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SUMMARY:Electric Vehicle–Power System Interactions: Potential\, Impacts\, and Economics
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: ZHAO Yang\, Postdoctoral Fellow\, Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences \n\n\n\nRSVP Required \n\n\n\nEV-grid integration (VGI) has the potential to manage the power demand from EVs and utilize EV batteries as distributed storage to support power-system balancing. Challenges remain in planning the long-term development of EV-grid integration\, as the system value of VGI is often insufficiently understood in the context of coupled power-system expansion and EV growth. Recent studies have explored the impact of VGI on solar-rich power systems\, where noon-time charging is predominantly promoted. However\, many coastal high-growth regions are well suited to EV adoption but face land constraints on utility-scale solar and wind generation\, making the role of VGI unclear. Here\, we develop an integrated optimization model linking EV operating patterns with least-cost power-system expansion under VGI. We apply it to Guangdong\, China’s leading province in both EV stock and electricity demand\, through 2050 under different decarbonization scenarios. Our results show how VGI interacts with rooftop PV\, offshore wind\, and fossil-fuel-fired power plants with CCS under different decarbonization scenarios. We further evaluate the avoided system costs of unidirectional and bidirectional VGI in long-run power-system expansion. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/electric-vehicle-power-system-interactions-potential-impacts-and-economics/
LOCATION:Pierce Hall 100F\, 29 Oxford St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260507T110000
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SUMMARY:How to Cultivate a Moral Human: A Conversation with Michael Puett and Amy Zhang
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers:Michael Puett\, Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History; Director\, Harvard University Asia CenterAmy Zhang\, Master’s Student\, Harvard Graduate School of EducationWhat can ancient Confucian philosophy offer for how we design education and live well in the AI age?Mencius argued that moral life begins not with rules but with cultivating the “four sprouts\,” the seeds of moral life\, through ritual\, relationship\, and care. Join Michael Puett\, Professor of Chinese History and Anthropology and author of The Path: What Chinese Philosophers Can Teach Us About the Good Life\, and Amy Zhang\, graduate student at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and former producer of Netflix’s Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj\, for a reflection on their fall independent study on ritual and Mencius on moral development. \n\n\n\nEnjoy Chinese tea in this casual talk and salon as we bring together philosophers\, artists\, and educators to ask what it means to design from this non-Western ontology.  \n\n\n\nRSVP Here | Limited Capacity \n\n\n\nMichael Puett (普鸣) is the Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History and Chair of the Committee on the Study of Religion and the Director of the Harvard University Asia Center. He is also a non-resident long-term fellow for programs in anthropological and historical sciences and the languages and civilizations of East Asia at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study\, Uppsala. \n\n\n\nPuett joined the Harvard faculty in 1994 after earning his M.A. (1987) and Ph.D. (1994) from the Department of Anthropology at the University of Chicago. His interests focus on the inter-relations between religion\, anthropology\, history\, and philosophy. In his research\, Puett aims to bring the study of China into larger historical and comparative frameworks. He has published many articles on early Chinese history (c. 1200 B.C. – c. 755 A.D.)\, and on classical Chinese ritual\, social\, and political theory.Amy Zhang is a writer\, artist\, and educator creating narratives and methods that ask how we live\, learn\, and become human\, drawing from non-Western philosophies and ways of being. As a graduate student at the Harvard Graduate School of Education\, she is developing the right to become human — an applied framework across children’s rights and pluriversal philosophy — along with companion theatrical work (Out of Time) and pedagogy (Awake\, a summer camp for teens to redesign their lives in the attention age).Previously\, she produced global stories for Netflix’s Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj and worked in documentary theater at Pink Fang (formerly Ping Chong + Company). Her writing has appeared in The New York Times\, The Atlantic\, The Dial\, and Joyland Magazine\, where her short story on Chinese international students won the 2022 Open Borders Prize. Born in Beijing and raised in Hong Kong\, she graduated with honors in anthropology from Wesleyan University and is a descendant of the Neo-Confucian philosopher Zhang Zai.www.amy-zhang.com \n\n\n\nWith support from the HGSE Dean’s Office Student AI Initiative Fund \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/how-to-grow-a-human-a-conversation-with-michael-puett-and-amy-zhang/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Room S153\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260612T180000
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SUMMARY:Film Screening and Discussion: Daughter of the Light with the Filmmaker
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Khashem Gyal\, Filmmaker; Adjunct Assistant Professor\, School of the Arts\, and Asia in Action Fellow\, Weatherhead East Asian Institute\, Columbia University  \n\n\n\nDaughter of the Light is a deeply moving feature documentary about thirteen-year-old Metok Karpo who lives in a Tibetan boarding school for orphans. The film follows Metok as she navigates the emotional complexities of her parents’ divorce in a rural town on the Tibetan plateau\, set against the backdrop of generational and social change.  \n\n\n\nA discussion will follow the screening. \n\n\n\nFree and open to public.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-screening-and-discussion-daughter-of-the-light-with-the-filmmaker/
LOCATION:Hall A\, Science Center\, 1 Oxford St.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260903T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260903T160000
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SUMMARY:Subversion and Seduction: China’s Economic Statecraft
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Audrye Wong\, Senior Fellow\, American Enterprise InstituteChair: Rana Mitter\, S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations\, Harvard Kennedy School \n\n\n\nEven as the Chinese government intensifies supply-chain coercion\, it continues to deepen the trade and investment linkages that sustain its global economic centrality. Audrye Wong’s new book\, Subversion and Seduction: China’s Economic Statecraft\, explores an underemphasized aspect of China’s economic influence: positive inducements. Through six case studies\, extensive field research\, and a survey experiment\, Dr. Wong’s book explores what kinds of inducement strategies succeed at achieving Beijing’s foreign policy goals and under what conditions. \n\n\n\nUnderstanding the mechanisms\, successes\, and limitations of China’s economic statecraft will be critical for leaders in the United States and abroad as they navigate a world where China increasingly wields its economic clout for geopolitical influence. Join Professor Rana Mitter and Dr. Audrye Wong for a discussion on this essential new book. \n\n\n\nAudrye Wong is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute\, where her work focuses on China’s foreign policy\, economic statecraft\, propaganda and disinformation campaigns\, and foreign influence operations. Previously\, Dr. Wong was a professor at the University of Southern California and postdoctoral fellow at the Grand Strategy\, Security\, and Statecraft joint program of the Harvard Kennedy School and Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Security Studies Program. She has also held affiliations with Harvard’s Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, the Wilson Center\, the Brookings Institution\, and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She is fluent in Mandarin.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/subversion-and-seduction-chinas-economic-statecraft/
LOCATION:Fainsod Room (324)\, Littauer Building\, 79 JFK St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260908T203000
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SUMMARY:Urban China Lecture Series featuring Wang Mengqi — Anxious Homes: Inflexible Demand and China’s Housing Market
DESCRIPTION:zoom meeting link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Mengqi Wang\, Assistant Professor of Anthropology\, Duke Kunshan University  \n\n\n\nThis talk presents the vernacular concept of inflexible demand\, known as 刚需/gangxu in Chinese\, that people in contemporary urban China draw on to refer to—and construct—an absolute need for homeownership for all city dwellers. Drawing on fieldwork conducted in a gangxu development at the urban periphery of east Nanjing from 2013 to 2015\, this talk argues that the concept of “inflexible demand” works as an empty signifier bridging diverse value-making projects that are constitutive of China’s housing market. It argues that homeownership\, in China\, suggests not independence but a further inclusion of citizens within the state. The talk ends with a reflection on how recent changes of the market have rendered homeownership both a promise and a trap for migrants in urban China. The talk is developed from a new book titled Anxious Homes: Inflexible Demand and China’s Housing Market (Cornell University Press 2026). \n\n\n\nMengqi Wang is a cultural and economic anthropologist specialized in the study of housing and the urban environment. She is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Duke Kunshan University with fields of research covering economic anthropology\, political economy\, human geography\, and critical infrastructure studies. Her book\, Anxious Homes: Inflexible Demand and China’s Housing Market (Cornell University Press\, 2026)\, is an ethnographic monograph charting the discursive formation of the housing market at East Nanjing’s urban periphery from 2012 to 2015. Her research articles have appeared in journals such as Positions: Asia Critique\, the Journal of Cultural Economy\, and Urban Studies. \n\n\n\nZoom Meeting Link: https://mit.zoom.us/j/94120080608 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/urban-china-lecture-series-featuring-wang-mengqi-anxious-homes-inflexible-demand-and-chinas-housing-market/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Urban China Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260909T190000
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SUMMARY:Fairbank Center Student Welcome Night
DESCRIPTION:Find out about China-related activities at Harvard and hear about opportunities available to students who join the Fairbank Center Student Network. Fun Chinese snacks will be served!This event is open only to Harvard students. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/fairbank-center-student-welcome-night/
LOCATION:Riverview Commons\, 10th Floor Smith Campus Center\, 1350 Mass Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260922T160000
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SUMMARY:China Economy Lecture featuring Yeling Tan — China’s Economic Security Growth Model\, and the US-China Security Dilemma
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Yeling Tan\, Professor of Public Policy\, Blavatnik School of Government\, University of OxfordTraditional conceptions of export- or domestic investment–led growth no longer appropriately capture the dynamics shaping the Chinese economy. Rather\, China has adopted a model in which national security logic increasingly underpins economic policy. This talk will outline the main components of this growth model\, and then identify potential implementation challenges and tensions emerging from such a growth strategy. Finally\, it will discuss the ways these tensions might deepen the US-China security dilemma.  \n\n\n\nYeling Tan is Professor of Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government. She is also a non-resident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. \n\n\n\nHer research focuses on the political economy of globalisation\, development\, and policymaking\, with a focus on China and the Asian region. She holds a PhD in Public Policy and an MPA in International Development from Harvard University\, and a BA in International Relations and Economics from Stanford University. Prior to joining Oxford\, Professor Tan was an assistant professor of political science at the University of Oregon and a postdoctoral research fellow at Princeton University. She has also worked in the public and non-governmental sectors on a range of issues including economic development\, international security policy\, global governance and governance innovations.  \n\n\n\nProfessor Tan’s latest book is Disaggregating China\, Inc: State Strategies in the Liberal Economic Order (Cornell University Press Studies in Political Economy)\, which has been awarded the Peter Katzenstein book prize and the Georgetown Joseph S. Lepgold book prize. Her articles have been published in Comparative Political Studies\, the Review of International Organizations\, International Studies Quarterly\, the China Journal\, Governance\, and Global Policy. Professor Tan’s earlier books include China Experiments: from Local Innovations to National Reform (Brookings Institution Press) and Asia’s Role in Governing Global Health (Routledge).Professor Tan has also written for Foreign Affairs\, Foreign Policy and Bloomberg Opinion. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-economy-lecture-featuring-yeling-tan-chinas-economic-security-growth-model-and-the-us-china-security-dilemma/
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:20260923T120000
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SUMMARY:Performing Enlightenment: Buddhism and Theater in Early Modern China
DESCRIPTION:Register for zoom webinar\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Mengxiao Wang\, Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures\, University of Southern CaliforniaModerator: Thomas P. Kelly\, Assistant Professor\, East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nIn early modern China\, a major revival of Buddhism coincided with a surging fascination with theater. Buddhist monastics and laypeople increasingly participated in viewing\, discussing\, and writing plays. Far from merely serving as a medium for conveying religious teachings and practices\, drama became a source of deep concern for Buddhists due to the perceived tension between spiritual discipline and worldly entertainment. \n\n\n\nIn Performing Enlightenment\, Mengxiao Wang examines how Buddhist clerics and laity engaged with and drove innovations in theater during the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. Drawing on an extensive range of sources—including clerical sermons\, scriptural commentaries\, temple gazetteers\, morality books\, literati prose\, and dramatic texts and paratexts—Wang argues that Ming-Qing Buddhists resolved the conflict between religion and entertainment by transforming theater into a creative mode of devotional practice. Consequently\, playwriting\, stage performance\, and theatergoing all emerged as legitimate pathways to spiritual enlightenment. This interdisciplinary work provides fresh insights into Chinese studies\, Buddhist studies\, and theater studies while offering a comparative perspective on the complex interplay between religion\, literature\, and performance across cultures.Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_YdUlq3BDRaiOMqGl8fN9iA#/registration \n\n\n\nCo-sponsored by the Harvard-Yenching Insitute and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard University. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/performing-enlightenment-buddhism-and-theater-in-early-modern-china/
LOCATION:Zoom\, Registration Required
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260923T150000
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SUMMARY:Christian Kaps — Charging Fast and Slow: Quantifying the Real-Life Value of EV Charging for Users\, OEMs\, and the Grid
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Christian Kaps\, Assistant Professor of Business Administration\, Technology and Operations Management (TOM) Unit\, Harvard Business School \n\n\n\nManaging electricity demand is critical for lowering the cost of electrified products\, integrating intermittent renewables\, and reducing grid expansion needs. With its often flexible demand\, electric vehicle (EV) charging has long been considered a promising candidate\, yet many managed charging programs have not scaled. We analyze why this is the case and identify several challenges to existing programs\, focusing on two business models: smart electricity consumption (V1G) and demand response (DR). After grounding the analysis in a stylized model\, we leverage a longitudinal dataset of over 20\,000 EVs and 1.5 million charging events across the U.S. to empirically study managed charging. We find that V1G with time-of-use pricing saves EV owners up to $300 annually but increases the utility’s wholesale generation cost\, a misalignment that in 75% of markets cannot be costs-effectively eliminated by paying owners to adjust charge timing. For DR\, the top 10% of customers provide 5.2 times the average vehicle’s value\, and only 9.4% of vehicles can be profitably enrolled. We identify which charging behaviors predict profitable DR customers and how this interacts with utilities’ prices. We further analytically show when V1G and DR may be misaligned\, and show empirically that V1G participation cannibalizes 16-46% of DR returns\, highlighting challenges with stacking value streams. Our findings help EV manufacturers decide which programs to offer\, in which markets\, and which customers to target or behaviors to incentivize. We highlight where utilities and regulators should adjust tariffs to better align EV owners’ incentives with market outcomes. \n\n\n\nClick Here to Register  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/christian-kaps-charging-fast-and-slow-quantifying-the-real-life-value-of-ev-charging-for-users-oems-and-the-grid/
LOCATION:Pierce Hall 100F\, 29 Oxford St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260924T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260924T173000
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SUMMARY:Modern China Lecture Series featuring Xiaobo Lü — Domination and Mobilization: The Rise and Fall of Political Parties in China’s Republican Era
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Xiaobo Lü\, Associate Professor\, Department of Political Science\, University of California\, Berkeley \n\n\n\nExamining the miraculous rise of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the surprising downfall of the Kuomintang (KMT) in the early twentieth century\, I reveal that domination and mobilization are key for authoritarian parties to seize state power\, challenging the prevailing wisdom on power-sharing and emphasizing the importance of dominant party leaders for organizational strength and resource mobilization. I argue that the CCP’s mass mobilization infrastructure\, initially seen as a disadvantage before the Sino-Japanese War\, became a powerful asset during the war and led to its victory. The KMT’s elite mobilization infrastructure\, conversely\, was decimated by the war\, and its lack of a strong leader prevented a successful shift in party-building strategy. Party building subsequently played a pivotal role in shaping the successes and failures of resource mobilization for both parties. The book sheds new light on the origins of the CCP and the inner workings of revolutionary parties\, making in a landmark study in Chinese politics.Xiaobo Lü is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of California\, Berkeley. His research explores the relationships between fiscal policies\, party-building\, and state-society relations in authoritarian regimes\, particularly in China. He is particularly interested in the formation and functioning of political parties and institutions in authoritarian regimes across both historical and contemporary contexts. Xiaobo Lü earned his Ph.D. in Political Science from Yale University in 2011. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/modern-china-lecture-series-featuring-xiaobo-lu-domination-and-mobilization-the-rise-and-fall-of-political-parties-in-chinas-republican-era/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Room S050\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:FCCS Modern China,Modern China Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260925T122000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260925T132000
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SUMMARY:Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) at 10: Legal Innovation in Multilateral Development Banks
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Natalie Lichtenstein JD ’78\, AIIB Inaugural General Counsel (retired) \n\n\n\nDiscussant: Alastair Iain Johnston\, The Governor James Albert Noe and Linda Noe Research Professor of China in World Affairs\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nWhen the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) was launched in 2016\, many wondered how this new multilateral development bank (MDB) would be different. China was its leading proponent and continues as its largest shareholder; developing countries in Asia and around the world have substantial stakes\, as does Europe. \n\n\n\nTen years later\, AIIB’s founding lawyer takes a look at AIIB in the context of MDB genealogy. Her new research spans the early 20th century roots of the World Bank Charter\, through the mid-century development of the principal regional MDBs. How does AIIB’s 21st century charter reflect its heritage\, and what new features were added? Concluding reflections will touch on how these features developed in AIIB’s first decade. \n\n\n\nThe talk is based on the newly published second edition of Ms. Lichtenstein’s book\, A Comparative Guide to the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (Oxford University Press\, 2025). \n\n\n\nA light lunch will be provided. Please register here.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/asian-infrastructure-investment-bank-aiib-at-10-legal-innovation-in-multilateral-development-banks/
LOCATION:WCC 3019\, Wasserstein Hall\, 1585 Mass. Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261005T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261005T130000
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SUMMARY:Benjamin Ho — After Liberalism? Political Myths\, Order-Building and The Return of History in East Asia 
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Benjamin Ho\, Assistant Professor and Coordinator\, China Programme; S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS)\, SingaporeModerator: Mark Wu\, Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law\, Harvard Law School; Director\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard UniversityIn recent years\, questions have been posed regarding the durability of the current rules-based (liberal) international order and what this means for the practice of international relations. In this novel study\, Benjamin Ho\, an assistant professor from the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies\, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) argues of the importance of political myths shaping preferences of international order in Northeast Asia\, focusing on three key states\, namely China\, Japan and South Korea. He shares that existing political myths provide stronger narrative justification compared to national interests (defined purely materially) for these countries to adopt or reject certain aspects of the international order. States will view the international order as good or just if the characteristics of such an order support and allow for preservation for domestic myths. On the other hand\, states will view the international order unfavourably if the characteristics of this order run up or challenge their ability to preserve domestic myths. Notwithstanding the various global conflicts the world is witnessing today\, Ho contends that states continue to desire order – as opposed to disorder – in global affairs and the enduring role of mythos in structuring political relations with one another \n\n\n\nDr. Benjamin Ho is Assistant Professor and Coordinator at the China Programme\, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS)\, Singapore. He obtained his PhD from the Department of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science\, UK under a RSIS PhD scholarship. His research focus includes the study of China’s international relations\, with an emphasis on Chinese political worldview and exceptionalism thinking. Other research interests include security multilateralism in the Asia Pacific region with a focus on regional institutions and fora\, national security (intelligence)\, the sociology of religion and public theology (Christianity). He is the author of the book China’s Political Worldview and Chinese Exceptionalism: International Order and Global Leadership (Amsterdam University Press\, 2021) and is working on his second book project on Political Myths and International Order in Northeast Asia (with a focus on China\, Japan and South Korea). He has also published in journals such as China Quarterly\, Journal of Contemporary China\, Asian Journal of Comparative Politics\, The Washington Quarterly\, The National Interest\, Asia Policy\, and the Australian Journal of International Affairs. He was a Fulbright scholar at the Elliot School of International Affairs (George Washington University between 2021-2022)\, a Taiwan MOFA Fellow at the Institute of Political Science Academia Sinica (Taiwan) in 2022 and a Republic of Korea-ASEAN Scholar at the Korea National Diplomatic Academy in 2025.Co-sponsored by the Program on US-Japan Relations\, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs\, Harvard University \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/benjamin-ho-after-liberalism-political-myths-order-building-and-the-return-of-history-in-east-asia/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261005T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261005T183000
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SUMMARY:Developing the Philippine-U.S. Alliance’s Integrated Deterrence through the CADC: Preparing for a Taiwan Contingency
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Renato Cruz de Castro\, De La Salle University\, Manila\, Philippines \n\n\n\nThe lecture will examine the Philippines’ grand strategy\, the Comprehensive Archipelagic Defense Concept (CADC)\, and how it enables the Philippines to develop the necessary military capabilities to respond to a possible Taiwan contingency. In conclusion\, the talk will argue that the AFP’s growing military capabilities have enabled Manila to play a significant role in bolstering the Philippine-U.S. alliance’s integrated deterrence in the face of a possible major armed conflict over Taiwan. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/developing-the-philippine-u-s-alliances-integrated-deterrence-through-the-cadc-preparing-for-a-taiwan-contingency/
LOCATION:Rajen Kilachand Center for Integrated Life Sciences & Engineering\, Boston University\, 610 Commonwealth Ave\,\, Boston\, Massachusetts\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261007T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261007T131500
DTSTAMP:20260901T172646Z
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Laikwan Pang — A Sense of Justice: The Struggle with Laws in Hong Kong
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Laikwan Pang\, Choh-Ming Li Professor of Cultural & Religious Studies\, Chinese University of Hong KongDiscussant: Li Jie\, Ford Foundation Professor of East Asian Studies\, Harvard College Professor\, Director of Graduate Studies\, Harvard UniversityCan a state maintain a sense of justice among its citizenry even as it tightens the legal apparatus of social control?  This talk analyzes how Hong Kong’s citizens\, since the introduction of the National Security Law in 2020\, are dealing with their new legal environment. Through a discussion of the film\, The Sparring Partner (2022)\, Professor Pang highlights the ways in which collective sentiments are evolving. She argues that framing a sense of justice remains an important duty of the state\, even amid a strengthening of political control.  As the government increasingly relies on legal instruments to manage dissent\, the question is not simply how it will choose to enforce security laws\, but whether its citizens can still maintain a feeling of justice\, despite it often being a mirage.By exploring Hong Kong people’s current sense of justice\, the presentation also examines the scope and limits of the PRC’s paternalism\, which underpins not only Hong Kong’s National Security Law but also the entire governance in China. This paternal order relies on both public obedience and the active social reproduction of the dominant ideology. Hong Kong serves as a critical case study revealing the mechanics and limitations of this governance model.    \n\n\n\nLaikwan Pang received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Washington University in St. Louis\, and she has taught at CUHK since 2002. She is now Choh-Ming Li Professor of Cultural & Religious Studies. She specializes in critical theories\, and her research spans a broad spectrum of issues related to culture in Modern and Contemporary China and Hong Kong. One of her central philosophical projects is the exploration of the dynamics between “many” and “one\,” manifested in the intersections between culture and politics\, copies and models\, plurality and unity\, as well as democracy and sovereignty. She is the author of a few books\, and her scholarship has been recognized internationally. Creativity and Its Discontents received the Chiang King-Kuo Foundation Publication Award\, The Appearing Demos received the American Library Association Choice Outstanding Academic Title\, and One and All was shortlisted for the Political Studies Association W.J.M. Mackenzie Book Prize. She also received the Discovery International Award offered by the Australian Research Council\, the Research Excellence Award\, and the Young Research Award from The Chinese University of Hong Kong.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-featuring-laikwan-pang-a-sense-of-justice-the-struggle-with-laws-in-hong-kong/
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:20261007T131500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261007T143000
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SUMMARY:Muslim Transnationalism in Modern China: Debates on Hui Identity and Islamic Reform
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Hale Eroğlu\, Bogazici University \n\n\n\nMuslim Transnationalism in Modern China provides a portrait of underrecognized reformists who aimed to turn Muslim subjects into active Chinese citizens and revive “true” Islam in order to aid China’s development and promote peace. Eroğlu examines reformists’ engagement with local and transnational Muslim currents\, spanning “orthodox\,” “heterodox\,” reformist\, secular\, and socialist movements from Egypt\, Britain\, India\, Turkey\, and the Soviet Union. She reveals their varied strategies and highlights how they adapted global ideas to address local challenges such as the policies of the Nationalist and Communist parties\, the antireligion discourse of the New Culture Movement\, and the anti-Islam rhetoric of Christian missionaries. Drawing from Republican and early Communist-era journals\, Chinese translations of Islamic sources\, and memoirs and travelogues\, this book offers a nuanced understanding of Chinese-speaking Muslim intellectuals’ efforts to balance local and global influences in shaping their community’s future. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/muslim-transnationalism-in-modern-china-debates-on-hui-identity-and-islamic-reform/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Room S050\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261007T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261007T200000
DTSTAMP:20260828T151033Z
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SUMMARY:Uncanny Beliefs: Superstition in Modern Chinese History
DESCRIPTION:zoom registration\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers: Emily Baum\, Professor of History\, University of California\, IrvineAlbert Wu\, Associate Research Fellow\, Institute of History and Philology\, Academia Sinica\, Taipei\, Taiwan \n\n\n\nChair: Michael Puett\, Victor and William Fung Foundation Director\, Harvard University Asia Center; Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History and Anthropology; Harvard College Professor \n\n\n\nIn the early twentieth century\, scholars around the world believed that “superstition” belonged to a bygone era. Yet despite their confident predictions\, superstitious beliefs have endured. Perhaps nowhere has the history of superstition been more prolonged and tumultuous than in China. From the late nineteenth century to the present day\, intellectuals and politicians have denigrated practices like divination\, ancestor worship\, and geomancy as unbefitting of a modern nation\, and governing regimes have launched a succession of campaigns to replace superstitious thinking with science and rationality. Efforts to eliminate such practices from public life\, however\, have regularly encountered resistance from people who continue to find meaning in them. \n\n\n\nUncanny Beliefs seeks to understand what “superstition” has meant in modern China—and questions why superstitious thinking has remained such an urgent target of state intervention. Through a range of temporal and thematic perspectives\, the chapters in this volume link the study of superstition to the histories of science\, religion\, gender\, state building\, and popular culture. In doing so\, they collectively broaden our understanding of modern Chinese history by revealing the complex entanglements of superstition with religion\, modernity\, authority\, and everyday life. \n\n\n\nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ocqHDzihSR6jUAd6vpXK-w#/registration \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/uncanny-beliefs-superstition-in-modern-chinese-history/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261010T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261010T173000
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SUMMARY:Celebrating the Scholarship and Legacy of Professor Elizabeth J. Perry
DESCRIPTION:Registration required\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n***PLEASE NOTE THE CONFERENCE LOCATION HAS CHANGED TO YENCHING AUDITORIUM\, 2 DIVINITY AVE.***The conference is open to the public\, but registration is required due to limited space. Please submit the registration form here (invited guests are not required to register). If you cannot access the form\, please email strogatz@fas.harvard.edu to register. \n\n\n\nThe conference will be live streamed. A link will be shared here at a later date. \n\n\n\nCo-sponsored with the Harvard University Asia Center and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies \n\n\n\nConference agenda \n\n\n\n9:00–9:20 a.m. Opening Remarks \n\n\n\nJames Robson\, Mark Wu\, and Michael Puett\, introduced by Yuhua Wang \n\n\n\nPanel I: China in Historical Perspective \n\n\n\n9:20–10:50 a.m.Chair: Yuhua Wang \n\n\n\nPanelists: Neil Diamant\, Iza Ding\, Mark Frazier\, Gail Hershatter\, Jeff Javed\, Daniel Koss\, Hou Li\, Victor Shih\, Tia Thornton \n\n\n\n10:50–11:10 a.m. Coffee Break \n\n\n\nPanel II: China in Comparative Perspective \n\n\n\n11:10 a.m.–12:40 p.m.Chair: Martin Dimitrov \n\n\n\nPanelists: Regina Abrami\, Sheena Greitens\, Jingkai He\, Karrie Koesel\, Ching Kwan Lee\, Kristen Looney\, Meg Rithmire\, Lily Tsai \n\n\n\nPanel III: Reflections on Professor Perry’s Scholarly Contributions \n\n\n\n2:00–3:30 p.m.Chair: Ben ReadPanelists: Tim Cheek\, Debbie Davis\, Joe Esherick\, Mary Gallagher\, Devesh Kapur\, Prerna Singh\, Peidong Sun\, Jeff Wasserstrom\, Helin Wu \n\n\n\n3:30–3:50 p.m. Coffee Break \n\n\n\nPanel IV: Institution Building at Harvard and Beyond \n\n\n\n3:50–5:20 p.m.Chair: Susan PharrPanelists: Bruce Cumings\, Andy Gordon\, Helena Kolenda\, Terry Lautz\, Ruohong Li\, Orville Schell\, Bob Snow\, Stefanie Van Pelt \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/celebrating-the-scholarship-and-legacy-of-professor-elizabeth-j-perry/
LOCATION:Yenching Auditorium\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261013T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261013T130000
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SUMMARY:When Men Marry into the Wife’s Family: Patriarchy\, Intimacy\, and Masculinity in Everyday Family Life of Post-Reform China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Guanli Zhang\, Associate Professor\, School of Sociology\, Beijing Normal University; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2026-27Chair/Discussant: Susan Greenhalgh\, John King and Wilma Cannon Fairbank Research Professor of Chinese Society Emerita\, Harvard University \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/when-men-marry-into-the-wifes-family-patriarchy-intimacy-and-masculinity-in-everyday-family-life-of-post-reform-china/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261014T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261014T161500
DTSTAMP:20260926T191400Z
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SUMMARY:Taiwan Studies Workshop featuring Eyck Freymann — Defending Taiwan: A Strategy to Prevent War with China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Eyck Freymann\, Hoover Fellow\, Stanford University \n\n\n\nTaiwan is where the uneasy peace between the United States and China will be tested–and possibly broken. Beijing believes that “reunification” is inevitable. American military strength has preserved peace and stability for decades\, but its advantages are eroding. Beijing has found critical gaps in U.S. strategy and is working to squeeze\, isolate\, and coerce Taiwan into submission without firing a shot. If deterrence fails\, the consequences of a Taiwan crisis would be catastrophic–plunging the global economy into chaos\, shattering U.S. alliances\, and allowing China to dominate the region and reshape the world order. \n\n\n\nIn Defending Taiwan\, Eyck Freymann presents the first integrated strategy to deter war with China and preserve an honorable peace. Drawing on untranslated Chinese sources\, cutting-edge military and economic analysis\, and deep historical research\, Freymann argues that Washington’s deterrence strategy must extend beyond conventional military power and familiar threats of mutually assured destruction. America must work with allies to develop a bold new vision of technological and economic statecraft–and a plan to secure its interests if deterrence fails. Freymann examines China’s full range of strategic options. The United States can deter them all. But to do so\, it must integrate its military strength\, economic leverage\, technological leadership\, and diplomatic influence into a single\, coherent plan to prevent war. \n\n\n\nEyck Freymann is a Hoover Fellow at Stanford University\, where he directs the Allied Coordination Working Group. He is also a Non-Resident Research Fellow at Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy\, the Institute of Geoeconomics in Tokyo\, and the China Maritime Studies Institute at the U.S. Naval War College. He works on strategies to preserve peace and protect U.S. interests and values in an era of systemic competition with China. He is the author of several books\, including Defending Taiwan: A Strategy to Prevent War with China (Oxford\, 2026)\, The Arsenal of Democracy: Technology\, Industry\, and Deterrence in an Age of Hard Choices (Hoover\, 2025)\, and One Belt One Road: Chinese Power Meets the World (Harvard\, 2021).  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/taiwan-studies-workshop-featuring-eyck-freymann-defending-taiwan-a-strategy-to-prevent-war-with-china/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Room S050\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Taiwan,Taiwan Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261021T122000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261021T132000
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SUMMARY:Beyond Tariffs and Subsidies: Toward a New Framework for U.S. Industrial Policy
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Y.S. Lee\,  West Virginia University College of Law \n\n\n\nThe United States has returned to tariffs and subsidies with renewed force\, seeking to rebuild domestic manufacturing\, promote strategic industries\, and counter geopolitical rivals such as China. This resurgence of industrial policy marks a sharp departure from the rule-based international trade order under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and the World Trade Organization since 1947. Yet despite costly tariffs and hundreds of billions of dollars in subsidies\, the economic results remain uncertain\, while concerns over inflation\, trade conflict\, and market distortion continue to grow. Current debates in economics\, politics\, and trade law have focused largely on whether tariffs and subsidies are desirable. Far less attention has been paid to a more fundamental question: whether the United States possesses the legal and institutional capacity to implement industrial policy effectively. \n\n\n\nThis Article addresses that question through the General Theory of Law and Development\, a framework that examines how law\, broader legal frameworks\, and institutions shape economic and social transformation. It argues that contemporary U.S. industrial policy is structurally inadequate to achieve its stated objectives due to serious legal and institutional deficiencies undermining effective implementation\, coordination\, and policy coherence. These deficiencies also generate significant tensions with both domestic and international legal obligations\, as illustrated by the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Learning Resources\, Inc. v. Trump. The Article develops foundational elements of a new legal and institutional framework for industrial promotion grounded in international collaboration\, economic rationality\, and institutional coordination. \n\n\n\nA light lunch will be provided. Please register here. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/beyond-tariffs-and-subsidies-toward-a-new-framework-for-u-s-industrial-policy/
LOCATION:WCC 3016\, Wasserstein Hall\, 1585 Massachusetts Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261021T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261021T173000
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SUMMARY:China Economy Lecture featuring Jazmin Sierra
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Jazmin Sierra\, Assistant Professor of Political Science\, Kellogg Institute Faculty Fellow\, University of Notre DameMore info coming soon \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-economy-lecture-featuring-jazmin-sierra/
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:20261022T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261022T173000
DTSTAMP:20260901T180005Z
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SUMMARY:Modern China Lecture Series featuring Xu Guoqi — What do we mean by “China?”
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Xu Guoqi\, David H. Y. Chang Professor of Chinese History; Founding Director\, Institute of Transnational History of China\, University of Hong Kong \n\n\n\nProfessor Xu Guoqi was born in China and taught both in Asia and the USA before joining the University of Hong Kong’s History Department. He writes and has published widely in both Chinese and English on various topics. \n\n\n\nProfessor Xu is a leading authority of transnational and shared history of modern China and the world. His research topics include First World War Studies\, roles of Sports in China and the world\, history of US-China relations\, the idea of China\, among many others. He has served as a visiting professor at many prestigious institutions such as Harvard University\, Yale University\, Cambridge University\, the University of Melbourne\, and King’s College London. He has received many awards such as the Shigemutsu Fellowship for scholarship in global cultural affairs from the Global Culture Center of the Japan Society of Boston and the best book award from the International Society of Olympic Historians. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/modern-china-lecture-series-featuring-xu-guoqi/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S354\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Modern China Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261026T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261026T180000
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SUMMARY:China Humanities Seminar featuring Huan Jin — Modularity and Vernacular Knowledge: The Career of "Tao" 套\, 11th–17th Centuries
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Huan Jin\, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology \n\n\n\nEmerging at the turn of the eleventh century out of contact with non-Han people\, “tao” 套 (set/module) shows the productiveness of cross-cultural interactions. Rooted in empirical knowledge and everyday life that is not dominated by aristocrats and cultural elites\, it is a category that introduces a way of thinking and doing that achieves efficiency without sacrificing functionality. Instead of concreteness and stability\, “tao” is about malleability and adaptability. By the late Ming\, commercial publishers further extended the flexibility of “tao” to organize knowledge for everyday needs in law\, medicine\, and communication. At the same time\, “tao” began to carry negative connotations in criticism of literary and artistic creation\, reflecting a desire for sincerity and originality that went beyond mere practicality\, together with an underlying anxiety that convenience itself had gone too far. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-humanities-seminar-featuring-huan-jin-modularity-and-vernacular-knowledge-the-career-of-tao-%e5%a5%97-11th-17th-centuries/
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:20261027T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261027T220000
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SUMMARY:Urban China Lecture Series featuring Treng X. Ta — Scenes of Affliction and Cruel Circumstances in Urban China  
DESCRIPTION:zoom meeting link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Treng X. Ta\, University of Maryland Baltimore County \n\n\n\nIn most instances there is a lone\, tragic-looking figure with head bowed before an accompanying sign making a silent public appeal. However\, to stand out in the midst of urban activity\, narration has increasingly included accouterments—boomboxes\, microphones\, printed posters\, photographs\, and a moving repertoire that weaves storytelling\, emotional appeal\, social commentary\, and entertainment such as heartfelt singing and dancing—to draw the attention of passersby or even a small audience. These scenes of affliction in the Chinese public sphere feature “cruel circumstances” to gain financial assistance and claim social recognition. But this form of soliciting aid is fraught with suspicion and quickly dismissed as ploys to manipulate sentiment. Drawing on over a decade of ethnographic fieldwork primarily in Beijing and Guangzhou\, this talk explores the conditions of affliction\, suffering as resource\, the ethics of veracity\, and the compositional labor of communicating “cruel circumstances” to an anonymous public.     \n\n\n\nTrang X. Ta is a cultural and medical anthropologist. This book represents her ongoing interests in urban social infrastructures and political ecologies\, moral economies\, unacknowledged labor\, and creative resilience. Her current research project studies how the elderly and working poor in Hong Kong engage in waste reclamation as a livelihood strategy. She currently teaches at the University of Maryland\, Baltimore County. \n\n\n\nZoom meeting link: https://mit.zoom.us/j/94120080608 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/urban-china-lecture-series-featuring-treng-ta/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Urban China Series
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SUMMARY:Trans-generational Transmission of War Memories in China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: ISHII Yumi\, Associate Professor\, Tohoku University; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2026-27Chair/Discussant: Andrew Gordon\, Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nhttps://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/trans-generational-transmission-of-war-memories-in-china/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/trans-generational-transmission-of-war-memories-in-china/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Emergent Visions Film Screening & Discussion — New Moon Chapter One (新月一章)
DESCRIPTION:Filmmaker Xinyue Li in conversation with Jie Li\, Ford Foundation Professor of East Asian Studies\, Harvard College Professor\, Director of Graduate Studies\, Harvard University. \n\n\n\nThis film is part of a three-part series presenting documentaries from China’s Caochangdi Workstation\, a collective of documentary filmmakers and performance artists whose work explores memory\, history\, and everyday life through long-term\, participatory projects. \n\n\n\nDirector’s statement: “In July 2020\, I returned to my hometown\, Harbin\, where I had been away for six years. At the age of 24\, the trajectory of my life came to a halt\, and I began to re-examine how I had been carried along and shaped by the currents of life. ‘Xinyue’ (New Moon) was the name my mother gave me\, inspired by the beauty she looked up to amid pain and chaos. It led me to reflect on the 1990s\, the decade I was born\, and to examine the eternal entanglement between hopeful aspirations and harsh realities. \n\n\n\nThis is my first film\, created alongside fellow artists from the creative community of Caochangdi Workstation. In early 2021\, I participated in the online Caochangdi Video Writing Workshop\, and since then\, I’ve communicated and collaborated with my Caochangdi peers through online theater\, email groups\, book clubs\, workshops\, and more. The material\, direction\, structure\, and final form of this film all grew out of this process. Through this creation\, I have borne witness to my 27 years of life\, from which I hope to continue my work under the name ‘New Moon\,’ with chapter two\, three\, and more.” \n\n\n\nAbout the director: Xinyue Li\, born in Harbin in 1996\, worked in Beijing for two years after graduating from university. In 2020\, she returned to Harbin and participated in the Caochangdi Workstation creative community\, starting a series of writing and video creation under the name of “New Moon.” \n\n\n\nNew Moon Chapter One (Xinyue Li/New Moon\, 2024\, 138 min\, China\, in Chinese dialects w/ Chinese & English subtitles\, DCP) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-screening-new-moon-chapter-one/
LOCATION:Carpenter Center Theater\, 24 Quincy St\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Emergent Visions Film Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261103T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261103T203000
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SUMMARY:Emergent Visons Film Screening & Discussion — Self-Portrait: 47 KM 2020 (自画像：47 KM 2020)
DESCRIPTION:Filmmaker ZHANG Mengqi in conversation with Jie Li\, Ford Foundation Professor of East Asian Studies\, Harvard College Professor\, Director of Graduate Studies\, Harvard University\, and Lucien Castaing-Taylor\, John Cowles Professor of Art and Anthropology\, Director of the Sensory Ethnography Lab\, Harvard University. \n\n\n\nThis film is part of a three-part series presenting documentaries from China’s Caochangdi Workstation\, a collective of documentary filmmakers and performance artists whose work explores memory\, history\, and everyday life through long-term\, participatory projects. \n\n\n\nOver the past thirteen years\, ZHANG Mengqi has documented her father’s village in Hubei\, China\, as a repository of ancestral memory. The title of her ongoing series\, “Self-Portrait\,” suggests the degree of Zhang’s awareness of filmmaking as an act that always implies a vital and intersubjective relation between the artist and the world to which she is connected. This tenth film\, 47 KM 2020\, carries that recognition to its logical endpoint\, as Zhang opted to install herself permanently in the village after the outbreak of COVID-19. Filmed between early January and late December 2020\, and divided into chapters corresponding to the Chinese lunisolar calendars’ 24 solar terms\, this vivid account of a year in the life of a stoic community\, far removed from an urban-centered pandemic\, unfolds with the simultaneous vastness and fine detail of a classical Chinese handscroll painting. Featuring some of the most authentic pastoral scenes in any film\, as well as some of the most delightful dialogues with children\, Zhang’s film is an immense accomplishment. Award of Excellence\, 2023 Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival. —Museum of the Moving Image \n\n\n\nAbout the director: ZHANG Mengqi was born in 1987. Filmmaker and choreographer\, a founding member of Caochangdi Workstation’s Folk Memory Project. Mengqi has made eleven feature-length documentaries\, known as the “Self-Portrait series.” Her films have been selected by Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival \, Cinéma du Réel\, Visions du Réel\, BFI London Film Festival\, etc. Her films Won the “White Goose Award” in DMZ International Documentary Film Festival; “BIFF Mecenat Award” in Busan International Film Festival; “The Jean Vigo prize for best Director”; “The Youth prize for best film” in Punto de Vista and “Best Feature Film” in Festival internacional de cine independiente de cosquín; “International Competition Award of Excellence” in Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival. \n\n\n\nSelf-Portrait 47 KM 2020 (ZHANG Mengqi\, 2023\, 190 min\, China\, in Chinese dialects w/ Chinese & English subtitles\, DCP) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/emergent-visons-film-screening-self-portrait-47-km/
LOCATION:Carpenter Center Theater\, 24 Quincy St\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Emergent Visions Film Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261103T203000
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SUMMARY:Urban China Lecture Series featuring Zhu Jin
DESCRIPTION:zoom meeting link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Zhu Jin\, Hong Kong University \n\n\n\nMore information coming soon! \n\n\n\nZoom meeting link: https://mit.zoom.us/j/94120080608 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/urban-china-lecture-series-featuring-zhu-jin/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Urban China Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261104T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261104T131500
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Jean Oi
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Jean Oi\, William Haas Professor in Chinese Politics\, Department of Political Science; Senior Fellow\, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI)\, Stanford University. More information coming soon. \n\n\n\nJean C. Oi is the William Haas Professor in Chinese Politics at the Department of Political Science and a Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) at Stanford University. She directs the China Program at the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center and is the founding Lee Shau Kee Director of the Stanford Center at Peking University. In March 2022\, she was elected Vice President of the Association for Asian Studies\, serving as its President from March 2023 to March 2024. \n\n\n\nA Ph.D. in political science from the University of Michigan\, Oi first taught at Lehigh University and later in the Department of Government at Harvard University before joining the Stanford faculty in 1997. \n\n\n\nOi’s work focuses on comparative politics\, with special expertise on China’s political economy and institutions in the process of reform. Central-local relations in China are the core of her research. Employing a political economy perspective\, she has “followed the money”—first grain\, then taxes\, and most recently local government debt as a window into politics. \n\n\n\nDelving into China’s authoritarian resilience\, she co-edited a volume on how adaptive governance by local-level institutions has met the challenges and demands from an increasingly complex society that strain resources and the political system as the economy has grown exponentially. More recently\, she co-edited a volume that highlights the challenges China now faces after reaping record-breaking growth over the last 40 years by only tweaking the institutions that it inherited from the Mao period. Instead of tackling the most politically difficult part of the reform process\, leaders appear to be “going back to the future\,” relying on a playbook not seen since the Mao period. \n\n\n\nCurrently\, she is researching how local governments are coping after the collapse of land finance and the overhang from huge local government debt after COVID. Moving beyond her earlier work\, Oi also is engaged in a project that takes an institutional and micro-level approach to identify the key players and their interests as local governments seek to go global with the Belt and Road Initiative. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-featuring-jean-oi-2/
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:20261104T131500
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SUMMARY:Structuring Chinese History: Diwang Tu 帝王圖\, Nianbiao 年表\, “Chinese Dynasties” Charts\, and Paradigmatic Crisis in Chinese Historiography
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: James Millward\, Georgetown UniversityPeriodization by “Chinese dynasties” is a structural foundation of the historiography of continental eastern Eurasia\, but even those passingly familiar with the field know the idea is beset with problems: The Chinese dynasties aren’t all “Chinese.” They weren’t all in the same place\, but were scattered around geographical China and Inner Asia\, often two or more at the same time. What we call “dynasties” go by many names in Chinese (what’s the difference between a chao\, a dai\, and a guo?). And no one can tell you exactly how many “Chinese dynasties” there were. \n\n\n\nDespite these issues\, the modern list of “dynasties” is central to the notion of a unified\, linear\, and continuous “China” that is said to be the “oldest civilization in the form of a state in the world.” This lecture examines charts and tables of monarchs and polities from Sinitic and European traditions to scrutinize dynasties periodization as a translingual practice. It will argue that Sinitic efforts to periodize were linear and progressive\, not cyclical; always discursive rather than canonical; and that the list of so-called “Chinese dynasties” changed with political winds and trends in historical philosophy. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/structuring-chinese-history-diwang-tu-%e5%b8%9d%e7%8e%8b%e5%9c%96-nianbiao-%e5%b9%b4%e8%a1%a8-chinese-dynasties-charts-and-paradigmatic-crisis-in-chinese-historiography/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Room S050\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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