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SUMMARY:May Fourth @ 100: China and the World
DESCRIPTION:An international symposium to celebrate and reflect upon the monumental legacy of China’s May Fourth movement. \nListen to the keynote speeches by Rudolf Wagner (University of Heidelberg) and Chen Pingyuan on Soundcloud: \n \nDownload the transcript of Rudolf Wagner’s keynote speech here: Reconstructing May Fourth Keynote Speech by Rudolf Wagner \n \n  \nSpeakers:\nChan\, Leonard K.K.\nChan\, Hok Yin\nChen Jingling\nChen Pingyuan\nChiu-Duke\, Josephine\nDai Yan\nGe Zhaoguang\nHashimoto\, Satoru\nHill\, Michael\nIovene\, Paola\nIshii Tsuyoshi\nKo Chia-cian\nKo Eitetsu (Huang Ying-che)\nLee\, BoGyeong\nLi Hsiao-t’i\nLi Jie\nLi Wen-ching\nLin\, Carlos Yu-Kai\nLomova\, Olga\nMa Xiaolu\nMei\, Chia-ling\nPark\, Younghwan\nPu Wang\nRodekohr\, Andrew\nRojas\, Carlos\nSong Mingwei\nSong Weijie\nThornber\, Karen\nWang\, David\nWang Xiaojue\nWagner\, Rudolf\nWidmer\, Ellen\nXia Xiaohong\nYeh\, Catherine \nThe event is sponsored by the following institutions: the Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange\, the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University\, the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University\, the Harvard University Asia Center\, and the Harvard-Yenching Institute. \nThis event is open to the public. \nhttps://projects.iq.harvard.edu/may-fourth-at-100
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/may-fourth-100-china-and-the-world/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Conference and Workshops,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190412T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190412T123000
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SUMMARY:EU-China Trade and Investment Relations: A Vehicle for Cooperation or a Path to Competition?
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\nJonathan Brookfield\, Tufts University\nYasheng Huang\, MIT\nPhilippe LeCorre\, Harvard Kenned School \nThe trade and investment ties between the European Union (EU) and China run very deep. The EU is China’s biggest trading partner\, and China is the EU’s second biggest. Yet\, European concerns over a lack of transparency\, protection of intellectual property rights\, and strong government intervention\, have cast the relationship in doubt. At the same time\, China’s recent investments in Europe and its One Belt\, One Road Initiative\, are seen by many Europeans as potential attempts by Beijing to spread its political influence across the European continent\, which provoked combative reactions. However\, the relationship needs not be one characterized by antagonism and suspicion. The speakers will present the current trade and investment relations between the EU and China. In addition\, they will discuss the potential and opportunities for increased cooperation\, as well as potential threats and negative effects of heightened competition\, which a misguided approach towards trade and investment may provoke. \nhttps://ces.fas.harvard.edu/events/2019/04/trade-and-investment-eu-and-china
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/eu-china-trade-and-investment-relations-a-vehicle-for-cooperation-or-a-path-to-competition/
LOCATION:Adolphus Busch Hall\, 27 Kirkland St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190412T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190412T133000
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SUMMARY:Lim Jaehwan - The Rise and Decline of Collective Leadership in China: An Institutional Approach
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Lim Jaehwan\, Associate Professor\, Department of International Politics\, Aoyama Gakuin University; HYI Visiting Scholar 2018-19\nChair/discussant: Joseph Fewsmith\, Professor of International Relations and Political Science\, Boston University \nPresident Xi Jinping’s quick and impressive power consolidation has sparked much debate over the current state and future trajectory of the collective leadership in the Chinese Communist Party. Drawing on theories of institutions\, this talk will explore the historical development of collective leadership. Specifically\, with a focus on the post-Mao era\, this talk will trace how the rules and norms about power sharing and leadership transfer within the Party elites have emerged\, developed over time\, and consequently changed the institutional environment in which the current leaders work with each other. \nhttps://harvard-yenching.org/events/political-origin-chinese-military-modernization-cultural-revolution-and-re-building-party
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/lim-jaehwan-the-rise-and-decline-of-collective-leadership-in-china-an-institutional-approach/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190415T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190415T180000
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SUMMARY:Douglas Paal - The Taiwan Relations Act at Forty
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Douglas Paal\, Distinguished Fellow\, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Former Director\, American Institute in Taiwan
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/douglas-paal-the-taiwan-relations-act-at-forty/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event,Taiwan,Taiwan Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190415T161500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190415T180000
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SUMMARY:Dagmar Schafer - Lists\, Local Gazeteers\, and the True Lies of Premodern China's Patterns of Social Mobility
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dagmar Schäfer\, Director of Department III\, “Artefacts\, Action\, and Knowledge\,” Max Planck Institute for the History of Science\, Berlin\nChair: Victor Seow\, Assistant Professor of the History of Science\, Harvard University \nSince the 1950s\, historians of China have researched and praised the possibilities of upward mobility in China’s late imperial meritocratic society. Through the civil service examinations\, merchants\, farmers\, and artisans\, irrespective of cultural origin (if not the occasional woman) could achieve official ranks and rise into social and political power. In this talk\, Dagmar Schäfer introduces how lists and local gazetteers—and a digital humanities approach—may help to reveal “other” historical patterns of social mobility and shed new light on historical China’s “scholarly ways.” She will examine the role of expertise in the 13th-century Yuan dynastic census system that registered households categorized by different “crafts\,” look at the inclusion of these lists into the growing genre of Ming-Qing (14th-19th century) local gazetteers\, and explore their implications for China’s current landscape of crafts.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/dagmar-schafer-lists-local-gazeteers-and-the-true-lies-of-premodern-chinas-patterns-of-social-mobility/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190416T143000
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SUMMARY:Panel Discussion - China and the Middle East in the 21st Century
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\nEzra F. Vogel\, Harvard University\nRobert S. Ross\, Boston College\nBruce Rutherford\, Colgate University\nDegang Sun\, Shanghai International Studies University\nChair: Lenore S. Martin\, Emmanuel College and Harvard University
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/panel-discussion-china-and-the-middle-east-in-the-21st-century/
LOCATION:CMES Room 102\, 38 Kirkland St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Paul Cohen - A Path Twice Traveled: My Journey as a Historian of China
DESCRIPTION:Listen again on Soundcloud: \n \nRead and download the transcript for this event here. \nSpeaker: Paul Cohen\, Fairbank Center Associate \nIn his memoir Paul Cohen\, one of the West’s preeminent historians of China\, traces the development of his work from its inception in the early 1960s to the present\, offering fresh perspectives that consistently challenge us to think more deeply about China and the historical craft in general. The book’s title reflects the crucially important disparity between the past as originally experienced and the past as later reconstructed historically\, by which point the historian and the world in which he or she lives have both undergone extensive change. This distinction is very much on Cohen’s mind throughout the book. \nPaul Cohen began his teaching career at the University of Michigan and Amherst College. He then taught for thirty-five years at Wellesley College\, where he is Edith Stix Wasserman Professor of Asian Studies and History\, Emeritus. He is also a long-time Associate of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard University. Cohen’s books include Discovering History in China: American Historical Writing on the Recent Chinese Past (1984); History in Three Keys: The Boxers as Event\, Experience\, and Myth (1997); Speaking to History: The Story of King Goujian in Twentieth-Century China (2009); and History and Popular Memory: The Power of Story in Moments of Crisis (2014). History in Three Keys was the winner of the 1997 New England Historical Association Book Award and the American Historical Association’s 1997 John K. Fairbank Prize in East Asian History. Cohen’s work has been translated into Chinese\, Japanese\, and Korean.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/paul-cohen-a-path-twice-traveled-my-journey-as-a-historian-of-china/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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SUMMARY:Karl Eikenberry - The Military Dimension of Sino-American Strategic Competition
DESCRIPTION:Read event summary here \nSpeaker: Karl Eikenberry\, Stanford University \nKarl Eikenberry is Director of the U.S.-Asia Security Initiative and faculty member at the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center\, faculty member of the Center for International Security and Cooperation\, and Professor of Practice at Stanford University. He is also an affiliate with the FSI Center for Democracy\, Development\, and Rule of Law\, and The Europe Center. \nPrior to his arrival at Stanford\, he served as the U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan from 2009 until 2011. Before appointment as Chief of Mission on Kabul\, Ambassador Eikenberry had a thirty-five year career in the United States Army\, retiring in April 2009 with the rank of Lieutenant General. His military operational posts included commander and staff officer with mechanized\, light\, airborne\, and ranger infantry units in the continental U.S.\, Hawaii\, Korea\, Italy\, and Afghanistan as the Commander of the American-led Coalition forces. He held various policy and political-military positions\, including Deputy Chairman of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Military Committee in Brussels\, Belgium; Director for Strategic Planning and Policy for U.S. Pacific Command at Camp Smith\, Hawaii; U.S. Security Coordinator and Chief of the Office of Military Cooperation in Kabul\, Afghanistan; Assistant Army and later Defense Attaché at the United States Embassy in Beijing\, China; Senior Country Director for China\, Taiwan\, Hong Kong and Mongolia in the Office of the Secretary of Defense; and Deputy Director for Strategy\, Plans\, and Policy on the Army Staff. \nHe was a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy\, has master’s degrees from Harvard University in East Asian Studies and Stanford University in Political Science\, and was a National Security Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. Ambassador Eikenberry earned an Interpreter’s Certificate in Mandarin Chinese from the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office while studying at the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence Chinese Language School in Hong Kong and has an Advanced Degree in Chinese History from Nanjing University in the People’s Republic of China. \nHis military awards include the Defense Distinguished and Superior Service Medals\, Legion of Merit\, Bronze Star\, Ranger Tab\, Combat and Expert Infantryman badges\, and master parachutist wings. He has received the Department of State Distinguished\, Superior\, and Meritorious Honor Awards\, Director of Central Intelligence Award\, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Joint Distinguished Civilian Service Award. He is also the recipient of the George F. Kennan Award for Distinguished Public Service and Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Centennial Medal. Ambassador Eikenberry has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters Degree from North Carolina State University\, an Honorary Doctorate of Laws Degree from Ball State University\, and an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters Degree from the University of San Francisco. His foreign and international decorations include the Canadian Meritorious Service Cross\, French Legion of Honor\, Afghanistan’s Ghazi Amir Amanullah Khan and Akbar Khan Medals\, and the NATO Meritorious Service Medal. \nAmbassador Eikenberry is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and co-directs the Academy’s project on civil wars\, violence\, and international responses\, and is a member of the Academy’s Commission on Language Learning. He serves as a Trustee for The Asia Foundation\, American Council for Learned Societies\, American Councils for International Education\, and the National Committee on American Foreign Policy; is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Academy of Diplomacy; and was previously the President of the Foreign Area Officers Association. \nHis articles and essays on U.S. and international security issues have appeared in Foreign Affairs\, The Washington Quarterly\, The American Interest\, American Foreign Policy Interests\, The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, Foreign Policy\, Survival\, Dædalus\, and The Financial Times.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-lecture-series-2-2018-10-31-2019-04-17/
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:Lu Pin - Finding a Voice: A Conversation on China's Feminist Voices
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Lu Pin\, Chinese journalist and feminist activist \nChair: Julian Gewirtz\, Lecturer\, Department of History; Academy Scholar\, Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies\, Harvard University \nDiscussant: Moira Weigel\, Junior Fellow\, Harvard Society of Fellows \nAsia Center Seminar Series.\nSponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center; cosponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/lu-pin-asia-center-seminar-series/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190418T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190418T180000
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SUMMARY:Li Jie - Maoist Cinema as a Spirit Medium
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Li Jie\, EALC\, Harvard University \nAs a scholar of literary\, film\, and cultural studies\, Jie Li’s research interests center on the mediation of memories in modern China. Her first book\, Shanghai Homes: Palimpsests of Private Life (Columbia\, 2014)\, excavates a century of memories embedded in two alleyway neighborhoods destined for demolition. Her second monograph\, Utopian Ruins: A Memorial Museum of the Mao Era (under contract with Duke University Press)\, explores contemporary cultural memories of the 1950s to the 1970s through textual\, audiovisual\, and material artifacts\, including police files\, photographs\, documentary films\, and museums. Li has co-edited a volume entitled Red Legacies: Cultural Afterlives of the Communist Revolution (Harvard Asia Center\, 2016).  Her next book project studies the exhibition and reception of cinema in socialist China\, including movie theatres and open-air screenings\, projectionists and audiences\, as well as memories of revolutionary and foreign films.  Her other research projects include a transnational film history of Manchuria and a cultural history of radios and loudspeakers.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/li-jie-maoist-cinema-as-a-spirit-medium/
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SUMMARY:Terry Sicular  - Rural Secondary Education During the Cultural Revolution: The Untold Story
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Terry Sicular\, Professor of Economics\, The University of Western Ontario \nTerry Sicular is a leading North American specialist on the Chinese economy. She has written extensively on household incomes\, inequality\, poverty\, and the rural economy in China. She is a co-editor of and contributor to several books including Rising Inequality in China:  Challenges to a Harmonious Society (2013) and Changing Trends in China’s Inequality: Evidence\, Analysis and Prospects (forthcoming\, Oxford University Press). Her papers have appeared in the China Quarterly\, Review of Income and Wealth\, Journal of Development Economics and Economic Journal. She is a recipient of the Zhang Peigang Prize for Development Economics (2010) and the Sun Yefang Prize for Economic Science (2011 and 2017).
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/terry-sicular-china-economy-lecture/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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SUMMARY:Wei Shang - "The Story of the Stone" and the Visual Culture of the Manchu Court 
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Wei Shang\, Columbia University \nThis talk addresses The Story of the Stone (otherwise known as Dream of the Red Chamber\, Honglou meng 紅樓夢)\, authored by Cao Xueqin (ca. 1715–ca. 1763)\, with special focus on its recurrent theme as captured in Chapter 1: “Truth becomes fiction when fiction is true; real becomes not-real where the unreal is real.” Apparently paradoxical\, this theme seems to invite a philosophical and religious interpretation that transcends the time when the novel was written. Instead\, I will trace it to the stimuli of the visual culture permeating the Manchu court in the early and mid-eighteenth century. I seek to examine Cao Xueqin’s representation of the Grand Prospect Garden\, the main residence for the young protagonists\, in light of what may be called the aesthetics of jia 假 (the unreal or fiction) that manifests through all sorts of visual tricks in the interior decoration of imperial palaces and gardens of the time. \nIn this talk\, I will focus on the novel’s explicit and implicit references to paintings\, including an illusionistic painting and an ambitious project undertaken by Xichun to capture a panorama of the garden in one gigantic painting. More specifically\, I emphasize the novelist’s impulse to incorporate into his narrative the popular motifs of the contemporaneous paintings\, including the paintings executed by the Jesuit painters employed by the imperial court. Reading the novel from this perspective highlights issues of enormous importance for the comprehension of the cultural dynamics of the time that in turn participate in shaping the novel itself: the dialectics of reality and illusion\, the mutual fertilization of media and technology\, and the constant negotiations between the written and graphic media and between the Manchu court and Europe in the realm of material and visual cultures.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/wei-shang-the-story-of-the-stone-and-the-visual-culture-of-the-manchu-court/
CATEGORIES:China Humanities Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190423T131500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190423T143000
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SUMMARY:Paul Clifford - Huawei Technologies: World-Class Company or State Agent?
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Paul Clifford\, Ash Center Nonresident Senior Fellow\nModerator: Anthony Saich\, Ash Center Director and Daewoo Professor of International Affairs \nChina has come a long way from relying on imports to support its telecommunications sector. Today\, telecommunications companies in China not only fulfill that nation’s growing needs but have a global reach. In this context\, how should we understand the stunning and controversial emergence of China’s leading technology firm\, Huawei Technologies? To what extent has Huawei’s rise been due to its leadership\, strategy\, corporate culture and ability to innovate? How much of this success as a “national champion” has been driven by the Chinese Party-State’s industrial policy and support?
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/paul-clifford-huawei-technologies-world-class-company-or-state-agent/
LOCATION:Starr Auditorium\, Belfer Building\, Floor 2.5\, Harvard Kennedy School\, 79 JFK St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190423T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190423T180000
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SUMMARY:Felix Boecking | Chinese trade wars in historical perspective— No Great Wall: Trade\, Tariffs\, and Nationalism in Republican China\, 1927-1945
DESCRIPTION:Listen to an interview with Felix Boecking on our “Harvard on China” podcast. Download and read the podcast transcript here Download and read the podcast transcript here. \n \nSpeaker: Felix Boecking\, University of Edinburgh \nNo Great Wall (Harvard Asia Center\, 2017)\, an in-depth study of Nationalist tariff policy\, fundamentally challenges the widely accepted idea that the key to the Communist seizure of power in China lay in the incompetence of Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalist government. It argues instead that during the second Sino-Japanese War\, China’s international trade\, the Nationalist government’s tariff revenues\, and hence its fiscal policy and state-making project all collapsed. Drawing on the historical lessons of my research\, in this talk\, I will also discuss the unintended consequences of protectionism\, the difficulties of strategising trade wars\, and the differences between trade wars and real wars. \nFelix Boecking is a Senior Lecturer in Modern Chinese Economic and Political History at the University of Edinburgh\, UK\, and currently a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington DC. Among his research interests are China’s political economy\, the history of economics in the People’s Republic of China\, and the history of China’s foreign relations. His current project at the Wilson Center is “Economics on the Edge: An Intellectual History of Economists in the PRC since 1949.”
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/felix-boecking-modern-china-lecture-series/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Modern China Lecture
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SUMMARY:Philippe Le Corre - China and Europe: Potential Partners or Systemic Rivals?
DESCRIPTION:Read event summary here \nSpeaker: Philippe Le Corre\, Harvard Kennedy School \nPhilippe Le Corre is an affiliate with the Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship and a senior fellow with Harvard Kennedy School’s Mossavar-Rahmani Center on Business and Government at the Harvard Kennedy School. He is also a former fellow with the Belfer Center. \nPhilippe Le Corre’s research interests include China’s geoeconomic rise\, Sino-European and transatlantic relations\, Chinese outbound foreign direct investments and competition in Eurasia and Asia-Pacific. From 2014 to 2017\, he was a Visiting Fellow with The Brookings Institution in Washington D.C. Le Corre previously served as Special Assistant and Counsellor for international affairs to the French Minister of Defense and as senior policy analyst on Northeast Asia within the Ministry of Defense’s directorate for strategy. He was also partner with Publicis Groupe\, where he ran a team of consultants advising the Shanghai World Expo 2010. He started his career as a foreign correspondent based in Asia from 1988 to 1998.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-lecture-series-2-2018-10-31-2019-04-24/
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:20190425T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190425T173000
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SUMMARY:Sebastian Veg - Minjian: the Rise of China’s Grassroots Intellectuals
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Sebastian Veg\, School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS)\, Paris \nWhile China’s intellectuals throughout the twentieth century were defined in terms of their elite position and responsibility for the nation\, this role was profoundly challenged after the crackdown on the democracy movement of 1989. In its aftermath\, new groups of intellectuals emerged from grassroots society\, devoted to constituting alternative forms of knowledge outside the academy: amateur historians researching the Mao era\, amateur ethnographers using documentary films to investigate social issues\, grassroots lawyers working with disenfranchised groups to build rights-awareness\, and citizen bloggers and journalists challenging the state control of the public sphere. Although these groups have come under increasing pressure since 2012\, their ideas continue to inspire new dynamics in China’s society today. \nSebastian Veg is a Professor (directeur d’études) of intellectual history and literature of 20th century China at the School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS)\, Paris and an Honorary Professor at the University of Hong Kong. He has written on Chinese intellectuals from May Fourth to the present\, the memory of the Mao era\, and the democracy movement in Hong Kong.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/sebastian-veg-minjian-the-rise-of-chinas-grassroots-intellectuals/
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190426T173000
DTSTAMP:20260513T033701
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UID:7997-1556282700-1556299800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:2019 Gender Studies Workshop: Images\, Objects\, and Gender in China
DESCRIPTION:12:45-1 p.m.    Welcoming remarks \nFirst Panel \nModerator:     Catherine Vance Yeh \n1-1:30p.m.       Jeehee Hong\,  “ ‘Gender’ and Affect in Song Faces” \n1:30-2p.m.       Mao Wen-Fang\,  “The Object and the Beauty in Painting: the Metaphorical Viewing and Lyrical Interpretations of Portrait Texts in the Modes of ‘San hao三好’ (three good things) and ‘Lang yu li郎與麗’ (gentleman and beauty) of Ming-Qing Times” \n2-2:30p.m.       Daisy Yiyou Wang\, “Portraying Chinese Women: Gender and Ethnicity in Nineteenth-Century Photography” \n2:30-3p.m.       Discussion \n3-3:30p.m.       Break \n\nSecond Panel \nModerator:     Wai-yee Li \n3:30-4p.m.       Man Xu\, “ Sedan Chairs\, Carriages\, and Veils: Women’s Use of Vehicles in the Song Dynasty” \n4-4:30p.m.       Judith T. Zeitlin\, “Pipa vs Qin: Contesting the Gender of Musical Instruments in Seventeenth-Century China” \n4:30-5p.m.       Yulian Wu\, “Jade Thumb Ring: Object\, Skill\, and Manchu Masculinity in Eighteenth-Century China” \n5-5:30p.m.       Discussion
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/2019-gender-studies-workshop-gender-and-material-culture/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Gender Studies
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190426T160000
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SUMMARY:Yan Xuetong and Graham Allison: US-China Competition in the Age of the Knowledge Economy
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Yan Xuetong\,  Distinguished Professor and Dean of the Institute of International Relations\, Tsinghua University\nModerator: Graham Allison\, Douglas Dillon Professor of Government and former Director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs\, Harvard Kennedy School
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/yan-xuetong-and-graham-allison-us-china-competition-in-the-age-of-the-knowledge-economy/
LOCATION:Belfer Center Library Room 369\, Littauer Center\, 79 JFK St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190429T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190429T183000
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CREATED:20190401T173054Z
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UID:8044-1556555400-1556562600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:The EU and China as Global Actors: The Cases of Syria and Africa
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\nCatherine Gegout\, Harvard Kennedy School\nFidel Sendagort\, Former Ambassador of Spain to Egypt\nThe panelists will discuss the differing approaches towards conflict management\, and the different ways through which China and the European Union (EU) engage with the world. Specifically\, they will discuss the Chinese and European policy towards the Syrian conflict and their methods of involvement in Africa. Lastly\, they will address what these\, at times conflicting approaches mean for the future relationship between the EU and China.\nChair:\nMark Crowley\, Wuhan University\n\nhttps://ces.fas.harvard.edu/events/2019/04/the-european-and-chinese-competing-visions-for-grand-strategy
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-eu-and-china-as-global-actors-the-cases-of-syria-and-africa/
LOCATION:Adolphus Busch Hall\, 27 Kirkland St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190429T183000
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CREATED:20190429T121139Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190429T121139Z
UID:8120-1556555400-1556562600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Katie Hill - A History Written by Our Bodies: Artistic Activism and the Agonistic Chinese Voice of Mad For Real's Performances at the end of the Twentieth Century
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Katie Hill’s talk will discuss the work of Mad For Real\, a performance duo (Cai Yuan and Jianjun Xi) who work between Britain and China and became known for pioneering interventional performance in the public space using the city of London as a cultural canvas. Her talk explores the duo’s artistic activism at the end of the twentieth century in the context of transcultural practice and how the artists’ bodies and voices act to assert a certain kind of Chinese presence onto a political and cultural landscape at a particular moment in time within the broader framework of neocolonialism.  This talk is drawn from her recently published chapter in Yeh and Thorpe (eds.) Contesting British Chinese Culture (Palgrave Macmillan\, 2018).\n\n\nKatie Hill is Program Director of the MA in Modern and Contemporary Asian Art at Sotheby’s Institute of Art London and an established professional in the field of contemporary Chinese art. She gained an MA from the University of Edinburgh in Chinese Language and Literature and went on to pursue a PhD with Craig Clunas at the University of Sussex\, exploring the diasporic presence of Chinese artists in Europe interrogating representation and transnational practice within a global context during the 1990s. She is currently working on Lifelines\, a solo exhibition of ink painter Wang Huangsheng at Hong Kong Arts Centre with Gallery 3812.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/katie-hill-a-history-written-by-our-bodies-artistic-activism-and-the-agonistic-chinese-voice-of-mad-for-reals-performances-at-the-end-of-the-twentieth-century/
LOCATION:Room 422\, Sackler Building\, 485 Broadway\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190430T131500
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CREATED:20190423T181544Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190423T181544Z
UID:8100-1556625600-1556630100@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Michael Kingston - Arctic Shipping and the Northern Sea Route\, Shipping Trends\, and The New Polar Code Regulations: The Concerns and Contributions of The International Insurance Industry
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Michael Kingston\, Managing Director\, Michael Kingston Associates; Special Advisor\, Protection of the Arctic Marine Environment (PAME) Working Group\, Arctic Council\nModerator: George Soroka\, Lecturer\, Harvard University; Center Associate\, Davis Center \nMore info: https://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/events/arctic-shipping-and-northern-sea-route-shipping-trends-and-new-polar-code-regulations
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/michael-kingston-arctic-shipping-and-the-northern-sea-route-shipping-trends-and-the-new-polar-code-regulations-the-concerns-and-contributions-of-the-international-insurance-industry/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S354\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190501T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190501T130000
DTSTAMP:20260513T033701
CREATED:20190422T143906Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190422T143906Z
UID:8095-1556712000-1556715600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Wen Luo - The Application of GIS in the Historical Settlement Geography
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Wen Luo\, Deputy Director\, Research Department on Cultural and Natural Resources\, Tsinghua Tongheng Planning and Design Institute; Visiting Scholar\, IQSS(CBDB Project)\, Harvard University \nLight refreshments provided \nRSVP to HYL.EADH@GMAIL.COM
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/wen-luo-the-application-of-gis-in-the-historical-settlement-geography/
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190501T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190501T140000
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UID:7347-1556713800-1556719200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Margaret K. Lewis - Why Law Matters in Taiwan
DESCRIPTION:Listen to an interview with Margaret Lewis on our “Harvard on China” podcast. Download and read the transcript of this podcast interview here. \n \nSpeaker: Margaret K. Lewis\, Seton Hall University School of Law Professor Margaret Lewis’s research focuses on law in mainland China and Taiwan with an emphasis on criminal justice. Professor Lewis has been a Fulbright Senior Scholar at National Taiwan University\, a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations\, a Public Intellectuals Program Fellow with the National Committee on United States-China Relations\, and a delegate to the US-Japan Foundation’s US-Japan Leadership Program. \nHer publications have appeared in a number of academic journals including the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law\, NYU Journal of International Law and Politics\, Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law\, and Virginia Journal of International Law. She also co-authored the book Challenge to China: How Taiwan Abolished its Version of Re-Education Through Labor with Jerome A. Cohen. Professor Lewis has participated in the State Department’s Legal Experts Dialogue with China\, has testified before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China\, and is a consultant to the Ford Foundation. \nBefore joining Seton Hall\, Professor Lewis served as a Senior Research Fellow at NYU School of Law’s U.S.-Asia Law Institute where she worked on criminal justice reforms in China. Following graduation from law school\, she worked as an associate at the law firm of Cleary\, Gottlieb\, Steen & Hamilton in New York City. She then served as a law clerk for the Honorable M. Margaret McKeown of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Diego. After clerking\, she returned to NYU School of Law and was awarded a Furman Fellowship. Professor Lewis received her J.D.\, magna cum laude\, from NYU School of Law\, where she was inducted into the Order of the Coif and was a member of Law Review. She received her B.A.\, summa cum laude\, from Columbia University and also studied at the Hopkins-Nanjing Center for Chinese and American Studies in Nanjing\, China.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-lecture-series-2-2018-10-31-2019-05-01/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China Series,Taiwan,Taiwan Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190502T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190502T180000
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CREATED:20190401T175656Z
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SUMMARY:Mandopop: 40 Years of Chinese Popular Music and Culture
DESCRIPTION:Watch again:\n \nListen again:\n \nSpeakers:\nGAO Xiaosong 高曉松\nFANG Wenshan (Vincent Fang) 方文山\nLUO Dayou (Lo Ta-yu) 羅大佑\nYin Yue 尹約 \nThis is a ticketed event. Only ticket holders will be allowed in the auditorium.\nAll available tickets have been distributed. \nThis talk will be conducted in a mixture of English and Mandarin.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/mandopop-40-years-of-chinese-popular-music-and-culture/
LOCATION:Hall D\, Science Center\, 1 Oxford Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest,Special Event
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190503T140000
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SUMMARY:Maria Adele Carrai - Sovereignty in China and the Long Legacies of History
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Maria Adele Carrai\, Fellow\, Harvard Asia Center; Senior Researcher\, KU Leuwen\, Belgium \nChair: William Alford\, Jerome A. and Joan L. Cohen Professor of Law; Director\, East Asian Legal Studies\, Harvard Law School \nDiscussant: Anne Orford\, Visiting Professor of Law and John Harvey Gregory Lecturer on World Organization\, Harvard Law School \nAsia Center Fellows Seminar Series
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/maria-adele-carrai-sovereignty-in-china-and-the-long-legacies-of-history/
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190506T140000
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UID:7979-1557144900-1557151200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Harutoshi Matsutani - The Social Cost of Automobiles and Environment Policies in Asia: A Comparative Study on China and Japan
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Harutoshi Matsutani\, Fellow\, Harvard Asia Center; Professor of Economics\, Aichi University\, Japan \nChair: Ezra Vogel\, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences\, Emeritus \nDiscussant:  Andrew Gordon\, Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History\, Harvard University; Acting Director\, Harvard-Yenching Institute \nAsia Center Fellows Seminar Series
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/harutoshi-matsutani-the-social-cost-of-automobiles-and-environment-policies-in-asia-a-comparative-study-on-china-and-japan/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190507T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190507T180000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20250130T154941Z
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SUMMARY:Wen-hsin Yeh - Vast Ocean\, Small People:  The Aborigines of Taiwan
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Wen-hsin Yeh\, University of California at Berkeley \nFor centuries under the Ming and the Qing\, indigenous communities of Taiwan (i.e. the Austronesian-speaking tribal groups in the mountains and on the Pacific side of the island) led distinct styles of life in a state of relative insularity. That insularity ended in the 19th century when Western and Japanese naval vessels appeared on the Pacific. In response\, the Qing cut roads into the mountains and sent troops down the coast.  These events marked a new beginning for the aborigines who\, labeled as headhunters and savages\, came under successive regimes of colonial rule. Things changed again towards the end of the 20th century.  China adopted a “National Ocean Strategy” by which the People’s Navy would routinely project its presence on the Pacific.  And Taiwan\, out of a determination to deliver transitional justice\, issued in 2016 a presidential apology to the tribes as long-suffering victims of historical injustice. \nThis presentation on Taiwan’s indigenous people takes the Pacific as a point of reference to build a historical narrative.  In doing so\, the talk seeks to position Taiwan in a changing world of connecting oceans.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/wen-hsin-yeh-modern-china-lecture-series/
CATEGORIES:Modern China Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190508T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190508T173000
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CREATED:20190429T130845Z
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UID:8122-1557306000-1557336600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Workshop -  Ocean\, Island\, Shore: Placing the Global Pacific in the Age of Climate Change
DESCRIPTION:9:00-9:05 opening remarks by organizers \nChair: Xiaofei Gao (Fung Postdoctoral Fellow\, Harvard University Asia Center) \n9:05-9:50 John Huth (Donner Professor of Science\, Department of Physics\, Harvard University) \nDiscussant: Christina Thompson (Editor\, Harvard Review\, Harvard University) \n9:50-10:35 John Hayashi (Ph.D. Candidate\, Department of History\, Harvard University) \nWriting the History of Japanese Transoceanic Migration and Disease Prevention \nDiscussant: Warwick Anderson (Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser Visiting Professor of Australian Studies\, Department of the History of Science\, Harvard University) \nCOFFEE BREAK \nChair: Sugata Bose (Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs\, Department of History\, Harvard University) \n10:50-11:35 Jonas Ruegg (Ph.D. Candidate\, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University) \nMapping the Kuroshio Frontier: Japan’s Discovery of the Black Current \nDiscussant: Helen Rozwadowski (Director of the Maritime Studies Program and Associate Professor of History\, Department of History\, University of Connecticut\, Avery Point) \n11:35-12:20 Michaela Thompson (Preceptor of Environmental Science and Public Policy and Giorgio Ruffolo Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Sustainability Science\, Kennedy School of Goverment\, Harvard University) \nRed Fish\, Green Fish: A History of the Bristol Bay Sockeye Fishery \nDiscussant: Alexis Dudden (Professor of History\, Department of History\, University of Connecticut) \nLUNCH BREAK \nChair: Stefan Huebner (SSRC Transregional Research Fellow and Visiting Scholar\, Harvard University Asia Center) \n1:10-1:55 Jason O. Chang (Associate Professor of History and Asian American Studies\, Department of History\, University of Connecticut) \nThe Maritime Racial Form of the Indo-Pacific: Lascar and Danjia Sailors in the Long Nineteenth Century \nDiscussant: Anthony D. Medrano (Ziff Environmental Fellow\, Harvard University Center for the Environment) \n1:55-2:40 Edward (Ted) Melillo (Associate Professor of History and Environmental Studies\, Department of Environmental Studies\, Amherst College) \n‘Oiwi (Native) History of Kona Coffee in a Global Perspective \nDiscussant: Ian J. Miller (Professor of History\, Department of History\, Harvard University) \nBREAK \nChair: Anthony D. Medrano (Ziff Environmental Fellow\, Harvard University Center for the Environment) \n3:00-3:45 Bathsheba Demuth (Assistant Professor of History and Environment and Society\, Departments of Environmental Studies and History\, Brown University) \nWriting North Pacific History Through its Ecosystems: Russia\, the United States\, and Trophic Change \nDiscussant: Stefan Huebner (SSRC Transregional Research Fellow and Visiting Scholar\, Harvard University Asia Center) \n3:45-4:30 Wenjiao Cai (Ph.D. Candidate\, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University) \nAt the Littoral Edge: Tideland Reclamation and Borderland Development in Late Choson Korea\, 1600-1910 \nDiscussant: Peter C. Perdue (Professor of History\, Department of History\, Yale University) \n4:30-5:30 Closing Session \nModerators: Stefan Huebner (SSRC Transregional Research Fellow and Visiting Scholar\, Harvard University Asia Center); Anthony D. Medrano (Ziff Environmental Fellow\, Harvard University Center for the Environment); Jonas Ruegg (Ph.D. Candidate\, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University) \nThis workshop is supported by: Harvard University Center for the Environment\, Harvard University Asia Center\, Harvard University Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, and the Pacific Circle. \nFor more information\, visit https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/envihist/workshop-ocean-island-shore-placing-global-pacific-age-climate-change
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/workshop-ocean-island-shore-placing-the-global-pacific-in-the-age-of-climate-change/
LOCATION:HUCE Seminar Room 440\, 26 Oxford St. - Museum of Comparative Zoology\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190508T140000
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SUMMARY:Henny Sender - Trump as China's Friend?
DESCRIPTION:Read event summary here \nSpeaker: Henny Sender\, Financial Times \nHenny Sender is chief correspondent for international finance at the Financial Times\, based in Hong Kong. \nSender was part of a team at the Wall St Journal that won a Loeb award for coverage of the meltdown of Amaranth hedge fund. Her work on the overseas Chinese received a citation from the Overseas Press Club and she was a finalist for the National Magazine Awards. Her book on India was published by Oxford University Press. \nSender holds an MS from the Columbia University School of Journalism and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/henny-sender-critical-issues-confronting-china-series/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China Series
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SUMMARY:Panel Discussion - Tiananmen at 30
DESCRIPTION:Watch again on YouTube: \n \nListen again on Soundcloud: \n \nRead and download a transcript of this event here. \nSpeakers:\nHao Jian\, Professor\, Beijing Film Academy\nLouisa Lim\, Senior Lecturer\, University of Melbourne; Author\, The People’s Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited\nWang Dan\, Founder and Executive Director of Dialogue China\nJeffrey Wasserstrom\, Chancellor’s Professor of History\, University of California Irvine \nModerator: \nRowena Xiaoqing He\, Current Member\, Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton; Author\, Tiananmen Exiles: Voices of the Struggle for Democracy in China \n  \nTranscript of Director Michael Szonyi’s Opening Remarks\, May 8\, 2019 \nWelcome to the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University. My name’s Michael Szonyi. I am the director of the Fairbank Center and it is my privilege to introduce today’s session marking 30 years since the extraordinary events of May and June of 1989. \nWhile we have called today’s session “Tiananmen at 30\,” these events occurred not just at Tiananmen Square or even just in Beijing\, but in cities all over China. These events culminated\, as we all know\, on June 4th\, 1989 in a act of military suppression that took place not only\, or even primarily in the square itself\, but throughout the city and beyond. \nAnyone could have predicted that this year\, 2019\, would be a sensitive year for anniversaries in China. As Jiayang Fan wrote in The New Yorker this week\, for the CCP\, “certain anniversaries teeter between the emblematic and the problematic.” As things have unfolded\, the year proved far more sensitive for far more anniversaries than we had anticipated. Problematic definitely outweighed emblematic. \nBesides the 40th anniversary of the establishment of US-China relations\, and the 40th anniversary of the Taiwan Relations Act\, here at the Fairbank Center we’ve held events including a commemoration of 40 years of reform and opening up which we co-hosted and co-organized with the Unirule Institute of Economic. That event\, we believe\, proved to be one of the very last\, if not the very last\, public event for that very influential liberal think tank in China. We similarly commemorated the centenary of the May 4th Movement with a two-day conference organized by Professor David Wang. Some of you\, like me\, were at that conference and I think many of us who attended that conference were discouraged that\, as one of our guests\, Jeff Wasserstrom\, pointed out in his long New York Times op-ed\, a century after May 4th\, a free and open discussion of that event and its significance remains impossible in China. \nAs with May 4th\, so too June 4th. But even in a year of sensitive anniversaries\, there’s something distinctive about the event we commemorate today\, because of course there are no public commemorations at all of this event all in China. This is an event that can only be spoken of outside of China. \nThe Fairbank Center at Harvard is home for China studies in all forms\, even\, and in some ways especially when the topic is sensitive. We value our commitment to intellectual freedom to pursue questions and research that others might want us to avoid. It’s our responsibility to hold events such as today’s\, both as an academic endeavor in the face of official suppression in China and as a mark of respect to those whose lives were taken or scarred by the events 30 years ago. The importance of our discussions on the CCP’s relationship with the Chinese citizenry is only elevated by the context of other human rights crises that are unfolding in China today\, in particular the current crisis in Xinjiang\, and this reinforces the importance of our persistent pursuit of truth in the face of repression. \n  \nMichael Szonyi \nMay 8\, 2019
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/panel-discussion-tiananmen-at-30/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest,Special Event
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