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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China featuring Thomas J. Christensen - Thomas Schelling\, the United States\, and China’s Rise
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Thomas J. Christensen\, James T. Shotwell Professor of International Relations\, Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs \n\n\n\n*PLEASE NOTE DAY AND TIME CHANGE FROM OUR REGULAR CRITICAL ISSUES TALKS* \n\n\n\nThomas Schelling’s theoretical work on coercive diplomacy carries important lessons for U.S. security policy toward a rising China.  This talk will address the challenges in combining credible threats and credible assurances in deterring a PRC military attack on Taiwan and the need to differentiate clearly between unconditional restrictions on the transfer of militarily relevant technology to China and conditional threats to punish China economically if Beijing adopts certain proscribed policies. \n\n\n\nNote: Thomas Christensen serves as a Senior Advisor to the Office of China Coordination at the U.S. Department of State.  All opinions expressed in this talk and in the discussion that follows are his own and do not necessarily reflect the views of the U.S. Government. \n\n\n\nThomas J. Christensen is James T. Shotwell Professor of International Relations and Director of the China and the World program in the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. From 2006 to 2008\, he served as U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs\, with responsibility for relations with China\, Taiwan\, and Mongolia.  He is a Senior Non-Resident Fellow at the Brookings Institution\, a life Member of the Council on Foreign Relations\, and editor of the Nancy B. Tucker and Warren I. Cohen book series on the United States in Asia at the Columbia University Press.  He received a Distinguished Public Service Award from the United States Department of State. \n\n\n\nHis research and teaching focuses on China’s foreign relations\, the international relations of East Asia\, and international security. Previously\, he taught at Princeton University\, MIT\, and Cornell University. He received his bachelor’s from Haverford College\, his master’s in international relations from the University of Pennsylvania\, and a doctorate in political science from Columbia University. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-featuring-thomas-j-christensen/
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:20240322T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240322T171500
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SUMMARY:Rethinking China's International Relations: China and the World Program 20th Annual Conference
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies is proud to present the Columbia-Harvard China and the World Program’s 20th Annual Conference\, Rethinking China’s International Relations\, which will convene a roster of experts from top universities for panel discussions on China’s global influence\, its economic slowdown\, the Belt and Road Initiative\, and what China is learning from recent wars around the globe.  \n\n\n\nThe China and the World Program is directed by Thomas J. Christensen\, James T. Shotwell Professor of International Relations\, Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs\, and Alastair Iain Johnston\, Governor James Albert Noe and Linda Noe Laine Professor of China in World Affairs\, Harvard University. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n9:00 AM: Introduction: China and the World Program & Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesAlastair Iain Johnston\, Harvard UniversityThomas J. Christensen\, Columbia UniversityMark Wu\, Harvard University \n\n\n\n9:15 AM: PANEL #1 – Measuring China’s ‘Influence’ in International AffairsAudrye Wong\, University of Southern CaliforniaInjoo Sohn\, Seoul National UniversityAndrew Chubb\, Lancaster UniversityEnze Han\, Hong Kong UniversityModerator: Elizabeth J. Perry\, Harvard University11:00 AM: PANEL #2 – Foreign Policy Implications of the PRC’s Economic SlowdownHong Zhang\, Harvard UniversityYeling Tan\, University of OxfordAndrew Kennedy\, Australian National UniversityModerator: Meg Rithmire\, Harvard UniversityMid-day Break \n\n\n\n1:30 PM: PANEL #3 – Prospects for the Belt and Road InitiativeMin Ye\, Boston UniversityAdele Carrai\, New York UniversityEyck Freymann\, Stanford UniversityModerator: Rana Mitter\, Harvard University3:15 PM: PANEL #4 – What Chinese Leaders Are Learning from Recent WarsAndrew Erickson\, U.S. Naval War CollegeDawn Murphy\, National War CollegeTyler Jost\, Brown UniversityModerator: Alexandra Vacroux\, Harvard University 5:00 PM: Closing Remarks: Director\, China and the World ProgramThomas J. Christensen\, Columbia University \n\n\n\nThe day’s events are free with registration. Go to cwp.sipa.columbia.edu or https://forms.gle/pMRHYALvvaBEaLF87 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/international-conference-on-china-and-the-world/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240326T083000
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SUMMARY:Urban China Lecture Series featuring  Zhang Qinghua - From Government to Governance: Evidence from District Border Adjustments in China
DESCRIPTION:Zoom meeting link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker:  Zhang Qinghua\, Peking University \n\n\n\nThis talk delves into the impact of within-city administrative border adjustments on individual firm productivity and local economic development. Employing a unique quasi-natural experiment conducted in China since the 1990s\, the empirical analysis reveals that district border adjustments have a significant positive effect on the TFP of manufacturing firms in the adjusted districts. The firms situated in the border towns of the districts reap the most benefits. Further investigation into the mechanism indicates that district border adjustments enhance firms’ productivity by 1) internalizing the positive externalities generated by agglomeration economies of industry clusters\, 2) removing extra administrative costs for firms situated in the border towns\, and 3) helping alleviate the spatial constraints faced by high-density core districts. These adjustments ultimately lead to enhanced industry specialization and more efficient capital allocation at the district level. The study also shows that district border adjustments have a significantly positive impact on the overall economic development of border towns\, as evidenced by the increased intensity of nightlights. \n\n\n\nDr. Qinghua Zhang holds a professorship in the Department of Applied Economics at Guanghua School of Management\, Peking University. She also serves as the director of Peking University’s Center for Energy Economics and Sustainable Growth. Currently\, she is a visiting scholar at MIT’s Center for Real Estate. Dr. Zhang got her Ph.D. in economics from Brown University in 2003. Her research is focused on Urban Economics\, Public Finance\, Environmental Economics and Search and Matching. She has published in esteemed economic journals such as the Review of Economics and Statistics\, Journal of Monetary Economics\, Journal of Public Economics\, Journal of Urban Economics\, Journal of Development Economics\, Rand Journal of Economics\, and the Journal of Econometrics. Dr. Zhang currently sits on the Editorial Board of both the Journal of Urban Economics and the Journal of Housing Economics. \n\n\n\nWe would like to thank the MIT Sustainable Urbanization Lab\, the Ashoka University Centre for China Studies\, the University of British Columbia’s School of Community and Regional Planning\, the University at Buffalo (SUNY)\, and the Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies for supporting this event. Please subscribe to our mailing list if you’d like to receive e-mail notifications: http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/urbanchinaseminar. \n\n\n\nZoom Meeting Link: https://mit.zoom.us/j/92743598127 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/urban-china-lecture-series-featuring-zhang-qinghua/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Urban China Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240326T103000
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SUMMARY:Racing to Be a Better Race: A Longue Durée History of China's Toilet Revolution
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Nicole Barnes\, Associate Professor of History\, Duke University \n\n\n\nMore information: https://scholar.harvard.edu/seow/STinAsia \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/racing-to-be-a-better-race-a-longue-duree-history-of-chinas-toilet-revolution/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240326T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240326T130000
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SUMMARY:Liu Qing - How the Idea of Tianxia Can Help Us to Reimagine the Global Order
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Liu Qing\, Zijiang Distinguished Professor\, East China Normal University; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2023-24 \n\n\n\nDiscussant: Peter K. Bol\, Charles H. Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nWith the ascent of China on the global stage\, traditional Chinese thoughts\, particularly Confucianism\, have experienced a resurgence. Over the past two decades\, the concept of “Tianxia” (All Under Heaven) has garnered significant interest. This research delves into the potential contributions of Tianxia to contemporary political thought\, with a focus on normative theory. It examines whether this concept can aid in mitigating ultranationalism in our globalized era and foster a novel global perspective that encourages peaceful coexistence\, mutual respect\, and shared progress among nations. The presentation is structured into two main sections. The first section offers a critical examination of recent discussions surrounding Tianxia\, highlighting its contemporary relevance as intellectual inspirations while acknowledging its inherent limitations. The second section deals with the challenges posed by cultural diversity in establishing foundational norms for a post-hegemonic world order. It emphasizes the need for a new global vision that transcends both the Sinocentrism associated with Tianxia and the Eurocentrism prevalent in traditional cosmopolitanism\, and makes an argument in advocating for a new cosmopolitanism centered around the concept of “transcultural universality.” \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/lu-qing-how-the-idea-of-tianxia-can-help-us-to-reimagine-the-global-order/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240327T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240327T131500
DTSTAMP:20260521T155220
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China featuring Susan Greenhalgh - The Hidden Life and Agenda of the Three-Child Policy
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Susan Greenhalgh\, John King and Wilma Cannon Fairbank Professor of Chinese Society Emerita\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nAfter years of rapid fertility decline\, China is facing plummeting birth rates\, a shrinking work force\, and rapid aging. In 2016\, Beijing abandoned its notorious one-child policy\, allowing two and\, in 2021\, three children per couple. Outside China\, the three-child policy has been panned by demographers and condemned by feminists. Yet no one has considered the impact the politics and governance of the Xi Jinping era have had on this project to boost the birthrate. Greenhalgh argues that China’s leaders have extended Xi’s “new-style whole-of-government” approach to governance from the technology to the population sector. This involves a profound shift from relying on governmental power to co-governance by government\, society\, and citizens themselves. How is the all-of-government approach being adapted to foster not the development of AI\, but cultural and behavioral change among real people? If the aim of the 2021 policy is not to create a society of three-child families\, a sociological impossibility\, what is the aim? What happens when a party-state controlling highly effective tools of digital surveillance and mass intervention faces off against a generation of well-educated young women (and men) unwilling to give up their jobs and their freedom to follow the party’s call to have more than one child? \n\n\n\nSusan Greenhalgh is the John King and Wilma Cannon Fairbank Professor of Chinese Society Emerita in the Fairbank Center and the Anthropology Department at Harvard. Her teaching and research interests include the social study of science\, medicine\, and technology; the anthropology of the state\, governance\, and public policy; and the politics of reproduction/population. She is the author of Just One Child: Science and Policy in Deng’s China\, Cultivating Global Citizens: Population in the Rise of China\, and Soda Science: Making the World Safe for Coca-Cola (fall 2024)\, as well as co-author of Governing China’s Population: From Leninist to Neoliberal Biopolitics. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-featuring-susan-greenhalgh-brijings-whole-of-nation-plan-to-boost-the-birthrate-what-happens-when-it-ramps-up/
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:20240328T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240328T183000
DTSTAMP:20260521T155220
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SUMMARY:Taiwan Conference: Tension in the Taiwan Strait: The Role of U.S. Allies
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers:Akio Takahara\, Professor of Contemporary Chinese Politics\, Graduate School of Law and Politics\, University of TokyoJa-Ian Chong\, Associate Professor of Political Science\, National University of SingaporeSatu Limaye\, Vice President\, East-West Center; Director\, East-West Center in Washington \n\n\n\nThis event examines the risks for conflict in the Taiwan Strait and the implications that the changed geo-strategic environment has for the US\, Taiwan\, the Sino-US relationship and the US-led system of alliances in the region. It builds on a series of BUCSA events about Taiwan’s security that we have held over the past few years\, including a talk with Taiwan Defense Minister Andrew Yang in the Spring of 2021 and a presentation and discussion with senior US diplomat Chas Freeman in March 2022. \n\n\n\nFor more information\, visit: https://www.bu.edu/asian/2023/12/04/taiwan-conference-tension-in-the-taiwan-strait-the-role-of-u-s-allies-march-28-2024/ .  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/taiwan-conference-tension-in-the-taiwan-strait-the-role-of-u-s-allies/
LOCATION:Pardee School of Global Studies\, Boston University\, 121 Bay State Rd\, Boston\, Massachusetts\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest,Taiwan
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240329T122000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240329T132000
DTSTAMP:20260521T155220
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SUMMARY:Jedidiah Korncke - Thomas Jefferson\, Carsun Chang and A Lost Era of U.S.-China Constitutional Engagement
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Jedidiah Kroncke\, Associate Professor of Law\, University of Hong Kong \n\n\n\nProfessor Kroncke’s study recovers a lost era of Sino-American constitutional imagination surrounding the drafting of the 1946 Republic of China Constitution. It examines the transnational dynamics that led the Constitution’s initial drafter\, Carsun Chang\, to travel to the U.S. in 1945 to ostensibly study the ideas of Thomas Jefferson then ascendant in New Deal constitutional rhetoric. \n\n\n\nThis study recontextualizes Chang’s life as one of China’s new generation of cosmopolitan intellectuals moving between its contentious post-dynastic politics and the institutions of the post-World War II international legal order. Chang’s invitation by the Roosevelt Administration involved many little known but determinative turns\, including the role of a subset of Truman Administration officials actively enamored with Jefferson’s own study of Confucianism. \n\n\n\nTransnationalizing our understanding of the 1946 Constitution helps reveal how the geopolitics of the Chinese Civil War intersected with the presumed projection of American constitutional values increasingly embedded in American internationalism. The fallout from the drafting process also illuminates the transition of America from a global symbol of constitutional revolution to a symbol of global racial empire. Recapturing this era has implications for originalist-styled constitutional arguments made in contemporary Taiwan\, as well as evaluating the international dimensions of Jefferson’s deeply problematic domestic legacy. \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\, and serves as Director of Early Career Research and Director of the Global Academic Fellows program. Previously\, he was a professor at FGV Sao Paulo School of Law and Senior Research Fellow at the East Asian Legal Studies program at Harvard Law School. Professor Kroncke’s research centers on international legal history and the comparative study of alternative labor and property institutions. His first book\, The Futility of Law and Development: China and the Dangers of Exporting American Law (Oxford University Press 2016)\, explores the role of U.S.-China relations in the formation of modern American legal internationalism and the decline of American legal comparativism. Other publications have addressed law and development\, authoritarian law and legal ethics\, the history of international law\, and comparative law and political economy. He received a B.A. from the University of California Berkeley\, a J.D. from Yale Law School\, and a Ph.D. in Social and Cultural Anthropology from UC Berkeley\, and then served as the HLS Berger-Howe Legal History Fellow\, NYU Golieb Fellow in Legal History\, and Ruebhausen Fellow in Law at Yale Law. \n\n\n\nBoxed lunch will be provided. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/jedidiah-korncke-thomas-jefferson-carsun-chang-and-a-lost-era-of-u-s-china-constitutional-engagement/
LOCATION:Morgan Courtroom\, Austin Hall\, 1515 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240329T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240329T200000
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SUMMARY:Community Viewing Event - Portraits of Freedom: The Womxn Driving our Freedom Movements
DESCRIPTION:rsvp form\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us in browsing and reflecting upon Portraits of Freedom: The Womxn Driving our Freedom Movements at our Community Viewing Event at the Cabot Library Discovery Bar from 6:30-8PM on Friday\, March 29th. Uyghur laghman noodles and wontons will be provided! RSVP here: tinyurl.com/coalitionPoF \n\n\n\nAbout the Exhibition: While history and society often highlight the prominent male figures\, womxn play pivotal roles as activists\, leaders\, thinkers\, and everyday participants. Yet\, their stories frequently remain in the shadows. Portraits of Freedom: The Womxn Driving our Freedom Movements aims to shed warranted light on stories of womxn’s dignity\, humanity and resilience in times of profound difficulty and danger. This photo exhibition celebrates the womxn who have played pivotal roles in the Tibetan\, Uyghur\, Hong Konger\, Taiwanese\, and Chinese freedom movements as academics\, survivors\, government officials\, lawyers\, movement leaders\, and more. Our wish is that Portraits of Freedom will uplift the truth and lived experiences of these womxn in our movements and histories. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/community-viewing-event-portraits-of-freedom-the-womxn-driving-our-freedom-movements/
LOCATION:Cabot Library Discovery Bar\, 1 Oxford St.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240329T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240329T220000
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: Yi Yi (A One and a Two …)\, with introduction by Kalli Peng
DESCRIPTION:Edward Yang’s cinematic swan song\, released at the turn of the millennium\, is a moving tapestry that weaves together the dissolution and reconstitution of the fragile subjectivities in an increasingly global\, capitalist and mediated urban society. Yi Yi opens with a wedding and ends with a funeral. What unfolds between love and death is everything that saturates our modern existence: awakening\, nostalgia\, contingency\, anxiety\, alienation\, the ennui of everyday banality and the oscillations between longings for interpersonal dependence and fears of intimacy. This three-hour-long audiovisual epic unfolds the confusions and struggles of the multigenerational Jian family. As the grandmother falls into a coma\, the family members take turns sitting at her bedside relaying their life to her\, only to hear their own doubts and uncertainties reverberate in the resounding silence. At his tenderest moment\, Yang\, through Yi Yi\, delicately\, wisely and elegantly portrays the poignant reminiscences of the stirrings of first love and unveils the beauty that all too often shies away in the face of a perceived emptiness of life. \n\n\n\nDirected by Edward Yang. With Wu Nien-Jen\, Elaine Jin\, Issey Ogata \n\n\n\nTaiwan/Japan 2000\, 35mm\, color\, 173 min. Mandarin\, Min Nan\, Hokkien\, English\, Japanese and French with English subtitles \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-screening-yi-yi-a-one-and-a-two-with-introduction-by-kalli-peng/
LOCATION:Harvard Film Archive\, Carpenter Center\, 24 Quincy St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest,Film Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240330T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240330T220000
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: A Brighter Summer Day (Guling jie shaonian sharen shijian)\, with introduction by Kalli Peng
DESCRIPTION:Similar to Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s A City of Sadness (1989)\, A Brighter Summer Day also traces the experiences of a large family during a critical historical epoch in Taiwan. Set in the early 1960s\, against the backdrop of a society witnessing the consequences of major demographic shifts and political oppression\, this film depicts the difficult trials awaiting the simple and harmonious life of the Zhang family. With Yang’s exacting demands on the historical accuracy of the props\, such as the family house and the furniture in the classrooms\, A Brighter Summer Day splendidly restores the material historical world to us while inquiring into its zeitgeist. Caught between the world of rock ‘n’ roll\, gang rivalry\, love triangles and the White Terror paranoia\, a group of teenagers are compelled to learn to negotiate the tensions and discrepancy between ideals and reality. The adolescent struggles in grasping that which is worth holding on to\, be it people or principle\, turn out to be an inescapable fate for adults alike. \n\n\n\nWidely considered as Yang’s magnum opus\, this film\, based on a real-life murder\, launched Chang Chen’s acting career at the age of fourteen. The brilliant juxtapositions of light and darkness\, movement and stasis\, sound and silence\, all work together to yield a tragic lonesomeness that even the warmth of a bright summer day cannot cure. \n\n\n\nDirected by Edward Yang. With Chang Chen\, Lisa Yang\, Chang Kuo-Chu \n\n\n\nTaiwan 1991\, DCP\, color\, 237 min. Mandarin\, Min Nan\, Shanghainese and English with English subtitles \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-screening-a-brighter-summer-day-guling-jie-shaonian-sharen-shijian-with-introduction-by-kalli-peng/
LOCATION:Harvard Film Archive\, Carpenter Center\, 24 Quincy St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest,Film Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240331T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240331T220000
DTSTAMP:20260521T155220
CREATED:20240216T164131Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240216T164132Z
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: A Confucian Confusion (Du li shi dai)
DESCRIPTION:A satirical comedy with biting wit and a romance that is equally suspicious of and hopeful about love\, this film ambitiously negotiates the coexistence of Confucianism with capitalism and democracy. In what feels like a second take of his Taipei Story\, Yang stages a frantic tango that is danced not with two but twelve. A circle of closely knit friends and relatives forms an entangled web of relationships where lost and insecure young professionals (civil servants\, accountants\, businessmen\, publishers\, writers\, and artists) navigate different emotional scenes in a vibrant Taipei. Following a series of misunderstandings\, a pervasive sense of loneliness permeates these densely populated frames\, resulting in a deliberate messiness. Intentionally not a guide for the perplexed\, Yang’s dazzling world melts pretense\, fakeness\, authenticity and sincerity into a confounding pool of restlessness. \n\n\n\nOne of the two least heralded (or screened) films by Edward Yang (the other being Mahjong)\, A Confucian Confusion’sstylistic and narrative experimentation is in fact fiercer than ever\, reflecting his ongoing formal exploration in a diverse oeuvre. Made after directing plays such as Likely Consequence (1992) and Growth Period (1993)\, A Confucian Confusionconducts\, with a bold theatricality\, a brilliant investigation into the challenging sedimentations of traditional ideals of social conformity and hierarchy in a modern age of independence. \n\n\n\nDirected by Edward Yang. With Chen Li-Mei\, Chen Shiang-chyi\, Chen Yi-Wen \n\n\n\nTaiwan 1994\, DCP\, color\, 125 min. Mandarin and Min Nan with English subtitles \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-screening-a-confucian-confusion-du-li-shi-dai/
LOCATION:Harvard Film Archive\, Carpenter Center\, 24 Quincy St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest,Film Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240401T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240401T173000
DTSTAMP:20260521T155220
CREATED:20240304T155315Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240304T155317Z
UID:35809-1711987200-1711992600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:China Humanities Seminar featuring John Kieschnick - MSG\, Vegan Soap\, Karma and Tofu: Chinese Vegetarianism in the Early 20th Century
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: John Kieschnick\, Robert H.N. Ho Family Foundation Professor of Buddhist Studies\, Stanford University \n\n\n\nDrawing on newspapers\, essays\, memoirs\, correspondence and Buddhist journals\, this talk will outline the major trends in Chinese vegetarianism from 1900-1950\, attempting to capture the diverse motivations\, arguments and innovations in the anti-meat movement in China in the first half of the twentieth century. \n\n\n\nJohn Kieschnick specializes in Chinese Buddhism\, with particular emphasis on its cultural history. He is the author of the Eminent Monk: Buddhist Ideals in Medieval China\, The Impact of Buddhism on Chinese Material Culture\, and Buddhist Historiography in China. He is currently writing a history of Chinese vegetarianism. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-humanities-seminar-featuring-john-kieschnick-msg-vegan-soap-karma-and-tofu-chinese-vegetarianism-in-the-early-20th-century/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:China Humanities Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240402T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240402T100000
DTSTAMP:20260521T155220
CREATED:20240123T161736Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240328T133842Z
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SUMMARY:Urban China Lecture Series featuring  Margaret Hillenbrand - On the Edge: Feeling Precarious in China
DESCRIPTION:Zoom meeting link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker:  Margaret Hillenbrand\, Professor of Modern Chinese Literature and Culture; Fellow of Wadham College\, Oxford University \n\n\n\nOn the evening of November 18th\, 2017\, a blaze broke out in a two-story building in Xinjian urban village\, just outside Beijing’s sixth ring road. At least 19 people\, including 8 children\, died in the flames. Using fire safety as a rationale\, the city condemned the entire settlement and its inhabitants. Nearly 250\,000 were forced to evacuate. In this talk\, I suggest that such evictions provoke questions about the limits of inequality\, exclusion\, and insecure work as meaningful descriptors of social conditions in our times. In this talk\, I explore the logic of expulsion in contemporary China\, its capacity to foment both solidarity and social strife\, and its relationship with cultural forms. In particular\, I look at how people living under precarity in China today use culture as a space to vent feelings of rage\, resentment\, distrust\, and disdain that are taboo under the diktats of so-called harmonious society. \n\n\n\nMargaret Hillenbrand is Professor of Modern Chinese Literature and Visual Culture at the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on literary and visual studies in twentieth-century China\, Hong Kong\, Taiwan\, and Japan\, especially cultures of secrecy and protest. Her books include Negative Exposures: Knowing What Not to Know in Contemporary China (Duke University Press\, 2020)\, and On the Edge: Feeling Precarious in China (Columbia University Press\, 2023)\, from which this talk is drawn. She is now working on a new project about the cultural politics of the face in Chinese visual culture during the era of biometric surveillance. \n\n\n\nZoom Meeting Link: https://mit.zoom.us/j/92743598127 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/urban-china-lecture-series-featuring-margaret-hillenbrand/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Urban China Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240402T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240402T140000
DTSTAMP:20260521T155220
CREATED:20240321T191755Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240401T143634Z
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SUMMARY:Rethinking Taiwan and the World: Presentations by the Fairbank Center’s 2023-24 Fellows in Taiwan Studies
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers:Shinyi Hsieh\, Hou Family Postdoctoral Fellow in Taiwan Studies\, Fairbank Center; PhD\, History of Health Sciences Program\, Dept of Humanities and Social Sciences\, University of California-San Francisco – Navigating Geomedical Borders: A Critical Analysis of NAMRU-2’s Operations in Taiwan and Southeast Asia\, 1955-1975.  Anatol Klass\,  Hou Family Predoctoral Fellow in Taiwan Studies\, Fairbank Center; PhD Candidate in History\, University of California\, Berkeley – Building the Department of African Affairs: Institutional and Strategic  Developments in Taiwan’s Foreign Policy During the Early Cold War  Julia Famularo\, Postdoctoral Fellow in Taiwan Studies\, Fairbank Center; PhD in Modern Asian Political History\, Georgetown University – Taiwan’s Substitute Military Service Program: Reform and Expansion Under the Tsai and Incoming Lai Administrations \n\n\n\nLunch will be provided. Register at: [REGISTRATION FOR THIS EVENT IS AT CAPACITY] \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/taiwan-studies-rethinking-taiwan-in-the-world/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S250\, 1730 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Taiwan,Taiwan Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240403T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240403T131500
DTSTAMP:20260521T155220
CREATED:20240221T153412Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240320T132537Z
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China featuring Angela Huyue Zhang - Can Regulation Revive China’s Sagging Economy?
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Angela Huyue Zhang\, Associate Professor of Law\, University of Hong Kong; Director\, Philip K. H. Wong Center for Chinese Law \n\n\n\nChina’s economy is at a crossroads\, facing its most significant challenges in recent memory. Amidst this economic turmoil\, a fierce debate has emerged among experts: Is the current economic downturn a result of ingrained structural issues\, recent policy shifts\, or escalating geopolitical tensions? \n\n\n\nIn this talk\, Professor Angela Zhang will offer a fresh perspective\, steering the conversation towards the impact of law on the Chinese economy. Drawing insights from her latest book\, “High Wire: How China Regulates Big Tech and Governs Its Economy\,” Professor Zhang will introduce the “Dynamic Pyramid Model” to demystify China’s regulatory governance.  Through this lens\, she will explain the consistent regulatory pattern in some of the biggest policy challenges China has faced in recent years\, including tech regulation\, the covid-19 pandemic control\, the energy crisis in 2021\, the ongoing property crack down and China’s demographic crisis.  This discussion aims to shed light on the political logic underpinning China’s regulatory policies\, while also identifying potential pathways toward economic revival. \n\n\n\nAngela Zhang is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Hong Kong and Director of the Philip K. H. Wong Center for Chinese Law. Widely recognized as a leading authority on China’s tech regulation\, Angela has written extensively on this topic. She is the author of “Chinese Antitrust Exceptionalism: How the Rise of China Challenges Global Regulation” (Oxford\, 2021)\, which was named one of the Best Political Economy Books of 2021 by ProMarket. Angela’s second book\, “High Wire: How China Regulates Big Tech and Governs Its Economy\,” was released by Oxford University Press in March 2024. In fall 2024\, Angela will join the University of Southern California as a Professor of Law. For more information\, please visit her website at AngelaZhang.net\, and follow her on Twitter @AngelaZhangHK. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-featuring-angela-zhang/
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:20240403T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240403T164500
DTSTAMP:20260521T155220
CREATED:20240321T185520Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240326T142734Z
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SUMMARY:The Future of US-Taiwan Relations: A conversation with Alexander Tah-ray Yui\, Taiwan’s Representative to the US
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker:  Alexander Tah-ray Yui\, Taiwan Representative to the United States \n\n\n\nHarvard-ID holders are invited to join us for a discussion with Alexander Tah-ray Yui\, Taiwan’s Representative to the United States\, to mark the 45th anniversary of the Taiwan Relations Act and discuss the future of US-Taiwan relations. Tony Saich\, Rajawali Institute Director and Daewoo Professor of International Affairs\, will moderate. This event is sponsored by the Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia and cosponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. \n\n\n\nRegistration is required for this event and is open to Harvard-ID holders only. Please register using the link above. This event is in-person only and will be recorded. A recording will be posted later to this events page and sent to all registrants.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-future-of-us-taiwan-relations-a-conversation-with-alexander-tah-ray-yui-taiwans-representative-to-the-us/
LOCATION:Nye Conference Center\, Taubman Building 5th Floor\, 79 JFK St.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Taiwan
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240403T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240403T173000
DTSTAMP:20260521T155220
CREATED:20240221T181510Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250130T155052Z
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SUMMARY:Modern China Lecture featuring Uluğ Kuzuoğlu - Codes of Modernity: Chinese Scripts in the Global Information Age
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Uluğ Kuzuoğlu\, Assistant Professor of History\, Washington University in St. Louis \n\n\n\nIn the late nineteenth century\, Chinese reformers and revolutionaries believed that there was something fundamentally wrong with the Chinese writing system. The Chinese characters\, they argued\, were too cumbersome to learn\, blocking the channels of communication\, obstructing mass literacy\, and impeding scientific progress. What had sustained a civilization for more than three millennia was suddenly recast as the root cause of an ongoing cultural suicide. In this talk\, Uluğ Kuzuoğlu draws on his book to rethink the historical origins of Chinese script reforms––efforts to alphabetize or simplify the writing system—from the 1890s to the 1980s. Examining the material conditions and political economy underlying attempts to modernize scripts\, Kuzuoğlu demonstrates that these reforms were at the forefront of an emergent information age\, precipitated by new communications technologies and infrastructures as well as industrial\, educational\, and bureaucratic pressures for information management. Situating China within a global context\, this talk describes how scripts became instruments to increase labor efficiency and create alternate political futures in China and the world.”  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/modern-china-lecture-featuring-ulug-kuzuoglu-codes-of-modernity-chinese-scripts-in-the-global-information-age/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Room S050\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Modern China Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240403T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240403T174500
DTSTAMP:20260521T155220
CREATED:20240327T160932Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240327T160934Z
UID:35969-1712161800-1712166300@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:U.S. - China Relations Today
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers:Da Wei\, Director\, Center for International Security and Strategy (CISS); Professor of Department of International Relations\, School of Social Science\, Tsinghua University.Rana Mitter\, ST Lee Chair in US-Asia Relations\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nJoin the Greater China Society at Harvard Kennedy School for a discussion on U.S.-China relations featuring Professors Da Wei and Rana Mitter\, leading scholars on this topic. This event is part of the preview series to the 2024 China Conference organized by students at Harvard Kennedy School. \n\n\n\nProfessor DA Wei is the director of the Center for International Security and Strategy (CISS) at Tsinghua\, and professor of department of International Relations\, school of Social Science\, Tsinghua University. He is renowned for his work on China-US relations and US security & foreign policy\, and has a rich background in China’s academic and policy community. \n\n\n\nProfessor Rana Mitter\, ST Lee Chair in US-Asia Relations at Harvard\, is an acclaimed author and commentator on China’s international relations and historical narratives. He is the author of several books\, and his writing on contemporary China has appeared in influential media outlets. He previously taught at Oxford\, and is a Fellow of the British Academy. \n\n\n\nRegister at: https://forms.gle/SZVqh5iwTpNBSkek7 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/u-s-china-relations-today/
LOCATION:L-332 DELAND\, Littauer Building\, 79 JFK St.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240404T122000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240404T132000
DTSTAMP:20260521T155220
CREATED:20240129T163620Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240129T163621Z
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SUMMARY:Glen S. Fukushima - U.S. Trade Policy\, Japan\, and China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Glen S. Fukushima\, Vice Chair\, Securities Investor Protection Corporation; Former Deputy Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Japan and China \n\n\n\nGlen S. Fukushima was nominated by President Joseph R. Biden to serve as Vice Chair of the Securities Investor Protection Corporation in October 2021 and confirmed by the U.S. Senate in April 2022.  After graduating from Harvard Law School in 1982\, he was a Fulbright Fellow at the Faculty of Law\, University of Tokyo; associate at Paul\, Hastings\, Janofsky & Walker; Deputy Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Japan and China at the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative; president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan; and senior executive in one European and four American multinational corporations.  He served on Hillary Clinton’s Asia Policy Working Group in 2015-2016. \n\n\n\nBoxed lunch will be provided. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/glen-s-fukushima-u-s-trade-policy-japan-and-china/
LOCATION:Morgan Courtroom\, Austin Hall\, 1515 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240405T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240405T130000
DTSTAMP:20260521T155220
CREATED:20240129T192354Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240129T192355Z
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SUMMARY:Wu Helin - From Serampore to Singapore: The Making of the Missionary Enterprise to China (1800-1840)
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Wu Helin\, Associate Research Fellow\, India Study Center\, Central China Normal University; HYI Visiting Scholar\, Indian Studies In China Program\, 2023-24 \n\n\n\nDiscussant: Dana L. Robert\, William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor\, Director of the Center for Global Christianity and Mission\, Boston University \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/wu-helin-from-serampore-to-singapore-the-making-of-the-missionary-enterprise-to-china-1800-1840/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240405T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240405T163000
DTSTAMP:20260521T155220
CREATED:20240215T142646Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240215T142648Z
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SUMMARY:Generative AI for Chinese Studies - Advanced Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDigital China Initiative is organizing two workshops on how to apply generative AI for Chinese studies. The workshop on 5 April will cover how to use open-source large language models on local devices\, query through APIs\, and basic concepts of retrieval augment generation. \n\n\n\nThe workshops will be limited to 45 attendees each to ensure enough space and a quality learning environment. The following order of preference will apply: graduate students and faculty\, undergraduate students\, and Harvard affiliates. \n\n\n\nIn the advanced workshop\, we will try out open-source large language models such as Qwen and Taiwan LLM. We will show how to access them through APIs. The workshop also covers an overview of retrieval augment generation that can offer more precise and domain-specific information. For these tasks\, attendees may need a laptop with 16GB of ram and at least 10 GB of SSD storage. They also have to install some software before attending the workshop. More information will be provided after enrollment confirmation.Registration: https://forms.office.com/r/N9eRjE0RUL \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/generative-ai-for-chinese-studies-advanced-workshop/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240407T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240407T180000
DTSTAMP:20260521T155220
CREATED:20240216T164451Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240216T164452Z
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: Mahjong (Ma jiang)
DESCRIPTION:Mahjong is a game for four players\, and the one who first collects winning sets of tiles wins. But the real game lies not in these rectangular pieces per se\, but in deliberating what one already has and could afford to discard or how to acquire from others what one desires but does not yet possess. The funniest and angriest of Yang’s films\, Mahjong questions the sustainability of the dominance of a calculating profit-mindedness and transactional mentality\, incubated in a capitalist madness blown to the point of barbarity. Red Fish\, the son of a missing millionaire\, leads a group of four young men as they swim in the ocean of ambivalent values among European expats\, entrepreneurs\, liars and criminals. A series of surprising events expose a social world where tenderness only makes one vulnerable to be exploited or deceived\, and people—avoiding responsibilities—lack courage to think or make decisions for themselves. Following A Confucian Confusion\, this dark comedy continues to experiment with theatrical forms. Yang’s use of lighting in a scene of an astonishing and dramatically powerful murder recalls Béla Tarr’s intense chamber drama Autumn Almanac (1984). The repeated appearance of T.G.I. Friday’s and the Hard Rock Café\, along with other globalist trinkets\, casts an alluring\, mysterious and uncanny shadow over Taipei’s colorful nightlife. \n\n\n\nDirected by Edward Yang. With Tang Tsung Sheng\, Chang Chen\, Lawrence Ko \n\n\n\nTaiwan 1996\, DCP\, color\, 121 min. Mandarin\, Min Nan and English with English subtitles \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-screening-mahjong-ma-jiang/
LOCATION:Harvard Film Archive\, Carpenter Center\, 24 Quincy St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest,Film Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240408T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240408T210000
DTSTAMP:20260521T155220
CREATED:20240216T165027Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240216T165253Z
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: The Terrorizers (Kong bu fen zi)
DESCRIPTION:Characterized as “Yang’s most difficult\, intellectually provocative\, and structurally challenging film” (John Anderson)\, Edward Yang’s third feature-length film is a puzzle with immense reverberatory power. The Terrorizers depicts the intertwining of love and death among three different couples: a young photographer and his literary girlfriend; a middle-class and middle-aged married couple whose mutual estrangement grows to the point of no return; and a delinquent duo whose income comes from committing petty pickpocketing and blackmailing. Prank phone calls\, amateur photography\, writer’s block and coveted promotions serendipitously bring these separate lives together. As close relationships come to a dissolution\, the distinctions between life and art\, fiction and reality also edge toward implosion. \n\n\n\nDirected by Edward Yang. With Cora Miao\, Lee Li-Chun\, King Shih-Chieh \n\n\n\nTaiwan 1986\, DCP\, color\, 110 min. Mandarin and Min Nan with English subtitles \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-screening-the-terrorizers-kong-bu-fen-zi/
LOCATION:Harvard Film Archive\, Carpenter Center\, 24 Quincy St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest,Film Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240409T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240409T100000
DTSTAMP:20260521T155220
CREATED:20240123T162208Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240403T163851Z
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SUMMARY:Urban China Lecture Series featuring Cole Roskam - Planning Exchange: Ideas\, People\, and Cities in Circulation During China's Opening and Reform Era
DESCRIPTION:Zoom meeting link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker:  Cole Roskam\, Professor of Architectural History\, Department of Architecture\, University of Hong Kong \n\n\n\nBeginning in the 1970s and intensifying during the 1980s\, the People’s Republic of China initiated international scholarly exchange programs with numerous countries at a range of levels and scales within Chinese society. These interactions were intended to facilitate knowledge transfer\, particularly with regard to distinctly technical forms of knowledge; more generally\, they also helped increase China’s connections to the capitalist world and vice-versa. At the same time\, the exchange also offered a somewhat unpredictable vehicle for change—a fundamentally subjective experience capable of producing profound incommensurability and asymmetry across disciplines and individuals. \n\n\n\nThis presentation examines the dynamics at work in exchange within the broad field of urban planning and design\, which was a particularly popular arena for international engagement in reform-era China. In this presentation\, I explore the complex\, interpersonal dynamics of exchange in relation to planning expertise\, and the extent to which the inherent subjectivities at work in the experience of exchange proved consequential to urban planning practices in reform-era China and\, more generally\, the fundamental strangeness of reform itself.Cole Roskam is professor of architectural history in the Department of Architecture at the University of Hong Kong. His research explores architecture’s role in mediating moments of transnational interaction and exchange between China and other parts of the world. He is the author of Improvised City: Architecture and Governance in Shanghai\, 1843-1937 (University of Washington Press\, 2019) and Designing Reform: Architecture in the People’s Republic of China\, 1970-1992 (Yale University Press\, 2021). His writing has appeared in AD\, Architectural History\, Artforum International\, Grey Room\, and the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians\, among others. He has been a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (Washington\, DC)\, the Canadian Centre for Architecture (Montreal)\, and the University of Edinburgh. \n\n\n\nZoom Meeting Link: https://mit.zoom.us/j/92743598127 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/urban-china-lecture-series-featuring-cole-roskam/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Urban China Series
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SUMMARY:Dreams from China’s Past: Visions of the Future in Popular Science and Literature Magazines\, 1927–1949
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Aaron William Moore\, Professor of Asian Studies and Handa Chair of Japanese-Chinese Relations\, University of Edinburgh \n\n\n\nMore information: https://scholar.harvard.edu/seow/STinAsia \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/dreams-from-chinas-past-visions-of-the-future-in-popular-science-and-literature-magazines-1927-1949/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:2024 China Town Hall Featuring Kurt Campbell and Rana Mitter
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers:Kurt Campbell\, Deputy U.S. Secretary of StateRana Mitter\, ST Lee Chair in US-Asia Relations\, Harvard Kennedy SchoolJoin the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations and the Greater China Society at HKS on April 9th for the 2024 CHINA Town Hall (CTH)\, a two-part program that provides a snapshot of the current U.S.-China relationship and examines how that relationship reverberates at the local level – in our towns\, states\, and nation\, connects Americans around the country with U.S. policymakers and thought leaders on China.   \n\n\n\nThe 2024 CHINA Town Hall program will take place on Tuesday\, April 9\, from 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. ET\, with featured speaker Dr. Kurt Campbell\, Deputy Secretary of State.  Following the official program\, students have the opportunity to discuss with Prof. Rana Mitter in-person reflecting on the event from 7:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. ET.  \n\n\n\nRSVP:  https://forms.gle/cjDyW6LbUmfi58fV9 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/2024-china-town-hall-featuring-kurt-campbell-and-rana-mitter/
LOCATION:L-332 DELAND\, Littauer Building\, 79 JFK St.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Yeshes Vodgsal Atshogs — Does the Sino-Tibetan Language Family Exist?: A Fresh Exploration of the Historical Relationship Between Tibetan\, Chinese\, and Surrounding Languages
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Yeshes Vodgsal Atshogs\, Professor\, Linguistics\, Nankai University; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2023-24 \n\n\n\nDiscussant: Kevin Ryan\, Professor\, Linguistics\, Harvard University \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/yeshes-vodgsal-atshogs-does-the-sino-tibetan-language-family-exist-a-fresh-exploration-of-the-historical-relationship-between-tibetan-chinese-and-surrounding-languages/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China featuring Keith Bradsher - An Industrial Surge Amidst China’s Slowdown
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Keith Bradsher\, Beijing Bureau Chief\, The New York Times \n\n\n\nChina’s economy is slowing\, dragged down by real estate troubles\, but its industrial sector has never been stronger. That poses dilemmas for trade partners in sectors from steel to solar panels to electric cars. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-featuring-keith-bradsher/
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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SUMMARY:Environment in Asia Series featuring Jesse Rodenbiker - Ecological States: Politics of Science and Nature in Urbanizing China
DESCRIPTION:register for hybrid zoom attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Jesse Rodenbiker\, Associate Research Scholar\, Princeton University; Assistant Teaching Professor of Geography\, Rutgers University-New Brunswick \n\n\n\nDiscussant: Stevan Harrell\, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Environmental and Forest Sciences\, University of Washington; author of An Ecological History of Modern China \n\n\n\nEcological States critically examines ecological policies in the People’s Republic of China to show how campaigns of scientifically based environmental protection transform nature and society. While many point to China’s ecological civilization programs as a new paradigm for global environmental governance\, Jesse Rodenbiker argues that ecological redlining extends the reach of the authoritarian state. \n\n\n\nAlthough Chinese urban sustainability initiatives have driven millions of citizens from their land and housing\, Rodenbiker shows that these migrants are not passive subjects of state policy. Instead\, they creatively navigate resettlement processes in pursuit of their own benefit. However\, their resistance is limited by varied forms of state-backed infrastructural violence. \n\n\n\nThrough extensive fieldwork with scientists\, urban planners\, and everyday citizens in southwestern China\, Ecological States exposes the ways in which the scientific logics and practices fundamental to China’s green urbanization have solidified state power and contributed to dispossession and social inequality. \n\n\n\nJesse Rodenbiker is an associate research scholar at Princeton University with the Center on Contemporary China at the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies\, and an assistant teaching professor of geography at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. He is a human-environment geographer and interdisciplinary social scientist focusing on environmental governance\, urbanization\, and social inequality in China and globally. Rodenbiker is the author of the book Ecological States: Politics of Science and Nature in Urbanizing China (2023\, Cornell University Press). His work has been supported by fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies\, Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation\,  Fulbright\, Social Science Research Council\, and the Wilson Center\, among others. \n\n\n\nAlso via Zoom.Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMlc-CsqjwiEtNUqQ1sEFhmYYHp9hHGJwTX \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/environment-in-asia-series-lecture/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S250\, 1730 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Environment,Environment
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