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SUMMARY:Yanfei Sun - Religious Toleration in Premodern Empires
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Yanfei Sun\, Zhejiang University \nYanfei Sun is associate professor of sociology at Zhejiang University. Her research interests include sociology of religion and political sociology. In addition to religious changes in modern China\, she also researches on religious movement\, global expansion of Christianity\, religious toleration\, religious nationalism\, and ethno-religious violence.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/chinese-religions-workshop-2/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190312T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190312T183000
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SUMMARY:Panel Discussion - Revisiting the Wilsonian Moment in Asia\, 1919
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\nCarter Eckert\, Yoon Se Young Professor of Korean History; Interim Director\, Korea Institute\, Harvard University\nArunabh Ghosh\, Assistant Professor of History\, Harvard University\nAndrew Gordon\, Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History\, Harvard University; Acting Director\, Harvard-Yenching Institute\nErez Manela\, Professor of History\, Harvard University\nHeather Streets-Salter\, Chair and Professor of History\, Northeastern University \nChair:\nKaren L. Thornber\, Professor of Comparative Literature and of East Asian Languages and Civilizations; Victor and William Fung Director\, Harvard University Asia Center \nhttps://asiacenter.harvard.edu/events/wilsonian-moment-in-asia-march-1-movement-100-year-anniversary-338
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/panel-discussion-revisiting-the-wilsonian-moment-in-asia-1919/
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:20190312T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190312T200000
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SUMMARY:Susan Greenhalgh - Coca-Cola in China: the Role of Foreign Industry Funding in China’s Health Science and Policy
DESCRIPTION:Susan Greenhalgh is the John King and Wilma Cannon Fairbank Research Professor of Chinese Society in the Anthropology Department at Harvard University. She is an author\, anthropologist\, and specialist on contemporary China. Greenhalgh’s work has been recognized by several life-time career achievement awards. The BMJ recently published her article titled “Making China Safe for Coke: How Coca-Cola Shaped Obesity Science and Policy in China.” The article sheds light on a rarely discussed controversy within China’s health field over the use and effects of industry funding. On one side are those who maintain that\, with the National Commission on Health overburdened by many health crises\, corporate funding is badly needed and does not color the science because China’s researchers know the difference between good and bad science. On the other side are those who believe that any corporate funding invariably affects the science that is done\, usually with unfortunate results. Who is right? This debate will be the focus of the upcoming China Health Partnership seminar. Please read Professor Greenhalgh’s article (https://www.bmj.com/content/364/bmj.k5050) and join us for lively discussion
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/susan-greenhalgh-coca-cola-in-china-the-role-of-foreign-industry-funding-in-chinas-health-science-and-policy/
LOCATION:Harvard Chan School\, Building 1\, Room 1208\, 677 Huntington Ave\, Boston\, MA\, 02115\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190313T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190313T140000
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SUMMARY:Nicholas Lardy - The State Strikes Back: The End of Economic Reform in China?
DESCRIPTION:Read the event summary here \nSpeaker: Nicholas Lardy\, Peterson Institute for International Economics \n\n\n\n\nNicholas R. Lardy is the Anthony M. Solomon Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. He joined the Institute in March 2003 from the Brookings Institution\, where he was a senior fellow from 1995 until 2003. Before Brookings\, he served at the University of Washington\, where he was the director of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies from 1991 to 1995. From 1997 through the spring of 2000\, he was also the Frederick Frank Adjunct Professor of International Trade and Finance at the Yale University School of Management. He is an expert on the Chinese economy.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-lecture-series-2-2018-10-31-2019-03-13/
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:20190313T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190313T180000
DTSTAMP:20260517T182115
CREATED:20190307T174021Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190307T174021Z
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SUMMARY:Başak Bilecen - Chinese International Students’ Networks at Elite Universities: A Comparative Study of Germany and the US
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Başak Bilecen\, Rosalind Franklin Assistant Professor of Sociology\, University of Groningen\nChair: Muriel Rouyer\, Adjunct Professor of Public Policy\, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation\, Harvard Kennedy School; Local Affiliate\, CES\, Harvard University \n In migration scholarship\, the role of social networks has been well-established in people’s decisions on whether to migrate and where to migrate to. Recently\, international student mobility literature has shown that networks\, parental aspirations and socio-economic background play an important role in an individual’s study-abroad decisions. Over the past few decades many countries\, including Germany and the United States\, have witnessed a tremendous increase in the number of international students applying to universities\, with the majority coming from China. Based on personal network analysis and qualitative interviews with Chinese international students enrolled at elite universities in Germany and in the US\, Başak Bilecen will compare and contrast how networks effect study abroad decisions. She will show that these decisions are based on the networks of the individual students as well as their country of origin and the educational institutions. \nhttps://bit.ly/2XC5KTL
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/basak-bilecen-chinese-international-students-networks-at-elite-universities-a-comparative-study-of-germany-and-the-us/
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:20190313T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190313T190000
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SUMMARY:Jenny So - Rare and Beautiful Objects\, New and Unexpected Findings: Revisiting Harvard’s Early Chinese Jades
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Jenny So\, Chinese University of Hong Kong \nJenny So will highlight the exciting discoveries she made while preparing a new catalogue of the ancient Chinese jades in the Harvard Art Museums collections. Free admission\, but seating is limited. Tickets will be distributed beginning at 5:30pm at the museums’ Broadway entrance. One ticket per person. After the lecture\, guests are invited to visit our early Chinese art galleries on Level 1 until 8pm. \nAbout Jenny F. So \nJenny F. So received her B.A. from Swarthmore College\, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in art history from Harvard University. She has served as senior curator of Ancient Chinese Art at the Freer and Sackler Galleries\, the Smithsonian Institution\, in charge of the rich holdings of both collections. She left the Smithsonian Institution to take up the position of professor of fine arts at the Chinese University of Hong Kong\, and later\, was also appointed director of that university’s Institute of Chinese Studies and Art Museum. She retired from her full-time Hong Kong appointments in 2015\, retaining an association as adjunct professor\, and returned to live in Arlington\, Virginia\, where she continues to publish while serving as a specialist-consultant in Chinese art for American and international educational and commercial institutions.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/jenny-so-rare-and-beautiful-objects-new-and-unexpected-findings-revisiting-harvards-early-chinese-jades/
LOCATION:Harvard Art Museums\, 32 Quincy St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190314T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190314T133000
DTSTAMP:20260517T182115
CREATED:20190208T140837Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190208T140837Z
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SUMMARY:Lyu Peng - Animal transition and subsistence strategy on an ancient Chinese island: A zooarchaeological study of the Xiaozhushan Site
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Lyu Peng\, Institute of Archaeology\, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; HYI Visiting Scholar 2018-19\nChair/discussant: Richard Meadow\, Senior Lecturer\, Department of Anthropology\, Harvard University \nhttps://harvard-yenching.org/events/animal-transition-and-subsistence-strategy-ancient-chinese-island-zooarchaeological-study
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/lyu-peng-animal-transition-and-subsistence-strategy-on-an-ancient-chinese-island-a-zooarchaeological-study-of-the-xiaozhushan-site/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190325T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190325T153000
DTSTAMP:20260517T182115
CREATED:20190319T132447Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190319T132447Z
UID:8009-1553522400-1553527800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Allan Layug - Order in International Thought: Unpacking China’s Concept of World Order
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Allan Layug\, PhD Candidate\, University of Queensland; Associate\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\nDiscussant: Robert Ross\, Professor of Political Science\, Boston College \nHow do we conceptualize China’s world order? What are its defining characteristics? Whose ideas matter in conceptualizing it—and why? And how do the different conceptions affect the Chinese world-ordering projects in the 21st century? These are the key questions the lecture aims to address. Specifically\, it will lay out the ideational foundations of order from the ancient to the modern Chinese thought\, exploring key ideas from Confucius to Sun Yatsen. It will unpack the bones of contention on conceptualization\, construction\, maintenance\, and transformation of world order in the contemporary period\, tracing change and continuity in Mao Zedong Thought\, Deng Theory\, Xi Jinping Thought. It will provide a four-level analysis: (a) analytical level\, where Chinese concept of order and its key characteristics are defined and analyzed\, (b) logical level\, where the reasoning behind such a conception is discussed\, (c) theoretical level\, where the concept is viewed from different theoretical points of view\, and (d) field of debate level\, where the parameters\, axes\, and forms of argument framing the debate in the Chinese world are analyzed. The lecture will conclude on some thoughts about the future trajectory of world ordering the Chinese Way.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/allan-layug-order-in-international-thought-unpacking-chinas-concept-of-world-order/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190325T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190325T180000
DTSTAMP:20260517T182115
CREATED:20190220T192207Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190220T192207Z
UID:7927-1553529600-1553536800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Felix Wemheuer - Rebels in Power: Factionalism in Shandong during China’s Cultural Revolution (1966-1969)
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Felix Wemheuer\, Chair Professor of Modern China Studies\, University of Cologne \nDuring the early Cultural Revolution (1966-1969)\, factional conflicts inside the CCP (Communist Party of China) and within the society resulted in civil war and the almost collapse of the party-state. Wemheuer will present Shandong Province as a case study for the development of factional conflicts at the various administrative levels of state and society. Based on various field trips\, archival research and Oral History interviews with former rebel leaders\, it will be shown how the coalition of rebel cadres\, students\, workers and soldiers was created in Shandong and why they were able to “seize power” in February of 1967. The events and developments that ultimately led to the splitting of the rebels and their final downfall in 1969 will also be examined. The talk will contribute to a new understanding of factional politics. \nFelix Wemheuer belongs to a new generation of Western scholars who are rewriting the history of Maoist China. His publications include Famine Politics in Maoist China and the Soviet Union (Yale UP 2014) and A Social History of Maoist China: Conflict and Change\, 1949-1976 (Cambridge UP 2019). Between 2008 and 2010\, he was a visiting scholar at the Fairbank Center.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/felix-wemheuer-rebels-in-power-factionalism-in-shandong-during-chinas-cultural-revolution-1966-1969/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190326T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190326T180000
DTSTAMP:20260517T182115
CREATED:20180801T180637Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250130T154941Z
UID:7407-1553616000-1553623200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Anne Reinhardt - Navigating Semi-Colonialism: Shipping\, Sovereignty\, and Nation-Building in China 1860-1937
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Anne Reinhardt\, Williams College \nChina’s status in the world of expanding European empires of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries has long been under dispute.  Its unequal relations with multiple powers\, secured through a system of treaties rather than through colonization\, has invited debated over the degree and significance of outside control and local sovereignty.  In this talk\, Anne Reinhardt will discuss her recent book\, Navigating Semi-colonialism: Shipping\, Sovereignty\, and Nation-Building in China\, 1860-1937\, which examines steam navigation as a constitutive element of the treaty system in order to elucidate both conceptual and concrete aspects of the semi-colonial regime.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/anne-reinhardt-modern-china-lecture-series/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Modern China Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190326T161500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190326T180000
DTSTAMP:20260517T182115
CREATED:20181210T155040Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181210T155040Z
UID:7794-1553616900-1553623200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Harvard-Yenching Institute Annual Roundtable: Preserving Asia’s Colonial and Modern Architectural Heritage
DESCRIPTION:Panelists:\nFu Chao-Ching\, Emeritus\, Department of Architecture\, National Cheng Kung University\, Taiwan\nKim Hyon-Sob\, Department of Architecture\, Korea University\, South Korea\nLiu Chen\, School of Architecture\, Tsinghua University\, China; HYI Visiting Scholar 2018-19\nThant Myint-U\, Writer\, Historian\, and Founder and Chairman of the Yangon Heritage Trust \nChair:\nAndrew Gordon\, Harvard University/Acting Director\, Harvard-Yenching Institute \nThis year’s HYI roundtable will present an exchange of ideas about current issues of architectural preservation in Asian cities. Our panelists will focus on architecture of modern times\, and in particular of the colonial era.  What are the challenges\, and the opportunities\, facing those interested to preserve the architecture of this era and make its importance known to the present and posterity? These challenges and opportunities have political\, economic\, and cultural dimensions.  Panelists will address the topic from one or more of these perspectives. \nCo-sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/harvard-yenching-institute-annual-roundtable-preserving-asias-colonial-and-modern-architectural-heritage/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190329T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190329T133000
DTSTAMP:20260517T182115
CREATED:20190305T180404Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190305T180404Z
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SUMMARY:Zhang Ying - Maimonides’s  Conception of Nature and Zhu Xi’s Doctrine of Principle/Coherence (Li理) and Material Force (Qi氣)
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Zhang Ying\,  Associate Professor\, Department of Philosophy\, East China Normal University; HYI Visiting Scholar 2018-19\nChair/discussant: David Stern\, Harry Starr Professor of Classical and Modern Jewish and Hebrew Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature\, Harvard University \nMaimonides (1138-1204) and Zhu Xi (1130-1200) are unparalleled in their transformation and renewal of the Jewish and the Confucian traditions\, respectively. Through illustrating Maimonides’s interpretation of the rabbinic notion “the Account of the Beginning” (ma‘aseh bereshith) and Zhu Xi’s reading of the classical texts\, such as the Book of Changes and the Doctrine of the Mean\, the talk will make a comparison of Maimonides’s conception of nature\, which is a key to understanding his Guide of the Perplexed\, and Zhu Xi’s core doctrine of li理 and qi 氣. More specifically\, the focus of the talk will be (1) explaining Maimonides’ statement that the Account of the Beginning is identical with natural science\, and (2) examining Zhu Xi’s understanding of certain notions\, such as nature (xing 性)\, number (shu 數)\, principle/coherence (li 理)\, material force (qi 氣)\, (two primary forces) dark-bright [yin-yang 陰陽]\, five agents (wu xing 五行) and so on. \nhttps://harvard-yenching.org/events/maimonidess-conception-nature-and-zhu-xis-doctrine-principlecoherence-li-and-material-force
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/zhang-ying-maimonidess-conception-of-nature-and-zhu-xis-doctrine-of-principle-coherence-li%e7%90%86-and-material-force-qi%e6%b0%a3/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190401T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190401T134500
DTSTAMP:20260517T182115
CREATED:20190312T172630Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190312T172630Z
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SUMMARY:Richard Weitz: Russia\, China\, and the United States as Great-Power Competitors: Implications for Nuclear Security and Conflict
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Richard Weitz\, Senior Research Fellow\, Hudson Institute \n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/richard-weitz-russia-china-and-the-united-states-as-great-power-competitors-implications-for-nuclear-security-and-conflict/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S354\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190401T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190401T170000
DTSTAMP:20260517T182115
CREATED:20190329T154548Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190329T154548Z
UID:8031-1554130800-1554138000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Rudolf Wagner - The Public Performance of Justice: The Transcultural Career of a Political Installation Across Eurasia
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Rudolf Wagner\, Universitat Heidelberg; Fairbank Center Associate
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/rudolf-wagner-the-public-performance-of-justice-the-transcultural-career-of-a-political-installation-across-eurasia/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190401T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190401T180000
DTSTAMP:20260517T182115
CREATED:20190312T134308Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190312T134308Z
UID:7996-1554134400-1554141600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Matthew Wells - The Vision to Restore the Empire: Manufacturing Monarchy and Empire in the Early 4th Century
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Matthew Wells\, University of Kentucky \nThis presentation will discuss part of an ongoing project that attempts to explain how the early leaders of the Eastern Jin understood and executed what Dennis Grafflin has called the “interesting task of reality construction” that was required for establishing their new empire in Yangzhou 揚州 in the early 4th century. We will trace the efforts of Wang Dao 王導 (276-339) to establish the rule of Sima Rui司馬睿 (276-323)\, who reigned as Emperor Yuan\, by focusing on Wang’s efforts to reach out to southern gentry and former Wu officials for support and guidance. In particular\, I am interested in the way in which three specific individuals were recruited for the task of building the Eastern Jin regime: Gu Rong 顧榮 (d. 312)\, He Xun 賀循 (260-319)\, and Ji Zhan 紀瞻 (253-324). According to the Jin shu editors and sources from the period\, this particular group of southern elites was central to the establishment of the first Jiankang empire. Answering the question of what these three men brought to the table and why their recruitment was so important for Wang Dao is fundamental to understanding Wang’s notions of empire and monarchy\, and the way in which the construction of these institutions relied on the public imagination for their success.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/matthew-wells-the-vision-to-restore-the-empire-manufacturing-monarchy-and-empire-in-the-early-4th-century/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S354\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:China Humanities Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190402T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190402T131500
DTSTAMP:20260517T182115
CREATED:20190313T183531Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190313T183531Z
UID:8002-1554206400-1554210900@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Yeling Tan - Disaggregating “China\, Inc” - Explaining the Rise of Chinese State Capitalism
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Yeling Tan\, Assistant Professor of Political Science\, University of Oregon \nWhen China joined the WTO in 2001\, conventional wisdom held that global trade rules would provide a credible commitment to liberalization. While significant reforms did take place\, scholars soon pointed to the emergence of a Chinese “state capitalism”. Why did the expansion of market-oriented institutions after WTO entry fail to constrain the subsequent rise of more interventionist developmental policies? What explains the timing of these non-linear policy trajectories? This analysis disaggregates the Chinese central state and unpacks the divergent strategies adopted by competing agencies in response to WTO entry. \nYeling Tan\, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Oregon\, will explain why the timing of this divergence turns on the durability of WTO commitments and the political relationship between China’s party and its state. She will argue that what emerged was an intensified dualism in Chinese economic governance\, with intensified market competition promoted by one set of central agencies\, yet a more consolidated industrial policy promoted by rival agencies. Tony Saich\, Ash Center Director and Daweoo Professor of International Affairs\, will moderate. \nLunch will be served. This event is open to the public\, but seating is first come\, first served. We recommend that you arrive 10-15 minutes early to grab your lunch and a seat. Discussion will begin promptly at noon. 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/yeling-tan-disaggregating-china-inc-explaining-the-rise-of-chinese-state-capitalism/
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:20190403T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190403T133000
DTSTAMP:20260517T182115
CREATED:20190305T180745Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190305T180745Z
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SUMMARY:Huang Xiangchun - The Art of Keeping Appropriate Distance: Practicing “Ethnicity” of the “Dan” (蜑) on the Margins Through Time
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Huang Xiangchun\, Associate Professor of Anthropology\, Xiamen University; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2018-19|\nChair/discussant: Robert Weller\, Professor\, Department of Anthropology\, Boston University \nWhat does  “ethnicity” mean in late imperial and modern China? How is it practiced in local society and to what extent does it shape local society and culture? This talk reflects on and responds to these questions by interpreting stories of the “Dan” (蜑\, boat people) from Fuzhou. In the local society and culture of Fuzhou and its water-land ecosystems\, the Dan were a historical “ethnic group” and a “base and marginalized community.” But “Dan” also represented a lifestyle\, a field of social action\, a status discourse\, and a cultural identifying label. The Dan played a number of roles that broke classifactory boundaries\, including fishing people\, taxpayer\, pirate\, smuggler\, tenant\, stowaway\, as well as people of base status (贱民) and barbarian. These roles reflect the fact that the existence of the Dan as an “ethnic” group was a product of deliberate strategy: keeping “appropriate distance” from the state and “decent” society. In this sense\, the Dan occupied a marginal position between “not being governed” and “being governed”. The example of the Dan demonstrates that local society and culture and “ethnicity” were\, to a large extent\, a social-cultural consequence of this historical process of institutionalization. Moreover\, the internalization (or conventionalization) of institutional languages and the appropriation of local symbols (gods and rituals) explains how local Chinese communities could maintain their diversity while sharing in “Chineseness”. \nhttps://harvard-yenching.org/events/art-keeping-appropriate-distance-practicing-ethnicity-dan-margins-through-time
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/huang-xiangchun-the-art-of-keeping-appropriate-distance-practicing-ethnicity-of-the-dan-%e8%9c%91-on-the-margins-through-time/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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SUMMARY:Melanie Manion - Xi Jinping's Anticorruption Campaign
DESCRIPTION:Read event summary here \nSpeaker: Melanie Manion\, Duke University \nMelanie Manion is Vor Broker Family Professor of Political Science at Duke University. She studied philosophy and political economy at Peking University in the late 1970s\, was trained in Far Eastern studies at McGill University and the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London\, and earned her doctorate in political science at the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on contemporary authoritarianism\, with empirical work on bureaucracy\, corruption\, information\, and representation in China. She is the recipient of numerous research awards\, including awards from the National Science Foundation\, Fulbright Foundation\, Social Science Research Council\, and American Council of Learned Societies. Her newest research investigates the political selection of “winners” in China’s ongoing anticorruption campaign. Recent research\, in collaboration with Charles Chang\, analyzes social media self-censorship in China. Her most recent book\, Information for Autocrats (Cambridge University Press\, 2015)\, examines representation in Chinese local congresses. Previous publications include Retirement of Revolutionaries in China (Princeton University Press\, 1993)\, Corruption by Design (Harvard University Press\, 2004)\, and Contemporary Chinese Politics: New Sources\, Methods\, and Field Strategies (edited with Allen Carlson\, Mary Gallagher\, and Kenneth Lieberthal\, Cambridge University Press\, 2010). Her articles have appeared in journals including American Political Science Review\, Comparative Political Studies\, and China Quarterly. She is an award-winning teacher.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-lecture-series-2-2018-10-31-2019-04-03/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China Series
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SUMMARY:Symposium - Tale of Three Cities: Urban Regeneration Through Design and Cultural Innovation
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\nYuan Qian\, Director\, Vanke Urban Research Institute\nLemin Zhang\, Xiamen University.\nRuoxi Zhang\, Xiamen University.\nNeill Mclean Gaddes\, Principal\, Sans Practice\nJames Shen\, Principal\, People’s Architecture Office\, Harvard Loeb Fellow 2018\, Research Fellow – Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies \nIn four decades China’s urban population has exploded\, tripling to 58% of its total population. In compari-son to Europe at 74% and North America at 82%\, China has ample room to further urbanize. However\, the unfettered horizontal expansion of cities and the resulting over speculation and urban sprawl has led to severe environmental and social concerns. \nRecognizing this challenge\, President Xi stated at the19th National Congress of the Communist Party that the new urbanization plan will be “people centered” rather than land-driven. The 13th Five-Year plan he referred to\, set a goal to regenerate 20 million residences in shantytowns\, indicating a refocusing of urban development towards distressed locations and upgrading existing urban fabric. \nUrban Regeneration sites such as urban villages and historic districts are typically located near city cen-ters\, making it difficult to employ common tabula rasa urban renewal practices. Confronting dense urban areas with multiple stake holders and unique building and site conditions requires inventive approaches\, multi-disciplinary collaboration\, and public and private partnerships in order to gather the resources needed to tackle such projects. \nThis symposium brings together leading urban practitioners to discuss urban regeneration projects in Da-shilar Beijing\, Hubei in Shenzhen\, and Shapowei in Xiamen. In each case\, Art and Design has played a crucial role through their history of development. This symposium aims to provide a forum for the ex-change of ideas and lessons learned from successes and failures in regard to the actual experience of implementing of innovative urban regeneration strategies.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/symposium-tale-of-three-cities-urban-regeneration-through-design-and-cultural-innovation/
LOCATION:Gund Hall Room 111\, 48 Quincy St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190404T180000
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SUMMARY:Adam Segal - The Future of US-China Technology Competition
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Adam Segal\, Council on Foreign Relations \nAdam Segal is the Ira A. Lipman chair in emerging technologies and national security and director of the Digital and Cyberspace Policy Program at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). An expert on security issues\, technology development\, and Chinese domestic and foreign policy\, Segal was the project director for the CFR-sponsored Independent Task Force report Defending an Open\, Global\, Secure\, and Resilient Internet. His book The Hacked World Order: How Nations Fight\, Trade\, Maneuver\, and Manipulate in the Digital Age(PublicAffairs\, 2016) describes the increasingly contentious geopolitics of cyberspace. His work has appeared in the Financial Times\, The Economist\, Foreign Policy\, The Wall Street Journal\, and Foreign Affairs\, among others. He currently writes for the blog\, “Net Politics.”
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/adam-segal-china-economy-lecture/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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SUMMARY:Li Yinghua - Let Silent Stones Speak: A technological analysis of lithics and examination of cultural homogeneity and diversity in South China and Southeast Asia from 30\,000 to 6\,000 years ago
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Li Yinghua Professor\, School of History\, Wuhan University; HYI Visiting Scholar 2018-19\nChair/discussant: Rowan Flad\, John E. Hudson Professor of Archaeology\, Department of Anthropology\, Harvard University \nhttps://harvard-yenching.org/events/let-silent-stones-speak-technological-analysis-lithics-and-examination-cultural-homogeneity
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/li-yinghua-let-silent-stones-speak-a-technological-analysis-of-lithics-and-examination-of-cultural-homogeneity-and-diversity-in-south-china-and-southeast-asia-from-30000-to-6000-years-ago/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190409T200000
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SUMMARY:Julie Zhu - Life under Mao: the Cultural Revolution and the "Barefoot Doctors"
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Julie Zhu \nUp through the early 1970s\, the “Barefoot Doctor” initiative in China brought primary care to rural China through a cadre of village health workers affectionately referred to as the “Barefoot Doctors.” Julie Zhu was one of them. She was sent to the countryside after high school and worked under the most famous Barefoot Doctor in China\, Lee Sun\, who was praised by Mao and whose stories were in the official newspapers and school text books. In her talk\, Julie will discuss poverty\, medical care\, as well as her experiences living in the countryside under Mao\, using her own photo archive. The audience will have an opportunity to travel back in time and reflect on China’s primary care system from a historical perspective.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/julie-zhu-life-under-mao-the-cultural-revolution-and-the-barefoot-doctors/
LOCATION:Harvard Chan School\, Building 1\, Room 1208\, 677 Huntington Ave\, Boston\, MA\, 02115\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190410T140000
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SUMMARY:Jessica Teets - Managing Local Cadres
DESCRIPTION:Read event summary here \nSpeaker: Jessica Teets\, Middlebury College \nJessica C. Teets is an Associate Professor in the Political Science Department at Middlebury College\, and Associate Editor of the Journal of Chinese Political Science.  Her research focuses on governance and policy diffusion in authoritarian regimes\, specifically the role of civil society.  She is the author of Civil Society Under Authoritarianism: The China Model (Cambridge University Press\, 2014) and editor (with William Hurst) of Local Governance Innovation in China: Experimentation\, Diffusion\, and Defiance (Routledge Contemporary China Series\, 2014).  Dr. Teets was recently selected to participate in the Public Intellectuals Program created by the National Committee on United States-China Relations (NCUSCR)\, and is currently researching policy experimentation by local governments in China.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-lecture-series-2-2018-10-31-2019-04-10/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China Series
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190411T170000
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SUMMARY:Workshop - Sinophone Humanities in Southeast Asia
DESCRIPTION:SCHEDULE \n10.15am – 10.30am: Welcome Remarks by David Wang \n10.30am – 12pm:  \nPanel A: The Geopolitics of Southeast Asian Space\, Memory and History \nChair: Huang Ying-che (Aichi University) \nKo Chia-cian (National Taiwan University): 漢詩世界裡的華夷風 \nTee Kim Tong (National Sun Yat-sen University): 馬華文學、吉隆坡與文學／記憶現場 \nLiew Zhou Hau (Harvard University): Staging Resettlement: The Re-engineering of Rural History and the Replanting of Nanyang Memories \nJessica Tan (Harvard University): Caught between Homelands: The “Return” of the Wild Goose Wang Xiaoping \n12 – 1pm: Lunch \n1 – 2.30pm: \nPanel B: Southeast Asia Trans-regional Connections and Consciousness   \nChair: David Wang (Harvard University) \nNicholas Wong (University of Chicago): Interwar Nanyang Studies and Hsu Yun-Tsiao’s Diaries in Patani\, Siam \nHsiung Ting-hui (Tamkang University): 世界主義下的馬華文學：賀淑芳《迷宮毯子》中的種族問題 \nJannis Chen (Harvard University): From Becoming-Things to Thing-Power: Literature of Things \nWoo Kamloon (Linking Publishing Taiwan): 從文學到歷史：馬華出版在台灣 \n2.30 – 3pm: Tea Break \n3 – 4.45pm: \nPanel C: Roundtable Discussion with Chang Kuei-hsing  \nChair: Mei Chia-ling (National Taiwan University) \nParticipants: Chang Kuei-hsing\, David Wang and Huang Ying-che \n4.45 – 5pm: Closing Remarks \nThe event is sponsored by the following institutions: \nthe Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation\, Harvard University Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, and Taiwan’s Ministry of Science and Technology “Southbound Chinese and Cultural Interpretation” \nProject
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/workshop-sinophone-humanities-in-southeast-asia/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190412T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190413T173000
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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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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/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
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
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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
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190416T163000
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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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