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SUMMARY:Subversion and Seduction: China’s Economic Statecraft
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Audrye Wong\, Senior Fellow\, American Enterprise InstituteChair: Rana Mitter\, S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations\, Harvard Kennedy School \n\n\n\nEven as the Chinese government intensifies supply-chain coercion\, it continues to deepen the trade and investment linkages that sustain its global economic centrality. Audrye Wong’s new book\, Subversion and Seduction: China’s Economic Statecraft\, explores an underemphasized aspect of China’s economic influence: positive inducements. Through six case studies\, extensive field research\, and a survey experiment\, Dr. Wong’s book explores what kinds of inducement strategies succeed at achieving Beijing’s foreign policy goals and under what conditions. \n\n\n\nUnderstanding the mechanisms\, successes\, and limitations of China’s economic statecraft will be critical for leaders in the United States and abroad as they navigate a world where China increasingly wields its economic clout for geopolitical influence. Join Professor Rana Mitter and Dr. Audrye Wong for a discussion on this essential new book. \n\n\n\nAudrye Wong is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute\, where her work focuses on China’s foreign policy\, economic statecraft\, propaganda and disinformation campaigns\, and foreign influence operations. Previously\, Dr. Wong was a professor at the University of Southern California and postdoctoral fellow at the Grand Strategy\, Security\, and Statecraft joint program of the Harvard Kennedy School and Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Security Studies Program. She has also held affiliations with Harvard’s Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, the Wilson Center\, the Brookings Institution\, and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She is fluent in Mandarin.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/subversion-and-seduction-chinas-economic-statecraft/
LOCATION:Fainsod Room (324)\, Littauer Building\, 79 JFK St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Urban China Lecture Series featuring Wang Mengqi — Anxious Homes: Inflexible Demand and China’s Housing Market
DESCRIPTION:zoom meeting link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Mengqi Wang\, Assistant Professor of Anthropology\, Duke Kunshan University  \n\n\n\nThis talk presents the vernacular concept of inflexible demand\, known as 刚需/gangxu in Chinese\, that people in contemporary urban China draw on to refer to—and construct—an absolute need for homeownership for all city dwellers. Drawing on fieldwork conducted in a gangxu development at the urban periphery of east Nanjing from 2013 to 2015\, this talk argues that the concept of “inflexible demand” works as an empty signifier bridging diverse value-making projects that are constitutive of China’s housing market. It argues that homeownership\, in China\, suggests not independence but a further inclusion of citizens within the state. The talk ends with a reflection on how recent changes of the market have rendered homeownership both a promise and a trap for migrants in urban China. The talk is developed from a new book titled Anxious Homes: Inflexible Demand and China’s Housing Market (Cornell University Press 2026). \n\n\n\nMengqi Wang is a cultural and economic anthropologist specialized in the study of housing and the urban environment. She is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Duke Kunshan University with fields of research covering economic anthropology\, political economy\, human geography\, and critical infrastructure studies. Her book\, Anxious Homes: Inflexible Demand and China’s Housing Market (Cornell University Press\, 2026)\, is an ethnographic monograph charting the discursive formation of the housing market at East Nanjing’s urban periphery from 2012 to 2015. Her research articles have appeared in journals such as Positions: Asia Critique\, the Journal of Cultural Economy\, and Urban Studies. \n\n\n\nZoom Meeting Link: https://mit.zoom.us/j/94120080608 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/urban-china-lecture-series-featuring-wang-mengqi-anxious-homes-inflexible-demand-and-chinas-housing-market/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Urban China Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260923T120000
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SUMMARY:Performing Enlightenment: Buddhism and Theater in Early Modern China
DESCRIPTION:Register for zoom webinar\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Mengxiao Wang\, Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures\, University of Southern CaliforniaModerator: Thomas P. Kelly\, Assistant Professor\, East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nIn early modern China\, a major revival of Buddhism coincided with a surging fascination with theater. Buddhist monastics and laypeople increasingly participated in viewing\, discussing\, and writing plays. Far from merely serving as a medium for conveying religious teachings and practices\, drama became a source of deep concern for Buddhists due to the perceived tension between spiritual discipline and worldly entertainment. \n\n\n\nIn Performing Enlightenment\, Mengxiao Wang examines how Buddhist clerics and laity engaged with and drove innovations in theater during the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. Drawing on an extensive range of sources—including clerical sermons\, scriptural commentaries\, temple gazetteers\, morality books\, literati prose\, and dramatic texts and paratexts—Wang argues that Ming-Qing Buddhists resolved the conflict between religion and entertainment by transforming theater into a creative mode of devotional practice. Consequently\, playwriting\, stage performance\, and theatergoing all emerged as legitimate pathways to spiritual enlightenment. This interdisciplinary work provides fresh insights into Chinese studies\, Buddhist studies\, and theater studies while offering a comparative perspective on the complex interplay between religion\, literature\, and performance across cultures.Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_YdUlq3BDRaiOMqGl8fN9iA#/registration \n\n\n\nCo-sponsored by the Harvard-Yenching Insitute and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard University. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/performing-enlightenment-buddhism-and-theater-in-early-modern-china/
LOCATION:Zoom\, Registration Required
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260924T093000
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SUMMARY:Everyday Occupation: American Soldiers and Chinese Civilians after World War II
DESCRIPTION:zoom registration\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Chunmei Du\, Professor\, Department of History\, Lingnan University\, Hong Kong; Associate\, Harvard University Asia Center  \n\n\n\nIn this rich history of everyday encounters between US soldiers and Chinese civilians\, Chunmei Du explores their entangled relations from the end of World War II to the founding of the People’s Republic of China. Drawing upon official\, popular and personal accounts from both countries\, Du examines the sensorial\, material\, and symbolic exchanges that took place between GIs and ordinary Chinese people-stall vendors\, pedestrians\, rickshaw pullers\, “Jeep girls\,” and suspected thieves. Through the conceptual lens of the everyday\, this book reveals how interactions such as traffic accidents\, sexual relations\, theft\, and black-market dealings\, impacted larger political dynamics during this pivotal era. Du shows how mundane struggles made imperialism and sovereignty tangible\, fueling anti-American sentiment. Meanwhile\, these encounters fostered informal diplomacy\, shaping identities and forging new bonds that left a lasting imprint on both countries. \n\n\n\nProfessor Du’s talk will be based on her book Everyday Occupation: American Soldiers and Chinese Civilians after World War II\, published by Cambridge University Press (2026). This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core. \n\n\n\nTo join the webinar\, register here. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/everyday-occupation-american-soldiers-and-chinese-civilians-after-world-war-ii/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260924T160000
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SUMMARY:Modern China Lecture Series featuring Xiaobo Lü — Domination and Mobilization: The Rise and Fall of Political Parties in China’s Republican Era
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Xiaobo Lü\, Associate Professor\, Department of Political Science\, University of California\, BerkeleyXiaobo Lü is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of California\, Berkeley. His research explores the relationships between fiscal policies\, party-building\, and state-society relations in authoritarian regimes\, particularly in China. He is particularly interested in the formation and functioning of political parties and institutions in authoritarian regimes across both historical and contemporary contexts. Xiaobo Lü earned his Ph.D. in Political Science from Yale University in 2011. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/modern-china-lecture-series-featuring-xiaobo-lu-domination-and-mobilization-the-rise-and-fall-of-political-parties-in-chinas-republican-era/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Room S050\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:FCCS Modern China,Modern China Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261007T183000
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SUMMARY:Uncanny Beliefs: Superstition in Modern Chinese History
DESCRIPTION:zoom registration\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers: Emily Baum\, Professor of History\, University of California\, IrvineAlbert Wu\, Associate Research Fellow\, Institute of History and Philology\, Academia Sinica\, Taipei\, Taiwan \n\n\n\nChair: Michael Puett\, Victor and William Fung Foundation Director\, Harvard University Asia Center; Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History and Anthropology; Harvard College Professor \n\n\n\nIn the early twentieth century\, scholars around the world believed that “superstition” belonged to a bygone era. Yet despite their confident predictions\, superstitious beliefs have endured. Perhaps nowhere has the history of superstition been more prolonged and tumultuous than in China. From the late nineteenth century to the present day\, intellectuals and politicians have denigrated practices like divination\, ancestor worship\, and geomancy as unbefitting of a modern nation\, and governing regimes have launched a succession of campaigns to replace superstitious thinking with science and rationality. Efforts to eliminate such practices from public life\, however\, have regularly encountered resistance from people who continue to find meaning in them. \n\n\n\nUncanny Beliefs seeks to understand what “superstition” has meant in modern China—and questions why superstitious thinking has remained such an urgent target of state intervention. Through a range of temporal and thematic perspectives\, the chapters in this volume link the study of superstition to the histories of science\, religion\, gender\, state building\, and popular culture. In doing so\, they collectively broaden our understanding of modern Chinese history by revealing the complex entanglements of superstition with religion\, modernity\, authority\, and everyday life. \n\n\n\nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ocqHDzihSR6jUAd6vpXK-w#/registration \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/uncanny-beliefs-superstition-in-modern-chinese-history/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261022T160000
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SUMMARY:Modern China Lecture Series featuring Xu Guoqi
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Xu Guoqi\, David H. Y. Chang Professor of Chinese History; Founding Director\, Institute of Transnational History of China\, University of Hong Kong \n\n\n\nProfessor Xu Guoqi was born in China and taught both in Asia and the USA before joining the University of Hong Kong’s History Department. He writes and has published widely in both Chinese and English on various topics. \n\n\n\nProfessor Xu is a leading authority of transnational and shared history of modern China and the world. His research topics include First World War Studies\, roles of Sports in China and the world\, history of US-China relations\, the idea of China\, among many others. He has served as a visiting professor at many prestigious institutions such as Harvard University\, Yale University\, Cambridge University\, the University of Melbourne\, and King’s College London. He has received many awards such as the Shigemutsu Fellowship for scholarship in global cultural affairs from the Global Culture Center of the Japan Society of Boston and the best book award from the International Society of Olympic Historians. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/modern-china-lecture-series-featuring-xu-guoqi/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S354\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Modern China Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261027T203000
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SUMMARY:Urban China Lecture Series featuring Treng Ta
DESCRIPTION:zoom meeting link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Treng Ta\, University of Maryland Baltimore County \n\n\n\nMore information coming soon! \n\n\n\nZoom meeting link: https://mit.zoom.us/j/94120080608 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/urban-china-lecture-series-featuring-treng-ta/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Urban China Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261103T203000
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SUMMARY:Urban China Lecture Series featuring Zhu Jin
DESCRIPTION:zoom meeting link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Zhu Jin\, Hong Kong University \n\n\n\nMore information coming soon! \n\n\n\nZoom meeting link: https://mit.zoom.us/j/94120080608 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/urban-china-lecture-series-featuring-zhu-jin/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Urban China Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261110T203000
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SUMMARY:Urban China Lecture Series featuring Zhang Qingyong
DESCRIPTION:zoom meeting link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Zhang Qingyong\, Renmin University \n\n\n\nMore information coming soon! \n\n\n\nZoom meeting link: https://mit.zoom.us/j/94120080608 \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-qingyong/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Urban China Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261117T203000
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SUMMARY:Urban China Lecture Series featuring Susan Whiting — Illiberal Law and Development: Property Rights and Conflict over Land in China
DESCRIPTION:zoom meeting link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker:Susan Whiting\, University of Washington \n\n\n\nIn Illiberal Law and Development\, Susan H. Whiting advances institutional economic theory with original survey and fieldwork data\, addressing two puzzles in Chinese political economy: how economic development has occurred despite insecure property rights and weak rule of law and how the Chinese state has maintained political control amid unrest. Whiting answers these questions by focusing on the role of illiberal law in reassigning property rights and redirecting grievances. The book reveals that\, in the context of technological change\, a legal system that facilitates reassignment of land rights to higher-value uses plays an important and under-theorized role in promoting economic development. This system simultaneously represses conflict and asserts legitimacy. Comparing China to post-Glorious Revolution England and contemporary India\, Whiting presents a critical new argument that brings the Chinese case more directly into debates in comparative politics about the role of the state in specifying property rights and maintaining authoritarian rule.  \n\n\n\nSusan H. Whiting (Ph.D. University of Michigan\, B.A. Yale University) is Professor of Political Science at the University of Washington. She is the author two books\, Illiberal Law and Development and Power and Wealth in Rural China\, both published by Cambridge University Press. She specializes in Chinese and comparative politics\, with an emphasis on the political economy of development. Her research has been published in journals such as Comparative Political Studies\, Studies in Comparative International Development\, China Quarterly\, Journal of Asian Studies\, and Voluntas\, as well as in edited volumes such as Holding China Together and Trust and Governance. \n\n\n\nZoom meeting link: https://mit.zoom.us/j/94120080608 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/urban-china-lecture-series-featuring-susan-whiting-illiberal-law-and-development-property-rights-and-conflict-over-land-in-china/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Urban China Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261124T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261124T220000
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SUMMARY:Urban China Lecture Series featuring Zhao Miaoxi
DESCRIPTION:zoom meeting link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Zhao Miaoxi\, South China University of Technology \n\n\n\nMore information coming soon! \n\n\n\nZoom meeting link: https://mit.zoom.us/j/94120080608 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/urban-china-lecture-series-featuring-zhao-miaoxi/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Urban China Series
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