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SUMMARY:Painting into Being: Underground Art during China’s Cultural Revolution
DESCRIPTION:zoom registration\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Aihe Wang\, Former Wuming Artist; Honorary Associate Professor at the School of Chinese\, The University of Hong Kong \n\n\n\nModerator: Michael Puett\, Victor and William Fung Foundation Director\, Harvard University Asia Center; Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History and Anthropology\, FAS; Harvard College Professor \n\n\n\nAmid the political turmoil of China’s Cultural Revolution\, a small group of painters in Beijing defied state control\, creating art in secrecy that challenged the ideological constraints of their time. Painting into Beingis the first in-depth study of underground art during this period\, focusing on the Wuming (No Name) Painting Group\, active from 1972 to 1981\, in conjunction with other clandestine cultural movements. Aihe Wang brings a singular perspective to this history as both a former Wuming artist and a Harvard-trained historian and anthropologist. Analyzing nearly one hundred oil paintings against sophisticated theoretical frameworks and intricate historical narratives\, she examines how underground artists cultivated individual agency\, forged collective solidarity\, and subtly resisted authoritarianism. This book also illustrates how Wuming aesthetically engaged with both modern Western art and traditional Chinese art in creating a distinct form of Chinese modernism. \n\n\n\nInterweaving history\, theory\, and lived experience\, Painting into Being expands our understanding of modern Chinese history\, global modernism\, and the power of creative expression within repressive regimes. \n\n\n\nBook talk registrants can purchase the book at a 30% discount for a limited time at https://www.hup.harvard.edu/. Please use code ASI30 at checkout to receive the discount—the offer is valid through mid-December 2026. To join the webinar\, register here.  \n\n\n\nOrganized by the Harvard University Asia Center; Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard University.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/painting-into-being-underground-art-during-chinas-cultural-revolution/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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SUMMARY:Everyday Occupation: American Soldiers and Chinese Civilians after World War II
DESCRIPTION:zoom registration\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Chunmei Du\, Professor\, Department of History\, Lingnan University\, Hong Kong; Associate\, Harvard University Asia Center  \n\n\n\nIn this rich history of everyday encounters between US soldiers and Chinese civilians\, Chunmei Du explores their entangled relations from the end of World War II to the founding of the People’s Republic of China. Drawing upon official\, popular and personal accounts from both countries\, Du examines the sensorial\, material\, and symbolic exchanges that took place between GIs and ordinary Chinese people-stall vendors\, pedestrians\, rickshaw pullers\, “Jeep girls\,” and suspected thieves. Through the conceptual lens of the everyday\, this book reveals how interactions such as traffic accidents\, sexual relations\, theft\, and black-market dealings\, impacted larger political dynamics during this pivotal era. Du shows how mundane struggles made imperialism and sovereignty tangible\, fueling anti-American sentiment. Meanwhile\, these encounters fostered informal diplomacy\, shaping identities and forging new bonds that left a lasting imprint on both countries. \n\n\n\nProfessor Du’s talk will be based on her book Everyday Occupation: American Soldiers and Chinese Civilians after World War II\, published by Cambridge University Press (2026). This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core. \n\n\n\nTo join the webinar\, register here. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/everyday-occupation-american-soldiers-and-chinese-civilians-after-world-war-ii/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
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SUMMARY:China Humanities Seminar featuring Yunxiao Xiao — Writing on Bamboo and Wood: Text Technologies in Early China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Yunxiao Xiao\, University of Washington \n\n\n\nThis talk explores how written information was organized\, edited\, and transmitted through the ancient media of bamboo and wood. Drawing on excavated manuscripts from the Warring States through the Han\, I examine three practices of bookmaking and information management before the age of paper: 1) designing layouts\, 2) editing and updating legal compilations\, and 3) transmitting literary texts within local scribal communities. \n\n\n\nFirst\, I consider tables and tabular formats\, showing how scribes drew on a repertoire of spatial strategies to organize administrative\, calendrical\, and mathematical information on the two-dimensional writing surface. I then turn to normative legal manuscripts that were physically scraped and rewritten as regulations changed\, revealing statutory texts not as finished records but as objects continually maintained and updated in use. Finally\, I examine correspondences among scribal hands in manuscripts from different tombs and ask what they might reveal about relationships among otherwise anonymous scribes and the local transmission of literary knowledge. \n\n\n\nTogether\, these cases illuminate the interplay between knowledge and media in early China. What we know about the past depends not only on what was written and happened to survive\, but also on how knowledge was materially produced\, organized\, revised\, and transmitted. From legal practice to literary classics\, this talk approaches early Chinese manuscripts as evidence for a broader history of ancient media and information. \n\n\n\nYunxiao Xiao (Ch. 肖芸曉) is a scholar of Chinese literature and cultural history specializing in paleographic texts from the late Warring States and Qin–Han periods. With research interests in epistemological practices and information technologies before the age of paper\, she explores the interplay between knowledge\, people\, and historical media. Her first book project\, The Crafts of the Hidden Hands: Scribal Culture and the Making of Texts in Early China\, examines the ordinary producers and practices behind the formation of Chinese classical knowledge and traces how early written culture in East Asia emerged and evolved. Building on her interest in the history of media\, information\, and technology\, her other projects explore how administrative data and scholarly information were represented\, organized\, controlled\, and manipulated on bamboo and wood in the Qin and Han empires. Before joining the University of Washington\, she earned her PhD from Princeton University (2024) and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-humanities-seminar-featuring-yunxiao-xiao-writing-on-bamboo-and-wood-text-technologies-in-early-china/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:China Humanities Seminar
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SUMMARY:The Platform State: How China Innovates to Achieve Tech Supremacy
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Angela Huyue Zhang\, Professor of Law\, University of Southern California\, Gould School of Law \n\n\n\nProfessor Zhang will discuss “The Platform State: How China Governs Innovation to Achieve Tech Supremacy\,” her current joint project with S. Alex Yang\, Professor of Management Science and Operations at London Business School. \n\n\n\nChina’s innovation economy presents a puzzle.  In recent years\, the country has emerged as a leader in fields ranging from advanced manufacturing to artificial intelligence and biotechnology. Yet technological success has not consistently translated into financial success for Chinese firms. Across many high-tech sectors\, even leading companies operate on razor-thin margins\, while others incur substantial losses. \n\n\n\nTo resolve this puzzle\, this talk conceptualizes China as a “platform state” that governs innovation by orchestrating an ecosystem composed largely of relatively autonomous yet highly interdependent firms. This model of governance follows three strategic principles that make China resemble a platform company: prioritizing ecosystem orchestration over picking winners\, embedding control in key interfaces alongside selective ownership\, and scaling first and capturing value later.  While China is not the first to adopt platform strategy to spur innovation\, it stands apart in combining strong state capacity and domestic scale needed to cultivate a vast innovation ecosystem with substantial discretion over how its gains are distributed and deployed. \n\n\n\nLaw is central to the platform state model\, enabling experimentation and expansion while maintaining order in the innovation ecosystem. By shifting the unit of analysis from individual firms to the ecosystem as a whole\, the platform-state framework advances a new organizational theory of state capitalism and broadens the conventional scope of industrial policy. It also offers a more nuanced account of Chinese institutions and contributes to a richer understanding of the functions of law in China. \n\n\n\nAngela Huyue Zhang is Professor of Law at the University of Southern California\, where she writes and teaches at the intersection of law\, technology\, and geopolitics. Her research examines the institutional dynamics of regulation and governance\, with a current focus on the U.S.–China tech rivalry and the global regulation of artificial intelligence. Zhang is the author of two award-winning books: Chinese Antitrust Exceptionalism: How the Rise of China Challenges Global Regulation (Oxford University Press\, 2021) and High Wire: How China Regulates Big Tech and Governs Its Economy (Oxford University Press\, 2024). Prior to joining USC\, Zhang taught at the University of Hong Kong\, NYU School of Law\, and King’s College London. Earlier in her career\, Zhang practiced law for six years in Asia\, the United States\, and Europe. Zhang received her LLB from Peking University and her LLM\, JD\, and JSD from the University of Chicago Law School. \n\n\n\nCo-sponsored by the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-platform-state-how-china-innovates-to-achieve-tech-supremacy/
LOCATION:Hauser Hall Room 104\, 1575 Mass Ave\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Urban China Lecture Series featuring Zhang Qingyong — No Waste for the State\, No Loss for Farmers: The Evolution of Rural Land Takings in Contemporary China (国家不浪费与农民不吃亏：当代中国农村土地征收制度变迁)
DESCRIPTION:zoom meeting link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Zhang Qingyong\, Renmin University \n\n\n\nThis talk will be given in Mandarin.In this talk I will report on my ongoing research into the evolution of China’s land takings system since 1949. The study draws extensively on a wide range of materials\, including drafts\, reports and briefing materials from the legislative process\, as well as diaries\, work notes\, papers\, speeches and memoirs by those who took part in lawmaking and policymaking\, supplemented by interviews with scholars and officials involved in legislation. By examining how contemporary China’s land takings laws and regulations were formulated\, I hope to review in detail the development of the land takings system in New China\, present its evolution as completely as possible\, and analyze the main factors affecting institutional change\, in order to understand the deeper forces that have shaped the land takings system. \n\n\n\nZhang Qingyong is a professor at the School of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development\, Renmin University of China.  His research focuses mainly on land institutions. He has published papers in Economic Research Journal\, Statistical Research\, Agricultural Systems\, Habitat International and other journals.  He is the author of Research on Farmland Conversion and Development in China (The Commercial Press\, 2013)\, The Rise of Land Economics in China: 1925–1949 (The Commercial Press\, 2014)\, and Reform of China’s Rural Land Takings System: Retrospect and Prospects (China Social Sciences Press\, 2018). He is currently writing a monograph on the evolution of the land takings system since 1949.本次主要汇报我正在做的关于1949年以来中国征地制度变迁的研究。这项研究广泛收集立法过程中的草案、报告、汇报材料，以及参与立法和政策制定者 的日记、工作笔记、论文、讲话和回忆性文字等各类资料，辅以对参与立法的学者和官员所作的访谈，希望能够通过对当代中国土地征收法律法规的制定过程 \n\n\n\n的考察，细致回顾新中国征地制度的发展历程，尽可能完整地呈现其演变脉络，并分析影响制度变迁的主要因素，以理解塑造征地制度的深层力量。张清勇，中国人民大学农业与农村发展学院教授，主要从事土地制度研究。在《经济研究》、《统计研究》、Agricultural Systems、Habitat International等发表论文，出版《中国农地转用开发问题研究》（商务2013）、《中国土地经济学的兴起：1925-1949年》（商务2014）、《中国农村土地征收制度改革：回顾与展望》（中社科2018）。目前在写1949年以来征地制度变迁的专著。 \n\n\n\nZoom meeting link: https://mit.zoom.us/j/94120080608 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/urban-china-lecture-series-featuring-zhang-qingyong/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Urban China Series
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SUMMARY:Modern China Lecture Series featuring Fei-Hsien Wang — Modernization Theory and Historical Knowledge in Cold War Taiwan
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Fei-Hsien Wang\, Associate Professor\, Department of History\, Indiana University Bloomington \n\n\n\nIn 1973\, the Institute of Modern History (IMH) at Academia Sinica launched an ambitious collaborative project to examine late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century China through the lens of modernization theory. Over the next sixteen years\, seventeen historians participated in “Modernization in China: A Regional Study” (中國現代化的區域研究)\, each focusing on a particular province or region. Although one of the largest and best-funded collaborative projects in the field and later celebrated as a defining legacy of the IMH\, more than half of its studies were never published. Some participants subsequently described the undertaking as a “completely pointless” endeavor. \n\n\n\nWhy did historians working at the margins of an American-centered field of China studies initially embrace modernization theory\, yet ultimately leave much of their research unpublished? This talk situates the project within the broader landscape of Cold War knowledge production in East Asia. It argues that the project’s ambitions and frustrations emerged from the interplay of Taiwan’s political and institutional environment under martial law\, changing geopolitical relations\, and shifting intellectual trends in American and Taiwanese academia from the 1970s to the early 1990s. \n\n\n\nRather than viewing the project as either an extension of American intellectual hegemony or a failed adoption of modernization theory\, I examine how IMH historians appropriated a transnational framework to pursue their own intellectual and institutional agendas while navigating epistemological and political constraints. Their experience invites us to reconsider how scholarly knowledge travels across unequal academic hierarchies—and what constitutes the “success” or “failure” of a research project. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/modern-china-lecture-series-featuring-fei-hsien-wang/
LOCATION:Room K354\, CGIS Knafel\, 1737 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Modern China Lecture
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SUMMARY:Urban China Lecture Series featuring Susan Whiting — Illiberal Law and Development: Property Rights and Conflict over Land in China
DESCRIPTION:zoom meeting link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker:Susan Whiting\, University of Washington \n\n\n\nIn Illiberal Law and Development\, Susan H. Whiting advances institutional economic theory with original survey and fieldwork data\, addressing two puzzles in Chinese political economy: how economic development has occurred despite insecure property rights and weak rule of law and how the Chinese state has maintained political control amid unrest. Whiting answers these questions by focusing on the role of illiberal law in reassigning property rights and redirecting grievances. The book reveals that\, in the context of technological change\, a legal system that facilitates reassignment of land rights to higher-value uses plays an important and under-theorized role in promoting economic development. This system simultaneously represses conflict and asserts legitimacy. Comparing China to post-Glorious Revolution England and contemporary India\, Whiting presents a critical new argument that brings the Chinese case more directly into debates in comparative politics about the role of the state in specifying property rights and maintaining authoritarian rule.  \n\n\n\nSusan H. Whiting (Ph.D. University of Michigan\, B.A. Yale University) is Professor of Political Science at the University of Washington. She is the author two books\, Illiberal Law and Development and Power and Wealth in Rural China\, both published by Cambridge University Press. She specializes in Chinese and comparative politics\, with an emphasis on the political economy of development. Her research has been published in journals such as Comparative Political Studies\, Studies in Comparative International Development\, China Quarterly\, Journal of Asian Studies\, and Voluntas\, as well as in edited volumes such as Holding China Together and Trust and Governance. \n\n\n\nZoom meeting link: https://mit.zoom.us/j/94120080608 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/urban-china-lecture-series-featuring-susan-whiting-illiberal-law-and-development-property-rights-and-conflict-over-land-in-china/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Urban China Series
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Lynette Ong — Outsourcing Surveillance: Online Opinion Management in China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Lynette Ong\, Distinguished Professor of Chinese Politics\, University of Toronto; Director\, China Governance Lab\, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public PolicyDigital technology facilitates information sharing among activists; however\, it also affords autocrats new vectors of control\, allowing them to surveil and subjugate dissenters. Yet\, in China—the world’s most powerful autocratic state where most of the dissent takes place online before it spillovers to the street—we argue the state’s prowess in digital surveillance stems from the co-optation of market forces. In this book\, we examine how the Chinese state manages\, moderates\, and represses online opinion. Drawing on public procurement documents\, we study how the Chinese Party-state at national and subnational levels have intended to manage online expression of public opinion. Private corporations\, along with for-profit arms of state-owned enterprises and public sector organizations\, are extensively involved in surveillance of public opinion. This opens up a Pandora’s box of state‒business dynamics in China. \n\n\n\nLynette Ong is Distinguished Professor of Chinese Politics at the University of Toronto\, and Director of the China Governance Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. She holds a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Chinese and Asian Politics. Her latest books\, Outsourcing Surveillance: Online Opinion Management in China (Cambridge University Press\, 2026) and Outsourcing Repression: Everyday State Power in Contemporary China (Oxford University Press\, 2022)\, examine the Chinese party-state’s capacity to mobilize nonstate actors to extend its reach into society. Her research has received multiple awards from APSA\, ASA\, ISA\, CPSA\, and SSHRC. Her academic publications have appeared in Perspectives on Politics\, Comparative Politics\, Journal of Democracy\, China Quarterly\,  among others. Her opinion pieces and research have been featured in The Economist\,  The New York Times (Editorial Opinion)\, The New Yorker\, Foreign Affairs\, and The Washington Post. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-featuring-lynette-ong-outsourcing-surveillance-online-opinion-management-in-china/
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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SUMMARY:Sea Charts in the Eastern Half of Asia
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Yannan DING\, Associate Professor\, Historical Geography\, Fudan University; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2026-27Chair/Discussant: Peter K. Bol\, Charles H. Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/sea-charts-in-the-eastern-half-of-asia/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Urban China Lecture Series featuring Zhao Miaoxi — Mismatched Industrial Land Lease Terms: Urban Land Vacancy Induced by Business Turnover
DESCRIPTION:zoom meeting link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Zhao Miaoxi\, South China University of Technology \n\n\n\nIn China’s system of public land ownership\, industrial land leases often extend beyond the relatively short lifespan of enterprises. Consequently\, formulating land use strategies that account for business turnover has emerged as a crucial task for urban planning. This lecture explores urban land vacancy through the primary lens of firm turnover data\, examining the complete business life cycle from market entry to exit. Using downtown Guangzhou as an empirical case study\, the research reveals that the survival spans of most companies are significantly shorter than their granted land tenure\, inevitably leading to spatial inefficiency and vacancy. By simulating the interaction between company survival rates and land tenure periods\, the study evaluates various policy interventions aimed at minimizing land waste. We propose several targeted planning strategies\, including flexible land transfer mechanisms\, the revitalization of underutilized industrial spaces\, and the promotion of mixed-use development.Professor Miaoxi Zhao holds dual Ph.D. degrees in Urban Planning (China) and Geography (Belgium). He is a Professor and Department Head of Urban Planning at South China University of Technology.  His research centers on urban transformation in contemporary China\, examined through the theoretical and empirical lens of the global network society. His methodological and technological innovations in spatial planning have directly informed high-impact policy documents and strategic frameworks\, including the Pearl River Delta Regional Integrated Development Plan\, the Guangzhou Urban Development Strategy (2040)\, and the Shenzhen Hub City Construction Research Report. \n\n\n\nZoom meeting link: https://mit.zoom.us/j/94120080608 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/urban-china-lecture-series-featuring-zhao-miaoxi/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Urban China Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261130T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261130T180000
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SUMMARY:China Humanities Seminar featuring Kerstin Storm — Old Age and Aging in Medieval Chinese Poetry
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Kerstin Storm\, University of Münster***Please note the different location for this talk in the series.***Perceptions of old age and aging in so-called traditional China are often reduced to two extremes: on the one hand\, respect for the elderly\, commonly associated with the Confucian cardinal virtue of filial piety\, and on the other the Daoist ideal of longevity. Yet relatively little attention has been paid to the cultural and aesthetic conceptualization of the stages of life\, and of old age in particular\, in Chinese literary works. Poetry offers a remarkably diverse range of representations of the aging process. These include\, but are not limited to\, impassionate laments of both physical and mental decline as well as portrayals of perceived tranquility\, wisdom\, serenity\, or joy in later stages of life. This talk examines representations of old age in early medieval Chinese poetry. Moving beyond familiar stereotypes\, it explores the aesthetic variability of poetic responses to aging. By tracing literary traditions\, detecting intertextual connections\, and situating individual representations within their respective literary and historical contexts\, it seeks to illuminate a range of conceptions of\, and attitudes towards\, the later stages of life in early medieval and medieval China. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-humanities-seminar-featuring-kerstin-storm-old-age-and-aging-in-medieval-chinese-poetry/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S354\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:China Humanities Seminar
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SUMMARY:Traversing the Belt and Road: The World According to China and China According to the World
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers:Min Ye\, Professor of International Relations\, Pardee School of Global Studies\, Boston UniversityJorge Heine\, Core Faculty in Diplomacy & Governance\, Rising Powers Initiative\, Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future; Research Professor\, Pardee School of Global Studies\, Boston UniversityGrant Rhode\, Research Fellow\, Center for the Study of Asia\, Boston University Andrew Wilson\, John A. van Beuren Chair of Asia-Pacific Studies and Professor of Strategy & Policy\, United States Naval War College \n\n\n\nIs China’s signature global strategy a boon to world development or a channel for control? Traversing the Belt and Road brings together leading voices from China and across the globe to examine the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) a decade after its launch. Spanning Asia\, Europe\, Latin America\, and Africa\, these essays highlight the diverse patterns and evolving dynamics across both the land-based and maritime Silk Roads. The volume’s findings—that while the BRI has facilitated development convergence in many regions\, it has also intensified geopolitical competition and posed new governance challenges—are both encouraging and sobering. \n\n\n\nEngaging with key debates in world development and great-power rivalry\, this book unpacks the BRI’s adaptive nature and highlights its shift toward green and digital globalization. The wide range of methods employed—including comparative case studies\, historical inquiry\, statistical modeling\, and field-based research—show how local agency\, institutional variation\, and global dynamics have shaped outcomes on the ground. An indispensable resource for scholars\, students\, and policy analysts\, Traversing the Belt and Road offers a timely and empirically grounded perspective on China’s global ambitions—and the roadblocks in its path. \n\n\n\nBook talk registrants can purchase the book at a 30% discount for a limited time at https://www.hup.harvard.edu/. Please use code ASI30 at checkout to receive the discount—the offer is valid through mid-December 2026. \n\n\n\nOrganized by the Harvard University Asia Center; Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard University.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/traversing-the-belt-and-road-the-world-according-to-china-and-china-according-to-the-world/
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:20261207T160000
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SUMMARY:China Humanities Seminar featuring Wendy Swartz — Literary Creativity and “The Use of the Mind” in Early Medieval China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Wendy Swartz\, Rutgers University \n\n\n\nThis lecture will examine accounts of wen (writing\, literary creation) by two of China’s earliest and most innovative literary theorists: “Rhapsody on Writing” by Lu Ji and The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons by Liu Xie. Writing on creativity and implicitly advocating for human creation was an act more audacious and ambitious than the modern reader might think. By the period of early medieval China\, there was already a long-established proscription against making claims of “creation” (zuo)\, considered to be the prerogative of ancient sages. This proscription can be traced to Confucius’ famous pronouncement recorded in the Analects\, in which he expressed his reverence for antiquity\, and perhaps also for a perceived mystery\, even sacredness\, inherent in creation: “I transmit and do not create.” Both Lu Ji and Liu Xie deftly circumvented the traditional aversion to claiming creation. Each also limned the writing process in varying degrees of detail\, while exposing its challenges and exalting the role of the mind (xin) in this process. This lecture will cast light on how investigating this process involved reflecting on matters of considerable importance not only in literary history\, but also in human history\, such as tradition\, culture\, invention\, originality\, conception\, expression\, identity\, work\, and ownership. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-humanities-seminar-featuring-wendy-swartz-literary-creativity-and-the-use-of-the-mind-in-early-medieval-china/
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:20261207T193000
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SUMMARY: The Presence of Peach Spring: Daoism\, Ritual\, and Locality
DESCRIPTION:zoom registration\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Mark R. E. Meulenbeld\, Associate Professor\, School of Chinese\, The University of Hong Kong \n\n\n\nThe Presence of Peach Spring radically breaks with conventional interpretations of medieval luminary Tao Qian’s famous “Record of Peach Blossom Spring” by connecting the tale to its stated geographical location in northern Hunan Province (PRC) and focusing on the Daoist lore that surrounds it. Drawing on more than two decades of fieldwork\, Mark R. E. Meulenbeld uncovers the presence of Peach Spring as a site with a history of more than fifteen hundred years\, locally embedded within a complex network of ritual referents that define the landscape as inherently sacred. Rather than a primarily textual analysis\, Meulenbeld offers a more historically grounded and environmentally situated interpretation that engages with the religious manifestations of Peach Spring: on domestic altars\, through spirit-mediums\, at Daoist institutions\, and\, ultimately\, as a source of transcendence. Meulenbeld shows that the category of the sacred offers a crucial framework for understanding traditional texts\, even if they do not immediately seem to belong to any religious sphere. When read in the context of its native region\, the tale of Peach Spring affords readers access to a sacred site\, sacred objects\, and the enduring traditions of Daoist ritual that continue to maintain its presence within a sacred ecology. \n\n\n\nOrganized by the Harvard University Asia Center; Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard UniversityTo join the webinar\, register here.  \n\n\n\nBook talk registrants can purchase the book at a 30% discount for a limited time at https://www.hup.harvard.edu/. Please use code ASI30 at checkout to receive the discount—the offer is valid through mid-December 2026. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-presence-of-peach-spring-daoism-ritual-and-locality/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261208T113000
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SUMMARY:Rethinking the Golden Age of Journalism and Liberal Media in China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Fang Kecheng\, Associate Professor\, School of Journalism and Communication\, Chinese University of Hong Kong; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2026-27 \n\n\n\nChair/Discussant: Jie Li\, Ford Foundation Professor of East Asian Studies; Director of Graduate Studies\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nChina’s liberal media are often remembered through a familiar narrative: commercialization opened space for critical journalism\, outspoken newspapers challenged political authority\, and tightening state control brought their golden age to an end. This talk revisits that account\, asking what it reveals and what it leaves unexplained. Where did China’s liberal journalistic traditions come from? How did liberal media relate to the state’s reform agenda? And what\, beyond political repression\, helps explain their decline? Drawing on historical examples and research on Chinese newspapers\, the talk explores the tensions between professional ideals\, political commitments\, and the material conditions of journalism. It concludes by considering what survives the golden age and what its legacies and limitations might tell us about the future of journalism in China. \n\n\n\nhttps://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/rethinking-the-golden-age-of-journalism-and-liberal-media-in-china/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/rethinking-the-golden-age-of-journalism-and-liberal-media-in-china/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Economic Historiography in Early PRC: An Intellectual Portrait
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Li Chenxiao\, Research Fellow\, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2026-27Chair/Discussant: Arunabh Ghosh\, Professor of History\, Harvard University \n\n\n\n\nEconomic Historiography in The Early PRC: An Intellectual Portrait\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/economic-historiography-in-early-prc-an-intellectual-portrait/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20270331T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20270331T191500
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SUMMARY:Ilse and Leo Mildenberg Memorial Lecture: The Art and Design of Chinese Money
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Helen Wang\, Adjunct Researcher\, School of Art and Archaeology\, Zhejiang University \n\n\n\nMore info coming soon. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/ilse-and-leo-mildenberg-memorial-lecture-the-art-and-design-of-chinese-money/
LOCATION:Harvard Art Museum\, Menschel Hall\, Lower Level\, 32 Quincy St\, cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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