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SUMMARY:Soldiers and Cellphones: The Cold War Roots of the Consumer Electronics Industry in Shenzhen\, China
DESCRIPTION:Register for zoom webinar\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Taomo Zhou\, National University of SingaporeMeeting Registration – Zoom \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/soldiers-and-cellphones-the-cold-war-roots-of-the-consumer-electronics-industry-in-shenzhen-china/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
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SUMMARY:Technology and Society in/through Global China: New Reflections\, New Visions
DESCRIPTION:Situated at a complex intersection where economic imperatives\, socio-cultural transformations\, and geopolitical shifts converge\, technological trajectories within the orbit of “global China” have emerged as a pivotal force reconfiguring domestic fabrics and the international order. To navigate this complexity\, the workshop transcends traditional disciplinary silos. We foster an interdisciplinary dialogue by bringing macro-level political economy into conversation with human-centered inquiries from the humanities and social sciences. By bridging disparate methodologies—from ethnographic and archival work to data-driven analysis—the workshop prompts a necessary rethinking of knowledge production in an era of technological transformation. We invite scholars at all career stages to collaboratively examine the socio-technical landscapes of ‘Global China’ as a critical\, contested\, and fundamentally interdisciplinary focal point of inquiry. The workshop features three synergistic open sessions: a forum on Critical Reflections on Studying Technology\, a research seminar on Comparative Insights into Techno-economic Governance\, and a panel on Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Digital Platforms. Together\, we aim to generate new visions and critical reflections on the social life of technology in and through a transforming global China. \n\n\n\nWorkshop Schedule9:30 – 10:45 AMForum: Critical Reflections on Studying TechnologyParticipants:Susan Greenhalgh\, John King and Wilma Cannon Fairbank Research Professor of Chinese Society\, Department of Anthropology\, Harvard UniversityYa-Wen Lei\, Professor of Sociology\, Harvard UniversityMeg Rithmire\, James E. Robison Professor of Business Administration\, Business\, Government\, and International Economy Unit\, Harvard Business SchoolMoira Weigel\, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature\, Harvard University \n\n\n\n10:45 – 11:05 AMRefreshment Break \n\n\n\n11:05 AM – 12:35 PMSeminar: Comparative Insights into Techno-Economic GovernanceParticipants:Jack Linzhou XingAn Wang Postdoctoral Fellow\, Harvard University Fairbank CenterRiding with the State: Didi and the Precarious Symbiosis between State and Platforms in ChinaYolanda Yuxing ZhangAn Wang Postdoctoral Fellow\, Harvard University Fairbank CenterPlatform Supply Chains and New Human Conditions in ChinaDiscussants:Ya-Wen LeiProfessor of Sociology\, Harvard UniversityMoira WeigelAssistant Professor of Comparative Literature\, Harvard University \n\n\n\n12:35 – 2:00 PMLunch provided \n\n\n\n2:00 – 3:30 PMPanel: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Digital PlatformsParticipants:Julie Yujie ChenAssociate Professor\, Institute of Communication\, Culture\, Information\, and Technology (ICCIT) and Faculty of Information\, University of TorontoTheorizing Digital Employment Configuration of AI Data WorkJoshua NevesAssociate Professor of Film and Moving Image Studies\, Concordia UniversityOn Ubiquity: Form and Platform in Lu Yang’s Doku SeriesMarc SteinbergProfessor\, Film and Moving Image Studies\, Concordia UniversityAsian Platform CapitalismsLin ZhangAssociate Professor\, Communication and Media Studies\, University of New HampshireThe Data Fix: Digital Agriculture and the Sociotechnical Politics of Datafication andAssetizationParticipant BiographiesSusan GreenhalghGreenhalgh’s work seeks to understand the emergence of new forms of scientific governance in the context of rapid shifts in global and local political economies. Her research has focused on three fields of bodily governance in the Chinese and the U.S. society: the management of populations\, clinical biomedicine\, and global health. Greenhalgh’s research also focuses on Chinese projects of social modernity – state efforts to transform China’s “backward masses” into the modern workers and citizens needed to make China a prosperous\, globally prominent nation. Her influential works include but are not limited to Just One Child: Science and Policy in Deng’s China (2008)\, Fat-talk Nation: The Human Costs of America’s War on Fat (2015)\, Can Science and Technology Save China? (co-edited with Li Zhang\, 2020)\, Soda Science: Making the World Safe for Coca-Cola (2024).Ya-wen LeiYa-wen Lei’s research examines political and socioeconomic transformation\, with a particular focus on the relationship between technology\, society\, and political economy. She is the author of two books: The Contentious Public Sphere: Law\, Media\, and Authoritarian Rule in China (Princeton University Press\, 2018) and The Gilded Cage: Techno-State Capitalism in China (Princeton University Press\, 2023). Her work has appeared in leading sociological journals\, including the Annual Review of Sociology\, American Sociological Review\, and American Journal of Sociology. Her publications have received extensive recognition from the American Sociological Association\, the Law and Society Association\, theSociety for the Advancement of Socio-Economics\, and The China Quarterly.Meg RithmireMeg Rithmire is the James E. Robison Professor in the Business\, Government\, and International Economy Unit. Professor Rithmire holds a PhD in Government from Harvard University\, and her primary expertise is in the comparative political economy of development with a focus on China and Asia. Her work also focuses on China’s role in the world\, including Chinese outward investment and lending practices and economic relations between China and other countries\, especially the United States. A new project on business geopolitical risk and resilience\, for which she is co-chairing an initiative with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation\, focuses on how firms can and should change their governance practices to deal with geopolitical and especially national security risk. \n\n\n\nMoira WeigelMoira Weigel writes and teaches about the history\, theory\, and social life of media and communication technologies\, from the early 19th century to the present. Her first book\, Labor of Love: The Invention of Dating (2016\, Macmillan) shows that modern courtship practices have consistently coevolved with consumer capitalism and gendered work. Her second book (co-edited with Ben Tarnoff)\, Voices from the Valley: Tech Workers Talk About What They Do and How They Do It (2020\, FSG Originals)\, is a series of long-form anonymous interviews with workers at every level ofthe Bay Area tech industry. Her current research focuses on transnational online marketplaces\, arguing that despite tech competition\, cross-border e-commerce has made ordinary people in China and the U.S. ever more closely entangled.Jack Linzhou XingJack Linzhou Xing holds a Ph.D. in History and Sociology of Technology and Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is interested in the social implications and governance of the 4 platform economy\, digital infrastructure\, and digital labor\, with a regional focus on China. At theFairbank Center\, he will be working on the contested development and deployment of autonomous vehicles in China.Yolanda Yuxing ZhangYolanda Yuxing Zhang holds a Ph.D. in Information Studies from the University of Toronto. She is interested in how platforms bridge various markets and how value is translated across the interfaces of the economy\, the sustainable development sphere\, and innovation culture. At the Fairbank Center\, Zhang plans to extend her doctoral research to examine the role of platforms\, as both a design logic and a structuring system\, in industrial upgrading.Julie Yujie ChenJulie Yujie Chen is an Associate Professor in the Institute of Communication\, Culture\, Information\, and Technology (ICCIT) and Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto\, Canada. Her research examines the transformation of work and workers’ subjectivity in relation to digital technology\, capitalism\, and globalization. She is the co-author of Media and Management (University of Minnesota Press\, 2021) and Super-sticky WeChat and Chinese Society (Emerald\, 2018). She is a member of the Capacitor Collective writing Notes Toward a Digital Workers’ Inquiry (Common Notions\, 2025). Chen is also the founding editor of Platforms & Society and the co-editor of the SAGE Handbook of Digital Labour (Sage\, 2026). Currently\, she is writing a book on Chinese data workers in the AI industry.Joshua NevesJoshua Neves is Associate Professor of Film and Moving Image Studies and Director of the Global Emergent Media (GEM) Lab at Concordia University. He is co-author (with Aleena Chia\, Susanna Paasonen\, and Ravi Sundaram) of Technopharmacology (Minnesota University Press / Meson Press\, 2022)\, author of Underglobalization: Beijing’s Media Urbanism and the Chimera of Legitimacy (Duke University Press\, 2020)\, co-editor (w/ Marc Steinberg) of In/Convenience: Inhabiting the Logistical Surround (Institute of Network Cultures\, 2024) and co-editor (w/ Bhaskar Sarkar) of Asian Video Cultures: In the Penumbra of the Global (Duke University Press\, 2017).Marc SteinbergMarc Steinberg researches the impacts of digital platforms on management practices\, media industries\, and cultural life in East Asia. He is the author of Anime’s Media Mix: Franchising Toys and Characters in Japan (University of Minnesota Press\, 2012)\, The Platform Economy: How Japan Transformed the Commercial Internet (2019)\, and Media and Management (2021)\, among other books\, and has coedited Media Theory in Japan (Duke University Press\, 2017) and In/Convenience: Inhabiting the Logistical Surround (Institute of Network Cultures\, 2024). He is currently completing The Convenience Story\, a book about the Japanese convenience store and the platformization of convenience.Lin ZhangZhang’s research encompasses a critical examination of technology\, innovation\, labor\, and governance through a global lens. She place particular emphasis on issues of social justice and intersectionality\, exploring various sectors including digital platforms\, biomedicine and medtech\, new agriculture\, and the broader landscape of knowledge and cultural economy. Her primary geographical focus lies on China and the experiences of ethnic Asian communities within a global and comparative context. Zhang is the author of The Labor of Reinvention: Entrepreneurship in the New Chinese Digital Economy (2023\, Columbia University Press)\, one of the first multi-sited ethnographic 5 accounts of the rising entrepreneurial labor in urban\, rural\, and transnational China since tech innovation had accelerated in the country after 2008. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/technology-and-society-in-through-global-china-new-reflections-new-visions/
LOCATION:Room S030\, CGIS South\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
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SUMMARY:From Copycat to Technology Innovator: China's Use of IP as Strategic Governance 
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Haochen Sun\, Professor of Law\, The University of Hong Kong \n\n\n\nWhat role have state-orchestrated intellectual property policies played in China’s emergence as a major technology innovator? This talk discusses two interrelated transformations that have taken place in China over the past two decades: the rise and fall of the shanzai (copycat) culture movement and China’s ascent as a tech superpower since 2015. In analyzing these transformations\, the talk explains how China has deployed IP as a tool of strategic governance and statecraft. \n\n\n\nProfessor Haochen Sun specializes in intellectual property\, technology law\, and Chinese law. His wide-ranging scholarship has delved into areas such as the legal status of artificial intelligence creations\, access to patented medicines and vaccines\, intellectual property rights owners’ responsibilities\, and the trademark protection of luxury brands. He is currently working on two new research projects. The first one aims to develop a new ethical framework for regulating AI creativity\, while the second one critically examines the epic transformations that have taken place in China’s regulation of technologies. He recently founded the Program on Artificial Intelligence and the Law\, a research hub for studying the impact of AI on the legal system. \n\n\n\nCoffee and light snacks will be provided. Please register here. \n\n\n\nA Harvard ID is required in order to enter Harvard Law School buildings. If you have questions\, please contact eals@law.harvard.edu in advance of the event. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/from-copycat-to-technology-innovator-chinas-use-of-ip-as-strategic-governance/
LOCATION:WCC 2004\, Wasserstein Hall\, 1585 Massachusetts Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Jennifer Lind — Can China’s Smart Authoritarianism Model Win?
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Jennifer Lind\, Associate Professor of Government\, Dartmouth University \n\n\n\nDiscussant: Meg Rithmire\, James E. Robison Professor of Business Administration\, Business\, Government\, and International Economy Unit\, Harvard Business SchoolGreat power competition requires countries to be technological leaders\, but an influential literature holds that autocracies\, which suppress creativity and information flows\, stifle innovation. Many observers of China’s rise thus argued that it would be unable to compete technologically with the United States. Jennifer Lind’s Autocracy 2.0 shows that China has become a global innovation leader. She argues that China and other “smart authoritarians” have adapted their tools of control to better compete with free societies in today’s globalized information age. Authoritarian adaptation suggests that China – and the countries that emulate its smart authoritarian model – will be far more competitive than many observers expect: which has dramatic implications for the balance of power\, the future of international order\, and the global struggle between democracy and authoritarianism. \n\n\n\nJennifer Lind is Associate Professor of Government at Dartmouth College\, and a Faculty Associate at the Reischauer Institute for Japanese Studies at Harvard University. She is also a Research Associate in the US and North America Programme at Chatham House. Professor Lind’s research focuses on the international relations of East Asia and US foreign policy toward the region.  \n\n\n\nLind is the author of Autocracy 2.0: How China’s Rise Reinvented Tyranny (Cornell University Press\, 2025)\, a book that shows how authoritarian adaptation enabled China’s rise to become a superpower and technological peer competitor of the United States. Previously\, Lind published (also with Cornell University Press)\, Sorry States: Apologies in International Politics (2008). She has authored numerous scholarly articles in journals such as International Security and International Studies Quarterly and writes for wider audiences in Foreign Affairs. Her commentary is regularly quoted in The New York Times\, Washington Post\, The Wall Street Journal\, and National Public Radio (NPR). Lind founded and serves as the editor-in-chief of Blue Blaze\, a multi-author Substack about international relations and U.S. foreign policy. Lind holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology\, a MPIA from the School of Global Policy Studies at the University of California\, San Diego\, and a BA from the University of California. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-featuring-jennifer-lind/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China,Critical Issues Confronting China Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260310T203000
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SUMMARY:Urban China Lecture Series Featuring Su Xiaobo -- State Venturism and the Financialization of Urban Development in China
DESCRIPTION:zoom meeting link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Su Xiaobo\, University of Oregon \n\n\n\nFinancialization has become a central force to reshape urban development. This paper explores one specific mechanism of financialization—state-led venture capital (SVC)—to elucidate an emergent trend in which governments act as equity investors to support startups and scaleups. Such investments are not necessarily aimed at ownership\, but rather at fostering technological innovation and promoting urban development\, which gives rise to state venturism. China provides a particularly revealing case of state venturism: governments at multiple administrative levels have leveraged SVCs to support high-tech firms within their jurisdictions. The study case is Hefei\, China’s capital of state-led venture investment. Through equity investment\, municipal governments in China are forging new alliances with private investors and entrepreneurial actors—governing not via direct ownership of production assets\, but through equity participation and market-shaping investment vehicles. \n\n\n\nXiaobo Su is a professor of urban and regional development in the Department of Geography\, University of Oregon. Currently his research interest is in state-led venture investment and its role in urban innovation in China and the U.S.  \n\n\n\nThis event series is sponsored by the Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, the MIT Sustainable Urbanization Lab\, and the Australian Centre on China in the World. \n\n\n\nJoin Zoom Meeting Link: https://mit.zoom.us/j/97955535212 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/urban-china-lecture-series-featuring-su-xiaobo-state-venturism-and-the-financialization-of-urban-development-in-china/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Urban China Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260309T163000
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SUMMARY:HYI Annual Roundtable — Gender\, Class\, and Youth: The Formation of Civic Democracy in Asia in the Post-Developmental State Era
DESCRIPTION:Panelists:Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal\, Harvard Divinity School Fellow\, Publisher\, and Democracy ActivistMing-sho Ho\, Professor\, Department of Sociology\, National Taiwan UniversityEleana Kim\, Professor\, Anthropology and Asian American Studies\, University of California\, IrvineHyun Mee Kim\, Professor\, Department of Cultural Anthropology\, Yonsei UniversityAnthony J. Spires\, Professor\, Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies\, The University of MelbourneKiyoteru Tsutsui\, Director\, Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center\, Professor of Sociology\, Henri H. and Tomoye Takahashi Professor of Japanese Studies\, Stanford UniversityModerator: James Robson (James C. Kralik and Yunli Lou Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations; Harvard College Professor; Director\, Harvard-Yenching Institute) \n\n\n\n\nGender\, Class\, and Youth: The Formation of Civic Democracy in Asia in the Post-Developmental State Era\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/hyi-annual-roundtable-gender-class-and-youth-the-formation-of-civic-democracy-in-asia-in-the-post-developmental-state-era/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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SUMMARY:Be Water: Collective Improvisation and the 2019 Hong Kong Protests
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Ming-sho Ho\, Distinguished Professor\, Department of Sociology\, National Taiwan University \n\n\n\nHow do ordinary citizens organize to push back against creeping authoritarianism in the wake of increased technological surveillance by government?  What happens when these protest efforts falter?  Drawing on an analysis of over 1700 events events and 189 interviews tied to Hong Kong’s 2019 Anti-Extradition Law movement\, Professor Ho offers reflections on these questions based on the findings of his recent book. He highlights the dynamic at work as ordinary citizens attempt to exert their agency in the wake of political change and a government responds with repressive countermeasures. Join us for a discussion of a case study of Hong Kong’s unsuccessful 2019 protest movement and the lessons it may offer for ordinary citizens elsewhere hoping to push back against the state. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/be-water-collective-improvisation-and-the-2019-hong-kong-protests/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S250\, 1730 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
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SUMMARY:Mediated Populism and Capital Justice in China
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Michelle Miao\, Associate Professor of Law\, The Chinese University of Hong Kong \n\n\n\nSocial media function not merely as communication conduits but as active agents shaping public discourses central to judicial matters and political life. This talk examines how public discussions of high-profile capital homicide cases are transmitted through social media algorithms. Drawing on mediated populism and theories of political communication\, it analyses media data to explore the intersection of platform governance\, state communication strategies\, and popular engagement with criminal justice. Employing content analysis and quantitative metrics \, the study contributes to scholarship on judicial politics and the evolving landscape of comparative law in the social media age. \n\n\n\nProfessor Michelle Miao is an Associate Professor of law from the Faculty of Law\, Chinese University of Hong Kong. She holds a DPhil degree in law from the University of Oxford and two LLM degrees from New York University and Renmin University of China respectively. She previously conducted research in the capacity of New York University’s Global Fellow (2014-5) \, University of Oxford’s Howard League Fellow (2013-4) and British Academy’s prestigious Postdoc Research Fellow (2015-6)\, National University of Singapore’s ASLI visiting scholar (2019) and recently Harvard Yenching Scholar (2019-20). \n\n\n\nAmong Professor Miao’s research interests are the intersections between law and technology\, criminal justice\, socio-legal studies and comparative law. She published with reputable international journals such as American Journal of Comparative Law\, International Comparative Law Quarterly and British Journal of Criminology. She presented her work at Asian Law Institute’s Junior Faculty Forum (2021)\, Chicago-Tsinghua Junior Faculty Forum (2019)\, and Stanford International Junior Faculty Forum (IJFF) (2015). Her scholarship and commentaries have been featured in various international media outlets\, including The Guardian\, Financial Times\, Wall Street Journal\, South China Morning Post\, and The Globe and Mail. \n\n\n\nProfessor Miao is an awardee of the American Society of Comparative Law’s Hessel Yntema Prize (2020) for the most outstanding scholarship by a scholar under 40 years of age. She is also a recipient of CUHK Law’s Academic Impact in Legal Scholarship (2021)\, Asian Law Institute’s Junior Faculty Award for Best Paper (2020)\, Chinese University of Hong Kong’s Young Researcher Award (2019)\, and Chinese University Faculty Teaching Excellence Awards (Hong Kong\, 2019). \n\n\n\nA light lunch will be provided. Please register here. \n\n\n\nA Harvard ID is required in order to enter Harvard Law School buildings. If you have questions\, please contact eals@law.harvard.edu in advance of the event. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/mediated-populism-and-capital-justice-in-china/
LOCATION:WCC 1015\, Wasserstein Hall\, 1585 Massachusetts Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
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SUMMARY:Taiwan Workshop featuring Peter Dutton — What is the Legal Status of Taiwan and Why Does it Matter?
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Peter Dutton\, Senior Research Fellow\, Paul Tsai China Center; Professor Emeritus\, U.S. Naval War College \n\n\n\nDiscussants: Alastair Iain Johnston\, Professor\, Government Department\, Harvard UniversityWilliam P. Alford\, Jerome A. and Joan L. Cohen Professor of Law; Director\, East Asian Legal Studies Program; Chair\, Harvard Law School Project on Disability\, Harvard Law School \n\n\n\nTaiwan’s political status often dominates headlines. Yet its legal status — the foundation of U.S. policy — remains underdiscussed. At this event\, Paul Tsai China Center Senior Fellow Dr. Peter Dutton will trace Taiwan’s territorial status from the Qing Dynasty to the present day\, shedding light on the legal principles and historical developments that define its position in the world.  \n\n\n\nPeter Dutton is a senior research fellow at the Paul Tsai China Center and Professor Emeritus at the U.S. Naval War College. Before coming to Yale\, Dutton served the U.S. Navy for more than 40 years in active duty and civilian capacities. He has advised a series of Pacific Fleet Commanders\, Secretaries of Defense\, Chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff\, and other government offices on policies in the Asia-Pacific region and testified before the Senate and the House on a variety of China-related issues. He was also a professor of international law and China studies at the U.S. Naval War College\, where he directed the China Maritime Studies Institute and served as dean of the Center for Naval Warfare Studies. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/taiwan-workshop-featuring-peter-dutton-what-is-the-legal-status-of-taiwan-and-why-does-it-matter/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Room S153\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Taiwan,Taiwan Studies
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SUMMARY:Film Screening — Invisible Nation\, followed by Q&A with Director Vanessa Hope
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Vanessa Hope\, DirectorDiscussant: Ya-Wen Lei\, Professor\, Department of Sociology\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nInvisible Nation follows the story of Taiwan’s first female president\, Tsai Ing-wen\, and explores themes of resilience\, identity\, and freedom\, while shedding light on Taiwan’s complex history and its ongoing struggle in the international society. The 90-minute documentary will be followed by a discussion featuring Director Vanessa Hope and Prof. Ya-Wen Lei. \n\n\n\nRegister Here \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-screening-invisible-nation-followed-by-qa-with-director-vanessa-hope/
LOCATION:Hall C\, Science Center\, 1 Oxford St.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film Screening,Taiwan
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260304T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260304T131500
DTSTAMP:20260505T024634
CREATED:20251215T203936Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260203T200414Z
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China series featuring Xi Lian — Christian Social Activism in Contemporary China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Xi Lian\, David C. Steinmetz Distinguished Professor of World Christianity\, Duke University Divinity School; Visiting Scholar\, Harvard Divinity School \n\n\n\nDiscussant: James Robson\, James C. Kralik and Yunli Lou Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard College Professor\, Harvard University; Director\, Harvard-Yenching Institute \n\n\n\nIn his Asian tour in 1920\, Bertrand Russell noted the prominence of Christians in the Korean independence movement\, adding that in Korea “a Christian was practically synonymous with a bomb-thrower.” This talk explores a less colorful but no less pronounced role of Christians in rights defense and political dissent in China a century later. \n\n\n\nProfessor Lian is David C. Steinmetz Distinguished Professor of World Christianity at Duke Divinity School. His research is focused on China’s modern encounter with Christianity. His first book\, The Conversion of Missionaries (1997)\, is a critical study of American Protestant missions against the backdrop of rising Chinese nationalism in the early twentieth century. His second book\, Redeemed by Fire: The Rise of Popular Christianity in Modern China (2010)\, winner of the 2011 Christianity Today Book Award\, examines the development of missionary Christianity into a vibrant\, indigenous faith of the Chinese masses. Blood Letters: The Untold Story of Lin Zhao\, a Martyr in Mao’s China (2018) is his most recent book. It is the first authoritative\, documented biography of the most important political dissident in Mao’s China\, whose open opposition to communism was sustained by her Christian faith. Dr. Lian’s other research projects include the flourishing of Christianity among minority peoples on the margins of the Chinese state and the emergence of Protestant elites and their prominent\, if also precarious\, role in the search for civil society in today’s China. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-featuring-xi-lian-christian-social-activism-in-contemporary-china/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China,Critical Issues Confronting China Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260227T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260227T133000
DTSTAMP:20260505T024634
CREATED:20260225T152909Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260225T152911Z
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SUMMARY:The Origins and Development of Chinese Heavy Ink Painting
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Lan Zhenghui\, Visiting Scholar\, Harvard University CAMLab \n\n\n\nThis talk will take place in Mandarin.In this lecture\, Lan Zhenghui will delve into the fundamental concepts of contemporary ink art\, including its origins\, structural expression\, contextual relationships\, East-West connections\, and techniques such as splashing and surface expression. He will also share his decades-long journey and fruitful achievements in contemporary ink art\, and offer his perspective on its future impact globally. \n\n\n\nRegistration required \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-origins-and-development-of-chinese-heavy-ink-painting/
LOCATION:Sackler Building\, Lower Level\, 485 Broadway\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260226T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260226T184500
DTSTAMP:20260505T024634
CREATED:20260109T141321Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260129T185406Z
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SUMMARY:Modern China Lecture Series featuring Micah Muscolino — Remaking the Earth\, Exhausting the People: The Burden of Conservation in Modern China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Micah Muscolino\, Professor and Paul G. Pickowicz Endowed Chair in Modern Chinese History\, University of California San Diego \n\n\n\nFrom the 1940s to the 1960s\, soil and water conservation measures remade both the arid\, erosion-prone landscape of China’s Loess Plateau and the lives of rural people. Drawing from his recent book\, Micah Muscolino discusses how the Chinese state imposed the burden of conservation on rural communities and they navigated those demands. Weaving together archival research and oral history interviews\, Muscolino’s multitiered investigation uncovers relationships between the forces of nature\, Chinese state policies\, and the embodied experiences of rural men and women. This approach highlights the contestations and compromises that the state’s environmental interventions triggered in rural society. Because modern China’s revolutionary transformations altered human relationships with the natural world\, as Muscolino demonstrates\, understanding that history from the perspectives of China’s common people requires sustained attention to their everyday interactions with the environment. \n\n\n\nMicah Muscolino is Professor and Pickowicz Endowed Chair in modern Chinese history at the University of California\, San Diego. His publications include Remaking the Earth\, Exhausting the People: The Burden of Conservation in Modern China (University of Washington Press\, 2025) and the forthcoming edited volume Revolutionary Natures: Grassroots Environmental Histories of China’s Mao Era (University of Washington Press\, 2026).   \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/modern-china-lecture-series-featuring-micah-muscolino/
LOCATION:Room K354\, CGIS Knafel\, 1737 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:FCCS Modern China,Modern China Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260226T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260226T181500
DTSTAMP:20260505T024634
CREATED:20260212T210252Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260212T210256Z
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SUMMARY:China Energy Dialogue: Can China Remain an Advanced Technology Superpower?
DESCRIPTION:Registration required\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Meg Rithmire\, James E. Robison Professor of Business Administration\, Business\, Government\, and International Economy Unit\, Harvard Business SchoolModerator: Henry Lee\, Jassim M. Jaidah Family Director\, Environment and Natural Resources Program; Senior Lecturer in Public Policy\, Harvard Kennedy SchoolIn this China Energy Dialogue\, Meg Rithmire\, James E. Robison Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School\, will explore whether China can sustain its dominance in high-tech innovation – and what the rest of the world should do about it. \n\n\n\nThis seminar is part of the China Energy Dialogues (中国能源对话)\, a new monthly seminar series sponsored by the Belfer Center’s Environment and Natural Resources Program that brings together experts and Harvard community members to discuss energy\, climate\, and environmental issues in China. \n\n\n\nRSVP required. A Harvard University ID is required to attend. Please note that this seminar is in-person only and will not be recorded. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-energy-dialogue-can-china-remain-an-advanced-technology-superpower/
LOCATION:T-G50 Executive Education Classroom\, Taubman Building\, 15 Eliot St\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260226T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260226T180000
DTSTAMP:20260505T024634
CREATED:20260204T171332Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260204T171357Z
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SUMMARY:China and the Asymmetric Great Power Competition in the Middle East
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Gangzhen She\, Visiting Scholar\, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs; Director\, Center for Overseas Security and Associate Professor Department of International Relations\, Tsinghua University\, China \n\n\n\nDiscussant: Robert Ross\, Professor of Political Science\, Boston University; Fairbank Center Associate  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-and-the-asymmetric-great-power-competition-in-the-middle-east/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260224T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260224T220000
DTSTAMP:20260505T024634
CREATED:20260204T193937Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260212T154041Z
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SUMMARY:Urban China Lecture Series Featuring Song Nianshen -- Space\, State\, and Daily Life in a Manchurian City
DESCRIPTION:zoom meeting link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Song Nianshen\, Tsinghua UniversityWhat can one neighborhood reveal about the making of a modern nation? This talk deciphers the unexpected significance of Xita\, a half-square-mile quarter in Shenyang\, in Northeast China. It shows that over nearly four centuries\, Xita has been shaped and reshaped by empire\, war\, migration\, and urban transformation. The history of this small area mirrors large-scale changes\, including and especially China’s metamorphosis from a multi-ethnic Eurasian empire to a postindustrial society. By studying how global and local forces play out in everyday spaces\, the talk reveals a perspective for understanding China’s past—not from the top down\, but through the streets and people who lived it. \n\n\n\nProfessor Nianshen Song is a historian at the Tsinghua Institute of Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences. His research and teaching focus on late imperial and modern East Asia\, with special interest in frontiers\, trans-regional networks and historical geography. His monographies in English include The Neighborhood: Space\, State\, and Daily Life in a Manchurian City (2025) and Making Borders in Modern East Asia: The Tumen River Demarcation\, 1881–1919 (2018). \n\n\n\nJoin Zoom Meeting Link: https://mit.zoom.us/j/97955535212 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/urban-china-lecture-series-featuring-song-niansheng-space-state-and-daily-life-in-a-manchurian-city/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Urban China Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260224T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260224T140000
DTSTAMP:20260505T024634
CREATED:20260203T192334Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260222T211405Z
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SUMMARY:***POSTPONED*** Modern China Lecture Series featuring Xiaobo Lü — Domination and Mobilization: The Rise and Fall of Political Parties in China’s Republican Era
DESCRIPTION:***DUE TO INCLEMENT WEATHER\, THIS TALK IS POSTPONED UNTIL A FUTURE DATE***Speaker: Xiaobo Lü\, Associate Professor\, Department of Political Science\, University of California\, BerkeleyXiaobo Lü is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of California\, Berkeley. His research explores the relationships between fiscal policies\, party-building\, and state-society relations in authoritarian regimes\, particularly in China. He is particularly interested in the formation and functioning of political parties and institutions in authoritarian regimes across both historical and contemporary contexts. Xiaobo Lü earned his Ph.D. in Political Science from Yale University in 2011. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/modern-china-lecture-series-featuring-xiaobo-lu-domination-and-mobilization-the-rise-and-fall-of-political-parties-in-chinas-republican-era/
CATEGORIES:FCCS Modern China,Modern China Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260223T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260223T174500
DTSTAMP:20260505T024634
CREATED:20260120T162458Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260222T213828Z
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SUMMARY:***NOW TAKING PLACE VIA ZOOM*** Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Courtney Fung — Can China Achieve its UN Ambitions?
DESCRIPTION:Zoom Webinar Registration Link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Courtney Fung\, Associate Professor\, School of International Studies\, Macquarie University\, Sydney\, Australia \n\n\n\nPlease note the different day and time for this Critical Issues talk.***DUE TO INCLEMENT WEATHER\, THIS LECTURE WILL NOW TAKE PLACE VIA ZOOM WEBINAR***REGISTER AT: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_af-PQxTHQXaRabRNCONE6QChina presents itself as a supporter of ‘true multilateralism\,’ with the United Nations as a bedrock institution of global governance. The United Nations’ truly global reach\, China’s UN Security Council veto\, and position as the only legal representative of China in the UN system\, makes the body a key forum for China’s foreign policy. China seeks reform from within the multilateral institution to have it better align with PRC foreign policy preferences.  Indeed\, China’s well-reported multilateral rise is presumed to challenge US leadership in a Western-dominated UN system\, especially in the wake of the recent US departure from various UN bodies. To assess whether China can achieve its UN ambitions\, I first outline China’s power and influence against a basic heuristic of China’s UN contributions\, before focusing on China’s self-proclaimed ‘global public goods’ campaign. I next turn to the Global Development Initiative\, the Global Security Initiative and the Global Civilization Initiative to highlight how each of these Initiatives draw upon different facets of power\, clarifying PRC tactics to promote these Initiatives within and through the UN system. My research draws mainly on written primary and secondary sources produced by PRC and UN elites\, and supplemented by insights from PRC\, US and UN officials in Washington\, DC and New York City in May and June 2024\, and Beijing in December 2025. \n\n\n\nDr. Courtney J. Fung is Associate Professor in the Discipline of Security Studies in the School of International Studies at Macquarie University in Sydney\, Australia. She is concurrently Non-Resident Fellow at LSE IDEAS; the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard University; at Asia Society Australia\, and at the Lowy Institute. She was a Fulbright Scholar at Georgetown University in spring 2024.  Her research focuses on how rising powers address the norms and provisions for global governance and international security\, with a primary focus on China within the UN system. Courtney’s published research spans international civil service personnel contributions and human protection issues broadly defined (e.g. cyber norms\, peacekeeping\, intervention\, and the responsibility to protect) and the effects of status for cooperation and international norm development. Courtney’s book\, China and Intervention at the UN Security Council: Reconciling Status (Oxford: Oxford University Press\, 2019) was shortlisted for the BISA LHM Ling Outstanding First Book Prize. She holds a PhD in International Relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy\, Tufts University.  She serves as an associate editor for H-DIPLO ISSF\, Contemporary Security Policy and the Australian Journal of International Affairs.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-featuring-courtney-fung-can-china-achieve-its-un-ambitions/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China,Critical Issues Confronting China Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260218T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260218T210000
DTSTAMP:20260505T024634
CREATED:20260203T162308Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260206T214549Z
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SUMMARY:Film Screening - Too Loud for the State—Chinese Rock n’ Roll on the March: Zhang Yuan’s Beijing Bastards 北京杂种 (1993)
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Rana Mitter\, ST Lee Chair in US–Asia Relations\, Harvard Kennedy SchoolGuest filmmaker (via Zoom Q&A):Zhang Yuan\, Director of Beijing Bastards \n\n\n\n\n“Rock music was the only way young people could express what they were feeling.” —Zhang Yuan \n\n\n\n\nJoin us for a special screening of Beijing Bastards (北京杂种\, 1993)\, Zhang Yuan’s raw\, unflinching\, and influential portrait of China’s underground rock n’ roll scene\, filmed amidst a moment of profound cultural rupture in the country’s capital. This screening will be introduced by Professor Rana Mitter (Harvard) and followed by a Zoom Q&A with director Zhang Yuan  (张元). \n\n\n\nBeijing Bastards is an odyssey through the vibrant\, seedy underbelly of Beijing’s bars and hutongs. It features rock icons Cui Jian (崔健) and Dou Wei (窦唯) loosely playing versions of themselves as they gig\, drink\, fight\, and curse their way through torrid summer nights and muddled days. Zhang captures sweltering rehearsal rooms\, crowded performance venues\, makeshift living spaces\, violent clashes\, and fleeting moments of intimacy within a milieu that existed largely outside—and often in tension with—the state\, the broader society\, and its rules. \n\n\n\nThe film powerfully registers the emotional fallout of post-1989 China\, when political expression was pushed into the shadows even as economic liberalization accelerated. In this climate of dashed idealism and uncertain transition\, loud and passionate Chinese rock music (yaogun 摇滚) became a precarious outlet for release\, dissent\, and self-definition. Beijing Bastards documents this subculture with an immediacy that was unprecedented in Chinese cinema. \n\n\n\nA restless blur of color\, motion\, and thunderous sound\, Zhang’s film functions simultaneously as musical documentary\, as piercing sociopolitical commentary\, and as raucous drama. It highlights the destructive behaviors—particularly among men—shaped by alienation\, emasculation\, and disillusionment. At a moment when China was seeking order and stability\, Zhang instead turned his camera toward lives at the margins\, portraying them with unvarnished honesty. \n\n\n\nFilmed on a shoestring budget and without official permission—making it among China’s earliest crop of independent films—Beijing Bastards was never approved for domestic release. Its international festival screenings in the mid-‘90s brought Zhang global attention but also a multi-year filmmaking ban. Over its history\, aside from the occasional celluloid screening\, most viewers of the film have had to settle for heavily degraded bootlegs. For this event\, we’re proud to present Beijing Bastards in a newly digitized transfer from its original 35mm print—a rare opportunity to experience Zhang Yuan’s zeitgeist-capturing opus in all its audiovisual splendor. \n\n\n\nThe screening will be preceded by Zhang Yuan’s Beijing Film Academy student film White Lines (白线\, 1988)\, starring painter Liu Xiaodong (刘小东)\, the film’s first ever public screening. \n\n\n\nRana Mitter is ST Lee Chair in US–Asia Relations at the Harvard Kennedy School. He is the author of numerous books on modern Chinese history\, including Forgotten Ally (2013) and China’s Good War (2020). His commentary on China has appeared in Foreign Affairs\, The Guardian\, and The Financial Times\, and he has regularly contributed to BBC Radio and television. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and recipient of the 2020 Medlicott Medal for Service to History. \n\n\n\nZhang Yuan is a pioneering figure in China’s independent film movement and one of the so-called “Sixth Generation” directors. His major films—including Beijing Bastards\, Mama\, and East Palace\, West Palace—challenged official narratives and censorship norms\, helping to redefine the possibilities of Chinese cinema in the 1990s. His work has screened widely at international festivals and remains central to discussions of underground culture\, sexuality\, and subversiveness in contemporary China. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-screening-too-loud-for-the-state-chinese-rock-n-roll-on-the-march-zhang-yuans-beijing-bastards-%e5%8c%97%e4%ba%ac%e6%9d%82%e7%a7%8d-1993-white-line/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260218T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260218T131500
DTSTAMP:20260505T024634
CREATED:20251216T155458Z
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China featuring Fan Dai — Decoupling Crisis: Subnational Climate Action and China’s Domestic Coal Challenge
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Fan Dai\, Assistant Professor\, International Climate Policy\, Goldman School of Public Policy\, University of California\, BerkeleyDiscussant: Henry Lee\, Jassim M. Jaidah Family Director of the Environment and Natural Resources Program; Co-Chair\, Arctic Initiative\, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs\, Harvard Kennedy SchoolMore information coming soon.Fan Dai is an Assistant Professor in International Climate Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy\, University of California\, Berkeley. She is also a Senior Fellow with the Belfer Center’s Environment and Natural Resources Program and the Science\, Technology\, and Public Policy Program at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center. \n\n\n\nDr. Dai has played a significant role leading California’s collaboration with China on climate\, energy and environment. She was appointed by Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr as Special Advisor on China. Under Brown\, Dr. Dai chaired the state’s China Interagency Working Group\, and acted as the state’s liaison on its critical economic and environmental initiatives on China. Previously\, Dr. Dai served as senior advisor at California Environmental Protection Agency and California Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development\, advising on the state’s international policy and global climate partnership. In 2017\, she organized Governor Brown’s trip\, which resulted in a successful meeting with President Xi Jinping and the commitment to establish the California-China Climate Institute. \n\n\n\nDr. Dai is a graduate of Berkeley Law\, University of California\, and holds a doctoral degree on Environmental Policy and Economics from State University of New York. Her research has been focused on market mechanisms for climate change mitigation\, energy efficiency and innovations. \n\n\n\nHenry Lee is the Jassim M. Jaidah Family Director of the Environment and Natural Resources Program and Co-Chair of the Arctic Initiative in the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard Kennedy School. He is also a Senior Lecturer in Public Policy at HKS. \n\n\n\nBefore joining HKS in 1979\, Lee spent nine years in Massachusetts State Government as Director of the State’s Energy Office and Special Assistant to the Governor for Environmental Policy. He has served on numerous state\, federal\, and private advisory boards concerning energy and the environment. Lee is a former Chairman of the Massachusetts Stewardship Council\, which oversees state parks and recreation facilities. Additionally\, he has worked with private and public organizations\, including the InterAmerican Development Bank\, the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation\, the State of Sao Paulo\, the U.S. Departments of Energy and Interior\, the National Research Council\, the Intercontinental Energy Corporation\, General Electric\, and the U.S. EPA. \n\n\n\nLee’s research interests surround energy and transportation issues\, U.S. climate policy\, China’s energy policy\, and public infrastructure projects in developing countries. Lee is a co-author of Foundations for a Low-Carbon Energy System in China (Cambridge University Press\, 2021). His forthcoming publications include: a book chapter on state electricity regulation and climate (with Judy Chang)\, a paper on deploying renewable energy in China (with Bo Bai)\, and a new case study on solid waste disposal in Serbia. \n\n\n\nCo-sponsored by the Belfer Center for International Affairs\, Harvard Kennedy School \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-featuring-fan-dai-decoupling-crisis-subnational-climate-action-and-chinas-domestic-coal-challenge/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China,Critical Issues Confronting China Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260213T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260214T170000
DTSTAMP:20260505T024634
CREATED:20260122T191253Z
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SUMMARY:Harvard East Asia Society Conference — Delineations: Temporality\, Boundaries\, and Imaginaries of East Asia
DESCRIPTION:The Harvard East Asia Society (HEAS) Graduate Student Conference is an annual two-day event that provides an interdisciplinary forum for graduate students to exchange ideas and discuss current research on topics related to Asia. This year\, we are excited to host twelve panels featuring Harvard faculty and participants from around the world\, as well as keynote addresses by Professor Paul Roquet of MIT and Professor Yoon Sun Yang of Boston University.  \n\n\n\nThe HEAS 2026 conference is entitled “Delineations: Temporality\, Boundaries\, and Imaginaries of East Asia.” Through this theme\, we aim to explore a simple question: What do we do when we draw the line? We delineate to describe\, to trace\, to portray\, and to mark out the vagueness and ambiguities that find purchase in scholarship. How does navigating between liminalities inform our understanding of East Asia? This year’s conference asks scholars to re-examine how a world created entirely of ascriptions reveals intrinsic and extrinsic connections among subjects\, space\, borders\, history\, and time.  \n\n\n\nThe conference will run from February 13-14\, 2026\, in Harvard CGIS South. More information can be found on its website here.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/harvard-east-asia-society-conference-delineations-temporality-boundaries-and-imaginaries-of-east-asia/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, CGIS South\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260211T113000
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SUMMARY:Paper Currency in the Early Ming Period Observed via Questions and Answers on the Provincial Examination
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: KAKINUMA Yohei\, Professor\, Faculty of Letters\, Arts\, and Sciences\, Waseda University; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2025-26 \n\n\n\nChair/Discussant: David Yang\, Yvonne P. L. Lui Professor of Economics\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nThis talk has examined some aspects of people’s perceptions of paper currency in the early Ming period\, drawing on the questions and excellent answers from the provincial examination as basic historical texts. Monetary problems emerged in South China around 1459\, and were especially severe from 1537 to 1580. The local governments in South China did not adhere to the principles of agrarianism or Confucianism and regarded the paper currency as an indispensable currency\, not only as a state means of payment\, but also a means of private economic transactions. However\, paper currency was inflated\, silver was in short supply\, and coins were not enough to make up for it. As a result\, in the 16th century\, foreign silver flowed into the Ming Dynasty. \n\n\n\nhttps://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/paper-currency-in-the-early-ming-period-observed-via-questions-and-answers-on-the-provincial-examination/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/paper-currency-in-the-early-ming-period-observed-via-questions-and-answers-on-the-provincial-examination/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260210T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260210T113000
DTSTAMP:20260505T024634
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SUMMARY:Sonic Socialism: Radio and the Technopolitics of Listening in Maoist China
DESCRIPTION:Register for zoom webinar\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Yu Wang\, Cornell University \n\n\n\nThis talk is a condensed\, selected presentation of my forthcoming book\, Sonic Socialism: Radio and the Technopolitics of Listening in China\, 1940-1976. In the book\, I explore how radio unleashed its potential and limits in a series of engagements with the auditory sense and the production of reality during the Cold War. I ask: How did socialism manifest itself through sound and listening practices? What kind of technological and social relations did it inform? And how did such techno-sociological influence the forms of political consciousness? By unpacking radio technologies as socialism-that-was-made-durable\, I reveal how diverse groups of listeners -from state authorities to institution actors and regular people- and their auditory practices actively constituted the daily experience of Chinese socialism. In so doing\, this book reveals not only the ways in which auditory technologies informed socialism but also how the human ear became a critical site of auditory governance\, informing the perception of reality\, productivity\, and social order. \n\n\n\nYu Wang is an assistant professor in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at Cornell University. He is deeply interested in the technologies of listening and their interaction with society and politics. His forthcoming book Sonic Socialism explores how listening to radio constituted the practice of everyday life in Mao’s China. His second book project concerns the global history of decibels\, interrogating the layered\, complex dynamics between the auditory sense and its standardization.Meeting Registration – Zoom \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/sonic-socialism-radio-and-the-technopolitics-of-listening-in-maoist-china/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260205T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260206T180000
DTSTAMP:20260505T024634
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SUMMARY:Conference — Designers of Mountains and Water: Alternative Landscapes for a Changing Climate
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Sinographic compound (山水)\, denoting “mountain and water\,” is widely shared across many Asian contexts\, with different regional traditions and approaches. As shanshui in China\, sansui in Japan\, and sansu in Korea\, the term has historically referred to creative artistic and philosophical visions of the natural world\, combining the vital elements of a fully dynamic landscape. With climate change underway\, what contemporary elements and dimensions of nature are necessary for designing and building sustainable spaces for human habitation and flourishing? Contemporary landscape architects from Northeast and Southeast Asia are trying to answer this question by rethinking the relation between social and natural forms. Their aim is to design habitable futures at the intersection of the two. \n\n\n\nThis conference will feature leading landscape architects and scholars from China\, Japan\, Korea\, Malaysia\, Singapore\, and Thailand\, as well as Australia and the US\, to discuss the perspectives\, histories\, politics\, and the most compelling projects of sustainable design in the Asian context. \n\n\n\nThis conference accompanies the exhibition Designers of Mountain and Water\, which will be on display in the Druker Design Gallery from January 20 to April 4\, 2026. Curated by Jungyoon Kim\, Associate Professor in Practice of Landscape Architecture at the GSD\, the exhibition features more than 45 works of landscape architecture by 23 practices in Asia.For more information\, including a detailed agenda\, please visit the conference’s web page.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/conference-designers-of-mountains-and-water-alternative-landscapes-for-a-changing-climate/
LOCATION:Piper Auditorium\, Gund Hall - 42 Quincy St\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Environment,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260205T122000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260205T132000
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SUMMARY:Wu Jingxiong\, Between Natural Law and Geopolitics: The Insights and Dilemmas of a Catholic Chinese Law Professor in Cold War America
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Jedidiah Kroncke\, Associate Professor of Law\, The University of Hong Kong \n\n\n\nThe life of Chinese legal scholar Wu Jingxiong has long attracted attention given his diverse intellectual interests and high profile in Chinese judicial politics and constitutional reform during the 1930s and 1940s. Like many of his generation\, Wu’s education combine traditional Confucian schooling with study at multiple Western-influenced institutions. During his first law degree\, he converted to Christianity\, and his religious journey ultimately led him to become one of the most notable Catholic Chinese intellectuals of this era. Episodes of his transnationalized life have been well-studied—from his relationship with Oliver Wendell Holmes to his engagement with numerous other legal and religious thinkers. \n\n\n\nYet\, Wu’s life after the end of the Chinese Civil War in 1949 has received less attention. During this period\, Wu spent fifteen years in the United States primarily teaching law at Seton Hall University. While the least studied time of his life\, this era was a critical juncture in his ongoing quest to reconcile his Confucian sympathies with his Catholic faith. Wu became a significant contributor to debates regarding the relationship of the common law to natural law and the relationship of Vatican II to Catholic legal thought. he became closely associated with a diverse range of prominent Catholic scholars. Wu’s fondness of Edmund Burke’s ideas led him to develop interlocutors such as Russell Kirk and Peter Stanlis\, and led to his frequent citation in post-World War II conservative American legal thought. Simultaneously\, he developed a deep friendship with Thomas Merton and others seeking to explore more cosmopolitan visions. \n\n\n\nWu’s ultimate return to Taiwan was impacted by the complications of these debates crosscut by Cold War geopolitical tensions. Wu’s life is revealing not only as an example of the challenges that diasporic Chinese intellectuals faced during this era but also of how his relatively unique intellectual commitments shed light on global tensions in Catholicism and American Cold War geopolitics. Today\, amidst rising contemporary Sino-American frictions and renewed debates over the role of Catholic legal thinking in US politics\, Wu’s complex American experience as a transnational intellectual is newly provocative and probative. \n\n\n\nDr. Jedidiah Kroncke is an associate professor of law at the University of Hong Kong\, where he teaches trust law and the law of cooperative enterprises. His research centers on international legal history and the comparative study of alternative labor and property institutions. \n\n\n\nA light lunch will be provided. Please register here. \n\n\n\n*Location note: In past years\, EALS talks were generally in Morgan Courtroom (Austin 308)\, but due to the construction project currently underway next to Austin Hall\, we will hold most EALS talks in Wasserstein Hall during the 2025-2026 academic year. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/wu-jingxiong-between-natural-law-and-geopolitics-the-insights-and-dilemmas-of-a-catholic-chinese-law-professor-in-cold-war-america/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260205T113000
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SUMMARY:Where is Home? The Basel Mission and the Modern Overseas Hakka Diaspora (1860-1924)
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Lei LI\, Associate Professor\, School of Foreign Studies\, Nankai University; BC Ricci Institute–HYI Joint Visiting Researcher Fellowship Program\, 2025-26 \n\n\n\nChair: M. Antoni J. Ucerler\, S. J.\, Associate Professor\, History\, Boston College; Director\, Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History \n\n\n\nDiscussant: Elizabeth J. Perry\, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nThis presentation explores how the Protestant\, German-speaking Basel Mission shaped the modern overseas Hakka diaspora during the late Qing period by facilitating Hakka migration through its ties with the British colonial government in Hong Kong. It shows how missionaries sustained transnational connections with Hakka communities across Southeast Asia and the Americas. Through these religious networks\, Christianity became a key resource for adaptation and the formation of a shared diasporic identity. \n\n\n\n\nWhere is Home? The Basel Mission and the Modern Overseas Hakka Diaspora (1860-1924)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/where-is-home-the-basel-mission-and-the-modern-overseas-hakka-diaspora-1860-1924/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260205T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260205T094500
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SUMMARY:Taiwan Workshop featuring Wu Jieh-min — Weaponized Interdependence: How Taiwan Is Rethinking its “Silicon Shield”
DESCRIPTION:Google meet link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Wu Jieh-min\, Distinguished Research Fellow\, Institute of Sociology\, Academia Sinica\, Taiwan; Co-founder\, Center for Contemporary China\, National Tsing Hua University \n\n\n\nModerator: Ya-Wen Lei\,  Professor\, Department of Sociology\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nThe “Silicon Shield” is often treated as a Taiwan-centered\, overly-fixed concept that emphasizes Taiwan’s technological indispensability as a rationale for its defense. This talk challenges that view by situating Taiwan within the deep and highly interdependent global semiconductor supply chain. It argues that Taiwan’s future industrial development depends on deeper integration with democratic partners—an approach through which Taiwan can contribute to the rebuilding of U.S. high-tech manufacturing while also strengthening its own global economic position. \n\n\n\nWu Jieh-min is a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Institute of Sociology\, Academia Sinica\, Taiwan\, and a co-founder of the Center for Contemporary China at National Tsing Hua University. His research focuses on geopolitics\, democratization\, and development\, with particular attention to Taiwan–China relations\, Hong Kong–China relations\, and the global political economy. He is the author of Rival Partners: How Taiwanese Entrepreneurs and Guangdong Officials Forged the China Development Model (Harvard University Asia Center\, 2022)\, which received the 2023 ASA Global and Transnational Sociology Best Publication Award by an International Scholar. He is currently working on a book project titled Global Taiwan. \n\n\n\nGoogle Meet Link: https://meet.google.com/puv-bqok-zwt \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/taiwan-studies-workshop-featuring/
LOCATION:Presented via Google Meet
CATEGORIES:Taiwan,Taiwan Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260204T153000
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SUMMARY:Can Industrial Overcapacity Enable Seasonal Flexibility in Electricity Use? A Case Study of Aluminum Smelting in China
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Ruike Lyu\, Visiting Student Research Collaborator (VSRC) at ZERO Lab\, Princeton University; Ph.D Candidate in Electrical Engineering\, Tsinghua University \n\n\n\nIn many countries\, declining demand in energy-intensive industries (EIIs) such as cement\, steel\, and aluminum is leading to industrial overcapacity. Although industrial overcapacity is traditionally envisioned as problematic and resource-wasteful\, it could unlock EIIs’ flexibility in electricity use. Here\, using China’s aluminum smelting (AS) industry as a case study\, we evaluate the system-level cost-benefit of retaining EII overcapacity for flexible electricity use in decarbonized energy systems. We find that overcapacity can enable aluminum smelters to adopt a seasonal operation paradigm\, ceasing production during winter load peaks exacerbated by heating electrification and renewable seasonality. In the 2050-net-zero scenario\, the seasonal operation paradigm can reduce China’s electricity system investment and operational costs by 15-72 billion CNY/year (or 8-34% of the AS industry’s product value)\, sufficient to offset the costs of maintaining overcapacity and product storage. It also reduces workforce fluctuations across the AS and thermal power generation sectors by up to 62%\, potentially mitigating socio-economic disruptions from industrial restructuring and the energy transition.Ruike Lyu received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Tsinghua University\, Beijing\, China\, in 2021\, where he is currently finishing his Ph.D. degree. Since February 2025\, he has been a visiting scholar at the ZERO Lab at Princeton University. His research focuses on demand-side flexibility from electric vehicles and industrial loads\, particularly their integration into power markets. Ruike has received several awards for his work\, including Best Paper/Presentation at CEEPE 2024\, EECT 2025\, and PSSGT 2025. He was also awarded Best Presentation at the IEEE PES Ph.D. Dissertation Challenge in 2025.Sponsored by the Harvard-China Project on Energy\, Economy\, and Environment at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS) \n\n\n\nQuestions? Contact Kellie Nault \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/can-industrial-overcapacity-enable-seasonal-flexibility-in-electricity-use-a-case-study-of-aluminum-smelting-in-china/
LOCATION:Pierce Hall 100F\, 29 Oxford St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260204T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260204T131500
DTSTAMP:20260505T024634
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SUMMARY:China Economy Lecture Series Panel Discussion — Can China Pay for its Technological Ambitions?
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:Andrew Collier\, Senior Fellow\, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government\, Harvard Kennedy SchoolKellee Tsai\, Dean\, College of Social Sciences and Humanities\, Northeastern UniversityDavid Bulman\, Jill McGovern and Steven Muller Assistant Professor of China Studies and International Affairs\, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) \n\n\n\nModerator: Meg Rithmire\, James E. Robison Professor of Business Administration\, Harvard Business School \n\n\n\nAndrew Kemp Collier is the former President of the Bank of China International USA\, where he helped to launch BOCI’s U.S. office. BOCI was one of the first investment banks established in China and remains one of the largest global Chinese firms. Previously\, he was an equity analyst with Bear Stearns and CLSA in Hong Kong\, covering the Asian airline sector and media companies. Earlier in his career\, he was a journalist in New York\, Chicago\, London and Beijing\, for Bloomberg\, the South China Morning Post and other publications. He has a Master’s Degree in International Relations and Chinese Studies from Yale University and studied Chinese at Peking University. He also is a Senior Fellow at the Mansfield Foundation in Washington. He currently conducts macroeconomic research on China’s economy for institutional investors that is distributed through Global Source Partners in New York. Mr. Collier has published three books on China: “Shadow Banking and the Rise of Capitalism in China” (2017); “China Buys the World: Analyzing China’s Overseas Investments” (2018); and “China’s Technology War: Why Beijing Took Down Its Tech Giants” (2022). \n\n\n\nKellee Tsai is Dean of the College of Social Sciences and Humanities at Northeastern University.  She previously served as Dean of Humanities and Social Science at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Vice Dean of Humanities and Social Science at Johns Hopkins University. Tsai has published seven books\, including Back-Alley Banking: Private Entrepreneurs in China (Cornell 2002); Capitalism without Democracy: The Private Sector in Contemporary China (Cornell 2007); State Capitalism\, Institutional Adaptation\, and the Chinese Miracle (co-edited Cambridge 2015); Evolutionary Governance under Authoritarianism: State-Society Relations in China (co-edited\, Harvard 2021); and The State and Capitalism in China (co-authored\, Cambridge 2023).  Her articles have been published in China Journal\, China Quarterly\, Comparative Political Studies\, Foreign Affairs\, International Security\, Journal of Asian Studies\, Journal of Development Studies\, Perspectives on Politics\, Politics & Society\, Studies in Comparative and International Development\, World Development\, and World Politics\, among others.  \n\n\n\nDavid J. Bulman is the Jill McGovern and Steven Muller Assistant Professor of China Studies and International Affairs at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). His research looks at economic and political development in China and the implications for US-China relations. He focuses on how central-local relations shape political incentives and local economic outcomes\, and he analyzes China’s development in a broader comparative lens to provide insights into questions related to growth slowdowns and middle income transitions. Previously\, Bulman was an Economist at the World Bank and a China Public Policy Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation. He was a 2021-2022 Woodrow Wilson Center China Fellow and a 2021-2023 National Committee on U.S.-China Relations Public Intellectual Program fellow\, and he was previously a visiting scholar at the Hopkins-Nanjing Center and a University of Chicago and Ford Foundation New Generation China Scholar. Bulman received his MA and PhD in China Studies from Johns Hopkins SAIS and his BA in Economics from Columbia University. \n\n\n\nMeg Rithmire is James E. Robison Professor of Business Administration in the Business\, Government\, and International Economy Unit of the Harvard Business School. Professor Rithmire holds a Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University\, and her primary expertise is in the comparative political economy of development with a focus on China and Asia. Her new book\, Precarious Ties: Business and the State in Authoritarian Asia (Oxford University Press\, 2023)\, investigates the relationship between capital and the state and globalization in Asia\, comparing China\, Malaysia\, and Indonesia from the early 1980s to the present. Professor Rithmire examines how governments attempt to discipline business and\, second\, how business adapts to different methods of state control. Her first book\, Land Bargains and Chinese Capitalism (Cambridge University Press\, 2015)\, examines the role of land politics\, urban governments\, and local property rights regimes in the Chinese economic reforms. Her work also focuses on China’s role in the world\, including Chinese outward investment and lending practices and economic relations between China and other countries\, especially the United States. \n\n\n\nThis panel discussion is co-sponsored by the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government\, Harvard Kennedy School of Government \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-economy-lecture-series-panel-discussion-can-china-pay-for-its-technological-ambitions-2/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:China Economy Lecture
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SUMMARY:China Humanities Seminar featuring Nathan Vedal — The Art of (Tested) Translation: Manchu Exams in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Nathan Vedal\, Assistant Professor\, Department of East Asian Studies\, University of Toronto; Former Fairbank Center Graduate Student Associate \n\n\n\nThis talk\, introducing a forthcoming monograph (Translation\, Emulation\, and Manchu Literary Culture)\, will consider the institution of a civil service translation examination during the Qing dynasty\, as well as the Manchu translation program in the elite Hanlin Academy. The civil service translation exams\, administered for members of the Eight Banners\, required rigorous literary\, classical\, and linguistic training\, as well as composition of original essays in the Manchu language\, highlighting the critical role of Chinese models in the generation of Manchu literature. Some contemporaneous literati at the Hanlin Academy\, a training ground for officials and court scholars who passed the Chinese civil service exam at the highest level\, underwent a three-year program of Manchu study culminating in a final translation exam. Knowledge of Manchu gained at the Hanlin Academy is evident in the deployment of multilingual literary effects in Chinese compositions. Within Qing literary-intellectual culture\, the juxtaposition of Chinese and Manchu\, through acts of translation and direct imitation\, yielded a productive venue for literary creation and self-fashioning. \n\n\n\nNathan Vedal is an assistant professor in the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Toronto\, specializing in Chinese intellectual and cultural history. He received his undergraduate degree from the Curtis Institute of Music and his PhD in Chinese history from Harvard University. His first book\, The Culture of Language in Ming China: Sound\, Script\, and the Redefinition of Boundaries of Knowledge (Columbia University Press\, 2022)\, won the Morris D. Forkosch Prize from the Journal of the History of Ideas. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-humanities-seminar-featuring-nathan-vedal-the-art-of-tested-translation-manchu-exams-in-the-eighteenth-and-nineteenth-centuries/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:China Humanities Seminar
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