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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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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
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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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