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SUMMARY:Liu Shuguang - Cultural Heritage in China: Present and Future
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Liu Shuguang\, Deputy Administrator\, State Administration of Cultural Heritage (SACH)\, People’s Republic of China \nThis talk will focus on the distinctive features of cultural heritage in China\, the formation of Cultural Heritage Management Mechanism  with Chinese Characteristics and the existing state and challenges to Cultural Heritage Management in China. \nLiu Shuguang\, graduated from the history department at Zhengzhou University with a bachelor degree in archeology in 1982. In 1986\, he received a master’s degree in Chinese history at Peking University. After serving as an archaeologist in Luoyang\, from 1986 to 1996\, he taught ancient Chinese history\, history of Chinese archaeology\, Chinese urban history\, etc.\, at Minzu University of China and the Branch College of Peking University. \nFrom 1996 to 2010\, he worked at State Administration of Cultural Heritage (SACH). From March\, 2010\, he was president of Chinese Academy of Cultural Heritage\, and president of National Center of Underwater Cultural Heritage. Since December\, 2015\, he has been deputy administrator of SACH.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/liu-shuguang-management-of-cultural-heritage-in-china-existing-state-and-future-trend/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Victor Seow - Energy Transitions amidst Regime Change: Mining Coal in the Early People’s Republic of China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Victor Seow\, Assistant Professor\, Department of the History of Science\, Harvard University \nThe decade after the revolution of 1949 witnessed a China that was being made anew. The material transformation of society and economy that had been the goal of preceding regimes was realized to a hitherto unseen degree in the industrial edifice raised by the socialist state. This was an achievement that rested upon a bedrock of fossil fuel energy. In line with centrally directed plans\, the coal that lay in abundance in multiple regions across China was unearthed in mounting quantities\, as Chinese engineers led the excavation of new mines and the introduction of new technologies and techniques\, from the longwall system to hydraulic mining. Yet for all the effort in pushing production\, supply did not seem to be able to catch up with demand\, and by the late 1950s\, China seemed to be facing a coal shortage. Part of the problem was that of thermal inefficiency: for most industrial processes\, Chinese engines\, furnaces\, and boilers were burning more coal than their British and American counterparts. This talk examines efforts by Chinese planners to expand coal output as part of what they saw as a race to outpace capitalist countries in industrial development\, and shows that it was not so much a failure of technology but the fixation on sheer volume that led to a low quality of coal produced\, which in turn compromised the efficiency of the socialist industrial enterprise. \nSponsored by Harvard-China Project on Energy\, Economy and Environment\, Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/victor-seow-energy-transitions-amidst-regime-change-mining-coal-in-the-early-peoples-republic-of-china/
LOCATION:Pierce Hall 100F\, 29 Oxford St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180426T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180426T173000
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SUMMARY:Reconsidering Chinese Literature in the World: An International Symposium in Honor of Stephen Owen
DESCRIPTION:In honor of Harvard University Professor Stephen Owen’s retirement from teaching\, the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University and the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale University will convene an international symposium on Chinese and comparative literatures on April 26 and 27\, 2018\, at Harvard University. Papers will span the many fields within which Professor Owen’s contributions have been felt\, and allow participants\, drawn from among Owen’s graduate advisees and from the top scholars of Chinese and comparative literature around the world\, to reflect upon the ways these fields have changed over the course of his long teaching career and the new directions in which they are developing\, and should develop\, in the years ahead. \nFor more information\, including a detailed agenda\, visit https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/rcl. \nThe conference will be conducted in English and Chinese. It is open to the public. \nSponsored by the Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange\, the Harvard University Asia Center\, the Harvard University Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, the Harvard-Yenching Institute\, and the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/reconsidering-chinese-literature-in-the-world-an-international-symposium-in-honor-of-stephen-owen/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Conference and Workshops,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180426T123000
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SUMMARY:Fanmei Wang - Career Development for Ethnic Minority Employees: A Case Study in the Tibetan Autonomous Region
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Fanmei Wang\,  Fairbank Center Visiting Scholar\, Assistant Professor of Business Administration\, Donlinks School of Economics and Management\, University of Science and Technology Beijing\nHosted by: Mark Elliott\,  Vice Provost for International Affairs\, Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History\, Harvard University \nThe presentation will focus on the issue of career advancement for ethnic minority employees\, with particular reference to Tibetan employees in private enterprises in the Tibetan Autonomous Region. A theoretical framework generated from the primary data will identify influential factors from three levels\, namely\, the individual level\, the micro-contextual (organizational) level\, and the macro-contextual (regional differences and Chinese governmental ethnic-related policies) level. It aims to fill an under-researched question regarding the career experiences of ethnic minorities in contemporary China.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/fanmei-wang-career-development-for-ethnic-minority-employees-a-case-study-in-the-tibetan-autonomous-region/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180427T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180428T150000
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SUMMARY:Workshop: Chinese Food: Culture\, Economy\, and Ecology
DESCRIPTION:Part of the Fairbank Center’s “Environment in Asia” series \nApril 27\, 8:30am-6:30pm\, CGIS South Room S153\nApril 28\, 8:30am-3:30pm\, CGIS South Room S250 \nOrganizer: Ling Zhang (Boston College); Elizabeth Lord (Harvard University) \nSponsors:\nHarvard University Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\nHarvard-China Project on Energy\, Economy\, and Environment (Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences)\nBoston College Institute for the Liberal Arts \n  \nConference Program \nApril 27\, Friday \n8:45-9:15         Opening\nLing Zhang (Boston College)\nElizabeth Lord (Harvard University) \nPanel One: Food and Knowledge\n9:30-10:15 \nE. N. Anderson (University of California\, Riverside)\n“Learning Is Like Chicken Feet: Medieval China Studies West Asian Foodways in the Emerging Asian World-system” \nAbigail Coplin (Yale University)\n“The East is ‘Scientific’: Scientists\, the State\, and Credibility Crises During China’s GMO Controversy” \n10:15-10:30     Coffee Break \n10:30-12:30     Robban Toleno (Columbia University)\n“Buddhists\, Meat Analogues\, and the History of Vegetarianism in China”\nDiscussion: Peter Perdue (Yale University) \n12:30-13:30     Lunch \nPanel Two: Political Economy and Ecology \n13:30-14:15\nMindi Schneider (Erasmus Graduate School of Social Sciences and the Humanities)\n“Food and Power: A Food Regime Analysis of Contemporary China” \nMark Frank (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)\n“Food and Accommodation: Chinese Grain Governance in Eastern Tibet\, 1908-1940” \nBrendan A. Galipeau (Rice University)\n“Free in the Mountains or Home in the Vineyard: Resisting Plantation Labor on a French Vineyard in Tibet through Valuable Fungi Collection” \n15:30-15:50     Coffee Break \n15:50-18:30\nElizabeth Lord (Harvard University)\n“Making Pollution Invisible — An Exploration of Soil Surveys in Contemporary China” \nAlexander F. Day (Occidental College)\n“The Political Economy of Socialist Food Production: The Work of Labor and Fertilizer on a State-Owned Tea Farm” \nDiscussion: Ellen Oxfeld (Middlebury College\, 20 minutes) \n*          *          * \nApril 28\, Saturday \nPanel Three: Materiality\, Culture\, and Identity \n9:00-9:45\nMiranda Brown (University of Michigan)\n“On Bird’s Nests and Bean Curds: Reflections on the Rise of Tofu Connoisseurship” \nCaroline Merrifield (Yale University)\n“Jiangnan Luxe” \n9:45-10:00       Coffee Break \n10:00-12:00\nJin Feng (Grinnell College)\n“The Battle of Noodles” \nBenny Shaffer (Harvard University)\n“Shapeshifting Fields: The Moving Image Work of Mao Chenyu” \nDiscussion: Eileen Chow (Duke University) \n12:00-13:00     Lunch \n13:00-15:00     General Discussion and Conclusion
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/workshop-chinese-food-culture-economy-and-ecology/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, CGIS South\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Environment,Environment
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SUMMARY:Reconsidering Chinese Literature in the World: An International Symposium in Honor of Stephen Owen
DESCRIPTION:In honor of Harvard University Professor Stephen Owen’s retirement from teaching\, the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University and the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale University will convene an international symposium on Chinese and comparative literatures on April 26 and 27\, 2018\, at Harvard University. Papers will span the many fields within which Professor Owen’s contributions have been felt\, and allow participants\, drawn from among Owen’s graduate advisees and from the top scholars of Chinese and comparative literature around the world\, to reflect upon the ways these fields have changed over the course of his long teaching career and the new directions in which they are developing\, and should develop\, in the years ahead. \nFor more information\, including a detailed agenda\, visit https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/rcl. \nThe conference will be conducted in English and Chinese. It is open to the public. \nSponsored by the Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange\, the Harvard University Asia Center\, the Harvard University Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, the Harvard-Yenching Institute\, and the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/reconsidering-chinese-literature-in-the-world-an-international-symposium-in-honor-of-stephen-owen-2/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Conference and Workshops,Special Event
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SUMMARY:Fairbank Center Visiting Scholar Presentations
DESCRIPTION:Join this year’s Visiting Scholars as they provide a brief overview of their research and other accomplishments during the past academic year at the Fairbank Center.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/fairbank-center-visiting-scholar-presentations/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180501T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180501T200000
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: An Elephant Sitting Still
DESCRIPTION:The final event of the spring semester for the Emergent Visions film series will be hosted at the Brattle Theatre in Harvard Square. The event is free and open to the public. \nSYNOPSIS: \nAn Elephant Sitting Still (大象席地而坐)\, 2018\, HD\, Mandarin with English subtitles\, 230 min. \nUnder the gloomy sky of a small town in northern China\, different protagonists’ lives are intertwined in this lugubrious tale of nihilistic rage. To protect his friend\, 16-year-old Wei Bu pushes the school bully down a staircase and escapes the scene after the bully becomes hospitalized with his life hanging by a thread. Wei’s neighbor\, the 60-year-old Wang Jin\, is estranged from his family and decides to join him. Huang Ling\, Wei’s classmate\, is bedeviled by an affair with a school official. Together\, the desperate three decide to flee as the wounded bully’s hooligan brother\, the school authorities\, and the parents all go on a cold-blooded hunt for Wei across town. As Wei treads through the wilderness\, he finally confronts his own reality. He later boards a long-distance bus with Huang and Wang toward Manchuria\, where a circus elephant is said to be sitting still. \nDIRECTOR’S STATEMENT \n“He thought that in the beauty of the world were hid a secret. He thought that the world’s heartbeat at some terrible cost and that the world’s pain and its beauty moved in a relationship of diverging equity and that in this headlong deficit the blood of multitudes might ultimately be exacted for the vision of a single flower.” This quote from Cormac McCarthy is also the subject of this film. In our age\, it’s increasingly hard for us to have faith even in the tiniest of things\, and the frustration from which becomes the hallmark of today’s society. The film builds up personal myths in between daily routines. In the end\, everyone loses what he or she values the most. \nOfficial Selection of the 2018 Berlin International Film Festival\, and the New Directors/New Films 2018 presented by the Film Society of Lincoln Center and MoMA. \nDIRECTOR’S BIO: \nHU Bo (Writer and Director)\, born in 1988 in China\, graduated from the Beijing Film Academy in 2014 with a B.F.A. in directing. His short film Distant Father (2014) won Best Director at Golden Koala Chinese Film Festival\, and Night Runner (2014) was selected by the Taipei Golden Horse Film Academy. His debut feature An Elephant Sitting Still\, which was then still in progress\, was selected by the FIRST \nInternational Film Festival Financing Forum in 2016. In the following year\, Hu Bo participated in FIRST Training Camp under the supervision of Béla Tarr\, where he completed the short film Man in the Well. He has also written two novels Huge Crack and Bullfrog\, both published in 2017. Hu Bo took his own life soon after finishing An Elephant Sitting Still. \nThis event is sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University. Emergent Visions is a screening and discussion series that showcases new and innovative works of digital cinema from China. \n  \n 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-screening-an-elephant-sitting-still/
LOCATION:Brattle Theater\, 40 Brattle St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Emergent Visions Film Screening,Film Screening
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SUMMARY:David Shambaugh - Power Shift? America and China in Southeast Asia
DESCRIPTION:Read event summary here \nSpeaker: David Shambaugh\, George Washington University \nProfessor Shambaugh is an internationally recognized authority and author on contemporary China and the international relations of Asia\, with a strong interest in the European Union and transatlantic issues. \nBefore joining the faculty at George Washington\, he held the positions of Reader in Chinese Politics at the University of London’s School of Oriental & African Studies (SOAS) and Editor of The China Quarterly. He also previously served as an analyst on the staff of the National Security Council East Asia Bureau and the Department of State’s Bureau of Intelligence & Research (1976-78). He was also a nonresident Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program at The Brookings Institution (1998-2015)\, previously directed the Asia Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (1986-87)\, served on the Board of Directors of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations (2009-2015)\, and has been elected a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies\, Council on Foreign Relations\, U.S. Asia-Pacific Council\, and other public policy and scholarly organizations. He is a recipient of research grants from the Ford Foundation\, Rockefeller Foundation\, Smith Richardson Foundation\, German Marshall Fund\, British Academy\, U.S. National Academy of Sciences\, and other philanthropic bodies. He has been appointed a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (2002-03)\, an Honorary Research Professor at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences (2008–)\, a Senior Fulbright Research Scholar at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Institute of World Economics & Politics in Beijing (2009-10)\, and Distinguished Visiting Professor at the S. Ranjaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore (2017). Professor Shambaugh has also been a visiting scholar or professor at universities in Australia\, China\, Hong Kong\, Italy\, India\, Japan\, Russia\, and Taiwan. He is also a frequent contributor to the international media\, serves on a number of editorial boards\, and has been a consultant to various governments\, research institutions\, foundations\, and private corporations. \nProfessor Shambaugh is a prolific author\, having published more than 30 books and 300 articles. \nCo-Sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-3-2018-05-02/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Critical Issues Confronting China Series,Events of Interest
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180504T173000
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SUMMARY:Gender Studies Workshop: Gender and Friendship in China
DESCRIPTION:12:45-1 p.m.   Welcoming remarks \nFirst Panel \nModerator:     Wai-yee Li\, Harvard University \n1-1:30p.m.      Zhou Yiqun\, Stanford University: “Hermits and Their Wives in Early Chinese Texts” \n1:30-2p.m.      Hu Ying\, University of California Irvine: “Strange Friends: Reconceptualizing Gender and Community” \n2-2:30p.m.      Ellen Widmer\, Wellesley College: “Intercultural Mutuality: Mary Hannah Fulton (1854-1927) and Zhang Jujun (1879-1964)” \n2:30-3p.m.      Discussion \n3-3:30p.m.      Break \nSecond Panel \nModerator:     Xu Man\, Tufts University \n3:30-4p.m.      Haiyan Lee\, Stanford University: “‘Now We Have a Baby’: A Very Short Genealogy of the Pure Relationship in Chinese Literature” \n4-4:30p.m.      Catherine Vance Yeh\, Boston University: “Friendship in the Staging of a Star: Mei Lanfang” \n4:30-5p.m.      Eileen Chow\, Duke University: “‘有沒有愛？’：Tongren Culture\, Fandom and ‘Benefits with Friendship’” \n5-5:30p.m.      Discussion
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/gender-studies-workshop-gender-and-friendship-in-china/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S354\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Gender Studies
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SUMMARY:Amelia Ying Qin - Seeking Patterns: Close and Distant Readings of Two Collections of Tang 唐 (618-907) Dynasty Anecdotes
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Amelia Ying Qin\,  An Wang Post Doctoral Fellow\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies \nThis study takes two different approaches—close and distant readings—to the hidden patterns in two anecdote collections. The Songchuang zalu 松牕雜錄 (Miscellaneous Notes under the Pine Window) is a small Tang 唐 (618-907) collection of sixteen anecdotes that claims its accounts are both “particularly unusual” 特異 and “definitely true” 必實. Close reading reveals it to be a text containing hidden structures with an emphasis on “the unusual” as a concept bearing discursive weight for the purpose of subtle political criticism. The intertwined ideas of unusualness and truthfulness define each other and form a discourse of “the unusual” that provides an interpretive framework for the collection’s core anecdotes. These accounts\, when read closely within this framework\, point to signs that foreshadow the Tang’s decline while voicing concerns over its end and directing muted criticism at the irresponsible Tang rulers. The Tang yulin 唐語林 (Forest of Conversations on the Tang)\, on the other hand\, is a collection of over eleven hundred anecdotes about Tang historical figures\, events\, and customs compiled during the Northern Song 北宋 (960-1127). Its contents were selectively recycled from fifty or so earlier miscellanies of various sizes\, and both the content and structure of the collection suffered from a hectic textual history of loss and restoration. To examine a text of this nature and size\, this study experiments with the approach of distant reading to explore potential patterns in its content\, structure\, and selective use of source material. In juxtaposing these two texts examined with different methods\, the speaker hopes to reflect upon the mercurial and ephemeral nature of anecdotal memories of the past\, as well as the possible ways of reading and understanding such memories. \nAmelia Ying Qin graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison\, with a Ph.D. in Chinese literature (2013) from the Department of East Asian Languages and Literature and an M.A. (2010) from the School of Library and Information Studies. Prior to her study in Madison\, she also completed degrees at the University of Rhode Island and Fudan University in Shanghai\, China. Her current research interest is in the relationship and dynamics between cultural memory and historiography in Chinese anecdotal and historical narratives during the time period of 600-1300. She is also the translator of two chapters of The Grand Scribe’s Records. Her teaching interests include Chinese language of all levels\, survey of Chinese literature\, special topics in modern and classical Chinese literature\, as well as comparative topics in East Asian literature and cultures.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-humanities-seminar-2018-05-07/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:China Humanities Seminar,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180522T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180522T210000
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SUMMARY:The Arnold Arboretum and China: A Century-Old Partnership
DESCRIPTION:Surrounded by our Bonsai & Penjing collection\, enjoy cocktails and hors d’oeuvres as you view Professor Yin Kaipu’s (Chengdu Institute of Biology) photographs which document a century of environmental change. Each of his images will be paired with a sister image taken in the same location by Arboretum explorer Ernest Henry Wilson. \nThen screen highlights from CCTV-9’s documentary “Chinese Wilson.” Professor Yin and Dr. Michael Dosmann\, Arboretum Keeper of the Living Collections\, will introduce the film in which they both star\, linking China and the Arboretum’s past with modern-day quests to preserve these locations and biodiversity. \nFor more information and to RSVP by Tuesday\, May 8\, email Janetta Stringfellow\, Director of Institutional Advancement\, at janetta_stringfellow@harvard.edu or call 617-384-5043. \nEarlier in the day\, we will be hosting a program of talks by our Chinese guests and Arnold Arboretum staff. They will include presentations on E.H. Wilson’s life\, photographs\, and the plants he brought to Boston. We welcome you to also join us for this program.  Please contact Janetta Stringfellow for details. \nPhoto: View of North Gate and part of Taning Hsien with river and city wall. Altitude 600 ft. June 27\,1910. Photograph by Ernest Henry Wilson.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-arnold-arboretum-and-china-a-century-old-partnership/
LOCATION:Weld Hill Research Building\, 1300 Centre St.\, Boston\, MA\, 02131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Environment,Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:From Eco-Threat to Green Leader: Narratives of China’s Environment
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Elizabeth Lord\, An Wang Postdoctoral Fellow\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies \nThis talk aims to unpack dominant narratives about China’s environment\, including the discourse of crisis\, the idea that growth brings environmental protection and the potential that China can act as an environmental ‘vanguard’ at the international level. By analyzing how each of these narratives spatialize China’s environmental issues\, the objective is to unpack their assumptions and their geopolitical implications. These narratives show that environmental questions increasingly serve as a platform to ‘re-orientalize’ China\, or construct China as an environmental ‘other.’ \nElizabeth Lord is an An Wang Postdoctoral Fellow at the Fairbank Center. Her research seeks to understand China’s contemporary environment\, examine the relationship between environmental change and inequalities\, and theorize the production of environmental knowledge\, particularly in China. During her time at the Center\, Elizabeth will research the environmental narratives of China. She will evaluate the assumptions and implications of environmental narratives\, including those produced in China and outside of China. 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/from-eco-threat-to-green-leader-narratives-of-chinas-environment/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Environment,Environment
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180910T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180910T164500
DTSTAMP:20260513T081525
CREATED:20180906T185331Z
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UID:7560-1536593400-1536597900@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Gufran Beig - Anatomy of Extreme Pollution Event in a Megacity: Delhi
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Gufran Beig\, Project Director\, System of Air Quality Forecasting and Research\, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology\, Ministry of Earth Sciences\, Government of India; Fellow\, Indian Academy of Sciences; World Meteorological Organization Norbert Gerbier-Mumm International Award \nA Harvard-China Project Research Seminar \nMegacities are engines of growing pollution. Delhi is cursed by its geography to be prone to various meteorological phenomena acting in different times of the year that contribute to high pollution levels. Climate change is poised to worsen air quality and by the end of the century\, more than half of the world’s population will be exposed to increasingly stagnant atmospheric conditions\, with the tropics and subtropics bearing the brunt of the poor air quality. India’s capital\, Delhi\, is reported to be one of the megacities in the world that are worst affected by asthma. Delhi experienced an environmental emergency in early November 2017 when levels of toxic PM2.5 particles surpassed WHO guidelines by 25 times for a prolonged period of time (a week). In this talk\, we will demonstrate the role that monsoon dynamics played in linking and mixing dust emitted from a large\, natural dust storm\, 3000km away in the Middle East\, with smoke from agriculture fires in northwest India. Understanding the multi-scale nature of such events is important for improving our abilities to forecast these events and developing effective air quality management strategies. \nSponsored by China Project\, Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/gufran-beig-anatomy-of-extreme-pollution-event-in-a-megacity-delhi/
LOCATION:Pierce Hall 100F\, 29 Oxford St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Environment,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180911T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180911T180000
DTSTAMP:20260513T081525
CREATED:20180801T174419Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250130T154942Z
UID:7396-1536681600-1536688800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Jennifer Altehenger - A History of Legal Lessons: law\, propaganda\, and the state in socialist China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Jennifer Altehenger\, King’s College London \nIn 2016\, the PRC embarked on the seventh five-year plan for the popularization of law. Today\, the dissemination of basic legal knowledge is an established part of CCP governance\, closely associated with the extensive legal reforms that followed the death of Mao Zedong in 1976. Yet people learned about laws under state auspices throughout the twentieth-century (and before). Following the establishment of the PRC in 1949\, the CCP carried out numerous campaigns to get people to study and implement key national laws such as the Marriage Law\, Election Law\, and state constitutions. Teaching and learning laws was part of mass line politics\, intended to make laws accessible and transform people into law-making and law-abiding socialist citizens who contributed to China’s liberation. This talk – part of research for a recent book – shows why the CCP cared about disseminating laws from early on\, how law propaganda was produced\, circulated\, and censored\, and how people responded to learning about laws. Far from a simple propaganda exercise\, law propaganda contributed to fostering a legal culture in China that bolstered and threatened CCP rule at the same time. \nJennifer Altehenger is a Lecturer in Contemporary Chinese History at King’s College London. She is the author of Legal Lessons: Popularizing Laws in the People’s Republic of China\, 1949-1989 (Harvard University Asia Center\, 2018) and has also published on the history of propaganda production\, information\, lexicography\, political satire\, and on Communist China’s links to other socialist countries before 1989. Funded by the British Academy and an Arts and Humanities Research Council leadership fellowship\, her current work examines the social\, economic\, and cultural history of everyday material culture and industrial design in China after 1949.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/jennifer-altehenger-modern-china-lecture-series/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Modern China Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180912T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180912T140000
DTSTAMP:20260513T081526
CREATED:20180801T144436Z
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UID:7323-1536755400-1536760800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:David Barboza - Business and the State
DESCRIPTION:Read event summary here \nSpeaker: David Barboza – The New York Times
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-lecture-series-2-2018-09-19/
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:20180913T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180913T180000
DTSTAMP:20260513T081526
CREATED:20180801T165844Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180801T165844Z
UID:7394-1536854400-1536861600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Rob Efird - Nature for Nurture: Environmental Education\, Nature Experience\, and the Healthy Chinese Child
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Robert Efird\, Professor of Anthropology and Asian studies\, Seattle University \nFor the past 15 years\, the Chinese Ministry of Education’s attempt to promote environmental education in public schools has faced nearly insurmountable structural obstacles. By contrast\, there is a growing popular embrace of the value of nature exposure for children’s health and well-being. Drawing upon nearly a decade of fieldwork\, this talk discusses the challenges that formal environmental education has faced in China\, as well as the reasons behind the rise of “nature education” (ziran jiaoyu)\, the proliferation of “nature schools” (ziran xuexiao) and the revival of natural history (bowuxue). In particular\, we will explore how these developments are related to new ideas concerning children’s healthy development\, including the concept of “nature-deficit disorder” (ziran queshizheng) popularized by American journalist Richard Louv. \nRob Efird is Professor of Anthropology and Asian Studies at Seattle University. His research on environmental learning in China includes several book chapters\, articles in the Journal of Contemporary China and Environmental Education Research\, and a co-edited volume (with John Chi-Kin Lee) entitled Schooling for Sustainable Development Across the Pacific (Springer\, 2014). He spent a year in Kunming as a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar during 2011-2012\, and was a National Committee on U.S.-China Relations Public Intellectual Program Fellow from 2014 to 2016. \n  \nDiscussant: Robert Weller\, Professor of Anthropology\, Boston University \nDr. Robert Weller’s work concentrates on China and Taiwan in comparative perspective. His actual research topics\, however\, are eclectic—running from ghosts to politics\, rebellions to landscape paintings. Perhaps what unites everything is an interest in finding the limits to authority in all its settings.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/rob-efird-environment-in-asia-lecture-series/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Environment,Environment
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180914T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180914T130000
DTSTAMP:20260513T081526
CREATED:20180911T183723Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180911T183723Z
UID:7566-1536926400-1536930000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Jennifer Hsieh -  Noise\, Decibels\, and the Paradox of Reproducibility in Urban Taiwan
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Jennifer Hsieh\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies \nJennifer Hsieh holds a Ph.D. in anthropology from Stanford University and comes to the Fairbank Center from the University of Amsterdam where she was a Vossius Fellow. \nPart of the Graduate Music Forum Friday Lunch Talk Series
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/jennifer-hsieh-noise-decibels-and-the-paradox-of-reproducibility-in-urban-taiwan/
LOCATION:Davison Room\, Music Building\, 3 Oxford St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest,Taiwan Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180914T131500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180914T144500
DTSTAMP:20260513T081526
CREATED:20180911T184823Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180911T184823Z
UID:7569-1536930900-1536936300@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:David Yang - Historical Traumas and the Roots of Political Distrust: Political Inference from the Great Chinese Famine
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: David Yang\, Assistant Professor\, Department of Economics\, Harvard University \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChairs:\nMelissa Dell\, Faculty Associate. Assistant Professor of Economics\, Department of Economics\, Harvard University\nClaudia Goldin\,Henry Lee Professor of Economics\, Department of Economics\, Harvard University\nNathan Nunn\, Frederic E. Abbe Professor of Economics\, Department of Economics\, Harvard University
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/david-yang-historical-traumas-and-the-roots-of-political-distrust-political-inference-from-the-great-chinese-famine/
LOCATION:Littauer Center\, Room M16\, 1805 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180917T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180917T173000
DTSTAMP:20260513T081526
CREATED:20180821T132420Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180821T132420Z
UID:7503-1537200000-1537205400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Martha Hanson - Heaven and Earth Are Within One's Grasp (Qian Kun zai wo 乾坤在握): The Handy Mind in Late Imperial Chinese Medicine
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Professor Marta Hanson\, Johns Hopkins \nPart of the Harvard University Asia Center Science and Technology Seminar Series
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/martha-hanson-heaven-and-earth-are-within-ones-grasp-qian-kun-zai-wo-%e4%b9%be%e5%9d%a4%e5%9c%a8%e6%8f%a1-the-handy-mind-in-late-imperial-chinese-medicine/
LOCATION:Room 469\, Science Center\, 1 Oxford St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180918T161500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180918T173000
DTSTAMP:20260513T081526
CREATED:20180813T134442Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180813T134442Z
UID:7497-1537287300-1537291800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Tony Saich and Jesse Turiel - Polling China: Understanding Public Opinion Across China
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Tony Saich\, Ash Center Director\, and Jesse Tureil\, PhD candidate\, Boston University \nJoin us for a conversation with Ash Center Director and Daewoo Professor of International Affairs Tony Saich and Jesse Turiel\, a PhD candidate from Boston University as they discuss their groundbreaking public opinion survey project in China. Starting in 2003\, Saich developed a series of surveys to measure satisfaction with various levels of government in China. Through 2016\, the survey project ultimately captured opinion data from 32\,000 individual respondents\, making it the most ambitious public opinion research project conducted on a nationwide scale to date in China.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/tony-saich-and-jesse-turiel-polling-china-understanding-public-opinion-across-china/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180919T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180919T140000
DTSTAMP:20260513T081526
CREATED:20180801T150558Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180801T150558Z
UID:7378-1537360200-1537365600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Leta Hong Fincher - The Feminist Awakening in China
DESCRIPTION:Read the event summary here \nSpeaker: Leta Hong Fincher\, Author \nListen to Leta Hong Fincher’s podcast interview with the Fairbank Center’s “Harvard on China” podcast: \n \nRead and download the transcript for this podcast here. \nLeta Hong Fincher 洪理达 is author of the book Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China (Verso 2018). \nOn the eve of International Women’s Day in 2015\, the Chinese government arrested five feminist activists and jailed them for 37 days. The Feminist Five became a global cause célèbre\, with Hillary Clinton speaking out on their behalf\, and activists inundating social media with #FreetheFive messages. But the Feminist Five are only symbols of a much larger feminist movement of university students\, civil rights lawyers\, labor activists\, performance artists and online warriors that is prompting an unprecedented awakening among China’s urban\, educated women. In Betraying Big Brother\, journalist and scholar Leta Hong Fincher argues that the popular\, broad-based movement poses a unique threat to China’s authoritarian regime today. \nThrough interviews with the Feminist Five and other leading Chinese activists\, Hong Fincher illuminates both the challenges they face and their “joy of betraying Big Brother\,” as Wei Tingting—one of the Feminist Five—wrote of the defiance she felt during her detention. Tracing the rise of a new feminist consciousness now finding expression through the #MeToo movement\, and describing how the Communist regime has suppressed the history of its own feminist struggles\, Betraying Big Brother is a story of how the movement against patriarchy could reconfigure China and the world. \nLeta’s critically acclaimed book\, Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China (Zed 2014) was named one of the top 5 China books of 2014 by the Asia Society’s ChinaFile\, one of the best foreign policy books in 2014 by FP Interrupted and one of the best Asian books of 2014 by Asia House. Leftover Women was named on New Left Review’s list of favorite books to read for International Women’s Day in 2017 and 2016. In 2018\, it was named on Time Out Beijing’s list of best books on women in modern China. \nLeta has written for the New York Times\, Washington Post\, The Guardian\, Dissent Magazine\, Ms. Magazine\, BBC\, CNN and others. She is the recipient of the Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi award for television feature reporting. Fluent in Mandarin\, Leta is the first American to receive a Ph.D. from Tsinghua University’s Department of Sociology in Beijing. She has a master’s degree from Stanford University and a bachelor’s degree with high honors from Harvard University. She has often been quoted by news organizations such as BBC\, CNN\, Washington Post\, The Guardian\, Wall Street Journal\, TIME and The Economist on the subject of women and feminism in China. Named by the Telegraph as an “awesome woman to follow on Twitter\,” Leta was a Mellon Visiting Assistant Professor at Columbia University and recently moved to New York.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/leta-hong-fincher-critical-issues-confronting-china-lecture-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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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180919T180000
DTSTAMP:20260513T081526
CREATED:20180821T132727Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180821T132727Z
UID:7505-1537372800-1537380000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Jing-Bao Nie - In search of a Benevolent Polity: Eldery Suicide in China and a Confucian Socio-Ethical Vision of Eldercare
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Professor Jing-Bao Nie\, University of Otago\, New Zealand\nChair: Professor Arthur Kleinman\, Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology\, Harvard University; Professor of Medical Anthropology and Professor of Psychiatry\, Harvard Medical School \nPart of the Asia Center Seminar Series
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/jing-bao-nie-in-search-of-a-benevolent-polity-eldery-suicide-in-china-and-a-confusion-socio-ethical-vision-of-eldercare/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180920T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180920T140000
DTSTAMP:20260513T081526
CREATED:20180917T183023Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180917T183023Z
UID:7581-1537446600-1537452000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Jing-Bao Nie - Reclaiming a sense of common humanity: a Chinese vision for transcultural and global bioethics
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Jing-Bao Nie\, University of Otago \nLunch will be available.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/jing-bao-nie-reclaiming-a-sense-of-common-humanity-a-chinese-vision-for-transcultural-and-global-bioethics/
LOCATION:TMEC Building\, Harvard Medical School\, Room 106\, 260 Longwood Ave\, Boston\, MA\, 02115\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180921T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180921T140000
DTSTAMP:20260513T081526
CREATED:20180801T162534Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180801T162534Z
UID:7389-1537532100-1537538400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:China's War on Smuggling: Law\, Economic Life\, and the Making of the Modern State\, 1842–1965
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Professor Philip Thai\, Assistant Professor of History\, Northeastern University\nChair: Professor Arunabh Ghosh\, Assistant Professor of History\, Harvard University \nAsia Center Seminar Series
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/chinas-war-on-smuggling-law-economic-life-and-the-making-of-the-modern-state-1842-1965/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180924T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180924T133000
DTSTAMP:20260513T081526
CREATED:20180911T184236Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180911T184236Z
UID:7568-1537790400-1537795800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Lan Pei-Chia - Raising Global Families: Global Parenting and Class Inequality in Taiwan
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Prof. Lan Pei-Chia\, National Taiwan University\nChair: Prof. Andrew Gordon\, Harvard University; Acting Director\, Harvard-Yenching Institute \nhttps://harvard-yenching.org/events/raising-global-families-global-parenting-and-class-inequality-taiwan \nBased on in-depth interviews with ethnic Chinese parents from more than a hundred families in Taiwan and Boston\, my new book Raising Global Families examines how parents navigate transnational mobilities and negotiate cultural boundaries to cope with uncertainties and insecurities in the changing society and globalized world. I coined the term “global security strategies” to describe their childrearing practices that often lead to the unintended consequences of magnifying parental insecurity. This talk focuses on the distinct strategies of “global parenting” across the class spectrum in Taiwan. The professional middle class employ divergent educational strategies to pursue cosmopolitan parenting: some prefer international school and prioritize global competitiveness while some others choose Western-influenced alternative curriculums to orchestrate children’s natural growth. By contrast\, working-class Taiwanese men seek wives from China and Southeast Asia to escape the marriage squeeze\, but the transnational connections of immigrant mothers are hardly recognized as a valuable cultural capital by the state and school until the recent “New Southbound Policy.” \nAbout the speaker: Pei-Chia Lan is Distinguished Professor of Sociology\, Director of Global Asia Research Center\, and Associate Dean of the College of Social Sciences at National Taiwan University. She was a postdoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley\, a Fulbright scholar at New York University\, and a Yenching-Radcliffe fellow at Harvard University. Her major publications include Global Cinderellas: Migrant Domestics and Newly Rich Employers in Taiwan (Duke 2006\, ASA Sex and Gender Book Award and ICAS Book Prize) and Raising Global Families: Parenting\, Immigration\, and Class in Taiwan and the US (Stanford 2018). \nHarvard-Yenching Institute talk\, co-sponsored with the Sociology Dept.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/lan-pei-chia-raising-global-families-global-parenting-and-class-inequality-in-taiwan/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180925T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180925T160000
DTSTAMP:20260513T081526
CREATED:20180906T190515Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180906T190515Z
UID:7561-1537885800-1537891200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:East Asian Legal Studies Open House
DESCRIPTION:An opportunity to meet EALS Faculty\, Staff\, Research Fellows\, and the 2018-2019 Visiting Scholars \nRemarks at 3:00 p.m. \nLight refreshments will be served.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/east-asian-legal-studies-open-house-2/
LOCATION:Austin Hall Room 308\, 1515 Mass Ave\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180925T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180925T180000
DTSTAMP:20260513T081526
CREATED:20180801T175201Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250130T154942Z
UID:7398-1537891200-1537898400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Panel Discussion: The End of Concern: Maoist China\, Activism\, and Asian Studies
DESCRIPTION:Panelists:\nFabio Lanza\, University of Arizona\nEllen Schrecker\, Yeshiva University\nAndrew Gordon\, Harvard University\nJoseph Esherick\, University of California San Diego\nSugata Bose\, Harvard University\nLien-Hang Nguyen\, Columbia University\nBruce Cumings\, University of Chicago \nModerator: Karen Thornber\, Harvard University Asia Center \nOrganized by: Arunabh Ghosh\, Harvard University \nCo-Sponsored by:\nFairbank Center for Chinese Studies\nHarvard University Asia Center\nReischauer Institute for Japanese Studies\nKorea Institute\nMittal South Asia Institute \nListen again on Soundcloud:
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/panel-discussion-the-end-of-concern-maoist-china-activism-and-asian-studies/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Conference and Workshops,Events of Interest,Modern China Lecture,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180926T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180926T140000
DTSTAMP:20260513T081526
CREATED:20180801T144436Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180801T144436Z
UID:7324-1537965000-1537970400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Frank Lavin - Is China ready for the international major leagues?
DESCRIPTION:Read the event summary here \nSpeaker: Ambassador Frank Lavin\, CEO of Export Now
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-lecture-series-2-2018-09-26/
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:20180926T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180926T180000
DTSTAMP:20260513T081526
CREATED:20180801T175335Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250130T154941Z
UID:7400-1537977600-1537984800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Fabio Lanza - Liberation through Labor? The Urban Commune Experiment in Beijing
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Fabio Lanza\, University of Arizona \nIn the years between 1958 and 1962\, the Urban Commune movement was promoted as a radical effort to change the daily lives of city residents. By inserting women into the “productive” life of factory work\, the movement also aimed at achieving a new form of everyday\, based on a true equality of gender relationships\, one achieved through the shared creativity of manual labor. While the movement failed\, it nonetheless brought to the fore some of the crucial tensions that marred the search for a socialist everyday: between participatory democracy and state hierarchy\, between production and liberation\, and between labor and gender equality.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/fabio-lanza-modern-china-lecture-series/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Modern China Lecture
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