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SUMMARY:Harvard-Yenching Library Bibliographic Orientation Session
DESCRIPTION:The Harvard-Yenching Library is offering virtual bibliographic orientation sessions via Zoom to introduce you to the most important Chinese language resources. \nPresented via Zoom\nRegistration Required\nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMvduyurD0sH9Ud92IUxxZt3oOUh4kv6XfQ
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/harvard-yenching-library-bibliographic-orientation-session-2/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210312T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210312T170000
DTSTAMP:20260519T102146
CREATED:20210309T181314Z
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SUMMARY:David Mervart - The Missing Colonial Empire: Reading European Histories from within the Sinosphere
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: David Mervart\, Associate Professor in Japanese History\, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM)\, Spain\nModerator: David Howell\, Robert K. and Dale J. Weary Professor of Japanese History and Chair\, Dept. of East Asian Languages and Civilizations (EALC)\, Harvard University \nThis talk proposes to take stock of the conceptual vocabulary which early Japanese observers and commentators resorted to when trying to describe and understand the historical trajectory of what we now so self-evidently perceive as an ‘imperial’ expansion of the western powers’ dominion around the world. \nBy the late eighteenth century\, there existed a well-established convention to translate western modes of universal sovereignty (Kayzer\, Caesar\, Tsar\, Imperator) into the equally universalist nomenclature of the post-classical Chinese political theology. By extension\, it had become perfectly possible to speak of an ‘emperor-land’ (Ch: diguo; J: teikoku) as a general type of polity. Yet\, despite these conditions of translatability by means of such comparative political vocabulary\, curiously\, the expansion of European powers over the globe was not described in the language of Sino-Japanese equivalent of ‘empire’. \nGiven that Japanese commentators did not see the conquest and settlement of the non-European world as an instance of empire\, what conceptual vocabulary did they use? Which is really to ask: What class of known historical events serving as a general precedent did they suggest the exploits of the Occidentals to be an intuitive instance of? Querying a range of primary sources from the 1790s–1840s\, this talk will try to offer some answers while sketching an alternative\, historically documented way of articulating the ‘age of empire’. \nReischauer Institute Japan Forum Lecture Series \nPresented via Zoom\nRegistration Required\nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAuc-GorDMuHNOzItWEpM9zgGBqDpUMMhVq
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/david-mervart-the-missing-colonial-empire-reading-european-histories-from-within-the-sinosphere/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210315T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210315T133000
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SUMMARY:Reischauer Lecture Series featuring Rana Mitter — New Eras\, Old Stories: From May Fourth and Meiji to the Twenty-First Century “New Era” - Defining East Asia in the Age of Novelty\, Emotion and Purpose
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies · How New is the New Era? 2021 Annual Reischauer Lecture with Rana Mitter\, Part 1\nSpeaker: Rana Mitter\, Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China\, St. Cross College\, University of Oxford\n \nDiscussant: Odd Arne Westad\, Elihu Professor of History and Global Affairs\, Yale University \nLecture 1 of 3: How New is the New Era?\nChina’s leaders speak today of a “new era” – but East Asia has seen a range of “new eras” in the modern age\, defined by Japan\, China\, and outsiders who encountered both.  What defines that novelty and how familiar are the elements that form part of it?  The mid-twentieth century saw war\, social change and changing global encounters defined as moments when both China and Japan entered a “new” or “special” era in a global context.  What continuities and contrasts are there between the past and the present\, and what defines that “newness”? \nRana Mitter is Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China\, and a Fellow of St Cross College at the University of Oxford. He is the author of several books\, including China’s War with Japan: The Struggle for Survival\, 1937-1945 (Penguin\, 2013)\, [US title: Forgotten Ally] which won the 2014 RUSI/Duke of Westminster’s Medal for Military Literature\, and was named a Book of the Year in the Financial Times and Economist. His latest book is China’s Good War: How World War II is Shaping a New Nationalism (Harvard\, 2020). His recent documentary on contemporary Chinese politics “Meanwhile in Beijing” is available on BBC Sounds.  He is co-author\, with Sophia Gaston\, of the report “Conceptualizing a  UK-China Engagement Strategy” (British Foreign Policy Group\, 2020).  He won the 2020 Medlicott Medal for Service to History\, awarded by the Historical Association.  He is a Fellow of the British Academy and an Officer of the Order of the British Empire. \nThe Annual Reischauer Lecture Series is co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Korea Institute\, Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies\, and Harvard University Asia Center. \nListen to parts two and three of this three-part lecture below: \n \nHarvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies · An Era of Emotion? 2021 Annual Reischauer Lecture with Rana Mitter\, Part 2\n \nHarvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies · A Sense of Purpose? 2021 Annual Reischauer Lecture with Rana Mitter\, Part 3
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/rana-mitter-fairbank-center-annual-reischauer-lecture-series-night-one/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Special Event
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210315T173000
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SUMMARY:Trent Walker - The Scattering of the Thirty-Two Minds: A Southeast Asian Buddhist Doctrine of Rebirth
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Trent Walker\, Lecturer\, Department of Religious Studies; Postdoctoral Fellow\, The Ho Center for Buddhist Studies\, Stanford University \nPresented via Zoom\nRegistration Required\nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0ucuCrqjIvGdHcV9R5NW15u5jLGwLD4M7j
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/trent-walker-the-scattering-of-the-thirty-two-minds-a-southeast-asian-buddhist-doctrine-of-rebirth/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Buddhist Studies Forum
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210317T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210317T110000
DTSTAMP:20260519T102146
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SUMMARY:Qing Yang - A Ready-to-Implement Carbon-Negative Option to Help China Achieve Carbon Neutrality: Biochar with Biofuels
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Qing Yang\, Professor\, Department of New Energy Science and Engineering\, School of Energy and Power Engineering\, Huazhong University of Science and Technology \nQing Yang is a Professor in the Department of New Energy Science and Engineering\, School of Energy and Power Engineering\, Huazhong University of Science and Technology. She is also an Alumna (Visiting Scholar) and Collaborator of the Harvard-China Project. Her forthcoming paper in Nature Communications explores biochar as a contributing factor in attaining China’s renewable energy goals and carbon reduction. Her research interests include renewable energy systems\, and their implications on ecological and environmental systems. She studies greenhouse gas emissions and fossil fuel consumption for renewable energy derived processes. Professor Yang earned her Ph.D. from Peking University where she focused on energy systems analysis. \nSponsored by the Harvard-China Project on Energy\, Economy\, and Environment\, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. \nPresented via Zoom\nRegistration Required\nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAodeurpjorGtWM_8QLxMZQEsvQ7Xe_su3L
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/qing-yang-a-ready-to-implement-carbon-negative-option-to-help-china-achieve-carbon-neutrality-biochar-with-biofuels/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Environment,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210317T123000
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Anne-Marie Brady - Magic Weapons: How the Democratic States are Responding to China’s Political Interference Activities
DESCRIPTION:Read the transcript of the event here. \nSpeaker: Anne-Marie Brady\, Professor\, University of Canterbury\, New Zealand \nProfessor Brady is a specialist of Chinese politics (domestic politics and foreign policy)\, polar politics\, Pacific politics\, and New Zealand foreign policy. She is a fluent Mandarin Chinese speaker. She is founding and executive editor of The Polar Journal (Taylor and Francis Publishers). She has published ten books and over fifty scholarly papers. She has written op eds for The New York Times\, The Guardian\, The Australian\, Sydney Morning Herald\, and The Financial Times. Her research has a strong policy focus. \nIn 2017\, Professor Brady put her conference paper “Magic Weapons: CCP Political Influence Activities Under Xi Jinping” online\, as the topic was of public interest. The paper has been downloaded more 160\, 000 times and has helped spark a debate in New Zealand\, as well as internationally\, that resulted in a Parliamentary Inquiry into Foreign Interference in New Zealand. https://www.wilsoncenter.org/article/magic-weapons-chinas-political-influence-activities-under-xi-jinping \nProfessor Brady is a Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Centre in Washington DC. In 2014 she was appointed to a two-year term on the World Economic Forum’s Global Action Council on the Arctic. Her recent books include: Marketing Dictatorship: Propaganda and Thought Work in Contemporary China (Rowman and Littlefield\, 2008)\, China’s Thought Management (Routledge\, 2012)\, The Emerging Politics of Antarctica (Routledge\, 2013)\, China as a Polar Great Power (Cambridge University Press and Wilson Press\, 2017)\, and Small States and the Changing Global Order: New Zealand Faces the Future (Springer\, 2019). \nPart of the Critical Issues Confronting China Series \nPresented via Zoom Webinar
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-featuring-anne-marie-brady/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China,Critical Issues Confronting China Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210322T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210322T133000
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SUMMARY:Reischauer Lecture Series featuring Rana Mitter — New Eras\, Old Stories: From May Fourth and Meiji to the Twenty-First Century “New Era” - Defining East Asia in the Age of Novelty\, Emotion and Purpose
DESCRIPTION:  \nHarvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies · An Era of Emotion? 2021 Annual Reischauer Lecture with Rana Mitter\, Part 2\nSpeaker: Rana Mitter\, Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China\, St. Cross College\, University of Oxford \nDiscussant: Jie Li\, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities\, Harvard University \nLecture 2 of 3: An Era of Emotion?\nOne factor that defines Chinese engagement with the world today is its highly emotional character\, in terms of self-presentation that can move from saccharine to shrill at remarkable speed.  But emotion is not new – the use of the registers from exhilaration to depression defines the way that China\, Japan and the Koreas have chosen to present themselves over the past century\, whether through (often highly gendered) lenses of Asianism\, revolution\, martiality\, discourses of “national humiliation\,” or of global citizenship.  How much of this draws on emotional registers defined by modernity\, and how much from a repertoire shaped by a culture with much longer roots? \nRana Mitter is Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China\, and a Fellow of St Cross College at the University of Oxford. He is the author of several books\, including China’s War with Japan: The Struggle for Survival\, 1937-1945 (Penguin\, 2013)\, [US title: Forgotten Ally] which won the 2014 RUSI/Duke of Westminster’s Medal for Military Literature\, and was named a Book of the Year in the Financial Times and Economist. His latest book is China’s Good War: How World War II is Shaping a New Nationalism (Harvard\, 2020). His recent documentary on contemporary Chinese politics “Meanwhile in Beijing” is available on BBC Sounds.  He is co-author\, with Sophia Gaston\, of the report “Conceptualizing a  UK-China Engagement Strategy” (British Foreign Policy Group\, 2020).  He won the 2020 Medlicott Medal for Service to History\, awarded by the Historical Association.  He is a Fellow of the British Academy and an Officer of the Order of the British Empire. \nThe Annual Reischauer Lecture Series is co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Korea Institute\, Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies\, and Harvard University Asia Center. \nListen to parts one and three of this three-part lecture below: \n \nHarvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies · How New is the New Era? 2021 Annual Reischauer Lecture with Rana Mitter\, Part 1\n \nHarvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies · A Sense of Purpose? 2021 Annual Reischauer Lecture with Rana Mitter\, Part 3
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/rana-mitter-fairbank-center-annual-reischauer-lecture-series-night-two/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210323T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210323T180000
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SUMMARY:Modern China Lecture Series featuring E. Elena Songster - Presenting the Panda: The Symbolic Transformation of Animal to Ambassador to Advocate
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: E. Elena Songster\, Professor of History\, History Department\, Saint Mary’s College of California \nThe giant panda stumbled into ambassador work. Profoundly successful\, its diplomatic roles multiplied and evolved\, but its persistent existence as an animal repeatedly reframed its role as a diplomat and beyond. Songster discusses findings from her book\, Panda Nation: The Construction and Conservation of China’s Modern Icon (Oxford UP)\,  examining the history of the emergence of the giant panda as a national icon and the impact it has had on foreign policy and the natural environment. \nElena Songster’s research focuses on the environmental history of modern China.  She is currently researching medicinals found in nature through a historical lens. Other research projects include the history of snow leopard conservation and forestry history. Elena Songster teaches classes on Chinese History\, Japanese History\, Asian History\, and World History.  She has also taught in the Collegiate Seminar Program\, and JanTerm and serves on the Advisory Board for the Global and Regional Studies Program. \nPart of the Modern China Lecture Series \nPresented via Zoom Webinar
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/e-elena-songster-modern-china-lecture/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Modern China Lecture
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210324T134500
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring M. Taylor Fravel - China’s Military Strategy in the New Era
DESCRIPTION:Read the transcript of the event here. \nSpeaker: M. Taylor Fravel\, Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science and Director of the Security Studies Program\, Massachusetts Institute of Technology \nModerator: Andrew S. Erickson\, Professor of Strategy\, U.S. Naval War College China MaritimeStudies Institute \nM. Taylor Fravel is the Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science and Director of the Security Studies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Taylor studies international relations\, with a focus on international security\, China\, and East Asia. His books include\, Strong Borders\, Secure Nation: Cooperation and Conflict in China’s Territorial Disputes\, (Princeton University Press\, 2008) and Active Defense: China’s Military Strategy Since 1949 (Princeton University Press\, 2019). His other publications have appeared in International Security\, Foreign Affairs\, Security Studies\, International Studies Review\, The China Quarterly\, The Washington Quarterly\, Journal of Strategic Studies\, Armed Forces & Society\, Current History\, Asian Survey\, Asian Security\, China Leadership Monitor\, and Contemporary Southeast Asia. \nTaylor is a graduate of Middlebury College and Stanford University\, where he received his PhD. He also has graduate degrees from the London School of Economics and Oxford University\, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. In 2016\, he was named an Andrew Carnegie Fellow by the Carnegie Corporation. Taylor is a member of the board of directors of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations and serves as the Principal Investigator for the Maritime Awareness Project. \nPart of the Critical Issues Confronting China Series \nPresented via Zoom Webinar \n\n\nTranscript: Download Transcript
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-featuring-m-taylor-fravel/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China,Critical Issues Confronting China Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210329T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210329T110000
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CREATED:20210315T142512Z
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SUMMARY:Northern Europe’s Response to China’s Belt and Road Initiative
DESCRIPTION:Reading the transcript of the event here. \n \n \nHarvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies · Northern Europe’s Response to China’s Belt and Road Initiative\nRead the transcript of the event here. \nUna Aleksandra Bērziņa-Čerenkova\, Head\, China Studies Centre\, Riga Stradins University; Head\, New Silk Road Program\, Latvian Institute of International Affairs\nBjörn Jerdén\, Director\, Knowledge Centre on China \, Swedish Institute of International Affairs\nLuke Patey\, Senior Researcher\, Foreign Policy and Diplomacy\, Danish Institute for International Studies \nModerators:\nNargis Kassenova\, Senior Fellow\, Program on Central Asia\, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies\nJames Evans\, Communications Officer\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies; Ph.D. Candidate\, Department of History\, Harvard University \nNordic and Baltic countries have struggled to develop well-calibrated approaches to cooperation with China and its flagship Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Economic incentives or disincentives\, human rights\, the EU dynamics\, security arrangements\, and global governance consideration have pulled the agendas of Northern European states in different directions. This panel will discuss the current state of affairs and the prospect of a coordinated Nordic-Baltic policy with regard to the BRI. \nCo-sponsored by the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies\, the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, and the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/northern-europes-response-to-chinas-belt-and-road-initiative/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210329T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210329T133000
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SUMMARY:Reischauer Lecture Series featuring Rana Mitter — New Eras\, Old Stories: From May Fourth and Meiji to the Twenty-First Century “New Era” - Defining East Asia in the Age of Novelty\, Emotion and Purpose
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies · A Sense of Purpose? 2021 Annual Reischauer Lecture with Rana Mitter\, Part 3\nRead the transcript of the event here. \nSpeaker: Rana Mitter\, Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China\, St. Cross College\, University of Oxford \nDiscussant: Arunabh Ghosh\, Associate Professor of History\, Harvard University \nLecture 3 of 3: A Sense of Purpose?\nSome states have always maintained a sense that they have a mission in the world well beyond the maintenance of domestic order\, the United States\, France and Britain among them. Japan\, China and the Koreas also inherited a strong sense of purpose in the modern era\, from Meiji modernization to Mao’s “Three Worlds” and the Belt and Road Initiative\, ideas drawing on the longer past – yet the definition of that purpose has been in constant flux. What defines East Asia’s sense of purpose today\, can we speak of it in regional terms\, and how does it relate to its long history of aspiration to be an intellectual and moral exemplar? \nRana Mitter is Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China\, and a Fellow of St Cross College at the University of Oxford. He is the author of several books\, including China’s War with Japan: The Struggle for Survival\, 1937-1945 (Penguin\, 2013)\, [US title: Forgotten Ally] which won the 2014 RUSI/Duke of Westminster’s Medal for Military Literature\, and was named a Book of the Year in the Financial Times and Economist. His latest book is China’s Good War: How World War II is Shaping a New Nationalism (Harvard\, 2020). His recent documentary on contemporary Chinese politics “Meanwhile in Beijing” is available on BBC Sounds.  He is co-author\, with Sophia Gaston\, of the report “Conceptualizing a  UK-China Engagement Strategy” (British Foreign Policy Group\, 2020).  He won the 2020 Medlicott Medal for Service to History\, awarded by the Historical Association.  He is a Fellow of the British Academy and an Officer of the Order of the British Empire. \nThe Annual Reischauer Lecture Series is co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Korea Institute\, Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies\, and Harvard University Asia Center. \nListen to parts one and two of this three-part lecture below. \n \nHarvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies · How New is the New Era? 2021 Annual Reischauer Lecture with Rana Mitter\, Part 1\n \nHarvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies · An Era of Emotion? 2021 Annual Reischauer Lecture with Rana Mitter\, Part 2
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/rana-mitter-fairbank-center-annual-reischauer-lecture-series-night-three/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Special Event
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Sheena Greitens - China's Approach to National Security under Xi Jinping
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Sheena Greitens\, Associate Professor\, University of Texas at Austin Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs \nSheena Chestnut Greitens is an associate professor at the LBJ School\, as well as a faculty fellow with the Clements Center for National Security and a distinguished scholar with the Strauss Center for International Security and Law. \nHer work focuses on East Asia\, American national security\, authoritarian politics\, and foreign policy. She is also a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution\, an adjunct fellow with the Korea Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies\, an associate in research at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University\, and a member of the Digital Freedom Forum at the Center for a New American Security. \nShe holds a doctorate from Harvard University; an M.Phil from Oxford University\, where she studied as a Marshall Scholar; and a bachelor’s degree from Stanford University. \nPart of the Critical Issues Confronting China Series \nPresented via Zoom Webinar \n\n\nTranscript: Download Transcript
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-featuring-sheena-greitens/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China,Critical Issues Confronting China Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210401T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210401T173000
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SUMMARY:China Economy Lecture Series featuring Chang-Tai Hsieh - Special Deals from Special Investors: The Rise of State-Connected Private Owners in China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Chang-Tai Hsieh\, Phyllis and Irwin Winkelried Professor of Economics and PCL Faculty Scholar\, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business \nWe use administrative registration records with information on the owners of all Chinese firms to document the importance of “connected” investors\, defined as state-owned firms or private owners with equity ties with state-owned firms\, in the businesses of private owners. We document a hierarchy of private owners: the largest private owners have direct investments from state-owned firms\, the next largest private owners have equity investments from private owners that themselves have equity ties with state owners\, and the smallest private owners do not have any ties with state owners. The network of connected private owners has expanded over the last two decades. The share of registered capital of connected private owners increased by almost 20 percentage points between 2000 and 2019\, driven by two trends. First\, state-owned firms have increased their investments in joint ventures with private owners. Second\, private owners with equity ties to state owners also increasingly invest in joint ventures with other (smaller) private owners. The expansion in the “span” of connected owners from these investments with private owners may have increased the aggregate output of the private sector by 4.2% a year between 2000 and 2019. \nChang-Tai Hsieh conducts research on growth and development. His published papers include “The Life-Cycle of Plants in India and Mexico\,” in the Quarterly Journal of Economics; “Misallocation and Manufacturing TFP in China and India\,” in the Quarterly Journal of Economics; “Relative Prices and Relative Prosperity\,” in the American Economic Review; “Can Free Entry be Inefficient? Fixed Commissions and Social Waste in the Real Estate Industry\,” in the Journal of Political Economy; “What Explains the Industrial Revolution in East Asia? Evidence from the Factor Markets\,” in the American Economic Review; “The Allocation of Talent and US Economic Growth\,” in Econometrica; “How Destructive is Innovation?” in Econometrica; and “Special Deals with Chinese Characteristics\,” in the NBER Macroeconomics Annual. \nHsieh has been a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Banks of San Francisco\, New York\, and Minneapolis\, as well as the World Bank’s Development Economics Group and the Economic Planning Agency in Japan. He is a Research Associate for the National Bureau of Economic Research\, a Senior Fellow at the Bureau for Research in Economic Analysis of Development\, and a member of the Steering Group of the International Growth Center in London. \nHe is the recipient of an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship\, an Elected Member of Academia Sinica\, and the recipient of the Sun Ye-Fang award for research on the Chinese economy. \nPart of the China Economy Series \nPresented via Zoom Webinar \n\n\nTranscript: Download Transcript
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-economy-lecture-series-featuring-chang-tai-hsieh/
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SUMMARY:Panel Discussion - Advancing Justice: Responses to Anti-Asian Racism in the U.S.
DESCRIPTION:Moderator: Vivian Shaw\, College Fellow\, Department of Sociology\, Harvard University; Co-Principal Investigator\, AAPI COVID-19 Project \n\nPanelists:\nHan Lu\, Senior Policy Analyst\, National Employment Law Project\nchristina ong\, PhD Student\, Department of Sociology\, University of Pittsburgh\nElena Shih\, Manning Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnic Studies\, Brown University \nHan Lu’s work at the National Employment Law Project focuses on how inequalities of nationhood\, carceral punishment\, and the workplace shape one another. Prior to his work at NELP\, Han was a line defender at the Orleans Public Defenders. He is a first-generation college graduate. Prior to law school\, Han worked as a defense investigator for the Louisiana Center for Children’s Rights\, the juvenile public defender in his hometown of New Orleans. \nchristina ong is a PhD student in Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh studying the development of Asian America in the 1960s-1980s through an in-depth case study of New York City’s the Basement Workshop. She also serves as the Project Manager and Qualitative Committee Co-Lead for the AAPI COVID-19 Project\, a multidisciplinary mixed-methods study on how COVID-19 is impacting AAPI lives in the United States. Her research interests span topics related to diaspora\, racial justice\, and transnational feminisms. \nVivian Shaw is a College Fellow in the Department of Sociology at Harvard University and the Lead Researcher (co-PI) for the AAPI COVID-19 Project\, a multi-method investigation into the impacts of the pandemic on the lives of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. She earned her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Texas at Austin with graduate portfolios in Asian American Studies and Women’s & Gender Studies. From 2018-2019\, Vivian was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Weatherhead Center for International Relations’ Program on U.S.-Japan Relations\, also at Harvard. \nElena Shih is the Manning Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnic Studies at Brown University\, where she directs a human trafficking research cluster through Brown’s Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice. Shih’s book project\, “Manufacturing Freedom: Trafficking Rescue\, Rehabilitation\, and the Slave Free Good” (under contract with University of California Press)\, is a global ethnography of the transnational social movement to combat human trafficking in China\, Thailand\, and the United States. Shih is an outreach organizer with Red Canary Song\, a grassroots coalition of massage workers\, sex workers\, and allies in New York City. \nPresented via Zoom\nRegistration Required\nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_vPKMZyIXS6-gJpJ7uk_yqg
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/panel-discussion-advancing-justice-responses-to-anti-asian-racism-in-the-u-s/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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SUMMARY:Winter Pasture: A Writer’s Journey to Altay\, Northern Xinjiang — A Conversation with Li Juan
DESCRIPTION:This event will be conducted in Mandarin.\n冬牧場：一個作家的邊地之旅\n與李娟對話 \nPanelists:\nLi Juan\nDavid Der-wei Wang\, Harvard University\nMingwei Song\, Wellesley College\nKyle Shernuk\, Yale University \nBilingual reading from Winter Pasture:\nLi Juan\, Talia O’Shea\, Lily Sall \nCo-sponsored by the Wellesley College East Asian Studies Program\, CCK Foundation for Sinology Studies\, and Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies \nPresented via Zoom Webinar\nRegistration Required\nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_DGCIubzqTECYv4miOgPRPQ
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/winter-pasture-a-writers-journey-to-altay-northern-xinjiang-a-conversation-with-li-juan/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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SUMMARY:Harvard-Yenching Institute Annual Roundtable: Modernizing Asia’s Countryside
DESCRIPTION:Panelists:\nHan Do-Hyun\, Professor of Sociology\, Academy of Korean Studies\nNguyen Thi Phuong Cham\, Director\, Cultural Studies Institute\, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences\nNishikawa Kunio\, College of Agriculture\, Ibaraki University\nMini Sukumar\, Department of Women’s Studies\, University of Calicut\, Kerala\nWen Tiejun\, Professor and Director of the Centre of Rural Reconstruction\, Renmin University of China \nModerator: Elizabeth J. Perry\, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government; Director\, Harvard-Yenching Institute \nThis interdisciplinary panel of distinguished scholars from China\, India\, Japan\, Korea and Vietnam will explore the record of successful and unsuccessful efforts at rural development in their own countries. Why have some programs succeeded in increasing productivity\, improving infrastructure and public services\, alleviating poverty\, and ameliorating social and economic inequality\, whereas others proved much less successful? What have Asian countries learned from these achievements and shortcomings? And\, based on that knowledge\, what lies ahead for 21st-century Asian villages? \nFor more information\, visit: https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/modernizing-asias-countryside/ \nPresented via Zoom Webinar.\nRegistration Required\nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_1DyGQtQ7Q1qrluxYpxn3KA \n  \n 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/harvard-yenching-institute-annual-roundtable-modernizing-asias-countryside/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Special Event
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SUMMARY:Buddhist Studies Forum Featuring Matthew King - Ocean of Milk\, Ocean of Blood: A Mongolian Monk in the Ruins of the Qing Empire
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Matthew King\, Associate Professor of Transnational Buddhism and Director\, Asian Studies Program\, University of California\, Riverside \nAfter the fall of the Qing empire\, amid nationalist and socialist upheaval\, Buddhist monks in the Mongolian frontiers of the Soviet Union and Republican China faced a chaotic and increasingly uncertain world. In this book\, Matthew W. King tells the story of one Mongolian monk’s efforts to defend Buddhist monasticism in revolutionary times\, revealing an unexplored landscape of countermodern Buddhisms beyond old imperial formations and the newly invented national subject. \nOcean of Milk\, Ocean of Blood takes up the perspective of the polymath Zava Damdin (1867–1937): a historian\, mystic\, logician\, and pilgrim whose life and works straddled the Qing and its socialist aftermath\, between the monastery and the party scientific academy. Drawing on contacts with figures as diverse as the Dalai Lama\, mystic monks in China\, European scholars inventing the field of Buddhist studies\, and a member of the Bakhtin Circle\, Zava Damdin labored for thirty years to protect Buddhist tradition against what he called the “bloody tides” of science\, social mobility\, and socialist party antagonism. Through a rich reading of his works\, King reveals that modernity in Asia was not always shaped by epochal contact with Europe and that new models of Buddhist life\, neither imperial nor national\, unfolded in the post-Qing ruins. The first book to explore countermodern Buddhist monastic thought and practice along the Inner Asian frontiers during these tumultuous years\, Ocean of Milk\, Ocean of Blood illuminates previously unknown religious and intellectual legacies of the Qing and offers an unparalleled view of Buddhist life in the revolutionary period. \nPresented via Zoom\nRegistration Required\nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcrc-mpqz8iH9zemwbT9yGX177ThmjFyLc_ 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/buddhist-studies-forum-featuring-matthew-king-ocean-of-milk-ocean-of-blood-a-mongolian-monk-in-the-ruins-of-the-qing-empire/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Buddhist Studies Forum
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SUMMARY:Lin Chaochao - Rethinking the Making of the Chinese Working Class after 1949
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Lin Chaochao\, Department of History\, Fudan University; HYI Visiting Scholar\nChair/discussant: Elizabeth Perry\, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government\, Harvard University; Director\, Harvard-Yenching Institute \nThe year 1949 marked a watershed in Chinese working-class history. With rapid industrialization\, the policy inclination of the state brought great changes to all aspects of the working-class: their size and composition\, job security\, labor insurance\, and the housing\, medical care\, education and cultural benefits they can enjoy. Because of the relationship of production and exploitation which is different from the classical class theory\, the real existence of the working class under the planned system is often questioned. Researchers are more likely to regard it as the class shaped by politics than the class subject with independent consciousness. This talk is not only a reflection on the theoretical logic of class formation\, but also a reflection on the real historical experience of the Chinese working class. Based on the discussion of several controversial issues\, this study would like to find out the pattern and the path of the Chinese working-class formation after 1949. \nMore info: https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/rethinking-the-making-of-the-chinese-working-class-after-1949/ \nPresented via Zoom\nRegistration Required\nRegister at: https://harvard.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5sASphqhv6BkbvE
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/lin-chaochao-rethinking-the-making-of-the-chinese-working-class-after-1949/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Li Zheng - Decarbonization Pathways of China's Power Sector
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Li Zheng\, Executive Vice President\, Institute for Climate Change and Sustainable Development\, Tsinghua University; Professor\, Department of Energy and Power Engineering\, Tsinghua University \nPresented via Zoom\nRegistration Required\nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwsdeGopj4oHtFVDnYKTCpu9EiOozMH7rFi
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/li-zheng-decarbonization-pathways-of-chinas-power-sector/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Free Ekpar: Commemorating Five Years of the Unjust Detention of Ekpar Asat
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\nSophie Richardson\, Human Rights Watch\nThor Halvorssen\, President\, Human Rights Foundation\nIrwin Cotler\, Raoul Wallenberg Center\nGregory Niemeyer\, University Of California\, Berkeley\nChris Coons\, US Senator\, Delaware\nMartha Minow\, Former Dean\, Harvard Law School \nJoin Rayhan Asat (Harvard Law School ‘16) in commemorating the fifth anniversary of her brother Ekpar’s imprisonment by the Chinese government. This event is co-sponsored by the Human Rights Foundation\, the Raoul Wallenberg Center\, the Jewish Movement for Uyghur Freedom\, the Trebuchet\, Harvard Law School Advocates for Human Rights\, and Harvard Jewish Law Students Association. \nMore information: https://emr.fas.harvard.edu/event/free-ekpar-commemorating-five-years-unjust-detention \nPresented via Zoom\nRegistration Required\nRegister at: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdGlf6h3RSBLN-qfrZ1qC9ZUnzaCb84E0SriNHWRXDIjeP0kg/viewform
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/free-ekpar-commemorating-five-years-of-the-unjust-detention-of-ekpar-asat/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Lecture Series featuring David Dollar - China’s Economy Faces Domestic and External Challenges
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: David Dollar\, Senior Fellow\, Foreign Policy\, Global Economy and Development\, John L. Thornton China Center\, Brookings Institution \nChina has gotten COVID-19 under control and is poised to bounce back strongly with 8% growth in 2021.  But in the medium term it faces daunting domestic and external challenges. On the domestic side\, demographic shifts will result in a declining labor force and put a premium on geographic mobility\, especially rural-urban migration. Also\, over-reliance on investment has led to an alarming rise in debt to GDP\, risking a financial crisis. To grow well while managing these issues of labor and investment will require more innovation as a source of growth. On the external side\, the trade war with the U.S. is not likely to be resolved quickly with the new Biden administration.  China’s recent agreements with Asian partners and Europe\, however\, provide new opportunities that complement domestic reforms. \nDavid Dollar is a senior fellow in the John L. Thornton China Center at the Brookings Institution and host of the Brookings trade podcast\, Dollar&Sense. He is a leading expert on China’s economy and U.S.-China economic relations. From 2009 to 2013\, Dollar was the U.S. Treasury’s economic and financial emissary to China\, based in Beijing\, facilitating the macroeconomic and financial policy dialogue between the United States and China. Prior to joining Treasury\, Dollar worked 20 years for the World Bank\, serving as country director for China and Mongolia\, based in Beijing (2004-2009). His other World Bank assignments focused on Asian economies\, including South Korea\, Vietnam\, Cambodia\, Thailand\, Bangladesh\, and India. Dollar also worked in the World Bank’s research department. His publications focus on economic reform in China\, globalization\, and economic growth. He also taught economics at University of California Los Angeles\, during which time he spent a semester in Beijing at the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in 1986. He has a doctorate in economics from New York University and a bachelor’s in Chinese history and language from Dartmouth College. \nPart of the Critical Issues Confronting China Series \nPresented via Zoom Webinar
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-lecture-series-featuring-david-dollar/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China,Critical Issues Confronting China Series
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SUMMARY:Sarah Laursen - The Invisible Outsider: Non-Chinese “Chinese” Art in the Harvard Art Museums
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Sarah Laursen\, Alan J. Dworsky Associate Curator of Chinese Art\, Harvard Art Museum \nThe Harvard Art Museums’ database identifies over 6\,600 objects in the collection as “Chinese.” But are they really? At least one third of China’s dynastic history—from its unification by the first emperor in 221 BCE until the fall of the Qing dynasty in 1912—took place under foreign rule. Even when an emperor could claim Han Chinese ancestry\, his domain was frequently home to sizeable non-Chinese populations. This talk will explore the identities of so-called “Chinese” objects in the collection that might more rightly be associated with groups like the Xianbei. The logic behind the categories of “culture” and “place” in museum metadata will also be considered\, along with possibilities for increasing the visibility of the ethnic minorities all too often erased from Chinese art history. \nRegister for Zoom meeting link
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/sarah-laursen-the-invisible-outsider-non-chinese-chinese-art-in-the-harvard-art-museums/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:East Asian Digital Scholarship Series featuring Matthias Kaun - An Introduction to CrossAsia
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Matthias Kaun\, Director of the East Asia Department\, Berlin State Library (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin) \nStaatsbibliothek zu Berlin (Berlin State Library) has been developing and running the platform CrossAsia (https://crossasia.org) for more than a decade. It was launched in 2005 to provide an easy to use and central point of access to the printed and electronic resources in the library’s collection relating to East\, Central and Southeast Asia. The collection is partly funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Over the years\, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin has continuously adjusted the objectives for CrossAsia\, incorporating and in some cases anticipating the demands of academia and research – especially in the field of digital scholarship. \nIn this presentation\, Matthias Kaun\, director of the East Asia Department of the Berlin State Library\, will focus on two points. First\, he will introduce the cosmos of CrossAsia\, including collection building\, ILL services\, digitization\, and presentation\, searching\, contextualization of collections\, full-text search (ITR)\, OA support\, or (research) data services. He will do this from the perspective of a library and information infrastructure that is rethinking its mission to support Asia-related (digital) scholarship and research in an ever more globalized and digitally connected world. Matthias will show how CrossAsia seeks to organize access to collections – regardless of their physical form and/or usage limitations due to licensing restrictions – in ways that make the materials findable\, accessible\, interoperable\, and reusable wherever possible. \nSecondly\, Matthias Kaun will explore the aspect of responsibility that goes hand in hand with the further development and operation of CrossAsia in the context of a networked and more internationally-oriented research. \nPresented via Zoom\nRegistration Required\nRegister at: http://bit.ly/EADS-XASIA
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/east-asian-digital-scholarship-series-featuring-matthias-kaun-an-introduction-to-crossasia/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
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SUMMARY:Fairbank Center Director's Seminar Featuring Tyler Jost:  Institutional Origins of Miscalculation in Chinese Foreign Policy
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Tyler Jost\, Assistant Professor of Political Science\, International & Public Affairs and Watson Institute Assistant Professor of China Studies\, Brown University\nModerator: Elizabeth J. Perry\, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government and Director of the Harvard-Yenching Institute\, Harvard University \nTyler Jost’s research focuses on international security and Chinese foreign policy\, with a particular interest in the design of institutions responsible for national security decision-making. Jost’s book project offers a theory of the origins and consequences of national security institutions\, coupling an original cross-national time series dataset with new archival and interview data from China\, Taiwan\, India and Pakistan. Other research projects employ qualitative\, statistical and experimental methods to address theoretical puzzles regarding the politics of elite advisers\, bureaucracies\, and international security across a variety of regional contexts. \nJost received a PhD in political science from Harvard University and held postdoctoral fellowships at the Belfer Center International Security Program and Harvard-Columbia China and the World Program. Jost’s research has been supported by the Smith Richardson Foundation\, the U.S. Institute of Peace\, the Institute for Strategic and Conflict Studies at George Washington University\, the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs\, the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, and the Institute for Quantitative Social Science. \nPreviously\, Jost served as an intelligence officer in the U.S. Army\, with assignments to Afghanistan\, U.S. Cyber Command\, and the Office of the Secretary of Defense. \nPresented via Zoom Webinar\nRegistration Required\nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_FAEbiMb-TB6q03oeH1bX3Q
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/fairbank-center-directors-seminar-featuring-tyler-jost/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
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SUMMARY:China Humanities Seminar featuring Wu Hung - Unearthing Wu Daozi (c. 686 – c. 760)
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Wu Hung\, University of Chicago \nWorshipped by later folk artists as the God of Painting\, Wu Daozi (c. 686 – c. 760) was also praised by Tang art historian Zhang Yanyuan as someone who “did not look back and will have no successors.” But alas this Sage of Painting (Hua Sheng) left no work to us (imagine if we could only read about Leonardo da Vinci or Michelangelo\, or know Du Fu and Li Bo only by reputation). Can archaeology remedy this unfortunate situation as it has done for so many other fields from classical philosophy to ancient science? This talk suggests that a set of newly discovered imperial tomb murals (so new that they are still being conserved in a museum lab) may allow us to approach Wu’s style more closely than ever before\, and also leads us to problematize the concept of authorship in Tang painting. \nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYrf–opjsqEtMtPaFa8anuUbAYGJ7Vm_vv
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-humanities-seminar-featuring-wu-hung-unearthing-wu-daozi-landscape-murals-in-empress-zhenshuns-tomb-738-ce/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:China Humanities Seminar,Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Modern China Lecture Series featuring Taomo Zhou - Leveraging Liminality: Shenzhen and the Origins of China’s Reform and Opening
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Taomo Zhou\, Assistant Professor of History\, Nanyang Technological University\, Singapore \nImmediately north of Hong Kong\, Shenzhen is China’s most successful Special Economic Zone (SEZ). Commonly known as the “social laboratory” of reform and opening\, Shenzhen was the foremost frontier for the People’s Republic’s adoption of market principles and entrance into the world economy in the late 1970s. This talk examines prototypes of the SEZ in Bao’an County\, the precursor of Shenzhen during the Mao era (1949-1976). Between 1949 and 1978\, Bao’an was a liminal space where state endeavors to establish a socialist economy were challenged by capitalist influences from the adjacent British Crown Colony. To create an enclave of exception to socialism\, communist cadres in Bao’an promoted individualized\, duty-free cross-border trade and informal foreign investment schemes as early as 1961. Although beholden to the inward-looking planned economy and stymied by radical leftist campaigns\, these local improvisations formed the foundation for the SEZ—the very hallmark of Deng Xiaoping’s economic statecraft. \nTaomo Zhou is an Assistant Professor of History at Nanyang Technological University\, Singapore\, specializing in modern Chinese and Southeast Asian history. Taomo’s first book\, Migration in the Time of Revolution: China\, Indonesia and the Cold War (Cornell University Press\, 2019)\, was selected as one of the Best Books of 2020 by Foreign Affairs. Taomo is working on a new research project on Shenzhen—the first Special Economic Zone of China—and its connections with the Export Processing Zones and free ports across Southeast Asia. This research is funded by a Tier 1 grant from the Ministry of Education\, Singapore. \nPart of the Modern China Lecture Series \nPresented via Zoom Webinar
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/taomo-zhou-leveraging-liminality-the-border-town-of-baoan-and-the-origins-of-chinas-reform-and-opening/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Modern China Lecture
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Lecture Series featuring Eswar Prasad - China’s Role in Global Finance
DESCRIPTION:Read the transcript of the event here. \nSpeaker: Eswar Prasad\, Tolani Senior Professor of Trade Policy\, Cornell University; Senior Fellow and New Century Chair in International Economics\, Brookings Institution; Research Associate\, National Bureau of Economic Research. \nThis lecture will discuss China’s economic prospects\, policies\, and reforms\, and their implications for its role in international finance. The lecture will cover China’s economy\, financial markets\, and the renminbi\, and also touch upon the country’s new digital currency. \nPart of the Critical Issues Confronting China Series \nPresented via Zoom Webinar
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/eswar-prasad-critical-issues-confronting-china-lecture-series/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China,Critical Issues Confronting China Series
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SUMMARY:Harvard-Yenching Library Bibliographic Orientation Session
DESCRIPTION:The Harvard-Yenching Library is offering virtual bibliographic orientation sessions via Zoom to introduce you to the most important Chinese language resources. \nPresented via Zoom\nRegistration Required\nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUvc–oqzIqGdxB4YY7w9_4_JRVcTfeHNBh
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/hyl3/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Gods of Leather and Lilies: Ancestral Spirits and Community Leadership Culture in the Buddhist Debates at Kōyasan
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Elizabeth Tinsley\, University of California\, Irvine \nSince the early fifteenth century\, the monastic participants in the Risseigi debates at the Kōyasan esoteric Buddhist community have been promoted to membership in the “Myōjin-kō” confraternity. Although debate protocol was based on that of Kōfukuji’s\, the process by which the debating priests were qualified for the confraternity is modeled on practices of rotating leadership in the local communities outside the Buddhist complex. These involved the excursions of various “non-Buddhist” gods and the investiture of their temporary custodians with a program of worship. I will introduce this organizational model and its variants before focusing on the objects of worship\, their material supports\, and their meanings. \nUnderstanding the practice of rotating leadership sheds light on the initially confusing selection of gods. Most important among these at Kōyasan’s debates was “Ryūgi Myōjin” whose roots can be found in the spirits of a willow swamp and a lily-field\, and who is related to a mysterious god of leather-making. Important texts for understanding these practices\, the debates\, and these gods are the Gohonjiku ritual manual\, the Gohonjiku painting\, Sanja takusen paintings\, the Myōjin-kō liturgy\, and the “origin tale” of the leather-making god. The incorporation of the gods (who previously/also occupied other spheres of worship) into Buddhist debates is to do with community identity reinforcement but is indicative of co-existence rather than of subjugation or appropriation. This talk’s study of the “patterns and players” in the debates shows that the medieval mountain was considered\, fundamentally\, a site of gods – and ancestral spirits – despite the Buddhist community settled there. \nPresented via Zoom\nRegistration Required\nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEtd–gqjIsHtfvicCbZb99ToOr_cndAKGP
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/gods-of-leather-and-lilies-ancestral-spirits-and-community-leadership-culture-in-the-buddhist-debates-at-koyasan/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
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SUMMARY:China Economy Lecture Series featuring Angela Zhang — Chinese Antitrust Exceptionalism: How the Rise of China Challenges Global Regulation
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Angela Zhang\, Director of the Center for Chinese Law and Associate Professor\, The University of Hong Kong \nIn this webinar\, Angela Zhang will discuss her new book Chinese Antitrust Exceptionalism: How the Rise of China Challenges Global Regulation (Oxford University Press). This book examines the unique ways in which China regulates and is regulated by foreign countries\, revealing a ‘Chinese exceptionalism’ that is reshaping global antitrust regulation. Angela will provide a deep dive into Chinese bureaucratic politics while analyzing the power imbalances between businesses and the government in China. In addition to examining the challenges foreign multinationals have faced in complying with Chinese antitrust law\, she will also explore the difficulties Chinese firms have encountered as U.S. and E.U. antitrust regulators tighten their scrutiny over Chinese businesses. Angela will conclude with her book’s implications for future Sino-American relations\, as well as the recent events surrounding Ant Group’s IPO debacle and the Chinese regulation of big tech. \nAngela Zhang is an associate professor of law and the director of the Centre for Chinese Law at the University of Hong Kong. An award-winning legal scholar\, Angela is a highly sought-after commentator on Chinese antitrust issues. Before joining the University of Hong Kong\, Angela taught at King’s College London and practiced law for six years in the United States\, Europe\, and Asia. Angela received her LLB from Peking University\, and her LLM\, JD and JSD from the University of Chicago Law School. She wrote her doctoral dissertation under the supervision of Judge Richard A. Posner. To learn more about Angela\, please visit angelazhang.net. \nPart of the China Economy Series \nPresented via Zoom Webinar \n\n\nTranscript: Download Transcript
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-economy-lecture-series-featuring-angela-zhang/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
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