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SUMMARY:“Environment in Asia” Reunion with a Tribute to Robert Marks and Peter Perdue
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRead our blog posts on the event: Exploring How the Environment Shapes China’s History and Conference Examines Planning and China’s Rapidly Growing Cities \n\n\n\nOrganizer: Ling Zhang\, Boston College; Convener of the Environment in Asia series \n\n\n\nNote: Due to the limited capacity of the venue\, the symposium will be a closed-door event. The public may view the event by registering for a Zoom Webinar. Register at https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Fs-4nrYSTzSqYM6OtpgPHw. \n\n\n\nThe “Environment in Asia” research series at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies is dedicated to promoting diverse environmental discourses and research methodologies within the field of Asian studies\, especially the field of Chinese studies. Since its founding in 2012\, the series has hosted dozens of lectures\, panel discussions\, conferences\, film screenings\, and art exhibitions. It has brought together scholars from various disciplinary and area studies backgrounds and has served as a platform to present their scholarship\, exchange ideas\, and form collaborations. \n\n\n\nThis symposium has two goals. First\, it honors two founding speakers and long-time supporters of the Environment in Asia series\, Professor Robert Marks and Professor Peter Perdue. It celebrates their life-long achievements as forerunners in the field of Chinese environmental history. Over the past four decades\, Professor Marks and Professor Perdue have been tirelessly committed to studying and writing environmental history as well as to mentoring students and junior colleagues. Their scholarship and services have profoundly shaped how we understand and practice Chinese environmental history. The symposium is a tribute to these intellectual leaders of ours and their lasting impact on our community. \n\n\n\nSecond\, as a reunion of the Environment in Asia series\, the symposium brings back some old friends of the series\, and it welcomes many new colleagues. More than celebrating the rich and eventful decade of the series\, the symposium invites these scholars from diverse fields and different generations to gather and reflect on our common endeavor: How do we research\, write\, and teach environmental issues as humanities and social scientific scholars\, and how do we promote environmental consciousness and model multi- and inter-disciplinary environmental scholarship in order to complicate and diversify the fields of Asian and Chinese studies\, which are dominated by humancentric concerns and practices? The symposium invites its participants to review what we as a community of environmental scholars have achieved; to assess what works and what doesn’t; to suggest different paths and new possibilities; to identify our shared challenges; and to propose exciting experiments. Through individual presentations and group conversations\, the symposium seeks to facilitate mutual understanding and mutual learning within our environmental-studies community. It aims to strengthen the community’s bond and to further its growth as an important\, indispensable subfield of Asian and Chinese studies. \n\n\n\nSchedule \n\n\n\n8:45–9:00 Welcome (Ling Zhang and Mark Wu) \n\n\n\n9:00–10:30 Tigers\, Rice\, and the Dongting Lake: The Journeys toward Environmental History (Moderator: Ling Zhang) \n\n\n\n10:30–10:45 Break \n\n\n\n10:45–12:45 Researching the Environment (Moderator: Arunabh Ghosh) \n\n\n\n12:45–13:30 Lunch \n\n\n\n13:30–15:00 Writing the Environment (Moderator: Victor Seow) \n\n\n\n15:00–15:15 Break \n\n\n\n15:15–16:45 Teaching the Environment (Moderator: Brian Lander) \n\n\n\n16:50¬–17:10 Closing (Robert Marks\, Peter Perdue\, and Ling Zhang) \n\n\n\nParticipants \n\n\n\nClark Alejandrino (Trinity College)Nicole Barnes (Duke University)David Bello (Washington and Lee University)Tristan Brown (MIT): “Laws of the Land: Fengshui and the State in Qing Dynasty China”Wesley Chaney (Bates College)Chris Coggins (Bard College at Simon Rock)Bradley Camp Davis (Eastern Connecticut State University)Alexander F. Day (Occidental College)Xiangli Ding (Rhode Island School of Design)Qin Fang (McDaniel College)Xiaofei Gao (University of Colorado\, Denver): “The Nature of Labor: Integrating Environmental and Social Changes of Modern Maritime China”Yan Gao (University of Memphis)Yuan Gao (Georgetown University): “China’s Arid West: An Environmental History of Late Qing and Early Republican Xinjiang”Arunabh Ghosh (Harvard University)Yongqiang Guan (Nankai University\, China)Mary Alice Haddad (Wesleyan University)Kyuhyun Han (University of California\, Santa Cruz): “From Hunting for Local People to Hunting for the Nation: PRC Hunting Industry and Amur Tiger Conservation in Northeast China\, 1949-1965”Zhaoqing Han (Fudan University\, China)Michael Hathaway (Simon Fraser University\, Canada)Jack Hayes (Kwantlen Polytechnic University\, Canada)Emily M. Hill (Queen’s University\, Canada)Rui Hua (Boston University): “When Great States Mined on Drifting Continents: A Magnesium-based Story of Local Farmers and Global Mining Laws on the Liaodong Peninsula\, 1.85GA-1931 AD”Fei Huang (University of Tübingen\, Germany)Brian Lander (Brown University)Peter Lavelle (University of Connecticut)De-nin Lee (Emerson College)John Lee (Durham University\, UK): “Mongol Legacies and Island Ecologies in Early Modern Korea”Robert Marks (Whitter College\, Emeritus)John McNeill (Georgetown University)Caroline Merrifield (Yale University): “Practical Politics in China’s Food Movement”Covell Meyskens (Naval Postgraduate School)Ian J. Miller (Harvard University)Ian M. Miller (St John’s University)Ruth Mostern (University of Pittsburgh)Micah Muscolino (University of California\, San Diego)Peter Perdue (Yale University\, Emeritus)Kenneth Pomeranz (University of Chicago)Anne-Sophie Pratte (Georgetown University\, Qatar): “Mapping Grasslands in 19th Century Qing Mongolia”Ying Qian (Columbia University)Guldana Salimjan (Simon Fraser University\, Canada)James Scott (Yale University)Victor Seow (Harvard University)Michael Szonyi (Harvard University)Yuk Ping Wan (Brown University)You Wang (University of Chicago)R. Bin Wong (University of California\, Los Angeles)Donald Worster (University of Kansas\, Emeritus)Mingfang Xia (Remin University\, China)Bingru Yue (Queen’s University\, Canada): “From Wetland to Ecological Model: Reclamations of Chongming Island\, Shanghai\, from 1950 to 2020”Amy Zhang (New York University): “Waste’s Collectives: political and ecology in urban China”Junfeng Zhang (Shanxi University\, China)Ling Zhang (Boston College) \n\n\n\n\n\nYouTube recording of ““Environment in Asia” Reunion with a Tribute to Robert Marks and Peter Perdue”\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/environment-in-asia-reunion-with-a-tribute-to-robert-marks-and-peter-perdue/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Environment,Environment
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SUMMARY:Imperial Gateway: Colonial Taiwan and Japan’s Expansion in South China and Southeast Asia\, 1895–1945
DESCRIPTION:Register For Hybrid Zoom Attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Seiji Shirane\, Assistant Professor\, Department of History; Affiliated Faculty Member\, Asian Studies Program\, The City College of New York (CUNY) \n\n\n\nModerator: Karen Thornber\, Harry Tuchman Levin Professor in Literature; Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nCo-sponsored by the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, and Harvard University Asia Center. \n\n\n\nAlso via Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUvcOqqqDIjGtLcXCPwI7QkCVzzXnuF2FBL \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/seiji-shirane-imperial-gateway-colonial-taiwan-and-japans-expansion-in-south-china-and-southeast-asia-1895-1945/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S250\, 1730 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230320T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230320T131500
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SUMMARY:Rejuvenating Communism: Youth Organizations and Elite Renewal in Post-Mao China
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Jérôme Doyon\, Junior Professor at SciencesPo; author of Rejuvenating Communism: Youth Organizations and Elite Renewal in Post-Mao ChinaRespondent: Elizabeth Perry\, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government at Harvard University; Director\, Harvard-Yenching Institute\,  \n\n\n\nWorking for the administration remains one of the most coveted career paths for young Chinese. “Rejuvenating Communism: Youth Organizations and Elite Renewal in Post-Mao China” seeks to understand what motivates young and educated Chinese to commit to a long-term career in the party-state and how this question is central to the Chinese regime’s ability to maintain its cohesion and survive. Jérôme Doyon draws upon extensive fieldwork and statistical analysis in order to illuminate the undogmatic commitment recruitment techniques and other methods the state has taken to develop a diffuse allegiance to the party-state in the post-Mao era. He then analyzes recruitment and political professionalization in the Communist Party’s youth organizations and shows how experiences in the Chinese Communist Youth League transform recruits and feed their political commitment as they are gradually inducted into the world of officials. As the first in-depth study of the Communist Youth League’s role in recruitment\, this book challenges the assumption that merit is the main criteria for advancement within the party-state\, an argument with deep implications for understanding Chinese politics today. \n\n\n\nLunch will be served for in-person attendees.  \n\n\n\nRegistration is required for both online and in-person attendees. Register at: https://hksexeced.tfaforms.net/f/event-registration?s=a1n4V000006EM8BQAW&c=7014V000002IyegQAC \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/rejuvenating-communism-youth-organizations-and-elite-renewal-in-post-mao-china/
LOCATION:Wexner W-434 A.B\, 19 Eliot St\, Cambridge\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230322T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230322T180000
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SUMMARY:Wealth and Politics in Asia: HYI Annual Roundtable
DESCRIPTION:Panelists:Yuen Yuen Ang\, Alfred Chandler Chair of Political Economy\, Johns Hopkins UniversityYasheng Huang\, Epoch Foundation Professor of International Management\, MIT Sloan School of ManagementDevesh Kapur\, Starr Foundation Professor of South Asian Studies\, Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)Pasuk Phongpaichit\, Emeritus Professor of Political Economy\, Chulalongkorn UniversityBridget Welsh\, Honorary Research Associate\, University of Nottingham Asia Research Institute Malaysia \n\n\n\nModerator:Elizabeth J. Perry\, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government\, Harvard University; Director\, Harvard-Yenching Institute \n\n\n\nHow does the recent rise of a super-rich stratum across much of Asia affect the politics of different countries? Are the ultra-affluent more likely to wield influence in democracies or in authoritarian regimes? Through what means and to what ends? An inter-disciplinary panel of experts on China\, India and Southeast Asia will share observations and insights on this timely issue. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/wealth-and-politics-in-asia-hyi-annual-roundtable/
LOCATION:Fong Auditorium\, Boylston Hall\, Boylston Hall\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230324T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230324T173000
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SUMMARY:Harvard Visual China Inaugural Graduate Symposium--"Luminosity in Chinese Art & Culture"
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFrom Prometheus the Fire-Bringer to myths of cosmogony\, light and luminosity is an enduring metaphor in human history. In modern science\, light and luminosity are understood as matters of wavelength and energy. Yet in the Chinese context\, luminosity is not confined to issues of the visual and visibility. In fact\, luminosity had long been associated with consciousness and vitality beyond the expiration of the physical body\, especially in connections with certain materials and objects. The Harvard Visual China Inaugural Graduate Symposium presents three panels on this topic: Panel 1: Visualizing Luminosity; Panel 2: Painting Luminosity; Panel 3: Luminous Jewels. \n\n\n\nMore information and registration: https://www.harvardvisualchina.com/hvc-2023-symposium-info-registration. \n\n\n\nThis event is sponsored by the Department of History of Art & Architecture\, the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Innovation Fund\, and Harvard FAS CAMLab.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/harvard-visual-china-inaugural-graduate-symposium-luminosity-in-chinese-art-culture/
LOCATION:Sackler Building Auditorium\, 485 Broadway\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230327T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230327T220000
DTSTAMP:20260520T201626
CREATED:20230119T140523Z
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SUMMARY:Urban China Series featuring Adam Liu: Small Banks\, Big Politics: The Cause and Consequences of Bank Proliferation in China
DESCRIPTION:zoom meeting link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Adam Liu\, National University of Singapore \n\n\n\nThe Henan bank protest\, the Evergrande crisis\, and the perennial local government debt issue in China all point to one thing: there’s something wrong with the country’s banking system and Beijing needs to fix it. In particular\, it needs to better regulate the numerous small banks that are now so intimately intertwined with much of China’s economic challenges. Beijing is working on it but it’s hard to do. This talk explains why. First\, the exponential proliferation of small banks in the past three decades is hardly a natural phenomenon of economic/financial development; it is the outcome of a grand historical central-local bargain that’s difficult for current central leaders to upend. Second\, and relatedly\, many small banks have become the dominant players in local banking markets and are thus a crucial pillar of local economic development. Tight regulation and excessive punishment will therefore hurt local growth further in this difficult time. Beijing will have to juggle. \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-adam-liu/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Urban China Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230328T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230328T180000
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SUMMARY:How Soy Sauce Shapes Modern China: The Power of an Everyday Food—2023 Fairbank Center Reischauer Lecture Series featuring Angela KC Leung\, Night One\, "Becoming an Everyday Food: Soy Sauce in the High Qing Period"
DESCRIPTION:Register for hybrid zoom attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRead our blog post on this series of lectures: What Soy Sauce Can Tell Us About History\, Politics—and Chinese Identity \n\n\n\nThe lecture series examines the cultural and political meaning of soy sauce by tracing its long trajectory from an obscure elite condiment to a mundane\, everyday food in the modern period. The condiment acquired in the process the unique power of forging shared identities – familial\, communitarian\, regional and national\, becoming more recently a heritage food in different Chinese societies today. Its status as a popular\, necessary daily food endowed it with social and economic values that have made its production an integral part of state building for successive regimes – Qing\, Republican\, Socialist\, post-Socialist. Since the early 20th century\, soy sauce has been crafted with changing knowledge and techniques\, by experts in evolving institutions and enterprises\, and marketed to satisfy consumers’ shifting imaginations of their time\, community\, and environment.  \n\n\n\nTuesday\, March 28\, 2023\, 4:30pm Lecture 1: Becoming an Everyday Food: Soy Sauce in the High Qing PeriodThe explosion of soy sauce’s popularity as an everyday food in China is explained in the context of the mid-eighteenth-century integration of Manchuria\, which would become the world’s biggest soybean producer\, into the Qing Empire at the zenith of its political power. The development changed urban landscapes\, shaped everyday life and forged new urban identities.  \n\n\n\nWednesday\, March 29\, 2023\, 4:30pmLecture 2: The Power of a Malleable Everyday Food: Soy Sauce in Modern China Soy sauce as a super connector gained enormous power in the 19th and early 20th centuries:  It was made and offered to tighten bonds within lineages\, strengthen native place relationships\, and diplomatic ties. It symbolized communitarian and national solidarity\, hospitality and pride. Such immense power imbued the condiment with significant economic value.  \n\n\n\nThursday\, March 30\, 2023\, 4:30pmLecture 3: Soy Sauce in Crisis: China’s First Engagement with Technoscience Under deteriorating governance and facing the influx of industrial Japanese products\, Chinese soy sauce production was to be transformed as part of the state program of industrial modernization. The process produced a first generation of food scientists and technocrats navigating between codified scientific knowledge and traditional practices based on embodied skills\, an approach still valid in the 21st century when heritage sauces are being constructed. \n\n\n\nAngela Ki Che Leung is Chair Professor of History\, Joseph Needham-Philip Mao Professor in Chinese History\, Science and Civilization at the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences\, University of Hong Kong since 2011. After obtaining her doctoral degree at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales\, Paris\, she became a researcher at the Academia Sinica\, Taiwan\, in 1982\, and taught history at UCLA\, National Taiwan University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong\, and was elected Academician of the Academia Sinica in 2010. She has published in Chinese\, English and French on the history of Chinese philanthropy and history of medicine and health. Her books in English include Leprosy in China: A History (2009)\, Health and Hygiene in Chinese East Asia (2010\, co-edited with Charlotte Furth); Gender\, Health and History in East Asia (2017\, co-edited with Izumi Nakayama); Moral Foods: The Construction of Health Regimes in Modern Asia (2019\, co-edited with Melissa Caldwell). She led a Hong Kong government funded collaborative project on everyday technologies in modern East Asia from 2017-2022\, and is preparing an edited volume on Food Technoscience in East Asia and a monograph on the history of Chinese soy sauce.Also available via Zoom. Register at:  https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_uaNtmwT2SPiUyNxzpzF40w \n\n\n\n\n\nYouTube recording of “How Soy Sauce Shapes Modern China: The Power of an Everyday Food—2023 Fairbank Center Reischauer Lecture Series featuring Angela KC Leung\, Night One\, “Becoming an Everyday Food: Soy Sauce in the High Qing Period””\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/how-soy-sauce-shapes-modern-china-the-power-of-an-everyday-food-2023-fairbank-center-reischauer-lecture-series-featuring-angela-kc-leung-night-one/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230329T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230329T131500
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China - Challenges Confronting China’s Healthcare System Post-COVID: A conversation between Winnie Yip and William Hsiao
DESCRIPTION:Register for hybrid zoom attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRead our blog post on the event: How a Slowing Economy—and Big Hospitals—Are Challenging Healthcare Reform in China \n\n\n\nSpeaker: Winnie Chi-Man Yip\, Professor of the Practice of Global Health Policy and Economics\, Department of Global Health and Population\, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health \n\n\n\nDiscussant: William Hsiao\, K.T. Li Professor of Economics\, Emeritus\, in Department of Health Policy and Management and Department of Global Health and Population\, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.  \n\n\n\nAlso available on Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_iRwh1x7UQ5G-OFRAGQXp0w \n\n\n\n\n\nYouTube recording of “Critical Issues Confronting China – Challenges Confronting China’s Healthcare System Post-COVID: A conversation between Winnie Yip and William Hsiao”\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-featuring-winnie-chi-man-yip/
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:20230329T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230329T180000
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SUMMARY:How Soy Sauce Shapes Modern China: The Power of an Everyday Food—2023 Fairbank Center Reischauer Lecture Series featuring Angela KC Leung\, Night Two\, "The Power of a Malleable Everyday Food: Soy Sauce in Modern China"
DESCRIPTION:Register for hybrid zoom attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRead our blog post on this series of lectures: What Soy Sauce Can Tell Us About History\, Politics—and Chinese Identity \n\n\n\nThe lecture series examines the cultural and political meaning of soy sauce by tracing its long trajectory from an obscure elite condiment to a mundane\, everyday food in the modern period. The condiment acquired in the process the unique power of forging shared identities – familial\, communitarian\, regional and national\, becoming more recently a heritage food in different Chinese societies today. Its status as a popular\, necessary daily food endowed it with social and economic values that have made its production an integral part of state building for successive regimes – Qing\, Republican\, Socialist\, post-Socialist. Since the early 20th century\, soy sauce has been crafted with changing knowledge and techniques\, by experts in evolving institutions and enterprises\, and marketed to satisfy consumers’ shifting imaginations of their time\, community\, and environment.   \n\n\n\nTuesday\, March 28\, 2023\, 4:30pm Lecture 1: Becoming an Everyday Food: Soy Sauce in the High Qing PeriodThe explosion of soy sauce’s popularity as an everyday food in China is explained in the context of the mid-eighteenth-century integration of Manchuria\, which would become the world’s biggest soybean producer\, into the Qing Empire at the zenith of its political power. The development changed urban landscapes\, shaped everyday life and forged new urban identities.  \n\n\n\nWednesday\, March 29\, 2023\, 4:30pmLecture 2: The Power of a Malleable Everyday Food: Soy Sauce in Modern China Soy sauce as a super connector gained enormous power in the 19th and early 20th centuries:  It was made and offered to tighten bonds within lineages\, strengthen native place relationships\, and diplomatic ties. It symbolized communitarian and national solidarity\, hospitality and pride. Such immense power imbued the condiment with significant economic value.  \n\n\n\nThursday\, March 30\, 2023\, 4:30pmLecture 3: Soy Sauce in Crisis: China’s First Engagement with Technoscience Under deteriorating governance and facing the influx of industrial Japanese products\, Chinese soy sauce production was to be transformed as part of the state program of industrial modernization. The process produced a first generation of food scientists and technocrats navigating between codified scientific knowledge and traditional practices based on embodied skills\, an approach still valid in the 21st century when heritage sauces are being constructed. \n\n\n\nAngela Ki Che Leung is Chair Professor of History\, Joseph Needham-Philip Mao Professor in Chinese History\, Science and Civilization at the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences\, University of Hong Kong since 2011. After obtaining her doctoral degree at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales\, Paris\, she became a researcher at the Academia Sinica\, Taiwan\, in 1982\, and taught history at UCLA\, National Taiwan University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong\, and was elected Academician of the Academia Sinica in 2010. She has published in Chinese\, English and French on the history of Chinese philanthropy and history of medicine and health. Her books in English include Leprosy in China: A History (2009)\, Health and Hygiene in Chinese East Asia (2010\, co-edited with Charlotte Furth); Gender\, Health and History in East Asia (2017\, co-edited with Izumi Nakayama); Moral Foods: The Construction of Health Regimes in Modern Asia (2019\, co-edited with Melissa Caldwell). She led a Hong Kong government funded collaborative project on everyday technologies in modern East Asia from 2017-2022\, and is preparing an edited volume on Food Technoscience in East Asia and a monograph on the history of Chinese soy sauce.Also available via Zoom. Register at:  https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Gr9J4wRjRlST0KeJYWLTgg \n\n\n\n\n\nYouTube recording of “How Soy Sauce Shapes Modern China: The Power of an Everyday Food—2023 Fairbank Center Reischauer Lecture Series featuring Angela KC Leung\, Night Two\, “The Power of a Malleable Everyday Food: Soy Sauce in Modern China””\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/how-soy-sauce-shapes-modern-china-the-power-of-an-everyday-food-2023-fairbank-center-reischauer-lecture-series-featuring-angela-kc-leung-night-two/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230329T190000
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SUMMARY:Alexis Brown - Time and Narrative in the Rasavāhinī: A Literary Theoretical Approach to Reading a Theravada Buddhist Text
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Alexis Brown\, Harvard University \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/alexis-brown-time-and-narrative-in-the-rasavahini-a-literary-theoretical-approach-to-reading-a-theravada-buddhist-text/
LOCATION:Barker Center\, Thompson Room\, 12 Quincy St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138
CATEGORIES:Buddhist Studies Forum
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230330T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230330T180000
DTSTAMP:20260520T201626
CREATED:20230222T173430Z
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SUMMARY:How Soy Sauce Shapes Modern China: The Power of an Everyday Food - 2023 Fairbank Center Reischauer Lecture Series featuring Angela KC Leung\, Night Three\, "Soy Sauce in Crisis: China’s First Engagement with Technoscience"
DESCRIPTION:Register for hybrid zoom attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRead our blog post on this series of lectures: What Soy Sauce Can Tell Us About History\, Politics—and Chinese Identity \n\n\n\nThe lecture series examines the cultural and political meaning of soy sauce by tracing its long trajectory from an obscure elite condiment to a mundane\, everyday food in the modern period. The condiment acquired in the process the unique power of forging shared identities – familial\, communitarian\, regional and national\, becoming more recently a heritage food in different Chinese societies today. Its status as a popular\, necessary daily food endowed it with social and economic values that have made its production an integral part of state building for successive regimes – Qing\, Republican\, Socialist\, post-Socialist. Since the early 20th century\, soy sauce has been crafted with changing knowledge and techniques\, by experts in evolving institutions and enterprises\, and marketed to satisfy consumers’ shifting imaginations of their time\, community\, and environment.   \n\n\n\nTuesday\, March 28\, 2023\, 4:30pm Lecture 1: Becoming an Everyday Food: Soy Sauce in the High Qing PeriodThe explosion of soy sauce’s popularity as an everyday food in China is explained in the context of the mid-eighteenth-century integration of Manchuria\, which would become the world’s biggest soybean producer\, into the Qing Empire at the zenith of its political power. The development changed urban landscapes\, shaped everyday life and forged new urban identities.  \n\n\n\nWednesday\, March 29\, 2023\, 4:30pmLecture 2: The Power of a Malleable Everyday Food: Soy Sauce in Modern China Soy sauce as a super connector gained enormous power in the 19th and early 20th centuries:  It was made and offered to tighten bonds within lineages\, strengthen native place relationships\, and diplomatic ties. It symbolized communitarian and national solidarity\, hospitality and pride. Such immense power imbued the condiment with significant economic value.  \n\n\n\nThursday\, March 30\, 2023\, 4:30pmLecture 3: Soy Sauce in Crisis: China’s First Engagement with Technoscience Under deteriorating governance and facing the influx of industrial Japanese products\, Chinese soy sauce production was to be transformed as part of the state program of industrial modernization. The process produced a first generation of food scientists and technocrats navigating between codified scientific knowledge and traditional practices based on embodied skills\, an approach still valid in the 21st century when heritage sauces are being constructed. \n\n\n\nAngela Ki Che Leung is Chair Professor of History\, Joseph Needham-Philip Mao Professor in Chinese History\, Science and Civilization at the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences\, University of Hong Kong since 2011. After obtaining her doctoral degree at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales\, Paris\, she became a researcher at the Academia Sinica\, Taiwan\, in 1982\, and taught history at UCLA\, National Taiwan University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong\, and was elected Academician of the Academia Sinica in 2010. She has published in Chinese\, English and French on the history of Chinese philanthropy and history of medicine and health. Her books in English include Leprosy in China: A History (2009)\, Health and Hygiene in Chinese East Asia (2010\, co-edited with Charlotte Furth); Gender\, Health and History in East Asia (2017\, co-edited with Izumi Nakayama); Moral Foods: The Construction of Health Regimes in Modern Asia (2019\, co-edited with Melissa Caldwell). She led a Hong Kong government funded collaborative project on everyday technologies in modern East Asia from 2017-2022\, and is preparing an edited volume on Food Technoscience in East Asia and a monograph on the history of Chinese soy sauce.Also available via Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_nIxWlsf8TlakxRYAt9OOgA \n\n\n\n\n\nYouTube recording of “How Soy Sauce Shapes Modern China: The Power of an Everyday Food – 2023 Fairbank Center Reischauer Lecture Series featuring Angela KC Leung\, Night Three\, “Soy Sauce in Crisis: China’s First Engagement with Technoscience””\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/how-soy-sauce-shapes-modern-china-the-power-of-an-everyday-food-2023-fairbank-center-reischauer-lecture-series-featuring-angela-kc-leung-night-three/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230331T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230331T140000
DTSTAMP:20260520T201626
CREATED:20230323T163149Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230618T205550Z
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SUMMARY:China Economy Lecture featuring Henry Gao - China\, State Capitalism and the World Trading System
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Henry Gao\, Professor of Law\, Singapore Management University; Senior Fellow\, CIGI \n\n\n\nHenry Gao is Professor of Law at Singapore Management University and Senior Fellow at CIGI. With law degrees from three continents\, he started his career as the first Chinese lawyer at the WTO Secretariat. He has been an advisor on trade issues to many national governments as well as the WTO\, UN\, World Bank\, ADB\, APEC\, ASEAN and the World Economic Forum. Widely published on China and WTO and digital trade issues\, he sits on the Advisory Board of the WTO Chairs Program\, as well as the editorial boards of the Journal of International Economic Law and Journal of Financial Regulation. He was recently interviewed by the Economist for its Money Talks podcast episode on “How globalisation gave way”\, and his new paper analyzing China’s changing perspectives on the WTO was quoted as an “invaluable” paper by the Financial Times in its feature article on China’s 20th anniversary in the WTO. His new book “Between Market Economy and State Capitalism: China’s State-Owned Enterprises and the World Trading System” was published by Cambridge University Press in November 2022. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-economy-lecture-featuring-henry-gao-china-state-capitalism-and-the-world-trading-system/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S250\, 1730 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:China Economy Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230403T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230403T131500
DTSTAMP:20260520T201626
CREATED:20230330T165729Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230330T165820Z
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SUMMARY:2023 China Law Symposium: Reacquainting with China through Common Interests - Discussing Disability Law in China
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2023 China Law Symposium: Reacquainting with China through Common InterestsThe Harvard Law School China Law Association (CLA) will host its annual China Law Symposium\, “Reacquainting with China through Common Interests\,” over the first two weeks of April. This year\, we are highlighting topics of common interest to China and the United States\, ranging across the public and private sectors. The panels will feature issues on disability law\, education in China\, US-China climate change collaborations\, antitrust law\, and blockchain technology.This Symposium is cosponsored by the Harvard Law School East Asian Legal Studies Department\, the Harvard Antitrust Association\, and the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology. Food/snacks will be provided at each speaker event. RSVP: bit.ly/CLA2023Symposium \n\n\n\nSchedule: \n\n\n\nDiscussing Disability Law in ChinaMon\, April 3\, 12:15–1:15 pm ET | WCC 2012 \n\n\n\nAntitrust in China: Debunking the Myth and Unravelling the IntricaciesTues\, April 4\, 12:15–1:15 pm ET | WCC 2012Double Reduction Policy in China: An Educational Double-Edged Sword?Tues\, April 4\, 8:00–9:00 pm ET | WCC 1015Blockchain from a Chinese PerspectiveMon\, April 10\, 12:15–1:15 pm ET | WCC 2004Collaborating on Climate ChangeWed\, April 12\, 12:15–1:15 pm ET | WCC 2009 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/2023-china-law-symposium-reacquainting-with-china-through-common-interests/
LOCATION:WCC 2012\, Wasserstein Hall\, 1585 Massachusetts Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230403T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230403T210000
DTSTAMP:20260520T201626
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: "The Schools Out of City\," Featuring Discussion with Executive Director (PEER)\, Hong Liu and Co-producer\, Xinran Liang 
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:Hong Liu\, Executive Director of PEER\, an NGO dedicated to promoting educational equity in rural China Xinran Liang\, Co-producer of the documentary  Menghan Shen\, Associate Professor of Government\, Sun Yat-Sen University; Research Fellow\, HKS  \n\n\n\nRural China. Mysterious\, distant\, silent. What does it mean to address rural-urban educational inequality in China as an individual and a volunteer? What does it mean to promote ‘quality education’ in rural county high schools\, inside out? What does it mean to be ‘on the ground’? The Schools Out of City (沉默的县中) follows the footsteps of long-term volunteers in three high schools in rural Hunan and Guangxi and invites its audience to a world of bottom-up educational experiments. Following the screening\, there will be a discussion with Hong Liu\, executive director of the rural education NGO\, PEER\, Xinran Liang\, co-producer of the documentary\, and Menghan Shen\, Associate Professor of Government at Sun Yat-Sen University and research fellow at HKS.  \n\n\n\nPEER is an NGO founded in 2007 by a group of Harvard alumni to promote educational equity in rural China. It has over a decade of experience of working with students and teachers from rural county schools.  Please contact xiaorui_zhou@g.harvard.edu for more information.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-screening-the-schools-out-of-city-featuring-discussion-with-executive-director-peer-hong-liu-and-co-producer-xinran-liang/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Room S050\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230403T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230403T220000
DTSTAMP:20260520T201626
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SUMMARY:Urban China Series featuring Cai Meina - Legal Discrimination\, Contention Pyramid\, and Land Takings in China
DESCRIPTION:Zoom meeting link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Cai Meina\, University of Connecticut \n\n\n\nHow do land-dispossessed villagers protect their interests in a context where the legal framework discriminates against them? Contrary to the existing research that focuses on protests\, this research identifies negotiations as a strategy of the dispossessed to engage with local governments and improve their compensation arrangement. Negotiations are more frequent than petitions\, which are in turn more frequent than protests and violence. These negotiations focus on tailored local arrangements that are not specified in formal compensation policy – what I term “non-programmatic compensation.” Negotiations over non-programmatic compensation create a fragmented compensation policy regime that combines low\, stagnant\, and less locally diversified formal compensation standards with dynamic\, locality-specific\, and negotiated informal non-programmatic compensation. These findings draw on extensive fieldwork in 5 provinces (Chongqing\, Guangdong\, Jiangsu\, Zhejiang\, and Hebei)\, an original dataset of local land compensation policies\, and surveys of rural households and elites.  \n\n\n\nMeina Cai is Associate Professor of Political Science with a joint appointment of Asian/Asian American Studies Institute at the University of Connecticut. Her research interests are political economy\, institution and development\, and land politics and urbanization with an area focus on China. Her recent articles appear in World Development\, Journal of Peasant Studies\, Urban Studies\, and Land Use Policy. Her urbanization projects have been funded by Lincoln Institute of Land Policy and Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation among others.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/urban-china-series-featuring-cai-meina/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Urban China Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230404T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230404T114500
DTSTAMP:20260520T201626
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LAST-MODIFIED:20230202T190721Z
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SUMMARY:Jacob Eyferth - Agrarian Taylorism: Reorganizing the Rural Labor Process in Collective-Era China
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Jacob Eyferth \n\n\n\nPresented via Zoom. Register at: 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/jacob-eyferth-agrarian-taylorism-reorganizing-the-rural-labor-process-in-collective-era-china/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230404T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230404T131500
DTSTAMP:20260520T201626
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SUMMARY:2023 China Law Symposium: Reacquainting with China through Common Interests - Antitrust in China: Debunking the Myth and Unravelling the Intricacies
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2023 China Law Symposium: Reacquainting with China through Common InterestsThe Harvard Law School China Law Association (CLA) will host its annual China Law Symposium\, “Reacquainting with China through Common Interests\,” over the first two weeks of April. This year\, we are highlighting topics of common interest to China and the United States\, ranging across the public and private sectors. The panels will feature issues on disability law\, education in China\, US-China climate change collaborations\, antitrust law\, and blockchain technology.This Symposium is cosponsored by the Harvard Law School East Asian Legal Studies Department\, the Harvard Antitrust Association\, and the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology. Food/snacks will be provided at each speaker event. RSVP: bit.ly/CLA2023Symposium \n\n\n\nSchedule: \n\n\n\nDiscussing Disability Law in ChinaMon\, April 3\, 12:15–1:15 pm ET | WCC 2012 \n\n\n\nAntitrust in China: Debunking the Myth and Unravelling the IntricaciesTues\, April 4\, 12:15–1:15 pm ET | WCC 2012Double Reduction Policy in China: An Educational Double-Edged Sword?Tues\, April 4\, 8:00–9:00 pm ET | WCC 1015Blockchain from a Chinese PerspectiveMon\, April 10\, 12:15–1:15 pm ET | WCC 2004Collaborating on Climate ChangeWed\, April 12\, 12:15–1:15 pm ET | WCC 2009 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/2023-china-law-symposium-reacquainting-with-china-through-common-interests-antitrust-in-china-debunking-the-myth-and-unravelling-the-intricacies/
LOCATION:WCC 2012\, Wasserstein Hall\, 1585 Massachusetts Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230404T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230404T180000
DTSTAMP:20260520T201626
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SUMMARY:Adrian Zenz - Xinjiang Update: What New Documents Tell Us About Beijing’s Evolving Internment Policy
DESCRIPTION:Read our blog post on the event: Xinjiang Update: Beijing’s Evolving Internment Policy \n\n\n\nSpeaker: Adrian Zenz\, Senior Fellow and Director in China Studies\, Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation \n\n\n\nModerator: Mark C. Elliott\, Vice Provost for International Affairs\, Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nSince the start of Beijing’s campaign of interning Uyghurs and other ethnic groups in its northwestern region of Xinjiang in re-education camps\, the most pertinent evidence on the nature and impact of these policies has come from public and internal (classified) government documents. However\, nearly all of this documentation was limited to latter (implementation-related) stages of the policy cycle\, leaving scholars in the dark about crucial aspects of the deliberations and decision-making processes behind the policies. Between late 2021 and mid-2022\, two important caches of new internal files have been made public\, including classified speeches by Xi Jinping and by Zhao Kezhi\, China’s former Minister of Public Security. This presentation seeks to elucidate what these new files can tell us about the evolution of Beijing’s policies in the region\, the role of the central government in the process\, and the potential scale of the campaign of mass internment. \n\n\n\nDr. Adrian Zenz is Senior Fellow and Director in China Studies at the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation\, Washington\, D.C. (non-resident). His research focus is on China’s ethnic policy and Beijing’s campaign of mass internment\, securitization and forced labor in Xinjiang\, as well as ethnic minority education and labor programs in Tibet. Dr. Zenz is the author of Tibetanness under Threat and co-editor of Mapping Amdo: Dynamics of Change. He has played a leading role in the analysis of leaked Chinese government documents\, including the “China Cables\,” the “Karakax List\,” the “Xinjiang Papers\,” and the Xinjiang Police Files. Dr. Zenz has provided expert testimony to the governments of Germany\, France\, the United Kingdom\, Canada\, and the United States. He is a member of the Association of Asian Studies. He has published opinion pieces with Foreign Policy\, Foreign Affairs\, The New York Times\, and The Wall Street Journal. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/adrian-zenz-xinjiang-update-what-new-documents-tell-us-about-beijings-evolving-policy/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230404T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230404T210000
DTSTAMP:20260520T201626
CREATED:20230330T170202Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230330T170203Z
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SUMMARY:2023 China Law Symposium: Reacquainting with China through Common Interests - Double Reduction Policy in China: An Educational Double-Edged Sword?
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2023 China Law Symposium: Reacquainting with China through Common InterestsThe Harvard Law School China Law Association (CLA) will host its annual China Law Symposium\, “Reacquainting with China through Common Interests\,” over the first two weeks of April. This year\, we are highlighting topics of common interest to China and the United States\, ranging across the public and private sectors. The panels will feature issues on disability law\, education in China\, US-China climate change collaborations\, antitrust law\, and blockchain technology.This Symposium is cosponsored by the Harvard Law School East Asian Legal Studies Department\, the Harvard Antitrust Association\, and the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology. Food/snacks will be provided at each speaker event. RSVP: bit.ly/CLA2023Symposium \n\n\n\nSchedule: \n\n\n\nDiscussing Disability Law in ChinaMon\, April 3\, 12:15–1:15 pm ET | WCC 2012 \n\n\n\nAntitrust in China: Debunking the Myth and Unravelling the IntricaciesTues\, April 4\, 12:15–1:15 pm ET | WCC 2012Double Reduction Policy in China: An Educational Double-Edged Sword?Tues\, April 4\, 8:00–9:00 pm ET | WCC 1015Blockchain from a Chinese PerspectiveMon\, April 10\, 12:15–1:15 pm ET | WCC 2004Collaborating on Climate ChangeWed\, April 12\, 12:15–1:15 pm ET | WCC 2009 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/2023-china-law-symposium-reacquainting-with-china-through-common-interests-double-reduction-policy-in-china-an-educational-double-edged-sword/
LOCATION:WCC 1015\, Wasserstein Hall\, 1585 Massachusetts Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230404T203000
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SUMMARY:Wangdao and Leadership: A Zoom Talk by Stan Shih
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Stan Shih\, Co-founder & Honorary Chairman\, Acer Group \n\n\n\nPresented via Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_1rO8EfocTC27eSYbRM7jaA \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/wangdao-and-leadership-a-zoom-talk-by-stan-shih/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230405T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230405T123000
DTSTAMP:20260520T201626
CREATED:20230208T152012Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230208T152014Z
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SUMMARY:Chu Xiaobai - Jesus and Modernity in Republican China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Chu Xiaobai\, Professor\, Department of Chinese Literature and Culture\, East China Normal University; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2022-23 \n\n\n\nDiscussant: Chloë Starr\, Professor of Asian Christianity and Theology\, Yale Divinity School \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/chu-xiaobai-jesus-and-modernity-in-republican-china/
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:20230405T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230405T131500
DTSTAMP:20260520T201626
CREATED:20230201T160710Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230618T212744Z
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China featuring Yan Xuetong - US-China Competition in the Coming Decade
DESCRIPTION:Register for hybrid zoom attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Yan Xuetong\, Dean\, Institute of International Relations\, Tsinghua University \n\n\n\nDiscussant: Stephen M. Walt\, Robert and Renée Belfer Professor of International Relations\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nAlso available on Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_H0JzdYljR3i0m2jLjBgakQ \n\n\n\n\n\nYouTube recording of “Critical Issues Confronting China featuring Yan Xuetong – US-China Competition in the Coming Decade”\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-featuring-yan-xuetong/
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:20230405T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230405T203000
DTSTAMP:20260520T201626
CREATED:20230330T163550Z
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SUMMARY:Robert Ross: ​Wedge Strategies and Alliance Politics: Chinese Coercion and the U.S.-Philippine Alliance
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Robert S. Ross\, Professor of Political Science\, Boston CollegeModerator: James Robson\, James C. Kralik\, and Yunli Lou Professor\, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations; Harvard College Professor; Victor and William Fung Director\, Asia Center\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nThis talk examines China’s wedge strategy toward the U.S.-Philippine alliance during the presidency of Benigno Aquino III. Although the Philippine-China sovereignty dispute was the proximate cause of Chinese coercion\, it does not explain Chinese policy. Chinese policy evolution and the writings of Chinese scholars and think-tank analysts make clear that China’s foremost concern was that the Philippine’s defense cooperation with the United States in support of its sovereignty claims contributed to the U.S. “pivot” to Asia and to U.S. “containment” of China. China used its military and economic capabilities to undermine Philippine confidence in U.S. support and to weaken the Philippine economy\, thus driving a wedge between the Philippines and the United States and undermining the U.S. challenge to Chinese security. After the Philippines adjusted it alignment between China and the United States\, China eased its coercion and it used economic “rewards” to consolidate Philippine realignment. The talk concludes with a brief discussion of the implications of the Marcos\, Jr.\, presidency for U.S.-China competition and regional affairs. \n\n\n\nPresented via Zoom. Register at https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_JX1Vr-46SSWjjb5gBD_sKg. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/robert-ross-wedge-strategies-and-alliance-politics-chinese-coercion-and-the-u-s-philippine-alliance/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230406T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230406T170000
DTSTAMP:20260520T201626
CREATED:20230323T161910Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230323T161911Z
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SUMMARY:Sinophone Southeast Asian Crossings:A Symposium on Nanyang Culture\, History\, and Memory
DESCRIPTION:Register for hybrid zoom attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPanel 1: 2:00 – 3:20pmSpeaker: Chan Cheow Thia\, National University of Singapore\, Author of Malaysian CrossingsRespondent: Mei Nan Mingxue\, Harvard UniversityPanel 2: 3:40-5pmSpeaker: Li Zishu\, Author of The Age of GoodbyesRespondent: Jannis Jizhou Chen\, Harvard UniversityAlso via Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_NC-Rw5ksTZiNT9H9_73F7w \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/sinophone-southeast-asian-crossingsa-symposium-on-nanyang-culture-history-and-memory/
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:20230410T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230410T131500
DTSTAMP:20260520T201626
CREATED:20230330T170348Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230330T170349Z
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SUMMARY:2023 China Law Symposium: Reacquainting with China through Common Interests - Blockchain from a Chinese Perspective
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2023 China Law Symposium: Reacquainting with China through Common InterestsThe Harvard Law School China Law Association (CLA) will host its annual China Law Symposium\, “Reacquainting with China through Common Interests\,” over the first two weeks of April. This year\, we are highlighting topics of common interest to China and the United States\, ranging across the public and private sectors. The panels will feature issues on disability law\, education in China\, US-China climate change collaborations\, antitrust law\, and blockchain technology.This Symposium is cosponsored by the Harvard Law School East Asian Legal Studies Department\, the Harvard Antitrust Association\, and the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology. Food/snacks will be provided at each speaker event. RSVP: bit.ly/CLA2023Symposium \n\n\n\nSchedule: \n\n\n\nDiscussing Disability Law in ChinaMon\, April 3\, 12:15–1:15 pm ET | WCC 2012 \n\n\n\nAntitrust in China: Debunking the Myth and Unravelling the IntricaciesTues\, April 4\, 12:15–1:15 pm ET | WCC 2012Double Reduction Policy in China: An Educational Double-Edged Sword?Tues\, April 4\, 8:00–9:00 pm ET | WCC 1015Blockchain from a Chinese PerspectiveMon\, April 10\, 12:15–1:15 pm ET | WCC 2004Collaborating on Climate ChangeWed\, April 12\, 12:15–1:15 pm ET | WCC 2009 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/2023-china-law-symposium-reacquainting-with-china-through-common-interests-blockchain-from-a-chinese-perspective/
LOCATION:WCC 2004\, Wasserstein Hall\, 1585 Massachusetts Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230410T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230410T180000
DTSTAMP:20260520T201626
CREATED:20230321T165616Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230618T213128Z
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SUMMARY:China Humanities Seminar featuring Nicholas Standaert - The Chinese Gazette in European Sources: Joining the Global Public in the Early Qing Dynasty
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Nicolas Standaert\, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium) \n\n\n\nThe Chinese gazette as a publicly available government publication was distributed in a variety of formats since the twelfth century. Little is known\, however\, about its form and content before 1800. By looking at European sources\, this presentation shows how they offer a unique way of expanding the knowledge about the gazette of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Its interconnected history illustrates how the Chinese gazette\, as translated by European missionaries\, became a major source for reflections on state and society by Enlightenment thinkers. It thus joined a global public much earlier than so far assumed. \n\n\n\nNicolas Standaert is Professor of Sinology at KU Leuven (Belgium) (1993-) and Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts of Belgium (2003-). His major research interest is the cultural contacts between China and Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In this field he has led multiple research projects on rituality\, visual culture\, historiography\, and print culture. He is the author of The Chinese Gazette in European Sources: Joining the Global Public in the Early and Mid-Qing Dynasty (Brill\, 2022); The Intercultural Weaving of Historical Texts: Chinese and European Stories about Emperor Ku and His Concubines (Brill\, 2016); Chinese Voices in the Rites Controversy: Travelling Books\, Community Networks\, Intercultural Arguments (Institutum Historicum Societatis Iesu\, 2012)\, among many others. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-humanities-seminar-featuring-nicholas-standaert-the-chinese-gazette-in-european-sources-joining-the-global-public-in-the-early-qing-dynasty/
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:20230410T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230410T220000
DTSTAMP:20260520T201626
CREATED:20230119T141031Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230702T051056Z
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SUMMARY:Urban China Series featuring Su Xiaobo: Urbanization and the Political Economy of Border Control in China
DESCRIPTION:Zoom meeting link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPhoto by 瑞丽江的河水 – Own work\, CC BY-SA 4.0\, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=70263825 (License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) \n\n\n\nSpeaker: Su Xiaobo\, University of Oregon \n\n\n\nBorder cities in hinterland China have been reshaped as hotbeds of investment ever since the implementation of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). They have become new economic centers to facilitate cross-border flows between China and neighboring countries. Meanwhile\, border security remains a key political task to state authorities in these cities. Using Ruili in southern Yunnan as a case study\, this paper examines urbanization at the edge of China’s national territory and how border control\, transnational migrant management\, and industrialization are integrated into this process. On the one hand\, Ruili uses its geoeconomic advantages—proximity to Myanmar\, and attractiveness to Myanmar migrant workers—to attract domestic investment from other Chinese cities for industrial production and cross-border trade. On the other hand\, the Ruili municipal government is assigned responsibility for managing cross-border migrant flows and maintaining social stability. Economic development and border politics are intertwined to shape Ruili’s urbanization trajectory in which cross-border trade and border security play a significant role in shaping land use\, development policies\, and population management in border cities. Thus\, an analysis of the political economy of border control can shed new light on China’s urbanization at the border. \n\n\n\n ​Xiaobo Su is Professor and Head in the Department of Geography\, University of Oregon. His research interest is in border politics\, urban entrepreneurialism\, and transnational regionalization in China. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/urban-china-series-featuring-su-xiaobo/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Urban China Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230411T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230411T173000
DTSTAMP:20260520T201626
CREATED:20230321T164442Z
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SUMMARY:Chinese Politics and Foreign Policy Series featuring Tyler Jost - Authoritarian Arming: Domestic Threats and the Origins of China’s Military Modernization
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Tyler Jost\, Assistant Professor of Political Science\, International & Public Affairs and Watson Institute Assistant Professor of China Studies\, Brown University. \n\n\n\nSince the late 1980s\, China has transformed the People’s Liberation Army by expanding its budget. Existing scholarship tends to attribute the expanding defense budget to China’s economic growth and external threats. This project instead explores the role of domestic politics. In order to guard against violent removal from power\, autocrats use distributional and institutional concessions to win favor with coercive organizations\, such as the military. As such\, elevated threats to political survival — such as leader transitions or mass demonstrations —  can lead to increases in defense budgets even in the absence of changes to economic growth or external threat. The project uses original data on China’s defense budgets since the late 1970s to evaluate candidate explanations. The preliminary analysis finds support for explanations emphasizing economic growth and domestic threats\, but limited support that variation in external threats have systematically shaped China’s defense budgets. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/chinese-politics-and-foreign-policy-series-featuring-tyler-jost-authoritarian-arming-domestic-threats-and-the-origins-of-chinas-military-modernization/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S250\, 1730 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Chinese Politics and Foreign Policy
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230411T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230411T180000
DTSTAMP:20260520T201626
CREATED:20230323T170142Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230323T170222Z
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SUMMARY:Beijing Olympiad: First Time as Mass Spectacle\, Second Time as Digital Ornament
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Cassandra Xin Guan\, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow\, MIT Center for Art\, Science & Technology \n\n\n\nThe opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympics was notable for its spectacular deployment of the mass human ornament. In 2022\, a second Olympic opening ceremony took place amidst a global pandemic and rising geopolitical tension between China and the US. This time around the hot and noisy masses that thrilled American television viewers with their coordinated precision have vanished from the scene of representation. In documentations of the two events: one hot\, one cold; one crowded\, one empty; one bursting with life\, one eerily devoid of humanity—we see a thermal-aesthetic inversion that assigns representational values to an under-theorized historical interval between China’s first and second Olympic Games. This talk will tarry with the chronotopic form of this interval\, with\, that is\, the time-space of historical figuration. Drawing attention to the emergence of a nationalist imaginary determined by the paradox of automation\, I ask what global forces are responsible for the cooling of the mass spectacle’s hot noise\, and what happens to the efficacy of the vitalized icon when the masses exit the mass ornament? \n\n\n\nCassandra Xin Guan is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at The MIT Center for Art\, Science & Technology. She holds a PhD in Modern Culture and Media from Brown University and was Dean’s Faculty Fellow in the Program of Science\, Technology\, Society (STS). She is currently working on two books in tandem: “Maladaptive Media: ‘Life’ and Other Works of Animation” and “Imagine There’s No Human: China in Animation.” Her writings have appeared in October\, Screen\, and Critical Inquiry. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/beijing-olympiad-first-time-as-mass-spectacle-second-time-as-digital-ornament/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230412T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230412T123000
DTSTAMP:20260520T201626
CREATED:20230330T163022Z
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SUMMARY:Yu-Yueh Tsai - Indigenous DNA as A Metaphor: Scientific Debate on the Rediscovery of Taiwanese Ancestry and Nation-Building
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Yu-Yueh Tsai\, Associate Research Fellow\, Institute of Sociology\, Academia Sinica; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2022-23Chair: Sheila Jasanoff\, Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies\, Harvard Kennedy School \n\n\n\nThe development of genealogical science in the twenty-first century has important implications for national and racial/ethnic construction. In Taiwan\, genetic research on the origins of Taiwanese has involved racial/ethnic issues but also the dispute over Taiwan’s national identity with the People’s Republic of China\, which claims that “we have the same roots” or “blood is thicker than water.” After the end of martial law (1945-1987)\, scientific research on multi-origins and genetic makeup of Taiwanese emerged. In particular\, Marie Lin\, M.D.\, widely known as “the mother of the research on Taiwanese blood\,” and her teams have been devoted to revealing the origins of the ethnic groups in Taiwan. My research pushes the concept of co-production between science and politics (Jasanoff\, 2004) further by addressing the “nationalization of biomedicine” and the “biomedicalization of the nation”. I explore how Taiwan’s changing identity politics\, including the emergence of the new categorization of four great ethnic groups\, multiculturalism\, and Taiwanese nationalism\, has profoundly influenced genetic research on Taiwanese genealogy and how scientific findings produced in the lab have then spilled out into both Taiwan and the PRC through journals\, media\, history textbooks\, and public disputes since the 1990s. For genealogical science to play a constructive role in identity-making\, this research shows that we need to remain vigilant to genetic technology\, scientific knowledge formation\, and methodology by looking at scientists’ works and discourses through an STS perspective to extend the epistemological reflection. \n\n\n\nHarvard-Yenching Institute Visiting Scholar talk \n\n\n\nSeating is limited. Masks are required for all in-person audience members.Info: https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/indigenous-dna-as-a-metaphor-scientific-debate-on-the-rediscovery-of-taiwanese-ancestry-and-nation-building/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/yu-yueh-tsai-indigenous-dna-as-a-metaphor-scientific-debate-on-the-rediscovery-of-taiwanese-ancestry-and-nation-building/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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