexus-the-us-china-trade-war-and-its-implication-for-taiwan/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Taiwan
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SUMMARY:Jay Xu - Asia Now: A New Focus on Contemporary Art
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Jay Xu\, Director and CEO\, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco \nEver since its doors opened in 1966\, the Asian Art Museum has dedicated itself to inspiring new ways of thinking. Through its world-class collection\, exhibitions\, and programs\, the AAM connects diverse communities to various aspects of Asian art and culture. To further its commitment to make Asian art and culture an essential part of American life in the 21st century\, the AAM has launched a major contemporary art initiative. The overarching goal is to spark the audience’s curiosity\, foster connection of art to life\, and to contributes to a paradigm shift and canon building in the field of contemporary Asian art. The newly renovated and expanded museum facilities and art presentation\, which are to open to public in May 2020\, include the first manifestation of the contemporary art initiative. This lecture will discuss the thought process\, strategy\, resources\, and programs of the AAM’s initiative\, and encourage critical feedback for its effort.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/jay-xu-asia-now-a-new-focus-on-contemporary-art/
LOCATION:Room 422\, Sackler Building\, 485 Broadway\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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SUMMARY:Bin Li - From History Books to Digital Humanities Database: Methods\, Tools\, and Case Studies of Chinese Classics
DESCRIPTION:Artificial intelligence technology has rapidly changed the study form of humanities. In this presentation\, we will discuss the key issues in using natural language processing\, deep learning\, GIS\, database and visualization technologies to design a new digital humanities database from the electronic texts of ancient books. We will introduce automatic tagging tools for ancient Chinese sentence/word segmentation\, named entity tagging. Then\, we will present a case study of constructing the DH database of Chinese classics Zuozhuan(左傳)\, Shiji(史記) and Shijing(詩經)\, which offers word based multi-functional retrieval in addition to the full-text retrieval. Data analysis and visualization also reveal new facts from the texts\, such as the personal social relations and travelling distance. Finally\, we discuss the potential improvements and applications of the DH database. \nSpeaker: Bin Li\, Visiting Scholar of CBDB group at IQSS\, Harvard University. Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics in the School of Chinese Language and Literature\, Nanjing Normal University
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/bin-li-from-history-books-to-digital-humanities-database-methods-tools-and-case-studies-of-chinese-classics/
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SUMMARY:David Wolff - Among Great Powers: Sino-Russian Relations in Recent Years
DESCRIPTION:Read the event summary here \nSpeaker: David Wolff\, Hokkaido University \n 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/david-wolff-critical-issues-confronting-china-series/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200305T120000
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SUMMARY:Lin Sheng-chih - Rethinking the Religious Elements in the Tombs of Early Medieval China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Lin Sheng-chih\, Associate Research Fellow\, Institute of History and Philology\, Academia Sinica; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2019-20\nChair/discussant: Eugene Wang\, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art\, Department of History of Art and Architecture\, Harvard University \nThis talk examines religious elements in the tombs of early medieval China (220–589)\, in an effort to gain new perspectives into the art of tombs from this period. To achieve this goal\, this project conceptually refers to recent scholarship on the very idea of religion. In terms of materials\, the project covers sources from Buddhism\, Daoism\, Confucianism\, and Zoroastrianism\, as well as local cults of nomadic tribes. In its central argument\, this project aims to elucidate the religious elements in tombs of the Northern dynasties (386–581) by considering the local cults of nomadic tribes. \nhttps://harvard-yenching.org/events/rethinking-religious-elements-tombs-early-medieval-china
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/lin-sheng-chih-rethinking-the-religious-elements-in-the-tombs-of-early-medieval-china/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200306T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200306T140000
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SUMMARY:EALC First Fridays Live Broadcast
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\nHisa Kuriyama\, Reischauer Institute Professor of Cultural History: “Toward a History of Timeless Wisdom”\nDylan Suher\, Ph.D. Candidate in Chinese Literature: “Chinese Television at Midnight: Triumph at Midnight and the Birth of ‘Television-Style Television'” \nThe Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard  invites you to join us for our first ever live broadcast of our signature First Friday talks!\nWatch and participate: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/151946950
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/ealc-first-fridays-live-broadcast/
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200309T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200309T120000
DTSTAMP:20260519T144143
CREATED:20200303T180334Z
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SUMMARY:Yukon Huang - US-China Economic Tensions: Past\, Present\, and Future
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Yukon Huang\, Senior Fellow\, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace \nCo-sponsored by: \nDavis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies\nHarvard University Asia Center
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/yukon-huang-us-china-economic-tensions-past-present-and-future/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200309T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200309T170000
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CREATED:20200226T152433Z
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SUMMARY:The Stories We Tell and the Objects We Keep: Asian American Women and the Archives
DESCRIPTION:The stories of Asian American women extend far beyond the geographic borders of the United States. Inspired by tales and objects from family history\, their narratives often reflect the transnational nature of Asian American women’s lives. Despite the importance of these narratives to expanding and complicating our understanding of war\, migration\, inequity\, and difference\, the accounts and perspectives of Asian American women have often been overlooked in formal records\, and the tangible objects providing critical evidence of their histories have been ignored. \nThis half-day program will bring together Asian American activists and artists\, including novelists\, filmmakers\, playwrights\, and photographers\, to share the stories that inspire their craft and the objects they retain as part of their personal histories. \nTo register and to view a full list of speakers\, visit www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2020-stories-we-tell-objects-we-keep-conference. \nThis event is free. Registration is required.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-stories-we-tell-and-the-objects-we-keep-asian-american-women-and-the-archives/
LOCATION:Radcliffe Knafel Center\, 10 Garden St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200309T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200309T173000
DTSTAMP:20260519T144143
CREATED:20200303T180725Z
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UID:9193-1583769600-1583775000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Triangular Economic Relations: China\, The EU\, and the United States
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\nLucy Hornby\, Nieman Fellow\, Harvard University; Deputy Bureau Chief in Beijing for the Financial Times\nYasheng Huang\, Epoch Foundation Professor of International Management and Faculty Director of Action Learning\, the MIT Sloan School of Management\nYukon Huang\, Senior Fellow\, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace \nModerator: Maria Adele Carrai\, Fellow\, Harvard University Asia Center \nCo-sponsored by:\nDavis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies\nHarvard University Asia Center\nHarvard Kennedy School Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/triangular-economic-relations-china-the-eu-and-the-united-states/
LOCATION:Wexner W-434 A.B\, 19 Eliot St\, Cambridge\, 02138\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200310T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200310T133000
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CREATED:20200303T164843Z
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SUMMARY:Zhang Ke - Progress or Perish: Different Images of India in Late Qing China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Zhang Ke\, Associate Professor of History\, Fudan University; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2019-20\nChair/discussant: Arunabh Ghosh\, Associate Professor of History\, Harvard University \nhttps://harvard-yenching.org/events/progress-or-perish-different-images-india-late-qing-china
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/xhang-ke-progress-or-perish-different-images-of-india-in-late-qing-china/
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200311T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200311T180000
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CREATED:20200219T165054Z
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SUMMARY:***CANCELED*** Lizhi Liu - From Click to Boom: The Political Economy of E-Commerce in China
DESCRIPTION:This event is canceled. We apologize for the inconvenience. \nSpeaker: Lizhi Liu\, Georgetown University \nA central question in political economy asks: how do developing states build market-supporting institutions (e.g.\, secure property rights\, contract enforcement\, and the rule of law)? Too often\, political obstacles prevent developing states from adopting strong formal institutions. I propose that China has devised a novel solution to this political problem: institutional outsourcing. I argue that\, with weak rule of law\, the state has outsourced part of its institutional functions to key private actors\, which I call\, private regulatory intermediaries (PRIs). Using as the context China’s e-commerce market\, where 514 million active users generate more than 70 million transactions per day\, I show that online trading platforms (e.g.\, Alibaba’s Taobao.com and Tmall.com) have begun to serve as PRIs. More specifically\, platforms privately supply market-supporting institutions to enforce contracts\, prevent fraud\, and settle disputes. Not only do platforms enforce rules\, they also assist the state in creating and reforming formal institutions through institutional experiments. I demonstrate that institutional outsourcing is a more politically viable solution to market failure and governance deficit than the direct reforming of formal institutions. I further argue that institutional outsourcing\, as an alternative route to institutional development\, is potentially generalizable to other developing countries. This talk is an overview of my research on China’s e-commerce market. In the talk\, I will discuss how and why China’s e-commerce boom is not merely a technology shock. Rather\, the rise of China’s e-commerce market has brought profound economic and institutional changes in China.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/lizhi-liu-from-click-to-boom-the-political-economy-of-e-commerce-in-china/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200318T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200318T180000
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CREATED:20200225T154110Z
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SUMMARY:***POSTPONED*** Environment in Asia Reunion Workshop - With a Special Tribute to Profs. Robert B. Marks and Peter C. Perdue
DESCRIPTION:THIS EVENT IS POSTPONED DUE TO THE COVID-19 SITUATION.\nWE HOPE TO RESCHEDULE IT FOR APRIL 2021.\nWE APOLOGIZE FOR THE INCONVENIENCE\nOrganizer: Ling Zhang\, Boston College \nFeaturing roundtable conversations on:\nMultispecies Entanglement\nImaginaries and Representations\nLand\, Water\, Fire\, Air\nEnergy and Resource\nFood\, Body\, Health\nEnvironmental Politics and Policies of Contemporary China\nBuilding a Multidisciplinary Environmental Studies Community\nand\nPioneering Chinese Environmental History: A Celebration of Lifelong Achievements of Professor Robert B. Marks and Professor Peter C. Perdue \nMarch 18\, 2020 | 2:00 – 6:00 PM\nBelfer Case Study Room (S020) | CGIS South | 1730 Cambridge St. | Cambridge MA \nMarch 19\, 2020 | 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM\nRoom K262 | CGIS Knafel | 1737 Cambridge St. | Cambridge MA
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/environment-in-asia-reunion-workshop-with-a-special-tribute-to-profs-robert-b-marks-and-peter-c-perdue/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Environment
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200319T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200319T170000
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SUMMARY:***POSTPONED*** Environment in Asia Reunion Workshop - With a Special Tribute to Profs. Robert B. Marks and Peter C. Perdue
DESCRIPTION:THIS EVENT IS POSTPONED DUE TO THE COVID-19 SITUATION.\nWE HOPE TO RESCHEDULE IT FOR APRIL 2021.\nWE APOLOGIZE FOR THE INCONVENIENCE\nOrganizer: Ling Zhang\, Boston College \nFeaturing roundtable conversations on:\nMultispecies Entanglement\nImaginaries and Representations\nLand\, Water\, Fire\, Air\nEnergy and Resource\nFood\, Body\, Health\nEnvironmental Politics and Policies of Contemporary China\nBuilding a Multidisciplinary Environmental Studies Community\nand\nPioneering Chinese Environmental History: A Celebration of Lifelong Achievements of Professor Robert B. Marks and Professor Peter C. Perdue \nMarch 18\, 2020 | 2:00 – 6:00 PM\nBelfer Case Study Room (S020) | CGIS South | 1730 Cambridge St. | Cambridge MA \nMarch 19\, 2020 | 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM\nRoom K262 | CGIS Knafel | 1737 Cambridge St. | Cambridge MA
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/environment-in-asia-reunion-workshop-with-a-special-tribute-to-profs-robert-b-marks-and-peter-c-perdue-2/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Environment
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200324T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200324T180000
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CREATED:20200106T151722Z
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SUMMARY:***POSTPONED*** Annual Reischauer Lecture Series Featuring Angela Ki Che Leung -  Soy Sauce: Becoming East Asia’s Everyday Food
DESCRIPTION:***Due to COVID-19 concerns\, this event has been postponed until a later date.\nWe apologize for any inconvenience.***\nSpeaker: Angela Ki Che Leung\nDirector and Chair Professor of History\nJoseph Needham – Philip Mao Professor in Chinese History\, Science & Civilization\nHong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences\, University of Hong Kong\, \nAngela Ki Che Leung joined the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences in January 2011 as its first full-time director. She received her B.A. in history at the University of Hong Kong and her doctoral degree (History) at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS)\, Paris. She was research fellow at the Academia Sinica of Taipei and has taught in the History Department of the National Taiwan University until 2008 when she became the Chair Professor of the History Department of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. In July 2010\, she was elected Academician of the Academia Sinica. \nHer present research focus is on medical culture in South China\, in particular the Canton/ Hong Kong region\, in the global and colonial context in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. Her broader interests are on the history and social science study on science\, medicine and technology in pre-modern and modern East Asia. \nShe has published books and articles in English\, Chinese and French on charitable organizations in the Ming-Qing period and on the history of medicine and diseases in China of the late imperial and modern periods. Her recent publications include Leprosy in China: A History (Columbia University Press\, 2009)\, Health and Hygiene in East Asia: Policies and Publics in the Long Twentieth Century (co-editor: Charlotte Furth) (Duke University Press\, 2010)\, and Gender\, Health\, and History in Modern East Asia (Co-edited with Izumi Nakayama) (Hong Kong University Press\, 2017). She is currently co-editing a book volume on “Moral Foods: The Construction of Nutrition and Health in Modern Asia” with Melissa L. Caldwell contracted by the University of Hawai’i Press. Leung is also leading a collaborative project on everyday technologies in the making of modern East Asia.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/angela-ki-che-leung-annual-resichauer-lecture-series/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200325T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200325T180000
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SUMMARY:***POSTPONED*** Annual Reischauer Lecture Series Featuring Angela Ki Che Leung - Soy Sauce Technoscience and the Modern State
DESCRIPTION:***Due to COVID-19 concerns\, this event has been postponed until a later date.\nWe apologize for any inconvenience.***\nSpeaker: Angela Ki Che Leung\nDirector and Chair Professor of History\nJoseph Needham – Philip Mao Professor in Chinese History\, Science & Civilization\nHong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences\, University of Hong Kong\, \nAngela Ki Che Leung joined the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences in January 2011 as its first full-time director. She received her B.A. in history at the University of Hong Kong and her doctoral degree (History) at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS)\, Paris. She was research fellow at the Academia Sinica of Taipei and has taught in the History Department of the National Taiwan University until 2008 when she became the Chair Professor of the History Department of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. In July 2010\, she was elected Academician of the Academia Sinica. \nHer present research focus is on medical culture in South China\, in particular the Canton/ Hong Kong region\, in the global and colonial context in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. Her broader interests are on the history and social science study on science\, medicine and technology in pre-modern and modern East Asia. \nShe has published books and articles in English\, Chinese and French on charitable organizations in the Ming-Qing period and on the history of medicine and diseases in China of the late imperial and modern periods. Her recent publications include Leprosy in China: A History (Columbia University Press\, 2009)\, Health and Hygiene in East Asia: Policies and Publics in the Long Twentieth Century (co-editor: Charlotte Furth) (Duke University Press\, 2010)\, and Gender\, Health\, and History in Modern East Asia (Co-edited with Izumi Nakayama) (Hong Kong University Press\, 2017). She is currently co-editing a book volume on “Moral Foods: The Construction of Nutrition and Health in Modern Asia” with Melissa L. Caldwell contracted by the University of Hawai’i Press. Leung is also leading a collaborative project on everyday technologies in the making of modern East Asia.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/angela-ki-che-leung-annual-resichauer-lecture-series-2/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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