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SUMMARY:New Noir: Chinese Crime Films
DESCRIPTION:Film noir\, as its meaning “black film” or “film of the night” indicates\, is an art of darkness. For its connotation of pessimism and menace\, crime\, especially unsolved ones\, has been a rare event in Chinese cinema\, because it is considered by the authority as an admission to the discontents of life in what is supposed to be the people’s paradise. Recently\, however\, a new generation of young auteurs\, working independently\, has been reworking the tropes of Chinese spy film to address the country’s endemic corruption and violence\, with films that portray drifting killers\, frustrated police\, and fatal beauties\, all enmeshed in a web of vice and desire. Starting with BLACK COAL\, THIN ICE\, a landmark in Chinese crime film\, and ending with FREE AND EASY\, a post-apocalyptic dark comedy\, this program is a witness to the birth of the Chinese mainland school of noir. \nNew Noir is part of the Creative China Festival\, curated by Meng Xie\, supported by Beijing Contemporary Art Foundation. \nCo-presented by Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies \nPlease Note: Tickets are $11 each for general public\, $9 for students and Brattle members\, and $8 for seniors.  A total of 50 free tickets for screenings in the series are available to Harvard ID holders on a first-come\, first-serve basis.  Please show your Harvard ID at the box office up to half an hour before the screening.  No advanced reservations are accepted for these free tickets.  \nBLACK COAL\, THIN ICE (2014) dir. Diao Yinan w/ Liao Fan\, Kwei Lun-Mei\, Wang Xuebing [110 min; DCP]\nSun\, Nov 12 at 5:30pm\nA landmark in Chinese crime film\, BLACK COAL\, THIN ICE is a dazzlingly stylized mystery that blends Fincher-esque genre elements and social commentary. It all begins with the discovery of a hand on a coal conveyor belt. Cop Zhang (Liao Fan) tries to solve the case but\, years later\, the body parts are still showing up. The film won the Golden Bear for Best Film\, as well as the Silver Bear for Best Actor\, at the 2014 Berlin International Film Festival. \nTHE DEAD END (2015) dir. Cao Baoping w/Deng Chao\, Duan Yuhong\, Guo Tao [139 min; DCP]\nSun\, Nov 12 at 8:00pm\nWith Dostoevskian undertones\, THE DEAD END is a gritty tale of redemption for three men—a cop\, a cab driver\, and a recluse—who are haunted by shared guilt over their murderous misdeeds in an unsolved crime. \nLETHAL HOSTAGE (2012) dir. Cheng Er w/Ni Dahong\, Sun Honglei\, Wang Luodan [97 min; DCP]\nMon\, Nov 13 at 8:30pm\nAn ingeniously structured psychological thriller\, LETHAL HOSTAGE takes place in a crumbling town on the China-Myanmar border.  A woman marrying her kidnapper is only the beginning of a series of emotional knots and dramatic twists in this superbly constructed crime drama. \nTHE COFFIN IN THE MOUNTAIN (2014) dir. Xin Yukun w/Huo Weimin\, Wang Xiaotian\, Luo Yun [119 min; DCP]\nTue\, Nov 14 at 8:30pm\nA striking feature directorial debut\, THE COFFIN IN THE MOUNTAIN is an unflinching depiction of provincial entrapment where people’s lives are intricately intertwined through an accidental death. With an ingeniously constructed timeline\, the film morphs from mystery to suspense and finally to irony. \nFREE + EASY (2017) dir. Geng Jun w/Xu Gang\, Zhang Zhiyong\, Xue Baohe [98 min; DCP]\nWed\, Nov 15 at 8:30pm\nWith tinges of the Coen Brothers\, Jim Jarmusch\, and Samuel Beckett\, director Geng presents a portrait of a socio-economic system so flawed that it has veered into black comedy – a practically post-apocalyptic world where crime is the new normal. In a Northern Chinese industrial town\, everyone – even the local monk – is running a con and the police are more interested in chasing girls than criminals. \nWinner of a special jury award at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/new-noir-chinese-crime-films/
CATEGORIES:Emergent Visions Film Screening,Events of Interest,Film Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171112T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171112T230000
DTSTAMP:20260511T041930
CREATED:20171024T151434Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171024T151434Z
UID:6152-1510516800-1510527600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:New Noir: Chinese Crime Films
DESCRIPTION:Film noir\, as its meaning “black film” or “film of the night” indicates\, is an art of darkness. For its connotation of pessimism and menace\, crime\, especially unsolved ones\, has been a rare event in Chinese cinema\, because it is considered by the authority as an admission to the discontents of life in what is supposed to be the people’s paradise. Recently\, however\, a new generation of young auteurs\, working independently\, has been reworking the tropes of Chinese spy film to address the country’s endemic corruption and violence\, with films that portray drifting killers\, frustrated police\, and fatal beauties\, all enmeshed in a web of vice and desire. Starting with BLACK COAL\, THIN ICE\, a landmark in Chinese crime film\, and ending with FREE AND EASY\, a post-apocalyptic dark comedy\, this program is a witness to the birth of the Chinese mainland school of noir. \nNew Noir is part of the Creative China Festival\, curated by Meng Xie\, supported by Beijing Contemporary Art Foundation. \nCo-presented by Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies \nPlease Note: Tickets are $11 each for general public\, $9 for students and Brattle members\, and $8 for seniors.  A total of 50 free tickets for screenings in the series are available to Harvard ID holders on a first-come\, first-serve basis.  Please show your Harvard ID at the box office up to half an hour before the screening.  No advanced reservations are accepted for these free tickets.  \nBLACK COAL\, THIN ICE (2014) dir. Diao Yinan w/ Liao Fan\, Kwei Lun-Mei\, Wang Xuebing [110 min; DCP]\nSun\, Nov 12 at 5:30pm\nA landmark in Chinese crime film\, BLACK COAL\, THIN ICE is a dazzlingly stylized mystery that blends Fincher-esque genre elements and social commentary. It all begins with the discovery of a hand on a coal conveyor belt. Cop Zhang (Liao Fan) tries to solve the case but\, years later\, the body parts are still showing up. The film won the Golden Bear for Best Film\, as well as the Silver Bear for Best Actor\, at the 2014 Berlin International Film Festival. \nTHE DEAD END (2015) dir. Cao Baoping w/Deng Chao\, Duan Yuhong\, Guo Tao [139 min; DCP]\nSun\, Nov 12 at 8:00pm\nWith Dostoevskian undertones\, THE DEAD END is a gritty tale of redemption for three men—a cop\, a cab driver\, and a recluse—who are haunted by shared guilt over their murderous misdeeds in an unsolved crime. \nLETHAL HOSTAGE (2012) dir. Cheng Er w/Ni Dahong\, Sun Honglei\, Wang Luodan [97 min; DCP]\nMon\, Nov 13 at 8:30pm\nAn ingeniously structured psychological thriller\, LETHAL HOSTAGE takes place in a crumbling town on the China-Myanmar border.  A woman marrying her kidnapper is only the beginning of a series of emotional knots and dramatic twists in this superbly constructed crime drama. \nTHE COFFIN IN THE MOUNTAIN (2014) dir. Xin Yukun w/Huo Weimin\, Wang Xiaotian\, Luo Yun [119 min; DCP]\nTue\, Nov 14 at 8:30pm\nA striking feature directorial debut\, THE COFFIN IN THE MOUNTAIN is an unflinching depiction of provincial entrapment where people’s lives are intricately intertwined through an accidental death. With an ingeniously constructed timeline\, the film morphs from mystery to suspense and finally to irony. \nFREE + EASY (2017) dir. Geng Jun w/Xu Gang\, Zhang Zhiyong\, Xue Baohe [98 min; DCP]\nWed\, Nov 15 at 8:30pm\nWith tinges of the Coen Brothers\, Jim Jarmusch\, and Samuel Beckett\, director Geng presents a portrait of a socio-economic system so flawed that it has veered into black comedy – a practically post-apocalyptic world where crime is the new normal. In a Northern Chinese industrial town\, everyone – even the local monk – is running a con and the police are more interested in chasing girls than criminals. \nWinner of a special jury award at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/new-noir-chinese-crime-films-2017-11-12/
LOCATION:Brattle Theater\, 40 Brattle St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Emergent Visions Film Screening,Events of Interest,Film Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171113T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171113T133000
DTSTAMP:20260511T041930
CREATED:20171108T202753Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171108T202753Z
UID:6266-1510574400-1510579800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Huang Yinghong  - Compulsory Development: the Ideal Type of Land Acquisition in India and China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Huang Yinghong\, Associate Professor\, School of International Relations\, Sun Yat-sen University; HYI Visiting Scholar\nChair/discussant: Malcolm McPherson\, Senior Research Fellow\, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation\, Harvard Kennedy School \nhttps://harvard-yenching.org/events/compulsory-development-ideal-type-land-acquisition-india-and-china
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/huang-yinghong-compulsory-development-the-ideal-type-of-land-acquisition-in-india-and-china/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171113T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171113T140000
DTSTAMP:20260511T041930
CREATED:20170830T153505Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170830T153505Z
UID:5791-1510574400-1510581600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:East Asian Legal Studies Talk With Professor Curtis Milhaupt
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Curtis J. Milhaupt is the Parker Professor of Comparative Corporate Law and Fuyo Professor of Japanese Law at Columbia Law School. He also serves as the Law School’s director of the Parker School of Foreign and Comparative Law and director of the Center for Japanese Legal Studies. He is also a member of Columbia University’s Weatherhead East Asian Institute.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/east-asian-legal-studies-talk-with-professor-curtis-milhaupt/
LOCATION:Austin Hall Room 308\, 1515 Mass Ave\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171113T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171113T230000
DTSTAMP:20260511T041930
CREATED:20171024T151434Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171024T151434Z
UID:6153-1510605000-1510614000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:New Noir: Chinese Crime Films
DESCRIPTION:Film noir\, as its meaning “black film” or “film of the night” indicates\, is an art of darkness. For its connotation of pessimism and menace\, crime\, especially unsolved ones\, has been a rare event in Chinese cinema\, because it is considered by the authority as an admission to the discontents of life in what is supposed to be the people’s paradise. Recently\, however\, a new generation of young auteurs\, working independently\, has been reworking the tropes of Chinese spy film to address the country’s endemic corruption and violence\, with films that portray drifting killers\, frustrated police\, and fatal beauties\, all enmeshed in a web of vice and desire. Starting with BLACK COAL\, THIN ICE\, a landmark in Chinese crime film\, and ending with FREE AND EASY\, a post-apocalyptic dark comedy\, this program is a witness to the birth of the Chinese mainland school of noir. \nNew Noir is part of the Creative China Festival\, curated by Meng Xie\, supported by Beijing Contemporary Art Foundation. \nCo-presented by Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies \nPlease Note: Tickets are $11 each for general public\, $9 for students and Brattle members\, and $8 for seniors.  A total of 50 free tickets for screenings in the series are available to Harvard ID holders on a first-come\, first-serve basis.  Please show your Harvard ID at the box office up to half an hour before the screening.  No advanced reservations are accepted for these free tickets.  \nBLACK COAL\, THIN ICE (2014) dir. Diao Yinan w/ Liao Fan\, Kwei Lun-Mei\, Wang Xuebing [110 min; DCP]\nSun\, Nov 12 at 5:30pm\nA landmark in Chinese crime film\, BLACK COAL\, THIN ICE is a dazzlingly stylized mystery that blends Fincher-esque genre elements and social commentary. It all begins with the discovery of a hand on a coal conveyor belt. Cop Zhang (Liao Fan) tries to solve the case but\, years later\, the body parts are still showing up. The film won the Golden Bear for Best Film\, as well as the Silver Bear for Best Actor\, at the 2014 Berlin International Film Festival. \nTHE DEAD END (2015) dir. Cao Baoping w/Deng Chao\, Duan Yuhong\, Guo Tao [139 min; DCP]\nSun\, Nov 12 at 8:00pm\nWith Dostoevskian undertones\, THE DEAD END is a gritty tale of redemption for three men—a cop\, a cab driver\, and a recluse—who are haunted by shared guilt over their murderous misdeeds in an unsolved crime. \nLETHAL HOSTAGE (2012) dir. Cheng Er w/Ni Dahong\, Sun Honglei\, Wang Luodan [97 min; DCP]\nMon\, Nov 13 at 8:30pm\nAn ingeniously structured psychological thriller\, LETHAL HOSTAGE takes place in a crumbling town on the China-Myanmar border.  A woman marrying her kidnapper is only the beginning of a series of emotional knots and dramatic twists in this superbly constructed crime drama. \nTHE COFFIN IN THE MOUNTAIN (2014) dir. Xin Yukun w/Huo Weimin\, Wang Xiaotian\, Luo Yun [119 min; DCP]\nTue\, Nov 14 at 8:30pm\nA striking feature directorial debut\, THE COFFIN IN THE MOUNTAIN is an unflinching depiction of provincial entrapment where people’s lives are intricately intertwined through an accidental death. With an ingeniously constructed timeline\, the film morphs from mystery to suspense and finally to irony. \nFREE + EASY (2017) dir. Geng Jun w/Xu Gang\, Zhang Zhiyong\, Xue Baohe [98 min; DCP]\nWed\, Nov 15 at 8:30pm\nWith tinges of the Coen Brothers\, Jim Jarmusch\, and Samuel Beckett\, director Geng presents a portrait of a socio-economic system so flawed that it has veered into black comedy – a practically post-apocalyptic world where crime is the new normal. In a Northern Chinese industrial town\, everyone – even the local monk – is running a con and the police are more interested in chasing girls than criminals. \nWinner of a special jury award at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/new-noir-chinese-crime-films-2017-11-13/
LOCATION:Brattle Theater\, 40 Brattle St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Emergent Visions Film Screening,Events of Interest,Film Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171114T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171114T150000
DTSTAMP:20260511T041930
CREATED:20170929T174526Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170929T174526Z
UID:5995-1510664400-1510671600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Roderick MacFarquhar - The Rise of Xi Jinping
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Roderick MacFarquhar\, Leroy B. Williams Professor of History and Political Science and former Director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. \nListen again on the Fairbank Center’s podcast: \n \n 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-analysis-of-the-19th-party-congress/
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,Events of Interest,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171114T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171114T190000
DTSTAMP:20260511T041930
CREATED:20171026T163442Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171026T163442Z
UID:6186-1510675200-1510686000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Film Series - Aging in Asia
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, November.13\nOld Partner (Korea\, 78 min.)\nIntroduced by: Paul Chang\, Associate Professor of Sociology\, Harvard University \nTuesday\, November. 14\nBaghban (India\, 178 min.)\nIntroduced by: Professor Samir Dayal\, English and Media Studies\, Bentley University \nWednesday\, November 15\nFor Fun (Zhao le) (China\, 98 min)\nIntroduced by: Haijing Hao\, Asia Center Associate; Assistant Professor\, Management Science and Information Systems Department\, College of Management\, University of Massachusetts\, Boston \nThursday\, November 16\nPecoross’ Mother and Her Days (Japan\, 113 min.)\nIntroduced by: Alexander Zahlten\, Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University \nRefreshments provided \nCo-sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Korea Institute\, Lakshmi Mittal South Asia Institute\, and Reischauer Institute
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-series-aging-in-asia-2017-11-14/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S354\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest,Film Screening,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171114T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171114T230000
DTSTAMP:20260511T041930
CREATED:20171024T151434Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171024T151434Z
UID:6154-1510691400-1510700400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:New Noir: Chinese Crime Films
DESCRIPTION:Film noir\, as its meaning “black film” or “film of the night” indicates\, is an art of darkness. For its connotation of pessimism and menace\, crime\, especially unsolved ones\, has been a rare event in Chinese cinema\, because it is considered by the authority as an admission to the discontents of life in what is supposed to be the people’s paradise. Recently\, however\, a new generation of young auteurs\, working independently\, has been reworking the tropes of Chinese spy film to address the country’s endemic corruption and violence\, with films that portray drifting killers\, frustrated police\, and fatal beauties\, all enmeshed in a web of vice and desire. Starting with BLACK COAL\, THIN ICE\, a landmark in Chinese crime film\, and ending with FREE AND EASY\, a post-apocalyptic dark comedy\, this program is a witness to the birth of the Chinese mainland school of noir. \nNew Noir is part of the Creative China Festival\, curated by Meng Xie\, supported by Beijing Contemporary Art Foundation. \nCo-presented by Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies \nPlease Note: Tickets are $11 each for general public\, $9 for students and Brattle members\, and $8 for seniors.  A total of 50 free tickets for screenings in the series are available to Harvard ID holders on a first-come\, first-serve basis.  Please show your Harvard ID at the box office up to half an hour before the screening.  No advanced reservations are accepted for these free tickets.  \nBLACK COAL\, THIN ICE (2014) dir. Diao Yinan w/ Liao Fan\, Kwei Lun-Mei\, Wang Xuebing [110 min; DCP]\nSun\, Nov 12 at 5:30pm\nA landmark in Chinese crime film\, BLACK COAL\, THIN ICE is a dazzlingly stylized mystery that blends Fincher-esque genre elements and social commentary. It all begins with the discovery of a hand on a coal conveyor belt. Cop Zhang (Liao Fan) tries to solve the case but\, years later\, the body parts are still showing up. The film won the Golden Bear for Best Film\, as well as the Silver Bear for Best Actor\, at the 2014 Berlin International Film Festival. \nTHE DEAD END (2015) dir. Cao Baoping w/Deng Chao\, Duan Yuhong\, Guo Tao [139 min; DCP]\nSun\, Nov 12 at 8:00pm\nWith Dostoevskian undertones\, THE DEAD END is a gritty tale of redemption for three men—a cop\, a cab driver\, and a recluse—who are haunted by shared guilt over their murderous misdeeds in an unsolved crime. \nLETHAL HOSTAGE (2012) dir. Cheng Er w/Ni Dahong\, Sun Honglei\, Wang Luodan [97 min; DCP]\nMon\, Nov 13 at 8:30pm\nAn ingeniously structured psychological thriller\, LETHAL HOSTAGE takes place in a crumbling town on the China-Myanmar border.  A woman marrying her kidnapper is only the beginning of a series of emotional knots and dramatic twists in this superbly constructed crime drama. \nTHE COFFIN IN THE MOUNTAIN (2014) dir. Xin Yukun w/Huo Weimin\, Wang Xiaotian\, Luo Yun [119 min; DCP]\nTue\, Nov 14 at 8:30pm\nA striking feature directorial debut\, THE COFFIN IN THE MOUNTAIN is an unflinching depiction of provincial entrapment where people’s lives are intricately intertwined through an accidental death. With an ingeniously constructed timeline\, the film morphs from mystery to suspense and finally to irony. \nFREE + EASY (2017) dir. Geng Jun w/Xu Gang\, Zhang Zhiyong\, Xue Baohe [98 min; DCP]\nWed\, Nov 15 at 8:30pm\nWith tinges of the Coen Brothers\, Jim Jarmusch\, and Samuel Beckett\, director Geng presents a portrait of a socio-economic system so flawed that it has veered into black comedy – a practically post-apocalyptic world where crime is the new normal. In a Northern Chinese industrial town\, everyone – even the local monk – is running a con and the police are more interested in chasing girls than criminals. \nWinner of a special jury award at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/new-noir-chinese-crime-films-2017-11-14/
LOCATION:Brattle Theater\, 40 Brattle St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Emergent Visions Film Screening,Events of Interest,Film Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171115T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171115T140000
DTSTAMP:20260511T041930
CREATED:20170803T165814Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170803T165814Z
UID:5427-1510749000-1510754400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Richard Madsen - Happiness in China: Defining\, Seeking\, Being Frustrated
DESCRIPTION:Read event summary here \nSpeaker: Richard Madsen\, Director\, Fudan-UC Center on Contemporary China; Distinguished Professor of Sociology\, University of California\, San Diego
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-2-2017-11-15/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171115T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171115T170000
DTSTAMP:20260511T041930
CREATED:20170929T180032Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170929T180032Z
UID:6000-1510759800-1510765200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Tyler Harlan - Small Hydropower and the Low-Carbon Frontier in China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Tyler Harlan\, Ph.D. Candidate\, Department of Geography\, University of California\, Los Angeles \nSince the 1950s\, the Chinese government has used small hydropower (SHP) to drive rural electrification and local economic development in the remote\, resource-rich west of the country. More recently\, however\, this same technology has been re-framed as a renewable energy that generates electricity for the national green economy. In this presentation I argue that SHP represents a broader transformation of rural western China into a ‘low-carbon frontier’\, characterized by the rapid growth of renewable energy infrastructure far from urban centers. I show how the frontier is simultaneously constructed as a site of ecological degradation and of untapped low-carbon value\, both discursively and materially through preferential state policies for renewable energy expansion. This\, in turn\, enables energy firms and local governments to extract new profits from natural resources that may have competing uses. Drawing on policy analysis and twelve months of interviews with government officials\, hydropower investors\, and farmers\, I argue that SHP on the ‘low-carbon frontier’ privileges renewable energy generation over other local resource needs. At the same time\, I show how local governments employ new SHP infrastructure for their own uses\, such as powering nearby mining and mineral processing facilities. This presentation thus highlights the importance of examining subnational geographies of low-carbon transformation\, and the ways that resources and technologies can be re-purposed for local and national development goals. \nCo-sponsored by China Project\, Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences\, and Environment in Asia Series\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/small-hydropower-and-the-low-carbon-frontier-in-china/
LOCATION:Pierce Hall 100F\, 29 Oxford St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Conference and Workshops,Environment,Environment,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171115T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171115T190000
DTSTAMP:20260511T041930
CREATED:20171026T163442Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171026T163442Z
UID:6187-1510761600-1510772400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Film Series - Aging in Asia
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, November.13\nOld Partner (Korea\, 78 min.)\nIntroduced by: Paul Chang\, Associate Professor of Sociology\, Harvard University \nTuesday\, November. 14\nBaghban (India\, 178 min.)\nIntroduced by: Professor Samir Dayal\, English and Media Studies\, Bentley University \nWednesday\, November 15\nFor Fun (Zhao le) (China\, 98 min)\nIntroduced by: Haijing Hao\, Asia Center Associate; Assistant Professor\, Management Science and Information Systems Department\, College of Management\, University of Massachusetts\, Boston \nThursday\, November 16\nPecoross’ Mother and Her Days (Japan\, 113 min.)\nIntroduced by: Alexander Zahlten\, Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University \nRefreshments provided \nCo-sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Korea Institute\, Lakshmi Mittal South Asia Institute\, and Reischauer Institute
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-series-aging-in-asia-2017-11-15/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S354\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest,Film Screening,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171115T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171115T230000
DTSTAMP:20260511T041930
CREATED:20171024T151434Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171024T151434Z
UID:6155-1510777800-1510786800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:New Noir: Chinese Crime Films
DESCRIPTION:Film noir\, as its meaning “black film” or “film of the night” indicates\, is an art of darkness. For its connotation of pessimism and menace\, crime\, especially unsolved ones\, has been a rare event in Chinese cinema\, because it is considered by the authority as an admission to the discontents of life in what is supposed to be the people’s paradise. Recently\, however\, a new generation of young auteurs\, working independently\, has been reworking the tropes of Chinese spy film to address the country’s endemic corruption and violence\, with films that portray drifting killers\, frustrated police\, and fatal beauties\, all enmeshed in a web of vice and desire. Starting with BLACK COAL\, THIN ICE\, a landmark in Chinese crime film\, and ending with FREE AND EASY\, a post-apocalyptic dark comedy\, this program is a witness to the birth of the Chinese mainland school of noir. \nNew Noir is part of the Creative China Festival\, curated by Meng Xie\, supported by Beijing Contemporary Art Foundation. \nCo-presented by Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies \nPlease Note: Tickets are $11 each for general public\, $9 for students and Brattle members\, and $8 for seniors.  A total of 50 free tickets for screenings in the series are available to Harvard ID holders on a first-come\, first-serve basis.  Please show your Harvard ID at the box office up to half an hour before the screening.  No advanced reservations are accepted for these free tickets.  \nBLACK COAL\, THIN ICE (2014) dir. Diao Yinan w/ Liao Fan\, Kwei Lun-Mei\, Wang Xuebing [110 min; DCP]\nSun\, Nov 12 at 5:30pm\nA landmark in Chinese crime film\, BLACK COAL\, THIN ICE is a dazzlingly stylized mystery that blends Fincher-esque genre elements and social commentary. It all begins with the discovery of a hand on a coal conveyor belt. Cop Zhang (Liao Fan) tries to solve the case but\, years later\, the body parts are still showing up. The film won the Golden Bear for Best Film\, as well as the Silver Bear for Best Actor\, at the 2014 Berlin International Film Festival. \nTHE DEAD END (2015) dir. Cao Baoping w/Deng Chao\, Duan Yuhong\, Guo Tao [139 min; DCP]\nSun\, Nov 12 at 8:00pm\nWith Dostoevskian undertones\, THE DEAD END is a gritty tale of redemption for three men—a cop\, a cab driver\, and a recluse—who are haunted by shared guilt over their murderous misdeeds in an unsolved crime. \nLETHAL HOSTAGE (2012) dir. Cheng Er w/Ni Dahong\, Sun Honglei\, Wang Luodan [97 min; DCP]\nMon\, Nov 13 at 8:30pm\nAn ingeniously structured psychological thriller\, LETHAL HOSTAGE takes place in a crumbling town on the China-Myanmar border.  A woman marrying her kidnapper is only the beginning of a series of emotional knots and dramatic twists in this superbly constructed crime drama. \nTHE COFFIN IN THE MOUNTAIN (2014) dir. Xin Yukun w/Huo Weimin\, Wang Xiaotian\, Luo Yun [119 min; DCP]\nTue\, Nov 14 at 8:30pm\nA striking feature directorial debut\, THE COFFIN IN THE MOUNTAIN is an unflinching depiction of provincial entrapment where people’s lives are intricately intertwined through an accidental death. With an ingeniously constructed timeline\, the film morphs from mystery to suspense and finally to irony. \nFREE + EASY (2017) dir. Geng Jun w/Xu Gang\, Zhang Zhiyong\, Xue Baohe [98 min; DCP]\nWed\, Nov 15 at 8:30pm\nWith tinges of the Coen Brothers\, Jim Jarmusch\, and Samuel Beckett\, director Geng presents a portrait of a socio-economic system so flawed that it has veered into black comedy – a practically post-apocalyptic world where crime is the new normal. In a Northern Chinese industrial town\, everyone – even the local monk – is running a con and the police are more interested in chasing girls than criminals. \nWinner of a special jury award at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/new-noir-chinese-crime-films-2017-11-15/
LOCATION:Brattle Theater\, 40 Brattle St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Emergent Visions Film Screening,Events of Interest,Film Screening
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SUMMARY:Maria Repnikova - Media Politics in China: Improvising Power under Authoritarianism
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a discussion with Maria Repnikova\, Assistant Professor Communication at Georgia State University and author of\, “Media Politics in China: Improvising Power under Authoritarianism.” Ash Center Director Tony Saich will moderate. \nLunch will be provided.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/media-politics-in-china-improvising-power-under-authoritarianism/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest,Special Event
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UID:6188-1510848000-1510858800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Film Series - Aging in Asia
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, November.13\nOld Partner (Korea\, 78 min.)\nIntroduced by: Paul Chang\, Associate Professor of Sociology\, Harvard University \nTuesday\, November. 14\nBaghban (India\, 178 min.)\nIntroduced by: Professor Samir Dayal\, English and Media Studies\, Bentley University \nWednesday\, November 15\nFor Fun (Zhao le) (China\, 98 min)\nIntroduced by: Haijing Hao\, Asia Center Associate; Assistant Professor\, Management Science and Information Systems Department\, College of Management\, University of Massachusetts\, Boston \nThursday\, November 16\nPecoross’ Mother and Her Days (Japan\, 113 min.)\nIntroduced by: Alexander Zahlten\, Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University \nRefreshments provided \nCo-sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Korea Institute\, Lakshmi Mittal South Asia Institute\, and Reischauer Institute
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-series-aging-in-asia-2017-11-16/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S354\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest,Film Screening,Special Event
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SUMMARY:Prasenjit Duara - Spiritual Ecologies: Sustainability and Transcendence in Contemporary Asia
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Prasenjit Duara\, Oscar Tang Professor of East Asian Studies\, Duke University\n\n\n\n\n\nThe crisis of global modernity has been produced by human overreach that was founded upon a paradigm of national modernization. Today\, three global changes: the rise of non-western powers\, the crisis of environmental sustainability and the loss of authoritative sources of transcendence – the ideals\, principles and ethics once found in religions — define our condition. The physical salvation of the world is becoming the transcendent goal of our times\, transcending national sovereignty. The foundations of sovereignty can no longer be sought in tunnelled histories of nations; we are recognizing that histories have always been circulatory and the planet is a collective responsibility. \nI re-consider the values and resources in Asian traditions—particularly of China and India—that Max Weber found wanting in their capacity to achieve modernity. Several traditions in Asia\, particularly in environmentally marginalized local communities offer different ways of understanding the relationship between the personal\, ecological and universal. The idea of transcendence in these communities is more dialogical than radical or dualistic: separating God or the human subject from nature. Transnational civil society\, NGOS\, quasi-governmental and inter-governmental agencies committed to to the inviolability or sacrality of the “commons” are finding common cause with these communities struggling to survive. \nThe Environment Forum at the Mahindra Center is convened by Robin Kelsey (Dean of Arts and Humanities\, Harvard University) and Ian Jared Miller (Professor of History\, Harvard University).
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/prasenjit-duara-spiritual-ecologies-sustainability-and-transcendence-in-contemporary-asia/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Environment,Events of Interest
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UID:5463-1510920000-1510927200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Mae Ngai - The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Professor Mae Ngai\, Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies and Professor of History\, Columbia University
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-chinese-question-the-gold-rushes-and-global-politics/
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SUMMARY:David Palmer & Elijah Siegler - Enchanting Huashan in the Global Spiritual Circuit: Intersecting Modes of Making Sacred Space
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\nDavid Palmer\, University of Hong Kong\nElijah Siegler\, College of Charleston \nThis talk is based on the newly released book Dream Trippers (University of Chicago Press)\, a multi-sited ethnographic study of transnational encounters between American Daoist spiritual tourists and practitioners and the Chinese monks and hermits of the sacred Daoist peak of Huashan. In this talk\, the co-authors will describe how the mountain is a source of enchanting experiences for both American “Dream Trippers” and the Daoist monks of the Order of Complete Perfection. \nMany American practitioners perceive these experiences within a framework of ontological individualism\, while others use Qigong practice to connect and attune to the ‘energies’ of the mountain within the framework of a Daoist cosmology that has been extracted from its historical and cultural context. For the monks\, on the other hand\, the cosmological attunement of Daoist cultivation occurs through enchanted connections with the Immortals of Daoist history and lineage. What happens when\, through encounters between the two groups\, these different narratives of enchantment confront each other\, or become imbricated with each other? \nDr. David A. Palmer is an Associate Professor of Anthropology\, Department of Sociology and Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences\, at the University of Hong Kong. After completing his PhD in the Anthropology of Religion at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris\, he was the Eileen Barker Fellow in Religion and Contemporary Society at the London School of Economics and Political Science\, and\, from 2004 to 2008\, director of the Hong Kong Centre of the French School of Asian Studies (Ecole Française d’Extrême-Orient). His books include the award-winning Qigong Fever: Body\, Science and Utopia in China (Columbia University Press\, 2007); The Religious Question in Modern China (co-authored with Vincent Goossaert\, University of Chicago Press\, 2011; awarded the Levenson Book Prize of the Association for Asian Studies); and Dream Trippers: Global Daoism and the Predicament of Modern Spirituality (co-authored with Elijah Siegler\, University of Chicago Press\, 2017). \n Dr. Elijah Siegler is a Professor of Religious Studies at the College of Charleston in South Carolina. He has degrees from Harvard University and the University of California at Santa Barbara. He has published an introductory textbook on New Religious Movements (Routledge\, 2007)\, and articles about religion in film and television\, on American Daoism\, and on religious studies pedagogy. He recently edited Coen: Framing Religion in Amoral Order (Baylor University Press\, 2016) and co-wrote\, with David Palmer\, Dream Trippers: Global Daoism and the Predicament of Modern Culture (University of Chicago Press\, 2017)
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-humanities-seminar-2017-11-17/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:China Humanities Seminar,Events of Interest
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UID:6180-1510941600-1510952400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Film Screening and In-Person Discussion with the Director - We the Workers
DESCRIPTION:Shot over a six-year period (2009-15) mainly in the industrial heartland of south China\, this film primarily follows labor activists Peng Jiayong and Deng Xiaoming as they find common ground with workers\, helping them to negotiate with local officials and factory owners over wages and working conditions. \nThreats\, attacks\, detention and boredom become part of their daily lives as they struggle to strengthen worker solidarity in the face of pressure from police and their employers. In the process\, we see in their words and actions the emergence of a nascent working class consciousness and labor movement in China. \nDirected by Wen Hai\nWen Hai studied at the Beijing Film Academy and has since 2001 been active as an independent film director. Among his best known films are Floating Dust (2003)\, that won him the Georges Beauregard award at the 16th Festival International du Documentaire in Marseille in 2005\, Dream Walking (2005)\, and the We that won the Horizons Special Mention award at the 2008 Venice International Film Festival. He also worked as a cameraman on Wang Bing’s film Three Sisters (2012). \n  \nPlease note that there will also be a screening of Wen Hai’s 2008 film WE at Boston University on Thursday Nov 16\, 2017 at 7pm\, with the filmmaker available for Q&A afterwards.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-screening-and-in-person-discussion-with-the-director-we-the-workers/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Emergent Visions Film Screening,Film Screening
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UID:6271-1510995600-1511006400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Donald Sturgeon - Digital Research Tools for Pre-modern Chinese Texts
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Donald Sturgeon\, East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University \nDigital methods offer increasingly powerful tools to aid in the study and analysis of historical written works\, both through exploratory techniques in which previously unnoticed trends and relationships are highlighted\, as well as through computer-assisted assembly of data to refute or confirm particular hypotheses. Applying such techniques in practice often requires first overcoming technical challenges – in particular access to machine-readable editions of the desired texts\, as well as to tools capable of performing such analyses. \nThis hands-on practical workshop introduces approaches intended to reduce the technical barriers to experimenting with these techniques and evaluating their utility for particular scholarly uses. The first part of this workshop introduces the Chinese Text Project (https://ctext.org)\, which has grown to become the largest full-text digital library of pre-modern Chinese. While on the one hand the website offers a simple means to access commonly used functions such as full-text search for a wide range of pre-modern Chinese sources\, at the same time it also provides more sophisticated mechanisms allowing for more open-ended use of its contents\, as well as the ability to contribute directly to the digitization of entirely new materials. \nThe second part of the workshop introduces tools for performing digital textual analysis of Chinese-language materials\, which may be obtained from the Chinese Text Project or elsewhere. These include identification of text reuse within and between written materials\, sophisticated pattern search using regular expressions\, and visualization of the results of these and other types of analysis. \n24-seat limit. Light refreshments.\nRSVP at https://goo.gl/ac1K96\nQuestions: ying_qin@fas.harvard.edu\nDetails: https://dsturgeon.net/digital-tools-chinese/ \n 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/donald-sturgeon-digital-research-tools-for-pre-modern-chinese-texts/
LOCATION:Northwest Building\, Room B129\, 52 Oxford St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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UID:6309-1511193600-1511197200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Ezra Vogel - China’s Development and Its Role in the Global Affairs
DESCRIPTION:Keynote Speaker: Ezra Vogel (傅高义）\, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus \nPanelists:\nEzra Vogel\, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus\nRichard Cooper\, Maurits C. Boas Professor of International Economics \nModerator:\nAnthony Saich\, Daewoo Professor of International Affairs\, Director of the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation \nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/seminar-chinas-development-and-its-role-in-the-global-affairs-tickets-39852171919
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/ezra-vogel-chinas-development-and-its-role-in-the-global-affairs/
LOCATION:Wiener Auditorium\, Taubman Building\, 79 JFK St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171121T133000
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SUMMARY:David Huang - Accommodating America?: Understanding U.S. Influence in Xi's Policy Toward Taiwan
DESCRIPTION:The Ash Center invites you to a discussion with David Huang\, Associate Research Fellow\, Institute of European and American Studies (IEAS)\,\nAcademia Sinica\, Taiwan and Associate Professor\, Graduate Institute of National Development\, National Taiwan University for a discussion to better understand how the U.S. has influenced Xi Jinping’s policy toward Taiwan. This talk will be moderated by Ash Center Director Tony Saich. Lunch will be provided.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/david-huang-accommodating-america-understanding-u-s-influence-in-xis-policy-toward-taiwan/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest,Taiwan Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171128T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171128T210000
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UID:6268-1511893800-1511902800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Film Screening of "Plastic China" and Q&A with Director Wang Jiuliang
DESCRIPTION:After the screening\, Director Wang Jiuliang will attend via Skype for a Q&A with the audience moderated by Professor Zhang Ling of Boston College and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. The discussion will be interpreted by Canaan Morse\, a Ph.D. candidate in Chinese Literature at Harvard.  \nAbout the Film: As the world’s biggest plastic waste importer\, China receives ten million tons per year from most of the developed countries around the world. With high external costs impacting the local environment and health\, these imports are reborn here in these plastic workshops into “recycled” raw materials for the appetite of China – the world factory. This waste is then exported back to where they came from with a new face such as manufactured clothing or toys. Following the daily lives of two families living in a typical plastic waste household-recycling workshop\, PLASTIC CHINA explores how this work of recycling plastic waste with their bare hands takes a toll not only on their health\, but also their own dilemma of poverty\, disease\, pollution and death. \nAbout the Director: Director of the award-winning documentary film BEIJING BESIEGED BY WASTE\, WANG Jiuliang graduated from the School of Cinematic Arts of the Communication University of China in 2007. From 2007 to 2008\, he finished a set of photographic works about Chinese traditional superstitions. He started investigating landfill pollution around Beijing in 2008\, and in 2011\, finished BEIJING BESIEGED BY WASTE\, a set of photographic works and a documentary with the same name. Since 2012\, he has been working on and promoting the documentary PLASTIC CHINA. \nBoston-area premiere co-sponsored by the Harvard-China Project on Energy\, Economy and Environment\, Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences; Environment in Asia Series\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies; and Emergent Visions Film Screening Series\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. \nFree admission to the film screening is made possible through the generous support of the Harvard Global Institute. 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-screening-of-plastic-china-and-qa-with-director-wang-jiuliang/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Emergent Visions Film Screening,Environment,Environment,Events of Interest,Film Screening
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UID:5429-1511958600-1511964000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Mark Gillette - Security Implications of a More Assertive China
DESCRIPTION:Event Summary \nSpeaker: Mark Gillette\, Deputy Director for Strategic Planning and Policy\, U.S. Pacific Command; formerly Defense Attaché-China\, Defense Intelligence Agency
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-2-2017-11-29/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171130T133000
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SUMMARY:Xu Jian - The Legendary Yelang State in Southwest China\, What\, Where and by Whom? Rethinking the roles of historical writing and archaeology in reconstructing ancient history
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Xu Jian\, Professor of Archaeology and Art history\, Department of History\, Sun Yat-sen University; HYI Visiting Scholar\nChair/discussant: Rowan Flad\, John E. Hudson Professor of Archaeology\, Department of Anthropology\, Harvard University \nFor decades\, Chinese archaeologists have searched extensively in current Guizhou and northeastern Yunnan for remains of the legendary state Yelang\, which is still out of sight by large. The Yelang state\, ranging from the 4th to the 1st century BCE\, is depicted ambiguously in the Records of Great Historian as one of the targets and victims during the Western Han’s expansion in the Southwest. The continuing findings of large burial sites in Zhongshui\, Weining and Kele\, Hezhang call great attention by high qualified or exotic artifacts from elite tombs\, unusual burial practice hinting a long-distance contact\, and a certain degree of social complexity revealed by the hierarchy system in the measurements of the burials\, but some key features\, assumed as indexes of Bronze culture by the dominant Childe school\, such as city wall or fortifications\, ceremonial\, administrative or general public architecture\, are absent from these sites. Did the Yelang state really exist in history? Have archaeologists already exposed its nucleus or is its urban center still under the ground and beyond archaeologists’ reach? What are the possible shape and characteristics of the Yelang state? This presentation will take into account all these issues\, and raise a further discussion on how to reconstruct history by historical writings from an etic perspective and archaeological finds gained in a framework based on experiences from dramatically different settings.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/xu-jian-the-legendary-yelang-state-in-southwest-china-what-where-and-by-whom-rethinking-the-roles-of-historical-writing-and-archaeology-in-reconstructing-ancient-history/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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UID:6335-1512043200-1512050400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Jie Li - Gained in Translation: The Reception of Foreign Films in the Mao Era
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Jie Li\, Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University\nDiscussant: Professor Carter Eckert\, Yoon Se Young Professor of Korean History\, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University \nSponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center\, Korea Insitute\, Lakshmi Mittal South Asia Insitute\, and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard University.  \nAlthough Hollywood films were expelled from China in the 1950s and not reintroduced until the 1980s\, audiences in the Mao era still had access to an impressive array of international cinema. Apart from many Soviet films dubbed into Mandarin with a Northeastern accent\, urban residents had access to films from countries as diverse as Bulgaria\, Czechoslovakia\, Egypt\, England\, Hungary\, India\, Iraq\, Italy\, Japan\, Mexico\, and Poland. Even in the later years of the Cultural Revolution\, a popular saying circulated about the masses’ cosmopolitan film diet: “Chinese films\, newsreel documentaries; Vietnamese films\, airplanes and cannons; North Korean films: weep\, weep\, smile smile; Romanian films: hugs and kisses; Albanian films: baffling and bizarre.” This paper outlines the exhibition of foreign cinema and studies their influence on Chinese audiences from the 1950s to the 1970s\, with a focus around four case studies: the Soviet film Lenin in 1918 (1939)\, the North Korean film The Flower Girl (1972)\, the Albanian film Victory over Death (1967)\, and the Indian film Awara (1951). I address questions such as: What made The Flower Girl such a tearful sensation? How did the theme song and social criticism in Awara resonate with Chinese audiences from the 1950s to the 1980s? What aesthetic influences did Albanian films exert on fashion\, gesture\, and romantic ideals? Drawing on memoirs and oral history\, my approach goes beyond the close analysis of media texts to excavate the diverse contexts for film screenings as well as audience responses.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/jie-li-gained-in-translation-the-reception-of-foreign-films-in-the-mao-era/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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UID:6362-1512057600-1512064800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Asia Responds to Trump in Asia
DESCRIPTION:Listen again on the Fairbank Center’s podcast: \n \nChair:  Karen Thornber\, Victor and William Fung Director\, Harvard University Asia Center; Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and of Comparative Literature\, Harvard University\nModerator: Andrew Gordon\, Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History\, Harvard University\n\nRonak Desai\, Associate\, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs\, India and South Asia Program\, Harvard Kennedy School\nWilliam  Kirby\, Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration\, Harvard Business School; T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies\, Harvard University; Director\, Harvard China Fund\nSophie Lemière\, Postdoctoral Fellow\, Weatherhead Scholars Program\, Harvard University; Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow\, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies\, European University Institute\nTae Gyun Park\, Kim Koo Visiting Professor\, East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University; Professor of Modern Korean History\, Graduate School of International Studies\, Seoul National University \nCo-sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Korea Institute\, Lakshmi Mittal South Asia Institute\, Reischauer Institute\, U.S.-Japan Program\, and Weatherhead Center for International Studies
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/asia-responds-to-trump-in-asia/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171202T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171202T120000
DTSTAMP:20260511T041930
CREATED:20171121T163715Z
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SUMMARY:Lex Berman - A Practical Approach to GIS and Spatial Thinking for China Research
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Lex Berman\, GIS Specialist & Web Services Manager\, Center for Geographic Analysis \nSpatial Humanities is a synthesis between traditional historical and textual research methods and the use of geographic information systems to find spatial relationships.  Exploring the spatial aspects of data\, and examining how those change over time\, we can develop interesting visualizations\, and also discover new questions to pursue in our research. In this Workshop we will introduce general concepts of spatial thinking and querying of spatial data\, browse Chinese datasets available for your research\, and provide a basic hands-on guide to using QGIS software.  The QGIS instruction will be brief\, covering how to open GIS datasets\, create thematic maps\, and prepare your maps for print publication. \n24-seat limit. Light refreshments.\nRSVP at https://goo.gl/5x3LMA\nQuestions: ying_qin@fas.harvard.edu
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/lex-berman-a-practical-approach-to-gis-and-spatial-thinking-for-china-research/
LOCATION:Northwest Building\, Room B129\, 52 Oxford St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171204T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171204T183000
DTSTAMP:20260511T041930
CREATED:20170831T132116Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170831T132116Z
UID:5810-1512405000-1512412200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:CANCELED: Jing Tsu - Key Strokes: What Made the Chinese Script Revolution?
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Jing Tsu\, Yale University \nIt is tempting to understand the Chinese script revolution of the modern era as part of a familiar narrative of vengeance.  The Chinese language was idealized then disparaged by the Europeans\, on this view\, banished then revived only to play a mere prop in different fantasies about the Orient.  That Chinese was simplified and romanized into pinyin in the twentieth century–both claimed as Mao’s achievements–merged readily with the narrative of China’s rise in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries\, especially with the new emphasis on “innovation.”  In contrast to this satisfying story\, I will talk about the underside of this history\, one that did not enjoy big moments or one-time victories in telegraphy\, typewriting\, or the digital age but drew from the energy and failures of Chinese and non-Chinese alike\, who each put a different arc on how this history could have developed–but sometimes did not.  Emerging from this process is the one change that truly changed everything\, which will be the focus of this lecture. \nJing Tsu\, a new Guggenheim Fellow\, is a literary scholar and cultural historian of modern China at Yale University. She is the first person to be tenured and become Professor of Chinese Literature and Comparative Literature at Yale\, and author of four books (two co-edited). She is currently writing a new book about how China entered the IT era\, The Kingdom of Characters: Language Wars and China’s Rise to Global Power\, a remarkable tale that uncovers what happened to the Chinese script in the age of the Western alphabet (under contract with Riverhead at Penguin Random House). Her research spans literature\, linguistics\, science and technology\, typewriting and digitalization\, diaspora studies\, migration\, nationalism\, and theories of globalization\, and she has written for The New York Times.  \nAt Yale\, Tsu is also a Senior Research Fellow at the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies\, a member of the Executive Committee of both the Whitney Humanities Center and the Humanities Program\, as well as a faculty affiliate of WGSS (Women’s\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies) and ER&M (Ethnicity\, Race\, and Migration).
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-humanities-seminar-2017-12-04/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:China Humanities Seminar,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171205T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171205T133000
DTSTAMP:20260511T041930
CREATED:20171108T201516Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171108T201516Z
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SUMMARY:Daisy Yan Du - Plasmatic Empire: Animated Filmmaking in the Manchukuo Film Association\, 1937-1945
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Daisy Yan Du\, Assistant Professor\, Division of Humanities\, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; HYI Visiting Scholar\nChair/discussant: Jie Li\, Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University \nThis talk examines animated filmmaking in the Manchukuo Film Association (Manying\, 1937-1945)\, which played an important role in shaping wartime film culture in Northeast China and other Japanese-occupied areas such as North China and Shanghai. Some studies have been conducted on Manying films\, but they have focused on documentaries\, newsreels\, and fictional live-action films\, and do not systematically address the cinematic form of animation. Since animation is a different medium\, an in-depth study of it will provide a unique perspective from which to understand Manying and the complicated wartime culture of Manchukuo\, China\, and Japan. The major theoretical problem that this talk tries to address is the convoluted relationship between animation and politics. On the one hand\, animation\, often regarded as a fantasy art form intended for an audience of children\, is widely known for its escapist and apolitical tendencies as it features fairytales\, folklore\, and talking animals. On the other hand\, animation\, due to its kinship with caricature and cartoon\, can be used as a powerful weapon to disseminate ideologies to both children and adults. In a politically fraught time when the non-political could be highly politicized\, how do we locate and dislocate Manying and its animation on the spectrum between escapism and political propaganda? \nAnimated films to be screened during the talk:\nTerrible Lice (Kepa de shizi\, 1943\, in Chinese)\nDreaming to be Emperor (Huangdi meng\, 1947\, in Chinese)\nCapturing the Turtle in the Jar (Wengzhong zhuobie\, 1948\, in Chinese)
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/daisy-yan-du-plasmatic-empire-animated-filmmaking-in-the-manchukuo-film-association-1937-1945/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171206T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171206T140000
DTSTAMP:20260511T041930
CREATED:20170803T165814Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170803T165814Z
UID:5773-1512563400-1512568800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Meg Rithmire - State-Business Relations Under Xi Jinping: The End of an Era?
DESCRIPTION:Event Summary \nProfessor Meg Rithmire\, F. Warren McFarlan Associate Professor of Business of Administration\, Harvard Business School
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-2-2017-10-18-2017-12-06/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China
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