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SUMMARY:Taiwan: The Politics of Difference
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Anthony Hao Yeh\,  National Chengchi UniversityModerator: David Der-wei Wang\, Harvard University \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/taiwan-the-politics-of-difference/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China series featuring Ian Johnson — Reclaiming Historical Memory and the Struggle for China’s Future
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Ian Johnson\, Author; Founder\, China Unofficial Archives \n\n\n\nDiscussant: Michael Szonyi\, Frank Wen-Hsiung Wu Memorial Professor of Chinese History; Former Director\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nIan Johnson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist\, author\, teacher\, and researcher. He has been engaged with China for the past thirty-five years\, writing on the country’s search for faith and values\, as well as efforts to control dissent and history. \n\n\n\nHe was a 2024-2025 fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin\, where he is writing a new book on China. He also contributes to The New York Review of Books\, The New Yorker\, and regularly speaks in the media or to public audiences about China.  \n\n\n\nHe is the founder of the China Unofficial Archives\, an online repository of hundreds of samizdat magazines\, books\, and underground films. This website is a registered (501c3) non-profit that uploads and annotates new movies and publications daily. \n\n\n\nHis latest book\, Sparks: China’s Underground Historians and Their Battle for the Future\, describes how some of China’s best-known writers\, filmmakers\, and artists have overcome crackdowns and censorship to forge a nationwide movement that challenges the Communist Party on its most hallowed ground: its control of history.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-featuring-ian-jonshon-reclaiming-historical-memory-and-the-struggle-for-chinas-future/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China,Critical Issues Confronting China Series
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SUMMARY:Machine and Sovereignty: For a Planetary Thinking 
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Yuk Hui\, Erasmus UniversityModerator: David Der-wei Wang\, Harvard University \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/machine-and-sovereignty-for-a-planetary-thinking/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260413T154500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260413T174500
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CREATED:20260406T150510Z
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SUMMARY:Lively (linghuo) Accumulation: China’s 1980s Coastal Development Strategy and Histories of Capitalist and Socialist Crises
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Andrew Liu\, Associate Professor of History\, Villanova University \n\n\n\nCommentators:Ya-Wen Lei\, Professor\, Department of Sociology\, Harvard UniversityKashish Bastola\, PhD Candidate in History\, Harvard University \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/lively-linghuo-accumulation-chinas-1980s-coastal-development-strategy-and-histories-of-capitalist-and-socialist-crises/
LOCATION:Room 125\, Robinson Hall\, 35 Quincy St.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260410T120000
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SUMMARY:Li Xiaojiang: Feminism and the Question of Affect in Contemporary China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Shih-Diing Liu\, 2024-25 Visiting Scholar; Professor of Communication and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies\, University of MacauModerator: David Der-wei Wang\, Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nShih-Diing Liu (刘世鼎) is Professor of Communication and a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies\, University of Macau. Liu’s research focuses on exploring the emotional dynamics of politics\, the formation of popular identity\, the expressive and embodied forms of political practices\, and the psychology of nationalism in contemporary China. His books include The Politics of People: Protest Cultures in China (SUNY Press\, 2019) and Affective Spaces: The Cultural Politics of Emotion in China (Edinburgh University Press\, 2024\, with Wei Shi). Continuing with a focus on emotion from the Affective Spaces project\, his current research explores the intersection of affect and gender in contemporary China. Arguing that Chinese gender has increasingly become an archive of feelings marked by ambivalence toward authorities\, this book project uncovers the power of emotion in negotiating the gendered order. Meanwhile\, he is also working on a book project that explores the emotional capabilities of Artificial Intelligence. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/li-xiaojiang-feminism-and-the-question-of-affect-in-contemporary-china/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K450\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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SUMMARY:The OpenClaw Paradox: AI Agents\, Labor Anxiety\, and Radical Pragmatism in China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Lihui Zhang\, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government Senior Fellow\, Harvard Kennedy School \n\n\n\nIn this study group\, led by M-RCBG Senior Fellow Lihui Zhang\, we will explore how Chinese society demonstrates a distinctive duality in its approach to emerging technologies like AI\, combining both enthusiastic adoption and underlying anxiety. While American and European companies increasingly restrict employee access to AI tools due to security concerns\, Chinese organizations have embraced such technologies nearly universally across workplaces.Paradoxically\, this widespread integration occurs alongside growing public apprehension about workforce displacement. Many Chinese workers express genuine concern that AI will eventually replace human labor\, creating a complex emotional landscape of excitement and fear. This tension reflects broader global conversations about technological advancement and economic transformation in the AI era. China’s unique societal response to technology is precisely what makes it a potential testing ground for how humanity can address the challenges of AI. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-openclaw-paradox-ai-agents-labor-anxiety-and-radical-pragmatism-in-china/
LOCATION:M-RCBG Conference Room B-102\, 79 JFK St.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260409T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260409T173000
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SUMMARY:Discovering History in China: Remembering Paul Cohen
DESCRIPTION:We hope you will join us for a symposium and celebration of the late Paul Cohen\, a longtime Fairbank Center Associate and the Edith Stix Wasserman Professor of History and Asian Studies Emeritus at Wellesley College. Opening Remarks: Michael Szonyi\, Former Director\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Frank Wen-Hsiung Wu Memorial Professor of Chinese History\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nPanel Discussion: How Paul Cohen Changed HistoryModerator: Michael Szonyi\, Former Director\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Frank Wen-Hsiung Wu Memorial Professor of Chinese History\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nPanelists:Cynthia Brokaw\, Chen Family Professor of China Studies\, Brown UniversityAngela Ki Che Leung\, Professor Emerita\, Hong Kong University (video)Ellen Widmer\, Mayling Soong Professor of Chinese Studies\, emerita\, Wellesley College; Center Associate\, Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesGuoqi Xu\, David Chang Professor of Chinese history\, University of Hong Kong (video)Joseph Esherick\, Professor of History\, emeritus\, University of California San DiegoRemembrancesModerators:Waiyee Li\, 1879 Professor of Chinese Literature\, Harvard UniversityEllen Widmer\, Mayling Soong Professor of Chinese Studies\, emerita\, Wellesley College; Center Associate\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies \n\n\n\nSpeakers:Andrew Shennan\, Professor of History and Provost emeritus\, Wellesley CollegeC. Patterson Giersch\, Edith Stix Wasserman Professor in Asian Studies and Professor of History\, Wellesley CollegeJoanna Handlin Smith\, Editor emerita\, Harvard Journal of Asiatic StudiesCatherine Yeh\, Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature\, Boston UniversityDailan Xu\, Class of 2027\, Harvard CollegeAudience Remembrances \n\n\n\nSpecial Remarks:Elizabeth Sinn\, Honorary Professor\, Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences\, University of Hong KongCLOSING REMARKSWaiyee Li\, colleagueEllen Widmer\, colleagueReception to follow  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/discovering-history-in-china-remembering-paul-cohen/
LOCATION:Lower Level Conference Center Rooms 4-5\, Gutman Library\, 6 Appian Way\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260409T122000
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SUMMARY:What Would a Rational and Effective U.S.-China Trade Policy Look Like? Is One Still Possible?
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Katherine Tai\, U.S. Trade Representative (2021-2025) \n\n\n\nAmbassador Katherine C. Tai served as the 19th United States Trade Representative. As a member of President Biden’s Cabinet\, Ambassador Tai was the principal trade advisor\, negotiator\, and spokesperson on U.S. trade policy from March 2021 to January 2025. Prior to her unanimous Senate confirmation\, Ambassador Tai spent nearly 2 decades in public service focusing on crafting\, monitoring\, and enforcing U.S. and international trade laws. She previously served the Ways and Means Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives as Chief Trade Counsel and Trade Subcommittee Staff Director. She is also an experienced WTO litigator. From 2007 to 2014\, Ambassador Tai developed and tried cases for USTR\, eventually becoming the agency’s Chief Counsel for China Trade Enforcement. Ambassador Tai graduated from Yale University and Harvard Law School. She began her career practicing law in the private sector\, clerking for federal judges in the Districts of Columbia and Maryland\, and teaching English in Guangzhou\, China. \n\n\n\nA light lunch will be provided. Please register here. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/what-would-a-rational-and-effective-u-s-china-trade-policy-look-like-is-one-still-possible/
LOCATION:WCC B015\, Wasserstein Hall\, 1585 Massachusetts Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260408T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260408T131500
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Dongsheng Zang — China's Great Leap Forward to AI Supremacy
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dongsheng Zang\, Professor of Law\, University of Washington School of LawModerator: Feng Zhu\, MBA Class of 1958 Professor of Business Administration\, Harvard Business SchoolThe talk aims to provide a framework in understanding China’s industrial policy on artificial intelligence (AI) in the last decade\, 2016-2026. It examines the AI policy from the perspective of state-industry relationship. For this purpose\, it divides the decade into three stages of development: (1) the harmonious period\, 2016-2018; (2) the crackdown\, 2018-2022; and (3) the DeepSeek paradox\, 2022-2026. It explains the success\, to some degree\, China has in AI development; but also reveals the underlying dilemma that China under Xi Jinping is facing in this crucial area of technology in the competition with the United States.   \n\n\n\nProfessor Zang joined the UW faculty full-time in 2006\, after serving as a visiting professor in 2005-06. His academic interests include international trade law\, and comparative study of Chinese law\, with a focus on the role of law and state in response to social crises in the social transformation in China. He holds an S.J.D. and LL.M. from Harvard Law School\, in addition to his LL.M. from Renmin University (Beijing) and LL.B. from Beijing College of Economics. His doctoral dissertation\, One-way Transparency: The Establishment of the Rule-based International Trade Order and the Predicament of Its Jurisprudence\, was awarded the 2004 Yong K. Kim ’95 prize. He was a research fellow at the East Asia Legal Studies at Harvard Law School during the 2004-05 academic year. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-featuring-dongsheng-zang/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China,Critical Issues Confronting China Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260406T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260406T180000
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SUMMARY:China Humanities Seminar featuring Natasha Heller — What is Ecology for a Chan Monk?
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Natasha Heller\, University of VirginiaThe “ecocritical turn” has reached premodern studies and Asian humanities\, but both contexts present significant challenges. Although the nonhuman world and the experience of it would have been different in meaningful ways a millennium ago\, can we understand “green readings” of Buddhist literature? Is it possible to recover “environmental thought” from the poetry of Chan monks? To think through these questions\, I will consider four sets of poems authored by Zhongfeng Mingben 中峰明本 (1263–1323) about living in different places: on a boat\, in the mountains\, on the water\, and in the city. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-humanities-seminar-featuring-natasha-heller-what-is-ecology-for-a-chan-monk/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260401T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260401T171500
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SUMMARY:China Economy Lecture featuring Panle Jia Barwick — From Free Rider to Innovator: The Rise of China’s Drug Development
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Panle Jia Barwick\, Todd E. and Elizabeth H. Warnock Distinguished Chair Professor\, Department of Economics\, University of Wisconsin-Madison \n\n\n\nThis paper examines China’s transition from pharmaceutical “free rider” to global innovator over the last decade. In 2010\, China accounted for less than 8% of global clinical trials; by 2020\, it had surpassed the US in annual registered clinical trial volume. To study this transformation\, we compile a comprehensive\, synchronized database spanning the pharmaceutical drug development supply chain\, covering scientific publications\, clinical trials\, drug development milestones for China\, the U.S.\, and Europe\, alongside drug sales and government policies over the same period. We provide strong evidence that China’s rise was primarily driven by the National Reimbursement Drug List (NRDL) reform\, which dramatically expanded the effective market size for innovative drugs. We document a sharp rise in both the quantity (86% increase) and novelty of drug trials post reform\, with growth concentrated in reform-exposed disease categories\, first- or best-in-class drugs\, and among domestic firms. A decomposition exercise reveals that the NRDL reform accounts for 43% of the growth in oncology trial activity\, nearly doubling the combined contribution of upstream knowledge accumulation and talent flows (24%)\, while other government policies play a minor role. Finally\, dynamic gains from induced innovation exceed the reform’s static gains in consumer access to innovative drugs by threefold\, underscoring the importance of accounting for the reform’s long-run effects on innovation incentives in addition to near-term improvements in drug affordability. \n\n\n\nPanle Jia Barwick is the Todd E. and Elizabeth H. Warnock Distinguished Chair Professor in the Department of Economics at UW-Madison. Her expertise includes Industrial Organization\, Chinese Economy\, Applied Microeconomics\, and Applied Econometrics with a strong interest in environmental economics. Her papers have appeared in top Economic journals\, including the American Economic Review\, Econometrica\, the Quarterly Journal of Economics\, and the Review of Economic Studies. She is a co-founder and co-director of UW-Madison’s Pan Asia Pacific Sustainability Initiative (PAPSI). She also co-founded Cornell Institute for China Economic Research (CICER) and currently serves as its board member. She is a faculty research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and a research fellow at the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)\, associate editor for the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics\, Journal of Economic Perspectives\, Rand Journal of Economics\, and International Journal of Industrial Organization\, and an editorial board member of Journal of Urban Economics and VoxChina. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-economy-lecture-featuring-panle-jia-barwick/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S250\, 1730 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:China Economy Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260401T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260402T193000
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SUMMARY:Harvard Asia Law Conference II
DESCRIPTION:more information\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease join us for HALS 2026 Conference\, which will take place at the WCC on Harvard Law School Campus April 1st & 2nd. This year\, panels will feature topics like AI regulations across Asia\, the future of US-China trade relations\, practicing in-house at multinational companies\, and more. Please click here for details on the full agenda\, panel locations\, and programming. \n\n\n\nPlease contact hals@mail.law.harvard.edu with any questions. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/harvard-asia-law-conference-ii/
LOCATION:WCC\, Wasserstein Hall\, 1585 Massachusetts Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260331T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260331T163000
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SUMMARY:Fairbank Center Visiting Scholar Presentations
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for research presentations by two Fairbank Center Visiting Scholars: \n\n\n\nTommy Tse\, Associate Professor in the Department of Media Studies\, University of AmsterdamChina as data colonizer? Rethinking cultural production\, cultural mediation\, and consumer agency on Kenyan and Chinese e-commerce platforms \n\n\n\nIs China becoming a new “data coloniser” in the Global South? As Chinese digital platforms expand across Africa\, debates about infrastructure\, power\, and data have become increasingly urgent. This talk examines how these dynamics unfold in everyday life through the case of Chinese-invested e-commerce platforms operating in Kenya’s fashion market. Drawing on focus groups and platform walkthrough research\, I explore how cultural production\, mediation\, and consumer practices are shaped by different platform infrastructures and algorithmic logics. Rather than framing Chinese platforms simply as instruments of domination\, the talk highlights how users negotiate\, adapt\, and sometimes resist these systems—revealing more complex forms of cultural exchange and consumer agency within emerging South–South digital economies. \n\n\n\nBowen Sun\, Lecturer in the Department of Environmental Design\, Shanghai Business SchoolManuscript Handbooks of Vernacular Carpenters from Early Twentieth-Century South ChinaIn the field of local document studies\, new materials continue to be discovered and organized. By sharing a selection of manuscripts collected from vernacular carpenters in South China\, this talk engages in an open-ended discussion of how these materials can be defined\, how the knowledge they embody may be interpreted\, and how textual practices shape the functioning of vernacular construction knowledge within local social contexts. \n\n\n\nTommy Tse is Associate Professor in the Department of Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam and currently a Visiting Fellow at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University. His research examines platform economies\, digital and creative labour\, consumer culture\, and global cultural industries. He leads the ERC-funded project China Africa Fashion Power\, a five-year ethnographic study of fashion and cultural economies across Asia and Africa. More information: https://www.tommyhltse.com  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/fairbank-center-visiting-scholar-presentations-3/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Room S153\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
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SUMMARY:Butchered Rooms: Precarity\, Resilience\, and the Politics of Informal Housing in Post-Handover Hong Kong
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Ruby YS LAI\, Assistant Professor\, Department of Sociology and Social Policy\, Lingnan University; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2025-26Chair/Discussant: Ya-Wen Lei\, Professor of Sociology\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nIn the past decades\, the growing housing crisis has destabilized individual housing tenure and exacerbated an everyday sense of insecurity\, especially among low-income renters in megacities\, where housing costs continuously soar under increased financialization and commodification. How do individuals and families build a home while facing heightened precariousness? This talk argues that housing precarity is an outcome of inequality resulting from the macro political-economic structure rather than a condition of poverty\, by focusing on one of the world’s most unaffordable housing markets\, Hong Kong\, and its infamous subdivided units\, also called ‘butchered rooms’—a form of informal housing unit subdivided from an entire compartment\, characterized by an extremely tiny size\, with a median as small as 11m?. Drawing on years of ethnographic and participatory fieldwork and policy analysis\, the talk first illustrates the homemaking strategies through which occupants of butchered rooms navigate the spatio-material constraints of their built environment and the processes of resilience building. The second part of the talk provides a critical analysis of the housing policy regime in Hong Kong during the post-1997 period and unravels the political-economic structures that necessitate the invisible labor of occupants that buffers the consequences of housing inequality resulting from the city’s neoliberal housing regime and developmental urban governance\, which resonate with housing crises in urban areas across the globe. \n\n\n\n\nButchered Rooms: Precarity\, Resilience\, and the Politics of Informal Housing in Post-Handover Hong Kong\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/butchered-rooms-precarity-resilience-and-the-politics-of-informal-housing-in-post-handover-hong-kong/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Urban China Lecture featuring Chris Courtney — Defrosting the Deep History of Chinese Cold Chains
DESCRIPTION:Zoom Meeting link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Chris Courtney\, Associate Professor of Modern Chinese History\, University of Durham\, UK.Cold chains are a vital component of modern cities. Most histories trace their origins to the advent of the ice trade in the nineteenth century. This paper argues that cold chains have been around a lot longer. In China\, they have been used to provision cities for around a thousand years. Later\, the British consciously emulated these Chinese infrastructural arrangements\, using them as the inspiration for their own cold chains. This paper continues by describing how industrial cold chains allowed treaty port foreigners in China to manufacture temperate lifestyles in tropical climes\, while also amassing great fortunes by exporting frozen protein. After this system was disrupted by war and revolution\, the Chinese Communist government struggled to rebuild their infrastructural capacity\, and had to rely on ersatz solutions\, such as cave cold storages. This paper concludes by exploring the refrigerator revolution\, when cold chains were reinvented in 1980s China. \n\n\n\nChris Courtney is Associate Professor of Modern Chinese History at the University of Durham\, UK. He a social and environmental historian who focusses upon the city of Wuhan and its hinterland. He has published on the history of hazards such as floods and fires\, including the monograph The Nature of Disaster in China. In his more recent research\, he has examined the history of extreme heat\, from a technological\, medical\, and social perspective. He is currently writing a monograph entitled Wuhan: City at the End of Empires. \n\n\n\nJoin Zoom Meeting: https://mit.zoom.us/j/97955535212 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/urban-china-lecture-featuring-chris-courtney-defrosting-the-deep-history-of-chinese-cold-chains/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Urban China Series
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SUMMARY:Against Erasure: Uyghur Poems\, Imprisoned Souls\, and the Act of Resistance
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Aziz Isa Elkun\, University of London \n\n\n\nIn the face of the Chinese government1s systemic efforts to silence the Uyghur people\, the written word becomes a profound act of resistance. Against this backdrop of cultural erasure\, two recently pubIished English-language poetry anthologies – Uyghur Poems and Imprisoned Souls\, stand as vital testaments to love\, survival\, and defiance. These works serve as both a sanctuary for a threatened identity and a resonant cry for justice. Together\, they form more than a mere collection of verses; they are a living archive for both the present and the future. They prove that while bodies may be confined and traditions targeted for erasure\, the human pulse of love and collective memory remains indestructible. As enduring evidence of the Uyghur spirit\, these works carry a cultural legacy to the next generation and awaken the consciousness of humanity as a whole\, offering a glimmer of hope for the future. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/against-erasure-uyghur-poems-imprisoned-souls-and-the-act-of-resistance/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Room S050\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Rethinking the Global Order: Latin America\, China\, and the U.S. Amid Transforming Economic and Political Paradigms
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKeynote: Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuéllar\, President\, Carnegie Endowment for International PeaceModerator: Marisol Argueta de Barillas\, Head of Latin America; Member of the Executive Committee\, World Economic Forum \n\n\n\nPanelists:Enrique Dussel Peters\, Professor\, Graduate School of Economics\, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)Mark Wu\, Director\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard University; Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law\, Harvard Law SchoolPedro Henrique Batista Barbosa\, Diplomat\, Brazilian Ministry of Foreign AffairsRebeccca Bill Chavez\, President and CEO\, Inter-American DialogueClick for more information and registration \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/rethinking-the-global-order-latin-america-china-and-the-u-s-amid-transforming-economic-and-political-paradigms/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260326T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260326T180000
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SUMMARY:The Death of Strategic Ambiguity: Middle Power Survival in the New U.S.-China Cold War
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Seong-Hyon Lee\, Senior Fellow\, George H. W. Bush Foundation for U.S.-China Relations; Associate\, Harvard University Asia Center \n\n\n\nModerator: Andrew Erickson\, Visiting Scholar\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard University; Professor of Strategy\, China Maritime Studies Institute\, U.S. Naval War College \n\n\n\nRegistration appreciated for planning purposes. \n\n\n\nFor decades\, East Asian middle powers like South Korea thrived by navigating a delicate geopolitical balance—relying on the United States for security architecture while depending on China for economic prosperity. However\, as the “New Cold War” intensifies\, this era of “riding two boats” has abruptly ended. Faced with shifting U.S. alliance postures\, escalating technology and trade frictions\, and the pressing realities of nuclear deterrence on the Korean Peninsula\, nations can no longer afford strategic ambiguity. This talk will explore how middle powers are being forced into strategic clarity\, recalibrating their foreign policies to survive a prolonged rivalry between Washington and Beijing. Drawing on recent developments in international security\, we will examine the difficult choices ahead for East Asia’s most critical geopolitical fault lines. \n\n\n\nDr. Seong-Hyon Lee is a Senior Fellow at the George H. W. Bush Foundation for U.S.-China Relations and an Associate at the Harvard University Asia Center. He is the author of The New Cold War: U.S.-China Rivalry and the Future of Global Power (2025). He specializes in U.S.-China strategic competition\, East Asian security\, and North Korea and Korean Peninsula geopolitics. \n\n\n\nhttps://asiacenter.harvard.edu/events/death-strategic-ambiguity-middle-power-survival-new-us-china-cold-war \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-death-of-strategic-ambiguity-middle-power-survival-in-the-new-u-s-china-cold-war/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Room S050\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260325T133000
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SUMMARY:How US Internet Optimism Turned to AI Alarm with China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Graham Webster\, Stanford University \n\n\n\nUS thinkers once looked to the future of Internet technology in China with dreams of liberalization. China and the US co-built and jointly profited from the 2000s digital economy and the smartphone revolution\, yet in the 2010s both countries’ governments became increasingly anxious about their vulnerability and interdependence in the digital sphere. By 2020\, anxieties combined with trade conflict\, Covid recriminations\, and AI futurism\, cementing a rivalry mindset that today shapes partial decoupling and conditions of continued interconnection. This talk traces how US officials and thinkers acted on their visions of the future\, and how reality intervened. \n\n\n\nGraham Webster is a lecturer and research scholar in the Program on Geopolitics\, Technology\, and Governance at Stanford University\, where he leads the DigiChina Project. He specializes in technology policy and development in China and US-China relations. His reporting and commentary has appeared in WIRED\, Foreign Affairs\, and the MIT Technology Review\, among others. Graham was previously a senior fellow and lecturer at Yale Law School\, where he was responsible for the Paul Tsai China Center’s Track 2 dialogues between the United States and China. In the past\, he wrote a CNET News blog on technology and society from Beijing\, worked at the Center for American Progress\, and taught East Asian politics at NYU’s Center for Global Affairs. Graham holds a master’s degree in East Asian studies from Harvard University and a bachelor’s degree in journalism and international studies from Northwestern University. He is based in Oakland\, California. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/how-us-internet-optimism-turned-to-ai-alarm-with-china/
LOCATION:WCC 3013\, Wasserstein Hall\, 1585 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:International Security and What’s Next for U.S. Strategy in the Indo-Pacific: A Discussion with Dr. Ely Ratner
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Ely Ratner\, Principal\, The Marathon Initiative; Senior Advisor\, Clarion Strategies; Assistant Secretary of Defense for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs\, 2021-2025 Respondent: Mark Wu\, Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law\, Harvard Law School; Director\, Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesModerator: Edward Cunningham\, Director of Ash Center China Programs and the Asia Energy and Sustainability Initiative.  \n\n\n\nThe Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia invites you to a discussion focusing on the future of international security and what’s next for U.S. strategy in the Indo-Pacific with Dr. Ely Ratner. Mark Wu\, Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law\, Harvard Law School; Director\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard University\, will serve as a respondent. This conversation will be moderated by Edward Cunningham\, Director of Ash Center China Programs and the Asia Energy and Sustainability Initiative. \n\n\n\nEly Ratner is a Principal at The Marathon Initiative and a Senior Advisor at Clarion Strategies. He served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs from 2021-2025 and as Deputy National Security Advisor to Vice President Joe Biden from 2015-2017. He has also worked in the Office of Chinese and Mongolian Affairs at the State Department and in the U.S. Senate as a Professional Staff Member on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. \n\n\n\nOutside of government\, Dr. Ratner has worked as the Executive Vice President and Director of Studies at the Center for a New American Security\, a Senior Fellow for China Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations\, and as an Associate Political Scientist at the RAND Corporation. He received his B.A. from Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs and earned his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California\, Berkeley. \n\n\n\nLunch will be served. This event will be recorded. \n\n\n\nThis event is open to Harvard ID holders only and registration is required. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/international-security-and-whats-next-for-u-s-strategy-in-the-indo-pacific-a-discussion-with-dr-ely-ratner/
LOCATION:Malkin Penthouse\, Littauer Building\, 79 JFK St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260325T131500
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China series featuring Robert Suettinger — Factional Politics in the CCP: Is Change in the Air?
DESCRIPTION:Speaker:Robert Lee Suettinger\, Former National Intelligence Officer for East Asia\, National Intelligence Counsel \n\n\n\nDiscussant: Arunabh Ghosh\, Professor of History\, Harvard UniversityOver the past year\, Robert Suettinger has spent much time monitoring domestic politics in the People’s Republic of China\, much as he did as an apprentice political-military analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency fifty years ago. He notes that there seems to be even less agreement now than at the end of Mao Zedong’s life about what’s really going on. Depending on who one reads\, listens to\, or watches\, and in what language\, he argues\, some see an economic behemoth with a trillion-dollar trade surplus\, a modern navy bigger than ours and global aspirations\, all under the firm control of Xi Jinping. Chinese diaspora observers see a tottering tyranny\, its economy crumbling\, ordinary people sullen and rebellious\, and Xi under challenge by a resurgent reformist movement. \n\n\n\nWhich is it and where is China going? Based on his study of Hu Yaobang’s life and elite politics in Beijing\, Suettinger suggests a weakened Xi Jinping might be facing a situation similar to that of Hua Guofeng in 1980-81.   \n\n\n\nRobert Lee Suettinger is a historian of contemporary elite politics in the People’s Republic of China. He recently completed a biography of Hu Yaobang (1915-1989)\, General Secretary and Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party of China\, published by Harvard University Press\, under a grant from the Smith Richardson Foundation. \n\n\n\nSuettinger was a Senior Advisor and Consultant at the Stimson Center\, Analytic Director at CENTRA Technology Inc.\, a Senior Policy Analyst at RAND and a Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution. He retired from US government service in 1998\, after nearly 24 years in the intelligence and foreign policy bureaucracies.  \n\n\n\nHe joined the Central Intelligence Agency in 1975\, and spent his entire career in the analysis of Asian affairs. After several years as an analyst and manager in CIA’s Directorate of Intelligence\, he was assigned as Director of the Office of Analysis for East Asia and the Pacific in the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research.  Subsequently\, he served for five years as Deputy National Intelligence Officer for East Asia on the National Intelligence Council. \n\n\n\nBeginning in March 1994\, Suettinger was Director of Asian Affairs on the National Security Council\, where he assisted National Security Advisors Anthony Lake and Samuel R. Berger in the development of American policy toward East Asia.  He returned to the NIC as National Intelligence Officer for East Asia in October 1997. Suettinger holds an M.A. from Columbia University and a B.A. from Lawrence University in Appleton\, Wisconsin.  He served in the U.S. Army in the then Republic of Vietnam in 1969-70. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-featuring-robert-suettinger-factional-politics-in-the-ccp-is-change-in-the-air/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China,Critical Issues Confronting China Series
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SUMMARY:China Humanities Seminar featuring Rebecca Doran — Dress Regulation\, Dynastic Image-Building\, and Geopolitical Competition in Early Medieval China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Rebecca Doran\, University of Miami \n\n\n\nThe various regimes that emerged during third through sixth centuries grappled from different perspectives with the establishment of dynastic dress regulations\, meant to promote hierarchical order at home and project legitimacy and strength abroad. This form of conveying authority was complicated by geopolitical developments\, including regime changes and tensions between competing regimes. Discussions and decisions regarding dress regulations were informed not only by scholarly understandings of ritual sartorial precedent\, but also by these contemporary sources of friction and identity-building. The talk examines several case studies demonstrating the interconnections during this period between dress regulation\, dynastic image-building\, and inter-dynastic rivalries. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-humanities-seminar-featuring-rebecca-doran-dress-regulation-dynastic-image-building-and-geopolitical-competition-in-early-medieval-china/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:China Humanities Seminar
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SUMMARY:Chinese Immigrant Lawyers in the United States: Challenges and Adaptation
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:Ji Li\, John & Marilyn Long Professor of US-China Business and Law\, UC Irvine School of Law William Lee\, Partner\, WilmerHaleEli Goldston\, Visiting Lecturer on Law\, Harvard Law School Tiezheng Li\, Assistant China Representative\, International Law Institute David B. Wilkins\, Lester Kissel Professor of Law\, Harvard Law SchoolJoin the Harvard Law and International Development Society (LIDS) and the China Law Association (CLA) for a panel discussion on Chinese Immigrant Lawyers in the US. Lunch will be provided. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/chinese-immigrant-lawyers-in-the-united-states-challenges-and-adaptation/
LOCATION:WCC 3009\, Wasserstein Hall\, 1585 Massachusetts Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260317T113000
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SUMMARY:Soldiers and Cellphones: The Cold War Roots of the Consumer Electronics Industry in Shenzhen\, China
DESCRIPTION:Register for zoom webinar\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Taomo Zhou\, National University of SingaporeMeeting Registration – Zoom \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/soldiers-and-cellphones-the-cold-war-roots-of-the-consumer-electronics-industry-in-shenzhen-china/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260313T093000
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SUMMARY:Technology and Society in/through Global China: New Reflections\, New Visions
DESCRIPTION:Situated at a complex intersection where economic imperatives\, socio-cultural transformations\, and geopolitical shifts converge\, technological trajectories within the orbit of “global China” have emerged as a pivotal force reconfiguring domestic fabrics and the international order. To navigate this complexity\, the workshop transcends traditional disciplinary silos. We foster an interdisciplinary dialogue by bringing macro-level political economy into conversation with human-centered inquiries from the humanities and social sciences. By bridging disparate methodologies—from ethnographic and archival work to data-driven analysis—the workshop prompts a necessary rethinking of knowledge production in an era of technological transformation. We invite scholars at all career stages to collaboratively examine the socio-technical landscapes of ‘Global China’ as a critical\, contested\, and fundamentally interdisciplinary focal point of inquiry. The workshop features three synergistic open sessions: a forum on Critical Reflections on Studying Technology\, a research seminar on Comparative Insights into Techno-economic Governance\, and a panel on Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Digital Platforms. Together\, we aim to generate new visions and critical reflections on the social life of technology in and through a transforming global China. \n\n\n\nWorkshop Schedule9:30 – 10:45 AMForum: Critical Reflections on Studying TechnologyParticipants:Susan Greenhalgh\, John King and Wilma Cannon Fairbank Research Professor of Chinese Society\, Department of Anthropology\, Harvard UniversityYa-Wen Lei\, Professor of Sociology\, Harvard UniversityMeg Rithmire\, James E. Robison Professor of Business Administration\, Business\, Government\, and International Economy Unit\, Harvard Business SchoolMoira Weigel\, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature\, Harvard University \n\n\n\n10:45 – 11:05 AMRefreshment Break \n\n\n\n11:05 AM – 12:35 PMSeminar: Comparative Insights into Techno-Economic GovernanceParticipants:Jack Linzhou XingAn Wang Postdoctoral Fellow\, Harvard University Fairbank CenterRiding with the State: Didi and the Precarious Symbiosis between State and Platforms in ChinaYolanda Yuxing ZhangAn Wang Postdoctoral Fellow\, Harvard University Fairbank CenterPlatform Supply Chains and New Human Conditions in ChinaDiscussants:Ya-Wen LeiProfessor of Sociology\, Harvard UniversityMoira WeigelAssistant Professor of Comparative Literature\, Harvard University \n\n\n\n12:35 – 2:00 PMLunch provided \n\n\n\n2:00 – 3:30 PMPanel: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Digital PlatformsParticipants:Julie Yujie ChenAssociate Professor\, Institute of Communication\, Culture\, Information\, and Technology (ICCIT) and Faculty of Information\, University of TorontoTheorizing Digital Employment Configuration of AI Data WorkJoshua NevesAssociate Professor of Film and Moving Image Studies\, Concordia UniversityOn Ubiquity: Form and Platform in Lu Yang’s Doku SeriesMarc SteinbergProfessor\, Film and Moving Image Studies\, Concordia UniversityAsian Platform CapitalismsLin ZhangAssociate Professor\, Communication and Media Studies\, University of New HampshireThe Data Fix: Digital Agriculture and the Sociotechnical Politics of Datafication andAssetizationParticipant BiographiesSusan GreenhalghGreenhalgh’s work seeks to understand the emergence of new forms of scientific governance in the context of rapid shifts in global and local political economies. Her research has focused on three fields of bodily governance in the Chinese and the U.S. society: the management of populations\, clinical biomedicine\, and global health. Greenhalgh’s research also focuses on Chinese projects of social modernity – state efforts to transform China’s “backward masses” into the modern workers and citizens needed to make China a prosperous\, globally prominent nation. Her influential works include but are not limited to Just One Child: Science and Policy in Deng’s China (2008)\, Fat-talk Nation: The Human Costs of America’s War on Fat (2015)\, Can Science and Technology Save China? (co-edited with Li Zhang\, 2020)\, Soda Science: Making the World Safe for Coca-Cola (2024).Ya-wen LeiYa-wen Lei’s research examines political and socioeconomic transformation\, with a particular focus on the relationship between technology\, society\, and political economy. She is the author of two books: The Contentious Public Sphere: Law\, Media\, and Authoritarian Rule in China (Princeton University Press\, 2018) and The Gilded Cage: Techno-State Capitalism in China (Princeton University Press\, 2023). Her work has appeared in leading sociological journals\, including the Annual Review of Sociology\, American Sociological Review\, and American Journal of Sociology. Her publications have received extensive recognition from the American Sociological Association\, the Law and Society Association\, theSociety for the Advancement of Socio-Economics\, and The China Quarterly.Meg RithmireMeg Rithmire is the James E. Robison Professor in the Business\, Government\, and International Economy Unit. Professor Rithmire holds a PhD in Government from Harvard University\, and her primary expertise is in the comparative political economy of development with a focus on China and Asia. Her work also focuses on China’s role in the world\, including Chinese outward investment and lending practices and economic relations between China and other countries\, especially the United States. A new project on business geopolitical risk and resilience\, for which she is co-chairing an initiative with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation\, focuses on how firms can and should change their governance practices to deal with geopolitical and especially national security risk. \n\n\n\nMoira WeigelMoira Weigel writes and teaches about the history\, theory\, and social life of media and communication technologies\, from the early 19th century to the present. Her first book\, Labor of Love: The Invention of Dating (2016\, Macmillan) shows that modern courtship practices have consistently coevolved with consumer capitalism and gendered work. Her second book (co-edited with Ben Tarnoff)\, Voices from the Valley: Tech Workers Talk About What They Do and How They Do It (2020\, FSG Originals)\, is a series of long-form anonymous interviews with workers at every level ofthe Bay Area tech industry. Her current research focuses on transnational online marketplaces\, arguing that despite tech competition\, cross-border e-commerce has made ordinary people in China and the U.S. ever more closely entangled.Jack Linzhou XingJack Linzhou Xing holds a Ph.D. in History and Sociology of Technology and Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is interested in the social implications and governance of the 4 platform economy\, digital infrastructure\, and digital labor\, with a regional focus on China. At theFairbank Center\, he will be working on the contested development and deployment of autonomous vehicles in China.Yolanda Yuxing ZhangYolanda Yuxing Zhang holds a Ph.D. in Information Studies from the University of Toronto. She is interested in how platforms bridge various markets and how value is translated across the interfaces of the economy\, the sustainable development sphere\, and innovation culture. At the Fairbank Center\, Zhang plans to extend her doctoral research to examine the role of platforms\, as both a design logic and a structuring system\, in industrial upgrading.Julie Yujie ChenJulie Yujie Chen is an Associate Professor in the Institute of Communication\, Culture\, Information\, and Technology (ICCIT) and Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto\, Canada. Her research examines the transformation of work and workers’ subjectivity in relation to digital technology\, capitalism\, and globalization. She is the co-author of Media and Management (University of Minnesota Press\, 2021) and Super-sticky WeChat and Chinese Society (Emerald\, 2018). She is a member of the Capacitor Collective writing Notes Toward a Digital Workers’ Inquiry (Common Notions\, 2025). Chen is also the founding editor of Platforms & Society and the co-editor of the SAGE Handbook of Digital Labour (Sage\, 2026). Currently\, she is writing a book on Chinese data workers in the AI industry.Joshua NevesJoshua Neves is Associate Professor of Film and Moving Image Studies and Director of the Global Emergent Media (GEM) Lab at Concordia University. He is co-author (with Aleena Chia\, Susanna Paasonen\, and Ravi Sundaram) of Technopharmacology (Minnesota University Press / Meson Press\, 2022)\, author of Underglobalization: Beijing’s Media Urbanism and the Chimera of Legitimacy (Duke University Press\, 2020)\, co-editor (w/ Marc Steinberg) of In/Convenience: Inhabiting the Logistical Surround (Institute of Network Cultures\, 2024) and co-editor (w/ Bhaskar Sarkar) of Asian Video Cultures: In the Penumbra of the Global (Duke University Press\, 2017).Marc SteinbergMarc Steinberg researches the impacts of digital platforms on management practices\, media industries\, and cultural life in East Asia. He is the author of Anime’s Media Mix: Franchising Toys and Characters in Japan (University of Minnesota Press\, 2012)\, The Platform Economy: How Japan Transformed the Commercial Internet (2019)\, and Media and Management (2021)\, among other books\, and has coedited Media Theory in Japan (Duke University Press\, 2017) and In/Convenience: Inhabiting the Logistical Surround (Institute of Network Cultures\, 2024). He is currently completing The Convenience Story\, a book about the Japanese convenience store and the platformization of convenience.Lin ZhangZhang’s research encompasses a critical examination of technology\, innovation\, labor\, and governance through a global lens. She place particular emphasis on issues of social justice and intersectionality\, exploring various sectors including digital platforms\, biomedicine and medtech\, new agriculture\, and the broader landscape of knowledge and cultural economy. Her primary geographical focus lies on China and the experiences of ethnic Asian communities within a global and comparative context. Zhang is the author of The Labor of Reinvention: Entrepreneurship in the New Chinese Digital Economy (2023\, Columbia University Press)\, one of the first multi-sited ethnographic 5 accounts of the rising entrepreneurial labor in urban\, rural\, and transnational China since tech innovation had accelerated in the country after 2008. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/technology-and-society-in-through-global-china-new-reflections-new-visions/
LOCATION:Room S030\, CGIS South\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
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SUMMARY:From Copycat to Technology Innovator: China's Use of IP as Strategic Governance 
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Haochen Sun\, Professor of Law\, The University of Hong Kong \n\n\n\nWhat role have state-orchestrated intellectual property policies played in China’s emergence as a major technology innovator? This talk discusses two interrelated transformations that have taken place in China over the past two decades: the rise and fall of the shanzai (copycat) culture movement and China’s ascent as a tech superpower since 2015. In analyzing these transformations\, the talk explains how China has deployed IP as a tool of strategic governance and statecraft. \n\n\n\nProfessor Haochen Sun specializes in intellectual property\, technology law\, and Chinese law. His wide-ranging scholarship has delved into areas such as the legal status of artificial intelligence creations\, access to patented medicines and vaccines\, intellectual property rights owners’ responsibilities\, and the trademark protection of luxury brands. He is currently working on two new research projects. The first one aims to develop a new ethical framework for regulating AI creativity\, while the second one critically examines the epic transformations that have taken place in China’s regulation of technologies. He recently founded the Program on Artificial Intelligence and the Law\, a research hub for studying the impact of AI on the legal system. \n\n\n\nCoffee and light snacks will be provided. Please register here. \n\n\n\nA Harvard ID is required in order to enter Harvard Law School buildings. If you have questions\, please contact eals@law.harvard.edu in advance of the event. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/from-copycat-to-technology-innovator-chinas-use-of-ip-as-strategic-governance/
LOCATION:WCC 2004\, Wasserstein Hall\, 1585 Massachusetts Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Jennifer Lind — Can China’s Smart Authoritarianism Model Win?
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Jennifer Lind\, Associate Professor of Government\, Dartmouth University \n\n\n\nDiscussant: Meg Rithmire\, James E. Robison Professor of Business Administration\, Business\, Government\, and International Economy Unit\, Harvard Business SchoolGreat power competition requires countries to be technological leaders\, but an influential literature holds that autocracies\, which suppress creativity and information flows\, stifle innovation. Many observers of China’s rise thus argued that it would be unable to compete technologically with the United States. Jennifer Lind’s Autocracy 2.0 shows that China has become a global innovation leader. She argues that China and other “smart authoritarians” have adapted their tools of control to better compete with free societies in today’s globalized information age. Authoritarian adaptation suggests that China – and the countries that emulate its smart authoritarian model – will be far more competitive than many observers expect: which has dramatic implications for the balance of power\, the future of international order\, and the global struggle between democracy and authoritarianism. \n\n\n\nJennifer Lind is Associate Professor of Government at Dartmouth College\, and a Faculty Associate at the Reischauer Institute for Japanese Studies at Harvard University. She is also a Research Associate in the US and North America Programme at Chatham House. Professor Lind’s research focuses on the international relations of East Asia and US foreign policy toward the region.  \n\n\n\nLind is the author of Autocracy 2.0: How China’s Rise Reinvented Tyranny (Cornell University Press\, 2025)\, a book that shows how authoritarian adaptation enabled China’s rise to become a superpower and technological peer competitor of the United States. Previously\, Lind published (also with Cornell University Press)\, Sorry States: Apologies in International Politics (2008). She has authored numerous scholarly articles in journals such as International Security and International Studies Quarterly and writes for wider audiences in Foreign Affairs. Her commentary is regularly quoted in The New York Times\, Washington Post\, The Wall Street Journal\, and National Public Radio (NPR). Lind founded and serves as the editor-in-chief of Blue Blaze\, a multi-author Substack about international relations and U.S. foreign policy. Lind holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology\, a MPIA from the School of Global Policy Studies at the University of California\, San Diego\, and a BA from the University of California. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-featuring-jennifer-lind/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China,Critical Issues Confronting China Series
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SUMMARY:Urban China Lecture Series Featuring Su Xiaobo -- State Venturism and the Financialization of Urban Development in China
DESCRIPTION:zoom meeting link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Su Xiaobo\, University of Oregon \n\n\n\nFinancialization has become a central force to reshape urban development. This paper explores one specific mechanism of financialization—state-led venture capital (SVC)—to elucidate an emergent trend in which governments act as equity investors to support startups and scaleups. Such investments are not necessarily aimed at ownership\, but rather at fostering technological innovation and promoting urban development\, which gives rise to state venturism. China provides a particularly revealing case of state venturism: governments at multiple administrative levels have leveraged SVCs to support high-tech firms within their jurisdictions. The study case is Hefei\, China’s capital of state-led venture investment. Through equity investment\, municipal governments in China are forging new alliances with private investors and entrepreneurial actors—governing not via direct ownership of production assets\, but through equity participation and market-shaping investment vehicles. \n\n\n\nXiaobo Su is a professor of urban and regional development in the Department of Geography\, University of Oregon. Currently his research interest is in state-led venture investment and its role in urban innovation in China and the U.S.  \n\n\n\nThis event series is sponsored by the Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, the MIT Sustainable Urbanization Lab\, and the Australian Centre on China in the World. \n\n\n\nJoin Zoom Meeting Link: https://mit.zoom.us/j/97955535212 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/urban-china-lecture-series-featuring-su-xiaobo-state-venturism-and-the-financialization-of-urban-development-in-china/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Urban China Series
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SUMMARY:HYI Annual Roundtable — Gender\, Class\, and Youth: The Formation of Civic Democracy in Asia in the Post-Developmental State Era
DESCRIPTION:Panelists:Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal\, Harvard Divinity School Fellow\, Publisher\, and Democracy ActivistMing-sho Ho\, Professor\, Department of Sociology\, National Taiwan UniversityEleana Kim\, Professor\, Anthropology and Asian American Studies\, University of California\, IrvineHyun Mee Kim\, Professor\, Department of Cultural Anthropology\, Yonsei UniversityAnthony J. Spires\, Professor\, Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies\, The University of MelbourneKiyoteru Tsutsui\, Director\, Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center\, Professor of Sociology\, Henri H. and Tomoye Takahashi Professor of Japanese Studies\, Stanford UniversityModerator: James Robson (James C. Kralik and Yunli Lou Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations; Harvard College Professor; Director\, Harvard-Yenching Institute) \n\n\n\n\nGender\, Class\, and Youth: The Formation of Civic Democracy in Asia in the Post-Developmental State Era\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/hyi-annual-roundtable-gender-class-and-youth-the-formation-of-civic-democracy-in-asia-in-the-post-developmental-state-era/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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SUMMARY:Be Water: Collective Improvisation and the 2019 Hong Kong Protests
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Ming-sho Ho\, Distinguished Professor\, Department of Sociology\, National Taiwan University \n\n\n\nHow do ordinary citizens organize to push back against creeping authoritarianism in the wake of increased technological surveillance by government?  What happens when these protest efforts falter?  Drawing on an analysis of over 1700 events events and 189 interviews tied to Hong Kong’s 2019 Anti-Extradition Law movement\, Professor Ho offers reflections on these questions based on the findings of his recent book. He highlights the dynamic at work as ordinary citizens attempt to exert their agency in the wake of political change and a government responds with repressive countermeasures. Join us for a discussion of a case study of Hong Kong’s unsuccessful 2019 protest movement and the lessons it may offer for ordinary citizens elsewhere hoping to push back against the state. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/be-water-collective-improvisation-and-the-2019-hong-kong-protests/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S250\, 1730 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
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