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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
DTSTAMP:20260901T175504Z
CREATED:20260901T175501Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260901T175504Z
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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:20261104T163000
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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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SUMMARY:Urban China Lecture Series featuring Zhao Miaoxi
DESCRIPTION:zoom meeting link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Zhao Miaoxi\, South China University of Technology \n\n\n\nMore information coming soon! \n\n\n\nZoom meeting link: https://mit.zoom.us/j/94120080608 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/urban-china-lecture-series-featuring-zhao-miaoxi/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Urban China Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261130T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261130T180000
DTSTAMP:20260924T183653Z
CREATED:20260924T183650Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260924T183653Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261207T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261207T180000
DTSTAMP:20260924T182125Z
CREATED:20260924T182123Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260924T182125Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20270331T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20270331T191500
DTSTAMP: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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