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Tiananmen @ 35 Film Screening: The Gate of Heavenly Peace
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesIntroduction: Carma Hinton, Art historian and Documentary Filmmaker; Robinson Professor of Visual Culture and Chinese Studies, George Mason University (retired) "In The Gate of Heavenly Peace (the literal translation of the
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Film Screening: In Our Time (Guang yin de gu shi)
Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center 24 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesThe 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
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Discovering Freshwater Jellyfish in Modern China: Arthur de Carle Soweby and Craspedacusta sowerbii, 1880–1941
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Christine Luk, Associate Professor of the History of Science, Tsinghua University More information: https://scholar.harvard.edu/seow/STinAsia Venue
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Michael Stanley-Baker – Evolution of A Recipe: How DocuSky’s Post-Search Classification function reveals historical change
CGIS South Room S250 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Michael Stanley-Baker, Nanyang Technological University Join us for an illuminating workshop hosted by the Digital China Initiative (DCI) and the China Biographical Database Project (CBDB), showcasing the innovative DocuSky
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Tiananmen @ 35: What Have We Learned? A Conversation with Journalists
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeakers:Dorinda Elliott, Newsweek, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Seth Faison, South China Morning Press, Brunswick Group China Hub Orville Schell, New York Review of Books, Asia Society Center on U.S.-China Relations Katherine Wilhelm, Associated Press, NYU
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Gyal Lo – The Impact of China’s Colonial Boarding Schools in Tibet on Children and Communities
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: 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
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Perspectives on Academic Freedom
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeakers: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
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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
Plimpton Room (133), Barker Center 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeakers: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
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Environment in Asia Series Lecture featuring Huaiyu Chen – Human-Animal Studies and Religions in Medieval Chinese Society
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Huaiyu Chen, Arizona State UniversityDiscussant: Brian Lander, Brown University This study illustrates how Buddhism shaped Chinese knowledge and experience of animals after it gradually took root in Chinese society
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Urban China Lecture Series featuring Isabella Jackson – Shaping Modern Shanghai: Colonialism in China’s Global City
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Isabella Jackson, Assistant Professor in Chinese History, Trinity College Dublin The Shanghai International Settlement was the site of key developments of the Republican period: economic growth, rising Chinese nationalism,
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Film Screening: Yi Yi (A One and a Two …)
Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center 24 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesEdward 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
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Film Screening: A Brighter Summer Day (Guling jie shaonian sharen shijian)
Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center 24 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSimilar 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
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