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Knife in the Clear Water
Brattle Theater 40 Brattle St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesFree screening and discussion! Co-presented by Crows & Sparrows and the Emergent Visions Series of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard, in conjunction with the Harvard Yenching Indigeneity and Environment Symposium. Winner of the New Currents Award at the 2016 Busan International Film Festival and based on the story by Shi Shuqing (who […]
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Manoranjan Mohanty – China’s Transformation: The Success Story and the Success Trap
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Prof. Manoranjan Mohanty, Council for Social Development, New Delhi Chair: Prof. Elizabeth Perry, Harvard University/Harvard-Yenching Institute The book provides insights into the economic and social transformation that China has undergone from 1979 to the present. Based on the author’s research in China for over three decades, China’s Transformation: The Success Story and the Success Trap shows how its ‘reform and […]
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William Overholt – Book Talk: “China’s Crisis of Success”
Harvard Coop 1400 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: William Overholt, Senior Fellow, Harvard University Asia Center China's Crisis of Success provides new perspectives on China's rise to superpower status, showing that China has reached a threshold where success has eliminated the conditions that enabled miraculous growth. Continued success requires re-invention of its economy and politics. The old economic strategy based on exports […]
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Maya Stiller – Maps, Graffiti, Kinship: The Use of GIS in the Spatial Analysis of a Sacred Mountain in Late Chosŏn Korea (1600-1900)
Speaker: Maya Stiller Fellow, Korea Institute; ACLS/The Robert H.N. Ho Family Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in Buddhist Studies, Department of History of Art and Architecture; Assistant Professor, University of Kansas Light refreshments provided. RSVP to Feng-en Tu (hyl.eadh@gmail.com)
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Diana Fu: Mobilizing Without the Masses
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesRead event summary here Speaker: Dr. Diana Fu, University of Toronto Diana Fu is assistant professor of Asian politics. Her research examines the relationship between popular contention, state power, and civil society in contemporary China. She is the author of “Mobilizing Without the Masses: Control and Contention in China,” (Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics Series and Columbia University’s […]
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Michael Hunter – The Ten Thousand Rooms Project: A Collaborative Workspace for Pre-Modern Textual Studies
Speaker: Michael Hunter, Yale University Digital China Initiative Workshop Series RSVP at: https://goo.gl/4hJH7P Questions: ying_qin@fas.harvard.edu Directions and Parking: https://sociology.fas.harvard.edu/pages/visit
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Eugenio Menegon and Elisa Frei – Calamity from Within? Jesuits, Papal Legates, and Chinese Imperial Envoys in the Eighteenth Century
John J. Burns Library, Boston College 140 Commonwealth Ave., Chestnut Hill, MA, United StatesSpeakers: Eugenio Menegon, Department of History, Boston University & Collaborative Scholar, Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies Elisa Frei, Fellow, Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies, Boston College Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies Colloquium, Boston College More information: https://www.bc.edu/centers/iajs/Programs/institute-colloquium-.html
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Harvard University Asia Center 20th Anniversary Celebration
CGIS South CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesS020, Belfer Case Study Room, Japan Friends of Harvard Concourse 9:30 a.m. Coffee 9:45 a.m. Welcome by Professor Karen Thornber, Victor and William Fung Director, Asia Center; Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and of Comparative Literature, Harvard University 10:00 a.m. Introduction by Vice Provost Mark Elliott, Vice Provost for International Affairs, Harvard University; Mark […]
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Lin Wei-ping – Gender, Gambling, and the State in the Militarized Islands between China and Taiwan
Speaker: Lin Wei-ping, National Taiwan University; HYI Associate Discussant: Michael Szonyi, Harvard University https://harvard-yenching.org/events/gender-gambling-and-state-militarized-islands-between-china-and-taiwan
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Kevin Rudd – China’s Worldview Under Xi Jinping
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: The Honorable Kevin Rudd, President, Asia Society Policy Institute; former Prime Minister of Australia (2007-2010, 2013) and former Foreign Minister (2010-2012) Sponsored by the Tsai Lecture Fund, Harvard University Asia Center; co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Greater China Club of the Harvard Business School
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Mai Jia – The Art and Politics of the Espionage Novel in Contemporary China
Speaker: Mai Jia, Chinese novelist and President of the Zhejiang Writers' Association This lecture will be given in Chinese.
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Mareike Ohlberg and Kristin Shi-Kupfer – Ideas and Ideologies Competing for China’s Future
Speakers: Mareike Ohlberg, Research Associate, Mercator Institute for China Studies; former An Wang Post-Doctoral Fellow, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Kristin Shi-Kupfer, Head of Research on Politics, Society, and the Media, Mercator Institute for China Studies Unlike any other Chinese leader since the beginning of the reform era, Xi Jinping has worked on crafting a unified national […]
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