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SUMMARY:Joseph Esherick - Rethinking the Chinese Revolution
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Joseph Esherick\, Professor Emeritus of History\, University of California\, San Diego \n\n\n\nModerator: Elizabeth Perry\, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government\, Harvard University; Director\, Harvard-Yenching Institute. \n\n\n\nWas the Chinese Revolution inevitable? In “Rethinking the Chinese Revolution\,” Esherick will discuss his evolving assessment of modern Chinese history from his early essay\, “Harvard on China\,” through his “Ten Theses on the Chinese Revolution.” Fundamental to this evolution has been wrestling with the determinism he learned as a social historian of the 1960s to a greater (but still uneasy) embrace of the contingency of history that one sees in Accidental Holy Land. \n\n\n\nJoseph W. Esherick received his B.A. from Harvard in 1964 and his PhD from Berkeley in 1971.  His scholarship has focused on the last years of the Qing dynasty and the social and political transformation of modern China.  His dissertation and first monograph\, Reform and Revolution in China: the 1911 Revolution in Hunan and Hubei explored the social background of China’s republican revolution.  His book on The Origins of the Boxer Uprising won the John K. Fairbank Prize of the American Historical Association and the Joseph R. Levenson Prize of the Association for Asian Studies.  Ancestral Leaves explored the tumultuous history of nineteenth and twentieth-century China through the lives of successive generations of one family. His new monograph\, Accidental Holy Land: The Communist Revolution in Northwest China\, is a study of the founding of the Shaan-Gan-Ning border region of northwest China.  In edited volumes\, Esherick has analyzed Chinese local elites\, the transformation of Chinese cities\, American policy toward China during World War II\, the Cultural Revolution\, and the transition from empire to nation in comparative perspective\, and the year 1943 in China. After forty years of teaching at the University of Oregon and the University of California at San Diego\, Esherick retired in 2012 and now lives in Berkeley\, California. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/joseph-esherick-rethinking-the-chinese-revolution/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S250\, 1730 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: That Day\, on the Beach (Hai tan de yi tian)
DESCRIPTION:A renowned young pianist\, Tan Ching-Ching (Terry Hu) comes back to Taipei for the first time in thirteen years to give a performance. An old friend\, Lin Jia-li (Sylvia Chang)\, gets in touch with her to reconvene over an afternoon coffee. That Day\, on the Beach takes place over a conversation between the two female friends\, during which Ching learns about how the romantic and domestic life of Jia-li and her elder brother evolved over the past decade. Through complex flashbacks\, the microcosmic personal life is revealed to be closely interwoven with the drastic economic and social changes that Taiwan witnessed over the entire 70s. Full of subtle narrative and cinematic surprises\, the film explores the difficulties that accompany freedom\, love and trust; in staging the fragility of any sense of facile contentment and hope\, it makes visible the pleasure and pain entailed in one’s pursuits of happiness. The film also marks the debut of Christopher Doyle as a cinematographer\, best known for his collaborations with Wong Kar-Wai. Released in Taiwan four decades ago\, Edward Yang’s first feature’s length\, storytelling\, and formal ingenuity all speak to his unwavering will to uphold his artistic vision despite all obstacles. \n\n\n\nDirected by Edward Yang. With Sylvia Chang\, Hsu Ming\, Lee Lieh \n\n\n\nTaiwan 1983\, DCP\, color\, 166 min. Mandarin and German with English subtitles \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-screening-that-day-on-the-beach-hai-tan-de-yi-tian/
LOCATION:Harvard Film Archive\, Carpenter Center\, 24 Quincy St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest,Film Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240416T083000
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SUMMARY:Urban China Lecture Series featuring Zhu Fangsheng - Families\, Schools\, and Cities
DESCRIPTION:Zoom meeting link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker:  Zhu Fangsheng\, Assistant Professor of Sociology\, Duke Kunshan University \n\n\n\nThis talk will trace the origins and consequences of how contemporary Chinese cities govern public school admissions. School districts became the central device in public school admissions in China\, despite their absence of fiscal or administrative foundations. I argue that cities repurposed school districts to manage rising perceived injustices in informal processes by which parents were choosing schools\, and that such repurposing of school districts only succeeded with the arrival of big data infrastructure in the early 2010s. The successful repurposing of school districts reconfigured urban education governance. \n\n\n\nComparing across time periods\, I find that formal procedures reduced perceived injustices while also increasing collective action. Comparing across families\, I find that the formal procedures catalyzed different education migration strategies and destinations\, dependent on family resources. Comparing across urban districts within the same city\, I report unequal burdens of school provision between urban center and urban fringe districts. Altogether\, these findings demonstrate that formal procedures addressed perceived injustices but not substantive inequalities in urban education governance.  \n\n\n\nFangsheng Zhu studies policies\, organizations\, and technologies in education. His ongoing projects evolve around two research questions. First\, why has education in China remained unequal and intensive? Second\, what explains the rise and fall of China’s EdTech industry? Fangsheng is currently an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Duke Kunshan University. \n\n\n\nZoom Meeting Link: https://mit.zoom.us/j/92743598127 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/urban-china-lecture-series-featuring-zhu-fangsheng/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Urban China Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240416T160000
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SUMMARY:Environment in Asia Series featuring Timothy Brook - The Price of Collapse: The Little Ice Age and the Fall of Ming China
DESCRIPTION:Register for hybrid zoom attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers:Timothy Brook\, The University of British Columbia\, Professor EmeritusClark Alejandrino\, Trinity CollegeYan Gao\, University of MemphisIan M. Miller\, St John’s University \n\n\n\nSeries Convener:Ling Zhang\, Boston College \n\n\n\nIn 1644\, after close to three centuries of relative stability and prosperity\, the Ming dynasty collapsed. Many historians attribute its demise to the Manchu invasion of China\, but the truth is far more profound. The Price of Collapse provides an entirely new approach to the economic and social history of China\, exploring how global climate crisis spelled the end of Ming rule. \n\n\n\nThe mid-seventeenth century witnessed the deadliest phase of the Little Ice Age\, when temperatures and rainfall plunged and world economies buckled. Timothy Brook draws on the history of grain prices to paint a gripping portrait of the final tumultuous years of a once-great dynasty. He explores how global trade networks that increasingly moved silver into China may have affected prices and describes the daily struggle to survive amid grain shortages and famine. By the early 1640s\, as the subjects of the Ming found themselves caught in a deadly combination of cold and drought that defied all attempts to stave off disaster\, the Ming price regime collapsed\, and with it the Ming political regime. \n\n\n\nA masterful work of scholarship\, The Price of Collapse reconstructs the experience of ordinary people under the immense pressure of unaffordable prices as their country slid from prosperity to calamity and shows how the market mediated the relationship between an empire and the climate that turned against it. \n\n\n\nTimothy Brook is professor emeritus of history at the University of British Columbia and a fellow of the British Academy. His many books include Great State\, Mr. Selden’s Map of China\, and Vermeer’s Hat. \n\n\n\nAlso via Zoom.Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_qjb4CtrvRQSr5k5Tj6owiA \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/environment-in-asia-series-featuring-timothy-brook/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Environment,Environment
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240416T200000
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SUMMARY:Borders in Motion: New Paradigms of East Asian Comparative Literature - an online book launch forum
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers:Satoru Hashimoto\, Johns Hopkins UniversityXiaolu Ma\, Hong Kong University of Science and TechnologyMiya Qiong Xie\, Dartmouth College \n\n\n\nHosts:Karen Thornber\, Harvard UniversityDavid Der-wei Wang\, Harvard University \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/borders-in-motion-new-paradigms-of-east-asian-comparative-literature-an-online-book-launch-forum/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240417T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240417T173000
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SUMMARY:Contextual Annotation in Textual and Visual Media: COMARKUS and IMMARKUS
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Hilde De Weerdt\,  Professor of Chinese and Early Modern Global History\, KU Leuven  \n\n\n\nHilde De Weerdt joined the Early Modern History Research Group\, KU Leuven in March 2022 as Professor of Chinese and Early Modern Global History. Professor De Weerdt is broadly interested in intellectual\, social\, and political history\, both within an East Asian context\, and within a comparative or global historical framework. \n\n\n\nShe studied Chinese and Chinese History at KU Leuven (BA) and Harvard University (PH.D.) and taught history at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville (2002-2007\, Assistant Professor)\, Oxford University (2007-2012\, Associate Professor)\, and King’s College London (2012-2013\, Reader) before becoming Chair Professor of Chinese History at Leiden University in 2013. She has published five volumes on Chinese political culture and intellectual history\, focusing on the workings of late imperial Chinese bureaucratic infrastructures and political communication (Political Communication in Chinese and European History\, 800-1600\, ed.\, 2021; The Essentials of Governance\, tr. and ed.\, 2021; Information\, Territory\, and Networks: The Crisis and Maintenance of Empire in Song China\, 2015; Competition over Content: Negotiating Standards for the Civil Service Examinations in Imperial China (1127-1276)\, 2007; Knowledge and Text Production in an Age of Print–China\, 900-1400\, ed.\, 2011). \n\n\n\nShe is currently working on a longue-durée global history of Chinese political advice literature. In 2021 she received funding from the European Research Council and the Dutch Research Council (NWO) to extend her earlier work on Chinese state infrastructures into a large-scale collaborative project on the social and regional histories of material infrastructures (roads\, bridges\, city walls) (1000-1800). \n\n\n\nShe maintains an active interest in designing and developing digital research methods for East Asian and other languages. With Brent Ho she co-designed the text annotation and reading platform MARKUS\, and with Mees Gelein two text comparison modules COMPARATIVUS and PARALLELLS. (On the history of and concept behind these and related digital research projects\, see “Creating\, Linking\, and Analyzing Chinese and Korean Datasets: Digital Text Annotation in MARKUS and COMPARATIVUS”). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/contextual-annotation-in-textual-and-visual-media-comarkus-and-immarkus/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Room S153\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240418T133000
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SUMMARY:Special Presentation featuring Stephen MacKinnon - History as Biography: Chen Hansheng 陈翰笙 (1897-2004)
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Stephen MacKinnon\, Emeritus Professor of History; Former Director of Center for Asian Studies\, Arizona State UniversitySteven MacKinnon\, author of Chen Hansheng: China’s Last Romantic Revolutionary\, will discuss the remarkable life of one of most important economic researchers on the Chinese rural economy over a career that spanned the 1930s to his death at 107 in 2004. Long an underground communist\, Chen was one of the most perceptive critics of both Nationalist and Communist policies\, from the collectivization of 1955 through the disasters of the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution and Mao Zedong. \n\n\n\nIn the late 1970s Prof. MacKinnon met Chen in Beijing and conducted many interviews with Chen and family\, proteges\, and surviving colleagues. The newly published biography emphasizes the international and Chinese historical context in which Chen operated globally as a celebrated social scientist\, political activist\, and public intellectual.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/modern-china-lecture-series-featuring-stephen-mackinnon-chen-hansheng-chinas-last-romantic-revolutionary/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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SUMMARY:2024 Gender Studies Workshop - The Chinese Family Romance
DESCRIPTION:9:10 AM: Introductory remarks  \n\n\n\n9:15 AM: Literature Panel \n\n\n\nTina Lu\, Yale University – “The Family Romance\, Chuanqi\, and What Can’t Be Said” \n\n\n\nMaria Sibau\, Emory University – “Inventing Mothers in Late Imperial Literature” \n\n\n\nDiscussants:Thomas Kelly\, Harvard UniversityWai-yee Li\, Harvard University \n\n\n\n11:00 AM: Break \n\n\n\n11:15 AM: Presentations on the Chinese Family Romance by students of Eileen Chow\, Duke University \n\n\n\nPresenters: Yueqi Cheng\, Karen He\, Lujia Li\, Tina Tianyi Liu\, Xiaodan Wang\, Kenan Gu\, and Chenyi Huang \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n12:15 PM: Break \n\n\n\n1:30 PM: History Panel \n\n\n\nMatthew Sommer\, Stanford University – “Chosen Kinship\, Unorthodox Sexual Relationships\, and Alternative Family Formations in Qing Dynasty China” \n\n\n\nClara Ho\, Hong Kong Baptist University – “Is Forty a Turning Point in the Aging Process? Not Necessarily for Women in Qing China”Discussants:Tobie Meyer-Fong\, Johns Hopkins UniversityLi Yunxin\, Simmons University \n\n\n\n3:15 PM: Close of WorkshopConference Organizers:Catherine Yeh\, Boston UniversityXu Man\, Tufts University \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/2024-gender-studies-workshop-family-romance-in-late-imperial-china/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Gender Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240419T103000
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SUMMARY:2024 Harvard Visual China Graduate Symposium - Time and Temporality in Chinese Art & Culture
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHow do humans and objects exist in relation to time and experience time? We often turn to space and spatial models as the dominant approach to analyzing visual materials\, yet time could also serve as a way of organizing visual and perceptual experiences. In the case of Chinese art\, time and temporality had particular salience as organizing principles for pictorial programs and designs. Harvard Visual China’s 2024 Graduate Symposium presents three panels on the topic of Time and Temporality in Chinese Art and Culture. \n\n\n\nSponsored by the Department of History of Art & Architecture and the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Innovation Fund\, and Harvard FAS CAMLab. \n\n\n\nMore info and registration: https://www.harvardvisualchina.com/hvc-2024-symposium-info-reg \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/2024-harvard-visual-china-graduate-symposium-time-and-temporality-in-chinese-art-culture/
LOCATION:Sackler Building Auditorium\, 485 Broadway\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240419T180000
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SUMMARY:Big Waves\, Great Earthquakes Screening No. 2 – Skirting Censorship in Tibet: No. 16. Barkhor South Street\, featuring an introduction by Janet Gyatso and remarks from Lobsang Sangay
DESCRIPTION:Introduction: Janet Gyatso\, Hershey Professor of Buddhist Studies\, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs\, Harvard Divinity SchoolProgrammer: Sam Maclean\, Communications Manager\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies \n\n\n\nUpdate: Post-screening discussion with Lobsang Sangay\, former Sikyong (President) of the Central Tibetan Administration\, Senior Visiting Fellow\, East Asian Legal Studies\, Harvard Law School. \n\n\n\nBig Waves\, Great Earthquakes explores the largely unseen early history of independent film in China\, beginning in the late 1980s. Wu Wenguang — who’s usually credited as China’s first independent filmmaker — has likened the emotions of this era to a “big wave”; Wu’s contemporary\, Wen Pulin\, was working independently even earlier\, documenting the avant-garde arts scene in Beijing with his legendary\, but never-completed\, film The Great Earthquake. This screening series will unearth films long-suppressed by Chinese authorities in order to rewrite the narrative of modern film history in China. \n\n\n\nThe first of three documentaries that Duan Jinchuan shot in Tibet in 1995\, No 16. Barkhor South Street takes obvious cues from American documentary giant Frederick Wiseman in both its focus on the innerworkings of an institution (the Barkhor Neighborhood Committee\, a Communist Party-directed office in Lhasa that conducts community mediation and encourages Party registration) and in its “direct cinema” style. The film offers us a rare glimpse inside a government office of the People’s Republic. Police recruits native to Lhasa are seen in classrooms learning modern Chinese history\, a sequence with parallels to the ‘re-education’ of Uyghurs in Xinjiang today. Various meetings are held to stress\, with unconvincing congeniality\, the paramount importance of active opposition to separatism—especially as the Committee (and Lhasa at large) prepares to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Tibetan Autonomous Region. Duan demonstrates a complete understanding of the complex social dynamics in front of his camera\, whether it’s the demand for assimilation from the residents\, as measured against the rigorous approval-requirements for anyone to join the Party\, or the overwhelmed feelings of officials as they struggle to apply modern legal rationale to familial conflicts clearly rooted in immovable\, indigenous Buddhist traditions. \n\n\n\nProfessor Janet Gyatso (珍妮·嘉措) is a specialist in Buddhist studies with concentration on Tibetan and South Asian cultural and intellectual history. Her books include Apparitions of the Self: The Secret Autobiographies of a Tibetan Visionary; In the Mirror of Memory: Reflections on Mindfulness and Remembrance in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism; and Women of Tibet. She has recently completed a new book\, Being Human in a Buddhist World: An Intellectual History of Medicine in Early Modern Tibet (Columbia University Press\, 2015)\, which focuses upon alternative early modernities and the conjunctions and disjunctures between religious and scientific epistemologies in Tibetan medicine in the sixteenth–eighteenth centuries. She has also been writing on sex and gender in Buddhist monasticism\, and on the current female ordination movement in Buddhism. Previous topics of her scholarship have included visionary revelation in Buddhism; lineage\, memory\, and authorship; the philosophy of experience; and autobiographical writing in Tibet.  \n\n\n\nNo. 16 Barkhor South Street directed by Duan Jinchuan. China\, 1996\, documentary\, 96 min. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/big-waves-great-earthquakes-screening-no-2-skirting-censorship-in-tibet-no-16-barkhor-south-street-featuring-an-introduction-by-janet-gyatso/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film Screening
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SUMMARY:China Humanities Seminar featuring Franciscus Verellen - The General and His Scribe: The Fall of the Tang in Contemporary Sources
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Franciscus Verellen\, Professor Emeritus\, École française d’Extrême-Orient (EFEO); Vice President\, Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres\, Institut de France \n\n\n\nThe understudied end phase of the Tang dynasty (618–907) is mainly known through official accounts dating to the tenth and eleventh centuries. This lecture examines the process that led to the empire’s breakup from the vantage point of a key protagonist\, the general and military governor Gao Pian 高駢 (821–887)\, whose trajectory provides a step-by-step record of the empire’s military\, fiscal\, and administrative unraveling. \n\n\n\nSoldier\, statesman\, engineer\, and poet\, Gao Pian was one of the most intriguing characters to shape events in ninth-century China. He left a deeply conflicted legacy. Challenging the portrait Song official historians painted of him as an “insubordinate minister” and Daoist zealot\, contemporary sources show the general as a loyal and effective defender of the empire. \n\n\n\nThe talk introduces a neglected trove of court\, military\, and administrative communications that Gao’s Korean secretary Ch’oe Ch’iwŏn 崔致遠 (855–949) redacted on his behalf. After returning to Silla in 885\, Ch’oe compiled these documents into an extensive collection titled Tilling with my Brush at Cassia Grove 桂苑筆耕集\, an archive that throws a compelling light on Gao Pian’s governance and the declining years of the Tang. \n\n\n\n          After doctoral studies at Oxford and Paris\, Franciscus Verellen taught Chinese religions and humanities at the École pratique des Hautes Études and Columbia University. He joined the EFEO in 1991. Alternating between its Headquarters in Paris and affiliate centers in East Asia\, he served as the School’s director from 2004 to 2014 and occupied the chair in History of Daoism from 2002 to 2021. Verellen held visiting appointments at Princeton\, Berkeley\, and Hong Kong. He is a former Edwin C. and Elizabeth A. Whitehead Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study\, Princeton\, Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin\, and Life Member of Clare Hall\, University of Cambridge. \n\n\n\nFranciscus Verellen’s book manuscript Famed and Defamed: General Gao Pian and the Fall of the Tang is currently under review at Cambridge University Press. Earlier publications include Imperiled Destinies (Harvard University Asia Center\, 2019)\, The Taoist Canon (edited with Kristofer Schipper\, Chicago University Press\, 2004)\, and Du Guangting (Collège de France\, 1989). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-humanities-seminar-featuring-franciscus-verellen-the-general-and-his-scribe-the-fall-of-the-tang-in-contemporary-sources/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:China Humanities Seminar
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SUMMARY:Tiananmen @ 35 Film Screening: The Gate of Heavenly Peace
DESCRIPTION:Introduction: Carma Hinton\, Art historian and Documentary Filmmaker; Robinson Professor of Visual Culture and Chinese Studies\, George Mason University (retired) \n\n\n\n“In The Gate of Heavenly Peace (the literal translation of the name Tiananmen)\, the causes\, effects and fallout from the six-week protest that led up to the Chinese government’s crackdown on dissidents are detailed with intelligence\, grace and toughness. Filmmakers Carma Hinton and Richard Gordon have transformed news into history\, and history into art.” — Michael Blowen\, The Boston Globe   \n\n\n\nThe Gate of Heavenly Peace chronicles the heroism\, drama\, tension\, humor\, absurdity\, and many tragedies of the peaceful popular protests during the spring weeks of 1989\, culminating on June 4th\, when the government’s bloody crackdown dashed the hopes of millions. Using archival footage and contemporary interviews with a wide range of Chinese citizens\, including students\, workers\, intellectuals\, and government officials\, the film reveals how the hard-liners within the government marginalized moderates among the protesters\, resulting in the voices for reason gradually being cowed and then silenced by extremism and emotionalism on both sides. \n\n\n\nIt is a sobering tale\, for faced with the binary opposition between hardened stances\, there has been little middle ground left for the rational and thoughtful proponents of positive reform in China. By giving these ignored voices their proper place in history\, The Gate of Heavenly Peace reveals an ongoing debate in 20th century China regarding revolution and reform\, as well as the importance of personal responsibility and moral integrity\, the need\, as Vaclav Havel has put it\, to “live in the truth.” \n\n\n\nCarma Hinton is an art historian and a filmmaker. She was born in Beijing\, and Chinese is her first language and culture. She received her Ph.D. in Art History from Harvard University and taught at various universities between major film projects. Together with Richard Gordon\, Hinton has directed many documentary films on China\, including Small Happiness\, All Under Heaven\, To Taste a Hundred Herbs\, Abode of Illusion: The Life and Art of Chang Dai-chien\, The Gate of Heavenly Peace\, and Morning Sun. She has won two Peabody Awards\, the American Historical Association’s John E. O’Connor Film Award\, the International Critics Prize and the Best Social and Political Documentary at the Banff Television Festival\, among others. She retired from her position as Robinson Professor of Visual Culture and Chinese Studies at George Mason University recently to focus on her book about traditional Chinese scrolls depicting the theme of demon quelling and work on the extensive archive of film and other visual materials she and Richard Gordon collected over decades of research and film production.  \n\n\n\nThe Gate of Heavenly Peace produced and directed by Carma Hinton and Richard Gordon. United States\, 1995\, documentary\, 187 min. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/tiananmen-35-film-screening-the-gate-of-heavenly-peace/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film Screening,Special Event
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240422T210000
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: In Our Time (Guang yin de gu shi)
DESCRIPTION:The omnibus film In Our Time initiated radical innovations in terms of aesthetic styles\, industry practices and commonly depicted themes\, thereby revolutionizing the filmmaking industry in Taiwan and inaugurating the movement of Taiwan New Cinema. The four segments are shot by four young emerging directors and each film—set in different decades from the 1950s to the 1980s—represents roughly one of the four younger stages of life: childhood\, adolescence\, young adulthood (in college) and married life (as working professionals). \n\n\n\nTitled Expectations\, sometimes translated as Desires\, Edward Yang’s segment features a series of sensitive and expressive vignettes that depict the growing pains of adolescents in mid-60s Taiwan. Yang sees the placement of the second short film as structurally akin to the second movement in a symphony\, typically characterized by its lyrical and slow nature. The teenaged Hsiao-Fen (Shi An-Ni) serves as a kind of prototype for other young heroines in Yang’s cinematic corpus. The diversity of the cinematic techniques used in his debut short film accentuates the complexity of the protagonist’s emotional and perceptual experience. \n\n\n\nDirected by Edward Yang\, Chang Yi\, Ko I-Chen and Tao Te-Chen. With Sylvia Chang\, Emily Y. Chang\, Lee Li-Chun \n\n\n\nTaiwan 1982\, DCP\, color\, 110 min. Mandarin and Min Nan with English subtitles \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-screening-taipei-story-qing-mei-zhu-ma-2/
LOCATION:Harvard Film Archive\, Carpenter Center\, 24 Quincy St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest,Film Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240423T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240423T114500
DTSTAMP:20260519T150339
CREATED:20240215T141531Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240221T155251Z
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SUMMARY:Discovering Freshwater Jellyfish in Modern China: Arthur de Carle Soweby and Craspedacusta sowerbii\, 1880–1941
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Christine Luk\, Associate Professor of the History of Science\, Tsinghua University \n\n\n\nMore information: https://scholar.harvard.edu/seow/STinAsia \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/discovering-freshwater-jellyfish-in-modern-china-arthur-de-carle-soweby-and-craspedacusta-sowerbii-1880-1941/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240423T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240423T160000
DTSTAMP:20260519T150339
CREATED:20240417T185834Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240417T185836Z
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SUMMARY:Michael Stanley-Baker - Evolution of A Recipe: How DocuSky’s Post-Search Classification function reveals historical change
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Michael Stanley-Baker\, Nanyang Technological University \n\n\n\nJoin us for an illuminating workshop hosted by the Digital China Initiative (DCI) and the China Biographical Database Project (CBDB)\, showcasing the innovative DocuSky platform. Developed by the Research Center for Digital Humanities at National Taiwan University\, this online platform is ingeniously designed to cater to the intricate demands of humanities scholarship. Under the expert guidance of Professor Michael Stanley-Baker from Nanyang Technological University\, participants will delve into the bespoke tools and services offered by DocuSky. These include a diverse range of digital resources\, analytical tools\, and tailored services essential for the organization and examination of research materials. \n\n\n\nThis workshop will feature a diverse set of digital research tools designed for the historical study of Chinese medicine.  At their core is the full-text corpus database hosted in DocuSky\, which will be the primary focus of the presentation.  We will examine the post-search classification feature\, and how it allows users to parse through thousands of query returns in an exploratory way\, oscillating between macro-scale data patterns\, and micro-scale close reading\, to come to a synthetic vision and analysis of specific research questions. \n\n\n\nThe advantage of digital tools go beyond acquiring more data.  Such overviews should afford insights which prompt new questions we might not have asked before. DocuSky does more than provide answers\, it stimulates new inquiry\, and provides the means to explore further. \n\n\n\nSpeaker’s bio: \n\n\n\nAs an adept historian in Chinese Medicine and Religion\, Professor Stanley-Baker’s expertise spans from the early Imperial period to contemporary Sinophone communities. His work intricately weaves together cultural knowledge in Chinese medicine with varied disciplines such as religion\, botany\, trade\, modern biology\, and policy. His methods range from meticulous textual analysis and interviews to cutting-edge digital humanities techniques. \n\n\n\nProfessor Stanley-Baker’s remarkable contributions to the field are evidenced by his editorial leadership in significant publications and his development of numerous digital humanities projects. His innovative creations include digital mappings of ancient Chinese medical texts and the Polyglot Medicine Knowledge Graph\, a pioneering digital resource connecting traditional and modern medicinal knowledge across cultures. The project won the 2nd runner-up for Best Dataset in DH Awards 2023. \n\n\n\nWith a rich academic background that includes a PhD from the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London\, an MA from Indiana University\, and a clinical degree in Chinese medicine\, Professor Stanley-Baker is a fount of knowledge. His esteemed research appointments across the globe have solidified his reputation as a leading light in the intersection of traditional knowledge and digital innovation. \n\n\n\nIf you want to participate in the workshop activities\, please register for a DocuSky account at https://docusky.org.tw/DocuSky/home/?l=en \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/michael-stanley-baker-evolution-of-a-recipe-how-docuskys-post-search-classification-function-reveals-historical-change/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S250\, 1730 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240423T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240423T174500
DTSTAMP:20260519T150339
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SUMMARY:Tiananmen @ 35: What Have We Learned? A Conversation with Journalists
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:Dorinda Elliott\, Newsweek\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies \n\n\n\nSeth Faison\, South China Morning Press\, Brunswick Group China Hub \n\n\n\nOrville Schell\, New York Review of Books\, Asia Society Center on U.S.-China Relations \n\n\n\nKatherine Wilhelm\, Associated Press\, NYU U.S. Asia Law Center \n\n\n\nModerator: Annie Jieping Zhang\, founder\, Matters Lab\, co-founder\, Initium Media\, Nieman-Berkman Klein Fellow 2024 \n\n\n\nWhat happened in the spring of 1989 in Beijing\, and does it matter today? A panel of journalists who covered China’s democracy movement—and have watched China’s economic and political development since—will examine the reasons for the student movement and the bloody crackdown and the ensuing turning points that led to Xi Jinping’s China today. \n\n\n\nDorinda (Dinda) Elliott is executive director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Harvard China Fund. She previously served as SVP at the China Institute in New York and as editorial and communications director at the Paulson Institute. Before that\, Elliott worked at Newsweek\, Time\, Asiaweek\, and Conde Nast Traveler. Elliott spent 20 years as a foreign correspondent\, based in Hong Kong\, Beijing\, and Moscow\, and then served as editor in chief of Asiaweek magazine\, based in Hong Kong. Elliott covered China’s opening up in the late 1980s and the student movement in 1989; the rise of the mafia and political and economic transition in Post-Soviet Russia; the fall of Suharto in Indonesia; the reformasi movement in Malaysia; Hong Kong’s handover to Chinese sovereignty in 1997; and China’s rise as an economic power.    \n\n\n\nSeth Faison is a partner at Brunswick Group\, specializing in China. He went to China in 1984 and spent two years learning Chinese. He became a reporter in Hong Kong and opened the Beijing Bureau of the South China Morning Post in 1988. He covered the 1989 student movement and crackdown in Tiananmen Square. He later joined the New York Times\, winning a Pulitzer Prize in 1994 as part of a team covering breaking news. He became Shanghai Bureau Chief and wrote extensively about changes in China’s politics\, economy\, arts and society. He is the author of “South of the Clouds: Exploring the Hidden Realms of China.” Since 2006\, he has served as a communications specialist and advisor\, including eight years as Head of Communications for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS\, TB and Malaria. \n\n\n\nOrville Schell is the Arthur Ross Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at Asia Society in New York. He is a former professor and Dean at the University of California\, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. \n\n\n\nSchell is the author of fifteen books\, ten of them about China\, and a contributor to numerous edited volumes. His most recent books are: Wealth and Power\, China’s Long March to the 21st Century; Virtual Tibet; The China Reader: The Reform Years; and Mandate of Heaven: The Legacy of Tiananmen Square and the Next Generation of China’s Leaders. Schell has written for many leading publications; he covered China’s student movement in 1989 for The New York Review of Books. \n\n\n\nKatherine Wilhelm is executive director of the U.S.-Asia Law Institute\, an adjunct professor at NYU School of Law\, and editor of the institute’s online essay series\, USALI Perspectives. She is an expert on China’s legal system\, public interest law organizations\, and civil society. Over the course of nearly three decades in China as a lawyer and journalist\, she worked for the Ford Foundation\, Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center\, a leading U.S. law firm\, the Far Eastern Economic Review\, and The Associated Press. She earned a JD and master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University and a master’s degree in East Asian studies from Harvard University. \n\n\n\nAnnie Jieping Zhang is founder and CEO of Matters Lab\, a decentralized Web3 social media platform. She also co-founded and was the editor-in-chief of Initium Media\, an online Chinese-language publication established in Hong Kong in 2015. She previously worked as an editor at City Magazine; chief writer and executive editor-in-chief for iSun Affairs\, an iPad-based magazine offering political and social news; and as a reporter for Asia Week. The Society of Publishers in Asia named Zhang Journalist of the Year in 2010.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/tiananmen-35-what-have-we-learned-a-conversation-with-journalists/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240423T193000
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SUMMARY:Gyal Lo - The Impact of China’s Colonial Boarding Schools in Tibet on Children and Communities
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Gyal Lo\, Educational sociologist and expert on China’s assimilation and education policies in TibetModerator: James Robson\, James C. Kralik\, and Yunli Lou Professor\, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations; Victor and William Fung Director\, Asia Center\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nMore information: https://asiacenter.harvard.edu/events/impact-chinas-colonial-boarding-schools-tibet-children-and-communities \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/gyal-lo-the-impact-of-chinas-colonial-boarding-schools-in-tibet-on-children-and-communities/
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:20240425T101500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240425T173000
DTSTAMP:20260519T150339
CREATED:20240417T145108Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240417T145110Z
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SUMMARY:Perspectives on Academic Freedom
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers:Sugata Bose\, Harvard UniversityWilliam Kirby\, Harvard University Jayati Ghosh\, University of Massachusetts\, AmherstZeynep Kadirbeyoglu\, Brandeis UniversitySidney Chalhoub\, Harvard UniversityJoan Scott\, Institute for Advanced Study\, PrincetonDurba Mitra\, Harvard UniversityBeshara Doumani\, Brown UniversityBrian Connolly\, University of South Florida \n\n\n\nIn 2019\, alarmed by attacks on academic freedom happening simultaneously in several parts of the world (Brazil\, India\, Turkey\, and the USA\, among others)\, a group of faculty in the History Department decided to organize a year-long seminar series to discuss the role of academics in an age of advancing authoritarianism. The pandemic derailed our plans. The crises of the past few months have given us a new sense of urgency. How can the university remain a place of unfettered critical inquiry and expression when its mission is overtly challenged by corporate and governing interests?  \n\n\n\nRegistration and a complete agenda available at: https://history.fas.harvard.edu/event/perspectives-academic-freedomOpen to members of the Harvard community only. Please bring your Harvard ID for check in.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/perspectives-on-academic-freedom/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240426T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240427T170000
DTSTAMP:20260519T150339
CREATED:20240424T112842Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240424T113525Z
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SUMMARY:A Cosmos of Vital Feeling: Qing (Affect) and Qi (Breath\, Atmosphere) as Critical Traditions in the Chinese Humanities\, An International Conference情氣天下：重估抒情傳統與氣化論 國際研討會
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:David Der-wei Wang 王德威 (Harvard University)Peter K. Bol 包弼德 (Harvard University)Wai-yee Li 李惠儀 (Harvard University)Thomas P. Kelly (Harvard University)Joo-hyeon Oh 吳周炫 (University of Minnesota\, Twin Cities)Yang Rur-bin 楊儒賓 (National Tsing Hua University)Cheng Yu-yu 鄭毓瑜 (National Taiwan University\, Academia Sinica)Chan Kwok -Kou 陳國球 (National Tsing Hua University)Lai Shi-San 賴錫三 (National Sun Yat-sen University)Mark McConaghy 莫加南 (National Sun Yat-sen University)Lin Ming-chao 林明照 (National Taiwan University)Lin Su-chuan 林素娟 (National Cheng Kung University)Lee Yu-lin 李育霖 (Academia Sinica)Fabian Heubel 何乏筆 (Academia Sinica)Peng Hsiao-yen 彭小妍 (Academia Sinica)Paul J. D’Ambrosio 德安博 (East China Normal University)Tsai Yueh-chang 蔡岳璋 (National Tsing Hua University)Wang Wenfei 王文菲 (Harvard University) \n\n\n\nOrganizers:The Transcultural Sino-Island: The Global Sinology Forum\, NSYSUCenter for the Humanities\, NSYSUDepartment of East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nCo-Sponsors:Harvard-Yenching InstituteFairbank Center for Chinese StudiesTranscultural Sinology and Global Co-Becoming Research Group\, NSYSUChiang Ching-kuo Foundation \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/a-cosmos-of-vital-feeling-qing-affect-and-qi-breath-atmosphere-as-critical-traditions-in-the-chinese-humanities-an-international-conference%e6%83%85%e6%b0%a3%e5%a4%a9%e4%b8%8b%ef%bc%9a%e9%87%8d/
LOCATION:Plimpton Room (133)\, Barker Center\, 12 Quincy St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240429T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240429T173000
DTSTAMP:20260519T150339
CREATED:20240124T140015Z
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SUMMARY:Environment in Asia Series Lecture featuring Huaiyu Chen - Human-Animal Studies and Religions in Medieval Chinese Society
DESCRIPTION:register for hybrid zoom attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Huaiyu Chen\, Arizona State UniversityDiscussant: Brian Lander\, Brown University \n\n\n\nThis study illustrates how Buddhism shaped Chinese knowledge and experience of animals after it gradually took root in Chinese society in the medieval periods\, and vice versa\, how Chinese state ideology\, Daoism\, and local cultic practices reshaped Buddhism in understanding and engaging with animals. Taking approaches from history\, religious studies\, animal studies\, and environmental studies\, this study explores the entangled power relations among animals\, religions\, the state\, and the local community in medieval China. With the drastic increase of population in the medieval periods\, local community and religious practitioners expanded their activities and were often confronted with various wild animals. While competing with the dominant power of the state and negotiating with the local community\, Buddhism\, Confucianism\, and Daoism mobilized their intellectual\, spiritual\, and material resources of knowing\, categorizing\, pacifying\, petting\, and accompanying animals and developed their doctrines\, rituals\, discourses\, and practices to deal with complicated power relations between animals and humans. Drawing upon a wide range of sources\, such as traditional texts\, stone inscriptions\, and manuscripts\, as well as visual materials\, this study invites readers to embark on a journey to the unchartered territory of felines\, reptiles\, and birds that surrounded the medieval Chinese religious world\, represented by the tiger\, snake\, and parrot especially. Wisdoms\, virtues\, colors\, sounds\, and powers from both human and animal realms piece together for making a fascinating chapter of human history. \n\n\n\nHuaiyu Chen (Ph.D.\, Princeton University) is Professor of Buddhism and Chinese Religions at Arizona State University. He has many publications on Chinese Buddhism\, Religions on the Silk Road\, animals in Chinese religions\, and the history of modern Chinese humanities. His recent publications include In the Land of Tigers and Snakes: Living with Animals in Medieval Chinese Religions (2023) and Animals and Plants in Chinese Religions and Science (2023). He has received a membership from Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (2011-2012)\, Spalding Visiting Fellowship from Clare Hall of Cambridge University (2014-2015)\, and a visiting scholarship from the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin (2018).  \n\n\n\nAlso via Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0qcuygqjsiGNbg0qfZTS1ZdCxjnoKg9zx9 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/environment-in-asia-series-lecture-2/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Environment,Environment
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240430T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240430T100000
DTSTAMP:20260519T150339
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SUMMARY:Urban China Lecture Series featuring Isabella Jackson - Shaping Modern Shanghai: Colonialism in China’s Global City
DESCRIPTION:Zoom meeting link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker:  Isabella Jackson\, Assistant Professor in Chinese History\, Trinity College Dublin \n\n\n\nThe Shanghai International Settlement was the site of key developments of the Republican period: economic growth\, rising Chinese nationalism\, and the Sino-Japanese conflict. Managed by the Shanghai Municipal Council (SMC\, 1854–1943)\, it was beyond the control of both the Chinese and the foreign imperial governments. In this paper\, Jackson defines Shanghai’s unique\, hybrid form of colonial urban governance as transnational colonialism. The SMC was both colonial in its structures and subject to colonial influence\, especially from the British Empire\, yet autonomous in its activities and transnational in its personnel. Through a study of how this unique body functioned on the local\, national\, and international stages\, the Council’s impact on the daily lives of the city’s residents and its contribution to the conflicts of the period are revealed. The implications go beyond Shanghai to encompass modern Chinese history more broadly and wider colonial history. \n\n\n\nDr. Isabella Jackson is Assistant Professor in Chinese History at Trinity College Dublin\, Ireland. She lectured at the Universities of Oxford and Aberdeen before moving to Dublin in 2015. Jackson is the author of Shaping Modern Shanghai: Colonialism in China’s Global City (Cambridge University Press\, 2018) and co-editor\, with Robert Bickers\, of Treaty Ports in Modern China: Law\, Land and Power (Routledge\, 2016). She is Principal Investigator of an Irish Research Council Laureate Award on Chinese Childhood in the Twentieth Century. \n\n\n\nZoom Meeting Link: https://mit.zoom.us/j/92743598127 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/urban-china-lecture-series-featuring-isabella-jackson/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Urban China Series
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: Yi Yi (A One and a Two …)
DESCRIPTION:Edward Yang’s cinematic swan song\, released at the turn of the millennium\, is a moving tapestry that weaves together the dissolution and reconstitution of the fragile subjectivities in an increasingly global\, capitalist and mediated urban society. Yi Yi opens with a wedding and ends with a funeral. What unfolds between love and death is everything that saturates our modern existence: awakening\, nostalgia\, contingency\, anxiety\, alienation\, the ennui of everyday banality and the oscillations between longings for interpersonal dependence and fears of intimacy. This three-hour-long audiovisual epic unfolds the confusions and struggles of the multigenerational Jian family. As the grandmother falls into a coma\, the family members take turns sitting at her bedside relaying their life to her\, only to hear their own doubts and uncertainties reverberate in the resounding silence. At his tenderest moment\, Yang\, through Yi Yi\, delicately\, wisely and elegantly portrays the poignant reminiscences of the stirrings of first love and unveils the beauty that all too often shies away in the face of a perceived emptiness of life. \n\n\n\nDirected by Edward Yang. With Wu Nien-Jen\, Elaine Jin\, Issey Ogata \n\n\n\nTaiwan/Japan 2000\, 35mm\, color\, 173 min. Mandarin\, Min Nan\, Hokkien\, English\, Japanese and French with English subtitles \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-screening-yi-yi-a-one-and-a-two/
LOCATION:Harvard Film Archive\, Carpenter Center\, 24 Quincy St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest,Film Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240504T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240504T220000
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: A Brighter Summer Day (Guling jie shaonian sharen shijian)
DESCRIPTION:Similar to Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s A City of Sadness (1989)\, A Brighter Summer Day also traces the experiences of a large family during a critical historical epoch in Taiwan. Set in the early 1960s\, against the backdrop of a society witnessing the consequences of major demographic shifts and political oppression\, this film depicts the difficult trials awaiting the simple and harmonious life of the Zhang family. With Yang’s exacting demands on the historical accuracy of the props\, such as the family house and the furniture in the classrooms\, A Brighter Summer Day splendidly restores the material historical world to us while inquiring into its zeitgeist. Caught between the world of rock ‘n’ roll\, gang rivalry\, love triangles and the White Terror paranoia\, a group of teenagers are compelled to learn to negotiate the tensions and discrepancy between ideals and reality. The adolescent struggles in grasping that which is worth holding on to\, be it people or principle\, turn out to be an inescapable fate for adults alike. \n\n\n\nWidely considered as Yang’s magnum opus\, this film\, based on a real-life murder\, launched Chang Chen’s acting career at the age of fourteen. The brilliant juxtapositions of light and darkness\, movement and stasis\, sound and silence\, all work together to yield a tragic lonesomeness that even the warmth of a bright summer day cannot cure. \n\n\n\nDirected by Edward Yang. With Chang Chen\, Lisa Yang\, Chang Kuo-Chu \n\n\n\nTaiwan 1991\, DCP\, color\, 237 min. Mandarin\, Min Nan\, Shanghainese and English with English subtitles \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-screening-a-brighter-summer-day-guling-jie-shaonian-sharen-shijian/
LOCATION:Harvard Film Archive\, Carpenter Center\, 24 Quincy St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest,Film Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240505T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240505T170000
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: In Our Time (Guang yin de gu shi)
DESCRIPTION:The omnibus film In Our Time initiated radical innovations in terms of aesthetic styles\, industry practices and commonly depicted themes\, thereby revolutionizing the filmmaking industry in Taiwan and inaugurating the movement of Taiwan New Cinema. The four segments are shot by four young emerging directors and each film—set in different decades from the 1950s to the 1980s—represents roughly one of the four younger stages of life: childhood\, adolescence\, young adulthood (in college) and married life (as working professionals). \n\n\n\nTitled Expectations\, sometimes translated as Desires\, Edward Yang’s segment features a series of sensitive and expressive vignettes that depict the growing pains of adolescents in mid-60s Taiwan. Yang sees the placement of the second short film as structurally akin to the second movement in a symphony\, typically characterized by its lyrical and slow nature. The teenaged Hsiao-Fen (Shi An-Ni) serves as a kind of prototype for other young heroines in Yang’s cinematic corpus. The diversity of the cinematic techniques used in his debut short film accentuates the complexity of the protagonist’s emotional and perceptual experience. \n\n\n\nDirected by Edward Yang\, Chang Yi\, Ko I-Chen and Tao Te-Chen. With Sylvia Chang\, Emily Y. Chang\, Lee Li-Chun \n\n\n\nTaiwan 1982\, DCP\, color\, 110 min. Mandarin and Min Nan with English subtitles \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-screening-in-our-time-guang-yin-de-gu-shi/
LOCATION:Harvard Film Archive\, Carpenter Center\, 24 Quincy St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest,Film Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240507T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240507T100000
DTSTAMP:20260519T150339
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SUMMARY:Urban China Lecture Series featuring Zhang Guanchi - Rightscaling Cities: The Political Economy of City Territory in China
DESCRIPTION:Zoom meeting link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker:  Zhang Guanchi\, Vermont Law and Graduate School \n\n\n\nHow has the rescaling of the city territories interacted with China’s political and economic transformation? During the country’s rapid industrialization and urbanization\, Chinese cities have exhibited a relatively low degree of territorial fragmentation. This study examines the institutional experiments that have reclassified\, redivided\, and recombined local government territory in the People’s Republic of China since 1949. I argue that the constant rescaling of cities is a distinctive and underestimated mechanism in the Chinese state’s steering of economic transformation. \n\n\n\nThrough extensive fieldwork and archival research\, I find that the question of city scale has been integral to China’s economic modernization for the last seven decades. The constant tensions between the metropolitan center and periphery have driven various territorial reforms\, both before and after the market-oriented reform. These reforms have profoundly shaped the state’s economic development projects. I argue that\, over time\, metropolitan governments emerge as the primary scale for inter-local competition and coordination. While this particular territorial choice has contributed to China’s economic rise\, its entrenchment has ramifications for the country’s current challenges. \n\n\n\nGuanchi Zhang is an Assistant Professor of Law at Vermont Law and Graduate School. His research interests lie at the intersection of law\, urban studies\, and political economy. His current research projects focus on two primary areas of inquiry: the rise and fall of efforts to rightscale cities in China and the United States\, and the role of housing and zoning laws in the context of growing geographic disparities. \n\n\n\nZoom Meeting Link: https://mit.zoom.us/j/92743598127 \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-guanchi/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Urban China Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240507T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240507T131500
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SUMMARY:Alienation of Enlightenment: Rethinking the May 4 Movement\, Featuring Fairbank Center Visiting Scholar Qin Hui
DESCRIPTION:RSVP – HUID holders only\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nQin Hui\, public intellectual and historian\, will give a talk on Tuesday\, May 7\, titled “启蒙的异化：五四再反思\,” “Alienation of Enlightenment: Rethinking the May 4 Movement.” Professor Yuhua Wang\, Professor of Government\, Harvard University\, will be the discussant. \n\n\n\nThe talk and Q&A will be in Chinese. \n\n\n\nHarvard University ID required. Please register with Weijing Guo (wguo@fas.harvard.edu)\, as seating is limited. \n\n\n\nQin Hui (秦晖) is a historian and public intellectual. He retired as Professor of History\, Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences\, Tsinghua University\, in 2017 and then served as a Visiting Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Qin’s primary field is economic history and peasant studies. Qin\, who has written extensively on issues relating to social justice in China’s countryside\, is currently focusing on China\, globalization\, and the “new Cold War.” \n\n\n\nQin’s recent research includes three broad topics: China\, globalization and the “new Cold War”; China’s social economy during the Cultural Revolution; and rethinking the lessons of the May Fourth Movement—what he calls “the failure of the second wave of global democratization.” \n\n\n\nQin graduated with a Masters Degree from Lanzhou University in 1981. Before coming to Harvard this year\, Qin was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Tokyo. Qin was a Visiting Fellow at the Fairbank Center in 2003. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/alienation-of-enlightenment-rethinking-the-may-4-movement-featuring-fairbank-center-visiting-scholar-qin-hui/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Room S050\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240509T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240509T130000
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SUMMARY:Liu Weimo - Ancient Greek and Chinese Cosmologies Compared
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Liu Weimo\, Associate Professor\, Institute of Philosophy\, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2023-24Chair/Discussant: Shigehisa Kuriyama\, Reischauer Institute Professor of Cultural History\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nMore information: https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/ancient-greek-and-chinese-cosmologies-compared/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/liu-weimo-mathematical-and-graphical-reasoning-in-early-china/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240514T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240514T130000
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SUMMARY:Shih-Diing Liu - The Political Life of Affective Spaces
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Shih-Diing Liu\, Professor\, Department of Communication\, University of MacauChair/Discussant: Elizabeth J. Perry\, Henry Rosovsky Professor Of Government\, Harvard University; Director\, Harvard-Yenching Institute \n\n\n\nChina is saturated with complex emotions. Although emotions are constitutive in Chinese public culture\, their implications are poorly understood. In this presentation\, I aim to illuminate how and why emotions and affect open up new avenues for understanding the dynamics\, struggles and tensions in contemporary Chinese society and politics. This discussion revolves around the analytical foundation for our new book\, Affective Spaces: The Cultural Politics of Emotion in China (Edinburgh University Press\, co-authored with Wei Shi). I will contextualize the concept of affective space\, explaining why it provides a unique lens for exploring topics such as emotional mobilization\, psychoanalysis of nationalism and nativism\, workers’ embodied fear\, digital affective publics\, and the evolving state-society relations with distinct Chinese characteristics. \n\n\n\nAbout the speaker: Shih-Diing Liu is Professor of Communication and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies\, University of Macau. His research has appeared in Positions: Asia Critique\, Third World Quarterly\, Social Movement Studies\, and New Left Review. He is the author of The Politics of People: Protest Cultures in China (State University of New York Press\, 2019). \n\n\n\nMore info: https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/the-political-life-of-affective-spaces/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/shih-diing-liu-the-political-life-of-affective-spaces/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240514T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240514T173000
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SUMMARY:Visiting Scholar Lecture featuring Po-Chang (Paul) Huang - Sleepwalking into a China-Taiwan War? The Underreported Crisis over Kinmen and the Danger it Entails
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Po-Chang (Paul) Huang\, Fairbank Center Visiting Scholar; Research Fellow\, Taiwan Public Opinion Foundation \n\n\n\nDiscussant: Steven Goldstein\, Director\, Taiwan Studies Workshop\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies \n\n\n\nOn February 14\, 2024\, a tiny Chinese fishing raft collided with a Taiwan Coast boat near the waters of Kinmen\, a Taiwan-controlled island just miles off China’s Fujian coast. Two Chinese fishermen drowned as a result\, and a huge Chinese public outrage against Taiwan ensued. In the months that followed Chinese Coast Guard started regular incursions into Taiwan’s declared “restricted waters” around Kinmen which effectively nullified the unspoken boundaries that have been maintained for decades across the two sides. \n\n\n\nPaul Huang\, a Taiwanese security researcher and a visiting fellow at the Fairbank Center\, will discuss this underreported crisis and why its risks at hand are far greater than most realized. While Western observers dismissed it as a small fishing incident\, Huang argues the events since February point clearly to Chinese government’s calculated escalation that have been unprecedented in recent history of cross-strait relations. Instead of backing down quietly as Taiwan government assumed\, Beijing seems determined to use this as a steppingstone for a much larger use-of-force operation against Taiwan\, which will be of grave consequences to both sides of the strait. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/visiting-scholar-lecture-featuring-po-chang-paul-huang-sleepwalking-into-a-china-taiwan-war-the-underreported-crisis-over-kinmen-and-the-danger-it-entails/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S354\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Taiwan,Taiwan Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240909T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240909T130000
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SUMMARY:Ja Ian Chong — Northeast Asia Is for Deterrence and Southeast Asia Is (Mostly) for Free-Riding: Understanding Divergent Responses to Maintaining Order
DESCRIPTION:Register for hybrid zoom attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Ja Ian Chong\, Associate Professor\, Political Science\, National University of Singapore \n\n\n\nModerator: Mark Wu\, Henry L. Stimson Professor\, Harvard Law School; Director\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies \n\n\n\nThe focus of Ja Ian Chong’s teaching and research is on international relations\, especially IR theory\, security\, Chinese foreign policy\, and international relations in the Asia-Pacific. Of particular interest are issues that stand at the nexus of international and domestic politics\, such as influences on nationalism and the consequences of major power competition on the domestic politics of third countries. In addition to their academic background\, they have experience working in think-tanks both in Singapore and in the United States. The speaker is the author of External Intervention and the Politics of State Formation–China\, Indonesia\, Thailand\, 1893-1952 (Cambridge\, 2012)\, which received the 2013 Best Book Award from the International Security Studies Section of the International Studies Association. \n\n\n\n Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies.Also via Zoom.Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEqf-6opz4rGNecwwA132Vq1rTroCFdQ7hv#/registration \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/ja-ian-chong-northeast-asia-is-for-deterrence-and-southeast-asia-is-mostly-for-free-riding-understanding-divergent-responses-to-maintaining-order/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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