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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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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:20261007T183000
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SUMMARY:Uncanny Beliefs: Superstition in Modern Chinese History
DESCRIPTION:zoom registration\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers: Emily Baum\, Professor of History\, University of California\, IrvineAlbert Wu\, Associate Research Fellow\, Institute of History and Philology\, Academia Sinica\, Taipei\, Taiwan \n\n\n\nChair: Michael Puett\, Victor and William Fung Foundation Director\, Harvard University Asia Center; Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History and Anthropology; Harvard College Professor \n\n\n\nIn the early twentieth century\, scholars around the world believed that “superstition” belonged to a bygone era. Yet despite their confident predictions\, superstitious beliefs have endured. Perhaps nowhere has the history of superstition been more prolonged and tumultuous than in China. From the late nineteenth century to the present day\, intellectuals and politicians have denigrated practices like divination\, ancestor worship\, and geomancy as unbefitting of a modern nation\, and governing regimes have launched a succession of campaigns to replace superstitious thinking with science and rationality. Efforts to eliminate such practices from public life\, however\, have regularly encountered resistance from people who continue to find meaning in them. \n\n\n\nUncanny Beliefs seeks to understand what “superstition” has meant in modern China—and questions why superstitious thinking has remained such an urgent target of state intervention. Through a range of temporal and thematic perspectives\, the chapters in this volume link the study of superstition to the histories of science\, religion\, gender\, state building\, and popular culture. In doing so\, they collectively broaden our understanding of modern Chinese history by revealing the complex entanglements of superstition with religion\, modernity\, authority\, and everyday life. \n\n\n\nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ocqHDzihSR6jUAd6vpXK-w#/registration \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/uncanny-beliefs-superstition-in-modern-chinese-history/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261010T090000
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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
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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
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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
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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:20261022T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261022T173000
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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 Ta — Scenes of Affliction and Cruel Circumstances in Urban China  
DESCRIPTION:zoom meeting link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Treng 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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261030T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261030T130000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261102T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261102T144500
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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
DTSTAMP:20260925T125235Z
CREATED:20260924T175031Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260925T125235Z
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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
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261103T220000
DTSTAMP:20260810T162245Z
CREATED:20260810T162244Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260810T162245Z
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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
DTSTAMP:20260901T175504Z
CREATED:20260901T175501Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260901T175504Z
UID:45582-1793793600-1793798100@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
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:20261104T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261104T183000
DTSTAMP:20260926T060223Z
CREATED:20260924T175301Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260926T060223Z
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SUMMARY:Emergent Visons Film Screening — Zhuang Wei’s Witness: Return of the Survivor (庄炜的见证：幸存者归来)
DESCRIPTION:Followed by a Q+A with filmmaker ZHUANG Wei. \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: “Returning to the unfamiliar Chaoshan homeland to live\, I encountered my grand-uncle Ajun\, who had returned from Cambodia. Carrying stories of surviving the Khmer Rouge\, he stirred my life as I tried to become a witness.” \n\n\n\nAbout the director: ZHUANG Wei\, born in 1999\, is a documentary filmmaker and freelance artist from Chaoshan\, Guangdong. She engages in artistic practices across different mediums that intervene in society. In 2021\, she joined the “Folk Memory Project” at Caochangdi Workstation\, where she created the feature-length documentaries Zhuang Wei’s Mouth (2024) and Zhuang Wei’s Witness: Return of the Survivor (2026). She is now processing her long-term filming in the ancestral Wushi Village. \n\n\n\nZhuang Wei’s Witness: Return of the Survivor (ZHUANG Wei\, 2026\, 89 min\, China\, Teochew dialect w/ English subtitles) \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-zhuang-weis-witness/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Emergent Visions Film Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261109T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261109T104500
DTSTAMP:20260910T163516Z
CREATED:20260828T150500Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260910T163516Z
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SUMMARY:Everyday Occupation: American Soldiers and Chinese Civilians after World War II
DESCRIPTION:zoom registration\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Chunmei Du\, Professor\, Department of History\, Lingnan University\, Hong Kong; Associate\, Harvard University Asia Center  \n\n\n\nIn this rich history of everyday encounters between US soldiers and Chinese civilians\, Chunmei Du explores their entangled relations from the end of World War II to the founding of the People’s Republic of China. Drawing upon official\, popular and personal accounts from both countries\, Du examines the sensorial\, material\, and symbolic exchanges that took place between GIs and ordinary Chinese people-stall vendors\, pedestrians\, rickshaw pullers\, “Jeep girls\,” and suspected thieves. Through the conceptual lens of the everyday\, this book reveals how interactions such as traffic accidents\, sexual relations\, theft\, and black-market dealings\, impacted larger political dynamics during this pivotal era. Du shows how mundane struggles made imperialism and sovereignty tangible\, fueling anti-American sentiment. Meanwhile\, these encounters fostered informal diplomacy\, shaping identities and forging new bonds that left a lasting imprint on both countries. \n\n\n\nProfessor Du’s talk will be based on her book Everyday Occupation: American Soldiers and Chinese Civilians after World War II\, published by Cambridge University Press (2026). This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core. \n\n\n\nTo join the webinar\, register here. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/everyday-occupation-american-soldiers-and-chinese-civilians-after-world-war-ii/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261109T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261109T180000
DTSTAMP:20260924T182412Z
CREATED:20260924T181801Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260924T182412Z
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SUMMARY:China Humanities Seminar featuring Yunxiao Xiao — Writing on Bamboo and Wood: Text Technologies in Early China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Yunxiao Xiao\, University of Washington \n\n\n\nThis talk explores how written information was organized\, edited\, and transmitted through the ancient media of bamboo and wood. Drawing on excavated manuscripts from the Warring States through the Han\, I examine three practices of bookmaking and information management before the age of paper: 1) designing layouts\, 2) editing and updating legal compilations\, and 3) transmitting literary texts within local scribal communities. \n\n\n\nFirst\, I consider tables and tabular formats\, showing how scribes drew on a repertoire of spatial strategies to organize administrative\, calendrical\, and mathematical information on the two-dimensional writing surface. I then turn to normative legal manuscripts that were physically scraped and rewritten as regulations changed\, revealing statutory texts not as finished records but as objects continually maintained and updated in use. Finally\, I examine correspondences among scribal hands in manuscripts from different tombs and ask what they might reveal about relationships among otherwise anonymous scribes and the local transmission of literary knowledge. \n\n\n\nTogether\, these cases illuminate the interplay between knowledge and media in early China. What we know about the past depends not only on what was written and happened to survive\, but also on how knowledge was materially produced\, organized\, revised\, and transmitted. From legal practice to literary classics\, this talk approaches early Chinese manuscripts as evidence for a broader history of ancient media and information. \n\n\n\nYunxiao Xiao (Ch. 肖芸曉) is a scholar of Chinese literature and cultural history specializing in paleographic texts from the late Warring States and Qin–Han periods. With research interests in epistemological practices and information technologies before the age of paper\, she explores the interplay between knowledge\, people\, and historical media. Her first book project\, The Crafts of the Hidden Hands: Scribal Culture and the Making of Texts in Early China\, examines the ordinary producers and practices behind the formation of Chinese classical knowledge and traces how early written culture in East Asia emerged and evolved. Building on her interest in the history of media\, information\, and technology\, her other projects explore how administrative data and scholarly information were represented\, organized\, controlled\, and manipulated on bamboo and wood in the Qin and Han empires. Before joining the University of Washington\, she earned her PhD from Princeton University (2024) and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-humanities-seminar-featuring-yunxiao-xiao-writing-on-bamboo-and-wood-text-technologies-in-early-china/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:China Humanities Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261110T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261110T220000
DTSTAMP:20260810T162504Z
CREATED:20260810T162502Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260810T162504Z
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SUMMARY:Urban China Lecture Series featuring Zhang Qingyong
DESCRIPTION:zoom meeting link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Zhang Qingyong\, Renmin University \n\n\n\nMore information coming soon! \n\n\n\nZoom meeting link: https://mit.zoom.us/j/94120080608 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/urban-china-lecture-series-featuring-zhang-qingyong/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Urban China Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261117T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261117T173000
DTSTAMP:20260914T204117Z
CREATED:20260914T204114Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260914T204117Z
UID:45736-1794931200-1794936600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Modern China Lecture Series featuring Fei-Hsien Wang
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Fei-Hsien Wang\, Associate Professor\, Department of History\, Indiana University Bloomington \n\n\n\nMore information coming soon. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/modern-china-lecture-series-featuring-fei-hsien-wang/
LOCATION:Room K354\, CGIS Knafel\, 1737 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Modern China Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261117T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261117T220000
DTSTAMP:20260810T162829Z
CREATED:20260810T162827Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260810T162829Z
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SUMMARY:Urban China Lecture Series featuring Susan Whiting — Illiberal Law and Development: Property Rights and Conflict over Land in China
DESCRIPTION:zoom meeting link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker:Susan Whiting\, University of Washington \n\n\n\nIn Illiberal Law and Development\, Susan H. Whiting advances institutional economic theory with original survey and fieldwork data\, addressing two puzzles in Chinese political economy: how economic development has occurred despite insecure property rights and weak rule of law and how the Chinese state has maintained political control amid unrest. Whiting answers these questions by focusing on the role of illiberal law in reassigning property rights and redirecting grievances. The book reveals that\, in the context of technological change\, a legal system that facilitates reassignment of land rights to higher-value uses plays an important and under-theorized role in promoting economic development. This system simultaneously represses conflict and asserts legitimacy. Comparing China to post-Glorious Revolution England and contemporary India\, Whiting presents a critical new argument that brings the Chinese case more directly into debates in comparative politics about the role of the state in specifying property rights and maintaining authoritarian rule.  \n\n\n\nSusan H. Whiting (Ph.D. University of Michigan\, B.A. Yale University) is Professor of Political Science at the University of Washington. She is the author two books\, Illiberal Law and Development and Power and Wealth in Rural China\, both published by Cambridge University Press. She specializes in Chinese and comparative politics\, with an emphasis on the political economy of development. Her research has been published in journals such as Comparative Political Studies\, Studies in Comparative International Development\, China Quarterly\, Journal of Asian Studies\, and Voluntas\, as well as in edited volumes such as Holding China Together and Trust and Governance. \n\n\n\nZoom meeting link: https://mit.zoom.us/j/94120080608 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/urban-china-lecture-series-featuring-susan-whiting-illiberal-law-and-development-property-rights-and-conflict-over-land-in-china/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Urban China Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261120T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261120T130000
DTSTAMP:20260923T183941Z
CREATED:20260923T183936Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260923T183941Z
UID:45822-1795174200-1795179600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Sea Charts in the Eastern Half of Asia
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Yannan DING\, Associate Professor\, Historical Geography\, Fudan University; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2026-27Chair/Discussant: Peter K. Bol\, Charles H. Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/sea-charts-in-the-eastern-half-of-asia/
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:20261124T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261124T220000
DTSTAMP:20260828T160905Z
CREATED:20260828T160903Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260828T160905Z
UID:45550-1795552200-1795557600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Urban China Lecture Series featuring Zhao Miaoxi
DESCRIPTION:zoom meeting link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Zhao Miaoxi\, South China University of Technology \n\n\n\nMore information coming soon! \n\n\n\nZoom meeting link: https://mit.zoom.us/j/94120080608 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/urban-china-lecture-series-featuring-zhao-miaoxi/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Urban China Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261130T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261130T180000
DTSTAMP:20260924T183653Z
CREATED:20260924T183650Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260924T183653Z
UID:45855-1796054400-1796061600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:China Humanities Seminar featuring Kerstin Storm — Old Age and Aging in Medieval Chinese Poetry
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Kerstin Storm\, University of Münster***Please note the different location for this talk in the series.*** \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-humanities-seminar-featuring-kerstin-storm-old-age-and-aging-in-medieval-chinese-poetry/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S354\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:China Humanities Seminar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261207T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261207T180000
DTSTAMP:20260924T182125Z
CREATED:20260924T182123Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260924T182125Z
UID:45846-1796659200-1796666400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:China Humanities Seminar featuring Wendy Swartz — Literary Creativity and “The Use of the Mind” in Early Medieval China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Wendy Swartz\, Rutgers University \n\n\n\nThis lecture will examine accounts of wen (writing\, literary creation) by two of China’s earliest and most innovative literary theorists: “Rhapsody on Writing” by Lu Ji and The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons by Liu Xie. Writing on creativity and implicitly advocating for human creation was an act more audacious and ambitious than the modern reader might think. By the period of early medieval China\, there was already a long-established proscription against making claims of “creation” (zuo)\, considered to be the prerogative of ancient sages. This proscription can be traced to Confucius’ famous pronouncement recorded in the Analects\, in which he expressed his reverence for antiquity\, and perhaps also for a perceived mystery\, even sacredness\, inherent in creation: “I transmit and do not create.” Both Lu Ji and Liu Xie deftly circumvented the traditional aversion to claiming creation. Each also limned the writing process in varying degrees of detail\, while exposing its challenges and exalting the role of the mind (xin) in this process. This lecture will cast light on how investigating this process involved reflecting on matters of considerable importance not only in literary history\, but also in human history\, such as tradition\, culture\, invention\, originality\, conception\, expression\, identity\, work\, and ownership. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-humanities-seminar-featuring-wendy-swartz-literary-creativity-and-the-use-of-the-mind-in-early-medieval-china/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:China Humanities Seminar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20270331T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20270331T191500
DTSTAMP:20260910T161550Z
CREATED:20260910T161547Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260910T161550Z
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SUMMARY:Ilse and Leo Mildenberg Memorial Lecture: The Art and Design of Chinese Money
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Helen Wang\, Adjunct Researcher\, School of Art and Archaeology\, Zhejiang University \n\n\n\nMore info coming soon. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/ilse-and-leo-mildenberg-memorial-lecture-the-art-and-design-of-chinese-money/
LOCATION:Harvard Art Museum\, Menschel Hall\, Lower Level\, 32 Quincy St\, cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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