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  • The Anti-rightist Campaign as Media Event: Censorship, Political Dissent, and Media in 1950s China

    Zhang Naiqi, the Minister of Food and democratic party leader, was denounced as one of the three leading "rightists" during the Anti-Rightist Campaign (1957-58) in China. Accusations against Zhang by other intellectuals were actively publicized through the news media. Intriguingly, rather than simply censoring "rightist voices," the CCP allowed the news media to publicize Zhang's contestation against the accusation, even when the CCP had the capacity to completely censor Zhang's rebuttal. The CCP by the early 1950s monopolized the ability to construct publicity and public opinion on party policies and political affairs by gaining tight media control through nationalizing the media and establishing a relatively effective censorship system. Thus, the CCP's effective media control itself does not fully explain Zhang's vulnerability to the accusation. Ultimately, Zhang was unsuccessful in contesting the public accusation, and was ultimately purged from most of his public positions.

  • Critical Issues Confronting China Series: Cross-Strait Dilemmas

    Speakers: Professor Syaru Shirley Lin, Chinese University of Hong Kong Professor Harry Harding, University of Virginia Critical Issues Confronting China Seminar Series; co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies […]

  • Modern China Lecture: Varieties of Chinese Utopianism, 1900-1940

    Speaker: Peter Zarrow, University of Connecticut Utopianism was a major motif in early twentieth century Chinese political thought.  Utopianism was not only widespread, it became constitutive of political thought.  Utopianism did so […]

  • A New Asia: How China Shaped the Postwar Global Order

    Loeb House 17 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    The 2016 S.T. Lee Lecture will be presented by Rana Mitter, professor of history and politics of modern China and fellow of St Cross College, University of Oxford. Established in […]

  • Xi Jinping: The Three Problems and the Two Issues

    Speaker: Professor Joseph Fewsmith, Department of Political Science, Boston University Critical Issues Confronting China Seminar Series; co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies  and the Harvard University Asia Center

  • Tourism, Homeland, and Imaginaries: the percolating role of a Yi Jia Le family in a Sani Yi village in southwest China

    Tourism has increasingly become a force that propels economic and social change in a wide range of ethnic villages in China. For the local ethnic minorities, engaging in the business of tourism means not only learning new livelihood skills but also adjusting the community’s imaginaries of their own homeland to outside tourist imaginaries.

  • Book Talk: The Last Days of Stalin

    Lewis 241A 1557 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Joshua Rubenstein. staff member of Amnesty International USA from 1975 to 2012 and associate at Harvard University’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies.