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SUMMARY:Tiananmen @ 35 Film Screening: The Gate of Heavenly Peace
DESCRIPTION:Introduction: Carma Hinton\, Art historian and Documentary Filmmaker; Robinson Professor of Visual Culture and Chinese Studies\, George Mason University (retired) \n\n\n\n“In The Gate of Heavenly Peace (the literal translation of the name Tiananmen)\, the causes\, effects and fallout from the six-week protest that led up to the Chinese government’s crackdown on dissidents are detailed with intelligence\, grace and toughness. Filmmakers Carma Hinton and Richard Gordon have transformed news into history\, and history into art.” — Michael Blowen\, The Boston Globe   \n\n\n\nThe Gate of Heavenly Peace chronicles the heroism\, drama\, tension\, humor\, absurdity\, and many tragedies of the peaceful popular protests during the spring weeks of 1989\, culminating on June 4th\, when the government’s bloody crackdown dashed the hopes of millions. Using archival footage and contemporary interviews with a wide range of Chinese citizens\, including students\, workers\, intellectuals\, and government officials\, the film reveals how the hard-liners within the government marginalized moderates among the protesters\, resulting in the voices for reason gradually being cowed and then silenced by extremism and emotionalism on both sides. \n\n\n\nIt is a sobering tale\, for faced with the binary opposition between hardened stances\, there has been little middle ground left for the rational and thoughtful proponents of positive reform in China. By giving these ignored voices their proper place in history\, The Gate of Heavenly Peace reveals an ongoing debate in 20th century China regarding revolution and reform\, as well as the importance of personal responsibility and moral integrity\, the need\, as Vaclav Havel has put it\, to “live in the truth.” \n\n\n\nCarma Hinton is an art historian and a filmmaker. She was born in Beijing\, and Chinese is her first language and culture. She received her Ph.D. in Art History from Harvard University and taught at various universities between major film projects. Together with Richard Gordon\, Hinton has directed many documentary films on China\, including Small Happiness\, All Under Heaven\, To Taste a Hundred Herbs\, Abode of Illusion: The Life and Art of Chang Dai-chien\, The Gate of Heavenly Peace\, and Morning Sun. She has won two Peabody Awards\, the American Historical Association’s John E. O’Connor Film Award\, the International Critics Prize and the Best Social and Political Documentary at the Banff Television Festival\, among others. She retired from her position as Robinson Professor of Visual Culture and Chinese Studies at George Mason University recently to focus on her book about traditional Chinese scrolls depicting the theme of demon quelling and work on the extensive archive of film and other visual materials she and Richard Gordon collected over decades of research and film production.  \n\n\n\nThe Gate of Heavenly Peace produced and directed by Carma Hinton and Richard Gordon. United States\, 1995\, documentary\, 187 min. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/tiananmen-35-film-screening-the-gate-of-heavenly-peace/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film Screening,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240422T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240422T210000
DTSTAMP:20260520T041331
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: In Our Time (Guang yin de gu shi)
DESCRIPTION:The omnibus film In Our Time initiated radical innovations in terms of aesthetic styles\, industry practices and commonly depicted themes\, thereby revolutionizing the filmmaking industry in Taiwan and inaugurating the movement of Taiwan New Cinema. The four segments are shot by four young emerging directors and each film—set in different decades from the 1950s to the 1980s—represents roughly one of the four younger stages of life: childhood\, adolescence\, young adulthood (in college) and married life (as working professionals). \n\n\n\nTitled Expectations\, sometimes translated as Desires\, Edward Yang’s segment features a series of sensitive and expressive vignettes that depict the growing pains of adolescents in mid-60s Taiwan. Yang sees the placement of the second short film as structurally akin to the second movement in a symphony\, typically characterized by its lyrical and slow nature. The teenaged Hsiao-Fen (Shi An-Ni) serves as a kind of prototype for other young heroines in Yang’s cinematic corpus. The diversity of the cinematic techniques used in his debut short film accentuates the complexity of the protagonist’s emotional and perceptual experience. \n\n\n\nDirected by Edward Yang\, Chang Yi\, Ko I-Chen and Tao Te-Chen. With Sylvia Chang\, Emily Y. Chang\, Lee Li-Chun \n\n\n\nTaiwan 1982\, DCP\, color\, 110 min. Mandarin and Min Nan with English subtitles \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-screening-taipei-story-qing-mei-zhu-ma-2/
LOCATION:Harvard Film Archive\, Carpenter Center\, 24 Quincy St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest,Film Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240423T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240423T114500
DTSTAMP:20260520T041331
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SUMMARY:Discovering Freshwater Jellyfish in Modern China: Arthur de Carle Soweby and Craspedacusta sowerbii\, 1880–1941
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Christine Luk\, Associate Professor of the History of Science\, Tsinghua University \n\n\n\nMore information: https://scholar.harvard.edu/seow/STinAsia \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/discovering-freshwater-jellyfish-in-modern-china-arthur-de-carle-soweby-and-craspedacusta-sowerbii-1880-1941/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240423T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240423T160000
DTSTAMP:20260520T041331
CREATED:20240417T185834Z
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SUMMARY:Michael Stanley-Baker - Evolution of A Recipe: How DocuSky’s Post-Search Classification function reveals historical change
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Michael Stanley-Baker\, Nanyang Technological University \n\n\n\nJoin us for an illuminating workshop hosted by the Digital China Initiative (DCI) and the China Biographical Database Project (CBDB)\, showcasing the innovative DocuSky platform. Developed by the Research Center for Digital Humanities at National Taiwan University\, this online platform is ingeniously designed to cater to the intricate demands of humanities scholarship. Under the expert guidance of Professor Michael Stanley-Baker from Nanyang Technological University\, participants will delve into the bespoke tools and services offered by DocuSky. These include a diverse range of digital resources\, analytical tools\, and tailored services essential for the organization and examination of research materials. \n\n\n\nThis workshop will feature a diverse set of digital research tools designed for the historical study of Chinese medicine.  At their core is the full-text corpus database hosted in DocuSky\, which will be the primary focus of the presentation.  We will examine the post-search classification feature\, and how it allows users to parse through thousands of query returns in an exploratory way\, oscillating between macro-scale data patterns\, and micro-scale close reading\, to come to a synthetic vision and analysis of specific research questions. \n\n\n\nThe advantage of digital tools go beyond acquiring more data.  Such overviews should afford insights which prompt new questions we might not have asked before. DocuSky does more than provide answers\, it stimulates new inquiry\, and provides the means to explore further. \n\n\n\nSpeaker’s bio: \n\n\n\nAs an adept historian in Chinese Medicine and Religion\, Professor Stanley-Baker’s expertise spans from the early Imperial period to contemporary Sinophone communities. His work intricately weaves together cultural knowledge in Chinese medicine with varied disciplines such as religion\, botany\, trade\, modern biology\, and policy. His methods range from meticulous textual analysis and interviews to cutting-edge digital humanities techniques. \n\n\n\nProfessor Stanley-Baker’s remarkable contributions to the field are evidenced by his editorial leadership in significant publications and his development of numerous digital humanities projects. His innovative creations include digital mappings of ancient Chinese medical texts and the Polyglot Medicine Knowledge Graph\, a pioneering digital resource connecting traditional and modern medicinal knowledge across cultures. The project won the 2nd runner-up for Best Dataset in DH Awards 2023. \n\n\n\nWith a rich academic background that includes a PhD from the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London\, an MA from Indiana University\, and a clinical degree in Chinese medicine\, Professor Stanley-Baker is a fount of knowledge. His esteemed research appointments across the globe have solidified his reputation as a leading light in the intersection of traditional knowledge and digital innovation. \n\n\n\nIf you want to participate in the workshop activities\, please register for a DocuSky account at https://docusky.org.tw/DocuSky/home/?l=en \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/michael-stanley-baker-evolution-of-a-recipe-how-docuskys-post-search-classification-function-reveals-historical-change/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S250\, 1730 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240423T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240423T174500
DTSTAMP:20260520T041331
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LAST-MODIFIED:20240410T161323Z
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SUMMARY:Tiananmen @ 35: What Have We Learned? A Conversation with Journalists
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:Dorinda Elliott\, Newsweek\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies \n\n\n\nSeth Faison\, South China Morning Press\, Brunswick Group China Hub \n\n\n\nOrville Schell\, New York Review of Books\, Asia Society Center on U.S.-China Relations \n\n\n\nKatherine Wilhelm\, Associated Press\, NYU U.S. Asia Law Center \n\n\n\nModerator: Annie Jieping Zhang\, founder\, Matters Lab\, co-founder\, Initium Media\, Nieman-Berkman Klein Fellow 2024 \n\n\n\nWhat happened in the spring of 1989 in Beijing\, and does it matter today? A panel of journalists who covered China’s democracy movement—and have watched China’s economic and political development since—will examine the reasons for the student movement and the bloody crackdown and the ensuing turning points that led to Xi Jinping’s China today. \n\n\n\nDorinda (Dinda) Elliott is executive director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Harvard China Fund. She previously served as SVP at the China Institute in New York and as editorial and communications director at the Paulson Institute. Before that\, Elliott worked at Newsweek\, Time\, Asiaweek\, and Conde Nast Traveler. Elliott spent 20 years as a foreign correspondent\, based in Hong Kong\, Beijing\, and Moscow\, and then served as editor in chief of Asiaweek magazine\, based in Hong Kong. Elliott covered China’s opening up in the late 1980s and the student movement in 1989; the rise of the mafia and political and economic transition in Post-Soviet Russia; the fall of Suharto in Indonesia; the reformasi movement in Malaysia; Hong Kong’s handover to Chinese sovereignty in 1997; and China’s rise as an economic power.    \n\n\n\nSeth Faison is a partner at Brunswick Group\, specializing in China. He went to China in 1984 and spent two years learning Chinese. He became a reporter in Hong Kong and opened the Beijing Bureau of the South China Morning Post in 1988. He covered the 1989 student movement and crackdown in Tiananmen Square. He later joined the New York Times\, winning a Pulitzer Prize in 1994 as part of a team covering breaking news. He became Shanghai Bureau Chief and wrote extensively about changes in China’s politics\, economy\, arts and society. He is the author of “South of the Clouds: Exploring the Hidden Realms of China.” Since 2006\, he has served as a communications specialist and advisor\, including eight years as Head of Communications for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS\, TB and Malaria. \n\n\n\nOrville Schell is the Arthur Ross Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at Asia Society in New York. He is a former professor and Dean at the University of California\, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. \n\n\n\nSchell is the author of fifteen books\, ten of them about China\, and a contributor to numerous edited volumes. His most recent books are: Wealth and Power\, China’s Long March to the 21st Century; Virtual Tibet; The China Reader: The Reform Years; and Mandate of Heaven: The Legacy of Tiananmen Square and the Next Generation of China’s Leaders. Schell has written for many leading publications; he covered China’s student movement in 1989 for The New York Review of Books. \n\n\n\nKatherine Wilhelm is executive director of the U.S.-Asia Law Institute\, an adjunct professor at NYU School of Law\, and editor of the institute’s online essay series\, USALI Perspectives. She is an expert on China’s legal system\, public interest law organizations\, and civil society. Over the course of nearly three decades in China as a lawyer and journalist\, she worked for the Ford Foundation\, Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center\, a leading U.S. law firm\, the Far Eastern Economic Review\, and The Associated Press. She earned a JD and master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University and a master’s degree in East Asian studies from Harvard University. \n\n\n\nAnnie Jieping Zhang is founder and CEO of Matters Lab\, a decentralized Web3 social media platform. She also co-founded and was the editor-in-chief of Initium Media\, an online Chinese-language publication established in Hong Kong in 2015. She previously worked as an editor at City Magazine; chief writer and executive editor-in-chief for iSun Affairs\, an iPad-based magazine offering political and social news; and as a reporter for Asia Week. The Society of Publishers in Asia named Zhang Journalist of the Year in 2010.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/tiananmen-35-what-have-we-learned-a-conversation-with-journalists/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240423T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240423T193000
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SUMMARY:Gyal Lo - The Impact of China’s Colonial Boarding Schools in Tibet on Children and Communities
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Gyal Lo\, Educational sociologist and expert on China’s assimilation and education policies in TibetModerator: James Robson\, James C. Kralik\, and Yunli Lou Professor\, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations; Victor and William Fung Director\, Asia Center\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nMore information: https://asiacenter.harvard.edu/events/impact-chinas-colonial-boarding-schools-tibet-children-and-communities \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/gyal-lo-the-impact-of-chinas-colonial-boarding-schools-in-tibet-on-children-and-communities/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240425T101500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240425T173000
DTSTAMP:20260520T041331
CREATED:20240417T145108Z
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SUMMARY:Perspectives on Academic Freedom
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers:Sugata Bose\, Harvard UniversityWilliam Kirby\, Harvard University Jayati Ghosh\, University of Massachusetts\, AmherstZeynep Kadirbeyoglu\, Brandeis UniversitySidney Chalhoub\, Harvard UniversityJoan Scott\, Institute for Advanced Study\, PrincetonDurba Mitra\, Harvard UniversityBeshara Doumani\, Brown UniversityBrian Connolly\, University of South Florida \n\n\n\nIn 2019\, alarmed by attacks on academic freedom happening simultaneously in several parts of the world (Brazil\, India\, Turkey\, and the USA\, among others)\, a group of faculty in the History Department decided to organize a year-long seminar series to discuss the role of academics in an age of advancing authoritarianism. The pandemic derailed our plans. The crises of the past few months have given us a new sense of urgency. How can the university remain a place of unfettered critical inquiry and expression when its mission is overtly challenged by corporate and governing interests?  \n\n\n\nRegistration and a complete agenda available at: https://history.fas.harvard.edu/event/perspectives-academic-freedomOpen to members of the Harvard community only. Please bring your Harvard ID for check in.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/perspectives-on-academic-freedom/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240426T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240427T170000
DTSTAMP:20260520T041331
CREATED:20240424T112842Z
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SUMMARY:A Cosmos of Vital Feeling: Qing (Affect) and Qi (Breath\, Atmosphere) as Critical Traditions in the Chinese Humanities\, An International Conference情氣天下：重估抒情傳統與氣化論 國際研討會
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:David Der-wei Wang 王德威 (Harvard University)Peter K. Bol 包弼德 (Harvard University)Wai-yee Li 李惠儀 (Harvard University)Thomas P. Kelly (Harvard University)Joo-hyeon Oh 吳周炫 (University of Minnesota\, Twin Cities)Yang Rur-bin 楊儒賓 (National Tsing Hua University)Cheng Yu-yu 鄭毓瑜 (National Taiwan University\, Academia Sinica)Chan Kwok -Kou 陳國球 (National Tsing Hua University)Lai Shi-San 賴錫三 (National Sun Yat-sen University)Mark McConaghy 莫加南 (National Sun Yat-sen University)Lin Ming-chao 林明照 (National Taiwan University)Lin Su-chuan 林素娟 (National Cheng Kung University)Lee Yu-lin 李育霖 (Academia Sinica)Fabian Heubel 何乏筆 (Academia Sinica)Peng Hsiao-yen 彭小妍 (Academia Sinica)Paul J. D’Ambrosio 德安博 (East China Normal University)Tsai Yueh-chang 蔡岳璋 (National Tsing Hua University)Wang Wenfei 王文菲 (Harvard University) \n\n\n\nOrganizers:The Transcultural Sino-Island: The Global Sinology Forum\, NSYSUCenter for the Humanities\, NSYSUDepartment of East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nCo-Sponsors:Harvard-Yenching InstituteFairbank Center for Chinese StudiesTranscultural Sinology and Global Co-Becoming Research Group\, NSYSUChiang Ching-kuo Foundation \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/a-cosmos-of-vital-feeling-qing-affect-and-qi-breath-atmosphere-as-critical-traditions-in-the-chinese-humanities-an-international-conference%e6%83%85%e6%b0%a3%e5%a4%a9%e4%b8%8b%ef%bc%9a%e9%87%8d/
LOCATION:Plimpton Room (133)\, Barker Center\, 12 Quincy St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240429T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240429T173000
DTSTAMP:20260520T041331
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SUMMARY:Environment in Asia Series Lecture featuring Huaiyu Chen - Human-Animal Studies and Religions in Medieval Chinese Society
DESCRIPTION:register for hybrid zoom attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Huaiyu Chen\, Arizona State UniversityDiscussant: Brian Lander\, Brown University \n\n\n\nThis study illustrates how Buddhism shaped Chinese knowledge and experience of animals after it gradually took root in Chinese society in the medieval periods\, and vice versa\, how Chinese state ideology\, Daoism\, and local cultic practices reshaped Buddhism in understanding and engaging with animals. Taking approaches from history\, religious studies\, animal studies\, and environmental studies\, this study explores the entangled power relations among animals\, religions\, the state\, and the local community in medieval China. With the drastic increase of population in the medieval periods\, local community and religious practitioners expanded their activities and were often confronted with various wild animals. While competing with the dominant power of the state and negotiating with the local community\, Buddhism\, Confucianism\, and Daoism mobilized their intellectual\, spiritual\, and material resources of knowing\, categorizing\, pacifying\, petting\, and accompanying animals and developed their doctrines\, rituals\, discourses\, and practices to deal with complicated power relations between animals and humans. Drawing upon a wide range of sources\, such as traditional texts\, stone inscriptions\, and manuscripts\, as well as visual materials\, this study invites readers to embark on a journey to the unchartered territory of felines\, reptiles\, and birds that surrounded the medieval Chinese religious world\, represented by the tiger\, snake\, and parrot especially. Wisdoms\, virtues\, colors\, sounds\, and powers from both human and animal realms piece together for making a fascinating chapter of human history. \n\n\n\nHuaiyu Chen (Ph.D.\, Princeton University) is Professor of Buddhism and Chinese Religions at Arizona State University. He has many publications on Chinese Buddhism\, Religions on the Silk Road\, animals in Chinese religions\, and the history of modern Chinese humanities. His recent publications include In the Land of Tigers and Snakes: Living with Animals in Medieval Chinese Religions (2023) and Animals and Plants in Chinese Religions and Science (2023). He has received a membership from Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (2011-2012)\, Spalding Visiting Fellowship from Clare Hall of Cambridge University (2014-2015)\, and a visiting scholarship from the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin (2018).  \n\n\n\nAlso via Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0qcuygqjsiGNbg0qfZTS1ZdCxjnoKg9zx9 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/environment-in-asia-series-lecture-2/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Environment,Environment
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240430T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240430T100000
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SUMMARY:Urban China Lecture Series featuring Isabella Jackson - Shaping Modern Shanghai: Colonialism in China’s Global City
DESCRIPTION:Zoom meeting link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker:  Isabella Jackson\, Assistant Professor in Chinese History\, Trinity College Dublin \n\n\n\nThe Shanghai International Settlement was the site of key developments of the Republican period: economic growth\, rising Chinese nationalism\, and the Sino-Japanese conflict. Managed by the Shanghai Municipal Council (SMC\, 1854–1943)\, it was beyond the control of both the Chinese and the foreign imperial governments. In this paper\, Jackson defines Shanghai’s unique\, hybrid form of colonial urban governance as transnational colonialism. The SMC was both colonial in its structures and subject to colonial influence\, especially from the British Empire\, yet autonomous in its activities and transnational in its personnel. Through a study of how this unique body functioned on the local\, national\, and international stages\, the Council’s impact on the daily lives of the city’s residents and its contribution to the conflicts of the period are revealed. The implications go beyond Shanghai to encompass modern Chinese history more broadly and wider colonial history. \n\n\n\nDr. Isabella Jackson is Assistant Professor in Chinese History at Trinity College Dublin\, Ireland. She lectured at the Universities of Oxford and Aberdeen before moving to Dublin in 2015. Jackson is the author of Shaping Modern Shanghai: Colonialism in China’s Global City (Cambridge University Press\, 2018) and co-editor\, with Robert Bickers\, of Treaty Ports in Modern China: Law\, Land and Power (Routledge\, 2016). She is Principal Investigator of an Irish Research Council Laureate Award on Chinese Childhood in the Twentieth Century. \n\n\n\nZoom Meeting Link: https://mit.zoom.us/j/92743598127 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/urban-china-lecture-series-featuring-isabella-jackson/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Urban China Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240503T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240503T220000
DTSTAMP:20260520T041331
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: Yi Yi (A One and a Two …)
DESCRIPTION:Edward Yang’s cinematic swan song\, released at the turn of the millennium\, is a moving tapestry that weaves together the dissolution and reconstitution of the fragile subjectivities in an increasingly global\, capitalist and mediated urban society. Yi Yi opens with a wedding and ends with a funeral. What unfolds between love and death is everything that saturates our modern existence: awakening\, nostalgia\, contingency\, anxiety\, alienation\, the ennui of everyday banality and the oscillations between longings for interpersonal dependence and fears of intimacy. This three-hour-long audiovisual epic unfolds the confusions and struggles of the multigenerational Jian family. As the grandmother falls into a coma\, the family members take turns sitting at her bedside relaying their life to her\, only to hear their own doubts and uncertainties reverberate in the resounding silence. At his tenderest moment\, Yang\, through Yi Yi\, delicately\, wisely and elegantly portrays the poignant reminiscences of the stirrings of first love and unveils the beauty that all too often shies away in the face of a perceived emptiness of life. \n\n\n\nDirected by Edward Yang. With Wu Nien-Jen\, Elaine Jin\, Issey Ogata \n\n\n\nTaiwan/Japan 2000\, 35mm\, color\, 173 min. Mandarin\, Min Nan\, Hokkien\, English\, Japanese and French with English subtitles \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-screening-yi-yi-a-one-and-a-two/
LOCATION:Harvard Film Archive\, Carpenter Center\, 24 Quincy St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest,Film Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240504T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240504T220000
DTSTAMP:20260520T041331
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: A Brighter Summer Day (Guling jie shaonian sharen shijian)
DESCRIPTION:Similar to Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s A City of Sadness (1989)\, A Brighter Summer Day also traces the experiences of a large family during a critical historical epoch in Taiwan. Set in the early 1960s\, against the backdrop of a society witnessing the consequences of major demographic shifts and political oppression\, this film depicts the difficult trials awaiting the simple and harmonious life of the Zhang family. With Yang’s exacting demands on the historical accuracy of the props\, such as the family house and the furniture in the classrooms\, A Brighter Summer Day splendidly restores the material historical world to us while inquiring into its zeitgeist. Caught between the world of rock ‘n’ roll\, gang rivalry\, love triangles and the White Terror paranoia\, a group of teenagers are compelled to learn to negotiate the tensions and discrepancy between ideals and reality. The adolescent struggles in grasping that which is worth holding on to\, be it people or principle\, turn out to be an inescapable fate for adults alike. \n\n\n\nWidely considered as Yang’s magnum opus\, this film\, based on a real-life murder\, launched Chang Chen’s acting career at the age of fourteen. The brilliant juxtapositions of light and darkness\, movement and stasis\, sound and silence\, all work together to yield a tragic lonesomeness that even the warmth of a bright summer day cannot cure. \n\n\n\nDirected by Edward Yang. With Chang Chen\, Lisa Yang\, Chang Kuo-Chu \n\n\n\nTaiwan 1991\, DCP\, color\, 237 min. Mandarin\, Min Nan\, Shanghainese and English with English subtitles \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-screening-a-brighter-summer-day-guling-jie-shaonian-sharen-shijian/
LOCATION:Harvard Film Archive\, Carpenter Center\, 24 Quincy St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest,Film Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240505T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240505T170000
DTSTAMP:20260520T041331
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LAST-MODIFIED:20240216T170233Z
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: In Our Time (Guang yin de gu shi)
DESCRIPTION:The omnibus film In Our Time initiated radical innovations in terms of aesthetic styles\, industry practices and commonly depicted themes\, thereby revolutionizing the filmmaking industry in Taiwan and inaugurating the movement of Taiwan New Cinema. The four segments are shot by four young emerging directors and each film—set in different decades from the 1950s to the 1980s—represents roughly one of the four younger stages of life: childhood\, adolescence\, young adulthood (in college) and married life (as working professionals). \n\n\n\nTitled Expectations\, sometimes translated as Desires\, Edward Yang’s segment features a series of sensitive and expressive vignettes that depict the growing pains of adolescents in mid-60s Taiwan. Yang sees the placement of the second short film as structurally akin to the second movement in a symphony\, typically characterized by its lyrical and slow nature. The teenaged Hsiao-Fen (Shi An-Ni) serves as a kind of prototype for other young heroines in Yang’s cinematic corpus. The diversity of the cinematic techniques used in his debut short film accentuates the complexity of the protagonist’s emotional and perceptual experience. \n\n\n\nDirected by Edward Yang\, Chang Yi\, Ko I-Chen and Tao Te-Chen. With Sylvia Chang\, Emily Y. Chang\, Lee Li-Chun \n\n\n\nTaiwan 1982\, DCP\, color\, 110 min. Mandarin and Min Nan with English subtitles \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-screening-in-our-time-guang-yin-de-gu-shi/
LOCATION:Harvard Film Archive\, Carpenter Center\, 24 Quincy St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest,Film Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240507T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240507T100000
DTSTAMP:20260520T041331
CREATED:20240123T163217Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240425T165000Z
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SUMMARY:Urban China Lecture Series featuring Zhang Guanchi - Rightscaling Cities: The Political Economy of City Territory in China
DESCRIPTION:Zoom meeting link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker:  Zhang Guanchi\, Vermont Law and Graduate School \n\n\n\nHow has the rescaling of the city territories interacted with China’s political and economic transformation? During the country’s rapid industrialization and urbanization\, Chinese cities have exhibited a relatively low degree of territorial fragmentation. This study examines the institutional experiments that have reclassified\, redivided\, and recombined local government territory in the People’s Republic of China since 1949. I argue that the constant rescaling of cities is a distinctive and underestimated mechanism in the Chinese state’s steering of economic transformation. \n\n\n\nThrough extensive fieldwork and archival research\, I find that the question of city scale has been integral to China’s economic modernization for the last seven decades. The constant tensions between the metropolitan center and periphery have driven various territorial reforms\, both before and after the market-oriented reform. These reforms have profoundly shaped the state’s economic development projects. I argue that\, over time\, metropolitan governments emerge as the primary scale for inter-local competition and coordination. While this particular territorial choice has contributed to China’s economic rise\, its entrenchment has ramifications for the country’s current challenges. \n\n\n\nGuanchi Zhang is an Assistant Professor of Law at Vermont Law and Graduate School. His research interests lie at the intersection of law\, urban studies\, and political economy. His current research projects focus on two primary areas of inquiry: the rise and fall of efforts to rightscale cities in China and the United States\, and the role of housing and zoning laws in the context of growing geographic disparities. \n\n\n\nZoom Meeting Link: https://mit.zoom.us/j/92743598127 \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-guanchi/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Urban China Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240507T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240507T131500
DTSTAMP:20260520T041331
CREATED:20240503T160955Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240503T160957Z
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SUMMARY:Alienation of Enlightenment: Rethinking the May 4 Movement\, Featuring Fairbank Center Visiting Scholar Qin Hui
DESCRIPTION:RSVP – HUID holders only\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nQin Hui\, public intellectual and historian\, will give a talk on Tuesday\, May 7\, titled “启蒙的异化：五四再反思\,” “Alienation of Enlightenment: Rethinking the May 4 Movement.” Professor Yuhua Wang\, Professor of Government\, Harvard University\, will be the discussant. \n\n\n\nThe talk and Q&A will be in Chinese. \n\n\n\nHarvard University ID required. Please register with Weijing Guo (wguo@fas.harvard.edu)\, as seating is limited. \n\n\n\nQin Hui (秦晖) is a historian and public intellectual. He retired as Professor of History\, Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences\, Tsinghua University\, in 2017 and then served as a Visiting Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Qin’s primary field is economic history and peasant studies. Qin\, who has written extensively on issues relating to social justice in China’s countryside\, is currently focusing on China\, globalization\, and the “new Cold War.” \n\n\n\nQin’s recent research includes three broad topics: China\, globalization and the “new Cold War”; China’s social economy during the Cultural Revolution; and rethinking the lessons of the May Fourth Movement—what he calls “the failure of the second wave of global democratization.” \n\n\n\nQin graduated with a Masters Degree from Lanzhou University in 1981. Before coming to Harvard this year\, Qin was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Tokyo. Qin was a Visiting Fellow at the Fairbank Center in 2003. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/alienation-of-enlightenment-rethinking-the-may-4-movement-featuring-fairbank-center-visiting-scholar-qin-hui/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Room S050\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240509T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240509T130000
DTSTAMP:20260520T041331
CREATED:20240104T164708Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240417T161058Z
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SUMMARY:Liu Weimo - Ancient Greek and Chinese Cosmologies Compared
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Liu Weimo\, Associate Professor\, Institute of Philosophy\, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2023-24Chair/Discussant: Shigehisa Kuriyama\, Reischauer Institute Professor of Cultural History\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nMore information: https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/ancient-greek-and-chinese-cosmologies-compared/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/liu-weimo-mathematical-and-graphical-reasoning-in-early-china/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240514T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240514T130000
DTSTAMP:20260520T041331
CREATED:20240417T160853Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240417T160855Z
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SUMMARY:Shih-Diing Liu - The Political Life of Affective Spaces
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Shih-Diing Liu\, Professor\, Department of Communication\, University of MacauChair/Discussant: Elizabeth J. Perry\, Henry Rosovsky Professor Of Government\, Harvard University; Director\, Harvard-Yenching Institute \n\n\n\nChina is saturated with complex emotions. Although emotions are constitutive in Chinese public culture\, their implications are poorly understood. In this presentation\, I aim to illuminate how and why emotions and affect open up new avenues for understanding the dynamics\, struggles and tensions in contemporary Chinese society and politics. This discussion revolves around the analytical foundation for our new book\, Affective Spaces: The Cultural Politics of Emotion in China (Edinburgh University Press\, co-authored with Wei Shi). I will contextualize the concept of affective space\, explaining why it provides a unique lens for exploring topics such as emotional mobilization\, psychoanalysis of nationalism and nativism\, workers’ embodied fear\, digital affective publics\, and the evolving state-society relations with distinct Chinese characteristics. \n\n\n\nAbout the speaker: Shih-Diing Liu is Professor of Communication and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies\, University of Macau. His research has appeared in Positions: Asia Critique\, Third World Quarterly\, Social Movement Studies\, and New Left Review. He is the author of The Politics of People: Protest Cultures in China (State University of New York Press\, 2019). \n\n\n\nMore info: https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/the-political-life-of-affective-spaces/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/shih-diing-liu-the-political-life-of-affective-spaces/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240514T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240514T173000
DTSTAMP:20260520T041331
CREATED:20240508T180744Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240508T210303Z
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SUMMARY:Visiting Scholar Lecture featuring Po-Chang (Paul) Huang - Sleepwalking into a China-Taiwan War? The Underreported Crisis over Kinmen and the Danger it Entails
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Po-Chang (Paul) Huang\, Fairbank Center Visiting Scholar; Research Fellow\, Taiwan Public Opinion Foundation \n\n\n\nDiscussant: Steven Goldstein\, Director\, Taiwan Studies Workshop\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies \n\n\n\nOn February 14\, 2024\, a tiny Chinese fishing raft collided with a Taiwan Coast boat near the waters of Kinmen\, a Taiwan-controlled island just miles off China’s Fujian coast. Two Chinese fishermen drowned as a result\, and a huge Chinese public outrage against Taiwan ensued. In the months that followed Chinese Coast Guard started regular incursions into Taiwan’s declared “restricted waters” around Kinmen which effectively nullified the unspoken boundaries that have been maintained for decades across the two sides. \n\n\n\nPaul Huang\, a Taiwanese security researcher and a visiting fellow at the Fairbank Center\, will discuss this underreported crisis and why its risks at hand are far greater than most realized. While Western observers dismissed it as a small fishing incident\, Huang argues the events since February point clearly to Chinese government’s calculated escalation that have been unprecedented in recent history of cross-strait relations. Instead of backing down quietly as Taiwan government assumed\, Beijing seems determined to use this as a steppingstone for a much larger use-of-force operation against Taiwan\, which will be of grave consequences to both sides of the strait. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/visiting-scholar-lecture-featuring-po-chang-paul-huang-sleepwalking-into-a-china-taiwan-war-the-underreported-crisis-over-kinmen-and-the-danger-it-entails/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S354\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Taiwan,Taiwan Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240909T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240909T130000
DTSTAMP:20260520T041331
CREATED:20240827T160012Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240827T160101Z
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SUMMARY:Ja Ian Chong — Northeast Asia Is for Deterrence and Southeast Asia Is (Mostly) for Free-Riding: Understanding Divergent Responses to Maintaining Order
DESCRIPTION:Register for hybrid zoom attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Ja Ian Chong\, Associate Professor\, Political Science\, National University of Singapore \n\n\n\nModerator: Mark Wu\, Henry L. Stimson Professor\, Harvard Law School; Director\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies \n\n\n\nThe focus of Ja Ian Chong’s teaching and research is on international relations\, especially IR theory\, security\, Chinese foreign policy\, and international relations in the Asia-Pacific. Of particular interest are issues that stand at the nexus of international and domestic politics\, such as influences on nationalism and the consequences of major power competition on the domestic politics of third countries. In addition to their academic background\, they have experience working in think-tanks both in Singapore and in the United States. The speaker is the author of External Intervention and the Politics of State Formation–China\, Indonesia\, Thailand\, 1893-1952 (Cambridge\, 2012)\, which received the 2013 Best Book Award from the International Security Studies Section of the International Studies Association. \n\n\n\n Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies.Also via Zoom.Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEqf-6opz4rGNecwwA132Vq1rTroCFdQ7hv#/registration \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/ja-ian-chong-northeast-asia-is-for-deterrence-and-southeast-asia-is-mostly-for-free-riding-understanding-divergent-responses-to-maintaining-order/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240909T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240909T193000
DTSTAMP:20260520T041331
CREATED:20240827T161407Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240827T161408Z
UID:37211-1725904800-1725910200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Wan-an Chiang — Global Taipei: Bridging Tradition and Innovation
DESCRIPTION:Register for in-person attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Wan-an Chiang\, Mayor\, Taipei Moderator: Anthony Saich\, Director\, Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia and Daewoo Professor of International Affairs\, Harvard Kennedy School \n\n\n\nCo-sponsored by the Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics\, Bloomberg Center for Cities at Harvard University\, and Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University \n\n\n\nPlease register with a valid Harvard email address to attend in-person. This event will also be livestreamed on YouTube. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/wan-an-chiang-global-taipei-bridging-tradition-and-innovation/
LOCATION:JFK Jr. Forum\, Harvard Kennedy School\, 79 John F. Kennedy St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240916T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240916T190000
DTSTAMP:20260520T041331
CREATED:20240913T170011Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240913T170012Z
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SUMMARY:Linking East and West: Yue-Sai Kan and her Cross-Cultural Influence
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Yue-Sai Kan\, television host\, producer\, author\, entrepreneur and humanitarianDiscussant: Min Ye\, Professor of International Relations\, Boston University Pardee School of Global Studies \n\n\n\nYue-Sai Kan\, often referred to as ‘The Oprah of China’\, is a renowned media entrepreneur\, bestselling author\, and philanthropist. Her talk promises to offer unique insights into China’s transformation over four decades and the importance of cross-cultural understanding. \n\n\n\nA book signing for her book\, “The Most Famous Woman in China\,” follows the discussion. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/linking-east-and-west-yue-sai-kan-and-her-cross-cultural-influence/
LOCATION:Boston University Tsai Performance Center\, 685 Commonwealth Ave.\, Boston\, Massachusetts\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240917T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240917T173000
DTSTAMP:20260520T041331
CREATED:20240812T154251Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250130T155052Z
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SUMMARY:Modern China Lecture Series featuring Rebecca Nedostup - "War Being" in Mid Twentieth Century China and Taiwan
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Rebecca Nedostup\, Associate Professor of History\, Associate Professor of East Asian Studies\, Brown UniversityTwo decades of intense hot and cold war in China and Taiwan between the 1930s and 1950s produced not only significant economic\, political\, and environmental changes\, but notable consequences for the epistemological structuring of everyday experience. Using examples of shifting conceptions of physical and cosmological refuge found in Jiangsu\, Sichuan\, and Taiwan\, I suggest some ways in which the scale and conduct of warfare during this period challenged but did not entirely erase extant conceptions of space and time. Although national and geopolitical frameworks threatened to eclipse alternate ways in which people made community among the living and the dead\, knowledge and projections of spatial and chronological arrangements were still intimately tied to the social networks that activated them – even as such networks were themselves in flux. The tension between state utilizations of population displacement and the self-conception and self-organization of the displaced themselves would set the stage for the large-scale social experiments and new migration patterns of the late twentieth century. \n\n\n\nRebecca Nedostup is a historian of twentieth-century China and Taiwan at Brown University. She works on displacement and emplacement; the social and political roles of the living and the dead in times of disruption; and the relationship of transitional justice and historical consciousness. Her book Superstitious Regimes: Religion and the Politics of Chinese Modernity looked at the modern categorization of religious practice and its social and political ramifications. Her next book. War Being\, is on the making and unmaking of community among people displaced by conflict across China and Taiwan from the 1930s through the 1950s. More broadly\, she is interested in ritual studies\, critical archive studies\, digital ontologies\, and historic preservation. She is faculty director of the Choices program\, and was previously Visiting Chair of Taiwan Studies at the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) and Leiden University Institute for Area Studies (LIAS). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/modern-china-lecture-series-featuring-rebecca-nedostup/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Modern China Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240919T122000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240919T132000
DTSTAMP:20260520T041331
CREATED:20240906T160836Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240906T160904Z
UID:37287-1726748400-1726752000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:EALS Open House
DESCRIPTION:The East Asian Legal Studies program at Harvard Law School supports research and teaching on the law and legal history of the nations and peoples of East Asia\, their interaction with the United States\, and their impact on global order. Please join us at our Open House to learn about upcoming EALS events and opportunities for students\, and to meet faculty\, staff\, visiting scholars\, and other students interested in law and East Asia! \n\n\n\nSavory and sweet pastries\, coffee\, Wong Lo Kat\, sikhye\, and hojicha will be provided. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/eals-open-house/
LOCATION:Austin Hall Room 308\, 1515 Mass Ave\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240920T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240920T160000
DTSTAMP:20260520T041331
CREATED:20240903T184408Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240909T142414Z
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SUMMARY:Digital China Initiative Workshop — GenAI for Literary Sinitic Studies
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis workshop is designed to introduce the world of Generative AI (GenAI) and its applications in Literary Sinitic Studies. Tailored for beginners with no prior experience in AI\, this session will explore how GenAI can revolutionize various aspects of research\, learning\, and analysis in Literary Sinitic Studies. \n\n\n\nTarget Audience: \n\n\n\n\nStudents\, researchers\, and professionals in Literary Sinitic Studies\n\n\n\nIndividuals interested in leveraging AI for academic or professional work related to China\n\n\n\nNo prior background in AI or computer science is required\n\n\n\n\nWorkshop Objectives: \n\n\n\n\nIntroduce the concept of GenAI and its potential in Literary Sinitic Studies\n\n\n\nExplore various practical applications of GenAI in the field\n\n\n\nDevelop basic prompt engineering skills for effective use of GenAI chatbots.\n\n\n\n\nAlso held on September 27 and October 4 \n\n\n\nRegister here. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/digital-china-initiative-workshop-genai-for-literary-sinitic-studies/
LOCATION:Room 202\, 61 Kirkland St.\, 61 Kirkland St.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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SUMMARY:Joel Mokyr — China and the West – Two Paths to the Twentieth Century
DESCRIPTION:International Relations\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Joel Mokyr\, Robert H. Strotz Professor of Arts and Sciences & Professor of Economics and History\, Northwestern University \n\n\n\nJoin Joel Mokyr as he discusses his book “Two Paths to the Twentieth Century: Culture and Institutions in Europe and China\, 1000-2000” coauthored with Avner Greif and Guido Tabellini. Forthcoming with Princeton University Press\, it explores a millennium of Eurasian economic history. Mokyr conducts research on the economic history of Europe\, and specializes in the period 1750-1914. His current research is concerned with the understanding of the economic and intellectual roots of technological progress and the growth of useful knowledge in European societies\, as well as the impact that industrialization and economic progress have had on economic welfare. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/joel-mokyr-china-and-the-west-two-paths-to-the-twentieth-century/
LOCATION:Goldman Room\, Adolphus Busch Hall\, 27 Kirkland St.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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SUMMARY:Urban China Lecture Series featuring Huang Binling & Yuan Zhenyu
DESCRIPTION:zoom meeting link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers: Huang Binling & Yuan Zhenyu\, Shenzhen Sketch Landscape Design \n\n\n\nMore information coming soon. \n\n\n\nThis event series is sponsored by the MIT Sustainable Urbanization Lab\, the University of British Columbia’s School of Community and Regional Planning\, and the Harvard University Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. \n\n\n\nPresented via Zoom Meeting.Meeting link: https://mit.zoom.us/j/93343229272 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/urban-china-lecture-series-featuring-huang-binling-yuan-zhenyu/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Urban China Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240925T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240925T131500
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Eyck Freymann and Hugo Bromley - Avalanche Decoupling: Economic Contingency Planning for Taiwan Crisis
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:Eyck Freymann\, Hoover Fellow\, Stanford UniversityHugo Bromley\, Postdoctoral Research Associate\, Centre for Geopolitics\, University of CambridgeMore information coming soon. \n\n\n\nEyck Freymann is a Hoover Fellow at Stanford University\, where he studies the geopolitics of climate change and strategic deterrence in the Taiwan Strait. Trained as an economic historian and China specialist\, he is also the Indo-Pacific Director at Greenmantle\, a New York-based advisory firm\, and a Non-Resident Research Fellow with the China Maritime Studies Institute at the U.S. Naval War College. \n\n\n\nFreymann’s first book\, One Belt One Road: Chinese Power Meets the World\, is assigned on undergraduate and graduate syllabi at Harvard\, Cambridge\, Columbia\, Peking University\, and elsewhere. His writings on other current affairs topics have appeared in The Wall Street Journal\, Foreign Affairs\, The Economist\, War on the Rocks\, Foreign Policy\, The Atlantic\, and other venues. \n\n\n\nBefore Hoover\, Freymann held concurrent postdoctoral fellowships at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center and the Columbia-Harvard China & the World Program. He earned his doctorate in China Studies from Balliol College\, University of Oxford; two masters degrees in China Studies from Harvard University and the University of Cambridge\, where he was a Henry Scholar; and a bachelors degree cum laude with highest honors in East Asian History from Harvard College. \n\n\n\nHugo Bromley is a historian of English manufacturing and British political economy and geopolitics\, focusing on the early eighteenth century. His recently submitted PhD\, completed at Cambridge\, looked at how textile manufacturers and their employees shaped the formation of Britain after 1688\, and the role of the British state in the global economy immediately before the Industrial Revolution. At the Centre for Geopolitics\, he will coordinate the forthcoming project on the applied history of the UK Union\, as well as continuing his own research. He has also been appointed as an affiliated postdoctoral research associate at Robinson College. \n\n\n\nHugo previously worked for the Centre as a Research Assistant on the Baltic Geopolitics Programme\, which he will continue to support. He also hosted a short podcast series on the Geopolitics of Finance\, which is available online at On Geopolitics. He completed his undergraduate studies at the LSE and his MPhil at here at Cambridge. Away from academia\, he has worked as a researcher at the International Financial Law Review and as a reporter at IFLR Practice Insight. \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-eyck-freymann-and-hugo-bromley-avalanche-decoupling-economic-contingency-planning-for-taiwan-crisis/
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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SUMMARY:Calligraphy Art Lecture and Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Wang Dongling\, Professor of Calligraphy and Director of the Modern Calligraphy Research Center\,  China Academy of Art\, Hangzhou \n\n\n\nPaper and ink provided. Register at: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScyPdekMiEDa5XhgdmLmHn26csGN_s0FnHG38zBttjS3J422g/viewform  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/calligraphy-art-lecture-and-workshop/
LOCATION:Gund Hall Room 111\, 48 Quincy St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240926T150000
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SUMMARY:Combatting Digital Misinformation: Lessons from Taiwan — A Conversation with Audrey Tang
DESCRIPTION:Register now for event waitlist\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n***WAITLIST REGISTRATION ONLY***This event’s pre-registration has reached its capacity. You may register for the waitlist\, and we will notify you if a space becomes available.Speaker: Audrey Tang\, Inaugural Minister for Digital Affairs\, Taiwan (2022-2024) \n\n\n\nTaiwan sits on the front lines of global misinformation campaigns.  From election interference to fake news stories\, Taiwanese society faces a regular influx of activities by nefarious actors attempting to distort information.  What lessons can Taiwan offer for how to combat misinformation in a polarized political environment\, while protecting speech and promoting a thriving democracy?  Join us for a discussion with Audrey Tang\, Taiwan’s former Minister for Digital Affairs\, moderated by Professor Mark Wu\, Co-Director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society and Director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. \n\n\n\nCo-sponsored by the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. \n\n\n\nThis is an in-person only event. Seating is limited and pre-registration is required. Register at: https://forms.gle/Qt6aA8BGg4TkS7Vs7.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/combatting-digital-misinformation-lessons-from-taiwan-a-conversation-with-audrey-tang/
LOCATION:BKC Multipurpose Room 515\, Lewis Law Center\, 1557 Mass. Ave. 5th Floor\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Special Event,Taiwan
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SUMMARY:JFK Jr. Forum — Building a Digital Democracy
DESCRIPTION:Register for in-person attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPanelists:Audrey Tang\, Former Minister of Digital Affairs\, Taiwan Megan Smith\, Former Chief Technology Officer of the United StatesDanielle Allen\, James Bryant Conant University Professor and Director of the Allen Lab for Democracy Renovation\, Harvard UniversityMathias Riss\, Berthold Beitz Professor in Human Rights\, Global Affairs and Philosophy and Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nAround the world\, innovative developments in digital civic infrastructure are being created to advance the public good and build thriving democratic societies. Drawing from global\, U.S.\, and municipal examples\, panelists will explore how technology is being used to transform political institutions\, civil society\, and political culture to support more representative\, transparent\, responsive\, and participatory democracy\, and how these infrastructures can be designed to protect individual human rights and democratic systems. \n\n\n\nPlease register with a valid Harvard email address to attend in-person. All JFK Jr. Forums are publicly livestreamed on their YouTube channel. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/jfk-jr-forum-building-a-digital-democracy/
LOCATION:JFK Jr. Forum\, Harvard Kennedy School\, 79 John F. Kennedy St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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