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SUMMARY:PRC @ 75 Series — Bao Pu — An Insider’s View of Mao’s Reign: The Life of Bao Tong\, Communist Reformer
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Bao Pu\, Founder\, New Century Press\, Hong Kong \n\n\n\nDiscussant: Michael Puett\, Director\, Harvard University Asia Center; Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History and Anthropology\, Harvard University  \n\n\n\nMao Zedong’s 26-year reign profoundly shaped the People’s Republic of China. And yet while there have been numerous social\, political\, and economic analyses of the PRC\, the driving forces behind Mao’s policies and the inner workings of power politics at the highest levels of the Chinese Communist Party remain poorly understood due to lack of critical information. \n\n\n\nDrawing from a collection of largely unpublished private letters\, rare publications\, and archival records connected to Bao Tong\, the late Communist Party reformer and political secretary to Party General Secretary Zhao Ziyang\, Bao’s son Bao Pu weaves his father’s experiences during Mao’s reign into a single coherent narrative. The analysis traces Bao’s personal arc\, from the young idealist who joined the Party at age of 16 to disillusioned reformer who became one of the Party’s most outspoken critics. Bao Pu uncovers surprising insights into power dynamics at China’s highest levels\, enriched by visuals from Bao Tong’s personal archives and photographs. \n\n\n\nBao Tong was the highest-ranking Chinese official imprisoned over the pro-democracy protests in Tiananmen Square that ended in a bloody crackdown in 1989. Before that\, as Political Secretary of the CCP’s Central Committee’s Politburo Standing Committee\, he had worked on officially sanctioned plans for political reform. He was released from prison in 1997 and died in 2022 at the age of 90. \n\n\n\nBao began his career in the CCP’s Organization Department in July 1949 and remained deeply engaged with the Party’s central operations throughout his tenure. He worked closely with his mentor\, An Ziwen\, the Minister of the Organization Department\, contributing to the drafting of key documents during the turbulent years leading up to Mao’s Cultural Revolution when both them were purged. \n\n\n\nIn 1977\, Bao made a significant comeback by contributing to the drafting of Deng Xiaoping’s speech at the National Science Conference\, a pivotal moment that helped Deng rise to become the supreme leader of China. In the early 1980s\, Bao served as the secretary to Premier Zhao Ziyang and eventually ascended to the role of Political Secretary of the CCP’s Central Committee’s Politburo Standing Committee. By the late 1980s\, Bao was entrusted by General Secretary Zhao Ziyang with preparation for the Political Reform program\, which was approved at the CCP’s 13th Party Congress. \n\n\n\nHowever\, the momentum of these reforms came to a halt following the Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989\, leading to Bao’s imprisonment as the highest-ranking official to oppose Deng Xiaoping’s handling of the event. In his later years\, Bao continued to be an outspoken critic of the CCP. \n\n\n\nBao Pu is the Publisher and Founder of New Century Press in Hong Kong\, best known for its Chinese-language memoirs and contemporary histories of politics\, titles including Prisoner of the State: The Secret Journal of Premier Zhao Ziyang and The Origins of the Cultural Revolution\, by Harvard Professor Roderick MacFarquhar. Bao was awarded the Jeri Laber Interntational Freedom to Publish Award in 2010. He is the son of Bao Tong. \n\n\n\nPart of Worldwide Week at Harvard 2024 | October 5 – 12\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/bao-pu-an-insiders-view-of-maos-reign-the-life-of-bao-tong-communist-reformer/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241011T113000
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SUMMARY:Yao Yu — China’s Natural Rubber Plantation in the 1950s: A Global View
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Yao Yu\, Professor\, History\, East China Normal University; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2024-25Chair/Discussant: Victor Seow\, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences\, Harvard University \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/yao-yu-chinas-natural-rubber-plantation-in-the-1950s-a-global-view/
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:20241011T120000
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SUMMARY:CID Speaker Series: China and the Global Economy
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:David Yang\, Director\, Center for History and Economics and Professor of EconomicsJie Bai\, HKS Associate Professor of Public PolicyMark Wu\, Director\, Fairbank Center for China Studies; Henry L. Stimson Professor of LawShengqiao Lin\, CID and Fairbank Center Post-Doctoral Fellow \n\n\n\nThe need for policy and public engagement with China—through rigorous analysis\, informed perspectives and constructive dialogue— has never been more urgent. Learn more about the Harvard Center for International Development’s new initiative\, China and the Global Economy\, and how you can get involved. This will be an interactive discussion featuring CID researchers.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/cid-speaker-series-china-and-the-global-economy/
LOCATION:Ellwood Democracy Lab – Rubenstein 414AB\, 79 JFK St.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Digital China Initiative Workshop — Beyond Chatbots: RAG and Agent
DESCRIPTION:register here\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis workshop delves deeper into advanced applications of Large Language Models (LLMs) beyond simple chatbot interfaces. Participants will explore how to leverage APIs to connect various tools with LLMs\, build private knowledge bases for more accurate and context-specific generation\, and utilize agents to expand the capabilities of LLMs in Literay Sinitic Studies. \n\n\n\nTarget Audience: \n\n\n\n\nFaculty and students in Literary Sinitic Studies with basic familiarity with GenAI and looking to implement more advanced AI solutions in their work\n\n\n\n\nWorkshop Objectives: \n\n\n\n\nUnderstand the concept and importance of APIs in connecting LLMs with other tools\n\n\n\nLearn how to implement Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) for Literary Sinitic Studies\n\n\n\nExplore the use of AI agents to enhance LLM capabilities in research and analysis\n\n\n\n\nAlso held October 18 and 25. \n\n\n\nRegistration Page \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/digital-china-initiative-workshop-beyond-chatbots-rag-and-agent/
LOCATION:Room 202\, 61 Kirkland St.\, 61 Kirkland St.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241015T103000
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SUMMARY:Amit Prasad — Contestations over Stem Cell Ethics and the US-China Tech War: What Should We Do with Their Orientalist and Colonial Framing?
DESCRIPTION:Register for Zoom session\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker:  Amit Prasad\, Associate Professor of History and Sociology\, Georgia Tech  \n\n\n\nPart of the Science and Technology in Asia series. Sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center. Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies \n\n\n\nPresented via Zoom. Register at: 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/amit-prasad-contestations-over-stem-cell-ethics-and-the-us-china-tech-war-what-should-we-do-with-their-orientalist-and-colonial-framing/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241015T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241015T220000
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SUMMARY:Urban China Lecture Series featuring Zhang Lei - Urban Planning and Planners in China: Continuity and Change
DESCRIPTION:zoom meeting link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers: Zhang Lei\, Renmin UniversityProfessional planning in China has changed over the past four decades\, shifting from a focus on market-oriented reforms to a focus on the environment and people-centered practice. This lecture will discuss these changes at three different scales. First\, what has changed along with the transition in the urban planning system?  Second\, I examine the role local leaders play in drafting master plans\, showing that the degree of emphasis on environmental issues varies with the personal characteristics of party secretaries and mayors. I find that the education and age of local leaders have a significant effect on environmental concerns in master plans\, while their work experience and state mandate do not. Third\, I examine the role community planners have played in the case of Beijing\, showing that they play hybrid roles as technical experts\, advocates and communicators in their daily practice\, yet they exhibit a limited understanding of their role as communicative planners and how to effectively involve the public in the planning process. \n\n\n\nLei Zhang is a Professor of Urban Planning in the School of Public Administration and Policy at Renmin University of China. He completed his Ph.D. in planning at the University of Tokyo. He serves on several academic committees within the Urban Planning Society of China\, including as the secretary-general of the Planning Implementation Committee.  His research focuses on explaining institutional diversity and evolution in urban planning and development control\, and in particular\, the changing role of political power and public involvement in plans and planning in China and other East Asian Countries. He also explores the role of informal institutions in shaping place and space in China’s mega-cities. \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-zhang-lei/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Urban China Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241016T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241016T131500
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring David Zweig — China’s Battle for Talent and Technology
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: David Zweig\, Professor Emeritus\, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; Distinguished Visiting Professor of Taipei School of Economics and Political Science\, National Tsinghua University\, Taiwan; Vice President\, Center for China and Globalization (Beijing) \n\n\n\nIn the mid-1990s\, China’s hope for a “reverse brain drain” of overseas scientists\, academics\, and entrepreneurs stalled. So\, in 2001\, Jiang Zemin introduced China’s ‘Diaspora Option\,’ to encourage PRC-born Chinese living abroad to “serve the country” without “returning to the country.” Through a multipronged array of programs organized by government ministries and the CCP\, these former citizens have transferred their knowledge back home\, some to repay or strengthen their former homeland\, others from self-interest.  \n\n\n\nIn 2018\, the Trump Administration declared war on China’s efforts to access this information through the “China Initiative.” Hundreds of Chinese were investigated\, their research was disrupted\, and more than 100 were fired. Yet almost none were found guilty of espionage or theft of intellectual property. \n\n\n\nThis seminar documents China’s “over-the-top” effort to gain the help of these talented Chinese\, as well as the US government’s harsh effort to disrupt the transfer of US technology to China. It tells the stories of unknown victims of that campaign. It also highlights the harm this war has brought to Sino-American scientific collaboration. \n\n\n\nDavid Zweig (Ph.D.\, The University of Michigan\, 1983) is Professor Emeritus\, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology\, Distinguished Visiting Professor of Taipei School of Economics and Political Science\, National Tsinghua University\, Taiwan\, and Vice-President of the Center for China and Globalization (Beijing). He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard in 1984-85\, and received the Humanities and Social Sciences Prestigious Fellowship\, Research Grants Council\, Hong Kong\, 2013-14. For 15 years\, he directed the Center on China’s Transnational Relations at HKUST. \n\n\n\nHe has surveyed hundreds of Chinese who returned home and many who remain abroad. In 2012\, he briefed Li Yuanchao\, Director of the Organization Department of the CCP\, about why his 1000 Talents Plan was struggling. He was an expert witness in the defense of two Chinese professors under the Trump Administration’s “China Initiative.” \n\n\n\nHe has authored or edited ten books\, including Internationalizing China and China’s Brain Drain to the U.S.(Routledge). Over 40\,000 students have taken his two online classes with COURSERA on domestic Chinese Politics and on China and the World. \n\n\n\nThis talk is based on his new book\, The War for Chinese Talent in America: The politics of technology and knowledge in Sino-U.S. relations which was published in the Asia Shorts Series of the Association of Asian Studies and is distributed by Columbia University Press. \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-david-zweig/
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:20241017T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241017T130000
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SUMMARY:Zhang Jing — A Modernization Marching to Revolution: Science\, Technology\, and Diplomacy in Mao’s China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Zhang Jing\, Associate Professor\, Department of History\, Peking University; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2024-25Chair/Discussant\, Arunabh Ghosh\, Associate Professor of History\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nAs a set of terms\, “modernization” and its earlier discursive forms\, such as “industrialization” and “Westernization\,” have been continuously invoked by historical actors and historians throughout over a century of Chinese history\, particularly during different historical stages such as the armed revolution\, socialist revolution and construction\, and the reform and opening up under the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). This discursive phenomenon runs through various events in China’s recent century-long history\, all referred to as “revolutions.” These include a series of continuous struggles led by the CCP against “colonialism\,” “imperialism\,” “feudalism\,” “capitalism\,” “bureaucratism\,” and “liberalism.” The invocation of the term “modernization” by CCP leaders often served as a goal for the revolution to achieve or as a vision of construction after revolutionary success\, aimed at rallying and inspiring revolutionary actions. The only notable exception largely occurred between 1966 and 1975. The modernization project initiated by Mao Zedong during the socialist revolution (1949-1956)\, which underwent a decade of exploration in socialist construction (1956-1966)\, ultimately devolved into the self-destructive and chaotic “Cultural Revolution” in 1966. To address the issue of this “modernization paradox” in the Maoist era\, Professor Zhang will attempt to establish an interpretive framework from the perspective of discursive practice and state-building. Through a critical analysis of the relationship between discourse\, knowledge\, and power\, she will examine the participation of discourse in state-building practices in the fields of science\, technology\, and diplomacy during the Maoist period. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/zhang-jing-a-modernization-leading-to-revolution-science-technology-and-diplomacy-in-maos-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:20241018T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241018T160000
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SUMMARY:Digital China Initiative Workshop — Beyond Chatbots: RAG and Agent
DESCRIPTION:register here\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis workshop delves deeper into advanced applications of Large Language Models (LLMs) beyond simple chatbot interfaces. Participants will explore how to leverage APIs to connect various tools with LLMs\, build private knowledge bases for more accurate and context-specific generation\, and utilize agents to expand the capabilities of LLMs in Literay Sinitic Studies. \n\n\n\nTarget Audience: \n\n\n\n\nFaculty and students in Literary Sinitic Studies with basic familiarity with GenAI and looking to implement more advanced AI solutions in their work\n\n\n\n\nWorkshop Objectives: \n\n\n\n\nUnderstand the concept and importance of APIs in connecting LLMs with other tools\n\n\n\nLearn how to implement Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) for Literary Sinitic Studies\n\n\n\nExplore the use of AI agents to enhance LLM capabilities in research and analysis\n\n\n\n\nAlso held October 11 and 25. \n\n\n\nRegistration Page \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/digital-china-initiative-workshop-beyond-chatbots-rag-and-agent-2/
LOCATION:Room 202\, 61 Kirkland St.\, 61 Kirkland St.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241018T180000
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SUMMARY:Exhibit: Dunhuang and Beyond
DESCRIPTION:reserve a ticket\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA major milestone and world-renowned heritage site within Silk Road networks\, Dunhuang preserves more than 400 embellished Buddhist cave shrines in present-day northwest China. \n\n\n\nDunhuang’s cave shrines date from the fifth to fourteenth centuries. Each encloses visitors within murals and carved figures that depict Buddhist legends and paradises. Chronicling innumerable exemplary works of Buddhist artmaking over centuries\, Dunhuang forms the largest encyclopedia art collection in situ. More significant than these artistic achievements\, the caves offer a glimpse into a universe that rests beyond our known physical reality. Much like the shadowy illusions of Plato’s allegorical cave\, the pictorial programs across Dunhuang’s caves reveal higher truths about life\, death\, and spiritual transcendence. \n\n\n\nThis fall\, CAMLab contextualizes Dunhuang within Buddhism’s broader currents of space- and art-making that surged across China during the medieval period.• Immersing visitors in confluences of light and sound\, the Cave Dance and Shadow Cave projects are case studies of two Dunhuang caves that reimagine the rich theatricality conjured by depictions of the dramas of the Buddha’s life and dances of transcendent beings. \n\n\n\n• Rebuilding the world’s tallest pagoda in VR\, the Embodied Architecture project invokes an 11the century transmission of these dynamics within the towering Shayka pagoda of the Fogang Monastery in present-day Yingxian\, China. There\, Buddhist pictorial motifs demarcate a journey of ascension toward enlightenment. \n\n\n\n• The Digital Temple project uses an interactive interface to unpack the multiplicity of compositions and multivalent topographies rendered across the murals of Kaihua monastery. \n\n\n\nBy examining Buddhism’s three primary contexts in medieval China—the cave\, the pagoda\, and the temple—these CAMLab projects reveal the dramatic perceptual experiences and invisible force fields embedded by visual programs within Buddhist sites.Reserve Your Ticket \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/exhibit-dunhuang-and-beyond/
LOCATION:Sackler Building\, Lower Level\, 485 Broadway\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Exhibit: Dunhuang and Beyond
DESCRIPTION:reserve a ticket\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA major milestone and world-renowned heritage site within Silk Road networks\, Dunhuang preserves more than 400 embellished Buddhist cave shrines in present-day northwest China. \n\n\n\nDunhuang’s cave shrines date from the fifth to fourteenth centuries. Each encloses visitors within murals and carved figures that depict Buddhist legends and paradises. Chronicling innumerable exemplary works of Buddhist artmaking over centuries\, Dunhuang forms the largest encyclopedia art collection in situ. More significant than these artistic achievements\, the caves offer a glimpse into a universe that rests beyond our known physical reality. Much like the shadowy illusions of Plato’s allegorical cave\, the pictorial programs across Dunhuang’s caves reveal higher truths about life\, death\, and spiritual transcendence. \n\n\n\nThis fall\, CAMLab contextualizes Dunhuang within Buddhism’s broader currents of space- and art-making that surged across China during the medieval period.• Immersing visitors in confluences of light and sound\, the Cave Dance and Shadow Cave projects are case studies of two Dunhuang caves that reimagine the rich theatricality conjured by depictions of the dramas of the Buddha’s life and dances of transcendent beings. \n\n\n\n• Rebuilding the world’s tallest pagoda in VR\, the Embodied Architecture project invokes an 11the century transmission of these dynamics within the towering Shayka pagoda of the Fogang Monastery in present-day Yingxian\, China. There\, Buddhist pictorial motifs demarcate a journey of ascension toward enlightenment. \n\n\n\n• The Digital Temple project uses an interactive interface to unpack the multiplicity of compositions and multivalent topographies rendered across the murals of Kaihua monastery. \n\n\n\nBy examining Buddhism’s three primary contexts in medieval China—the cave\, the pagoda\, and the temple—these CAMLab projects reveal the dramatic perceptual experiences and invisible force fields embedded by visual programs within Buddhist sites.Reserve Your Ticket \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/exhibit-dunhuang-and-beyond-2/
LOCATION:Sackler Building\, Lower Level\, 485 Broadway\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241020T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241020T180000
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SUMMARY:Exhibit: Dunhuang and Beyond
DESCRIPTION:reserve a ticket\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA major milestone and world-renowned heritage site within Silk Road networks\, Dunhuang preserves more than 400 embellished Buddhist cave shrines in present-day northwest China. \n\n\n\nDunhuang’s cave shrines date from the fifth to fourteenth centuries. Each encloses visitors within murals and carved figures that depict Buddhist legends and paradises. Chronicling innumerable exemplary works of Buddhist artmaking over centuries\, Dunhuang forms the largest encyclopedia art collection in situ. More significant than these artistic achievements\, the caves offer a glimpse into a universe that rests beyond our known physical reality. Much like the shadowy illusions of Plato’s allegorical cave\, the pictorial programs across Dunhuang’s caves reveal higher truths about life\, death\, and spiritual transcendence. \n\n\n\nThis fall\, CAMLab contextualizes Dunhuang within Buddhism’s broader currents of space- and art-making that surged across China during the medieval period.• Immersing visitors in confluences of light and sound\, the Cave Dance and Shadow Cave projects are case studies of two Dunhuang caves that reimagine the rich theatricality conjured by depictions of the dramas of the Buddha’s life and dances of transcendent beings. \n\n\n\n• Rebuilding the world’s tallest pagoda in VR\, the Embodied Architecture project invokes an 11the century transmission of these dynamics within the towering Shayka pagoda of the Fogang Monastery in present-day Yingxian\, China. There\, Buddhist pictorial motifs demarcate a journey of ascension toward enlightenment. \n\n\n\n• The Digital Temple project uses an interactive interface to unpack the multiplicity of compositions and multivalent topographies rendered across the murals of Kaihua monastery. \n\n\n\nBy examining Buddhism’s three primary contexts in medieval China—the cave\, the pagoda\, and the temple—these CAMLab projects reveal the dramatic perceptual experiences and invisible force fields embedded by visual programs within Buddhist sites.Reserve Your Ticket \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/exhibit-dunhuang-and-beyond-3/
LOCATION:Sackler Building\, Lower Level\, 485 Broadway\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241021T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241021T180000
DTSTAMP:20260521T013616
CREATED:20240819T142435Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241007T155848Z
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SUMMARY:China Humanities Seminar featuring Shoufu Yin — The China that Could Have Been: Counterfactual Imagination and Political Thought\, 1313-1621
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Shoufu Yin\, Assistant Professor of History\, University of British Columbia \n\n\n\nWhat could China—or the entire world—have been? Starting in the fourteenth century\, hundreds of thousands of individuals in present-day China\, Korea\, and Vietnam were ruminating on this question in their own ways. They began by placing themselves in a moment in Chinese history\, composing documents from the perspectives of the historical figures in question. In this process\, they argued that these figures could have acted differently and that China could have been a different place—even though actual history unfolded otherwise. This talk traces how this form of counterfactualism gained popularity in East Asia through a shared curriculum and explores how such mediated political imaginations transformed the broader intellectual landscape. Specifically\, using sources in Mongolian\, Persian\, and other languages\, I contend that the Inner Asian tradition played a critical role in shaping the educational curriculum of the Sinitic sphere. Combining data visualization and close reading\, I turn to long-forgotten individuals in Seoul\, Suzhou\, and other places. Through their counterfactual ventures\, as we shall see\, these historical thinkers theorized what could and should have been possible for each individual and opened up new possibilities for being in a political society. \n\n\n\nShoufu Yin is an assistant professor of history at the University of British Columbia. His expertise lies in the intellectual and political cultures of China and Inner Asia from the eleventh to the seventeenth centuries. Delving into sources in Chinese\, Manchu\, Mongolian\, Persian\, and various European languages\, he endeavors to show how previously unknown and marginalized thinkers had contributed to important themes in theory and philosophy. His first book manuscript\, The China That Could Have Been: Rhetoric and Political Thought\, 1100–1600 (currently under review)\, contends that the everyday political imagination of countless individuals lays the foundation of modern political thought. His next book\, titled 1156: China’s Referendum\, will trace how emic concepts and indigenous experiences from China can help us reframe and rewrite the global history of democratization. He has also been conducting research for another major project that rethinks global intellectual transformations through the lens of Manchu- and Mongolian-language historiographies of the seventeenth century. His recent articles have appeared in the American Political Science Review\, Journal of the History of Ideas\, History of Political Thought\, Journal of Asian Studies\, T’oung Pao\, Journal of Chinese History\, Korean Studies\, and other platforms. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-humanities-seminar-featuring-yin-shoufu/
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:20241021T161500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241021T174500
DTSTAMP:20260521T013616
CREATED:20240812T142027Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250130T155052Z
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SUMMARY:Modern China Lecture Series featuring Janet Chen - Medium or Message? The Politics of Language in Broadcasting in Taiwan\, 1945-1975
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Janet Y. Chen\, Professor of Chinese History; Director\, East Asian Studies Program\, Princeton University \n\n\n\nAt the end of 1975\, the KMT government in Taiwan passed the Radio and Television Law\, designating Mandarin as the “primary language of broadcasting” and mandating the reduction of dialect. This legislation\, which took effect in January 1976\, was the culmination of more than twenty years of debates over the politics of language in mass media. Radio and television broadcasting were crucial components of the state apparatus for fighting the “psychological war” (心戰) of “opposing the Communists and resisting the Soviets” (反共抗俄). Yet using the national language as the medium of broadcasting made it difficult to effectively disseminate the messages crucial to sustaining the cause of anti-Communism. Programming in Minnanhua and Hakka could reach wider audiences\, but at the cost of diluting the national language project. Which was more important—the medium or the message? This talk will examine changes in the mass media environment\, the effects on people’s interactions with the KMT’s ideological goals\, and the history of Radio and Television Law. \n\n\n\nJanet Chen is Professor of History and East Asian Studies\, specializing in twentieth-century China.  Her first book\, Guilty of Indigence: The Urban Poor in China\, 1900-1953(Link is external)(Princeton University Press\, 2012)\, is a study of the destitute homeless during a time of war and revolution.  A new book project underway\, titled “The Sounds of Mandarin: The Making of a National Language in China and Taiwan\,” will be a study of how ordinary people learned to speak “Mandarin” at its various stages of historical formation. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/modern-china-lecture-series-featuring-janet-chen/
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:20241022T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241022T130000
DTSTAMP:20260521T013616
CREATED:20241002T152117Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241002T152119Z
UID:37633-1729596600-1729602000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Jim Suk-Fong (Theodora) - Divine Saving in Greek and Chinese Polytheism
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Jim Suk-Fong (Theodora)\, Associate Professor\, Ancient Greek History\, The University of Nottingham; HYI Library Research Scholar\, 2024Chair/Discussant: Michael Puett\, Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History and Anthropology; Director\, Asia Center\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nContrary to the tendency to study ancient Mediterranean religions in isolation from religions in the Far East\, this project brings together for the first time two world polytheistic systems: ancient Greece and premodern China. It embraces Marcel Detienne’s call to ‘compare the incomparable’. In this seminar I will share the findings on one aspect of this project: divine saving. The central question is: how did worshippers in two major polytheistic traditions imagine\, experience\, and represent the divine saving as they confronted the unknown and unknowable? I will look at the wide-ranging power of the gods in the Greek and Chinese pantheons on the one hand\, and worshippers’ religious beliefs\, practices and experience of worshippers on the other. I hope also to shed light on the Greek and Chinese religious worldviews and perceptions of their gods\, and ultimately to open up new questions for the study of both fields. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/jim-suk-fong-theodora-divine-saving-in-greek-and-chinese-polytheism/
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:20241022T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241022T170000
DTSTAMP:20260521T013616
CREATED:20240917T172929Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240917T172930Z
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SUMMARY:Michael C. Davis — Freedom Undone: The Assault on Liberal Values and Institutions in Hong Kong
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Michael Davis\, Global Fellow\, Wilson Center; Senior Research Scholar\, Weatherhead East Asia Institute; Professor of Law and International Affairs\, O.P. Jindal Global University. Discussant: Dennis Kwok\, Partner\, Elliott Kwok Levine Jaroslaw Neils LLP \n\n\n\nWhat happens when liberal constitutional institutions guaranteeing basic freedoms are undone? Can Freedom survive the loss of separation of powers with the associated legal and political accountability? The Chinese Communist Party\, as a core part of its national security agenda\, has been at the forefront in its disdain for liberal institutions and promoting illiberal alternatives. This disdain placed Hong Kong’s people on the frontlines of the global struggle for freedom. Since its handover from Britain\, the city has felt the brunt of China’s illiberal agenda. In 2019 this took on greater intensity with an aggressive police crackdown on protesters\, quickly followed in 2020 by Beijing’s imposition of a National Security Law\, in 2021 by the imposition of a patriots only electoral system and in 2024 by enactment of local national security legislation. Thousands have been jailed and a city famous for vigorous protests has been silenced. Professor Michael C. Davis\, who taught human rights in the city for decades\, takes us on the constitutional journey of both the city’s vigorous defense of freedom and its repressive undoing—a painful loss for Hong Kong and a lesson for the world. Discussion can be expected to engage the still ongoing crisis in Hong Kong and the implications of the wider liberal/illiberal debate.Open to Harvard ID holders. Registration required. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/michael-c-davis-freedom-undone-the-assault-on-liberal-values-and-institutions-in-hong-kong/
LOCATION:124 Mount Auburn Street Suite 200N\, Ash Center Seminar Room 225\, 124 Mt. Auburn St.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241023T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241023T133000
DTSTAMP:20260521T013616
CREATED:20241010T164101Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241010T164104Z
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SUMMARY:Asia Beyond Borders: Transnational Activist Connections from Sun and Ho's Day to this Era of Lennon Walls and Three-Finger Salutes 
DESCRIPTION:RSVP \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Jeffrey Wasserstrom\, Chancellor’s Professor of History at the University of California\, Irvine Moderator: James Robson\, James C. Kralik and Yunli Lou Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations; Harvard College Professor; Director\, Harvar-Yenching Institute  \n\n\n\nIn-person event. RSVP appreciated.  \n\n\n\nThis presentation will look at some of the various ways that activists fighting for change in different parts of Asia have learned from and collaborated with one another during the last century and more. The presenter will draw on work he has done throughout a career that began with a dissertation on Shanghai student protests of the first half of the 1900s\, included a ten-year stint as Editor of the Journal of Asian Studies\, and has recently found him focusing on the ties between twenty-first-century youth movements in Hong Kong and Bangkok. One of his central arguments will be that for over a century repertoires of resistance in Asia have been flowing across not just the divisions between individual countries but also those that scholars often use to draw distinctions between multi-country regions within Asia. Another will be that even in this era of rapid global flows\, even young activists versed in digital media who sometimes draw inspiration from things happening in and symbols associated with lands on the other side of the planet are often especially interested in and influenced by things taking place relatively nearby.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/asia-beyond-borders-transnational-activist-connections-from-sun-and-hos-day-to-this-era-of-lennon-walls-and-three-finger-salutes/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Room S050\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241023T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241023T160000
DTSTAMP:20260521T013616
CREATED:20241016T160926Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241016T161019Z
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SUMMARY:Sheng Liu — Why Climatic Uncertainty Matters to Building Energy Performance: Case Studies in a Subtropical High-Density City
DESCRIPTION:RSVP\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Sheng Liu\, Assistant Professor\, School of Architecture\, Southwest Jiaotong University; Visiting Scholar\, Harvard-China Project (SEAS) and Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) \n\n\n\nDr. Sheng Liu is currently an Assistant Professor in the School of Architecture\, Southwest Jiaotong University who works on climate-responding architecture design and low-carbon city design. His research interests include sustainable architecture design\, building performance simulation and optimization\, climate change and building adaptation\, urban microclimate and indoor thermal comfort. He received his Ph.D. in Architecture from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2021. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Architecture\, the University of Hong Kong. He had worked as an architect in mainland China before starting academic research. Dr. Liu has published more than 20 leading peer-reviewed scientific journal publications for the past five years such as in Building and Environment\, Sustainable Cities and Society\, Energy and Buildings\, including two ESI highly citied papers. He is also the recipient of Postgraduate Research Output Award of the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2021 and 2023 Green Building Award of HKGBC. For more information\, visit his website.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/sheng-liu-why-climatic-uncertainty-matters-to-building-energy-performance-case-studies-in-a-subtropical-high-density-city/
LOCATION:Pierce Hall 100F\, 29 Oxford St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241024T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241024T211500
DTSTAMP:20260521T013616
CREATED:20241009T154202Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241011T174610Z
UID:37750-1729800000-1729804500@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Laikwan Pang - One and All: The Logic of Chinese Sovereignty
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers: Laikwan Pang\, Chinese University of Hong KongYurou Zhong\, University of TorontoHang Tu\, National University of SingaporeModerator:David Der-wei Wang\, Harvard UniversityCo-Sponsors: East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard UniversityChiang Ching-kuo FoundationFairbank Center for Chinese Studies \n\n\n\nPresented via Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_jmaBY41-TSS6wjgs6fWQmQ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/laikwan-pang-one-and-all-the-logic-of-chinese-sovereignty/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241025T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241025T130000
DTSTAMP:20260521T013616
CREATED:20241002T195850Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241002T195851Z
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SUMMARY:Sung Eun Kim - Circumventing the Liberal Order: Protectionism with Chinese Characteristics
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Sung Eun Kim\, Associate Professor\, Department of Political Science and International Relations\, Korea University; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2024-25Chair/Discussant: Stephen Chaudoin\, Assistant Professor\, Government\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nThis talk will explore how China navigates its position as a rising power within the U.S.-led liberal economic order by employing veiled protectionist measures that align with international rules while advancing its domestic interests. As a member of the World Trade Organization (WTO)\, China faces the challenge of balancing its reputation as a responsible global actor with the need to protect its industries. This talk will examine China’s strategic use of opaque protectionist tools such as media control\, health and safety standards\, and selective regulatory enforcement to promote domestic industry growth while avoiding direct confrontation with global trade institutions. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/sung-eun-kim-circumventing-the-liberal-order-protectionism-with-chinese-characteristics/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241025T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241025T180000
DTSTAMP:20260521T013616
CREATED:20241010T155643Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241010T155644Z
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SUMMARY:Exhibit: Dunhuang and Beyond
DESCRIPTION:reserve a ticket\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA major milestone and world-renowned heritage site within Silk Road networks\, Dunhuang preserves more than 400 embellished Buddhist cave shrines in present-day northwest China. \n\n\n\nDunhuang’s cave shrines date from the fifth to fourteenth centuries. Each encloses visitors within murals and carved figures that depict Buddhist legends and paradises. Chronicling innumerable exemplary works of Buddhist artmaking over centuries\, Dunhuang forms the largest encyclopedia art collection in situ. More significant than these artistic achievements\, the caves offer a glimpse into a universe that rests beyond our known physical reality. Much like the shadowy illusions of Plato’s allegorical cave\, the pictorial programs across Dunhuang’s caves reveal higher truths about life\, death\, and spiritual transcendence. \n\n\n\nThis fall\, CAMLab contextualizes Dunhuang within Buddhism’s broader currents of space- and art-making that surged across China during the medieval period.• Immersing visitors in confluences of light and sound\, the Cave Dance and Shadow Cave projects are case studies of two Dunhuang caves that reimagine the rich theatricality conjured by depictions of the dramas of the Buddha’s life and dances of transcendent beings. \n\n\n\n• Rebuilding the world’s tallest pagoda in VR\, the Embodied Architecture project invokes an 11the century transmission of these dynamics within the towering Shayka pagoda of the Fogang Monastery in present-day Yingxian\, China. There\, Buddhist pictorial motifs demarcate a journey of ascension toward enlightenment. \n\n\n\n• The Digital Temple project uses an interactive interface to unpack the multiplicity of compositions and multivalent topographies rendered across the murals of Kaihua monastery. \n\n\n\nBy examining Buddhism’s three primary contexts in medieval China—the cave\, the pagoda\, and the temple—these CAMLab projects reveal the dramatic perceptual experiences and invisible force fields embedded by visual programs within Buddhist sites.Reserve Your Ticket \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/exhibit-dunhuang-and-beyond-4/
LOCATION:Sackler Building\, Lower Level\, 485 Broadway\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241025T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241025T180000
DTSTAMP:20260521T013616
CREATED:20241009T205556Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241011T174822Z
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SUMMARY:JFK Jr. Forum - A Conversation with Ambassador Kevin Rudd
DESCRIPTION:Register with a harvard e-mail address\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Kevin Rudd\, Australia’s Ambassador to the United States and Former Prime Minister of Australia \n\n\n\nModerators:Graham Alison\, Douglas Dillon Professor of Government\, Harvard UniversityMark Wu\, Director\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies; Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law  \n\n\n\nIn Rudd’s summary\, Xi is “part emperor and part revolutionary socialist.” Drawing on his direct experience with Xi\, as well as his analysis of Xi in the years since\, Ambassador Rudd will help us understand an individual who has been called the most ambitious and consequential leader on the international stage today.  \n\n\n\nCo-sponsors: Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies \n\n\n\nPlease register with a valid Harvard email address to attend in-person. All JFK Jr. Forums are publicly livestreamed on YouTube. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/jfk-jr-forum-a-conversation-with-ambassador-kevin-rudd/
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241026T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241026T180000
DTSTAMP:20260521T013616
CREATED:20241010T155711Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241010T155713Z
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SUMMARY:Exhibit: Dunhuang and Beyond
DESCRIPTION:reserve a ticket\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA major milestone and world-renowned heritage site within Silk Road networks\, Dunhuang preserves more than 400 embellished Buddhist cave shrines in present-day northwest China. \n\n\n\nDunhuang’s cave shrines date from the fifth to fourteenth centuries. Each encloses visitors within murals and carved figures that depict Buddhist legends and paradises. Chronicling innumerable exemplary works of Buddhist artmaking over centuries\, Dunhuang forms the largest encyclopedia art collection in situ. More significant than these artistic achievements\, the caves offer a glimpse into a universe that rests beyond our known physical reality. Much like the shadowy illusions of Plato’s allegorical cave\, the pictorial programs across Dunhuang’s caves reveal higher truths about life\, death\, and spiritual transcendence. \n\n\n\nThis fall\, CAMLab contextualizes Dunhuang within Buddhism’s broader currents of space- and art-making that surged across China during the medieval period.• Immersing visitors in confluences of light and sound\, the Cave Dance and Shadow Cave projects are case studies of two Dunhuang caves that reimagine the rich theatricality conjured by depictions of the dramas of the Buddha’s life and dances of transcendent beings. \n\n\n\n• Rebuilding the world’s tallest pagoda in VR\, the Embodied Architecture project invokes an 11the century transmission of these dynamics within the towering Shayka pagoda of the Fogang Monastery in present-day Yingxian\, China. There\, Buddhist pictorial motifs demarcate a journey of ascension toward enlightenment. \n\n\n\n• The Digital Temple project uses an interactive interface to unpack the multiplicity of compositions and multivalent topographies rendered across the murals of Kaihua monastery. \n\n\n\nBy examining Buddhism’s three primary contexts in medieval China—the cave\, the pagoda\, and the temple—these CAMLab projects reveal the dramatic perceptual experiences and invisible force fields embedded by visual programs within Buddhist sites.Reserve Your Ticket \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/exhibit-dunhuang-and-beyond-5/
LOCATION:Sackler Building\, Lower Level\, 485 Broadway\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241027T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241027T180000
DTSTAMP:20260521T013616
CREATED:20241010T155736Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241010T155737Z
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SUMMARY:Exhibit: Dunhuang and Beyond
DESCRIPTION:reserve a ticket\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA major milestone and world-renowned heritage site within Silk Road networks\, Dunhuang preserves more than 400 embellished Buddhist cave shrines in present-day northwest China. \n\n\n\nDunhuang’s cave shrines date from the fifth to fourteenth centuries. Each encloses visitors within murals and carved figures that depict Buddhist legends and paradises. Chronicling innumerable exemplary works of Buddhist artmaking over centuries\, Dunhuang forms the largest encyclopedia art collection in situ. More significant than these artistic achievements\, the caves offer a glimpse into a universe that rests beyond our known physical reality. Much like the shadowy illusions of Plato’s allegorical cave\, the pictorial programs across Dunhuang’s caves reveal higher truths about life\, death\, and spiritual transcendence. \n\n\n\nThis fall\, CAMLab contextualizes Dunhuang within Buddhism’s broader currents of space- and art-making that surged across China during the medieval period.• Immersing visitors in confluences of light and sound\, the Cave Dance and Shadow Cave projects are case studies of two Dunhuang caves that reimagine the rich theatricality conjured by depictions of the dramas of the Buddha’s life and dances of transcendent beings. \n\n\n\n• Rebuilding the world’s tallest pagoda in VR\, the Embodied Architecture project invokes an 11the century transmission of these dynamics within the towering Shayka pagoda of the Fogang Monastery in present-day Yingxian\, China. There\, Buddhist pictorial motifs demarcate a journey of ascension toward enlightenment. \n\n\n\n• The Digital Temple project uses an interactive interface to unpack the multiplicity of compositions and multivalent topographies rendered across the murals of Kaihua monastery. \n\n\n\nBy examining Buddhism’s three primary contexts in medieval China—the cave\, the pagoda\, and the temple—these CAMLab projects reveal the dramatic perceptual experiences and invisible force fields embedded by visual programs within Buddhist sites.Reserve Your Ticket \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/exhibit-dunhuang-and-beyond-6/
LOCATION:Sackler Building\, Lower Level\, 485 Broadway\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241030T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241030T131500
DTSTAMP:20260521T013616
CREATED:20241022T190820Z
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SUMMARY:Rethinking UN Resolution 2758 and Taiwan’s International Participation
DESCRIPTION:Register now (Harvard id required)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers:Johnson Sen Chiang\, Deputy Representative of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office (TECRO) in the USRyan Hass\, Director\, Brookings Institution John L. Thornton China Center; Former Director for China\, Taiwan\, and Mongolian Affairs\, White House National Security Council \n\n\n\nModerator: Wenchi Yu\, International Affairs Journalist\, TVBS television\, Taiwan; Ash Center Non-Resident Research Fellow \n\n\n\nJoin the Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia for an insightful lunch discussion on “Rethinking UN Resolution 2758 and Taiwan’s International Participation.” This timely event will feature Johnson Sen Chiang\, Deputy Representative of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office (TECRO) in the US\, and Ryan Hass\, Director of the Brookings Institution’s John L. Thornton China Center and former Director for China\, Taiwan\, and Mongolian Affairs at the White House National Security Council during the Obama administration. Moderated by Dinda Elliott\, Executive Director of Harvard’s Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, the session will explore the complex challenges surrounding Taiwan’s international status and participation in global affairs. This event is co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. \n\n\n\nLunch will be provided.Registration required. Only open to Harvard ID holders. Please register using your Harvard email address. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/rethinking-un-resolution-2758-and-taiwans-international-participation/
LOCATION:124 Mount Auburn Street Suite 200N\, Ash Center Seminar Room 225\, 124 Mt. Auburn St.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Taiwan,Taiwan Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241030T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241030T180000
DTSTAMP:20260521T013616
CREATED:20240918T202959Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240919T211446Z
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Edward Wong — The Empire Reborn: China’s Expansion and Nationalism Today
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Edward Wong\, Diplomatic Correspondent\, The New York Times Moderator: Mark C. Elliott\, Vice Provost of International Affairs\, Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nFrom the the earliest days of its rule\, the Communist Party poured resources into reconstituting the Qing Empire. Edward Wong talks about his father’s role in the military occupation of Xinjiang in the 1950s\, the subject of his new book\, At the Edge of Empire\, and his own reporting as a New York Times journalist on how China maintains control over its frontier regions. And what does the party’s focus on holding on to the territory of the Qing mean for the intentions of China’s leaders toward Taiwan\, the South China Sea and other areas outside of interior China? \n\n\n\nEdward Wong is a diplomatic correspondent for The New York Times and author of At the Edge of Empire: A Family’s Reckoning with China. He has reported for the Times for 25 years\, working for 13 of those as a correspondent and bureau chief from China and Iraq. Wong was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University and has been a visiting professor at Princeton University and U.C. Berkeley. He was a recent fellow at the Wilson Center in Washington and at the Belfer Center at Harvard Kennedy School. Wong was awarded the Livingston Prize for his reporting on the Iraq War and was on a team that was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the war. He graduated from the University of Virginia with a bachelor’s degree in English literature. He has joint master’s degrees in journalism and international studies from U.C. Berkeley. He received an honorary doctorate this year from Middlebury Language Schools. \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-edward-wong-at-the-edge-of-empire/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 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:20241031T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241031T130000
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SUMMARY:Chang-Min Yu — The Use of the Modern and Taiwanese Film History
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Chang-Min Yu\, Assistant Professor\, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures\, National Taiwan University; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2024-25Chair/Discussant: Alexander Zahlten\, Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nThis talk will address a fundamental issue in the writing of film history: how do we articulate the relationship between modernity/modernization and film history without determination? That is to say\, is it possible to formulate this relationship as a germinating condition for film stylistics in which filmmakers can be seen as making meaningful choices? I propose the use of the modern as a means to redress the often-simplified\, unidirectional causality of modernity/modernization in global film historiography. My manuscript-in-progress\, Modernism Disclaimed: Taiwanese Film Historiography Before City of Sadness\, will be an exhibit in thinking along with mid-century Taiwanese intellectuals about the urgency of a modern cinema on the island of Formosa. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/chang-min-yu-the-use-of-the-modern-and-taiwanese-film-history/
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:20241101T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241101T143000
DTSTAMP:20260521T013616
CREATED:20240930T152342Z
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SUMMARY:PRC @ 75 – Film Screening – The Dreamers Revisited: Bumming in Beijing (Original Extended Version)\, featuring an introduction by Eugene Yuejin Wang & Q+A with Wu Wenguang and Dingru Huang
DESCRIPTION:Introduction: Eugene Yuejin Wang\, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art; Founding Director of Harvard FAS CAMLab\, Harvard University.
Q+A Discussion: Dingru Huang\, Rumsey Family Junior Professor in the Humanities and the Arts\, Department of International Literary and Cultural Studies\, Tufts University; former Fairbank Center associateProgrammer: Sam Maclean\, Communications Manager\, Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesFollowed by a Zoom Q+A with filmmaker Wu Wenguang\, director of Bumming in Beijing: The Last Dreamers \n\n\n\n“I hope I can find a secure place to settle\, giving me enough time to create my art freely. That’s not too much to ask\, is it?” — painter Zhang Dali \n\n\n\nOften referred to as the first independent Chinese documentary ever made\, Bumming in Beijing: The Last Dreamers (1990) follows five young\, migrant artists—photographer Gao Bo\, playwright Mou Sen\, writer Zhang Ci\, and painters Zhang Dali and Zhang Xiaping—as they navigate the complexities of sociopolitical life in their adopted home of Beijing in the late 1980s.  \n\n\n\nThe subjects of the film (most of whom are now internationally recognized\, exhibited\, and award-winning artists in their respective fields) here refer to themselves\, alternately\, as “vagrants\,” “migrants\,” and “freelancers.” Some attended university in Beijing in the early 1980s\, while others migrated from rural parts of Heilongjiang\, Liaoning\, and Sichuan to look for work. The film’s director\, Wu Wenguang\, himself migrated to Beijing from Yunnan in 1988\, originally to take a position at CCTV. But after 1989\, Wu’s situation began to mirror that of his subjects—a struggling\, independent artist searching for free modes of expression. \n\n\n\nBumming in Beijing began its production life in 1988\, as an episode of a CCTV documentary series which would eventually be shelved for being too sensitive for its depiction of restless\, counterculture youths. In the fall of 1989\, Wu discreetly revived the project\, independently\, relying on the close relationships that he had developed with his subjects to draw out their feelings on a range of hot-button contemporary issues—residence permits\, economic inequality\, the commodification of art\, the position of women in the society\, and the temptation to go abroad—and using his remnant CCTV resources to complete an initial\, 134-minute version of the film. \n\n\n\nSubsequently\, a much shorter\, 68-minute version of Bumming in Beijing was created for international audiences\, screened at various film festivals\, and developed a reputation as one of the foundational works of China’s “New Documentary” film movement.  \n\n\n\nFor this screening\, we present the original\, extended cut of the film (which was only recently subtitled in English). This version offers a more immersive experience of what it was like occupying spaces on the margins of society at one of the most fraught and volatile moments in recent Chinese history. The filmmaking also strikes a balance between talking head-style documentary and long\, dialogue-less passages observing the subjects’ domestic life and artistic practice. It’s a more raw vision—Wu can be heard off-screen instructing his cinematographer how and when to move the camera; you can identify moments\, especially in earlier shot scenes\, when Wu is still working out how to approach his subjects—but all this strengthens the connective tissue between the mode of the film’s production and the social discourses it’s documenting\, resulting in a moving portrait of free and creatively resourceful art in the face of oppression. \n\n\n\nEugene Yuejin Wang is the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art at Harvard University\, where he holds appointments in History of Art and Architecture\, Archeology\, Theater\, Dance\, and Media (TDM)\, Study of Religion\, and Inner Asia and Altaic Studies. A Guggenheim Fellow\, he is the author of the award-winning Shaping the Lotus Sutra: Buddhist Visual Culture in Medieval China. He is also the art history editor of Encyclopedia of Buddhism. His research ranges from early art and archaeology to modern art\, media\, and cinema. He is also the founding director of Harvard CAMLab\, which explores the nexus of cognition\, aesthetics\, and multimedia storyliving through expanded cinema and filmic installations.Dingru Huang is the Rumsey Family Assistant Professor in the Department of International Literary and Cultural Studies. Before joining Tufts\, she was at the University of California\, Berkeley\, as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Chinese Studies. Her research explores the entanglement of cultural production\, technological development\, and ecological imaginations in China and East Asia\, particularly the roles played by nonhuman animals. She has been published in peer-reviewed journals\, such as Modern Chinese Literature and Culture\, Ex-Position\, Wenxue\, and the Chung-wai Literary Quarterly.  \n\n\n\nThe Fairbank Center’s film screening series explores the largely unseen early history of independent film in China\, beginning in the late 1980s\, aiming to unearth films long-suppressed by Chinese authorities to fill out the narrative of modern film history in the PRC. \n\n\n\nBumming in Beijing (Original\, Extended Version)\, directed by Wu Wenguang. China\, 1990\, documentary\, 134 min. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/prc-75-film-screening-the-dreamers-revisited-bumming-in-beijing-original-extended-version-featuring-an-introduction-by-eugene-yuejin-wang/
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:20241101T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241101T160000
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SUMMARY:Digital China Initiative Workshop — Building a Digital Collection with GenAI Tools
DESCRIPTION:register here\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis workshop focuses on leveraging GenAI tools to create\, manage\, and analyze digital collections for Literary Sinitic Studies. Participants will learn basic database concepts\, use Nocodb for data storage\, and explore how GenAI can assist in scraping\, cleaning\, and classifying data. The workshop will also cover fundamental analysis techniques for the resulting digital collection. \n\n\n\nTarget Audience: \n\n\n\n\nFaculty and students in Literary Sinitic Studies interested in building digital archives\n\n\n\nLibrarians and archivists working with Chinese language materials\n\n\n\nAnyone looking to create and manage digital collections efficiently using AI tools\n\n\n\n\nWorkshop Objectives: \n\n\n\n\nUnderstand basic database concepts and learn to use Nocodb for data storage\n\n\n\nExplore GenAI tools for web scraping\, data cleaning\, and classification\n\n\n\nDevelop skills in basic data analysis using the created digital collection\n\n\n\n\nAlso held November 8 and 15. \n\n\n\nRegistration Page \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/digital-china-initiative-workshop-building-a-digital-collection-with-genai-tools/
LOCATION:Room 202\, 61 Kirkland St.\, 61 Kirkland St.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241101T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241101T180000
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SUMMARY:Exhibit: Dunhuang and Beyond
DESCRIPTION:reserve a ticket\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA major milestone and world-renowned heritage site within Silk Road networks\, Dunhuang preserves more than 400 embellished Buddhist cave shrines in present-day northwest China. \n\n\n\nDunhuang’s cave shrines date from the fifth to fourteenth centuries. Each encloses visitors within murals and carved figures that depict Buddhist legends and paradises. Chronicling innumerable exemplary works of Buddhist artmaking over centuries\, Dunhuang forms the largest encyclopedia art collection in situ. More significant than these artistic achievements\, the caves offer a glimpse into a universe that rests beyond our known physical reality. Much like the shadowy illusions of Plato’s allegorical cave\, the pictorial programs across Dunhuang’s caves reveal higher truths about life\, death\, and spiritual transcendence. \n\n\n\nThis fall\, CAMLab contextualizes Dunhuang within Buddhism’s broader currents of space- and art-making that surged across China during the medieval period.• Immersing visitors in confluences of light and sound\, the Cave Dance and Shadow Cave projects are case studies of two Dunhuang caves that reimagine the rich theatricality conjured by depictions of the dramas of the Buddha’s life and dances of transcendent beings. \n\n\n\n• Rebuilding the world’s tallest pagoda in VR\, the Embodied Architecture project invokes an 11the century transmission of these dynamics within the towering Shayka pagoda of the Fogang Monastery in present-day Yingxian\, China. There\, Buddhist pictorial motifs demarcate a journey of ascension toward enlightenment. \n\n\n\n• The Digital Temple project uses an interactive interface to unpack the multiplicity of compositions and multivalent topographies rendered across the murals of Kaihua monastery. \n\n\n\nBy examining Buddhism’s three primary contexts in medieval China—the cave\, the pagoda\, and the temple—these CAMLab projects reveal the dramatic perceptual experiences and invisible force fields embedded by visual programs within Buddhist sites.Reserve Your Ticket \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/exhibit-dunhuang-and-beyond-7/
LOCATION:Sackler Building\, Lower Level\, 485 Broadway\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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