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SUMMARY:Reischauer Lecture Series - Stephen Owen
DESCRIPTION:Listen Again:\n \n \nSpeaker: Stephen Owen\, James Bryant Conant University Professor\, Emeritus\, Harvard University \nStephen Owen is a sinologist specializing in premodern literature\, lyric poetry\, and comparative poetics. Much of his work has focused on the middle period of Chinese literature (200-1200)\, however\, he has also written on literature of the early period and the Qing. Owen has written or edited dozens of books\, articles\, and anthologies in the field of Chinese literature\, especially Chinese poetry\, including An Anthology of Chinese Literature: Beginnings to 1911 (Norton\, 1996); The Making of Early Chinese Classical Poetry (Harvard Asia Center\, 2006); and The Late Tang: Chinese Poetry of the Mid-Ninth Century (827-860) (Harvard Asia Center\, 2006). Owen has completed the translation of the complete poetry of Du Fu\, which has been published as the inaugural volumes of the Library of Chinese Humanities series\, featuring Chinese literature in translation. Owen earned a B.A. (1968) and a Ph.D. (1972) in Chinese Language from Yale University. He taught there from 1972 to 1982\, before coming to Harvard.  In acknowledgment of his groundbreaking work that crosses the boundaries of multiple disciplines\, Owen was awarded the James Bryant Conant University Professorship in 1997. He has been a Fulbright Scholar\, held a Guggenheim Fellowship\, and received a Mellon Foundation Distinguished Achievement Award (2006) among many other awards and honors. \n\nOctober 16\, 2018: \nFlavors of Truth and Claims of Authority\nDiscussant: Michael Puett\, Harvard University \nMichael Puett is the Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History and Anthropology\, as well as the Chair of the Committee on the Study of Religion\, at Harvard University. His interests are focused on the inter-relations between philosophy\, anthropology\, history\, and religion\, with the hope of bringing the study of China into larger historical and comparative frameworks. He is the author of The Ambivalence of Creation: Debates Concerning Innovation and Artifice in Early Chinaand To Become a God: Cosmology\, Sacrifice\, and Self-Divinization in Early China\, as well as the co-author\, with Adam Seligman\, Robert Weller\, and Bennett Simon\, of Ritual and its Consequences: An Essay on the Limits of Sincerity. \nOctober 17\, 2018: \nHow Can One Say the Unprecedented in Pre-modern East Asia: Su Dongpo and Ink Bamboo\nDiscussant: Stephen H. West\, Foundation Professor of Chinese\, Head of East and Southeast Asian Section\, School of International Letters and Cultures\, Arizona State University; Louis Agassiz Professor of Chinese\, Emeritus\, University of California\, Berkeley \nStephen West is a Foundation Professor of Chinese in the School of International Letters and Cultures. West works in the textual culture of late medieval and early modern China (1000–1600)\, with specialties in performance literature\, drama\, urban literature\, and garden studies. \nThe Reischauer Lecture Series is co-sponosred by:\nFairbank Center For Chinese Studies\nHarvard University Asia Center\nKorea Institute\nMittal South Asia Institute\nReischauer Institute of Japanese Studies
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/reischauer-lecture-series-stephen-owen-2018-10-17/
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:20181019T120000
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SUMMARY:Ngoc Tho Nguyen - Taking Root Wherever You Land: The Liturgical Transformation of Popular Cults Among Ethnic Chinese in Vietnam
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Professor Ngoc Tho Nguyen\, Asia Center Visiting Scholar; Associate Professor in East Asian Cultural Studies\, Vietnam National University\, Ho Chi Minh City \nChair: Professor Michael Szonyi\, Frank Wen-Hsiung Wu Memorial Professor of Chinese History; Director\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard University \nAsia Center Fellows Seminar Series; co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/ngoc-tho-nguyen-taking-root-wherever-you-land-the-liturgical-transformation-of-popular-cults-among-ethnic-chinese-in-vietnam/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181022T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181022T180000
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SUMMARY:Destination: World - Student Tales From Beyond the Comfort Zone
DESCRIPTION:Harvard undergraduates sharing their stories of personal discovery\, intellectual exploration\, and global engagement made possible through travel abroad.\nReception to follow. \nCosponsored by:\nOffice of the Vice Provost for International Affairs\nDavid Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies\nDavis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies\nEdwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies\nFairbank Center for Chinese Studies\nHarvard China Fund\nHarvard University Asia Center\nKorea Institute\nLakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute\nProgram on US-Japan Relations\nWeatherhead Center for International Affairs
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/destination-world-student-tales-from-beyond-the-comfort-zone/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181024T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181024T140000
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SUMMARY:John Osburg - Consuming Belief: Han Chinese Practitioners of Tibetan Buddhism in the PRC
DESCRIPTION:Read the summary here \nSpeaker: John Osburg\, University of Rochester
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-lecture-series-2-2018-10-24/
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:20181025T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181025T140000
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SUMMARY:Press Freedoms in Asia - Perspectives From China\, Myanmar\, and Thailand
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\nDavid Barboza\, The New York Times; former New York Times Shanghai Bureau Chief\, 2013 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting\nEsther Htusan\, Nieman Foundation Fellow; correspondent for the Associated Press in Myanmar\nPuangthong R. Pawakapan\, Visiting Scholar\, Harvard-Yenching Institute; Associate Professor\, Faculty of Political Science\, Chulalongkorn University \nModerator:\nMable Chan\, Fairbank Center Associate in Research; former ABC News producer and Hong Kong TVB news correspondent \nAsia Beyond the Headlines Seminar Series\, Harvard University Asia Center; co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/press-freedoms-in-asia-perspectives-from-china-myanmar-and-thailand/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181026T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181026T133000
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SUMMARY:Hong Wei - From Clean Stove to Rural Vitalization: The Anti-Politics Machine in China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Hong Wei\, Associate Professor\, Institute of Science\, Technology and Society\, Tsinghua University; HYI Visiting Scholar 2018-19\nChair/discussant: Susan Greenhalgh\, Professor of Anthropology and John King and Wilma Cannon Fairbank Professor of Chinese Society\, Harvard University \nPromoting clean cookstoves in developing countries to improve public health has been a long-term endeavor in the Western world. In recent years\, Chinese philanthropists and private foundations were invited to join this environmental campaign. Drawing on visual and textual ethnography produced from September 2017 to May 2018\, this talk tells a story about how a clean stove project was carried out in a rural village in Yan’an\, and how it has become a nexus of international organizations\, private enterprises\, local governments and academics. Although this project initially took a technocratic approach\, it is gradually intertwined with political sectors at various levels. After the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China\, the utopian dream of improving indoor air quality yielded to the China dream of rural vitalization. \nhttps://harvard-yenching.org/events/hong-wei-october-26
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/hong-wei-from-clean-stove-to-rural-vitalization-the-anti-politics-machine-in-china/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181029T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181029T180000
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SUMMARY:郝春文 Hao Chunwen - 敦煌寫本齋文的分類、定名及其文本結構 Rethinking the Structure and Typology of Liturgical Texts From Dunhuang
DESCRIPTION:This talk will be given in Mandarin \nSpeaker: Hao Chunwen 郝春文\, Senior Professor\, Capital Normal University \nThis talk gives an overview of recent scholarly thinking on the typology and structure of the liturgical texts found among the Dunhuang manuscripts. We can divide the thousands of liturgical texts found at Dunhuang into two main categories: liturgical protocols (zhaiyi斋仪) and liturgies (zhaiwen 斋文). Liturgical protocols (identical to what are occasionally called ‘written protocols\,’ shuyi 書儀) were used as references for drafting liturgies. Liturgies\, written up on the basis of these liturgical protocols\, were functional documents that were read aloud at all kinds of ritual gatherings. \nWe can divide the structure of a liturgy into five parts: the ‘opener’ (haotou 号头)\, ‘exaltation of virtues’ (tande 歎德)\, ‘liturgical purpose’ (zhaiyi 齋意)\, ‘ritual area’ (daochang 道場)\, and ‘adornment’ (zhuangyan 莊嚴). This structure is roughly applicable to liturgical protocols and liturgies with all manner of content\, including hymns of praise\, apotropaic rituals\, healing rites\, and mourning rites\, though there are of course many variations in the specific arrangement and sequence of the parts. \nThis talk will also touch on the commonly used term ‘prayer texts’ (yuanwen 願文); we will suggest that this is a specific kind of liturgical text; the term cannot be used as a blanket reference to the category ‘liturgical text.’
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/hao-chunwen-rethinking-the-structure-and-typology-of-liturgical-texts-from-dunhuang/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:China Humanities Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181030T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181030T160000
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SUMMARY:China's Belt Road Initiative in Eurasia: The Challenge of Fostering Sustainable Connectivity
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\nPhilippe Le Corre\,  Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government\, Harvard Kennedy School\nMamuka Tsereteli\, Central Asia-Caucasus Institute\, American Foreign Policy Council\nNargis Kassenova\, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies\, Harvard University\n\n\n  \nDiscussant:\nSvante E. Cornell\, Central Asia-Caucasus Institute \nSince its official launch in 2013\, China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has become a topic of intense research and and discussion. While there is no shortage of research projects on the features and implications of Beijing’s massive investments in infrastructure connecting Asia with Europe and Africa\, our understanding of linkages between China’s activities in various geographic regions and emerging interdependencies is limited. This roundtable will gather experts on Chinese investments and policies in Europe\, the South Caucasus and Central Asia (the Silk Road region of the BRI) to present a more comprehensive picture of Chinese-designed connectivity in Eurasia. \nMore information may be found at https://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/events/chinas-belt-road-initiative-eurasia-challenge-fostering-sustainable-connectivity.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/chinas-belt-road-initiative-in-eurasia-the-challenge-of-fostering-sustainable-connectivity/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S354\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181031T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181031T140000
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SUMMARY:Jeffrey R. Williams - Corporate Governance with Chinese Characteristics
DESCRIPTION:Read the event summary here \nSpeaker: Jeffrey R. Williams\, Harvard Kennedy School
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-lecture-series-2-2018-10-31/
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:20181105T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181105T140000
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SUMMARY:40 Years of Opening and Reform: A Comprehensive View - Politics\, Law\, Thought\, Culture\, Society
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\nRen Jiantao\, Tsinghua University\nHe Weifang\, Peking University\nXiao Gongqin\, Shanghai Normal University\nRong Jian\, Independent Scholar \nDiscussant: Susan Greenhalgh\, Harvard University
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/40-years-of-opening-and-reform-a-comprehensive-view-politics-law-thought-culture-society/
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:20181107T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181107T133000
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CREATED:20181022T183242Z
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SUMMARY:Liu Chen - Father and Son: A Neglected Legacy of the Renaissance on Liang Qichao and Liang Sicheng
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Liu Chen\,  Tsinghua University\, HYI Visiting Scholar 2018-19\nDiscussant: Lino Pertile\, Harvard University\nhttps://harvard-yenching.org/events/liu-chen-november-7
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/liu-chen-father-and-son-a-neglected-legacy-of-the-renaissance-on-liang-qichao-and-liang-sicheng/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181107T123000
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SUMMARY:Fan Gang - Trade War and China’s New Phase of Development
DESCRIPTION:Read the summary here \nSpeaker: Fan Gang\, professor at the Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) and at the Peking University HSBC Business School\, as well as the director of China’s National Economic Research Institute (NERI). \nCo-sponsored by the Unirule Institute of Economics \nCheck back soon for more information!
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-lecture-series-2-2018-11-07/
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:20181108T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181108T173000
DTSTAMP:20260516T170202
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SUMMARY: 40 Years of Economic Reform and Opening: Achievements and Challenges
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\nLi Shi\, Beijing Normal University\n Tao Ran\, Renmin University of China\n Qin Qianhong\, Wuhan University \nDiscussant: Meg Rithmire\, Harvard Business School
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/40-years-of-economic-reform-and-opening-achievements-and-challenges/
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:20181110T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181110T230000
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SUMMARY:Vigil and Memorial: Two Films by Wang Bing
DESCRIPTION:An in-person discussion with Wang Bing follows each film screening.\n$12 Special Event Tickets \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center’s Emergent Visions in Independent Chinese Cinema series\, organized by Professor Jie Li\, and the Harvard Film Archive. \n***NOTE TIME CHANGE***\nFriday November 9 at 8pm \nMrs. Fang\nA moving and bracing portrait of a dying woman and her family\, Mrs. Fang offers a remarkable variation of Wang Bing’s engaged cinema that demands the viewer to empathize and experience\, in real time and real emotion\, the intense yet poetically unfolding human dramas captured by his unwavering camera. Wang Bing’s shortest feature to date is among his most ethically and structurally profound—balanced between extended close-ups of the frail Fang Xiuying\, locked into an open-eyed coma\, and tender scenes of her family alternately overcome by grief and matter-of-factly accepting the inevitable. Most surprising are the sequences featuring two family members leaving Mrs. Fang’s small home to go night fishing\, an exercise that gently carries the weight of spiritual metaphor: a search for sustenance\, survival\, friendship in a cold\, dark world. \nSaturday November 10 at 2pm \nDead Souls\nAt eight hours and fifteen minutes\, Dead Souls is based on interviews\, footage and other memory traces Wang Bing gathered over twelve years\, from more than 120 people across various provinces. Covering a period from the Anti-Rightist Campaign of 1957 to the end of the Great Leap famine in 1961\, most of the film features testimonies from survivors of a “re-education camp” in northwestern China\, many once “revolutionaries” who were then “revolutionized.” Incarcerated for minor criticisms of the Party\, for past support of the Kuomintang\, for Christian faith\, or for no reason they can fathom\, former camp inmates recount recipes of starvation\, logistics of death and ruinations of families. Occasionally we also see their wives in the margins of the frame or hear offscreen voices of children too young to understand. The overlay of their testimonies—full of resonances\, contradictions\, digressions and silences—metonymically point to past injustice and suffering at a much larger scale.  While Wang Bing explored the same harrowing topic of the Jiabiangou labor camp in previous work such as Fengming: A Chinese Memoir (2007) and The Ditch (2010)\, the monumental scale\, unsensational precision and multiple perspectives of Dead Souls have drawn comparisons to Claude Lanzmann’s Holocaust documentary Shoah. Mediating testimony for those who can no longer bear witness for themselves\, Dead Souls invites us to partake in a belated memorial service for the victims of the Maoist revolution still condemned to state-sponsored amnesia.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/vigil-and-memorial-two-films-by-wang-bing-2018-11-10/
LOCATION:Harvard Film Archive\, Carpenter Center\, 24 Quincy St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest,Film Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181112T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181112T180000
DTSTAMP:20260516T170202
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SUMMARY:Andrew Chittick - The Resistant South: Sketching a History of the Wu People in the First Millennium CE
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Andrew Chittick\, Eckerd College \nThe history of East Asia in the first millennium CE is ordinarily framed as the successive “fragmentation” of China under the Han dynasty\, and its “reunification” under the Sui and Tang dynasties. This talk develops an alternative perspective\, in which mainland East Asia is characterized by many distinct cultural regions\, which developed a thriving multi-state order following the breakup of the multi-cultural Han Empire. Over the next four centuries East Asian peoples began to articulate their separate political\, cultural\, even ethnic identities\, which invites us to write meaningful histories of them as distinctive peoples. My recent work focuses on the political identity of the Wuren or “Wu people” of the Yangzi delta region\, who in the 3rd-6th centuries CE formed the nucleus of the sprawling\, multi-cultural Jiankang Empire\, repeatedly resisting the imperialist pressure of regimes based in the Central Plains of the Yellow River. In this talk I will highlight their use of distinctive local cultural elements in legitimating their rule\, their similarities to contemporary Southeast Asian regimes\, and their eventual adoption of South and Southeast Asian political models. \nAndrew Chittick is the E. Leslie Peter Professor of East Asian Humanities and History at Eckerd College\, St. Petersburg\, FL. A native of California\, he received his PhD in 1997 from the University of Michigan. He is the author of Patronage and Community in Medieval China: The Xiangyang Garrison\, 400-600 CE (SUNY Press\, 2010). He was a visiting fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton in 2016-17\, and last year held a research fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities. His next book\, The Jiankang Empire in Chinese and World History: Ethnic Identity and Political Culture\, is scheduled to be released by Oxford University Press next year. \n 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-humanities-seminar-2-2018-11-12/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:China Humanities Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181113T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181113T140000
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SUMMARY:Christina Davis - East Asian Trade at a Crossroads: From TPP to China’s State-led Capitalism
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Christina Davis\, Professor of Government and Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study\, Harvard University\nModerator: Susan Pharr\, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics and Director\, WCFIA Program on U.S.-Japan Relations\, Harvard University
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/christina-davis-east-asian-trade-at-a-crossroads-from-tpp-to-chinas-state-led-capitalism/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181113T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181113T153000
DTSTAMP:20260516T170202
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SUMMARY:Hopkins-Nanjing Center Open House
DESCRIPTION:The Johns Hopkins University Hopkins-Nanjing Center will hold an information session for students interested in graduate study in China. Students at the HNC take coursework in Chinese in areas including politics\, Chinese studies\, law\, economics\, and energy\, resources\, and the environment. MA and certificate programs are available\, with guaranteed funding for all financial aid applicants. For more information contact nanjing@jhu.edu.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/hopkins-nanjing-center-open-house/
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CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181113T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181113T180000
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UID:7403-1542124800-1542132000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Denise Ho - New Exhibitions and China's Cultural Revolution: Rethinking Class\, Material\, Culture\, and Propaganda
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Denise Y. Ho\, Yale University \nListen to our “Harvard on China” podcast interview with Denise Y. Ho. \n \nDownload and read the transcript of this podcast interview. \nDenise Y. Ho is assistant professor of twentieth-century Chinese history at Yale University\, and the author of “Curating Revolution: Politics on Display of Mao’s China” (2018). Using a wide variety of primary sources\, including Shanghai’s municipal and district archives and oral history\, “Curating Revolution” depicts displays of revolution and history\, politics and class\, and art and science. Analyzing China’s “socialist museums” and “new exhibitions\,” Ho demonstrates how Mao-era exhibitionary culture both reflected and made revolution. \nDenise Y. Ho is an historian of modern China\, with a particular focus on the social and cultural history of the Mao period (1949-1976). She is also interested in urban history\, the study of information and propaganda\, and material culture. Ho teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on modern and contemporary China\, the history of Shanghai\, the uses of the past in modern China\, and the historiography of the Republican era and the PRC.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/denise-ho-modern-china-lecture-series/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Modern China Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181114T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181114T140000
DTSTAMP:20260516T170202
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SUMMARY:Chas Freeman - A New Era in US-China Relations: Malicious Coexistence Amidst a Phony Peace?
DESCRIPTION:Read the event summary here \nSpeaker: Amb. Chas W. Freeman\, Jr.\, Chair\, Projects International\, Inc. \nAmbassador Freeman is a career diplomat (retired) who was Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs from 1993-94\, earning the highest public service awards of the Department of Defense for his roles in designing a NATO-centered post-Cold War European security system and in reestablishing defense and military relations with China. He served as U. S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia (during operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm). He was Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs during the historic U.S. mediation of Namibian independence from South Africa and Cuban troop withdrawal from Angola. \nAmbassador Freeman worked as Deputy Chief of Mission and Chargé d’Affaires in the American embassies at both Bangkok (1984-1986) and Beijing (1981-1984). He was Director for Chinese Affairs at the U.S. Department of State from 1979-1981. He was the principal American interpreter during the late President Nixon’s path-breaking visit to China in 1972. In addition to his Middle Eastern\, African\, East Asian and European diplomatic experience\, he had a tour of duty in India.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-lecture-series-2-2018-11-14/
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:20181116T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181116T133000
DTSTAMP:20260516T170202
CREATED:20181022T183729Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181022T183729Z
UID:7700-1542369600-1542375000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Zheng Jing - From Asylums to Housing: A Vernacular Architectural Adaptation in Southeastern China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Zheng Jing\,  Wuhan University\, HYI Visiting Scholar 2018-19\nDiscussant: Michael Szonyi\, Harvard University \nhttps://harvard-yenching.org/events/asylums-housing-vernacular-architectural-adaptation-southeastern-china
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/zheng-jing-from-asylums-to-housing-a-vernacular-architectural-adaptation-in-southeastern-china/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181116T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181116T140000
DTSTAMP:20260516T170202
CREATED:20181106T143823Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181106T143823Z
UID:7730-1542370500-1542376800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Meg Rithmire - Unfaithful Friends: State and Business in Developing Asia
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Meg Rithmire\, F. Warren McFarlan Associate Professor of Business of Administration\, Harvard Business School\nChair: Ezra Vogel\, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences\, Emeritus\, Harvard University \nAsia Center Seminar Series; co-sponsored with the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/meg-rithmire-unfaithful-friends-state-and-business-in-developing-asia/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181116T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181116T173000
DTSTAMP:20260516T170202
CREATED:20181109T190044Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181109T190044Z
UID:7733-1542380400-1542389400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Chris Leighton - Selling the Revolution: China’s Capitalist Ambassadors\, 1949-1966
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Chris Leighton\, Massachusetts Institute of Technology \nBusiness History Seminar at Harvard Business School \n  \nFriday\, November 16th\, at 3:30 in Baker Library/Bloomberg Center Room 101
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/chris-leighton-selling-the-revolution-chinas-capitalist-ambassadors-1949-1966/
LOCATION:Room 101\, Baker Library | Bloomberg Center\, Soldiers Field\, Boston\, MA\, 02163\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181120T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181120T133000
DTSTAMP:20260516T170202
CREATED:20181022T184007Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181022T184007Z
UID:7701-1542715200-1542720600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Shen Hong - “Seeking Truth”? True and Not True: On the Equivocal Position of Hangchow Christian College in the History of Zhejiang University
DESCRIPTION:Spekaer: Shen Hong\,  Zhejiang University; HYI Visiting Scholar 2018-19\nDiscussant: David Wang\, Harvard University \nhttps://harvard-yenching.org/events/shen-hong-november-20
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/shen-hong-seeking-truth-true-and-not-true-on-the-equivocal-position-of-hangchow-christian-college-in-the-history-of-zhejiang-university/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181126T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181126T180000
DTSTAMP:20260516T170202
CREATED:20180904T160828Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180904T160828Z
UID:7545-1543248000-1543255200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Meow Hui Goh - Fake News\, Genuine Words: The Power Dynamic of Literature in Early Medieval China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Meow Hui Goh\, Ohio State University \nAs we grapple with the consequences of fake news\, disseminated across the globe in high-speed internet to impact countries and communities on issues as grave as presidential election\, gender discrimination\, and ethnic cleansing\, it might feel as if our world is treading on unchartered territory. But viral misinformation is not unique to social media such as Facebook or Twitter. Before these\, there were email\, mail\, and telephone hoaxes\, which\, in fact\, are still common. While the urgent issue at hand may be that of the speed and reach of fake news on social media\, recognizing that the phenomenon of fake news is universal\, having a long history and found everywhere\, is crucial to uncovering its nature. Focusing on specific cases of “fake news” in second and third century China\, my talk calls attention to some similarities—however tenuous—between these cases and the examples from our own time. As reporting in investigative journalistic outlets such as The New York Times suggests\, the spread of fake news seems to reflect a heightened sense of anxiety and tension. Perhaps not dissimilar\, the cases in my study took place against a general atmosphere of chaos and instability\, brought on by the collapse of the Han central court and exacerbated by the armed conflicts that followed. Also comparable is the increasing influence of new “media”—though surely incomparable in speed and scale to modern social media\, the communication networks enabled by the availability and use of paper\, a relatively new material invention in this period\, became influential during the late Han and the Three States. Against these developments\, enemy regimes vying to fill the power vacuum left by the Han court created and disseminated “fake news” in the form of fake or altered letters\, aiming to gain propagandistic and strategic advantages for themselves. A closer examination of these fake or altered letters reveals that they were often based on “believable\,” if not correct\, information\, just like the fake news circulating in the social media of our time. As such\, the issue that they pinpoint is not the problem of forgery or fakery\, but the nature of “believability” and of packaging. In the context of early medieval China\, this was the issue of wen\, or literary writing\, which reflects an approach to “misinformation” that might not sit comfortably with our modern notion of “fact.”
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-humanities-seminar-2-2018-11-26/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:China Humanities Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181126T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181126T210000
DTSTAMP:20260516T170202
CREATED:20181022T182908Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181022T182908Z
UID:7698-1543258800-1543266000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Film Screening: The Great Buddha
DESCRIPTION:Directed by Huang Hsin-yao. With Cres Chuang\, Bamboo Chen\, Leon Dai\nTaiwan 2017\, DCP\, color & b/w\, 102 min. Min Nan with English subtitles \nhttps://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa\nGeneral Admission Tickets $9\, $7 Non-Harvard Students\, Seniors\, Harvard Faculty and Staff. Harvard students free
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-screening-the-great-buddha/
LOCATION:Harvard Film Archive\, Carpenter Center\, 24 Quincy St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest,Film Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181128T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181128T133000
DTSTAMP:20260516T170202
CREATED:20181119T153552Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181119T153552Z
UID:7745-1543406400-1543411800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Kang Jin-A — Transnational Merchant Diaspora in Modern East Asia: British and Cantonese cooperation in the treaty ports seen through the case of the Tongshuntai Firm
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Kang Jin-A\, History Department\, Hanyang University; HYI Visiting Scholar 2018-19\nChair/discussant: Victor Seow\, Department of the History of Science\, Harvard University \nhttps://harvard-yenching.org/events/transnational-merchant-diaspora-modern-east-asia-british-and-cantonese-cooperation-treaty
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/kang-jin-a-transnational-merchant-diaspora-in-modern-east-asia-british-and-cantonese-cooperation-in-the-treaty-ports-seen-through-the-case-of-the-tongshuntai-firm/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181128T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181128T140000
DTSTAMP:20260516T170202
CREATED:20180801T144436Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180801T144436Z
UID:7332-1543408200-1543413600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:William Hsiao - The Power of China's Bureaucracy: Through the Health Sector Lens
DESCRIPTION:Read the event summary here \nSpeaker: William Hsiao\,  K.T. Li Research Professor of Economics in Department of Health Policy and Management and Department of Global Health and Population\, Harvard University T.H. Chan School of Public Health
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-lecture-series-2-2018-10-31-2018-11-28/
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:20181129T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181129T173000
DTSTAMP:20260516T170202
CREATED:20181126T132707Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181126T132707Z
UID:7771-1543507200-1543512600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Xi Lian - Political Dissent in the Name of God: Lin Zhao and Her Legacy in Contemporary China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Xi Lian\, Professor of World Christianity\, Duke Divinity School
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/xi-lian-political-dissent-in-the-name-of-god-lin-zhao-and-her-legacy-in-contemporary-china/
LOCATION:MA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181130T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181130T140000
DTSTAMP:20260516T170202
CREATED:20181128T160438Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181128T160438Z
UID:7783-1543580100-1543586400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Panel Discussion - Early? Modern? Asia?: Three Perspectives
DESCRIPTION:Panelists:\nProfessor Carla Nappi\, Department of History\, University of Pittsburgh\nProfessor Elaine Fisher\, Department of Religious Studies\, Stanford University\nProfessor Michael Charney\, Department of History\, SOAS\, University of London\nChair: Professor David Atherton\, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University\n\nEarly Modern Asia Seminar Series\, Harvard University Asia Center
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/panel-discussion-early-modern-asia-three-perspectives/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181203T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181203T180000
DTSTAMP:20260516T170202
CREATED:20181120T201002Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181120T201002Z
UID:7753-1543852800-1543860000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Ruth Mostern - The Natural and Unnatural History of the Yellow River
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Ruth Mostern\, University of Pittsburgh \nThe geographer Jamie Linton has observed that under conditions of human entanglement\, there is no such thing as a hydrological cycle\, and that we should seek to understand the dynamics of hydrosocial cycles instead.  Under anthropogenic conditions\, water still precipitates and evaporates. Rivers are still fluvial systems in which precipitation and suspended material disgorge from headwaters\, flow through a drainage basin\, traverse a floodplain\, and exit to the ocean. However\, in a hydrosocial river\, human activity has transformed each of these processes. At the same time\, human society is reshaped by the river’s agentive activity. Catastrophes of drought and flood are marquee events on a hydrosocial river\, but slow changes – slow violence\, to use Rob Nixon’s striking term – affect imperial budgets and soil chemistry alike. This talk is a summary of my book-in-progress\, an effort to understand these dynamics on the entire Yellow River watershed at the scale of the Holocene era by combining environmental science\, spatial and data analysis\, and historical narrative. \nRuth Mostern is Associate Professor of History and Director of the World History Center at the University of Pittsburgh. She is the author of Dividing the Realm in Order to Govern: The Spatial Organization of the Song State (960-1276 CE) (Harvard Asia Center\, 2011) and the co-editor of Placing Names: Enriching and Integrating Gazetteers (Indiana University Press\, 2016). Her current book\, Following the Tracks of Yu: The Imperial and Ecological Worlds of the Yellow River is in contract at Yale University Press.  She is currently PI on two NEH grants: one to develop content and infrastructure for an ecosystem of digital historical gazetteers\, and one to design and launch an interdisciplinary curriculum about water in Central Asia.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/ruth-mostern-the-natural-and-unnatural-history-of-the-yellow-river/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Environment,Environment
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