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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171025T123000
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series - Asia's Reckoning: China\, Japan\, and the Fate of U.S. Power in the Pacific Century
DESCRIPTION:Event Summary \nSpeaker: Richard McGregor\, author of Asia’s Reckoning: China\, Japan\, and the Fate of U.S. Power in the Pacific Century and The Party: The Secret World of China’s Communist Rulers;  former Washington and Beijing Bureau Chief for The Financial Times \n 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-2-2017-10-25/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171026T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171026T173000
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CREATED:20170927T165402Z
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SUMMARY:Longmen Grottoes: New Perspectives
DESCRIPTION:A UNESCO World Heritage Site filled with magnificently carved Buddhist caves\, the Longmen Grottoes are renown throughout the world for their enduring legacy to Chinese art. Join experts from the Longmen Grottoes Research Academy and leading scholars for a day of cutting-edge research\, archaeological findings\, preservation work\, and a special viewing of the Longmen Digital Retrieval Project.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/longmen-grottoes-new-perspectives/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S354\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171027T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171027T210000
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: "Vanished Archives"
DESCRIPTION:The 1967 riots are a watershed in Hong Kong history and some would say the starting point for the development of Hong Kong consciousness. Yet the official records of this critical period today are sadly incomplete. What information can be found online is hard to verify and authenticate. Documentary film director Connie Lo Yan-wai spent four years interviewing participants of the riots\, from the children of the leftist leaders of the time\, to members of the “bomb squads”\, union leaders and patriotic students. Others who share their personal experiences include former police officers\, a senior government information director\, journalists and a number of witnesses and victims. Lo sifted through piles of old newspapers\, government documents and declassified British government records in order to produce the documentary\, “Vanished Archives”. As a number of those who experienced the events of the time passed away during the four years it took to produce the film\, the documentary has become their final record of their recollections of and reflections on those times. Are the political entanglements between the Mainland and Hong Kong fifty years ago a mirror reflecting today’s Hong Kong?  Some maintain traces of the past can be detected in the present. \nDiscussion with the filmmakers follows the screening.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-screening-vanished-archives/
LOCATION:Northwest Building\, Room B103\, 52 Oxford St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 01453\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171030T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171030T133000
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CREATED:20171010T152532Z
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SUMMARY:Fox’s Spirit under Tiger’s Might: The Struggles for Identity and Integration among the Hakka Community in Southern Vietnam
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Nguyen Ngoc Tho\, Advanced Researcher\, Faculty of Cultural Studies\, University of Social Science and Humanities\, Vietnam National University-Ho Chi Minh City; HYI Visiting Scholar\nChair/discussant: Robert Weller\, Professor\, Department of Anthropology\, Boston University \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThere are around 823\,000 ethnic Chinese in Vietnam\, of which 95% are living in southern Vietnam. Due to historical and social backgrounds\, the dialectic groups (Cantonese\, Hokkien\, Hakka\, Teochiew and Hainan) are quite distinct and separate from each other. Each group maintains their own pantheon of gods and goddesses\, in which the majorities come to worship Tian Hou and Guan Gong/Guan Di. The Hakkas in Bien Hoa (Dong Nai province) uniquely worship the craft master gods (祖师). This remarkably creates a challenging gap among the Chinese dialectic groups as well as discloses the heterodox nature in their own tradition under the views of local standardized authority. Under sophisticated backgrounds and serious pressures\, the Hakkas decided to transform the reputation of their long-lasting craft master worship into a more integrative model – the Tian Hou cult\, by overriding the new cult on the surface. “A fox’s spirit is under a tiger’s might\,” the open discourse has been widespread\, although there have been almost no significant changes in either belief or practice. Remarkably\, the transformation currently seems to be oddly managed and not stabilized.\n \nAs a matter of fact\, the local Hakka elites have brainstormed and implemented the change under the aims of both cross-dialectic group binding and identity preservation. Furthermore\, they also struggle for an advanced and manageable integration process into broader Vietnamese society. This talk will investigate the disguise to seek the continuous efforts toward “liturgical standardization” and solidarity binding through the charismatic efforts of the local Hakka elites\, through which the research further discusses multilateral interaction and hidden discourses of the partners engaged.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://harvard-yenching.org/events/struggles-identity-and-integration-among-ethnic-chinese-communities-southern-vietnam-case
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-struggles-for-identity-and-integration-among-the-ethnic-chinese-communities-in-southern-vietnam-a-case-study-of-the-tian-hou-cult/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171101T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171101T140000
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UID:5772-1509539400-1509544800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series - Global Leadership and its Discontents in China and the United States
DESCRIPTION:Event Summary \nSpeaker: David Rank\, former Deputy Chief of Mission\, U.S. Embassy\, Beijing
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-2-2017-10-18-2017-11-01/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171101T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171101T170000
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CREATED:20171025T181329Z
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SUMMARY:Does Neighborhood Urban Form Influence Non-Motorized Transport in Chengdu\, China? Toward Walkable Low-Carbon Cities
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Guan ChengHe\, Postdoctoral Fellow\, Harvard-China Project; Research Fellow\, Harvard Graduate School of Design \nSustainable urban form that encourages low-carbon travel can help respond to the environmental challenges associated with urbanization. Non-motorized transport (NMT) effectively reduces the per capita carbon footprint of city dwellers. From the concept of compact cities to smart growth policies\, many have attempted to address the question: Why do people living in certain neighborhoods walk more and drive less?  Previous studies\, mostly in North America and Europe\, have established that urban form has a significant effect on travel behavior\, but this relationship at the neighborhood scale is less conclusive. Recent studies have tried to measure neighborhood urban form in China by focusing on characteristics of the built physical environment. One of the biggest challenges is the lack of longitudinal data. \nWe conducted two interdisciplinary household surveys in the city of Chengdu\, in 2005 and 2016\, to assess changes in its economy\, urbanization\, travel behavior\, land use\, emissions\, and popular perceptions over 11 years. By applying multivariate regression and factor analysis\, our preliminary findings show that individual physical characteristics such as compactness measured by building footprint\, population density\, and diversity of land use may be insufficient to differentiate neighborhood travel behavior in Chinese cities. We argue that aggregate characteristics such as neighborhood types\, infrastructure network connections\, and job accessibility are critical concerns for promoting NMT in dense cities. We will also discuss China’s planning strategies toward low-carbon cities in general. \nQuestions? Contact Tiffany Chan\, Program Manager\, Harvard-China Project\, at tiffanychan@seas.harvard.edu \nSponsored by China Project\, Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/does-neighborhood-urban-form-influence-non-motorized-transport-in-chengdu-china-toward-walkable-low-carbon-cities/
LOCATION:Pierce Hall 100F\, 29 Oxford St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171102T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171102T133000
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CREATED:20171020T142147Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171020T142147Z
UID:6144-1509624000-1509629400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:River\, Governance and Place: Sentiment in The Travels of Lao Can
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Hsu Hui-Lin\,  Associate Professor\, Department of Chinese Literature\, National Taiwan University; HYI Visiting Scholar\nChair/discussant: Karen Thornber Professor of Comparative Literature and of East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University\n\n \nSentiment has been viewed as a major force of modernization. Studies in the past decade are inclined to understand modern sentiment in early 1900s China in the context of metropolis growth. Liu E’s The Travels of Lao Can (1903-1907)\, due to the author’s unprecedented assertion on the power of crying and overwhelming sentiment in its preface\, invites scholarly attention to the role of the novel in understanding modern sentiment in that particular period. However\, set mostly in rural areas of Shandong province\, the novel is found difficult to fit into the urban experience based approach. Departing from the perspective of environmental history\, this talk addresses the relation between the shaping of the discourse of sentiment in The Travels of Lao Can\, and the decades-long disastrous Yellow River floods since 1855\, as well as the effort of river engineering where Liu E engaged himself as an active participant.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/river-governance-and-place-sentiment-in-the-travels-of-lao-can/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171104T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171104T120000
DTSTAMP:20260511T024521
CREATED:20171025T170240Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171025T170240Z
UID:6174-1509786000-1509796800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:China Biographical Database and Social Network Analysis
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Peter K. Bol\, Vice Provost\, and Dr. Amelia Ying Qin \nThe workshop will cover design\, data population\, and search functions of the China Biographical Database in relation to sample research questions. Sample Database query results will be analyzed through Social Network Analysis. \nPart of the Digital China Initiative Workshop Series\n24-seat limit. Light refreshments served.\nRSVP at https://goo.gl/GS8sPg or email ying_qin@fas.harvard.edu \nParking & Directions:\nhttps://cbs.fas.harvard.edu/science/core-facilities/neuroimaging/directions .
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-biographical-database-and-social-network-analysis/
LOCATION:Northwest Building\, Room B129\, 52 Oxford St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171106T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171106T180000
DTSTAMP:20260511T024521
CREATED:20170915T151325Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170915T151325Z
UID:5876-1509984000-1509991200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Thomas DuBois: China's Dairy Century - Making\, Drinking and Dreaming of Milk
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Thomas DuBois\, Modern China Historian \nChina’s dairy industry has of late become big news. A country that few would have instinctively associated with milk has emerged as the world’s third largest producer (following India and the United States)\, and second largest consumer of dairy. But the significance of dairy in China is not merely one of aggregate industry size\, nor is its emergence a wholly recent phenomenon. \nMilk was not a major theme in China’s twentieth century\, but it was a surprisingly persistent one. Looking back\, one will see peaks of interest—a new dairy here\, milk safety scandal there\, and images of happy\, milk-fed babies throughout. But do these very different sorts of events constitute a single story? This presentation examines China’s century of dairy as three distinct processes—production\, consumption and culture—discussing each according to its own sources\, standards and logic. Besides introducing a vital transformation within China’s animal industries\, this talk aims to introduce some new ways to think about how we make\, consume and think about food. \nThomas DuBois is a historian of modern China\, and author of three monographs on religion and social transformation\, most recently Empire and the Meaning of Religion in Northeast Asia: Manchuria 1900-1945 (Cambridge\, 2017). He has also written extensively on other topics of the social and legal history of the twentieth century\, including charities\, sovereignty and the resurgence of the NGO sector. DuBois has taught at universities in the US\, Singapore and Australia. His current research on China’s animal industries is funded by the Australian Research Council and the History and Anthropology Project at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. \nMore of his publications may be found at https://independent.academia.edu/ThomasDavidDuBois杜博思
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/environment-in-asia-series-chinas-dairy-century-making-drinking-and-dreaming-of-milk/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Environment,Environment
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171107T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171107T190000
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CREATED:20171101T164121Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171101T164121Z
UID:6214-1510074000-1510081200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:After the Chinese Communist Party Congress: Where does China go from here?
DESCRIPTION:The CCP Congress scheduled on 18th October 2017 was one of the most important domestic political events in China\, showcasing its leadership transition. The panel will discuss the future of China in the wake of this Congress\, and what Xi Jinping’s leadership holds for China’s rise. \nPanelists: \nDavid Barboza\, Journalist\, Pulitzer Prize winner\, The New York Times\nRoderick MacFarquhar\, Professor Emeritus Harvard University\, Former Member of Parliament UK\nJoseph Fewsmith\, Professor Pardee School of Global Studies\, Boston University \nOrganized by Prof. Manjari Chatterjee Miller\, BU Pardee School of Global Studies Center for the Study of Asia \nReception will follow the Panel.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/after-the-chinese-communist-party-congress-where-does-china-go-from-here/
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171109T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171109T180000
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UID:6234-1510243200-1510250400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Exhibition Opening and Panel Discussion - Black and Red Revolution: Dazibao and Woodcuts from 1960s China
DESCRIPTION:哈佛费正清中国研究中心的大字报特展 \nJoin the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies for a panel discussion and reception to celebrate the launch of our new exhibition of Cultural Revolution-era artworks. \nThe exhibition will be on display in the CGIS South Building Asia Centers Lounge\, 1730 Cambridge Street from November 9 to November 30\, 2017. \n\nThis is the first time that these dazibao (or “big-character posters”) have been publicly displayed since the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976). \nPanelists:\nDenise Ho\, Assistant Professor of History\, Yale University\nJie Li\, Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University\nRoderick MacFarquhar\, Leroy B. Williams Research Professor of History and Political Science\, Emeritus\, Harvard University\nJulia Murray\, Professor of Art History\, Emeritus\, University of Wisconsin-Madison\nXiaofei Tian\, Professor of Chinese Literature\, Harvard University \nModerated by Michael Szonyi\, Director\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Professor of Chinese History\, Harvard University \nA reception will follow the panel discussion. \nRead Director Michael Szonyi’s introduction to the exhibition here.  \nRead blog posts by our panelists on dazibao at the Fairbank Center Blog.  \nWatch this panel discussion on YouTube: \n \nListen again to this panel discussion on Soundcloud: \n \nFor press inquiries\, please contact James Evans at jamesevans@fas.harvard.edu. \n媒体查询，请联络费正清中心外联专员詹英俊(James Evans)先生。（电邮：jamesevans@fas.harvard.edu） \n 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/exhibition-opening-and-panel-discussion-black-and-red-revolution-dazibao-and-woodcuts-from-1960s-china/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest,Exhibitions,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171109T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171109T200000
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UID:6169-1510254000-1510257600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Xiaolu Guo - Nine Continents: A Memoir In and Out of China
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Book Store welcomes award-winning film director Xiaolu Guo for a discussion of her memoir\, Nine Continents: A Memoir In and Out of China. This event includes a book signing. This event is free; no tickets are required.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/nine-continents-a-memoir-in-and-out-of-china/
LOCATION:Harvard Book  Store\, 1256 Massachusetts Ave.\,\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171112T173000
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SUMMARY:New Noir: Chinese Crime Films
DESCRIPTION:Film noir\, as its meaning “black film” or “film of the night” indicates\, is an art of darkness. For its connotation of pessimism and menace\, crime\, especially unsolved ones\, has been a rare event in Chinese cinema\, because it is considered by the authority as an admission to the discontents of life in what is supposed to be the people’s paradise. Recently\, however\, a new generation of young auteurs\, working independently\, has been reworking the tropes of Chinese spy film to address the country’s endemic corruption and violence\, with films that portray drifting killers\, frustrated police\, and fatal beauties\, all enmeshed in a web of vice and desire. Starting with BLACK COAL\, THIN ICE\, a landmark in Chinese crime film\, and ending with FREE AND EASY\, a post-apocalyptic dark comedy\, this program is a witness to the birth of the Chinese mainland school of noir. \nNew Noir is part of the Creative China Festival\, curated by Meng Xie\, supported by Beijing Contemporary Art Foundation. \nCo-presented by Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies \nPlease Note: Tickets are $11 each for general public\, $9 for students and Brattle members\, and $8 for seniors.  A total of 50 free tickets for screenings in the series are available to Harvard ID holders on a first-come\, first-serve basis.  Please show your Harvard ID at the box office up to half an hour before the screening.  No advanced reservations are accepted for these free tickets.  \nBLACK COAL\, THIN ICE (2014) dir. Diao Yinan w/ Liao Fan\, Kwei Lun-Mei\, Wang Xuebing [110 min; DCP]\nSun\, Nov 12 at 5:30pm\nA landmark in Chinese crime film\, BLACK COAL\, THIN ICE is a dazzlingly stylized mystery that blends Fincher-esque genre elements and social commentary. It all begins with the discovery of a hand on a coal conveyor belt. Cop Zhang (Liao Fan) tries to solve the case but\, years later\, the body parts are still showing up. The film won the Golden Bear for Best Film\, as well as the Silver Bear for Best Actor\, at the 2014 Berlin International Film Festival. \nTHE DEAD END (2015) dir. Cao Baoping w/Deng Chao\, Duan Yuhong\, Guo Tao [139 min; DCP]\nSun\, Nov 12 at 8:00pm\nWith Dostoevskian undertones\, THE DEAD END is a gritty tale of redemption for three men—a cop\, a cab driver\, and a recluse—who are haunted by shared guilt over their murderous misdeeds in an unsolved crime. \nLETHAL HOSTAGE (2012) dir. Cheng Er w/Ni Dahong\, Sun Honglei\, Wang Luodan [97 min; DCP]\nMon\, Nov 13 at 8:30pm\nAn ingeniously structured psychological thriller\, LETHAL HOSTAGE takes place in a crumbling town on the China-Myanmar border.  A woman marrying her kidnapper is only the beginning of a series of emotional knots and dramatic twists in this superbly constructed crime drama. \nTHE COFFIN IN THE MOUNTAIN (2014) dir. Xin Yukun w/Huo Weimin\, Wang Xiaotian\, Luo Yun [119 min; DCP]\nTue\, Nov 14 at 8:30pm\nA striking feature directorial debut\, THE COFFIN IN THE MOUNTAIN is an unflinching depiction of provincial entrapment where people’s lives are intricately intertwined through an accidental death. With an ingeniously constructed timeline\, the film morphs from mystery to suspense and finally to irony. \nFREE + EASY (2017) dir. Geng Jun w/Xu Gang\, Zhang Zhiyong\, Xue Baohe [98 min; DCP]\nWed\, Nov 15 at 8:30pm\nWith tinges of the Coen Brothers\, Jim Jarmusch\, and Samuel Beckett\, director Geng presents a portrait of a socio-economic system so flawed that it has veered into black comedy – a practically post-apocalyptic world where crime is the new normal. In a Northern Chinese industrial town\, everyone – even the local monk – is running a con and the police are more interested in chasing girls than criminals. \nWinner of a special jury award at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/new-noir-chinese-crime-films/
CATEGORIES:Emergent Visions Film Screening,Events of Interest,Film Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171112T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171112T230000
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UID:6152-1510516800-1510527600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:New Noir: Chinese Crime Films
DESCRIPTION:Film noir\, as its meaning “black film” or “film of the night” indicates\, is an art of darkness. For its connotation of pessimism and menace\, crime\, especially unsolved ones\, has been a rare event in Chinese cinema\, because it is considered by the authority as an admission to the discontents of life in what is supposed to be the people’s paradise. Recently\, however\, a new generation of young auteurs\, working independently\, has been reworking the tropes of Chinese spy film to address the country’s endemic corruption and violence\, with films that portray drifting killers\, frustrated police\, and fatal beauties\, all enmeshed in a web of vice and desire. Starting with BLACK COAL\, THIN ICE\, a landmark in Chinese crime film\, and ending with FREE AND EASY\, a post-apocalyptic dark comedy\, this program is a witness to the birth of the Chinese mainland school of noir. \nNew Noir is part of the Creative China Festival\, curated by Meng Xie\, supported by Beijing Contemporary Art Foundation. \nCo-presented by Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies \nPlease Note: Tickets are $11 each for general public\, $9 for students and Brattle members\, and $8 for seniors.  A total of 50 free tickets for screenings in the series are available to Harvard ID holders on a first-come\, first-serve basis.  Please show your Harvard ID at the box office up to half an hour before the screening.  No advanced reservations are accepted for these free tickets.  \nBLACK COAL\, THIN ICE (2014) dir. Diao Yinan w/ Liao Fan\, Kwei Lun-Mei\, Wang Xuebing [110 min; DCP]\nSun\, Nov 12 at 5:30pm\nA landmark in Chinese crime film\, BLACK COAL\, THIN ICE is a dazzlingly stylized mystery that blends Fincher-esque genre elements and social commentary. It all begins with the discovery of a hand on a coal conveyor belt. Cop Zhang (Liao Fan) tries to solve the case but\, years later\, the body parts are still showing up. The film won the Golden Bear for Best Film\, as well as the Silver Bear for Best Actor\, at the 2014 Berlin International Film Festival. \nTHE DEAD END (2015) dir. Cao Baoping w/Deng Chao\, Duan Yuhong\, Guo Tao [139 min; DCP]\nSun\, Nov 12 at 8:00pm\nWith Dostoevskian undertones\, THE DEAD END is a gritty tale of redemption for three men—a cop\, a cab driver\, and a recluse—who are haunted by shared guilt over their murderous misdeeds in an unsolved crime. \nLETHAL HOSTAGE (2012) dir. Cheng Er w/Ni Dahong\, Sun Honglei\, Wang Luodan [97 min; DCP]\nMon\, Nov 13 at 8:30pm\nAn ingeniously structured psychological thriller\, LETHAL HOSTAGE takes place in a crumbling town on the China-Myanmar border.  A woman marrying her kidnapper is only the beginning of a series of emotional knots and dramatic twists in this superbly constructed crime drama. \nTHE COFFIN IN THE MOUNTAIN (2014) dir. Xin Yukun w/Huo Weimin\, Wang Xiaotian\, Luo Yun [119 min; DCP]\nTue\, Nov 14 at 8:30pm\nA striking feature directorial debut\, THE COFFIN IN THE MOUNTAIN is an unflinching depiction of provincial entrapment where people’s lives are intricately intertwined through an accidental death. With an ingeniously constructed timeline\, the film morphs from mystery to suspense and finally to irony. \nFREE + EASY (2017) dir. Geng Jun w/Xu Gang\, Zhang Zhiyong\, Xue Baohe [98 min; DCP]\nWed\, Nov 15 at 8:30pm\nWith tinges of the Coen Brothers\, Jim Jarmusch\, and Samuel Beckett\, director Geng presents a portrait of a socio-economic system so flawed that it has veered into black comedy – a practically post-apocalyptic world where crime is the new normal. In a Northern Chinese industrial town\, everyone – even the local monk – is running a con and the police are more interested in chasing girls than criminals. \nWinner of a special jury award at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/new-noir-chinese-crime-films-2017-11-12/
LOCATION:Brattle Theater\, 40 Brattle St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Emergent Visions Film Screening,Events of Interest,Film Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171113T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171113T133000
DTSTAMP:20260511T024521
CREATED:20171108T202753Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171108T202753Z
UID:6266-1510574400-1510579800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Huang Yinghong  - Compulsory Development: the Ideal Type of Land Acquisition in India and China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Huang Yinghong\, Associate Professor\, School of International Relations\, Sun Yat-sen University; HYI Visiting Scholar\nChair/discussant: Malcolm McPherson\, Senior Research Fellow\, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation\, Harvard Kennedy School \nhttps://harvard-yenching.org/events/compulsory-development-ideal-type-land-acquisition-india-and-china
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/huang-yinghong-compulsory-development-the-ideal-type-of-land-acquisition-in-india-and-china/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171113T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171113T140000
DTSTAMP:20260511T024521
CREATED:20170830T153505Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170830T153505Z
UID:5791-1510574400-1510581600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:East Asian Legal Studies Talk With Professor Curtis Milhaupt
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Curtis J. Milhaupt is the Parker Professor of Comparative Corporate Law and Fuyo Professor of Japanese Law at Columbia Law School. He also serves as the Law School’s director of the Parker School of Foreign and Comparative Law and director of the Center for Japanese Legal Studies. He is also a member of Columbia University’s Weatherhead East Asian Institute.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/east-asian-legal-studies-talk-with-professor-curtis-milhaupt/
LOCATION:Austin Hall Room 308\, 1515 Mass Ave\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171113T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171113T230000
DTSTAMP:20260511T024521
CREATED:20171024T151434Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171024T151434Z
UID:6153-1510605000-1510614000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:New Noir: Chinese Crime Films
DESCRIPTION:Film noir\, as its meaning “black film” or “film of the night” indicates\, is an art of darkness. For its connotation of pessimism and menace\, crime\, especially unsolved ones\, has been a rare event in Chinese cinema\, because it is considered by the authority as an admission to the discontents of life in what is supposed to be the people’s paradise. Recently\, however\, a new generation of young auteurs\, working independently\, has been reworking the tropes of Chinese spy film to address the country’s endemic corruption and violence\, with films that portray drifting killers\, frustrated police\, and fatal beauties\, all enmeshed in a web of vice and desire. Starting with BLACK COAL\, THIN ICE\, a landmark in Chinese crime film\, and ending with FREE AND EASY\, a post-apocalyptic dark comedy\, this program is a witness to the birth of the Chinese mainland school of noir. \nNew Noir is part of the Creative China Festival\, curated by Meng Xie\, supported by Beijing Contemporary Art Foundation. \nCo-presented by Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies \nPlease Note: Tickets are $11 each for general public\, $9 for students and Brattle members\, and $8 for seniors.  A total of 50 free tickets for screenings in the series are available to Harvard ID holders on a first-come\, first-serve basis.  Please show your Harvard ID at the box office up to half an hour before the screening.  No advanced reservations are accepted for these free tickets.  \nBLACK COAL\, THIN ICE (2014) dir. Diao Yinan w/ Liao Fan\, Kwei Lun-Mei\, Wang Xuebing [110 min; DCP]\nSun\, Nov 12 at 5:30pm\nA landmark in Chinese crime film\, BLACK COAL\, THIN ICE is a dazzlingly stylized mystery that blends Fincher-esque genre elements and social commentary. It all begins with the discovery of a hand on a coal conveyor belt. Cop Zhang (Liao Fan) tries to solve the case but\, years later\, the body parts are still showing up. The film won the Golden Bear for Best Film\, as well as the Silver Bear for Best Actor\, at the 2014 Berlin International Film Festival. \nTHE DEAD END (2015) dir. Cao Baoping w/Deng Chao\, Duan Yuhong\, Guo Tao [139 min; DCP]\nSun\, Nov 12 at 8:00pm\nWith Dostoevskian undertones\, THE DEAD END is a gritty tale of redemption for three men—a cop\, a cab driver\, and a recluse—who are haunted by shared guilt over their murderous misdeeds in an unsolved crime. \nLETHAL HOSTAGE (2012) dir. Cheng Er w/Ni Dahong\, Sun Honglei\, Wang Luodan [97 min; DCP]\nMon\, Nov 13 at 8:30pm\nAn ingeniously structured psychological thriller\, LETHAL HOSTAGE takes place in a crumbling town on the China-Myanmar border.  A woman marrying her kidnapper is only the beginning of a series of emotional knots and dramatic twists in this superbly constructed crime drama. \nTHE COFFIN IN THE MOUNTAIN (2014) dir. Xin Yukun w/Huo Weimin\, Wang Xiaotian\, Luo Yun [119 min; DCP]\nTue\, Nov 14 at 8:30pm\nA striking feature directorial debut\, THE COFFIN IN THE MOUNTAIN is an unflinching depiction of provincial entrapment where people’s lives are intricately intertwined through an accidental death. With an ingeniously constructed timeline\, the film morphs from mystery to suspense and finally to irony. \nFREE + EASY (2017) dir. Geng Jun w/Xu Gang\, Zhang Zhiyong\, Xue Baohe [98 min; DCP]\nWed\, Nov 15 at 8:30pm\nWith tinges of the Coen Brothers\, Jim Jarmusch\, and Samuel Beckett\, director Geng presents a portrait of a socio-economic system so flawed that it has veered into black comedy – a practically post-apocalyptic world where crime is the new normal. In a Northern Chinese industrial town\, everyone – even the local monk – is running a con and the police are more interested in chasing girls than criminals. \nWinner of a special jury award at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/new-noir-chinese-crime-films-2017-11-13/
LOCATION:Brattle Theater\, 40 Brattle St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Emergent Visions Film Screening,Events of Interest,Film Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171114T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171114T150000
DTSTAMP:20260511T024521
CREATED:20170929T174526Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170929T174526Z
UID:5995-1510664400-1510671600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Roderick MacFarquhar - The Rise of Xi Jinping
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Roderick MacFarquhar\, Leroy B. Williams Professor of History and Political Science and former Director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. \nListen again on the Fairbank Center’s podcast: \n \n 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-analysis-of-the-19th-party-congress/
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,Events of Interest,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171114T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171114T190000
DTSTAMP:20260511T024521
CREATED:20171026T163442Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171026T163442Z
UID:6186-1510675200-1510686000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Film Series - Aging in Asia
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, November.13\nOld Partner (Korea\, 78 min.)\nIntroduced by: Paul Chang\, Associate Professor of Sociology\, Harvard University \nTuesday\, November. 14\nBaghban (India\, 178 min.)\nIntroduced by: Professor Samir Dayal\, English and Media Studies\, Bentley University \nWednesday\, November 15\nFor Fun (Zhao le) (China\, 98 min)\nIntroduced by: Haijing Hao\, Asia Center Associate; Assistant Professor\, Management Science and Information Systems Department\, College of Management\, University of Massachusetts\, Boston \nThursday\, November 16\nPecoross’ Mother and Her Days (Japan\, 113 min.)\nIntroduced by: Alexander Zahlten\, Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University \nRefreshments provided \nCo-sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Korea Institute\, Lakshmi Mittal South Asia Institute\, and Reischauer Institute
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-series-aging-in-asia-2017-11-14/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S354\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest,Film Screening,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171114T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171114T230000
DTSTAMP:20260511T024521
CREATED:20171024T151434Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171024T151434Z
UID:6154-1510691400-1510700400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:New Noir: Chinese Crime Films
DESCRIPTION:Film noir\, as its meaning “black film” or “film of the night” indicates\, is an art of darkness. For its connotation of pessimism and menace\, crime\, especially unsolved ones\, has been a rare event in Chinese cinema\, because it is considered by the authority as an admission to the discontents of life in what is supposed to be the people’s paradise. Recently\, however\, a new generation of young auteurs\, working independently\, has been reworking the tropes of Chinese spy film to address the country’s endemic corruption and violence\, with films that portray drifting killers\, frustrated police\, and fatal beauties\, all enmeshed in a web of vice and desire. Starting with BLACK COAL\, THIN ICE\, a landmark in Chinese crime film\, and ending with FREE AND EASY\, a post-apocalyptic dark comedy\, this program is a witness to the birth of the Chinese mainland school of noir. \nNew Noir is part of the Creative China Festival\, curated by Meng Xie\, supported by Beijing Contemporary Art Foundation. \nCo-presented by Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies \nPlease Note: Tickets are $11 each for general public\, $9 for students and Brattle members\, and $8 for seniors.  A total of 50 free tickets for screenings in the series are available to Harvard ID holders on a first-come\, first-serve basis.  Please show your Harvard ID at the box office up to half an hour before the screening.  No advanced reservations are accepted for these free tickets.  \nBLACK COAL\, THIN ICE (2014) dir. Diao Yinan w/ Liao Fan\, Kwei Lun-Mei\, Wang Xuebing [110 min; DCP]\nSun\, Nov 12 at 5:30pm\nA landmark in Chinese crime film\, BLACK COAL\, THIN ICE is a dazzlingly stylized mystery that blends Fincher-esque genre elements and social commentary. It all begins with the discovery of a hand on a coal conveyor belt. Cop Zhang (Liao Fan) tries to solve the case but\, years later\, the body parts are still showing up. The film won the Golden Bear for Best Film\, as well as the Silver Bear for Best Actor\, at the 2014 Berlin International Film Festival. \nTHE DEAD END (2015) dir. Cao Baoping w/Deng Chao\, Duan Yuhong\, Guo Tao [139 min; DCP]\nSun\, Nov 12 at 8:00pm\nWith Dostoevskian undertones\, THE DEAD END is a gritty tale of redemption for three men—a cop\, a cab driver\, and a recluse—who are haunted by shared guilt over their murderous misdeeds in an unsolved crime. \nLETHAL HOSTAGE (2012) dir. Cheng Er w/Ni Dahong\, Sun Honglei\, Wang Luodan [97 min; DCP]\nMon\, Nov 13 at 8:30pm\nAn ingeniously structured psychological thriller\, LETHAL HOSTAGE takes place in a crumbling town on the China-Myanmar border.  A woman marrying her kidnapper is only the beginning of a series of emotional knots and dramatic twists in this superbly constructed crime drama. \nTHE COFFIN IN THE MOUNTAIN (2014) dir. Xin Yukun w/Huo Weimin\, Wang Xiaotian\, Luo Yun [119 min; DCP]\nTue\, Nov 14 at 8:30pm\nA striking feature directorial debut\, THE COFFIN IN THE MOUNTAIN is an unflinching depiction of provincial entrapment where people’s lives are intricately intertwined through an accidental death. With an ingeniously constructed timeline\, the film morphs from mystery to suspense and finally to irony. \nFREE + EASY (2017) dir. Geng Jun w/Xu Gang\, Zhang Zhiyong\, Xue Baohe [98 min; DCP]\nWed\, Nov 15 at 8:30pm\nWith tinges of the Coen Brothers\, Jim Jarmusch\, and Samuel Beckett\, director Geng presents a portrait of a socio-economic system so flawed that it has veered into black comedy – a practically post-apocalyptic world where crime is the new normal. In a Northern Chinese industrial town\, everyone – even the local monk – is running a con and the police are more interested in chasing girls than criminals. \nWinner of a special jury award at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/new-noir-chinese-crime-films-2017-11-14/
LOCATION:Brattle Theater\, 40 Brattle St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Emergent Visions Film Screening,Events of Interest,Film Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171115T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171115T140000
DTSTAMP:20260511T024521
CREATED:20170803T165814Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170803T165814Z
UID:5427-1510749000-1510754400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Richard Madsen - Happiness in China: Defining\, Seeking\, Being Frustrated
DESCRIPTION:Read event summary here \nSpeaker: Richard Madsen\, Director\, Fudan-UC Center on Contemporary China; Distinguished Professor of Sociology\, University of California\, San Diego
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-2-2017-11-15/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171115T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171115T170000
DTSTAMP:20260511T024521
CREATED:20170929T180032Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170929T180032Z
UID:6000-1510759800-1510765200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Tyler Harlan - Small Hydropower and the Low-Carbon Frontier in China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Tyler Harlan\, Ph.D. Candidate\, Department of Geography\, University of California\, Los Angeles \nSince the 1950s\, the Chinese government has used small hydropower (SHP) to drive rural electrification and local economic development in the remote\, resource-rich west of the country. More recently\, however\, this same technology has been re-framed as a renewable energy that generates electricity for the national green economy. In this presentation I argue that SHP represents a broader transformation of rural western China into a ‘low-carbon frontier’\, characterized by the rapid growth of renewable energy infrastructure far from urban centers. I show how the frontier is simultaneously constructed as a site of ecological degradation and of untapped low-carbon value\, both discursively and materially through preferential state policies for renewable energy expansion. This\, in turn\, enables energy firms and local governments to extract new profits from natural resources that may have competing uses. Drawing on policy analysis and twelve months of interviews with government officials\, hydropower investors\, and farmers\, I argue that SHP on the ‘low-carbon frontier’ privileges renewable energy generation over other local resource needs. At the same time\, I show how local governments employ new SHP infrastructure for their own uses\, such as powering nearby mining and mineral processing facilities. This presentation thus highlights the importance of examining subnational geographies of low-carbon transformation\, and the ways that resources and technologies can be re-purposed for local and national development goals. \nCo-sponsored by China Project\, Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences\, and Environment in Asia Series\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/small-hydropower-and-the-low-carbon-frontier-in-china/
LOCATION:Pierce Hall 100F\, 29 Oxford St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Conference and Workshops,Environment,Environment,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171115T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171115T190000
DTSTAMP:20260511T024521
CREATED:20171026T163442Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171026T163442Z
UID:6187-1510761600-1510772400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Film Series - Aging in Asia
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, November.13\nOld Partner (Korea\, 78 min.)\nIntroduced by: Paul Chang\, Associate Professor of Sociology\, Harvard University \nTuesday\, November. 14\nBaghban (India\, 178 min.)\nIntroduced by: Professor Samir Dayal\, English and Media Studies\, Bentley University \nWednesday\, November 15\nFor Fun (Zhao le) (China\, 98 min)\nIntroduced by: Haijing Hao\, Asia Center Associate; Assistant Professor\, Management Science and Information Systems Department\, College of Management\, University of Massachusetts\, Boston \nThursday\, November 16\nPecoross’ Mother and Her Days (Japan\, 113 min.)\nIntroduced by: Alexander Zahlten\, Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University \nRefreshments provided \nCo-sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Korea Institute\, Lakshmi Mittal South Asia Institute\, and Reischauer Institute
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-series-aging-in-asia-2017-11-15/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S354\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest,Film Screening,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171115T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171115T230000
DTSTAMP:20260511T024521
CREATED:20171024T151434Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171024T151434Z
UID:6155-1510777800-1510786800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:New Noir: Chinese Crime Films
DESCRIPTION:Film noir\, as its meaning “black film” or “film of the night” indicates\, is an art of darkness. For its connotation of pessimism and menace\, crime\, especially unsolved ones\, has been a rare event in Chinese cinema\, because it is considered by the authority as an admission to the discontents of life in what is supposed to be the people’s paradise. Recently\, however\, a new generation of young auteurs\, working independently\, has been reworking the tropes of Chinese spy film to address the country’s endemic corruption and violence\, with films that portray drifting killers\, frustrated police\, and fatal beauties\, all enmeshed in a web of vice and desire. Starting with BLACK COAL\, THIN ICE\, a landmark in Chinese crime film\, and ending with FREE AND EASY\, a post-apocalyptic dark comedy\, this program is a witness to the birth of the Chinese mainland school of noir. \nNew Noir is part of the Creative China Festival\, curated by Meng Xie\, supported by Beijing Contemporary Art Foundation. \nCo-presented by Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies \nPlease Note: Tickets are $11 each for general public\, $9 for students and Brattle members\, and $8 for seniors.  A total of 50 free tickets for screenings in the series are available to Harvard ID holders on a first-come\, first-serve basis.  Please show your Harvard ID at the box office up to half an hour before the screening.  No advanced reservations are accepted for these free tickets.  \nBLACK COAL\, THIN ICE (2014) dir. Diao Yinan w/ Liao Fan\, Kwei Lun-Mei\, Wang Xuebing [110 min; DCP]\nSun\, Nov 12 at 5:30pm\nA landmark in Chinese crime film\, BLACK COAL\, THIN ICE is a dazzlingly stylized mystery that blends Fincher-esque genre elements and social commentary. It all begins with the discovery of a hand on a coal conveyor belt. Cop Zhang (Liao Fan) tries to solve the case but\, years later\, the body parts are still showing up. The film won the Golden Bear for Best Film\, as well as the Silver Bear for Best Actor\, at the 2014 Berlin International Film Festival. \nTHE DEAD END (2015) dir. Cao Baoping w/Deng Chao\, Duan Yuhong\, Guo Tao [139 min; DCP]\nSun\, Nov 12 at 8:00pm\nWith Dostoevskian undertones\, THE DEAD END is a gritty tale of redemption for three men—a cop\, a cab driver\, and a recluse—who are haunted by shared guilt over their murderous misdeeds in an unsolved crime. \nLETHAL HOSTAGE (2012) dir. Cheng Er w/Ni Dahong\, Sun Honglei\, Wang Luodan [97 min; DCP]\nMon\, Nov 13 at 8:30pm\nAn ingeniously structured psychological thriller\, LETHAL HOSTAGE takes place in a crumbling town on the China-Myanmar border.  A woman marrying her kidnapper is only the beginning of a series of emotional knots and dramatic twists in this superbly constructed crime drama. \nTHE COFFIN IN THE MOUNTAIN (2014) dir. Xin Yukun w/Huo Weimin\, Wang Xiaotian\, Luo Yun [119 min; DCP]\nTue\, Nov 14 at 8:30pm\nA striking feature directorial debut\, THE COFFIN IN THE MOUNTAIN is an unflinching depiction of provincial entrapment where people’s lives are intricately intertwined through an accidental death. With an ingeniously constructed timeline\, the film morphs from mystery to suspense and finally to irony. \nFREE + EASY (2017) dir. Geng Jun w/Xu Gang\, Zhang Zhiyong\, Xue Baohe [98 min; DCP]\nWed\, Nov 15 at 8:30pm\nWith tinges of the Coen Brothers\, Jim Jarmusch\, and Samuel Beckett\, director Geng presents a portrait of a socio-economic system so flawed that it has veered into black comedy – a practically post-apocalyptic world where crime is the new normal. In a Northern Chinese industrial town\, everyone – even the local monk – is running a con and the police are more interested in chasing girls than criminals. \nWinner of a special jury award at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/new-noir-chinese-crime-films-2017-11-15/
LOCATION:Brattle Theater\, 40 Brattle St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Emergent Visions Film Screening,Events of Interest,Film Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171116T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171116T133000
DTSTAMP:20260511T024521
CREATED:20170803T171929Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170803T171929Z
UID:5459-1510833600-1510839000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Maria Repnikova - Media Politics in China: Improvising Power under Authoritarianism
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a discussion with Maria Repnikova\, Assistant Professor Communication at Georgia State University and author of\, “Media Politics in China: Improvising Power under Authoritarianism.” Ash Center Director Tony Saich will moderate. \nLunch will be provided.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/media-politics-in-china-improvising-power-under-authoritarianism/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171116T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171116T190000
DTSTAMP:20260511T024521
CREATED:20171026T163442Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171026T163442Z
UID:6188-1510848000-1510858800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Film Series - Aging in Asia
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, November.13\nOld Partner (Korea\, 78 min.)\nIntroduced by: Paul Chang\, Associate Professor of Sociology\, Harvard University \nTuesday\, November. 14\nBaghban (India\, 178 min.)\nIntroduced by: Professor Samir Dayal\, English and Media Studies\, Bentley University \nWednesday\, November 15\nFor Fun (Zhao le) (China\, 98 min)\nIntroduced by: Haijing Hao\, Asia Center Associate; Assistant Professor\, Management Science and Information Systems Department\, College of Management\, University of Massachusetts\, Boston \nThursday\, November 16\nPecoross’ Mother and Her Days (Japan\, 113 min.)\nIntroduced by: Alexander Zahlten\, Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University \nRefreshments provided \nCo-sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Korea Institute\, Lakshmi Mittal South Asia Institute\, and Reischauer Institute
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-series-aging-in-asia-2017-11-16/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S354\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest,Film Screening,Special Event
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SUMMARY:Prasenjit Duara - Spiritual Ecologies: Sustainability and Transcendence in Contemporary Asia
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Prasenjit Duara\, Oscar Tang Professor of East Asian Studies\, Duke University\n\n\n\n\n\nThe crisis of global modernity has been produced by human overreach that was founded upon a paradigm of national modernization. Today\, three global changes: the rise of non-western powers\, the crisis of environmental sustainability and the loss of authoritative sources of transcendence – the ideals\, principles and ethics once found in religions — define our condition. The physical salvation of the world is becoming the transcendent goal of our times\, transcending national sovereignty. The foundations of sovereignty can no longer be sought in tunnelled histories of nations; we are recognizing that histories have always been circulatory and the planet is a collective responsibility. \nI re-consider the values and resources in Asian traditions—particularly of China and India—that Max Weber found wanting in their capacity to achieve modernity. Several traditions in Asia\, particularly in environmentally marginalized local communities offer different ways of understanding the relationship between the personal\, ecological and universal. The idea of transcendence in these communities is more dialogical than radical or dualistic: separating God or the human subject from nature. Transnational civil society\, NGOS\, quasi-governmental and inter-governmental agencies committed to to the inviolability or sacrality of the “commons” are finding common cause with these communities struggling to survive. \nThe Environment Forum at the Mahindra Center is convened by Robin Kelsey (Dean of Arts and Humanities\, Harvard University) and Ian Jared Miller (Professor of History\, Harvard University).
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/prasenjit-duara-spiritual-ecologies-sustainability-and-transcendence-in-contemporary-asia/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Environment,Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Mae Ngai - The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Professor Mae Ngai\, Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies and Professor of History\, Columbia University
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-chinese-question-the-gold-rushes-and-global-politics/
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SUMMARY:David Palmer & Elijah Siegler - Enchanting Huashan in the Global Spiritual Circuit: Intersecting Modes of Making Sacred Space
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\nDavid Palmer\, University of Hong Kong\nElijah Siegler\, College of Charleston \nThis talk is based on the newly released book Dream Trippers (University of Chicago Press)\, a multi-sited ethnographic study of transnational encounters between American Daoist spiritual tourists and practitioners and the Chinese monks and hermits of the sacred Daoist peak of Huashan. In this talk\, the co-authors will describe how the mountain is a source of enchanting experiences for both American “Dream Trippers” and the Daoist monks of the Order of Complete Perfection. \nMany American practitioners perceive these experiences within a framework of ontological individualism\, while others use Qigong practice to connect and attune to the ‘energies’ of the mountain within the framework of a Daoist cosmology that has been extracted from its historical and cultural context. For the monks\, on the other hand\, the cosmological attunement of Daoist cultivation occurs through enchanted connections with the Immortals of Daoist history and lineage. What happens when\, through encounters between the two groups\, these different narratives of enchantment confront each other\, or become imbricated with each other? \nDr. David A. Palmer is an Associate Professor of Anthropology\, Department of Sociology and Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences\, at the University of Hong Kong. After completing his PhD in the Anthropology of Religion at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris\, he was the Eileen Barker Fellow in Religion and Contemporary Society at the London School of Economics and Political Science\, and\, from 2004 to 2008\, director of the Hong Kong Centre of the French School of Asian Studies (Ecole Française d’Extrême-Orient). His books include the award-winning Qigong Fever: Body\, Science and Utopia in China (Columbia University Press\, 2007); The Religious Question in Modern China (co-authored with Vincent Goossaert\, University of Chicago Press\, 2011; awarded the Levenson Book Prize of the Association for Asian Studies); and Dream Trippers: Global Daoism and the Predicament of Modern Spirituality (co-authored with Elijah Siegler\, University of Chicago Press\, 2017). \n Dr. Elijah Siegler is a Professor of Religious Studies at the College of Charleston in South Carolina. He has degrees from Harvard University and the University of California at Santa Barbara. He has published an introductory textbook on New Religious Movements (Routledge\, 2007)\, and articles about religion in film and television\, on American Daoism\, and on religious studies pedagogy. He recently edited Coen: Framing Religion in Amoral Order (Baylor University Press\, 2016) and co-wrote\, with David Palmer\, Dream Trippers: Global Daoism and the Predicament of Modern Culture (University of Chicago Press\, 2017)
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-humanities-seminar-2017-11-17/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:China Humanities Seminar,Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Film Screening and In-Person Discussion with the Director - We the Workers
DESCRIPTION:Shot over a six-year period (2009-15) mainly in the industrial heartland of south China\, this film primarily follows labor activists Peng Jiayong and Deng Xiaoming as they find common ground with workers\, helping them to negotiate with local officials and factory owners over wages and working conditions. \nThreats\, attacks\, detention and boredom become part of their daily lives as they struggle to strengthen worker solidarity in the face of pressure from police and their employers. In the process\, we see in their words and actions the emergence of a nascent working class consciousness and labor movement in China. \nDirected by Wen Hai\nWen Hai studied at the Beijing Film Academy and has since 2001 been active as an independent film director. Among his best known films are Floating Dust (2003)\, that won him the Georges Beauregard award at the 16th Festival International du Documentaire in Marseille in 2005\, Dream Walking (2005)\, and the We that won the Horizons Special Mention award at the 2008 Venice International Film Festival. He also worked as a cameraman on Wang Bing’s film Three Sisters (2012). \n  \nPlease note that there will also be a screening of Wen Hai’s 2008 film WE at Boston University on Thursday Nov 16\, 2017 at 7pm\, with the filmmaker available for Q&A afterwards.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-screening-and-in-person-discussion-with-the-director-we-the-workers/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Emergent Visions Film Screening,Film Screening
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