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SUMMARY:Eugenio Menegon and Elisa Frei - Calamity from Within? Jesuits\, Papal Legates\, and Chinese Imperial Envoys in the Eighteenth Century
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\nEugenio Menegon\, Department of History\, Boston University & Collaborative Scholar\, Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies\nElisa Frei\, Fellow\, Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies\, Boston College \nInstitute for Advanced Jesuit Studies Colloquium\, Boston College \nMore information: https://www.bc.edu/centers/iajs/Programs/institute-colloquium-.html \n 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/eugenio-menegon-and-elisa-frei-calamity-from-within-jesuits-papal-legates-and-chinese-imperial-envoys-in-the-eighteenth-century/
LOCATION:John J. Burns Library\, Boston College\, 140 Commonwealth Ave.\, Chestnut Hill\, MA\, 02467\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180413T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180413T183000
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SUMMARY:Harvard University Asia Center 20th Anniversary Celebration
DESCRIPTION:S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, Japan Friends of Harvard Concourse \n9:30 a.m.         Coffee \n9:45 a.m.         Welcome by Professor Karen Thornber\, Victor and William Fung Director\, Asia Center; Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and of Comparative Literature\, Harvard University \n10:00 a.m.       Introduction by Vice Provost Mark Elliott\, Vice Provost for International Affairs\, Harvard University; Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History \n10:15 a.m.        Remarks by Professor Rema Hanna\, Chair\, Asia Center Southeast Asia Committee; Jeffrey Cheah Professor of South-East Asia Studies\, Harvard Kennedy School \n10:30 a.m.       A Dialogue with the Asia Center’s former Directors and Acting Directors on the Changing and Enduring Issues in Asia\nEzra Vogel\, Asia Center Director 1997-1999; Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences\, Emeritus\, Harvard University\nWilliam  Kirby\, Asia Center Director 1999-2002; Chair\, Harvard China Fund; T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies\, Harvard University; Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration\, Harvard Business School\nDwight Perkins\, Asia Center Director 2002-2005; Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy\, Emeritus\, Harvard University\nAnthony Saich\, Asia Center Director 2005-2008; Director\, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation; Daewoo Professor of International Affairs\, Harvard Kennedy School\nArthur Kleinman\, Asia Center Director 2008-2016; Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology\, Harvard University; Professor of Medical Anthropology and Psychiatry\, Harvard Medical School\nMichael Puett\, Asia Center Acting Director Spring Term 2013; Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History and Anthropology\, Harvard University\nAndrew Gordon\, Asia Center Acting Director 2016-2017; Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History\, Harvard University\nModerator:  Professor Meg Rithmire\, F. Warren McFarlan Associate Professor of Business of Administration\, Harvard Business School \n12:00 p.m.        Lunch  S030\, Lee Gathering Room\, Japan Friends of Harvard Concourse\, CGIS South \n1:00 p.m.          Remarks by Dean Claudine Gay\, Dean of Social Science\, Harvard University; Wilbur A. Cowett Professor of Government and of African and African American Studies \n1:15 p.m.          Study and Research in Asia:  The Student Perspective\nErnest (Billy) Brewster\, East Asian Languages and Civilizations\nRenzo R. Guinto\, T.H. Chan School of Public Health\nHyeok Kweon Kang\, East Asian Languages and Civilizations\nNeelam Khoja\, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations\nVeronika Kusumaryati\, Department of Anthropology\nNeeti Nayak\, Urban Planning and Design\, Graduate School of Design\nMelany Sun-Min Park\, History and Theory of Architecture\nKyle Shernuk\, East Asian Languages and Civilizations\nJustin Stern\, Architecture\, Landscape Architecture & Urban Planning\nFeng-en Tu\, History and East Asian Languages \n3:00 p.m.         Break \n3:15 p.m.         Asia in the Next Two Decades: A Conversation with Current Harvard Asia-related Center Directors\nTarun Khanna\, Director\, Lakshmi Mittal South Asia Institute; Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor\, Harvard Business School\nSun Joo Kim\, Director\, Korea Institute; Harvard-Yenching Professor of Korean History\, Harvard University\nWilliam Kirby\, Chair\, Harvard China Fund; T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies\, Harvard University; Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration\, Harvard Business School\nSusan Pharr\, Director\, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics\nJay Rosengard\, Acting Director\, Asia Center Thai Studies Program; Asia Center Southeast Asia Committee; Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy\, Harvard Kennedy School\nMichael Szonyi\, Director\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies; Professor of Chinese History\, Harvard University\nKaren Thornber\, Victor and William Fung Director\, Asia Center; Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and of Comparative Literature\, Harvard University \n4:40 p.m.         Audience to move to S010\, Tsai Auditorium (next door to S020) for Tsai Lecture \n4:45 p.m.         13th Annual Tsai Lecture: China’s Worldview Under Xi Jinping\nThe Honorable Kevin Rudd\, President\, Asia Society Policy Institute; former Prime Minister of Australia (2007-2010\, 2013) and former Foreign Minister (2010-2012) \n5:45 p.m.         Concluding Remarks/Reception
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/harvard-university-asia-center-20th-anniversary-celebration/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, CGIS South\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest,Special Event
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SUMMARY:Lin Wei-ping - Gender\, Gambling\, and the State in the Militarized Islands between China and Taiwan
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Lin Wei-ping\, National Taiwan University; HYI Associate\nDiscussant: Michael Szonyi\, Harvard University \nhttps://harvard-yenching.org/events/gender-gambling-and-state-militarized-islands-between-china-and-taiwan
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/lin-wei-ping-gender-gambling-and-the-state-in-the-militarized-islands-between-china-and-taiwan/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest,Gender Studies
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180413T180000
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SUMMARY:Kevin Rudd - China's Worldview Under Xi Jinping
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: The Honorable Kevin Rudd\, President\, Asia Society Policy Institute; former Prime Minister of Australia (2007-2010\, 2013) and former Foreign Minister (2010-2012) \nSponsored by the Tsai Lecture Fund\, Harvard University Asia Center; co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Greater China Club of the Harvard Business School   
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/kevin-rudd-chinas-worldview-under-xi-jinping/
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:20180416T160000
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SUMMARY:Mai Jia - The Art and Politics of the Espionage Novel in Contemporary China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Mai Jia\, Chinese novelist and President of the Zhejiang Writers’ Association \nThis lecture will be given in Chinese. \n 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/mai-jia-the-art-and-politics-of-the-espionage-novel-in-contemporary-china/
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Mareike Ohlberg and Kristin Shi-Kupfer - Ideas and Ideologies Competing for China’s Future
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\nMareike Ohlberg\, Research Associate\, Mercator Institute for China Studies; former An Wang Post-Doctoral Fellow\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\nKristin Shi-Kupfer\, Head of Research on Politics\, Society\, and the Media\, Mercator Institute for China Studies \nUnlike any other Chinese leader since the beginning of the reform era\, Xi Jinping has worked on crafting a unified national ideology with the aim to strengthen the ties between China’s citizens and the Communist Party of China (CCP). The Xi leadership tries to rally support around the “China Dream\,” the vision of China as a global player\, and it promotes the “China Path” as an alternative to market economies and liberal democracies. \nAlthough partially successful\, the propaganda offensive has so far not yielded the desired result: a broad-based societal consensus on China’s future course. A new publication by the Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS) shows widely differing views within Chinese society on China’s developmental model and its global role. \nFor their report\, “Ideas and ideologies competing for China’s future\,” Kristin Shi-Kupfer\, Mareike Ohlberg\, Simon Lang and Bertram Lang analyzed debates in Chinese social media and conducted a survey among predominantly urban Chinese netizens. Even though party-state propaganda played a dominant role\, debates in online chat groups such as Weibo or Tianya Net displayed a wide range of opinions despite censorship and repression of dissent. \nDr. Kristin Shi-Kupfer\nKristin Shi-Kupfer heads research on politics\, society and the media at the Mercator Institute for China Studies. She is an expert on media policy\, civil society\, religious policy and ideology in China. She previously worked as a research associate at the University of Freiburg’s Institute for Sinology. She earned her PhD from Ruhr University Bochum with a thesis on spiritual and religious groups in China after 1978. From 2007 to 2011 she was the China correspondent for the Austrian news magazine Profil\, the German Protestant Press Agency epd\, and Südwest Presse in Beijing. She also worked as a freelance contributor for other media like ZEIT Online\, tageszeitung (taz)\, and Deutsche Welle in China. In May 2017\, Shi-Kupfer was appointed member of the expert committee of the German-Chinese platform on innovation under the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. \nDr. Mareike Ohlberg\nMareike Ohlberg is a research associate at the Mercator Institute for China Studies\, where she focuses on China’s subnational politics\, official media policy as well as developments in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Ohlberg holds a PhD in Chinese Studies from the University of Heidelberg and an MA from Columbia University. In her thesis\, she analyzed changes in China’s global propaganda outreach since 1978. Prior to joining MERICS\, Ohlberg spent a year as an An Wang Postdoctoral Fellow at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University and another year as a postdoctoral researcher at the Cheng Shewo Institute for Chinese Journalism at Shih Hsin University in Taipei.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/mareike-ohlberg-and-kristin-shi-kupfer-ideas-and-ideologies-competing-for-chinas-future/
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180416T163000
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SUMMARY:Paul Harrison - Mañjuśrī’s Residence on China’s Wutai Shan: The View from Distant India
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Paul Harrison\, George Edwin Burnell Professor of Religious Studies\, Stanford University \nThe Buddhist practice of replicating sacred sites in multiple locations is a well-known feature of the history of the religion\, as is the readiness of Buddhists to keep finding new places blessed by the presence of Buddhas\, bodhisattvas and other such beings. Thus in China\, for example\, Wutai Shan in the north was identified as the residence of the great bodhisattva Mañjuśrī\, while\, in other parts of the country\, we find the island of Putuo Shan in the east recognized as Potalaka\, the abode of Avalokiteśvara\, Jiuhua Shan\, also to the east\, seen as the dwelling place of Kṣitigarbha\, and Emei Shan in the south singled out as the home of Samantabhadra\, thus yielding the Four Sacred Mountains of Buddhist China. The way in which such identifications as these proliferated was foundational to patterns of pilgrimage across the premodern Buddhist world. This paper addresses one small aspect of this broad topic\, and investigates the lore surrounding the linkage of Mañjuśrī and Wutai Shan\, using as its point of departure an early Tantric text for which until recently we had no Sanskrit version. This short work\, the Viśeṣavatī-dhāraṇī\, opens up some new perspectives on the cult of Mañjuśrī and its transnational manifestations. It also raises the question whether the flow of influence was always from the imagined center to the periphery\, that is\, whether we have any solid evidence that in India it was accepted or even known that Mañjuśrī had become a permanent resident of China. \nPaul Harrison is the George Edwin Burnell Professor of Religious Studies. Educated in his native New Zealand and in Australia\, he specializes in Buddhist literature and history\, especially that of the Mahāyāna\, and in the study of Buddhist manuscripts in Sanskrit\, Chinese and Tibetan. He is the author of The Samādhi of Direct Encounter with the Buddhas of the Present\, and of numerous journal articles on Buddhist sacred texts and their interpretation. He is also one of the editors of the series “Buddhist Manuscripts in the Schøyen Collection.” \nPaul’s current projects include editions and translations of a number of Mahāyāna and Mainstream Buddhist sūtras and śāstras\, including the Vajracchedikā (Diamond Sutra) and the Vimalakīrtinirdeśa\, as well as a general study of issues of authority\, textual transmission and innovation in Mahayana Buddhism. \nPaul serves as Co-Director of the Ho Center for Buddhist Studies at Stanford.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/buddhist-studies-forum-2018-04-30/
LOCATION:Plimpton Room (133)\, Barker Center\, 12 Quincy St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Buddhist Studies Forum
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SUMMARY:His Excellency Cui Tiankai Speaks on U.S. - China Relations
DESCRIPTION:This Event begins at 12:15pm. \nSpeaker: Cui Tiankai\, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People’s Republic of China to the United States of America. \nHis Excellency Cui Tiankai\, Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China to the United States of America\, will present a public lecture on the current state of U.S.-China relations at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard University. \nThe lecture and discussion will be moderated by Michael Szonyi\, Director of the Fairbank Center and Professor of Chinese History at Harvard University. \nThis event is co-sponsored by Harvard Law School East Asian Legal Studies and the Harvard University Asia Center.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/a-conversation-with-ambassador-cui-tiankai/
LOCATION:Harvard Law School\, Austin North (Room 100)\, 1515 Massachusetts Avenue\, Cambridge\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest,Special Event
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SUMMARY:Liu Zhenya - The Art of Energy Revolution: From Ultra High Voltage Power Grids to Global Energy Interconnection
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Liu Zhenya\, Former Chairman and President of State Grid Corporation of China; Chairman of Global Energy Interconnection Development and Cooperation Organization (GEIDCO) \nMr. Liu formerly served as the Chairman and President of State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC)\, the world’s largest utility company. He is currently the Chairman of GEIDCO\, a United Nations- and SGCC- affiliated organization that promotes grid interconnection worldwide to facilitate development of renewable energy. In this public lecture\, Mr. Liu will focus on low-carbon energy transition through innovative strategies that help to integrate energy systems across regions and the world. \nThe event will be conducted in Mandarin Chinese and English. Simultaneous Mandarin Chinese and English interpretation will be available. Please plan to arrive at least fifteen minutes early and bring a government- or university-issued photo ID if you would like to check-out a headset to listen to the interpretation. \nCo-sponsored by the Harvard-China Project on Energy\, Economy and Environment; the East Asian Legal Studies Program at Harvard Law School; the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering & Applied Sciences; and the Harvard Global Institute. \nhttps://chinaproject.harvard.edu/liu
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/liu-zhenya-the-art-of-energy-revolution-from-ultra-high-voltage-power-grids-to-global-energy-interconnection/
LOCATION:Milstein East B/C\, Wasserstein Hall\, 1585 Mass Ave.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Environment
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SUMMARY:Edward Cunningham - Elite Philanthropy in the US and China: What Does the Data Tell Us?
DESCRIPTION:Read event summary here \nSpeaker: Dr. Edward A. Cunningham\, Harvard Kennedy School \nEdward Cunningham is Director of Ash Center China Programs and of the Asia Energy and Sustainability Initiative at Harvard Kennedy School. He is also an Adjunct Lecturer of Public Policy\, focusing on energy markets and governance\, international economics and competitiveness\, the political economy of development\, and China’s integration into the world. Most recently he has engaged in work on the rise of Chinese private wealth and philanthropy. He serves as an advisor to private and publicly listed companies in the energy\, environmental\, and financial services sectors. \nCunningham was selected as a Fulbright Fellow to the P.R.C.\, during which time he conducted his doctoral fieldwork as a visiting fellow at Tsinghua University. He is fluent in Mandarin and Italian\, and his work has appeared in media such as The New York Times\, The Financial Times\, The New Yorker\, The Economist\, The Wall Street Journal\, Fortune\, and Bloomberg. He graduated from Georgetown University\, received an A.M. from Harvard University\, and holds a Ph.D. from M.I.T. in political science. He is currently completing a book on China’s energy markets and energy governance during the modern reform period.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-3-2018-04-18/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Critical Issues Confronting China Series,Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Nathan Sivin - Why Some Comparisons Make More Difference than Others
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Nathan Sivin\, University of Pennsylvania \nIn his talk\, ‘Why Some Comparisons Make More Difference than Others\,’ Professor Sivin will explore motivations for East-West and other comparative studies\, as well as the methodological challenges that they involve. \nNathan Sivin\, professor emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania\, is a generalist who has contributed studies of all the sciences and medicine in every period of Chinese history\, and comparative studies of these fields in China and Europe. He has taught a range of courses from the Scientific Revolution in Europe to advanced classical Chinese\, as well as the sociology of professionalization (with Renée Fox) and ritual in science\, technology\, and medicine. \nOrganizer: Technical Traditions in Greece and Rome: Between Theory and Practice\, Harvard University GSAS Workshop
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/nathan-sivin-why-some-comparisons-make-more-difference-than-others/
LOCATION:Boylston Hall Room 203\, Boylston Hall\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180419T173000
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SUMMARY:Graham Allison - Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides' Trap?
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Graham Allison\, Douglas Dillon Professor of Government\, Harvard Kennedy School\nDiscussants:\nRoderick MacFarquhar\,  Leroy B. Williams Professor of History\, Harvard University\nOriana Skylar Mastro\, Assistant Professor of Security Studies\, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service\, Georgetown University \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation. \nListen again:
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/graham-allison-destined-for-war-can-america-and-china-escape-thucydides-trap/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Special Event
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180420T160000
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SUMMARY:The Belt and Road Initiative and Authoritarian Spillovers
DESCRIPTION:One of the Fairbank Center’s Visiting Scholars\, Maria Adele Carrai\, will be giving a presentation on Friday\, April 20 from 2-4 in CGIS S153 on her paper “The Belt and Road Initiative and Authoritarian Spillovers: Chinese economic statecraft in Central and Eastern European Countries.” \nAll are welcome to attend. If you would like to read the paper before attending the talk\, please contact Nick Drake at ndrake@fas.harvard.edu.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-belt-and-road-initiative-and-authoritarian-spillovers/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180423T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180423T170000
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SUMMARY:Symposium on Asia at the World's Fairs: An Online Exhibition of Cultural Exchange
DESCRIPTION:Director and Project Curator: Catherine V. Yeh\nWeb-designer: Janet Liu\nCo-curators: Janet Liu\, Robert Murowchick\, Alice Tseng\, and Wen-hao Tien \nPlease join us for the celebratory opening of our exciting new online digital initiative\, Asia at the World’s Fairs: An Online Exhibition of Cultural Exchange.The symposium features presentations on the cultural\, political\, and economic roles of international exhibitions through history\, and an exploration of the inclusion and impact of Asian cultures at these wildly popular and influential events. We will be presenting our evolving exhibition’s first two “themes” that will focus on Asian dance and architecture at the fairs\, and discuss how this online exhibition can serve as an engaging\, interactive vehicle for the study of many other themes in the future. \nFor more information\, visit https://www.bu.edu/asian/2018/01/02/exhibition-opening-asia-at-the-worlds-fairs/. \nOrganized by BU Center for the Study of Asia\, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/symposium-on-asia-at-the-worlds-fairs-an-online-exhibition-of-cultural-exchange/
LOCATION:Boston University Hillel House\, 213 State Road\, 213 Bay State Road\, Boston\, MA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Victor Shih - Protective Umbrella: How Factional Ties Attenuated the Impact of an Anti-Corruption Campaign in China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Victor Shih\, University of California San Diego \nDo stricter enforcement of the law and sudden intensification of corruption investigation always lead to better economic outcomes in the medium term? A strand of the literature suggests that where the government imposes great distortion to the market\, corruption “with theft” can incentivize local state agents to reduce the level of distortion\, leading to greater degree of economic activities. Thus\, a wide- ranging anti-corruption drive may stifle some economic activities\, such as investment. We investigate this possibility by examining the impact of the 2012 anti-corruption drive in China on provincial level real estate investment\, an area rife with corruption with theft. After controlling for provincial\, month\, and year fixed effects and for expectation of Xi’s ascendancy prior to the beginning of the anti-corruption drive\, we find that anti-corruption slowed the growth of real estate investment in Chinese provinces without ties to Xi Jinping\, the leader of China. For provinces whose leadership had past ties with Xi\, however\, they continued to experience rising property investment. This paper further adds to the literature on factionalism by showing that high level patronage boosted the level of investment in the midst of an anti-corruption campaign. \nVictor Shih is an associate professor of political economy and has published widely on the politics of Chinese banking policies\, fiscal policies and exchange rates. He was the first analyst to identify the risk of massive local government debt\, and is the author of “Factions and Finance in China: Elite Conflict and Inflation.” \nPrior to joining UC San Diego\, Shih was a professor of political science at Northwestern University and former principal for The Carlyle Group. \nShih is currently engaged in a study of how the coalition-formation strategies of founding leaders had a profound impact on the evolution of the Chinese Communist Party. He is also constructing a large database on biographical information of elites in China.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-economy-lecture-series-victor-shih/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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SUMMARY:Wang Jianping - Upholding the Faith in an Atheistic Land: Flourishing Unofficial Islamic Publications in Contemporary China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Wang Jianping\, Professor of Islamic Studies (retired)\, Shanghai Normal University; HYI Library Research Grant recipient\nChair: James Cheng\, Librarian of the Harvard-Yenching Library\, Harvard University \nhttps://harvard-yenching.org/events/upholding-faith-atheistic-land-flourishing-unofficial-islamic-publications-contemporary-china
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/wang-jianping-upholding-the-faith-in-an-atheistic-land-flourishing-unofficial-islamic-publications-in-contemporary-china/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Wu Xinbo - Managing growing and expanding competition between China and the U.S.
DESCRIPTION:Read event summary here \nSpeaker: Wu Xinbo\, Professor & Director Center for American Studies Dean Institute of International Studies Fudan University \nDr. Wu is Professor and Dean\, Institute of International Studies\, and Director at the Center for American Studies\, Fudan University.  He teaches and researches China’s foreign and security policy\, Sino-U.S. relations\, and U.S. Asia-Pacific policy.  Prof. Wu is the author of Dollar Diplomacy and Major Powers in China\, 1909-1913 (Fudan University Press\, 1997)\, award-winning Turbulent Water: US Asia-Pacific Security Strategy in the post-Cold War Era (Fudan University Press\, 2006)\, Managing Crisis and Sustaining Peace between China and the United States (United States Institute of Peace\, 2008)\, and The New Landscape in Sino-U.S. Relations in the early 21st Century (Fudan University Press\, 2011).  He also has published numerous articles and book chapters in China\, U.S.\, Japan\, Germany\, South Korea\, Singapore and India.  Dr. Wu is on the editorial board of The Washington Quarterly (published by the Center for Strategic and International Studies) and on the International Board of the Studies in Asian Security book series (sponsored by the East-West Center and published by the Stanford University Press).
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-3-2018-04-25/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Critical Issues Confronting China Series,Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Liu Shuguang - Cultural Heritage in China: Present and Future
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Liu Shuguang\, Deputy Administrator\, State Administration of Cultural Heritage (SACH)\, People’s Republic of China \nThis talk will focus on the distinctive features of cultural heritage in China\, the formation of Cultural Heritage Management Mechanism  with Chinese Characteristics and the existing state and challenges to Cultural Heritage Management in China. \nLiu Shuguang\, graduated from the history department at Zhengzhou University with a bachelor degree in archeology in 1982. In 1986\, he received a master’s degree in Chinese history at Peking University. After serving as an archaeologist in Luoyang\, from 1986 to 1996\, he taught ancient Chinese history\, history of Chinese archaeology\, Chinese urban history\, etc.\, at Minzu University of China and the Branch College of Peking University. \nFrom 1996 to 2010\, he worked at State Administration of Cultural Heritage (SACH). From March\, 2010\, he was president of Chinese Academy of Cultural Heritage\, and president of National Center of Underwater Cultural Heritage. Since December\, 2015\, he has been deputy administrator of SACH.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/liu-shuguang-management-of-cultural-heritage-in-china-existing-state-and-future-trend/
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Victor Seow - Energy Transitions amidst Regime Change: Mining Coal in the Early People’s Republic of China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Victor Seow\, Assistant Professor\, Department of the History of Science\, Harvard University \nThe decade after the revolution of 1949 witnessed a China that was being made anew. The material transformation of society and economy that had been the goal of preceding regimes was realized to a hitherto unseen degree in the industrial edifice raised by the socialist state. This was an achievement that rested upon a bedrock of fossil fuel energy. In line with centrally directed plans\, the coal that lay in abundance in multiple regions across China was unearthed in mounting quantities\, as Chinese engineers led the excavation of new mines and the introduction of new technologies and techniques\, from the longwall system to hydraulic mining. Yet for all the effort in pushing production\, supply did not seem to be able to catch up with demand\, and by the late 1950s\, China seemed to be facing a coal shortage. Part of the problem was that of thermal inefficiency: for most industrial processes\, Chinese engines\, furnaces\, and boilers were burning more coal than their British and American counterparts. This talk examines efforts by Chinese planners to expand coal output as part of what they saw as a race to outpace capitalist countries in industrial development\, and shows that it was not so much a failure of technology but the fixation on sheer volume that led to a low quality of coal produced\, which in turn compromised the efficiency of the socialist industrial enterprise. \nSponsored by Harvard-China Project on Energy\, Economy and Environment\, Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/victor-seow-energy-transitions-amidst-regime-change-mining-coal-in-the-early-peoples-republic-of-china/
LOCATION:Pierce Hall 100F\, 29 Oxford St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Reconsidering Chinese Literature in the World: An International Symposium in Honor of Stephen Owen
DESCRIPTION:In honor of Harvard University Professor Stephen Owen’s retirement from teaching\, the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University and the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale University will convene an international symposium on Chinese and comparative literatures on April 26 and 27\, 2018\, at Harvard University. Papers will span the many fields within which Professor Owen’s contributions have been felt\, and allow participants\, drawn from among Owen’s graduate advisees and from the top scholars of Chinese and comparative literature around the world\, to reflect upon the ways these fields have changed over the course of his long teaching career and the new directions in which they are developing\, and should develop\, in the years ahead. \nFor more information\, including a detailed agenda\, visit https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/rcl. \nThe conference will be conducted in English and Chinese. It is open to the public. \nSponsored by the Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange\, the Harvard University Asia Center\, the Harvard University Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, the Harvard-Yenching Institute\, and the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/reconsidering-chinese-literature-in-the-world-an-international-symposium-in-honor-of-stephen-owen/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Conference and Workshops,Special Event
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SUMMARY:Fanmei Wang - Career Development for Ethnic Minority Employees: A Case Study in the Tibetan Autonomous Region
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Fanmei Wang\,  Fairbank Center Visiting Scholar\, Assistant Professor of Business Administration\, Donlinks School of Economics and Management\, University of Science and Technology Beijing\nHosted by: Mark Elliott\,  Vice Provost for International Affairs\, Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History\, Harvard University \nThe presentation will focus on the issue of career advancement for ethnic minority employees\, with particular reference to Tibetan employees in private enterprises in the Tibetan Autonomous Region. A theoretical framework generated from the primary data will identify influential factors from three levels\, namely\, the individual level\, the micro-contextual (organizational) level\, and the macro-contextual (regional differences and Chinese governmental ethnic-related policies) level. It aims to fill an under-researched question regarding the career experiences of ethnic minorities in contemporary China.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/fanmei-wang-career-development-for-ethnic-minority-employees-a-case-study-in-the-tibetan-autonomous-region/
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SUMMARY:Workshop: Chinese Food: Culture\, Economy\, and Ecology
DESCRIPTION:Part of the Fairbank Center’s “Environment in Asia” series \nApril 27\, 8:30am-6:30pm\, CGIS South Room S153\nApril 28\, 8:30am-3:30pm\, CGIS South Room S250 \nOrganizer: Ling Zhang (Boston College); Elizabeth Lord (Harvard University) \nSponsors:\nHarvard University Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\nHarvard-China Project on Energy\, Economy\, and Environment (Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences)\nBoston College Institute for the Liberal Arts \n  \nConference Program \nApril 27\, Friday \n8:45-9:15         Opening\nLing Zhang (Boston College)\nElizabeth Lord (Harvard University) \nPanel One: Food and Knowledge\n9:30-10:15 \nE. N. Anderson (University of California\, Riverside)\n“Learning Is Like Chicken Feet: Medieval China Studies West Asian Foodways in the Emerging Asian World-system” \nAbigail Coplin (Yale University)\n“The East is ‘Scientific’: Scientists\, the State\, and Credibility Crises During China’s GMO Controversy” \n10:15-10:30     Coffee Break \n10:30-12:30     Robban Toleno (Columbia University)\n“Buddhists\, Meat Analogues\, and the History of Vegetarianism in China”\nDiscussion: Peter Perdue (Yale University) \n12:30-13:30     Lunch \nPanel Two: Political Economy and Ecology \n13:30-14:15\nMindi Schneider (Erasmus Graduate School of Social Sciences and the Humanities)\n“Food and Power: A Food Regime Analysis of Contemporary China” \nMark Frank (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)\n“Food and Accommodation: Chinese Grain Governance in Eastern Tibet\, 1908-1940” \nBrendan A. Galipeau (Rice University)\n“Free in the Mountains or Home in the Vineyard: Resisting Plantation Labor on a French Vineyard in Tibet through Valuable Fungi Collection” \n15:30-15:50     Coffee Break \n15:50-18:30\nElizabeth Lord (Harvard University)\n“Making Pollution Invisible — An Exploration of Soil Surveys in Contemporary China” \nAlexander F. Day (Occidental College)\n“The Political Economy of Socialist Food Production: The Work of Labor and Fertilizer on a State-Owned Tea Farm” \nDiscussion: Ellen Oxfeld (Middlebury College\, 20 minutes) \n*          *          * \nApril 28\, Saturday \nPanel Three: Materiality\, Culture\, and Identity \n9:00-9:45\nMiranda Brown (University of Michigan)\n“On Bird’s Nests and Bean Curds: Reflections on the Rise of Tofu Connoisseurship” \nCaroline Merrifield (Yale University)\n“Jiangnan Luxe” \n9:45-10:00       Coffee Break \n10:00-12:00\nJin Feng (Grinnell College)\n“The Battle of Noodles” \nBenny Shaffer (Harvard University)\n“Shapeshifting Fields: The Moving Image Work of Mao Chenyu” \nDiscussion: Eileen Chow (Duke University) \n12:00-13:00     Lunch \n13:00-15:00     General Discussion and Conclusion
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/workshop-chinese-food-culture-economy-and-ecology/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, CGIS South\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Environment,Environment
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SUMMARY:Reconsidering Chinese Literature in the World: An International Symposium in Honor of Stephen Owen
DESCRIPTION:In honor of Harvard University Professor Stephen Owen’s retirement from teaching\, the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University and the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale University will convene an international symposium on Chinese and comparative literatures on April 26 and 27\, 2018\, at Harvard University. Papers will span the many fields within which Professor Owen’s contributions have been felt\, and allow participants\, drawn from among Owen’s graduate advisees and from the top scholars of Chinese and comparative literature around the world\, to reflect upon the ways these fields have changed over the course of his long teaching career and the new directions in which they are developing\, and should develop\, in the years ahead. \nFor more information\, including a detailed agenda\, visit https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/rcl. \nThe conference will be conducted in English and Chinese. It is open to the public. \nSponsored by the Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange\, the Harvard University Asia Center\, the Harvard University Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, the Harvard-Yenching Institute\, and the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/reconsidering-chinese-literature-in-the-world-an-international-symposium-in-honor-of-stephen-owen-2/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Conference and Workshops,Special Event
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SUMMARY:Fairbank Center Visiting Scholar Presentations
DESCRIPTION:Join this year’s Visiting Scholars as they provide a brief overview of their research and other accomplishments during the past academic year at the Fairbank Center.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/fairbank-center-visiting-scholar-presentations/
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: An Elephant Sitting Still
DESCRIPTION:The final event of the spring semester for the Emergent Visions film series will be hosted at the Brattle Theatre in Harvard Square. The event is free and open to the public. \nSYNOPSIS: \nAn Elephant Sitting Still (大象席地而坐)\, 2018\, HD\, Mandarin with English subtitles\, 230 min. \nUnder the gloomy sky of a small town in northern China\, different protagonists’ lives are intertwined in this lugubrious tale of nihilistic rage. To protect his friend\, 16-year-old Wei Bu pushes the school bully down a staircase and escapes the scene after the bully becomes hospitalized with his life hanging by a thread. Wei’s neighbor\, the 60-year-old Wang Jin\, is estranged from his family and decides to join him. Huang Ling\, Wei’s classmate\, is bedeviled by an affair with a school official. Together\, the desperate three decide to flee as the wounded bully’s hooligan brother\, the school authorities\, and the parents all go on a cold-blooded hunt for Wei across town. As Wei treads through the wilderness\, he finally confronts his own reality. He later boards a long-distance bus with Huang and Wang toward Manchuria\, where a circus elephant is said to be sitting still. \nDIRECTOR’S STATEMENT \n“He thought that in the beauty of the world were hid a secret. He thought that the world’s heartbeat at some terrible cost and that the world’s pain and its beauty moved in a relationship of diverging equity and that in this headlong deficit the blood of multitudes might ultimately be exacted for the vision of a single flower.” This quote from Cormac McCarthy is also the subject of this film. In our age\, it’s increasingly hard for us to have faith even in the tiniest of things\, and the frustration from which becomes the hallmark of today’s society. The film builds up personal myths in between daily routines. In the end\, everyone loses what he or she values the most. \nOfficial Selection of the 2018 Berlin International Film Festival\, and the New Directors/New Films 2018 presented by the Film Society of Lincoln Center and MoMA. \nDIRECTOR’S BIO: \nHU Bo (Writer and Director)\, born in 1988 in China\, graduated from the Beijing Film Academy in 2014 with a B.F.A. in directing. His short film Distant Father (2014) won Best Director at Golden Koala Chinese Film Festival\, and Night Runner (2014) was selected by the Taipei Golden Horse Film Academy. His debut feature An Elephant Sitting Still\, which was then still in progress\, was selected by the FIRST \nInternational Film Festival Financing Forum in 2016. In the following year\, Hu Bo participated in FIRST Training Camp under the supervision of Béla Tarr\, where he completed the short film Man in the Well. He has also written two novels Huge Crack and Bullfrog\, both published in 2017. Hu Bo took his own life soon after finishing An Elephant Sitting Still. \nThis event is sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University. Emergent Visions is a screening and discussion series that showcases new and innovative works of digital cinema from China. \n  \n 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-screening-an-elephant-sitting-still/
LOCATION:Brattle Theater\, 40 Brattle St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Emergent Visions Film Screening,Film Screening
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SUMMARY:David Shambaugh - Power Shift? America and China in Southeast Asia
DESCRIPTION:Read event summary here \nSpeaker: David Shambaugh\, George Washington University \nProfessor Shambaugh is an internationally recognized authority and author on contemporary China and the international relations of Asia\, with a strong interest in the European Union and transatlantic issues. \nBefore joining the faculty at George Washington\, he held the positions of Reader in Chinese Politics at the University of London’s School of Oriental & African Studies (SOAS) and Editor of The China Quarterly. He also previously served as an analyst on the staff of the National Security Council East Asia Bureau and the Department of State’s Bureau of Intelligence & Research (1976-78). He was also a nonresident Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program at The Brookings Institution (1998-2015)\, previously directed the Asia Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (1986-87)\, served on the Board of Directors of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations (2009-2015)\, and has been elected a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies\, Council on Foreign Relations\, U.S. Asia-Pacific Council\, and other public policy and scholarly organizations. He is a recipient of research grants from the Ford Foundation\, Rockefeller Foundation\, Smith Richardson Foundation\, German Marshall Fund\, British Academy\, U.S. National Academy of Sciences\, and other philanthropic bodies. He has been appointed a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (2002-03)\, an Honorary Research Professor at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences (2008–)\, a Senior Fulbright Research Scholar at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Institute of World Economics & Politics in Beijing (2009-10)\, and Distinguished Visiting Professor at the S. Ranjaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore (2017). Professor Shambaugh has also been a visiting scholar or professor at universities in Australia\, China\, Hong Kong\, Italy\, India\, Japan\, Russia\, and Taiwan. He is also a frequent contributor to the international media\, serves on a number of editorial boards\, and has been a consultant to various governments\, research institutions\, foundations\, and private corporations. \nProfessor Shambaugh is a prolific author\, having published more than 30 books and 300 articles. \nCo-Sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-3-2018-05-02/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Critical Issues Confronting China Series,Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Gender Studies Workshop: Gender and Friendship in China
DESCRIPTION:12:45-1 p.m.   Welcoming remarks \nFirst Panel \nModerator:     Wai-yee Li\, Harvard University \n1-1:30p.m.      Zhou Yiqun\, Stanford University: “Hermits and Their Wives in Early Chinese Texts” \n1:30-2p.m.      Hu Ying\, University of California Irvine: “Strange Friends: Reconceptualizing Gender and Community” \n2-2:30p.m.      Ellen Widmer\, Wellesley College: “Intercultural Mutuality: Mary Hannah Fulton (1854-1927) and Zhang Jujun (1879-1964)” \n2:30-3p.m.      Discussion \n3-3:30p.m.      Break \nSecond Panel \nModerator:     Xu Man\, Tufts University \n3:30-4p.m.      Haiyan Lee\, Stanford University: “‘Now We Have a Baby’: A Very Short Genealogy of the Pure Relationship in Chinese Literature” \n4-4:30p.m.      Catherine Vance Yeh\, Boston University: “Friendship in the Staging of a Star: Mei Lanfang” \n4:30-5p.m.      Eileen Chow\, Duke University: “‘有沒有愛？’：Tongren Culture\, Fandom and ‘Benefits with Friendship’” \n5-5:30p.m.      Discussion
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/gender-studies-workshop-gender-and-friendship-in-china/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S354\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Gender Studies
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SUMMARY:Amelia Ying Qin - Seeking Patterns: Close and Distant Readings of Two Collections of Tang 唐 (618-907) Dynasty Anecdotes
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Amelia Ying Qin\,  An Wang Post Doctoral Fellow\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies \nThis study takes two different approaches—close and distant readings—to the hidden patterns in two anecdote collections. The Songchuang zalu 松牕雜錄 (Miscellaneous Notes under the Pine Window) is a small Tang 唐 (618-907) collection of sixteen anecdotes that claims its accounts are both “particularly unusual” 特異 and “definitely true” 必實. Close reading reveals it to be a text containing hidden structures with an emphasis on “the unusual” as a concept bearing discursive weight for the purpose of subtle political criticism. The intertwined ideas of unusualness and truthfulness define each other and form a discourse of “the unusual” that provides an interpretive framework for the collection’s core anecdotes. These accounts\, when read closely within this framework\, point to signs that foreshadow the Tang’s decline while voicing concerns over its end and directing muted criticism at the irresponsible Tang rulers. The Tang yulin 唐語林 (Forest of Conversations on the Tang)\, on the other hand\, is a collection of over eleven hundred anecdotes about Tang historical figures\, events\, and customs compiled during the Northern Song 北宋 (960-1127). Its contents were selectively recycled from fifty or so earlier miscellanies of various sizes\, and both the content and structure of the collection suffered from a hectic textual history of loss and restoration. To examine a text of this nature and size\, this study experiments with the approach of distant reading to explore potential patterns in its content\, structure\, and selective use of source material. In juxtaposing these two texts examined with different methods\, the speaker hopes to reflect upon the mercurial and ephemeral nature of anecdotal memories of the past\, as well as the possible ways of reading and understanding such memories. \nAmelia Ying Qin graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison\, with a Ph.D. in Chinese literature (2013) from the Department of East Asian Languages and Literature and an M.A. (2010) from the School of Library and Information Studies. Prior to her study in Madison\, she also completed degrees at the University of Rhode Island and Fudan University in Shanghai\, China. Her current research interest is in the relationship and dynamics between cultural memory and historiography in Chinese anecdotal and historical narratives during the time period of 600-1300. She is also the translator of two chapters of The Grand Scribe’s Records. Her teaching interests include Chinese language of all levels\, survey of Chinese literature\, special topics in modern and classical Chinese literature\, as well as comparative topics in East Asian literature and cultures.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-humanities-seminar-2018-05-07/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:China Humanities Seminar,Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:The Arnold Arboretum and China: A Century-Old Partnership
DESCRIPTION:Surrounded by our Bonsai & Penjing collection\, enjoy cocktails and hors d’oeuvres as you view Professor Yin Kaipu’s (Chengdu Institute of Biology) photographs which document a century of environmental change. Each of his images will be paired with a sister image taken in the same location by Arboretum explorer Ernest Henry Wilson. \nThen screen highlights from CCTV-9’s documentary “Chinese Wilson.” Professor Yin and Dr. Michael Dosmann\, Arboretum Keeper of the Living Collections\, will introduce the film in which they both star\, linking China and the Arboretum’s past with modern-day quests to preserve these locations and biodiversity. \nFor more information and to RSVP by Tuesday\, May 8\, email Janetta Stringfellow\, Director of Institutional Advancement\, at janetta_stringfellow@harvard.edu or call 617-384-5043. \nEarlier in the day\, we will be hosting a program of talks by our Chinese guests and Arnold Arboretum staff. They will include presentations on E.H. Wilson’s life\, photographs\, and the plants he brought to Boston. We welcome you to also join us for this program.  Please contact Janetta Stringfellow for details. \nPhoto: View of North Gate and part of Taning Hsien with river and city wall. Altitude 600 ft. June 27\,1910. Photograph by Ernest Henry Wilson.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-arnold-arboretum-and-china-a-century-old-partnership/
LOCATION:Weld Hill Research Building\, 1300 Centre St.\, Boston\, MA\, 02131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Environment,Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:From Eco-Threat to Green Leader: Narratives of China’s Environment
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Elizabeth Lord\, An Wang Postdoctoral Fellow\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies \nThis talk aims to unpack dominant narratives about China’s environment\, including the discourse of crisis\, the idea that growth brings environmental protection and the potential that China can act as an environmental ‘vanguard’ at the international level. By analyzing how each of these narratives spatialize China’s environmental issues\, the objective is to unpack their assumptions and their geopolitical implications. These narratives show that environmental questions increasingly serve as a platform to ‘re-orientalize’ China\, or construct China as an environmental ‘other.’ \nElizabeth Lord is an An Wang Postdoctoral Fellow at the Fairbank Center. Her research seeks to understand China’s contemporary environment\, examine the relationship between environmental change and inequalities\, and theorize the production of environmental knowledge\, particularly in China. During her time at the Center\, Elizabeth will research the environmental narratives of China. She will evaluate the assumptions and implications of environmental narratives\, including those produced in China and outside of China. 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/from-eco-threat-to-green-leader-narratives-of-chinas-environment/
CATEGORIES:Environment,Environment
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