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SUMMARY:Urban China Lecture Series featuring Cole Roskam - Planning Exchange: Ideas\, People\, and Cities in Circulation During China's Opening and Reform Era
DESCRIPTION:Zoom meeting link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker:  Cole Roskam\, Professor of Architectural History\, Department of Architecture\, University of Hong Kong \n\n\n\nBeginning in the 1970s and intensifying during the 1980s\, the People’s Republic of China initiated international scholarly exchange programs with numerous countries at a range of levels and scales within Chinese society. These interactions were intended to facilitate knowledge transfer\, particularly with regard to distinctly technical forms of knowledge; more generally\, they also helped increase China’s connections to the capitalist world and vice-versa. At the same time\, the exchange also offered a somewhat unpredictable vehicle for change—a fundamentally subjective experience capable of producing profound incommensurability and asymmetry across disciplines and individuals. \n\n\n\nThis presentation examines the dynamics at work in exchange within the broad field of urban planning and design\, which was a particularly popular arena for international engagement in reform-era China. In this presentation\, I explore the complex\, interpersonal dynamics of exchange in relation to planning expertise\, and the extent to which the inherent subjectivities at work in the experience of exchange proved consequential to urban planning practices in reform-era China and\, more generally\, the fundamental strangeness of reform itself.Cole Roskam is professor of architectural history in the Department of Architecture at the University of Hong Kong. His research explores architecture’s role in mediating moments of transnational interaction and exchange between China and other parts of the world. He is the author of Improvised City: Architecture and Governance in Shanghai\, 1843-1937 (University of Washington Press\, 2019) and Designing Reform: Architecture in the People’s Republic of China\, 1970-1992 (Yale University Press\, 2021). His writing has appeared in AD\, Architectural History\, Artforum International\, Grey Room\, and the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians\, among others. He has been a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (Washington\, DC)\, the Canadian Centre for Architecture (Montreal)\, and the University of Edinburgh. \n\n\n\nZoom Meeting Link: https://mit.zoom.us/j/92743598127 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/urban-china-lecture-series-featuring-cole-roskam/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Urban China Series
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SUMMARY:Dreams from China’s Past: Visions of the Future in Popular Science and Literature Magazines\, 1927–1949
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Aaron William Moore\, Professor of Asian Studies and Handa Chair of Japanese-Chinese Relations\, University of Edinburgh \n\n\n\nMore information: https://scholar.harvard.edu/seow/STinAsia \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/dreams-from-chinas-past-visions-of-the-future-in-popular-science-and-literature-magazines-1927-1949/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240409T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240409T200000
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SUMMARY:2024 China Town Hall Featuring Kurt Campbell and Rana Mitter
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers:Kurt Campbell\, Deputy U.S. Secretary of StateRana Mitter\, ST Lee Chair in US-Asia Relations\, Harvard Kennedy SchoolJoin the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations and the Greater China Society at HKS on April 9th for the 2024 CHINA Town Hall (CTH)\, a two-part program that provides a snapshot of the current U.S.-China relationship and examines how that relationship reverberates at the local level – in our towns\, states\, and nation\, connects Americans around the country with U.S. policymakers and thought leaders on China.   \n\n\n\nThe 2024 CHINA Town Hall program will take place on Tuesday\, April 9\, from 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. ET\, with featured speaker Dr. Kurt Campbell\, Deputy Secretary of State.  Following the official program\, students have the opportunity to discuss with Prof. Rana Mitter in-person reflecting on the event from 7:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. ET.  \n\n\n\nRSVP:  https://forms.gle/cjDyW6LbUmfi58fV9 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/2024-china-town-hall-featuring-kurt-campbell-and-rana-mitter/
LOCATION:L-332 DELAND\, Littauer Building\, 79 JFK St.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240410T113000
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SUMMARY:Yeshes Vodgsal Atshogs — Does the Sino-Tibetan Language Family Exist?: A Fresh Exploration of the Historical Relationship Between Tibetan\, Chinese\, and Surrounding Languages
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Yeshes Vodgsal Atshogs\, Professor\, Linguistics\, Nankai University; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2023-24 \n\n\n\nDiscussant: Kevin Ryan\, Professor\, Linguistics\, Harvard University \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/yeshes-vodgsal-atshogs-does-the-sino-tibetan-language-family-exist-a-fresh-exploration-of-the-historical-relationship-between-tibetan-chinese-and-surrounding-languages/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240410T120000
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China featuring Keith Bradsher - An Industrial Surge Amidst China’s Slowdown
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Keith Bradsher\, Beijing Bureau Chief\, The New York Times \n\n\n\nChina’s economy is slowing\, dragged down by real estate troubles\, but its industrial sector has never been stronger. That poses dilemmas for trade partners in sectors from steel to solar panels to electric cars. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-featuring-keith-bradsher/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China,Critical Issues Confronting China Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240410T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240410T173000
DTSTAMP:20260519T102150
CREATED:20240124T135936Z
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SUMMARY:Environment in Asia Series featuring Jesse Rodenbiker - Ecological States: Politics of Science and Nature in Urbanizing China
DESCRIPTION:register for hybrid zoom attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Jesse Rodenbiker\, Associate Research Scholar\, Princeton University; Assistant Teaching Professor of Geography\, Rutgers University-New Brunswick \n\n\n\nDiscussant: Stevan Harrell\, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Environmental and Forest Sciences\, University of Washington; author of An Ecological History of Modern China \n\n\n\nEcological States critically examines ecological policies in the People’s Republic of China to show how campaigns of scientifically based environmental protection transform nature and society. While many point to China’s ecological civilization programs as a new paradigm for global environmental governance\, Jesse Rodenbiker argues that ecological redlining extends the reach of the authoritarian state. \n\n\n\nAlthough Chinese urban sustainability initiatives have driven millions of citizens from their land and housing\, Rodenbiker shows that these migrants are not passive subjects of state policy. Instead\, they creatively navigate resettlement processes in pursuit of their own benefit. However\, their resistance is limited by varied forms of state-backed infrastructural violence. \n\n\n\nThrough extensive fieldwork with scientists\, urban planners\, and everyday citizens in southwestern China\, Ecological States exposes the ways in which the scientific logics and practices fundamental to China’s green urbanization have solidified state power and contributed to dispossession and social inequality. \n\n\n\nJesse Rodenbiker is an associate research scholar at Princeton University with the Center on Contemporary China at the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies\, and an assistant teaching professor of geography at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. He is a human-environment geographer and interdisciplinary social scientist focusing on environmental governance\, urbanization\, and social inequality in China and globally. Rodenbiker is the author of the book Ecological States: Politics of Science and Nature in Urbanizing China (2023\, Cornell University Press). His work has been supported by fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies\, Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation\,  Fulbright\, Social Science Research Council\, and the Wilson Center\, among others. \n\n\n\nAlso via Zoom.Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMlc-CsqjwiEtNUqQ1sEFhmYYHp9hHGJwTX \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/environment-in-asia-series-lecture/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S250\, 1730 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Environment,Environment
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240411T121500
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SUMMARY:Arbitrary Detention in Xinjiang: A Survivor's Story
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:Rayhan Asat\, Uyghur Lawyer\, HLS LLM ‘16Mihrigul Tursun\, Uyghur Activist\, Former Detainee and Camp Survivor \n\n\n\nIn 2015\, Mihrigul Tursun was imprisoned in a re-education camp in Xinjiang by the Chinese authorities. Rayhan Asat’s brother\, Ekpar\, has been detained for right years and counting. Join Harvard Law School Advocates for Human Rights for a discussion with Tursun and Rayhan to learn more about what is happening in Xinjiang and what can be done. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/arbitrary-detention-in-xinjiang-a-survivors-story/
LOCATION:WCC 1015\, Wasserstein Hall\, 1585 Massachusetts Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240411T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240411T180000
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SUMMARY:The Asian Security Order: Views from the Region
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:Selina Ho\, Assistant Professor in International Affairs; Co-Director of the Centre on Asia and Globalisation\, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy\, National University of SingaporeLi Chen\, Renmin University of ChinaChair: Robert Ross\, Professor of Political Science\, Boston College; Fairbank Center Associate \n\n\n\nCo-sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-asian-security-order-views-from-the-region/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240411T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240411T183000
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CREATED:20240328T161756Z
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SUMMARY:China: The Rise and Fall of the EAST - How Exams\, Autocracy\, Stability\, and Technology Brought China Success\, and Why They Might Lead to its Decline
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Yasheng Huang\, Epoch Foundation Professor of Global Economics and Management\, MIT Sloan School of Management; Faculty Director\, MIT-China Program\, Center for International Studies. \n\n\n\nDiscussant: Will Knight\, Senior Writer\, Wired Magazine \n\n\n\nMore information: https://bit.ly/RiseFallChina \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-east-how-exams-autocracy-stability-and-technology-brought-china-success-and-why-they-might-lead-to-its-decline/
LOCATION:Building 66\, 110\, 25 Ames St.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240412T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240413T173000
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SUMMARY:Thinking through Performance in China - A Workshop on Chinese theories of Acting\, Singing\, and Theater (c.1200–1850)
DESCRIPTION:This workshop reconsiders the significance of critical writings about acting\, singing\, and theatrical performance in China (c.1200–1850). How did artists\, intellectuals\, and critics reflect on experiences of watching or listening to live performance? How did the act of writing about spectatorship become an artform in and of itself? What might these texts offer for theater and performance studies across the world today? The central question these texts address —namely\, “what is the function of Chinese theater?”—has ramifications for students of Chinese history\, literature\, and thought more broadly. \n\n\n\nTheatrical artforms flourished in China from the thirteenth to the nineteenth centuries. While current scholarship largely focuses on playwriting and surviving play-texts from the Yuan to Qing dynasties\, this period also bore witness to a boom in writings about performance\, from manuals on aria composition to poems on the operatic voice to epitaphs for actors. Rather than treat these materials (often referred to in Chinese as quhua 曲話\, qulun 曲論\,or julun 劇論) as supplementary evidence for a general history of playwriting\, this workshop approaches the act of writing about performance as a vibrant field of artistic expression. Texts about theatrical performance not only shed new light on the social history of acting during this period\, but they also speak to broader issues such as constructions of gender and sexuality\, the politics of patronage\, the place of allusion\, and conceptions of artifice and naturalness in Chinese aesthetic thought. In as much as these texts struggle to document the evanescence of live performance\, they also reflect on the purpose and limitations of writing itself. \n\n\n\nIn general\, the workshop will ask what it means to speak of “performance theory” in the premodern Chinese context. At the same time\, the workshop seeks to uncover valuable perspectives from premodern China for teachers\, students\, and practitioners of the performing arts today. \n\n\n\nAgendaFriday\, April 129:30 AM: Introductory Remarks \n\n\n\n10:00 AM: Panel 1 – Thinking through PerformanceChair: David Wang\, Harvard UniversityThomas Kelly\, Harvard University\, “Writing Evanescence: Pan Zhiheng’s Essays on Acting”Ling Hon Lam\, UC Berkeley\, “In Search of Bad Singing: A Disarticulation of the Automaton\, or a Mathematical Critique of ‘Self-So’ Cosmology” \n\n\n\n12:00 PM: Lunch \n\n\n\n1:00 PM: Panel 2 – Performance as Method in Song and Oral StorytellingChair: Si Nae Park\, Harvard UniversityPatricia Sieber\, The Ohio State University\, “Surprise as Method: Performance Aesthetics in Yuan Sanqu Songs”Canaan Morse\, Boston University\, “The Image of the Book and the Performance of Reading in The Drunken Man’s Talk and the Early Huaben” \n\n\n\n3:30 PM: Panel 3 – Performing SpectatorshipChair: Wai-yee Li\, Harvard UniversityYinghui Wu\, UCLA\, “The Passion for Performance and Performers in the Late Ming: Between Therapy\, Obsession\, and Bad Karma”Ming Tak Ted Hui\, Oxford University\, “Vocal Imaginaries: Connoisseurship of the Operatic Voice in the 16th Century” \n\n\n\nSaturday\, April 13 \n\n\n\n9:30 AM: Panel 4 – Translation WorkshopJudith Zeitlin (University of Chicago)\, Yiren Zheng (Dartmouth University)\, and Tom Kelly will lead a group discussion of essays by Pan Zhiheng 潘之恆 (1556–1622) on acting\, singing\, and theater.Zheng: 蘇舌師；馬手樂 (9:30–10:20)Zeitlin: 獨音；敘曲；李紉之 (10:30–11:20)Kelly: 仙度；原近 (11:30–12:20) \n\n\n\n12:30 PM: Lunch \n\n\n\n2:00 PM: Panel 5 – Theater and Theatricality   Chair: Catherine Yeh\, Boston UniversityGuojun Wang\, McGill University\, “Bibliography as Critique: Cataloging and Categorizing Drama in Premodern China”Kangni Huang\, Harvard University\, “Rethinking Meta-Theater: From Wu Bing to Jiang Shiquan”4:30 PM: Roundtable – New DirectionsFor more information\, contact Thomas Kelly at thomas_kelly@fas.harvard.edu.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/thinking-through-performance-in-china-a-workshop-on-chinese-theories-of-acting-singing-and-theater-c-1200-1850/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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SUMMARY:Curatorial Chat: Central Asian Chronicles Echoes of the Silk Road in Manuscripts and Imagery
DESCRIPTION:Join co-curators Dr. Gülnar Eziz\, Preceptor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University\, and Isa Youshe\, PhD Student\, Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies at Harvard University\, for a 30-minute guided tour of the Central Asian Chronicles: Echoes of the Silk Road in Manuscripts and Imagery exhibition currently on display in Houghton’s Amy Lowell Room.  This will include discussion of the rich histories and cultural significance of the collections on display and ample time for participant questions. \n\n\n\nAttendees should gather in Houghton’s lobby. No registration is required.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/curatorial-chat-central-asian-chronicles-echoes-of-the-silk-road-in-manuscripts-and-imagery/
LOCATION:Houghton Library\, Quincy Street & Harvard Street\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240413T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240413T150000
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SUMMARY:Symposium - Thinking Between/Through Historic and Modern China
DESCRIPTION:Panelists: Mark C. Elliott\, Vice Provost for International Affairs\, Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History\, Harvard UniversityJoseph W. Esherick\, Professor Emeritus\, History Department\, University of California San DiegoJames A. Millward\, Professor of Inter-societal History\, Georgetown University School of Foreign ServiceModerator: Madeleine Yue Dong\, Vincent Y. C. Shih Professor of Chinese History and China Studies\, Jackson School of International Studies and the Department of History\, University of Washington \n\n\n\nThis symposium will examine the persistent problem of identity and form in the conceptualization of the modern Chinese nation. Among the questions to be addressed by panelists are\, How should we understand “China” as a fluid concept caught between an imperial past and a national present? How to strike a balance between seeing Chinese history through lenses formed out of the European experience and singling China out as an exception to world historical patterns? How can the dialogue between History and Modernity bring new illumination to our understanding of China today? \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/symposium-thinking-between-through-historic-and-modern-china/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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SUMMARY:Joseph Esherick - Rethinking the Chinese Revolution
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Joseph Esherick\, Professor Emeritus of History\, University of California\, San Diego \n\n\n\nModerator: Elizabeth Perry\, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government\, Harvard University; Director\, Harvard-Yenching Institute. \n\n\n\nWas the Chinese Revolution inevitable? In “Rethinking the Chinese Revolution\,” Esherick will discuss his evolving assessment of modern Chinese history from his early essay\, “Harvard on China\,” through his “Ten Theses on the Chinese Revolution.” Fundamental to this evolution has been wrestling with the determinism he learned as a social historian of the 1960s to a greater (but still uneasy) embrace of the contingency of history that one sees in Accidental Holy Land. \n\n\n\nJoseph W. Esherick received his B.A. from Harvard in 1964 and his PhD from Berkeley in 1971.  His scholarship has focused on the last years of the Qing dynasty and the social and political transformation of modern China.  His dissertation and first monograph\, Reform and Revolution in China: the 1911 Revolution in Hunan and Hubei explored the social background of China’s republican revolution.  His book on The Origins of the Boxer Uprising won the John K. Fairbank Prize of the American Historical Association and the Joseph R. Levenson Prize of the Association for Asian Studies.  Ancestral Leaves explored the tumultuous history of nineteenth and twentieth-century China through the lives of successive generations of one family. His new monograph\, Accidental Holy Land: The Communist Revolution in Northwest China\, is a study of the founding of the Shaan-Gan-Ning border region of northwest China.  In edited volumes\, Esherick has analyzed Chinese local elites\, the transformation of Chinese cities\, American policy toward China during World War II\, the Cultural Revolution\, and the transition from empire to nation in comparative perspective\, and the year 1943 in China. After forty years of teaching at the University of Oregon and the University of California at San Diego\, Esherick retired in 2012 and now lives in Berkeley\, California. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/joseph-esherick-rethinking-the-chinese-revolution/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S250\, 1730 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240415T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240415T220000
DTSTAMP:20260519T102150
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: That Day\, on the Beach (Hai tan de yi tian)
DESCRIPTION:A renowned young pianist\, Tan Ching-Ching (Terry Hu) comes back to Taipei for the first time in thirteen years to give a performance. An old friend\, Lin Jia-li (Sylvia Chang)\, gets in touch with her to reconvene over an afternoon coffee. That Day\, on the Beach takes place over a conversation between the two female friends\, during which Ching learns about how the romantic and domestic life of Jia-li and her elder brother evolved over the past decade. Through complex flashbacks\, the microcosmic personal life is revealed to be closely interwoven with the drastic economic and social changes that Taiwan witnessed over the entire 70s. Full of subtle narrative and cinematic surprises\, the film explores the difficulties that accompany freedom\, love and trust; in staging the fragility of any sense of facile contentment and hope\, it makes visible the pleasure and pain entailed in one’s pursuits of happiness. The film also marks the debut of Christopher Doyle as a cinematographer\, best known for his collaborations with Wong Kar-Wai. Released in Taiwan four decades ago\, Edward Yang’s first feature’s length\, storytelling\, and formal ingenuity all speak to his unwavering will to uphold his artistic vision despite all obstacles. \n\n\n\nDirected by Edward Yang. With Sylvia Chang\, Hsu Ming\, Lee Lieh \n\n\n\nTaiwan 1983\, DCP\, color\, 166 min. Mandarin and German with English subtitles \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-screening-that-day-on-the-beach-hai-tan-de-yi-tian/
LOCATION:Harvard Film Archive\, Carpenter Center\, 24 Quincy St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest,Film Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240416T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240416T100000
DTSTAMP:20260519T102150
CREATED:20240123T162508Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240329T122143Z
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SUMMARY:Urban China Lecture Series featuring Zhu Fangsheng - Families\, Schools\, and Cities
DESCRIPTION:Zoom meeting link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker:  Zhu Fangsheng\, Assistant Professor of Sociology\, Duke Kunshan University \n\n\n\nThis talk will trace the origins and consequences of how contemporary Chinese cities govern public school admissions. School districts became the central device in public school admissions in China\, despite their absence of fiscal or administrative foundations. I argue that cities repurposed school districts to manage rising perceived injustices in informal processes by which parents were choosing schools\, and that such repurposing of school districts only succeeded with the arrival of big data infrastructure in the early 2010s. The successful repurposing of school districts reconfigured urban education governance. \n\n\n\nComparing across time periods\, I find that formal procedures reduced perceived injustices while also increasing collective action. Comparing across families\, I find that the formal procedures catalyzed different education migration strategies and destinations\, dependent on family resources. Comparing across urban districts within the same city\, I report unequal burdens of school provision between urban center and urban fringe districts. Altogether\, these findings demonstrate that formal procedures addressed perceived injustices but not substantive inequalities in urban education governance.  \n\n\n\nFangsheng Zhu studies policies\, organizations\, and technologies in education. His ongoing projects evolve around two research questions. First\, why has education in China remained unequal and intensive? Second\, what explains the rise and fall of China’s EdTech industry? Fangsheng is currently an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Duke Kunshan University. \n\n\n\nZoom Meeting Link: https://mit.zoom.us/j/92743598127 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/urban-china-lecture-series-featuring-zhu-fangsheng/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Urban China Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240416T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240416T180000
DTSTAMP:20260519T102150
CREATED:20240227T165805Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240404T170240Z
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SUMMARY:Environment in Asia Series featuring Timothy Brook - The Price of Collapse: The Little Ice Age and the Fall of Ming China
DESCRIPTION:Register for hybrid zoom attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers:Timothy Brook\, The University of British Columbia\, Professor EmeritusClark Alejandrino\, Trinity CollegeYan Gao\, University of MemphisIan M. Miller\, St John’s University \n\n\n\nSeries Convener:Ling Zhang\, Boston College \n\n\n\nIn 1644\, after close to three centuries of relative stability and prosperity\, the Ming dynasty collapsed. Many historians attribute its demise to the Manchu invasion of China\, but the truth is far more profound. The Price of Collapse provides an entirely new approach to the economic and social history of China\, exploring how global climate crisis spelled the end of Ming rule. \n\n\n\nThe mid-seventeenth century witnessed the deadliest phase of the Little Ice Age\, when temperatures and rainfall plunged and world economies buckled. Timothy Brook draws on the history of grain prices to paint a gripping portrait of the final tumultuous years of a once-great dynasty. He explores how global trade networks that increasingly moved silver into China may have affected prices and describes the daily struggle to survive amid grain shortages and famine. By the early 1640s\, as the subjects of the Ming found themselves caught in a deadly combination of cold and drought that defied all attempts to stave off disaster\, the Ming price regime collapsed\, and with it the Ming political regime. \n\n\n\nA masterful work of scholarship\, The Price of Collapse reconstructs the experience of ordinary people under the immense pressure of unaffordable prices as their country slid from prosperity to calamity and shows how the market mediated the relationship between an empire and the climate that turned against it. \n\n\n\nTimothy Brook is professor emeritus of history at the University of British Columbia and a fellow of the British Academy. His many books include Great State\, Mr. Selden’s Map of China\, and Vermeer’s Hat. \n\n\n\nAlso via Zoom.Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_qjb4CtrvRQSr5k5Tj6owiA \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/environment-in-asia-series-featuring-timothy-brook/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Environment,Environment
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240416T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240416T213000
DTSTAMP:20260519T102150
CREATED:20240409T161441Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240409T161443Z
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SUMMARY:Borders in Motion: New Paradigms of East Asian Comparative Literature - an online book launch forum
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers:Satoru Hashimoto\, Johns Hopkins UniversityXiaolu Ma\, Hong Kong University of Science and TechnologyMiya Qiong Xie\, Dartmouth College \n\n\n\nHosts:Karen Thornber\, Harvard UniversityDavid Der-wei Wang\, Harvard University \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/borders-in-motion-new-paradigms-of-east-asian-comparative-literature-an-online-book-launch-forum/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240417T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240417T173000
DTSTAMP:20260519T102150
CREATED:20240411T165341Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240411T165343Z
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SUMMARY:Contextual Annotation in Textual and Visual Media: COMARKUS and IMMARKUS
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Hilde De Weerdt\,  Professor of Chinese and Early Modern Global History\, KU Leuven  \n\n\n\nHilde De Weerdt joined the Early Modern History Research Group\, KU Leuven in March 2022 as Professor of Chinese and Early Modern Global History. Professor De Weerdt is broadly interested in intellectual\, social\, and political history\, both within an East Asian context\, and within a comparative or global historical framework. \n\n\n\nShe studied Chinese and Chinese History at KU Leuven (BA) and Harvard University (PH.D.) and taught history at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville (2002-2007\, Assistant Professor)\, Oxford University (2007-2012\, Associate Professor)\, and King’s College London (2012-2013\, Reader) before becoming Chair Professor of Chinese History at Leiden University in 2013. She has published five volumes on Chinese political culture and intellectual history\, focusing on the workings of late imperial Chinese bureaucratic infrastructures and political communication (Political Communication in Chinese and European History\, 800-1600\, ed.\, 2021; The Essentials of Governance\, tr. and ed.\, 2021; Information\, Territory\, and Networks: The Crisis and Maintenance of Empire in Song China\, 2015; Competition over Content: Negotiating Standards for the Civil Service Examinations in Imperial China (1127-1276)\, 2007; Knowledge and Text Production in an Age of Print–China\, 900-1400\, ed.\, 2011). \n\n\n\nShe is currently working on a longue-durée global history of Chinese political advice literature. In 2021 she received funding from the European Research Council and the Dutch Research Council (NWO) to extend her earlier work on Chinese state infrastructures into a large-scale collaborative project on the social and regional histories of material infrastructures (roads\, bridges\, city walls) (1000-1800). \n\n\n\nShe maintains an active interest in designing and developing digital research methods for East Asian and other languages. With Brent Ho she co-designed the text annotation and reading platform MARKUS\, and with Mees Gelein two text comparison modules COMPARATIVUS and PARALLELLS. (On the history of and concept behind these and related digital research projects\, see “Creating\, Linking\, and Analyzing Chinese and Korean Datasets: Digital Text Annotation in MARKUS and COMPARATIVUS”). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/contextual-annotation-in-textual-and-visual-media-comarkus-and-immarkus/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Room S153\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240418T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240418T150000
DTSTAMP:20260519T102150
CREATED:20240325T172420Z
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SUMMARY:Special Presentation featuring Stephen MacKinnon - History as Biography: Chen Hansheng 陈翰笙 (1897-2004)
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Stephen MacKinnon\, Emeritus Professor of History; Former Director of Center for Asian Studies\, Arizona State UniversitySteven MacKinnon\, author of Chen Hansheng: China’s Last Romantic Revolutionary\, will discuss the remarkable life of one of most important economic researchers on the Chinese rural economy over a career that spanned the 1930s to his death at 107 in 2004. Long an underground communist\, Chen was one of the most perceptive critics of both Nationalist and Communist policies\, from the collectivization of 1955 through the disasters of the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution and Mao Zedong. \n\n\n\nIn the late 1970s Prof. MacKinnon met Chen in Beijing and conducted many interviews with Chen and family\, proteges\, and surviving colleagues. The newly published biography emphasizes the international and Chinese historical context in which Chen operated globally as a celebrated social scientist\, political activist\, and public intellectual.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/modern-china-lecture-series-featuring-stephen-mackinnon-chen-hansheng-chinas-last-romantic-revolutionary/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240419T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240419T151500
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SUMMARY:2024 Gender Studies Workshop - The Chinese Family Romance
DESCRIPTION:9:10 AM: Introductory remarks  \n\n\n\n9:15 AM: Literature Panel \n\n\n\nTina Lu\, Yale University – “The Family Romance\, Chuanqi\, and What Can’t Be Said” \n\n\n\nMaria Sibau\, Emory University – “Inventing Mothers in Late Imperial Literature” \n\n\n\nDiscussants:Thomas Kelly\, Harvard UniversityWai-yee Li\, Harvard University \n\n\n\n11:00 AM: Break \n\n\n\n11:15 AM: Presentations on the Chinese Family Romance by students of Eileen Chow\, Duke University \n\n\n\nPresenters: Yueqi Cheng\, Karen He\, Lujia Li\, Tina Tianyi Liu\, Xiaodan Wang\, Kenan Gu\, and Chenyi Huang \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n12:15 PM: Break \n\n\n\n1:30 PM: History Panel \n\n\n\nMatthew Sommer\, Stanford University – “Chosen Kinship\, Unorthodox Sexual Relationships\, and Alternative Family Formations in Qing Dynasty China” \n\n\n\nClara Ho\, Hong Kong Baptist University – “Is Forty a Turning Point in the Aging Process? Not Necessarily for Women in Qing China”Discussants:Tobie Meyer-Fong\, Johns Hopkins UniversityLi Yunxin\, Simmons University \n\n\n\n3:15 PM: Close of WorkshopConference Organizers:Catherine Yeh\, Boston UniversityXu Man\, Tufts University \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/2024-gender-studies-workshop-family-romance-in-late-imperial-china/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Gender Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240419T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240419T173000
DTSTAMP:20260519T102150
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SUMMARY:2024 Harvard Visual China Graduate Symposium - Time and Temporality in Chinese Art & Culture
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHow do humans and objects exist in relation to time and experience time? We often turn to space and spatial models as the dominant approach to analyzing visual materials\, yet time could also serve as a way of organizing visual and perceptual experiences. In the case of Chinese art\, time and temporality had particular salience as organizing principles for pictorial programs and designs. Harvard Visual China’s 2024 Graduate Symposium presents three panels on the topic of Time and Temporality in Chinese Art and Culture. \n\n\n\nSponsored by the Department of History of Art & Architecture and the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Innovation Fund\, and Harvard FAS CAMLab. \n\n\n\nMore info and registration: https://www.harvardvisualchina.com/hvc-2024-symposium-info-reg \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/2024-harvard-visual-china-graduate-symposium-time-and-temporality-in-chinese-art-culture/
LOCATION:Sackler Building Auditorium\, 485 Broadway\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240419T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240419T203000
DTSTAMP:20260519T102150
CREATED:20240327T151839Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260127T181703Z
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SUMMARY:Big Waves\, Great Earthquakes Screening No. 2 – Skirting Censorship in Tibet: No. 16. Barkhor South Street\, featuring an introduction by Janet Gyatso and remarks from Lobsang Sangay
DESCRIPTION:Introduction: Janet Gyatso\, Hershey Professor of Buddhist Studies\, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs\, Harvard Divinity SchoolProgrammer: Sam Maclean\, Communications Manager\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies \n\n\n\nUpdate: Post-screening discussion with Lobsang Sangay\, former Sikyong (President) of the Central Tibetan Administration\, Senior Visiting Fellow\, East Asian Legal Studies\, Harvard Law School. \n\n\n\nBig Waves\, Great Earthquakes explores the largely unseen early history of independent film in China\, beginning in the late 1980s. Wu Wenguang — who’s usually credited as China’s first independent filmmaker — has likened the emotions of this era to a “big wave”; Wu’s contemporary\, Wen Pulin\, was working independently even earlier\, documenting the avant-garde arts scene in Beijing with his legendary\, but never-completed\, film The Great Earthquake. This screening series will unearth films long-suppressed by Chinese authorities in order to rewrite the narrative of modern film history in China. \n\n\n\nThe first of three documentaries that Duan Jinchuan shot in Tibet in 1995\, No 16. Barkhor South Street takes obvious cues from American documentary giant Frederick Wiseman in both its focus on the innerworkings of an institution (the Barkhor Neighborhood Committee\, a Communist Party-directed office in Lhasa that conducts community mediation and encourages Party registration) and in its “direct cinema” style. The film offers us a rare glimpse inside a government office of the People’s Republic. Police recruits native to Lhasa are seen in classrooms learning modern Chinese history\, a sequence with parallels to the ‘re-education’ of Uyghurs in Xinjiang today. Various meetings are held to stress\, with unconvincing congeniality\, the paramount importance of active opposition to separatism—especially as the Committee (and Lhasa at large) prepares to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Tibetan Autonomous Region. Duan demonstrates a complete understanding of the complex social dynamics in front of his camera\, whether it’s the demand for assimilation from the residents\, as measured against the rigorous approval-requirements for anyone to join the Party\, or the overwhelmed feelings of officials as they struggle to apply modern legal rationale to familial conflicts clearly rooted in immovable\, indigenous Buddhist traditions. \n\n\n\nProfessor Janet Gyatso (珍妮·嘉措) is a specialist in Buddhist studies with concentration on Tibetan and South Asian cultural and intellectual history. Her books include Apparitions of the Self: The Secret Autobiographies of a Tibetan Visionary; In the Mirror of Memory: Reflections on Mindfulness and Remembrance in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism; and Women of Tibet. She has recently completed a new book\, Being Human in a Buddhist World: An Intellectual History of Medicine in Early Modern Tibet (Columbia University Press\, 2015)\, which focuses upon alternative early modernities and the conjunctions and disjunctures between religious and scientific epistemologies in Tibetan medicine in the sixteenth–eighteenth centuries. She has also been writing on sex and gender in Buddhist monasticism\, and on the current female ordination movement in Buddhism. Previous topics of her scholarship have included visionary revelation in Buddhism; lineage\, memory\, and authorship; the philosophy of experience; and autobiographical writing in Tibet.  \n\n\n\nNo. 16 Barkhor South Street directed by Duan Jinchuan. China\, 1996\, documentary\, 96 min. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/big-waves-great-earthquakes-screening-no-2-skirting-censorship-in-tibet-no-16-barkhor-south-street-featuring-an-introduction-by-janet-gyatso/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240422T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240422T173000
DTSTAMP:20260519T102150
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SUMMARY:China Humanities Seminar featuring Franciscus Verellen - The General and His Scribe: The Fall of the Tang in Contemporary Sources
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Franciscus Verellen\, Professor Emeritus\, École française d’Extrême-Orient (EFEO); Vice President\, Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres\, Institut de France \n\n\n\nThe understudied end phase of the Tang dynasty (618–907) is mainly known through official accounts dating to the tenth and eleventh centuries. This lecture examines the process that led to the empire’s breakup from the vantage point of a key protagonist\, the general and military governor Gao Pian 高駢 (821–887)\, whose trajectory provides a step-by-step record of the empire’s military\, fiscal\, and administrative unraveling. \n\n\n\nSoldier\, statesman\, engineer\, and poet\, Gao Pian was one of the most intriguing characters to shape events in ninth-century China. He left a deeply conflicted legacy. Challenging the portrait Song official historians painted of him as an “insubordinate minister” and Daoist zealot\, contemporary sources show the general as a loyal and effective defender of the empire. \n\n\n\nThe talk introduces a neglected trove of court\, military\, and administrative communications that Gao’s Korean secretary Ch’oe Ch’iwŏn 崔致遠 (855–949) redacted on his behalf. After returning to Silla in 885\, Ch’oe compiled these documents into an extensive collection titled Tilling with my Brush at Cassia Grove 桂苑筆耕集\, an archive that throws a compelling light on Gao Pian’s governance and the declining years of the Tang. \n\n\n\n          After doctoral studies at Oxford and Paris\, Franciscus Verellen taught Chinese religions and humanities at the École pratique des Hautes Études and Columbia University. He joined the EFEO in 1991. Alternating between its Headquarters in Paris and affiliate centers in East Asia\, he served as the School’s director from 2004 to 2014 and occupied the chair in History of Daoism from 2002 to 2021. Verellen held visiting appointments at Princeton\, Berkeley\, and Hong Kong. He is a former Edwin C. and Elizabeth A. Whitehead Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study\, Princeton\, Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin\, and Life Member of Clare Hall\, University of Cambridge. \n\n\n\nFranciscus Verellen’s book manuscript Famed and Defamed: General Gao Pian and the Fall of the Tang is currently under review at Cambridge University Press. Earlier publications include Imperiled Destinies (Harvard University Asia Center\, 2019)\, The Taoist Canon (edited with Kristofer Schipper\, Chicago University Press\, 2004)\, and Du Guangting (Collège de France\, 1989). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-humanities-seminar-featuring-franciscus-verellen-the-general-and-his-scribe-the-fall-of-the-tang-in-contemporary-sources/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:China Humanities Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240422T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240422T200000
DTSTAMP:20260519T102150
CREATED:20240410T180858Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240419T183014Z
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SUMMARY:Tiananmen @ 35 Film Screening: The Gate of Heavenly Peace
DESCRIPTION:Introduction: Carma Hinton\, Art historian and Documentary Filmmaker; Robinson Professor of Visual Culture and Chinese Studies\, George Mason University (retired) \n\n\n\n“In The Gate of Heavenly Peace (the literal translation of the name Tiananmen)\, the causes\, effects and fallout from the six-week protest that led up to the Chinese government’s crackdown on dissidents are detailed with intelligence\, grace and toughness. Filmmakers Carma Hinton and Richard Gordon have transformed news into history\, and history into art.” — Michael Blowen\, The Boston Globe   \n\n\n\nThe Gate of Heavenly Peace chronicles the heroism\, drama\, tension\, humor\, absurdity\, and many tragedies of the peaceful popular protests during the spring weeks of 1989\, culminating on June 4th\, when the government’s bloody crackdown dashed the hopes of millions. Using archival footage and contemporary interviews with a wide range of Chinese citizens\, including students\, workers\, intellectuals\, and government officials\, the film reveals how the hard-liners within the government marginalized moderates among the protesters\, resulting in the voices for reason gradually being cowed and then silenced by extremism and emotionalism on both sides. \n\n\n\nIt is a sobering tale\, for faced with the binary opposition between hardened stances\, there has been little middle ground left for the rational and thoughtful proponents of positive reform in China. By giving these ignored voices their proper place in history\, The Gate of Heavenly Peace reveals an ongoing debate in 20th century China regarding revolution and reform\, as well as the importance of personal responsibility and moral integrity\, the need\, as Vaclav Havel has put it\, to “live in the truth.” \n\n\n\nCarma Hinton is an art historian and a filmmaker. She was born in Beijing\, and Chinese is her first language and culture. She received her Ph.D. in Art History from Harvard University and taught at various universities between major film projects. Together with Richard Gordon\, Hinton has directed many documentary films on China\, including Small Happiness\, All Under Heaven\, To Taste a Hundred Herbs\, Abode of Illusion: The Life and Art of Chang Dai-chien\, The Gate of Heavenly Peace\, and Morning Sun. She has won two Peabody Awards\, the American Historical Association’s John E. O’Connor Film Award\, the International Critics Prize and the Best Social and Political Documentary at the Banff Television Festival\, among others. She retired from her position as Robinson Professor of Visual Culture and Chinese Studies at George Mason University recently to focus on her book about traditional Chinese scrolls depicting the theme of demon quelling and work on the extensive archive of film and other visual materials she and Richard Gordon collected over decades of research and film production.  \n\n\n\nThe Gate of Heavenly Peace produced and directed by Carma Hinton and Richard Gordon. United States\, 1995\, documentary\, 187 min. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/tiananmen-35-film-screening-the-gate-of-heavenly-peace/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film Screening,Special Event
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: In Our Time (Guang yin de gu shi)
DESCRIPTION:The omnibus film In Our Time initiated radical innovations in terms of aesthetic styles\, industry practices and commonly depicted themes\, thereby revolutionizing the filmmaking industry in Taiwan and inaugurating the movement of Taiwan New Cinema. The four segments are shot by four young emerging directors and each film—set in different decades from the 1950s to the 1980s—represents roughly one of the four younger stages of life: childhood\, adolescence\, young adulthood (in college) and married life (as working professionals). \n\n\n\nTitled Expectations\, sometimes translated as Desires\, Edward Yang’s segment features a series of sensitive and expressive vignettes that depict the growing pains of adolescents in mid-60s Taiwan. Yang sees the placement of the second short film as structurally akin to the second movement in a symphony\, typically characterized by its lyrical and slow nature. The teenaged Hsiao-Fen (Shi An-Ni) serves as a kind of prototype for other young heroines in Yang’s cinematic corpus. The diversity of the cinematic techniques used in his debut short film accentuates the complexity of the protagonist’s emotional and perceptual experience. \n\n\n\nDirected by Edward Yang\, Chang Yi\, Ko I-Chen and Tao Te-Chen. With Sylvia Chang\, Emily Y. Chang\, Lee Li-Chun \n\n\n\nTaiwan 1982\, DCP\, color\, 110 min. Mandarin and Min Nan with English subtitles \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-screening-taipei-story-qing-mei-zhu-ma-2/
LOCATION:Harvard Film Archive\, Carpenter Center\, 24 Quincy St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest,Film Screening
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SUMMARY:Discovering Freshwater Jellyfish in Modern China: Arthur de Carle Soweby and Craspedacusta sowerbii\, 1880–1941
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Christine Luk\, Associate Professor of the History of Science\, Tsinghua University \n\n\n\nMore information: https://scholar.harvard.edu/seow/STinAsia \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/discovering-freshwater-jellyfish-in-modern-china-arthur-de-carle-soweby-and-craspedacusta-sowerbii-1880-1941/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240423T140000
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SUMMARY:Michael Stanley-Baker - Evolution of A Recipe: How DocuSky’s Post-Search Classification function reveals historical change
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Michael Stanley-Baker\, Nanyang Technological University \n\n\n\nJoin us for an illuminating workshop hosted by the Digital China Initiative (DCI) and the China Biographical Database Project (CBDB)\, showcasing the innovative DocuSky platform. Developed by the Research Center for Digital Humanities at National Taiwan University\, this online platform is ingeniously designed to cater to the intricate demands of humanities scholarship. Under the expert guidance of Professor Michael Stanley-Baker from Nanyang Technological University\, participants will delve into the bespoke tools and services offered by DocuSky. These include a diverse range of digital resources\, analytical tools\, and tailored services essential for the organization and examination of research materials. \n\n\n\nThis workshop will feature a diverse set of digital research tools designed for the historical study of Chinese medicine.  At their core is the full-text corpus database hosted in DocuSky\, which will be the primary focus of the presentation.  We will examine the post-search classification feature\, and how it allows users to parse through thousands of query returns in an exploratory way\, oscillating between macro-scale data patterns\, and micro-scale close reading\, to come to a synthetic vision and analysis of specific research questions. \n\n\n\nThe advantage of digital tools go beyond acquiring more data.  Such overviews should afford insights which prompt new questions we might not have asked before. DocuSky does more than provide answers\, it stimulates new inquiry\, and provides the means to explore further. \n\n\n\nSpeaker’s bio: \n\n\n\nAs an adept historian in Chinese Medicine and Religion\, Professor Stanley-Baker’s expertise spans from the early Imperial period to contemporary Sinophone communities. His work intricately weaves together cultural knowledge in Chinese medicine with varied disciplines such as religion\, botany\, trade\, modern biology\, and policy. His methods range from meticulous textual analysis and interviews to cutting-edge digital humanities techniques. \n\n\n\nProfessor Stanley-Baker’s remarkable contributions to the field are evidenced by his editorial leadership in significant publications and his development of numerous digital humanities projects. His innovative creations include digital mappings of ancient Chinese medical texts and the Polyglot Medicine Knowledge Graph\, a pioneering digital resource connecting traditional and modern medicinal knowledge across cultures. The project won the 2nd runner-up for Best Dataset in DH Awards 2023. \n\n\n\nWith a rich academic background that includes a PhD from the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London\, an MA from Indiana University\, and a clinical degree in Chinese medicine\, Professor Stanley-Baker is a fount of knowledge. His esteemed research appointments across the globe have solidified his reputation as a leading light in the intersection of traditional knowledge and digital innovation. \n\n\n\nIf you want to participate in the workshop activities\, please register for a DocuSky account at https://docusky.org.tw/DocuSky/home/?l=en \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/michael-stanley-baker-evolution-of-a-recipe-how-docuskys-post-search-classification-function-reveals-historical-change/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S250\, 1730 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240423T163000
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SUMMARY:Tiananmen @ 35: What Have We Learned? A Conversation with Journalists
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:Dorinda Elliott\, Newsweek\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies \n\n\n\nSeth Faison\, South China Morning Press\, Brunswick Group China Hub \n\n\n\nOrville Schell\, New York Review of Books\, Asia Society Center on U.S.-China Relations \n\n\n\nKatherine Wilhelm\, Associated Press\, NYU U.S. Asia Law Center \n\n\n\nModerator: Annie Jieping Zhang\, founder\, Matters Lab\, co-founder\, Initium Media\, Nieman-Berkman Klein Fellow 2024 \n\n\n\nWhat happened in the spring of 1989 in Beijing\, and does it matter today? A panel of journalists who covered China’s democracy movement—and have watched China’s economic and political development since—will examine the reasons for the student movement and the bloody crackdown and the ensuing turning points that led to Xi Jinping’s China today. \n\n\n\nDorinda (Dinda) Elliott is executive director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Harvard China Fund. She previously served as SVP at the China Institute in New York and as editorial and communications director at the Paulson Institute. Before that\, Elliott worked at Newsweek\, Time\, Asiaweek\, and Conde Nast Traveler. Elliott spent 20 years as a foreign correspondent\, based in Hong Kong\, Beijing\, and Moscow\, and then served as editor in chief of Asiaweek magazine\, based in Hong Kong. Elliott covered China’s opening up in the late 1980s and the student movement in 1989; the rise of the mafia and political and economic transition in Post-Soviet Russia; the fall of Suharto in Indonesia; the reformasi movement in Malaysia; Hong Kong’s handover to Chinese sovereignty in 1997; and China’s rise as an economic power.    \n\n\n\nSeth Faison is a partner at Brunswick Group\, specializing in China. He went to China in 1984 and spent two years learning Chinese. He became a reporter in Hong Kong and opened the Beijing Bureau of the South China Morning Post in 1988. He covered the 1989 student movement and crackdown in Tiananmen Square. He later joined the New York Times\, winning a Pulitzer Prize in 1994 as part of a team covering breaking news. He became Shanghai Bureau Chief and wrote extensively about changes in China’s politics\, economy\, arts and society. He is the author of “South of the Clouds: Exploring the Hidden Realms of China.” Since 2006\, he has served as a communications specialist and advisor\, including eight years as Head of Communications for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS\, TB and Malaria. \n\n\n\nOrville Schell is the Arthur Ross Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at Asia Society in New York. He is a former professor and Dean at the University of California\, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. \n\n\n\nSchell is the author of fifteen books\, ten of them about China\, and a contributor to numerous edited volumes. His most recent books are: Wealth and Power\, China’s Long March to the 21st Century; Virtual Tibet; The China Reader: The Reform Years; and Mandate of Heaven: The Legacy of Tiananmen Square and the Next Generation of China’s Leaders. Schell has written for many leading publications; he covered China’s student movement in 1989 for The New York Review of Books. \n\n\n\nKatherine Wilhelm is executive director of the U.S.-Asia Law Institute\, an adjunct professor at NYU School of Law\, and editor of the institute’s online essay series\, USALI Perspectives. She is an expert on China’s legal system\, public interest law organizations\, and civil society. Over the course of nearly three decades in China as a lawyer and journalist\, she worked for the Ford Foundation\, Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center\, a leading U.S. law firm\, the Far Eastern Economic Review\, and The Associated Press. She earned a JD and master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University and a master’s degree in East Asian studies from Harvard University. \n\n\n\nAnnie Jieping Zhang is founder and CEO of Matters Lab\, a decentralized Web3 social media platform. She also co-founded and was the editor-in-chief of Initium Media\, an online Chinese-language publication established in Hong Kong in 2015. She previously worked as an editor at City Magazine; chief writer and executive editor-in-chief for iSun Affairs\, an iPad-based magazine offering political and social news; and as a reporter for Asia Week. The Society of Publishers in Asia named Zhang Journalist of the Year in 2010.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/tiananmen-35-what-have-we-learned-a-conversation-with-journalists/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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SUMMARY:Gyal Lo - The Impact of China’s Colonial Boarding Schools in Tibet on Children and Communities
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Gyal Lo\, Educational sociologist and expert on China’s assimilation and education policies in TibetModerator: James Robson\, James C. Kralik\, and Yunli Lou Professor\, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations; Victor and William Fung Director\, Asia Center\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nMore information: https://asiacenter.harvard.edu/events/impact-chinas-colonial-boarding-schools-tibet-children-and-communities \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/gyal-lo-the-impact-of-chinas-colonial-boarding-schools-in-tibet-on-children-and-communities/
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:20240425T101500
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SUMMARY:Perspectives on Academic Freedom
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers:Sugata Bose\, Harvard UniversityWilliam Kirby\, Harvard University Jayati Ghosh\, University of Massachusetts\, AmherstZeynep Kadirbeyoglu\, Brandeis UniversitySidney Chalhoub\, Harvard UniversityJoan Scott\, Institute for Advanced Study\, PrincetonDurba Mitra\, Harvard UniversityBeshara Doumani\, Brown UniversityBrian Connolly\, University of South Florida \n\n\n\nIn 2019\, alarmed by attacks on academic freedom happening simultaneously in several parts of the world (Brazil\, India\, Turkey\, and the USA\, among others)\, a group of faculty in the History Department decided to organize a year-long seminar series to discuss the role of academics in an age of advancing authoritarianism. The pandemic derailed our plans. The crises of the past few months have given us a new sense of urgency. How can the university remain a place of unfettered critical inquiry and expression when its mission is overtly challenged by corporate and governing interests?  \n\n\n\nRegistration and a complete agenda available at: https://history.fas.harvard.edu/event/perspectives-academic-freedomOpen to members of the Harvard community only. Please bring your Harvard ID for check in.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/perspectives-on-academic-freedom/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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