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SUMMARY:Coexistence 2.0: U.S.-China Relations in a Changing World
DESCRIPTION:U.S.-China relations are increasingly tense. But both countries need to forge a path that allows for cooperation and competition—Coexistence 2.0. Join us as top experts discuss the way forward. \n\n\n\nThe U.S.-China relationship is the most important in the world\, with decisions affecting the world’s chances for global peace\, prosperity\, and sustainability. Each country has its own view of what its role\, and the other’s role\, in the world should be in the 21st Century. These views are not entirely in sync. This has created tensions\, and could become more destabilizing. However\, it’s in the interests of both countries to find a way forward together that leaves room for cooperation\, competition\, perhaps even confrontation\, without leading to war — Coexistence 2.0\, a more complex and engaged form of coexistence than the United States had with the Soviet Union in the last century. \n\n\n\nMajor questions framing what is possible include what China wants\, how China’s domestic realities affect President Xi Jinping’s dream of “rejuvenating” China and\, the actions he can take at home and abroad\, how much and in what ways the United States and its allies can influence Beijing’s decision-making\, and what greater global forces and trends are at play\, affecting what the United States\, China\, or the two of them together\, can do or might want to do. \n\n\n\nThis symposium aims to provoke thought on these questions\, and to deepen understanding of the U.S.-China relationship. The conference is co-presented by the Harvard University Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Harvard Kennedy Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia\, with support from the Asia Society’s Center on U.S.-China Relations and UC San Diego’s 21st Century China Center. \n\n\n\nFriday November 18th \n\n\n\n8:00-8:10AM: Welcome\n\n\n\nMark Wu\, Director\, Harvard University Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Henry L. Stimson Professor\, Harvard Law SchoolTony Saich\, Director\, Harvard Kennedy School Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia \n\n\n\n8:10 – 9:10AM: Chinese Views on U.S.-China Relations\n\n\n\nTwo influential Chinese experts share their views of changing U.S.-China relations\, in conversation with the moderator. \n\n\n\nModerator:Yasheng Huang\, Epoch Foundation Professor of International Management\, MITSpeakers:Wei Da\, Director\, Center for International Security and Strategy\, Tsinghua UniversityDaojiong Zha\, Professor of International Political Economy\, School of International Studies\, Peking University \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n9:10-9:20AM: Break\n\n\n\n9:20-10:30AM: China’s Realities at Home\n\n\n\nWhat domestic realities and challenges are driving and affecting the Chinese government’s goals and strategy\, at home and abroad\, in terms of Communist Party politics\, the state of China’s economy\, and social factors? \n\n\n\nModerator:Tony Saich\, Director\, Harvard Kennedy School Rajawali Foundation Institute for AsiaSpeakers:Arthur Kroeber\, Founding Partner\, Head of Research\, GavekalYa-Wen Lei\, Associate Professor of Sociology\, Harvard UniversityDavid Shambaugh\, Director\, China Policy Program\, Elliott School of International Affairs\, George Washington UniversitySusan Shirk\, Chair\, 21st Century China Center\, Research Professor\, UC San Diego \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n10:45-11:55AM: Competition & Cooperation in Security\, Ideas and Rules\n\n\n\nChina and the United States are competing on multiple fronts\, including in promoting their values and ideas and setting international rules and standards. China is challenging and hoping to end the United States’ long-held role as predominant Indo-Pacific power\, by building a “String of Pearls” presence in ports throughout Asia\, the Middle East and Europe\, establishing a presence near chokepoints to strategic waterways (Djibouti\, Gwadar)\, and accelerating the modernization of China’s overall military capabilities\, including developing a blue water navy capability. What does Coexistence 2.0 look like on all these fronts? Where is there still room for cooperation\, and where is competition inevitable? How can the two sides avoid a hot war? \n\n\n\nModerator:Graham Allison\, Professor of Government\, Harvard Kennedy SchoolSpeakers:Andrew Erickson\, Professor of Strategy and Research Director in the Naval War College’s China Maritime Studies InstituteTaylor Fravel\, Director\, Security Studies Program\, MITJoseph Nye\, Professor Emeritus and Former Dean\, Harvard Kennedy School of Government; Former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security AffairsJessica Chen Weiss\, Professor of Government\, Cornell University \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n12:00-1:15PM: Lunch\n\n\n\n1:15-2:25PM: Competition & Cooperation in Trade\, Investment\, and Technology\n\n\n\nA look at U.S.-China competition in global trade and investment\, especially emergent technologies and infrastructure. To what extent should both sides engage in greater decoupling for national security reasons? What do developing nations want\, how has China’s BRI changed the landscape\, and how effectively are the United States and its allies responding?  Even amid growing strategic competition\, can both parties work to define common norms of behavior in cyberspace and to cooperate on emergent technologies to address common problems? \n\n\n\nModerator:Mark Wu\, Director\, Harvard University Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Henry L. Stimson Professor\, Harvard Law SchoolSpeakers:Elizabeth Economy (invited)\, Senior Advisor to U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo; Senior Fellow\, Hoover InstitutionMeg Rithmire\, Professor of Business of Administration\, Harvard Business SchoolDan Rosen\, Founder\, Rhodium Group \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2:25-2:35PM: Break\n\n\n\n2:35-3:45PM: How Asian Countries See China and U.S.-China Competition\n\n\n\nMuch of Asia is stuck in the middle between longstanding relationships with the United States and the prospect of potential economic opportunity coming from China. How do Asian countries view China’s rise—as a threat or an economic opportunity? Are they fearful of falling into the “debt trap” that international analysts have warned of\, or do they welcome Chinese investment? How are they affected by U.S. trade sanctions on China? What do they hope the United States will offer? \n\n\n\nModerator:Fatema Z. Sumar\, Executive Director\, Harvard University Center for International DevelopmentSpeakers:Ian Chong\, Associate Professor of Political Science\, National University of SingaporeBopha Phorn\, Nieman fellow\, independent journalist based in Phnom PenhEd Case (invited)\, U.S. Congressman; co-founder\, Congressional Pacific Islands Caucus \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n3:45-4:00PM: Break\n\n\n\n4:00-5:10PM: Toward Coexistence 2.0: What Should the U.S. Do?\n\n\n\nIf Coexistence 2.0 is to allow healthy competition and even some cooperation while avoiding unnecessary war\, what needs to happen to get there\, recognizing that China aspires to greater global influence than it already has? How can these two great powers collaborate more on global issues that matter\, like climate change? What is U.S. policy already doing well to support U.S. interests and the rules-based international order?  What could U.S. policy do better? Can the Thucydides trap be avoided\, and how much do both sides really want to avoid it? \n\n\n\nModerator:Bill Alford\, Vice Dean\, Graduate Program and International Legal Studies\, Harvard Law School; Director\, East Asian Legal StudiesSpeakers:Jude Blanchette\, Freeman Chair\, Chinese Studies\, CSISMelanie Hart\, China Policy Coordinator for the Office of Undersecretary of State for Economic Growth\, Energy and Environment\, Director of China Policy\, Center for American ProgressOrville Schell\, Arthur Ross Director\, Center on U.S.-China Relations\, Asia SocietyRobert S. Ross\, Research Associate\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Professor of Political Science\, Boston College \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n5:10-5:50PM: What Does History Tell Us?\n\n\n\nWinston Lord accompanied Henry Kissinger on his secret trip to China in 1971\, and he has been helping to shape U.S. policy and watching China closely ever since. Lord served as ambassador to China from 1985-1989\, tumultuous years that saw the country’s rapid opening up and then the crackdown on the 1989 democracy movement. He served as Assistant Secretary of State from 1993–1997. \n\n\n\nAmbassador Winston Lord\, Former Assistant Secretary of State; Former Ambassador to ChinaIn conversation with Orville Schell\, Arthur Ross Director\, Center on U.S.-China Relations\, Asia Society \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n5:50-6:00PM: Closing Remarks\n\n\n\nMark Wu\, Director\, Harvard University Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Henry L. Stimson Professor\, Harvard Law SchoolTony Saich\, Director\, Harvard Kennedy School Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/coexistence-2-0-u-s-china-relations-in-a-changing-world/
LOCATION:Milstein West\, Wasserstein Hall\, 1585 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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SUMMARY:Eva Nga Shan Ng - Trials Heard by a Foreign Ear: A Study of Chinese Jurors’ Comprehension of English Trials in Hong Kong
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Eva Nga Shan Ng\, Assistant Professor\, Translation Programme\, School of Chinese\, the University of Hong Kong; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2022-23Chair/discussant: Nicholas Harkness\, Modern Korean Economy and Society Professor of Anthropology\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nStudies in jury comprehension have hitherto mainly explored Anglo-American courts and focused on examining English-speaking jurors’ ability to understand legal discourse\, particularly with respect to jury instructions. Such studies reveal doubts about jurors’ comprehension of the legalese in jury instructions and argue for the use of plain English to make jury instructions accessible to lay jurors. This paper reports findings of a study contextualized in the Hong Kong courtroom\, where criminal trials in the High Court are routinely heard by local Chinese jurors presumed to have a sufficient command of the language used in court\, be it English or Chinese. This study aims to test the validity of  the presumption about Chinese jurors’ ability to understand trials conducted in English\, which they speak as a second or even a foreign language (L2)\, and to explore how L2 jurors’ comprehension might be further compromised due to a lack of proficiency in English. A random sample of local Chinese eligible for jury service (N=53) are recruited from the community to take part in the study\, which comprises a demographic survey of the subjects\, as well as a test of their comprehension of courtroom discourse using authentic audio recordings of two trials from the High Court of Hong Kong. The results of this study show an average listening comprehension level of around 41% by the subjects\, with some attaining below 25%. The results also show that the subjects’ listening comprehension problems are not limited to legalese. Taking the Voice Projection Framework (Heffer 2018) as a point of reference\, this study suggests that while discursive voicing is largely to blame for the subjects’ comprehension problem\, as in studies with native English-speaking jurors\, in the case of L2 jurors\, the speakers’ physical voicing of courtroom discourse is demonstrated and perceived by the subjects to be a major factor in impeding their comprehension of the courtroom discourse. This paper argues that making courtroom discourse accessible to L2 jurors means more than improving the discursive voicing\, but physical voicing matters as much\, if not more. This paper also discusses the possibility of providing interpretation for jurors in need of the service to ensure equal participation in jury service by people randomly selected from the community and to mitigate the jury dilemma. \n\n\n\nHarvard-Yenching Institute Visiting Scholar talk \n\n\n\nSeating is limited. Masks are required for all audience members. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/eva-nga-shan-ng-trials-heard-by-a-foreign-ear-a-study-of-chinese-jurors-comprehension-of-english-trials-in-hong-kong/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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SUMMARY:Performing the Ecological Fix Under State Entrepreneurialism in China
DESCRIPTION:Zoom meeting link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Fangzhu Zhang\, ​University College London \n\n\n\n​This talk examines the recent green turn in China by investigating a large-scale urban greenway project—’Greenways of Paradise’ in Chengdu. Using the perspective of the socio-ecological fix\, we demonstrate that the local state has seized the opportunity provided by the central state’s ‘ecological civilisation’ to carry out green infrastructure development to upgrade environmental quality. We reveal complex motivations to incorporate environmental improvement into entrepreneurial urban governance instead of allowing economic growth to encroach on greenspace. Our state-centred analysis reveals that Chinese green urbanism has been promoted like a political mission\, despite its implementation by development corporations. We argue that\, while the socio-ecological fix facilitates capital accumulation\, its deployment must be understood through state politics and actors. \n\n\n\n​Fangzhu Zhang is an Associate Professor in China Planning and joint coordinator for China Planning Research Group in Bartlett School of Planning\, University College London (UCL). Her main research interests focus on innovation and governance; urban village redevelopment and migrant integration in China; urban financialisation; and eco-innovation and eco-city development in China. She has been involved in several research projects funded by the British Academy\, ESRC (UK) and the EU. She has published articles extensively in leading international journals such as Urban Studies\, Regional Studies\, Political Geography. She is founding Editor-in-Chief of the journal entitled “Transactions in Planning and Urban Research” (TPUR). Currently\, she is working on the ERC Advanced Grant research project\, rethinking China’s urban governance. \n\n\n\nZoom Meeting: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/96217779608 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/performing-the-ecological-fix-under-state-entrepreneurialism-in-china/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221122T103000
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SUMMARY:Sarah Mellors Rodriguez - Birth Control and Abortion in China
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Sarah Mellors \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/sarah-mellors-rodriguez-birth-control-and-abortion-in-china/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221129T160000
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SUMMARY:Modern China Lecture Series Featuring Linh Vu - The Politics of Martyr Commemoration in Modern China and Contemporary Taiwan
DESCRIPTION:register for hybrid zoom attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Linh Vu\, Assistant Professor\, Arizona State University \n\n\n\nThis talk focuses on (1) the politics of martyr commemoration in Republican China (1911–1949) and (2) the governance of the posthumous identities of the Nationalist Chinese dead in contemporary Taiwan. The Chinese Republic laid the foundation for the modern nation-state through the governance of these millions of war dead. In addition\, the commemoration of war martyrs has been the unifying and consolidating force in the formation of national identity and sovereignty in a place with complicated status such as Taiwan. My case studies of China during the Republican era and Taiwan in recent decades demonstrate how the power of the dead necessitates that political\, social\, and cultural institutions develop the means to control the way by which they are remembered. The dead are invested with significance to constitute the national spirit\, to affirm political legitimacy\, and to recreate social coherence and temporal continuity. \n\n\n\nLinh Vu is an assistant professor of history in the School of Historical\, Philosophical and Religious Studies at Arizona State University\, Tempe\, Arizona\, USA. Her first book\, Governing the Dead: Martyrs\, Memorials\, and Necrocitizenship in Modern China (Cornell University Press\, 2021)\, examines the efforts of the Chinese nation-state to record\, commemorate\, and compensate military and civilian dead and how such efforts transformed China’s social and cultural institutions.This event also available on Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_6yUmfHCUSRy5_1M2doG8ow \n\n\n\n\n\nYouTube recording of “Modern China Lecture Series Featuring Linh Vu – The Politics of Martyr Commemoration in Modern China and Contemporary Taiwan”\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/modern-china-lecture-series-featuring-linh-vu/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Modern China Lecture
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SUMMARY:Jane Lim - Faking Origins: Imitating China in Eighteenth-Century English Literature
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Jane Lim | Associate Professor\, Department of English Language and Literature\, Seoul National University; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2022-23Chair/discussant: Deidre Shauna Lynch\, Harvard College Professor; Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nHarvard-Yenching Institute Visiting Scholar talk \n\n\n\nSeating is limited. Masks are required for all audience members. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/jane-lim-faking-origins-imitating-china-in-eighteenth-century-english-literature/
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:20221130T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221130T131500
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Jia Qingguo - How China Will Respond to the Renewed Liberal Alliance
DESCRIPTION:Register for zoom hybrid attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Jia Qingguo\, Professor\, School of International Studies\, Peking University; Payne Distinguished Fellow\, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies\, Stanford UniversityModerator: Michael Szonyi\, Frank Wen-Hsiung Wu Memorial Professor of Chinese History and former Director\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nJia Qingguo is professor of the School of International Studies of Peking University. Currently\, he is a Payne Distinguished Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. He received his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1988. He is a member of the Standing Committee and Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference. He is vice president of the China American Studies Association\, vice president of the China Association for International Studies\, and vice president of the China Japanese Studies Association. He has published extensively on US-China relations\, relations between the Chinese mainland and Taiwan and Chinese foreign policy. \n\n\n\nAlso available on Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_YudLUlKWT9mP20rwdjGunQ \n\n\n\n\n\nYouTube recording of “Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Jia Qingguo – How China Will Respond to the Renewed Liberal Alliance”\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-featuring-lingling-wei/
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:Chinese Politics and Foreign Policy Workshop featuring Junyan Jiang - From Kins to Comrades: Rural Clan Society and the Rise of Communism in China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Junyan Jiang\, Assistant Professor of Political Science\, Columbia University \n\n\n\nA key paradox of social revolutions of the 20th century is that despite their radical\, modernist claims\, success often hinges on effective mobilization of the peasantry\, who are typically conservative and inward-looking. This paper studies how traditional networks and cleavages within rural society can be creatively adapted by movement entrepreneurs to generate revolutionary impetus. Using newly digitized data on family genealogies and over half a million revolutionary participants from 637 armed uprisings led by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)\, we study how CCP organizers’ local clan affiliations affect mobilization outcomes during the incipient stage of the revolution (1927–1936). Triple-difference estimates suggest that local organizers instigated a significant number of co-clan members to join uprisings and the effect is more salient for organizers from larger clans. We also find that uprisings led by members of dominant clans are more likely to succeed\, and that clan-based mobilization capitalized on both intra-clan solidarity and inter-clan animosity. These findings underscore a subtle yet significant linkage between agrarian institutions and modern revolutions and help reconcile several longstanding debates about the rise of Chinese communism. \n\n\n\nJunyan Jiang studies comparative politics and political economy\, focusing on the politics of elites\, organizations\, and ideas. Some of his current research projects explore the formation and transformation of political elite networks in China\, the interplay between formal rules and informal power in bureaucratic systems\, and the dynamics of ideology in changing societies. His work has been published in American Journal of Political Science\, British Journal of Political Science\, Journal of Politics\, Journal of Public Economics\, and Journal of Development Economics\, among others. He has received the 2020 Gregory Luebbert Article Award for the best article in comparative politics from the American Political Science Association (APSA)\, and honorable mentions for the 2016 Sage Paper Award for the best paper presented at APSA Annual Meetings and the 2018 Mancur Olson Award for the best dissertation in political economy. \n\n\n\nPrior to joining Columbia\, he taught at Chinese University of Hong Kong and held a postdoctoral fellowship at University of Pennsylvania. He received his PhD from the University of Chicago. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/chinese-politics-and-foreign-policy-workshop-featuring-junyan-jiang/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Chip War: China\, The US\, and Europe
DESCRIPTION:Register For zoom hybrid attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers:John Haigh\, Co-Director\, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government\, Harvard Kennedy SchoolChris Miller\, Associate Professor of International History\, The Fletcher School\, Tufts University; author of The Chip War. \n\n\n\nModerator: Edoardo Campanella​\,  \n\n\n\nM-RCBG Senior Fellow  \n\n\n\nThis is a hybrid event. Zoom registration: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ZxRp90CRRHiaDcFMLJrYWw \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-chip-war-china-the-us-and-europe/
LOCATION:Ellwood Democracy Lab – Rubenstein 414AB\, 79 JFK St.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221205T123000
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SUMMARY:Fairbank Center Visiting Scholars Present
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFairbank Center visiting scholars and fellows share their current research in China studies with the Harvard community. This workshop will feature five short presentations with an opportunity for Q & A discussion following each presentation.  Please join us for all or some of the workshop!   \n\n\n\nLunch will be provided at 12:30.  Please submit this reply form (https://forms.gle/5mKtDCyfjC9Yc5PbA) by December 1 if you will attend for lunch.  \n\n\n\nOr to join online please Register for the Zoom meeting:  https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUof–prT4vHtSF1tZdEjTja41_wL6morgc \n\n\n\nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Zoom meeting. \n\n\n\nSchedule: \n\n\n\n12:30 – 12:50 pm            Lunch provided \n\n\n\n12:50 – 1:00 pm              Welcome and Introductions \n\n\n\nPresentations each followed by Q & A: \n\n\n\n1:05 – 1:30 pm                  Yung-Ta Chien\, Visiting Scholar; Freelance Journalist \n\n\n\n                                             Brokering the Mobility of Vietnamese Workers to Taiwan \n\n\n\n1:30 – 1:55 pm                  Claudia Huang\, An Wang Postdoctoral Fellow; Assistant Professor\, California State University\, Long Beach \n\n\n\n                                             The Pursuit of Self-Fulfillment Among Retirees in Urban China \n\n\n\n1:55 – 2:05 pm                  Break \n\n\n\n2:05 – 2:30 pm                  Jung-Nam Lee\, Visiting Scholar; Professor\, Korea University \n\n\n\n                                            The “Chinese-style” Political System in the Xi Jinping Era: Focus on Quasi-Totalism \n\n\n\n2:30 – 2:40 pm                  Break \n\n\n\n2:40 – 3:05 pm                  Zheng Lin\, Visiting Scholar; Professor\, Sun Yat-Sen University \n\n\n\n                                             Villages-in-city of Pearl River Delta and Unfinished Modernity \n\n\n\n3:05 – 3:30 pm                  Jiaru Zhan\, Visiting Scholar; Associate Professor\, East China University of Political Science and Law \n\n\n\n                                              Integration of Post and Press Distribution in Shanghai in the 1950s  \n\n\n\n3:30 – 3:40 pm                 Closing Remarks \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/fairbank-center-visiting-scholars-present/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Room S153\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221205T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221205T180000
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SUMMARY:China Humanities Seminar featuring Lu Kuo - The Temporary Recluse: The Discourse of Not Working in Early Medieval Chinese Poetry
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Lu Kou\, Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures\, Columbia University \n\n\n\nFor imperial officials\, “work” – fulfilling duties in the office\, traveling for business\, or managing lawsuits\, taxation\, or infrastructure – was a common subject matter for poetic treatment. Yet meanwhile\, they also wrote prolifically about “not working\,” which encompassed both permanent withdrawal from the officialdom and temporary release of duties. In their poetry on “not working\,” poet-officials often portrayed themselves as recluses\, men who claimed to evade social interactions and civil services in order to retain a sense of independence and personal integrity. Ironically\, while they tapped the discourse of reclusion to describe sabbaticals\, vacations\, or demotions – what I call “temporary recluse\,” this discourse also heightened the poet-officials’ awareness of themselves being working persons. It opened up a poetic space where they can negotiate with bureaucratic systems\, articulate their worth vis-à-vis the work\, investigate the meaning of leisure\, and fashion communities of like-minded working colleagues. \n\n\n\nWhile the culture of reclusion in early medieval China is well studied\, this talk focuses on the reclusive discourse as a discourse of not working that emerged\, developed\, and dispersed within a culture of work. By examining two cases\, one on Liu Xiaochuo’s (481–539) leave of absence (xiumu 休沐)\, and the other on Xie Tiao’s (464–499) poetics of local governance\, this talk studies how poet-officials manipulated the reclusive discourse as a rhetorical strategy to navigate imperial bureaucracy and reinscribe their worth and value. I show that the reclusive imaginary was embedded in a culture of service and that the reclusive discourse bridged “work” and “not work\,” rendering their boundaries porous and malleable. \n\n\n\nBiography \n\n\n\nLu Kou is Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University. As a medievalist and a scholar of premodern Chinese literature\, Lu Kou’s research interests include medieval Chinese literature and culture\, poetry and poetics\, historiography\, and comparative studies of China’s Middle Period and medieval Europe. He is currently at work on two book projects: War of Words: Courtly Exchange\, Rhetoric\, and Political Cultures in Early Medieval China\, which examines the “discursive battles” fought among rival states in China’s early medieval period and investigates how rhetoric constructed and contested political legitimacy in this age of multipolarity; and (tentatively titled) Locked Seal\, Heart of Poetry: Bureaucracy and the Representation of Work in Medieval Chinese Poetry\, 400-900 CE\, which studies the dialectic between poetry and bureaucratic systems\, between lyricism and quotidian renderings of “work” in medieval poetry. Before joining the faculty at Columbia\, he was Assistant Professor of Chinese at Bard College (2019-2022) and Visiting Assistant Professor at Williams College (2018-2019). \n\n\n\nZoom Registration: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIsduCuqjooGNA1PQdAWwm0oDarNDg4eNYc \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-humanities-seminar-featuring-lu-kuo-the-temporary-recluse-the-discourse-of-not-working-in-early-medieval-chinese-poetry/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:China Humanities Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221205T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221205T220000
DTSTAMP:20260518T152904
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SUMMARY:Urban China Seminar Series featuring Tingting Lu - Collaborative Neighborhood Governance During the COVID-19 Pandemic
DESCRIPTION:Join Zoom Meeting\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Tingting Lu\, ​Shanghai Jiao Tong University \n\n\n\n​The COVID-19 pandemic is a governance challenge for nations and cities across the world. While early observations have primarily focused on nation-scale government actions\, our research shows that neighborhood social capital also plays a key role in Chinese neighborhoods. Drawing from collaborative governance theory\, we examine the horizontal and hierarchical dynamics of neighborhood governance collaboration during crisis responses in urban China. Using a large-scale questionnaire survey of frontline community workers conducted in six Chinese cities in February 2020\, we find that from the perspective of residents’ committees\, the effectiveness of collaborative governance in pandemic control is predicted by both neighborhood social capital (i.e. civic engagement and citizen participation) and hierarchical steering by the government through setting policy priorities and providing support. We also surveyed residents for their opinions on neighborhood collaborative governance post pandemic. Social capital presents opposite correlations to one’s collaboration with a residents’ committee and collaboration with a private management company.  \n\n\n\nTingting Lu is an Associate Professor at School of International and Public Affairs\, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Her research focuses on neighborhood governance and housing development in urban China. Recently she has also worked on gated communities\, social segregation\, and neighborhood attachment\, and has published in leading journals in urban studies and geography\, including Urban Studies\, Urban Geography\, and Geoforum.  \n\n\n\nJoin Zoom Meeting: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/96217779608 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/urban-china-seminar-series-featuring-tingting-lu-collaborative-neighborhood-governance-during-the-covid-19-pandemic/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221206T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221206T100000
DTSTAMP:20260518T152904
CREATED:20221201T165047Z
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SUMMARY:White Paper Protests: What’s Happening in China? - Voices on the Ground
DESCRIPTION:VIew event recording on youtube\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers:Ya-Wen Lei\, Associate Professor\, Department of Sociology\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nFrank Tsai\, Founder\, China Crossroads\, Shanghai \n\n\n\nSelina Wang\, International Correspondent\, CNN Beijing \n\n\n\nDavid Rennie\, Beijing Bureau Chief\, The Economist  \n\n\n\nModerator: Dorinda Elliott\, Executive Director\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard University  \n\n\n\nWhere did the White Paper Protests that have swept across China come from\, and where are they going? Join us for a Zoom discussion with journalists and entrepreneurs on the ground in China to explore the roots of discontent\, the protesters’ short-term demands\, and the outlook for change going forward. Will China relax its Zero Covid policy? Will the eruption of protests across China pose a long-term problem for Xi Jinping? Can China’s battered economy recover? \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPresented via Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_osg0I1JcTii2q9cMKPp8DQ \n\n\n\n\n\nYouTube recording of “White Paper Protests: What’s Happening in China? – Voices on the Ground”\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/white-paper-protests-whats-happening-in-china-voices-on-the-ground/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221207T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221207T103000
DTSTAMP:20260518T152904
CREATED:20221129T154448Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230617T041137Z
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SUMMARY:Taiwan Studies Workshop - Taiwan Elections 2022: Examining the Results
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPanelists:Lev Nachman\, National Chengchi UniversitySara Newland\, Smith CollegeChia-hung Tsai\, National Chengchi University; 2022-2023 Visiting Scholar\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies \n\n\n\nModerator: Steven M. Goldstein\, Fairbank Center Associate \n\n\n\nThe opposition Kuomintang party achieved what some consider to be a “blue wave” in the November 26 elections for local government offices by winning a total of thirteen of the major offices while “flipping” three of those previously held by the Democratic Progressive Party. In this\, our third panel on the Taiwan elections\, we examine the campaign issues and assess the significance of their results for the structure of party system in Taiwan\, for party leaderships and for the 2024 presidential and legislative elections. \n\n\n\nPresented via Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_CYMlloEzSsWE0Pe9F2ixTg. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/taiwan-studies-workshop-examining-the-results/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Taiwan,Taiwan Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221207T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221207T160000
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SUMMARY:The Significance of Small Things: Small Hydropower\, Renewable Energy\, and Rural Development in the PRC\, 1949-1979
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Arunabh Ghosh\, Associate Professor of Modern Chinese History\, Harvard UniversityArunabh Ghosh is a historian of modern China\, with research and teaching interests in social and economic history\, history of science and statecraft\, transnational history\, and China-India history. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-significance-of-small-things-small-hydropower-renewable-energy-and-rural-development-in-the-prc-1949-1979/
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:20221209T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221209T220000
DTSTAMP:20260518T152904
CREATED:20221121T123925Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221206T224754Z
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SUMMARY:How to Tell the Good Dongbei Story? A Dialogue with Ban Yu 讲好东北故事？班宇谈小说
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPanelists:Ban\, Yu \,Writer班宇（作家）Cui\, Qiao\, Beijing Contemporary Art Foundation崔峤（北京当代艺术基金会）Michel Hockx\, University of Notre Dame贺麦晓（圣母大学）Huang\, Ping\, East China Normal University黄平（华东师范大学）Liang\, Hai\, Dalian University of Technology梁海（大连理工大学）Liu\, Yan\, University of International Business and Economics刘岩（对外经济贸易大学）Zhang\, Xuexin\, Liaoning Normal University张学昕（辽宁师范大学） \n\n\n\nModerators:David Der-wei Wang\, Harvard University王德威（哈佛大学）Weijie Song\, Rutgers University宋伟杰（罗格斯大学） \n\n\n\nSponsors:Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard University 哈佛大学费正清中国研究中心Asian Languages and Cultures\, Rutgers University 罗格斯大学亚洲语言文化系Center for Chinese Literary Criticism\, Liaoning Normal University 辽宁师范大学中国文学批评研究中心Beijing Contemporary Art Foundation 北京当代艺术基金会Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation 蒋经国基金会 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/how-to-tell-the-good-dongbei-story-a-dialogue-with-ban-yu-%e8%ae%b2%e5%a5%bd%e4%b8%9c%e5%8c%97%e6%95%85%e4%ba%8b%ef%bc%9f%e7%8f%ad%e5%ae%87%e8%b0%88%e5%b0%8f%e8%af%b4/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221212T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221212T123000
DTSTAMP:20260518T152904
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SUMMARY:Trisha Tsui-Chuan Lin - Mitigating COVID Disinfodemic: Health Misinformation\, Digital Literacy and Vaccination in Taiwan
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Trisha Tsui-Chuan Lin\, Professor\, College of Communication\, National Chengchi University\, Taiwan; Harvard Yenching Visiting Scholar\, 2022-23; Fulbright Senior Researcher\, Harvard University\, 2022-23 \n\n\n\nChair/discussant: Winnie Yip\, Professor of the Practice of Global Health Policy and Economics\, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health \n\n\n\nDuring the COVID-19 pandemic\, social media algorithms has facilitated the viral spread of mis- and disinformation\, resulting in global public health crises. After raising Coronavirus epidemic warning in mid-2021\, Taiwan has faced increasing health misinformation risks and challenges of mitigation. The goal of the mixed-method research is two-fold: to examine characteristics of Taiwan’s health misinformation after COVID-19 Level 3 Alert\, and to investigate the complex relationship among social media users’ (dis)information efficacy\, health literacy and their impacts on vaccination. First\, I systematically analyzed viral health misinformation messages verified by fact-check organizations over the past 1.5 years. Content analysis shows that prevalent types of Coronavirus falsehoods are related to vaccine effectiveness\, false cures and preventative measures\, and government’s epidemic prevention. Their most salient motives include fear mongering and conspiracies\, especially on political smear. Next\, my survey of Taiwanese social media users finds that COVID-19 health literacy significantly increases individual adoption of preventive measures and vaccination. Social media information efficacy is the key to improve critical posts of COVID-19 information\, which positively affects health literacy and its components (i.e.\, accessing\, understanding\, appraising\, and applying health information). Nonetheless\, social media disinformation efficacy moderately influences how people understand and apply health literacy. \n\n\n\nHarvard-Yenching Institute Visiting Scholar talk \n\n\n\nSeating is limited. Masks are required for all audience members. \n\n\n\nAlso available on Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_jiV82_fKQtafSgLHhmYnyg \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/trisha-tsui-chuan-lin-mitigating-covid-19-disinfodemic-health-misinformation-social-media-efficacy-and-health-literacy-in-taiwan/
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:20230130T124500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230130T141500
DTSTAMP:20260518T152904
CREATED:20230119T185157Z
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SUMMARY:Shaoda Wang - Judicial Independence\, Local Protectionism\, and Economic Integration: Evidence from China  
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Shaoda Wang\, University of Chicgao \n\n\n\nShaoda Wang is an Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy\, and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). He also serves as the Deputy Faculty Director at the Energy Policy Institute at UChicago\, China center (EPIC-China). He is an applied economist with research interests in development economics\, environmental economics\, and political economy. His main research agenda aims at understanding the political economy of public policy\, with a regional focus on China. \n\n\n\nHe holds a BA from Peking University\, and a PhD from the University of California\, Berkeley. Prior to joining Harris\, he was a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Economics and Energy Policy Institute (EPIC) at the University of Chicago. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/shaoda-wang-judicial-independence-local-protectionism-and-economic-integration-evidence-from-china/
LOCATION:Room 105\, Hauser Hall\, 18 Everett St.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230130T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230130T173000
DTSTAMP:20260518T152904
CREATED:20221215T135139Z
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SUMMARY:China Humanities Seminar featuring Anne Feng - Water Transformation: Buddhist Meditation and Pure Land Art in Tang China
DESCRIPTION:Register for hybrid attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Anne N. Feng\, Assistant Professor of Chinese Art\, Boston University \n\n\n\nThis paper investigates the relationship between Buddhist meditation and images in medieval China by reconsidering the development of Pure Land transformation tableaux in Dunhuang caves. Working against previous studies that treat the Sixteen Meditations as a linear step-by-step sequence in which the meditator focuses on a static visual object in each meditation\, I argue that painters looked to phenomena described in the Meditation Sutra to explore new possibilities for the representation of material metamorphosis. Although the goal of the Sixteen Meditations is to achieve a vision of Amitābha Buddha and the Pure Land that emanates from his power\, I show how medieval painters foregrounded the natural and supernatural transformations of water as the pivotal moment in the Sixteen Meditations. The Pure Land was understood as a realm that was aqueous\, liquid\, and mutable. By linking the depiction of the “Water Meditation” to a hitherto neglected aquatic imaginary in Buddhist cave complexes\, I demonstrate how painters looked to the properties of water to choreograph mediational experience and expand conceptions of pictorial space. \n\n\n\nAnne N. Feng is Assistant Professor of Chinese Art at Boston University. Her research interests include visual and material cultures of the Silk Road\, theories of vision and meditation\, and representations of the Western Pure Land. She is currently preparing a monograph Aqueous Visions: Water and Buddhist Art in Medieval China\, which explores the impact of an aquatic imaginary on immersive architectural schemes of the Buddhist cave complex Dunhuang\, in northwest China. Her writings are featured in Archives of Asian Art\, Artibus Asiae\, and the Journal of Silk Road Studies. Her work has been supported by the Luce/ACLS Early Career Fellowships in China Studies\, the Fulbright-IIE Fellowship\, the Franke Institute for the Humanities\, etc.Also available via Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMudumrrzsqHdU6PbC3_KudgoXK1ccoBeUG \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-humanities-seminar-featuring-anne-feng-water-transformation-buddhist-meditation-and-pure-land-art-in-tang-china/
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:20230206T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230206T220000
DTSTAMP:20260518T152904
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SUMMARY:Urban China Series featuring Tang Beibei - The Making of “New Citizens:” Landless Farmers and Urban Governance in China
DESCRIPTION:Zoom meeting link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Tang Beibei\, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University \n\n\n\nThis talk examines landless farmers who have entered Chinese urban life as urban residents in an organized and managed way as cities expand and spread. It explores in what ways and to what extent the central government’s initiatives on the integration of landless farmers into the urban economy and urban society have been carried out at local levels and how the local state has responded to the emergence of landless farmers in the cities. Through qualitative research into landless farmers in the city of Suzhou\, this study explores urban development not only as incorporation through the market\, but also as economic and social integration through local governance. Governance of landless famers has become a local state-building process through developing local urbanization trajectories\, local fiscal strategies\, and inter-city competition. As a result\, the making of new citizens goes hand in hand with local state-building during China’s urbanization.  \n\n\n\n​Beibei Tang is Professor of China Studies at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University. She has undertaken extensive ethnographic research across different localities in China\, with particular focuses on local govern­ance\, social stratification\, and state-society relations in urban China. Her research is published in high-impact journals such as The China Quarterly\, The China Journal\, and Journal of Contemporary China. She is the author of Governing Neighborhoods in Urban China (Cornell University Press 2023) and China’s Housing Middle Class (Routledge 2018)\, the co-author of Class and the Communist Party of China\, 1978-2021 (Routledge 2022)\, the co-editor of Suzhou in Transition (Routledge 2021)\, and the winner of the 2015 Gordon White Prize (The China Quarterly). She is a member of the editorial board of The China Journal and The China Quarterly. \n\n\n\nThis event series is made possible by the generous support of the MIT Sustainable Urbanization Lab\, the School of Community and Regional Planning at the University of British Columbia\, and the Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/urban-china-series-featuring-tang-beibei/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Special Event,Urban China Series
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SUMMARY:Stephen Halsey - Rocks and Bugs: Developmentalism and the Environment in Early Twentieth Century China
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Stephen Halsey \n\n\n\nPresented via Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJItfuuopzgpH9QA2pFC6FpjH_0wL_Nd7nB1 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/stephen-halsey-rocks-and-bugs-developmentalism-and-the-environment-in-early-twentieth-century-china/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230208T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230208T123000
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SUMMARY:Zhou Zhenyu - The origin of ancient Austronesian: from the perspective of archaeological discoveries in Southeast China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Zhou Zhenyu\, Associate Professor\, Institute of Archaeology\, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2022-23 \n\n\n\nDiscussant: Rowan Flad\, John E. Hudson Professor of Archaeology\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nHarvard-Yenching Institute Visiting Scholar talk \n\n\n\nSeating is limited. Masks are required for all in-person audience members. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/zhou-zhenyu-the-origin-of-ancient-austronesian-from-the-perspective-of-archaeological-discoveries-in-southeast-china/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230208T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230208T120000
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SUMMARY:Liang Emlyn Yang - Understanding and Enhancing Climate Resilience in the Mekong Basin
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Liang Emlyn Yang\, Senior Researcher/Lecturer\, Department of Geography\, Chair of Human Geography\, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich\, Germany \n\n\n\nDr. Liang Emlyn Yang (杨亮\, 字也明) is a geographer studying on human-environment relations with focus on long-term climate adaptation and resilience. Household survey\, stakeholder network analysis\, agent-based model and geo-information systems are often applied in the studies. Emlyn is currently working on urbanization\, flood risks and resilience building in Southeast Asia and China. \n\n\n\nPresented via Zoom. Register at https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcqcemqrTMoHdMYha62UDK0EYlu0Zc9-M90 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/liang-emlyn-yang-understanding-and-enhancing-climate-resilience-in-the-mekong-basin/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230208T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230208T133000
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SUMMARY:Eugene Wang - “Bardo” before the Bardo: Is There an ancient Chinese Book of the Dead?
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Eugene Wang\, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art\, Harvard UniversityWhat is it like to be dead? Two Books of Dead dominate our thinking about afterlife and near-death experience. One is the ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead\, the other the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Granted\, both titles are misleading. So the use of “book” is provisional in following this generic convention as a heuristic device and analytic framework. The real crux here is the subjectivity of the disembodied consciousness\, the visualization of postmortem condition\, i.e.\, the imaginary construct of what it is like to be dead\, and what the disembodied subject\, in its intermediate or in-between state (bardo)\, sees and goes through. To that end\, there is indeed a kind of Chinese Book of the Dead around 2nd century BCE. It exists in both textual and material modes. Archeology in recent years further testifies to its currency. Professor Wang’s lecture will walk us through the textual and visual iterations of the ancient Chinese Book of the Dead and demonstrate how to read it. \n\n\n\nEugene Wang is the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art at Harvard. A Guggenheim Fellow\, he is the art history editor of the Encyclopedia of Buddhism. His book\, Shaping the Lotus Sutra: Buddhist Visual Culture in Medieval China received an academic achievement award from Japan. His research ranges from ancient to modern Chinese art. He is the founding director of Harvard FAS CAMlab that explores cognitive art history through digital scenography. \n\n\n\nLunch will be served. Please RSVP to ancientstudies@harvard.edu if you plan to attend. \n\n\n\nAttendance via Zoom is possible. If you would like to attend remotely\, please email ancientstudies@harvard.edu for the link. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/eugene-wang-bardo-before-the-bardo-is-there-an-ancient-chinese-book-of-the-dead/
LOCATION:Barker Center\, Thompson Room\, 12 Quincy St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230208T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230208T173000
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SUMMARY:Asia-Pacific Practices: A Conversation with Brian Burke of Shearman & Sterling
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Brian Burke\, Partner\, Shearman & Sterling.  \n\n\n\nBrian Burke has conducted dozens of investigations across Asia-Pacific and is experienced in FCPA/anti-corruption\, economic sanctions\, antitrust\, shareholder litigation\, anti-money laundering\, and other compliance and investigative matters. Mr. Burke acted as lead advisor to GlaxoSmithKline on the landmark bribery case against GSK in China\, the first such case against a foreign company in China. \n\n\n\nMr. Burke will share his insights into litigation practice\, Asia-related cases\, and practice at Shearman & Sterling. He will also share career advice with students who wish to pursue a litigation career or a BigLaw career in general. \n\n\n\nThis event is co-hosted by the Harvard Trade Forum and the China Law Association at Harvard Law School. Please RSVP at https://tinyurl.com/BurkeHLS. Free boba will be provided. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/asia-pacific-practices-a-conversation-with-brian-burke-of-shearman-sterling/
LOCATION:WCC 1010\, Wasserstein Hall\, 1585 Mass. Ave.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Gal Gvili and Adhira Mangalagiri - Imagination and Disconnection: New Literary Studies of China-India
DESCRIPTION:Register for hybrid zoom attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers: Gal Gvili\, McGill University; Author\, Imagining India in Modern ChinaLiterary Decolonization and the Imperial Unconscious\, 1895–1962Adhira Mangalagiri\, Queen Mary University of London; Author\, The China-India Literary Relation in the Twentieth Century \n\n\n\nModerator: Karen Thornber\, Harry Tuchman Levin Professor in Literature and Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nChair: Arunabh Ghosh\, Associate Professor of History\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nCome join us as we hear Gal Gvili and Adhira Mangalagiri discuss their exciting new books in a conversation moderated by Karen Thornber.Co-Sponsors:Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesHarvard University Asia CenterHarvard-Yenching InstituteCenter for Global Asia\, NYU Shanghai \n\n\n\nAlso available via Zoom. Register at https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_AHDv2BY4Ry-wHRRm7XRlwg.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/gal-gvili-and-adhira-mangalagiri-imagination-and-disconnection-new-literary-studies-of-china-india/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Modern China Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230209T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230209T133000
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SUMMARY:Scott Kennedy - Xi Jinping’s About Face: Implications for China’s Economy\, Politics\, and Relations With the West
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Scott Kennedy\, Senior Adviser and Trustee Chair in Chinese Business & Economics\, Center for Strategic & International Studies.  \n\n\n\nLunch will be served for those joining us in person in Rubenstein 414AB. Others should register to join us remotely via Zoom. Register at https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_mrBlnYUUSwW9rduJgp_6wQ.  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/scott-kennedy-xi-jinpings-about-face-implications-for-chinas-economy-politics-and-relations-with-the-west/
LOCATION:Rubenstein 414AB\, 79 JFK St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230209T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230209T180000
DTSTAMP:20260518T152904
CREATED:20220829T160301Z
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SUMMARY:Chinese Politics and Foreign Policy Workshop featuring Daniel Mattingly - The Party and the Gun: How the Military Shapes Elite Conflict in China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Daniel Mattingly\, Assistant Professor of Political Science\, Yale University \n\n\n\nHow do authoritarian leaders such as Xi Jinping consolidate political power? In this book\, I examine how control over the military has been crucial for elite and mass power struggles in Chinese politics. Drawing on new quantitative data on officers in the PLA\, and extensive qualitative evidence\, I trace how leaders’ ties to military officers help them fend off elite challengers\, consolidate power\, and ratchet up mass political control. \n\n\n\nDaniel Mattingly is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Yale University. He studies authoritarian politics and historical political economy with a focus on China. He is the author of The Art of Political Control in China (Cambridge University Press\, 2020)\, which examines how the Chinese state controls protests and implements ambitious social policies. It was named one of the best books of 2020 by Foreign Affairs and received the best book award from the Democracy and Autocracy Section of the American Political Science Association. His current book project examines the role of the military in China’s domestic and international politics. He received a Ph.D. from the University of California\, Berkeley\, and a B.A. from Yale University. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/chinese-politics-and-foreign-policy-workshop-featuring-daniel-mattingly/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Chinese Politics and Foreign Policy
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230213T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230213T123000
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SUMMARY:Wei Wei - Family Matters: Chinese Queer Politics Around the Rise of a Family-State
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Wei Wei\, Professor of Sociology\, East China Normal University; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2022-23 \n\n\n\nChair/Discussant: Michael Bronski\, Professor of the Practice In Media And Activism In Studies Of Women\, Gender\, And Sexuality\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nLGBT activism in mainland China\, based on the trajectory of identity politics\, faces increasing challenges from the state in recent years. Drawing insights from the scholarship of provincizing sexual citizenship and building on my decades-long researches into Chinese LGBT communities and activism\, the study situates such challenges and responses of the LGBT communities in the context of a rising Chinese family-state. It first lays out the bleak reality of civic participation and mobilization\, parallel to the ascendance of familist discourses\, that lead to the reconfiguration of Chinese queer politics. The engagement of LGBT communities to the Chinese family-state will be the focus of the talk. On the one hand\, the newly emerging LGBT parent families utilize the opportunities of policy change to strive for the state’s recognition; on the other hand\, family value as a shared rhetoric but open for contestation\, has been appropriated by the LGBT activism to negotiate with the state for survival. The talk concludes with a discussion of Chinese homonationalism in the making\, which may also have implication for queer politics beyond China. \n\n\n\nHarvard-Yenching Institute Visiting Scholar Talk \n\n\n\nMasks are required for all in-person audience members. Seating is limited. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/wei-wei-family-matters-chinese-queer-politics-around-the-rise-of-a-family-state/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230213T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230213T180000
DTSTAMP:20260518T152904
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SUMMARY:China Humanities Seminar featuring Xin Wen - Curating a Museum of Stones: The “Forest of Stelae” (Beilin) and the Politics of the Past in Middle Period China
DESCRIPTION:register for hybrid zoom session\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRead our blog post on the event: What a Museum of Tang Stones Says About How China Views its Past \n\n\n\nSpeaker: Xin Wen\, Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies and History\, Princeton University \n\n\n\nChang’an\, the capital of the Tang dynasty (618–907)\, was the largest city in the medieval world. The walled area of the city measured 84 square kilometers and the population likely reached one million. Unlike other pre-modern cities such as Rome and Tenochtitlan that contained many monumental stone buildings\, Chang’an’s walls\, palaces and houses were made of rammed earth and supported by wooden structures. As a result\, little remains of this mammoth city are still visible above ground now in modern Xi’an. The only monuments that survived the centuries of erosion after Chang’an’s abandonment in 904 were stone commemorative stelae that once accompanied almost every significant urban construction\, from palaces and monasteries to private residences and tombs. In this lecture\, I explore the diverse lives of these stone monuments in Chang’an during the Song\, the Jin and the Yuan dynasties. Some stones were destroyed or buried\, but others were re-carved and reused. A select few\, including the ninth century Stone Classics (shijing) and stelae bearing the handwriting of masters like Yan Zhenqing and Liu Gongquan\, were assembled at the Provincial School and the Confucius Temple. This collection of stone monuments began to take shape in the eleventh century and continued to expand and change in the subsequent centuries. By exploring the curatorial agenda\, maintenance personnel\, and visitor profiles of this collection\, I argue that its social and cultural roles in the urban landscape of post-Tang Chang’an resembled those of a modern museum. What this medieval museum exhibits is a uniquely literary reading of the history of the Tang dynasty\, and of China. \n\n\n\nXin Wen is an assistant professor of East Asian Studies and History at Princeton University. He is a historian of medieval China\, Central Asia\, and Eurasia. His first book is The King’s Road: Diplomacy and the Remaking of the Silk Road (Princeton University Press\, January 2022). He is now working on a second book\, an urban history of Chang’an after the fall of the Tang dynasty. \n\n\n\nThis talk is co-sponsored by the IAAS program. \n\n\n\nAlso available via Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUuce-srD8sGNKZ3Cw757j-lgX0TcXHW1ZZ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-humanities-seminar-featuring-xin-wen-curating-a-museum-of-stones-the-forest-of-stelae-beilin-and-the-politics-of-the-past-in-middle-period-china/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:China Humanities Seminar
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