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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180924T120000
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SUMMARY:Lan Pei-Chia - Raising Global Families: Global Parenting and Class Inequality in Taiwan
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Prof. Lan Pei-Chia\, National Taiwan University\nChair: Prof. Andrew Gordon\, Harvard University; Acting Director\, Harvard-Yenching Institute \nhttps://harvard-yenching.org/events/raising-global-families-global-parenting-and-class-inequality-taiwan \nBased on in-depth interviews with ethnic Chinese parents from more than a hundred families in Taiwan and Boston\, my new book Raising Global Families examines how parents navigate transnational mobilities and negotiate cultural boundaries to cope with uncertainties and insecurities in the changing society and globalized world. I coined the term “global security strategies” to describe their childrearing practices that often lead to the unintended consequences of magnifying parental insecurity. This talk focuses on the distinct strategies of “global parenting” across the class spectrum in Taiwan. The professional middle class employ divergent educational strategies to pursue cosmopolitan parenting: some prefer international school and prioritize global competitiveness while some others choose Western-influenced alternative curriculums to orchestrate children’s natural growth. By contrast\, working-class Taiwanese men seek wives from China and Southeast Asia to escape the marriage squeeze\, but the transnational connections of immigrant mothers are hardly recognized as a valuable cultural capital by the state and school until the recent “New Southbound Policy.” \nAbout the speaker: Pei-Chia Lan is Distinguished Professor of Sociology\, Director of Global Asia Research Center\, and Associate Dean of the College of Social Sciences at National Taiwan University. She was a postdoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley\, a Fulbright scholar at New York University\, and a Yenching-Radcliffe fellow at Harvard University. Her major publications include Global Cinderellas: Migrant Domestics and Newly Rich Employers in Taiwan (Duke 2006\, ASA Sex and Gender Book Award and ICAS Book Prize) and Raising Global Families: Parenting\, Immigration\, and Class in Taiwan and the US (Stanford 2018). \nHarvard-Yenching Institute talk\, co-sponsored with the Sociology Dept.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/lan-pei-chia-raising-global-families-global-parenting-and-class-inequality-in-taiwan/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180925T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180925T160000
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SUMMARY:East Asian Legal Studies Open House
DESCRIPTION:An opportunity to meet EALS Faculty\, Staff\, Research Fellows\, and the 2018-2019 Visiting Scholars \nRemarks at 3:00 p.m. \nLight refreshments will be served.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/east-asian-legal-studies-open-house-2/
LOCATION:Austin Hall Room 308\, 1515 Mass Ave\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180925T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180925T180000
DTSTAMP:20260512T215328
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SUMMARY:Panel Discussion: The End of Concern: Maoist China\, Activism\, and Asian Studies
DESCRIPTION:Panelists:\nFabio Lanza\, University of Arizona\nEllen Schrecker\, Yeshiva University\nAndrew Gordon\, Harvard University\nJoseph Esherick\, University of California San Diego\nSugata Bose\, Harvard University\nLien-Hang Nguyen\, Columbia University\nBruce Cumings\, University of Chicago \nModerator: Karen Thornber\, Harvard University Asia Center \nOrganized by: Arunabh Ghosh\, Harvard University \nCo-Sponsored by:\nFairbank Center for Chinese Studies\nHarvard University Asia Center\nReischauer Institute for Japanese Studies\nKorea Institute\nMittal South Asia Institute \nListen again on Soundcloud:
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/panel-discussion-the-end-of-concern-maoist-china-activism-and-asian-studies/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Conference and Workshops,Events of Interest,Modern China Lecture,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180926T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180926T140000
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SUMMARY:Frank Lavin - Is China ready for the international major leagues?
DESCRIPTION:Read the event summary here \nSpeaker: Ambassador Frank Lavin\, CEO of Export Now
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-lecture-series-2-2018-09-26/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180926T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180926T180000
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SUMMARY:Fabio Lanza - Liberation through Labor? The Urban Commune Experiment in Beijing
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Fabio Lanza\, University of Arizona \nIn the years between 1958 and 1962\, the Urban Commune movement was promoted as a radical effort to change the daily lives of city residents. By inserting women into the “productive” life of factory work\, the movement also aimed at achieving a new form of everyday\, based on a true equality of gender relationships\, one achieved through the shared creativity of manual labor. While the movement failed\, it nonetheless brought to the fore some of the crucial tensions that marred the search for a socialist everyday: between participatory democracy and state hierarchy\, between production and liberation\, and between labor and gender equality.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/fabio-lanza-modern-china-lecture-series/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Modern China Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180926T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180926T200000
DTSTAMP:20260512T215328
CREATED:20180925T151433Z
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SUMMARY:China's Anti-Poverty Miracle?
DESCRIPTION:Panelists:\nLu Mai\nSecretary General\, China Development Research Foundation\nRohini Pande\nRafik Hariri Professor of International Political Economy\, Harvard Kennedy School\nAnthony Saich\nDaewoo Professor of International Affairs and Director\, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation\, Harvard Kennedy School\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGraham Allison (Moderator)\nDouglas Dillon Professor of Government\, Harvard Kennedy School
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/chinas-anti-poverty-miracle/
LOCATION:JFK Jr. Forum\, Harvard Kennedy School\, 79 John F. Kennedy St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180927T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180927T180000
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SUMMARY:Panel Discussion - Strongman Politics in the 21st Century
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\nElsa Clavé\, Harvard University Asia Center\nAyşe Kadıoğlu\, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies\, Harvard University\nJoseph Fewsmith\, Boston University\nValerie Sperling\, Clark University \nModerator:\nThomas Vallely\, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation\, Harvard Kennedy School \nListen again on Soundcloud: \n \nAs the role of “strongman” leaders on the world stage appears to be on the rise\, this panel examines “strongman politics” in a comparative context. In May 2018\, Time Magazine proclaimed in an article that “The ‘Strongmen Era’ Is Here” (Time\, May 3\, 2018). Highlighting Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping’s tightening authoritarianism in Russia and China\, and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan\, Rodrigo Duterte\, and Viktor Orbán’s undermining of democratic norms in Turkey\, the Philippines\, and Hungary\, it certainly appears that Huntington’s post-Cold War “third wave” of democratization is witnessing a strongman-inspired reversal. But does this entail a new “era” of authoritarianism advance as the United States rhetorically withdraws from its global leadership role? \nThis panel examines the role of politically-strong male leaders in authoritarian countries in a comparative context. Elsa Clavé\, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Harvard University Asia Center\, examines the 2016 election of Duterte in the Philippines; Ayşe Kadıoğlu\, Visiting Scholar at Harvard’s Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies\, looks at Erdoğan’s reversal of Turkey’s previous move towards democratization; Joseph Fewsmith\, Professor Political Science at Boston University\, compares Xi Jinping’s consolidation of power in China to Mao’s historical rise at Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party; and Valerie Sperling\, Professor of Political Science at Clark University\, interrogates the cult-like masculinity of Vladimir Putin’s image as a “manly” leader in post-Soviet Russia. \nRegarding her upcoming discussion of the presidency of Duterte at the panel\, Asia Center Postdoctoral Fellow Elsa Clavé\, a historian of the Philippines working on the expression of authority and power in its Muslim periphery\, stated “President Duerte is not only a populist; he was elected and stays extremely popular for various other reasons. Understanding these reasons is essential to understanding the present society and the direction it is taking. Models and theory are a good approach to reality\, but reality exceeds both. A conversation between different fields and disciplines will help\, I hope\, to refine the model.” \nThe panel is moderated by Thomas Vallely\, Senior Advisor at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation\, Harvard Kennedy School\, and a specialist on Southeast Asia\, and introduced by Karen Thornber\, Director of the Harvard University Asia Center. \nCo-sponsoring Centers:\nAsh Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation\, Harvard Kennedy School\nWeatherhead Center for International Affairs\, Harvard University\nHarvard University Asia Center\nFairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard University\nDavis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies\, Harvard University\nMinda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies\, Harvard University
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/panel-discusison-strong-man-politics-in-the-21st-century/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181001T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181001T180000
DTSTAMP:20260512T215328
CREATED:20180904T160828Z
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UID:7542-1538409600-1538416800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Wen-Yi Huang - Families Divided: Migration and Those Left Behind in Fifth- and Sixth-Century China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Wen-Yi Huang\, An Wang Post-Doctoral Fellow\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard University \nIn this talk I explore the impact of migration on family members left behind\, particularly those whose parents\, children\, siblings\, and spouses were forcibly moved to the Northern Wei (386-534 CE) from four successive southern states of Eastern Jin (317-420 CE)\, Liu-Song (420-479 CE)\, Southern Qi (479-502 CE)\, and Liang (502-557 CE). I will do so by asking three questions: how did the families recover the migrants in a time of conflict? How did they repatriate the remains of the migrants across political divides and spatial distance? How did they cope with the consequences of their husbands or fathers’ dual marriages on both sides of the border? The talk highlights the agency of the left-behind families in the migration process\, their changing relationships with the migrants\, and the shifting meaning of home. Examining the roles of the state in the split-families issue\, it also seeks to illuminate the state’s influence on migration at the private\, familial scale. \n 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-humanities-seminar-2/
CATEGORIES:China Humanities Seminar,Environment
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181002T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181002T180000
DTSTAMP:20260512T215328
CREATED:20180801T175607Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250130T154941Z
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SUMMARY:Tansen Sen - India\, China\, and the World: A Connected History
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Tansen Sen\, New York University Shanghai \nBy focusing on the early material exchanges\, transmissions of knowledge and technologies between ancient India and ancient China; the networks of exchange during the colonial period; and some of the less-known facets of interactions between the Republic of India and the People’s Republic of China\, this presentation argues that the analysis of India-China connections must extend beyond the traditional frameworks of nation-states or bilateralism. Instead\, it is proposed that that a wide canvas of space\, people\, objects\, sources\, and timeframe is needed to fully comprehend the interactions between India and China in the past and during the contemporary period. It is argued that these interactions were multidirectional\, involved people from diverse parts of the world\, and were not constrained by the entities called “India” and “China.” The presentation also examines the ideas of “connected histories\,” “circulatory connections\,” “convergence\,” “contact zones\,” and “disjuncture” as the conceptual methods for studying transregional and transcultural connections and exchanges. \nTansen Sen is Professor of history and the Director of the Center for Global Asia at NYU Shanghai\, and Global Network Professor at New York University. Previously he was a faculty at the City University of New York and the founding head of the Nalanda Sriwijaya Center at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies\, Singapore. He is the author of Buddhism\, Diplomacy\, and Trade: The Realignment of Sino-Indian Relations\, 600-1400 (2003; 2016) and India\, China\, and the World: A Connected History (2017; 2018). He has co-authored (with Victor H. Mair) Traditional China in Asian and World History (2012)\, edited Buddhism across Asia: Networks of Material\, Cultural and Intellectual Exchange (2014)\, and co-edited (with Burkhard Schnepel) Travelling Pasts: The Politics of Cultural Heritage in the Indian Ocean World (under review). He is currently working on a book about Zheng He’s maritime expeditions in the early fifteenth century and co-editing (with Engseng Ho) the Cambridge History of the Indian Ocean\, volume 1.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/tansen-sen-modern-china-lecture-series/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Modern China Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181002T171500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181002T190000
DTSTAMP:20260512T215328
CREATED:20180925T143401Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180925T143401Z
UID:7634-1538500500-1538506800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:William Alford -  Learn from the Past to Appreciate the Present\, That is What Makes One a Teacher 溫故而知新\,可以為師矣: Confucius\, Cohen (s) and Contemporary China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: William P. Alford\, Jerome A. and Joan L. Cohen Professor of East Asian Legal Studies\, Harvard University \nDean John F. Manning invites you to join the Harvard Law School Community and Friends in honoring William P. Alford on the occasion of his appointment as the Jerome A. and Joan L. Cohen Professor of East Asian Legal Studies. Come to “Learn from the Past to Appreciate the Present\, That is What Makes One a Teacher溫故而知新\,可以為師矣”:Confucius\, Cohen (s) and Contemporary China\, a talk by William P. Alford on Tuesday\, October 2\, 2018 in the Wasserstein Caspersen Clinical Building Milstein West (room 2019) at Harvard Law School at 5:15 p.m. All are welcome. There will be a reception following the talk.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/william-alford-learn-from-the-past-to-appreciate-the-present-that-is-what-makes-one-a-teacher%e6%ba%ab%e6%95%85%e8%80%8c%e7%9f%a5%e6%96%b0%e5%8f%af%e4%bb%a5%e7%82%ba%e5%b8%ab%e7%9f%a3-c/
LOCATION:Milstein West\, Wasserstein Hall\, 1585 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181003T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181003T130000
DTSTAMP:20260512T215328
CREATED:20180925T144937Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180925T144937Z
UID:7636-1538568000-1538571600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Jerome A. Cohen - Law and Power in China and in Its Foreign Relations
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Jerome A. Cohen\, Professor of Law\, NYU School of Law; Of Counsel\, Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison; Founding Director\, East Asian Legal Studies Program \nEast Asian Legal Studies\nLunchtime Talk Series
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/jerome-a-cohen-law-and-power-in-china-and-in-its-foreign-relations/
LOCATION:Room 111 Austin West\, Harvard Law School\, 1515 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181003T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181003T130000
DTSTAMP:20260512T215328
CREATED:20180928T184702Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180928T184702Z
UID:7648-1538568000-1538571600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Su-Bing Chang - Taiwan Biographical Database: An Introduction
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Su-bing Chang\, Professor\, National Taiwan University; Visiting Scholar\, Fairbank Center \nPlease RSVP to Feng-en Tu (hyl.eadh@gmail.com)
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/su-bing-chang-taiwan-biographical-database-an-introduction/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181003T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181003T140000
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SUMMARY:Tony Saich - Xi’s Policy Challenges: Some Questions for Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Read the event summary here \nSpeaker: Tony Saich\, Harvard Kennedy School
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-lecture-series-2-2018-10-03/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181003T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181003T150000
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CREATED:20180919T185735Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180919T185735Z
UID:7623-1538571600-1538578800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Anna Sun - Turning Ghosts into Ancestors: Ritual\, Gender\, and the Afterlife in Contemporary Urban China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Anna Sun\, Kenyon College\, Visiting Associate Professor of Women’s Studies and East Asian Religions \nLunch will be provided.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/anna-sun-turning-ghosts-into-ancestors-ritual-gender-and-the-afterlife-in-contemporary-urban-china/
LOCATION:Andover Hall\, Braun Room\, 45 Francis Avenue\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181004T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181004T120000
DTSTAMP:20260512T215328
CREATED:20180919T185203Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180919T185203Z
UID:7621-1538649000-1538654400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Ho Ming-Sho - Standoff and Improvisation in Eventful Protests: Taiwan’s Sunflower Movement and Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Ho Ming-Sho\, National Taiwan University\, HYI Visiting Scholar \nChair/discussant: Paul Chang\, Harvard University \nTaiwan’s Sunflower Movement and Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement of 2014 belong to an unusual case of “eventful protests” for their large-scale and intensive participation as well as radical transformation in consequences\, which require new conceptual tools to make sense of their trajectories. The speaker will develop the notion of “standoff” to understand the contentious interaction between protesters and the government. While these two incidents are not so-called “leaderless” movements\, sustained occupation will not be possible without voluntary and the on-the-spot strategic responses among grassroots participation. Theorized as “improvisation”\, the talk will also examine the functions and the limits of these bottom-up contributions. With growing institutionalization of the research field of social movement and contentious politics\, mostly focusing on the routinized social protests in democracy\, the notions such as standoff and improvisation call attention to the rare\, albeit significant moments when people are able to make their own history. \nhttps://harvard-yenching.org/events/standoff-and-improvisation-eventful-protests-taiwan-s-sunflower-movement-and-hong-kong-s
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/ho-ming-sho-standoff-and-improvisation-in-eventful-protests-taiwans-sunflower-movement-and-hong-kongs-umbrella-movement/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181005T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181005T140000
DTSTAMP:20260512T215328
CREATED:20180801T162747Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180801T162747Z
UID:7390-1538741700-1538748000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:The Complex India-China Strategic Relationship: Can the Two Asian Powers Rise Peacefully?
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Professor Arjun Subramaniam\, Visiting Professor\, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy\, Tufts University; former Visiting Scholar\, Harvard University Asia Center\nChair: Arne Westad\, S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations\, Harvard Kennedy School \nAsia Center Seminar Series
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-complex-india-china-strategic-relationship-can-the-two-asian-powers-rise-peacefully/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181009T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181009T180000
DTSTAMP:20260512T215328
CREATED:20180801T162105Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180801T162105Z
UID:7387-1539100800-1539108000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Adrian Zenz - Recent Developments in Xinjiang
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Adrian Zenz\, Lecturer in social research methods\, European School of Culture & Theology\, Germany\nModerator: Mark Elliott\, Vice Provost\, International Affairs\, Harvard University \nCo-Sponsored by: \nFairbank Center for Chinese Studies\nCommittee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies\nEast Asian Legal Studies Program\, Harvard Law School\nPrince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program\n \nListen again on our Soundcloud: \n \nDownload and read the transcript of this event here.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/adrian-zenz-recent-developments-in-xinjiang/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181010T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181010T140000
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SUMMARY:Andrew Mertha - Externalizing Fragmented Authoritarianism: Using History to Anticipate Challenges for Belt and Road
DESCRIPTION:Read the event summary here \nSpeaker: Andrew Mertha\, George and Sadie Hyman Professor and Director of China Studies at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)\, Johns Hopkins University
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-lecture-series-2-2018-10-10/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181012T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181012T130000
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CREATED:20181004T174419Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181004T174419Z
UID:7658-1539345600-1539349200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Foreign NGOs\, Foundations and Think Tanks in China After Two Years of a New Policy and Legal Framework
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Mark Sidel\, Doyle-Bascom Professor of Law and Public Affairs\, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Consultant (Asia)\, International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL) \nEast Asian Legal Studies\nLunchtime Talk Series \nCo-sponsored by the Harvard Asia Law Society
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/foreign-ngos-foundations-and-think-tanks-in-china-after-two-years-of-a-new-policy-and-legal-framework/
LOCATION:Lewis Hall 214A\, Harvard Law School\, 1557 Massachusetts Ave.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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SUMMARY:Alex des Forges - The Examined Subject and the Natural Self in the Eight-Legged Essay
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Alex des Forges\, University of Massachusetts – Boston \nThis paper inquires into the rhetoric and practice of the individual voice in Ming dynasty examination essays\, commonly referred to as shiwen (modern prose) or bagu wen (eight-legged essays). Beginning in the early 1500s\, essay criticism and the essays themselves feature a rhetoric of the natural self who writes and acts without undue constraint; at the same time\, writers made extensive use of a range of techniques to complicate narratorial perspective and tone of voice that anticipate the free indirect discourse that would become a defining characteristic of the modern Western novel. I would like to suggest that shiwen and their associated critical discourse serve not only as precedent\, but also as inspiration for the distinctive literary voices and aesthetic sensibilities for which the late Ming moment is known. \nAlexander Des Forges is Associate Professor of Chinese at University of Massachusetts – Boston. His publications include Mediasphere Shanghai: The Aesthetics of Cultural Production (University of Hawai’i\, 2007)\, “Burning with Reverence: The Economics and Aesthetics of Words in Qing China” (PMLA\, 2006)\, and “Sleights of Capital: Fantasies of Commensurability\, Transparency\, and a ‘Cultural Bourgeoisie’” (differences\, 2014). He is currently finishing a book manuscript on literary work and the aesthetics of voice and representation in early modern China\, with particular attention to the challenges the examination regime poses to a market-based concept of cultural capital.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/alex-des-forges-19th-century-prose-and-its-socio-cultural-context/
CATEGORIES:China Humanities Seminar
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SUMMARY:Reischauer Lecture Series - Stephen Owen
DESCRIPTION:Listen Again: \n \nSpeaker: Stephen Owen\, James Bryant Conant University Professor\, Emeritus\, Harvard University \nStephen Owen is a sinologist specializing in premodern literature\, lyric poetry\, and comparative poetics. Much of his work has focused on the middle period of Chinese literature (200-1200)\, however\, he has also written on literature of the early period and the Qing. Owen has written or edited dozens of books\, articles\, and anthologies in the field of Chinese literature\, especially Chinese poetry\, including An Anthology of Chinese Literature: Beginnings to 1911 (Norton\, 1996); The Making of Early Chinese Classical Poetry (Harvard Asia Center\, 2006); and The Late Tang: Chinese Poetry of the Mid-Ninth Century (827-860) (Harvard Asia Center\, 2006). Owen has completed the translation of the complete poetry of Du Fu\, which has been published as the inaugural volumes of the Library of Chinese Humanities series\, featuring Chinese literature in translation. Owen earned a B.A. (1968) and a Ph.D. (1972) in Chinese Language from Yale University. He taught there from 1972 to 1982\, before coming to Harvard.  In acknowledgment of his groundbreaking work that crosses the boundaries of multiple disciplines\, Owen was awarded the James Bryant Conant University Professorship in 1997. He has been a Fulbright Scholar\, held a Guggenheim Fellowship\, and received a Mellon Foundation Distinguished Achievement Award (2006) among many other awards and honors. \nOctober 16\, 2018: \nFlavors of Truth and Claims of Authority\nDiscussant: Michael Puett\, Harvard University \nMichael Puett is the Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History and Anthropology\, as well as the Chair of the Committee on the Study of Religion\, at Harvard University. His interests are focused on the inter-relations between philosophy\, anthropology\, history\, and religion\, with the hope of bringing the study of China into larger historical and comparative frameworks. He is the author of The Ambivalence of Creation: Debates Concerning Innovation and Artifice in Early Chinaand To Become a God: Cosmology\, Sacrifice\, and Self-Divinization in Early China\, as well as the co-author\, with Adam Seligman\, Robert Weller\, and Bennett Simon\, of Ritual and its Consequences: An Essay on the Limits of Sincerity. \nOctober 17\, 2018: \nHow Can One Say the Unprecedented in Pre-modern East Asia: Su Dongpo and Ink Bamboo\nDiscussant: Stephen H. West\, Foundation Professor of Chinese\, Head of East and Southeast Asian Section\, School of International Letters and Cultures\, Arizona State University; Louis Agassiz Professor of Chinese\, Emeritus\, University of California\, Berkeley \nStephen West is a Foundation Professor of Chinese in the School of International Letters and Cultures. West works in the textual culture of late medieval and early modern China (1000–1600)\, with specialties in performance literature\, drama\, urban literature\, and garden studies. \nThe Reischauer Lecture Series is co-sponosred by:Fairbank Center For Chinese StudiesHarvard University Asia CenterKorea InstituteMittal South Asia InstituteReischauer Institute of Japanese Studies
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/reischauer-lecture-series-stephen-owen/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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SUMMARY:Film Screening and Lecture - Dragonfly Eyes
DESCRIPTION:The Harvard Film Archive is pleased to present Xu Bing’s Dragonfly Eyes on Monday October 15\, 2018. Admission is free. \nXu Bing will introduce the screening on Monday and will give the 2018-2019 Kim and Judy Davis Dean’s Lecture in the Arts at Radcliffe’s Knafel Center (10 Garden St.\, Cambridge) Tuesday October 16\, at 4:15pm. The lecture is free\, but registration is required. Please visit radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2018-xu-bing-lecture. \n 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-screening-and-lecture-dragonfly-eyes-2018-10-16/
LOCATION:Radcliffe Knafel Center\, 10 Garden St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181017T140000
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SUMMARY:William Overholt - Myths in Sino-American Relations
DESCRIPTION:Read the event summary here\n\nSpeaker: William Overholt\,  President\, Fung Global Institute; Senior Research Fellow Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation\, John F. Kennedy School of Government\, Harvard University\n\nMuch of U.S. policy toward China is being driven by fundamental misunderstandings of China political structure\, the pressures on it\, its economic challenges\, and the realities of American pressures.\n\n 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-lecture-series-2-2018-10-17/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China Series
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SUMMARY:Reischauer Lecture Series - Stephen Owen
DESCRIPTION:Listen Again:\n \n \nSpeaker: Stephen Owen\, James Bryant Conant University Professor\, Emeritus\, Harvard University \nStephen Owen is a sinologist specializing in premodern literature\, lyric poetry\, and comparative poetics. Much of his work has focused on the middle period of Chinese literature (200-1200)\, however\, he has also written on literature of the early period and the Qing. Owen has written or edited dozens of books\, articles\, and anthologies in the field of Chinese literature\, especially Chinese poetry\, including An Anthology of Chinese Literature: Beginnings to 1911 (Norton\, 1996); The Making of Early Chinese Classical Poetry (Harvard Asia Center\, 2006); and The Late Tang: Chinese Poetry of the Mid-Ninth Century (827-860) (Harvard Asia Center\, 2006). Owen has completed the translation of the complete poetry of Du Fu\, which has been published as the inaugural volumes of the Library of Chinese Humanities series\, featuring Chinese literature in translation. Owen earned a B.A. (1968) and a Ph.D. (1972) in Chinese Language from Yale University. He taught there from 1972 to 1982\, before coming to Harvard.  In acknowledgment of his groundbreaking work that crosses the boundaries of multiple disciplines\, Owen was awarded the James Bryant Conant University Professorship in 1997. He has been a Fulbright Scholar\, held a Guggenheim Fellowship\, and received a Mellon Foundation Distinguished Achievement Award (2006) among many other awards and honors. \n\nOctober 16\, 2018: \nFlavors of Truth and Claims of Authority\nDiscussant: Michael Puett\, Harvard University \nMichael Puett is the Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History and Anthropology\, as well as the Chair of the Committee on the Study of Religion\, at Harvard University. His interests are focused on the inter-relations between philosophy\, anthropology\, history\, and religion\, with the hope of bringing the study of China into larger historical and comparative frameworks. He is the author of The Ambivalence of Creation: Debates Concerning Innovation and Artifice in Early Chinaand To Become a God: Cosmology\, Sacrifice\, and Self-Divinization in Early China\, as well as the co-author\, with Adam Seligman\, Robert Weller\, and Bennett Simon\, of Ritual and its Consequences: An Essay on the Limits of Sincerity. \nOctober 17\, 2018: \nHow Can One Say the Unprecedented in Pre-modern East Asia: Su Dongpo and Ink Bamboo\nDiscussant: Stephen H. West\, Foundation Professor of Chinese\, Head of East and Southeast Asian Section\, School of International Letters and Cultures\, Arizona State University; Louis Agassiz Professor of Chinese\, Emeritus\, University of California\, Berkeley \nStephen West is a Foundation Professor of Chinese in the School of International Letters and Cultures. West works in the textual culture of late medieval and early modern China (1000–1600)\, with specialties in performance literature\, drama\, urban literature\, and garden studies. \nThe Reischauer Lecture Series is co-sponosred by:\nFairbank Center For Chinese Studies\nHarvard University Asia Center\nKorea Institute\nMittal South Asia Institute\nReischauer Institute of Japanese Studies
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/reischauer-lecture-series-stephen-owen-2018-10-17/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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SUMMARY:Ngoc Tho Nguyen - Taking Root Wherever You Land: The Liturgical Transformation of Popular Cults Among Ethnic Chinese in Vietnam
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Professor Ngoc Tho Nguyen\, Asia Center Visiting Scholar; Associate Professor in East Asian Cultural Studies\, Vietnam National University\, Ho Chi Minh City \nChair: Professor Michael Szonyi\, Frank Wen-Hsiung Wu Memorial Professor of Chinese History; Director\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard University \nAsia Center Fellows Seminar Series; co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/ngoc-tho-nguyen-taking-root-wherever-you-land-the-liturgical-transformation-of-popular-cults-among-ethnic-chinese-in-vietnam/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181022T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181022T180000
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SUMMARY:Destination: World - Student Tales From Beyond the Comfort Zone
DESCRIPTION:Harvard undergraduates sharing their stories of personal discovery\, intellectual exploration\, and global engagement made possible through travel abroad.\nReception to follow. \nCosponsored by:\nOffice of the Vice Provost for International Affairs\nDavid Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies\nDavis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies\nEdwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies\nFairbank Center for Chinese Studies\nHarvard China Fund\nHarvard University Asia Center\nKorea Institute\nLakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute\nProgram on US-Japan Relations\nWeatherhead Center for International Affairs
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/destination-world-student-tales-from-beyond-the-comfort-zone/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:John Osburg - Consuming Belief: Han Chinese Practitioners of Tibetan Buddhism in the PRC
DESCRIPTION:Read the summary here \nSpeaker: John Osburg\, University of Rochester
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-lecture-series-2-2018-10-24/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181025T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181025T140000
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SUMMARY:Press Freedoms in Asia - Perspectives From China\, Myanmar\, and Thailand
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\nDavid Barboza\, The New York Times; former New York Times Shanghai Bureau Chief\, 2013 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting\nEsther Htusan\, Nieman Foundation Fellow; correspondent for the Associated Press in Myanmar\nPuangthong R. Pawakapan\, Visiting Scholar\, Harvard-Yenching Institute; Associate Professor\, Faculty of Political Science\, Chulalongkorn University \nModerator:\nMable Chan\, Fairbank Center Associate in Research; former ABC News producer and Hong Kong TVB news correspondent \nAsia Beyond the Headlines Seminar Series\, Harvard University Asia Center; co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/press-freedoms-in-asia-perspectives-from-china-myanmar-and-thailand/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181026T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181026T133000
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SUMMARY:Hong Wei - From Clean Stove to Rural Vitalization: The Anti-Politics Machine in China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Hong Wei\, Associate Professor\, Institute of Science\, Technology and Society\, Tsinghua University; HYI Visiting Scholar 2018-19\nChair/discussant: Susan Greenhalgh\, Professor of Anthropology and John King and Wilma Cannon Fairbank Professor of Chinese Society\, Harvard University \nPromoting clean cookstoves in developing countries to improve public health has been a long-term endeavor in the Western world. In recent years\, Chinese philanthropists and private foundations were invited to join this environmental campaign. Drawing on visual and textual ethnography produced from September 2017 to May 2018\, this talk tells a story about how a clean stove project was carried out in a rural village in Yan’an\, and how it has become a nexus of international organizations\, private enterprises\, local governments and academics. Although this project initially took a technocratic approach\, it is gradually intertwined with political sectors at various levels. After the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China\, the utopian dream of improving indoor air quality yielded to the China dream of rural vitalization. \nhttps://harvard-yenching.org/events/hong-wei-october-26
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/hong-wei-from-clean-stove-to-rural-vitalization-the-anti-politics-machine-in-china/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181029T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181029T180000
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SUMMARY:郝春文 Hao Chunwen - 敦煌寫本齋文的分類、定名及其文本結構 Rethinking the Structure and Typology of Liturgical Texts From Dunhuang
DESCRIPTION:This talk will be given in Mandarin \nSpeaker: Hao Chunwen 郝春文\, Senior Professor\, Capital Normal University \nThis talk gives an overview of recent scholarly thinking on the typology and structure of the liturgical texts found among the Dunhuang manuscripts. We can divide the thousands of liturgical texts found at Dunhuang into two main categories: liturgical protocols (zhaiyi斋仪) and liturgies (zhaiwen 斋文). Liturgical protocols (identical to what are occasionally called ‘written protocols\,’ shuyi 書儀) were used as references for drafting liturgies. Liturgies\, written up on the basis of these liturgical protocols\, were functional documents that were read aloud at all kinds of ritual gatherings. \nWe can divide the structure of a liturgy into five parts: the ‘opener’ (haotou 号头)\, ‘exaltation of virtues’ (tande 歎德)\, ‘liturgical purpose’ (zhaiyi 齋意)\, ‘ritual area’ (daochang 道場)\, and ‘adornment’ (zhuangyan 莊嚴). This structure is roughly applicable to liturgical protocols and liturgies with all manner of content\, including hymns of praise\, apotropaic rituals\, healing rites\, and mourning rites\, though there are of course many variations in the specific arrangement and sequence of the parts. \nThis talk will also touch on the commonly used term ‘prayer texts’ (yuanwen 願文); we will suggest that this is a specific kind of liturgical text; the term cannot be used as a blanket reference to the category ‘liturgical text.’
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/hao-chunwen-rethinking-the-structure-and-typology-of-liturgical-texts-from-dunhuang/
CATEGORIES:China Humanities Seminar
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