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Victoria Chen – Coastal Formosan, Nuclear Austronesian, and beyond: How do Formosan languages Inform Theories of Austronesian Expansion?
Presented via ZoomThe Indigenous languages of Taiwan feature two patterns of morphological discrepancy. First, only some possess a symmetrical morphological paradigm associated with a phenomenon known as ‘noun-verb homophony'. Second, only a handful of the languages allow the Proto-Austronesian stative affix ma- to be used in a transitive clause. This talk addresses how these two foci of variation inform our understanding of the Austronesian diaspora and further explains how new comparative data on these phenomena offers a simpler answer to two ongoing debates in the field.
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Cancan Liao – The Interpretations of “Heaven”: Encounter, Conflict and Accommodation between Chinese Literati and European Jesuits in late Ming China
Presented via ZoomSpeakers Late Ming and Early Qing was a period during which China underwent a transformation both on intellectual thoughts and society life, influenced with Western natural science (more precisely, natural philosophy) and Catholicism transmitted by European Jesuits. In the course of cultural exchange, the interpretations of “heaven” were manifested in different intellectual levels, including philosophy,
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Norihisa Baba – Sanskrit vs Pāli: Buddhaghosa’s Linguistic Turn and its Impacts on Mainland Southeast Asia
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China Humanities Seminar featuring David Mozina – Ritual and Relationship in Daoist Practice
Speaker: David Mozina, Author, Knotting the Banner More information coming soon!
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Critical Issues Confronting China series featuring John Haigh
Speaker: John Haigh, Co-Director, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government; Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy SchoolModerator: William Overholt, Senior Research Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School John Haigh is Co-Director of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government and Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. He teaches a seminar on business and government interactions
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Contemporary Chinese Society Lecture Series featuring Eli Friedman – The Urbanization of People: The Politics of Development, Labor Markets, and Education in the Chinese City
Speaker: Eli Friedman, Chair and Associate Professor, Department of International and Comparative Labor, ILR School, Cornell University Presented via Zoom Also streaming on YouTube Transcript: Download Transcript
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Wendy Leutert – The Reform & Global Expansion of Chinese State-Owned Enterprises
Speaker: Wendy Leutert, Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures, Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, Indiana University Bloomington. Discussant: Meg Rithmire, F. Warren MacFarlan Associate Professor in Business, Government, and International Economy, Harvard Business School. Hosted by the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School Presented via Zoom Register at:
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Chinese Religions Seminar featuring Vincent Goossaert – Social Networks of the Gods in Late Imperial Spirit-Writing Altars
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Vincent Goossaert, Professor of Daoism and Chinese Religions, École Pratique des Hautes Études Chinese social life is saturated with interactions with entities other than living humans - ancestors, suffering souls, gods, animal spirits... A wide repertoire of ritual techniques regulates these interactions; some of them, aim at limiting those with dangerous entities, but this
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Kazuyuki Motohashi – Japan’s High-Tech Competitiveness in an Era of U.S.-China Decoupling
Presented via ZoomTopics: Speaker: Kazuyuki Motohashi, Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, University of Tokyo. Moderator: Christina L. Davis, Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Professor of Government; Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University. Venue
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Contemporary Chinese Society featuring Bin Xu – Chairman Mao’s Children: Generation and the Politics of Memory in China
Speaker: Bin Xu, Associate Professor of Sociology, Emory University Presented via Zoom Also streaming on YouTube Transcript: Download Transcript
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China Humanities Seminar featuring Yiqun Zhou – A Book for Hard Times: Wu Mi and Dream of the Red Chamber
Speaker: Yiqun Zhou, Stanford University This talk examines the role that Dream of the Red Chamber played in the life and work of Wu Mi 吳宓 (1894-1978), a pioneer in the study of Comparative Literature in China and a cultural conservative known for his staunch resistance to the prevailing New Culture Movement. Long condemned to infamy and
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Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Hanming Fang – Population Aging, Pension System, and Retirement Income Security in China
Speaker: Hanming Fang, Joseph M. Cohen Term Professor of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania. Professor Fang, is an applied microeconomist with broad theoretical and empirical interests focusing on public economics, including topics such as discrimination, social insurance, and welfare reform, health insurance markets, and population aging. In 2008, Professor Fang was awarded the 17th
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