Karl Eikenberry - The Military Dimension of Sino-American Strategic Competition
2019-04-17 12:30 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
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Speaker: Karl Eikenberry, Stanford University
Karl Eikenberry is Director of the U.S.-Asia Security Initiative and faculty member at the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, faculty member of the Center for International Security and Cooperation, and Professor of Practice at Stanford University. He is also an affiliate with the FSI Center for Democracy, Development, and Rule of Law, and The Europe Center.
Prior to his arrival at Stanford, he served as the U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan from 2009 until 2011. Before appointment as Chief of Mission on Kabul, Ambassador Eikenberry had a thirty-five year career in the United States Army, retiring in April 2009 with the rank of Lieutenant General. His military operational posts included commander and staff officer with mechanized, light, airborne, and ranger infantry units in the continental U.S., Hawaii, Korea, Italy, and Afghanistan as the Commander of the American-led Coalition forces. He held various policy and political-military positions, including Deputy Chairman of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Military Committee in Brussels, Belgium; Director for Strategic Planning and Policy for U.S. Pacific Command at Camp Smith, Hawaii; U.S. Security Coordinator and Chief of the Office of Military Cooperation in Kabul, Afghanistan; Assistant Army and later Defense Attaché at the United States Embassy in Beijing, China; Senior Country Director for China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Mongolia in the Office of the Secretary of Defense; and Deputy Director for Strategy, Plans, and Policy on the Army Staff.
He was a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy, has master’s degrees from Harvard University in East Asian Studies and Stanford University in Political Science, and was a National Security Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. Ambassador Eikenberry earned an Interpreter’s Certificate in Mandarin Chinese from the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office while studying at the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence Chinese Language School in Hong Kong and has an Advanced Degree in Chinese History from Nanjing University in the People’s Republic of China.
His military awards include the Defense Distinguished and Superior Service Medals, Legion of Merit, Bronze Star, Ranger Tab, Combat and Expert Infantryman badges, and master parachutist wings. He has received the Department of State Distinguished, Superior, and Meritorious Honor Awards, Director of Central Intelligence Award, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Joint Distinguished Civilian Service Award. He is also the recipient of the George F. Kennan Award for Distinguished Public Service and Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Centennial Medal. Ambassador Eikenberry has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters Degree from North Carolina State University, an Honorary Doctorate of Laws Degree from Ball State University, and an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters Degree from the University of San Francisco. His foreign and international decorations include the Canadian Meritorious Service Cross, French Legion of Honor, Afghanistan’s Ghazi Amir Amanullah Khan and Akbar Khan Medals, and the NATO Meritorious Service Medal.
Ambassador Eikenberry is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and co-directs the Academy’s project on civil wars, violence, and international responses, and is a member of the Academy’s Commission on Language Learning. He serves as a Trustee for The Asia Foundation, American Council for Learned Societies, American Councils for International Education, and the National Committee on American Foreign Policy; is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Academy of Diplomacy; and was previously the President of the Foreign Area Officers Association.
His articles and essays on U.S. and international security issues have appeared in Foreign Affairs, The Washington Quarterly, The American Interest, American Foreign Policy Interests, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Foreign Policy, Survival, Dædalus, and The Financial Times.

Lu Pin - Finding a Voice: A Conversation on China's Feminist Voices
2019-04-18 12:15 - 14:00
Speaker: Lu Pin, Chinese journalist and feminist activist
Chair: Julian Gewirtz, Lecturer, Department of History; Academy Scholar, Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, Harvard University
Discussant: Moira Weigel, Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows
Asia Center Seminar Series.
Sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center; cosponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies

Li Jie - Maoist Cinema as a Spirit Medium
2019-04-18 16:00 - 18:00
Speaker: Li Jie, EALC, Harvard University
As a scholar of literary, film, and cultural studies, Jie Li’s research interests center on the mediation of memories in modern China. Her first book, Shanghai Homes: Palimpsests of Private Life (Columbia, 2014), excavates a century of memories embedded in two alleyway neighborhoods destined for demolition. Her second monograph, Utopian Ruins: A Memorial Museum of the Mao Era (under contract with Duke University Press), explores contemporary cultural memories of the 1950s to the 1970s through textual, audiovisual, and material artifacts, including police files, photographs, documentary films, and museums. Li has co-edited a volume entitled Red Legacies: Cultural Afterlives of the Communist Revolution (Harvard Asia Center, 2016). Her next book project studies the exhibition and reception of cinema in socialist China, including movie theatres and open-air screenings, projectionists and audiences, as well as memories of revolutionary and foreign films. Her other research projects include a transnational film history of Manchuria and a cultural history of radios and loudspeakers.

Terry Sicular - Rural Secondary Education During the Cultural Revolution: The Untold Story
2019-04-22 16:00 - 18:00 | CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Speaker: Terry Sicular, Professor of Economics, The University of Western Ontario
Terry Sicular is a leading North American specialist on the Chinese economy. She has written extensively on household incomes, inequality, poverty, and the rural economy in China. She is a co-editor of and contributor to several books including Rising Inequality in China: Challenges to a Harmonious Society (2013) and Changing Trends in China’s Inequality: Evidence, Analysis and Prospects (forthcoming, Oxford University Press). Her papers have appeared in the China Quarterly, Review of Income and Wealth, Journal of Development Economics and Economic Journal. She is a recipient of the Zhang Peigang Prize for Development Economics (2010) and the Sun Yefang Prize for Economic Science (2011 and 2017).

Wei Shang - "The Story of the Stone" and the Visual Culture of the Manchu Court
2019-04-22 16:00 - 18:00
Speaker: Wei Shang, Columbia University
This talk addresses The Story of the Stone (otherwise known as Dream of the Red Chamber, Honglou meng 紅樓夢), authored by Cao Xueqin (ca. 1715–ca. 1763), with special focus on its recurrent theme as captured in Chapter 1: “Truth becomes fiction when fiction is true; real becomes not-real where the unreal is real.” Apparently paradoxical, this theme seems to invite a philosophical and religious interpretation that transcends the time when the novel was written. Instead, I will trace it to the stimuli of the visual culture permeating the Manchu court in the early and mid-eighteenth century. I seek to examine Cao Xueqin’s representation of the Grand Prospect Garden, the main residence for the young protagonists, in light of what may be called the aesthetics of jia 假 (the unreal or fiction) that manifests through all sorts of visual tricks in the interior decoration of imperial palaces and gardens of the time.
In this talk, I will focus on the novel’s explicit and implicit references to paintings, including an illusionistic painting and an ambitious project undertaken by Xichun to capture a panorama of the garden in one gigantic painting. More specifically, I emphasize the novelist’s impulse to incorporate into his narrative the popular motifs of the contemporaneous paintings, including the paintings executed by the Jesuit painters employed by the imperial court. Reading the novel from this perspective highlights issues of enormous importance for the comprehension of the cultural dynamics of the time that in turn participate in shaping the novel itself: the dialectics of reality and illusion, the mutual fertilization of media and technology, and the constant negotiations between the written and graphic media and between the Manchu court and Europe in the realm of material and visual cultures.

Paul Clifford - Huawei Technologies: World-Class Company or State Agent?
2019-04-23 13:15 - 14:30 | Starr Auditorium, Belfer Building, Floor 2.5, Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Speaker: Paul Clifford, Ash Center Nonresident Senior Fellow
Moderator: Anthony Saich, Ash Center Director and Daewoo Professor of International Affairs
China has come a long way from relying on imports to support its telecommunications sector. Today, telecommunications companies in China not only fulfill that nation’s growing needs but have a global reach. In this context, how should we understand the stunning and controversial emergence of China’s leading technology firm, Huawei Technologies? To what extent has Huawei’s rise been due to its leadership, strategy, corporate culture and ability to innovate? How much of this success as a “national champion” has been driven by the Chinese Party-State’s industrial policy and support?

Felix Boecking | Chinese trade wars in historical perspective— No Great Wall: Trade, Tariffs, and Nationalism in Republican China, 1927-1945
2019-04-23 16:00 - 18:00 | CGIS Knafel K262, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
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Speaker: Felix Boecking, University of Edinburgh
No Great Wall (Harvard Asia Center, 2017), an in-depth study of Nationalist tariff policy, fundamentally challenges the widely accepted idea that the key to the Communist seizure of power in China lay in the incompetence of Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalist government. It argues instead that during the second Sino-Japanese War, China’s international trade, the Nationalist government’s tariff revenues, and hence its fiscal policy and state-making project all collapsed. Drawing on the historical lessons of my research, in this talk, I will also discuss the unintended consequences of protectionism, the difficulties of strategising trade wars, and the differences between trade wars and real wars.
Felix Boecking is a Senior Lecturer in Modern Chinese Economic and Political History at the University of Edinburgh, UK, and currently a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington DC. Among his research interests are China’s political economy, the history of economics in the People’s Republic of China, and the history of China’s foreign relations. His current project at the Wilson Center is “Economics on the Edge: An Intellectual History of Economists in the PRC since 1949.”

Philippe Le Corre - China and Europe: Potential Partners or Systemic Rivals?
2019-04-24 12:30 - 14:00 | CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
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Speaker: Philippe Le Corre, Harvard Kennedy School
Philippe Le Corre is an affiliate with the Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship and a senior fellow with Harvard Kennedy School’s Mossavar-Rahmani Center on Business and Government at the Harvard Kennedy School. He is also a former fellow with the Belfer Center.
Philippe Le Corre’s research interests include China’s geoeconomic rise, Sino-European and transatlantic relations, Chinese outbound foreign direct investments and competition in Eurasia and Asia-Pacific. From 2014 to 2017, he was a Visiting Fellow with The Brookings Institution in Washington D.C. Le Corre previously served as Special Assistant and Counsellor for international affairs to the French Minister of Defense and as senior policy analyst on Northeast Asia within the Ministry of Defense’s directorate for strategy. He was also partner with Publicis Groupe, where he ran a team of consultants advising the Shanghai World Expo 2010. He started his career as a foreign correspondent based in Asia from 1988 to 1998.

Sebastian Veg - Minjian: the Rise of China’s Grassroots Intellectuals
2019-04-25 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker: Sebastian Veg, School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS), Paris
While China’s intellectuals throughout the twentieth century were defined in terms of their elite position and responsibility for the nation, this role was profoundly challenged after the crackdown on the democracy movement of 1989. In its aftermath, new groups of intellectuals emerged from grassroots society, devoted to constituting alternative forms of knowledge outside the academy: amateur historians researching the Mao era, amateur ethnographers using documentary films to investigate social issues, grassroots lawyers working with disenfranchised groups to build rights-awareness, and citizen bloggers and journalists challenging the state control of the public sphere. Although these groups have come under increasing pressure since 2012, their ideas continue to inspire new dynamics in China’s society today.
Sebastian Veg is a Professor (directeur d’études) of intellectual history and literature of 20th century China at the School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS), Paris and an Honorary Professor at the University of Hong Kong. He has written on Chinese intellectuals from May Fourth to the present, the memory of the Mao era, and the democracy movement in Hong Kong.

2019 Gender Studies Workshop: Images, Objects, and Gender in China
2019-04-26 12:45 - 17:30 | CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
12:45-1 p.m. Welcoming remarks
First Panel
Moderator: Catherine Vance Yeh
1-1:30p.m. Jeehee Hong, “ ‘Gender’ and Affect in Song Faces”
1:30-2p.m. Mao Wen-Fang, “The Object and the Beauty in Painting: the Metaphorical Viewing and Lyrical Interpretations of Portrait Texts in the Modes of ‘San hao三好’ (three good things) and ‘Lang yu li郎與麗’ (gentleman and beauty) of Ming-Qing Times”
2-2:30p.m. Daisy Yiyou Wang, “Portraying Chinese Women: Gender and Ethnicity in Nineteenth-Century Photography”
2:30-3p.m. Discussion
3-3:30p.m. Break

Second Panel
Moderator: Wai-yee Li
3:30-4p.m. Man Xu, “ Sedan Chairs, Carriages, and Veils: Women’s Use of Vehicles in the Song Dynasty”
4-4:30p.m. Judith T. Zeitlin, “Pipa vs Qin: Contesting the Gender of Musical Instruments in Seventeenth-Century China”
4:30-5p.m. Yulian Wu, “Jade Thumb Ring: Object, Skill, and Manchu Masculinity in Eighteenth-Century China”
5-5:30p.m. Discussion

Yan Xuetong and Graham Allison: US-China Competition in the Age of the Knowledge Economy
2019-04-26 14:30 - 16:00 | Belfer Center Library Room 369, Littauer Center, 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Speaker: Yan Xuetong, Distinguished Professor and Dean of the Institute of International Relations, Tsinghua University
Moderator: Graham Allison, Douglas Dillon Professor of Government and former Director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School

The EU and China as Global Actors: The Cases of Syria and Africa
2019-04-29 16:30 - 18:30 | Adolphus Busch Hall, 27 Kirkland St., Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Speakers:
Catherine Gegout, Harvard Kennedy School
Fidel Sendagort, Former Ambassador of Spain to Egypt
The panelists will discuss the differing approaches towards conflict management, and the different ways through which China and the European Union (EU) engage with the world. Specifically, they will discuss the Chinese and European policy towards the Syrian conflict and their methods of involvement in Africa. Lastly, they will address what these, at times conflicting approaches mean for the future relationship between the EU and China.
Chair:
Mark Crowley, Wuhan University

https://ces.fas.harvard.edu/events/2019/04/the-european-and-chinese-competing-visions-for-grand-strategy

Katie Hill - A History Written by Our Bodies: Artistic Activism and the Agonistic Chinese Voice of Mad For Real's Performances at the end of the Twentieth Century
2019-04-29 16:30 - 18:30 | Room 422, Sackler Building, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Dr. Katie Hill’s talk will discuss the work of Mad For Real, a performance duo (Cai Yuan and Jianjun Xi) who work between Britain and China and became known for pioneering interventional performance in the public space using the city of London as a cultural canvas. Her talk explores the duo’s artistic activism at the end of the twentieth century in the context of transcultural practice and how the artists’ bodies and voices act to assert a certain kind of Chinese presence onto a political and cultural landscape at a particular moment in time within the broader framework of neocolonialism. This talk is drawn from her recently published chapter in Yeh and Thorpe (eds.) Contesting British Chinese Culture (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).

Katie Hill is Program Director of the MA in Modern and Contemporary Asian Art at Sotheby’s Institute of Art London and an established professional in the field of contemporary Chinese art. She gained an MA from the University of Edinburgh in Chinese Language and Literature and went on to pursue a PhD with Craig Clunas at the University of Sussex, exploring the diasporic presence of Chinese artists in Europe interrogating representation and transnational practice within a global context during the 1990s. She is currently working on Lifelines, a solo exhibition of ink painter Wang Huangsheng at Hong Kong Arts Centre with Gallery 3812.

Michael Kingston - Arctic Shipping and the Northern Sea Route, Shipping Trends, and The New Polar Code Regulations: The Concerns and Contributions of The International Insurance Industry
2019-04-30 12:00 - 13:15 | CGIS South Room S354, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Speaker: Michael Kingston, Managing Director, Michael Kingston Associates; Special Advisor, Protection of the Arctic Marine Environment (PAME) Working Group, Arctic Council
Moderator: George Soroka, Lecturer, Harvard University; Center Associate, Davis Center
More info: https://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/events/arctic-shipping-and-northern-sea-route-shipping-trends-and-new-polar-code-regulations

Wen Luo - The Application of GIS in the Historical Settlement Geography
2019-05-01 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker: Wen Luo, Deputy Director, Research Department on Cultural and Natural Resources, Tsinghua Tongheng Planning and Design Institute; Visiting Scholar, IQSS(CBDB Project), Harvard University
Light refreshments provided
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Margaret K. Lewis - Why Law Matters in Taiwan
2019-05-01 12:30 - 14:00 | CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
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Speaker: Margaret K. Lewis, Seton Hall University School of Law Professor Margaret Lewis’s research focuses on law in mainland China and Taiwan with an emphasis on criminal justice. Professor Lewis has been a Fulbright Senior Scholar at National Taiwan University, a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a Public Intellectuals Program Fellow with the National Committee on United States-China Relations, and a delegate to the US-Japan Foundation’s US-Japan Leadership Program.
Her publications have appeared in a number of academic journals including the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, NYU Journal of International Law and Politics, Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, and Virginia Journal of International Law. She also co-authored the book Challenge to China: How Taiwan Abolished its Version of Re-Education Through Labor with Jerome A. Cohen. Professor Lewis has participated in the State Department’s Legal Experts Dialogue with China, has testified before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, and is a consultant to the Ford Foundation.
Before joining Seton Hall, Professor Lewis served as a Senior Research Fellow at NYU School of Law’s U.S.-Asia Law Institute where she worked on criminal justice reforms in China. Following graduation from law school, she worked as an associate at the law firm of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton in New York City. She then served as a law clerk for the Honorable M. Margaret McKeown of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Diego. After clerking, she returned to NYU School of Law and was awarded a Furman Fellowship. Professor Lewis received her J.D., magna cum laude, from NYU School of Law, where she was inducted into the Order of the Coif and was a member of Law Review. She received her B.A., summa cum laude, from Columbia University and also studied at the Hopkins-Nanjing Center for Chinese and American Studies in Nanjing, China.

Mandopop: 40 Years of Chinese Popular Music and Culture
2019-05-02 16:00 - 18:00 | Hall D, Science Center, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
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Speakers:
GAO Xiaosong 高曉松
FANG Wenshan (Vincent Fang) 方文山
LUO Dayou (Lo Ta-yu) 羅大佑
Yin Yue 尹約
This is a ticketed event. Only ticket holders will be allowed in the auditorium.
All available tickets have been distributed.
This talk will be conducted in a mixture of English and Mandarin.

Maria Adele Carrai - Sovereignty in China and the Long Legacies of History
2019-05-03 12:15 - 14:00
Speaker: Maria Adele Carrai, Fellow, Harvard Asia Center; Senior Researcher, KU Leuwen, Belgium
Chair: William Alford, Jerome A. and Joan L. Cohen Professor of Law; Director, East Asian Legal Studies, Harvard Law School
Discussant: Anne Orford, Visiting Professor of Law and John Harvey Gregory Lecturer on World Organization, Harvard Law School
Asia Center Fellows Seminar Series

Harutoshi Matsutani - The Social Cost of Automobiles and Environment Policies in Asia: A Comparative Study on China and Japan
2019-05-06 12:15 - 14:00 | CGIS Knafel K262, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Speaker: Harutoshi Matsutani, Fellow, Harvard Asia Center; Professor of Economics, Aichi University, Japan
Chair: Ezra Vogel, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences, Emeritus
Discussant: Andrew Gordon, Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History, Harvard University; Acting Director, Harvard-Yenching Institute
Asia Center Fellows Seminar Series

Wen-hsin Yeh - Vast Ocean, Small People: The Aborigines of Taiwan
2019-05-07 16:00 - 18:00
Speaker: Wen-hsin Yeh, University of California at Berkeley
For centuries under the Ming and the Qing, indigenous communities of Taiwan (i.e. the Austronesian-speaking tribal groups in the mountains and on the Pacific side of the island) led distinct styles of life in a state of relative insularity. That insularity ended in the 19th century when Western and Japanese naval vessels appeared on the Pacific. In response, the Qing cut roads into the mountains and sent troops down the coast. These events marked a new beginning for the aborigines who, labeled as headhunters and savages, came under successive regimes of colonial rule. Things changed again towards the end of the 20th century. China adopted a “National Ocean Strategy” by which the People’s Navy would routinely project its presence on the Pacific. And Taiwan, out of a determination to deliver transitional justice, issued in 2016 a presidential apology to the tribes as long-suffering victims of historical injustice.
This presentation on Taiwan’s indigenous people takes the Pacific as a point of reference to build a historical narrative. In doing so, the talk seeks to position Taiwan in a changing world of connecting oceans.

Workshop - Ocean, Island, Shore: Placing the Global Pacific in the Age of Climate Change
2019-05-08 09:00 - 17:30 | HUCE Seminar Room 440, 26 Oxford St. - Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
9:00-9:05 opening remarks by organizers
Chair: Xiaofei Gao (Fung Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University Asia Center)
9:05-9:50 John Huth (Donner Professor of Science, Department of Physics, Harvard University)
Discussant: Christina Thompson (Editor, Harvard Review, Harvard University)
9:50-10:35 John Hayashi (Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Harvard University)
Writing the History of Japanese Transoceanic Migration and Disease Prevention
Discussant: Warwick Anderson (Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser Visiting Professor of Australian Studies, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University)
COFFEE BREAK
Chair: Sugata Bose (Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs, Department of History, Harvard University)
10:50-11:35 Jonas Ruegg (Ph.D. Candidate, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University)
Mapping the Kuroshio Frontier: Japan’s Discovery of the Black Current
Discussant: Helen Rozwadowski (Director of the Maritime Studies Program and Associate Professor of History, Department of History, University of Connecticut, Avery Point)
11:35-12:20 Michaela Thompson (Preceptor of Environmental Science and Public Policy and Giorgio Ruffolo Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Sustainability Science, Kennedy School of Goverment, Harvard University)
Red Fish, Green Fish: A History of the Bristol Bay Sockeye Fishery
Discussant: Alexis Dudden (Professor of History, Department of History, University of Connecticut)
LUNCH BREAK
Chair: Stefan Huebner (SSRC Transregional Research Fellow and Visiting Scholar, Harvard University Asia Center)
1:10-1:55 Jason O. Chang (Associate Professor of History and Asian American Studies, Department of History, University of Connecticut)
The Maritime Racial Form of the Indo-Pacific: Lascar and Danjia Sailors in the Long Nineteenth Century
Discussant: Anthony D. Medrano (Ziff Environmental Fellow, Harvard University Center for the Environment)
1:55-2:40 Edward (Ted) Melillo (Associate Professor of History and Environmental Studies, Department of Environmental Studies, Amherst College)
‘Oiwi (Native) History of Kona Coffee in a Global Perspective
Discussant: Ian J. Miller (Professor of History, Department of History, Harvard University)
BREAK
Chair: Anthony D. Medrano (Ziff Environmental Fellow, Harvard University Center for the Environment)
3:00-3:45 Bathsheba Demuth (Assistant Professor of History and Environment and Society, Departments of Environmental Studies and History, Brown University)
Writing North Pacific History Through its Ecosystems: Russia, the United States, and Trophic Change
Discussant: Stefan Huebner (SSRC Transregional Research Fellow and Visiting Scholar, Harvard University Asia Center)
3:45-4:30 Wenjiao Cai (Ph.D. Candidate, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University)
At the Littoral Edge: Tideland Reclamation and Borderland Development in Late Choson Korea, 1600-1910
Discussant: Peter C. Perdue (Professor of History, Department of History, Yale University)
4:30-5:30 Closing Session
Moderators: Stefan Huebner (SSRC Transregional Research Fellow and Visiting Scholar, Harvard University Asia Center); Anthony D. Medrano (Ziff Environmental Fellow, Harvard University Center for the Environment); Jonas Ruegg (Ph.D. Candidate, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University)
This workshop is supported by: Harvard University Center for the Environment, Harvard University Asia Center, Harvard University Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, and the Pacific Circle.
For more information, visit https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/envihist/workshop-ocean-island-shore-placing-global-pacific-age-climate-change

Henny Sender - Trump as China's Friend?
2019-05-08 12:30 - 14:00 | CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
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Speaker: Henny Sender, Financial Times
Henny Sender is chief correspondent for international finance at the Financial Times, based in Hong Kong.
Sender was part of a team at the Wall St Journal that won a Loeb award for coverage of the meltdown of Amaranth hedge fund. Her work on the overseas Chinese received a citation from the Overseas Press Club and she was a finalist for the National Magazine Awards. Her book on India was published by Oxford University Press.
Sender holds an MS from the Columbia University School of Journalism and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Panel Discussion - Tiananmen at 30
2019-05-08 16:00 - 18:00 | CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010), 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
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Speakers:
Hao Jian, Professor, Beijing Film Academy
Louisa Lim, Senior Lecturer, University of Melbourne; Author, The People’s Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited
Wang Dan, Founder and Executive Director of Dialogue China
Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Chancellor’s Professor of History, University of California Irvine
Moderator:
Rowena Xiaoqing He, Current Member, Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton; Author, Tiananmen Exiles: Voices of the Struggle for Democracy in China

Transcript of Director Michael Szonyi’s Opening Remarks, May 8, 2019
Welcome to the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University. My name’s Michael Szonyi. I am the director of the Fairbank Center and it is my privilege to introduce today’s session marking 30 years since the extraordinary events of May and June of 1989.
While we have called today’s session “Tiananmen at 30,” these events occurred not just at Tiananmen Square or even just in Beijing, but in cities all over China. These events culminated, as we all know, on June 4th, 1989 in a act of military suppression that took place not only, or even primarily in the square itself, but throughout the city and beyond.
Anyone could have predicted that this year, 2019, would be a sensitive year for anniversaries in China. As Jiayang Fan wrote in The New Yorker this week, for the CCP, “certain anniversaries teeter between the emblematic and the problematic.” As things have unfolded, the year proved far more sensitive for far more anniversaries than we had anticipated. Problematic definitely outweighed emblematic.
Besides the 40th anniversary of the establishment of US-China relations, and the 40th anniversary of the Taiwan Relations Act, here at the Fairbank Center we’ve held events including a commemoration of 40 years of reform and opening up which we co-hosted and co-organized with the Unirule Institute of Economic. That event, we believe, proved to be one of the very last, if not the very last, public event for that very influential liberal think tank in China. We similarly commemorated the centenary of the May 4th Movement with a two-day conference organized by Professor David Wang. Some of you, like me, were at that conference and I think many of us who attended that conference were discouraged that, as one of our guests, Jeff Wasserstrom, pointed out in his long New York Times op-ed, a century after May 4th, a free and open discussion of that event and its significance remains impossible in China.
As with May 4th, so too June 4th. But even in a year of sensitive anniversaries, there’s something distinctive about the event we commemorate today, because of course there are no public commemorations at all of this event all in China. This is an event that can only be spoken of outside of China.
The Fairbank Center at Harvard is home for China studies in all forms, even, and in some ways especially when the topic is sensitive. We value our commitment to intellectual freedom to pursue questions and research that others might want us to avoid. It’s our responsibility to hold events such as today’s, both as an academic endeavor in the face of official suppression in China and as a mark of respect to those whose lives were taken or scarred by the events 30 years ago. The importance of our discussions on the CCP’s relationship with the Chinese citizenry is only elevated by the context of other human rights crises that are unfolding in China today, in particular the current crisis in Xinjiang, and this reinforces the importance of our persistent pursuit of truth in the face of repression.

Michael Szonyi
May 8, 2019

Conference - Interpreting Energy Dependence in Eurasia
2019-05-09 08:00 - 2019-05-11 07:59 | CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Energy dependence is the leitmotif of Eurasian political economy. The concept recurs in official speeches and is often invoked to imply a threat. The higher the level of dependence on hydrocarbon imports, especially oil and natural gas, the higher the energy security risk. This stems usually from political instability in hydrocarbon-producing countries, concerns about price volatility, the fact that some state-owned oil companies are hand-in-glove with authoritarian regimes, or increased carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels, which contribute to global warming. More than anywhere else, member states and associated member states of the International Energy Agency have sought to make sustainable development (including further development of domestic resources) and energy security a top priority. It is perceived as a means towards decreasing dependence. It turns out that the interests of consuming and producing countries are, however, more and more divergent, and finding common ground is challenging, although increasingly important.
Organizers:
Rawi Abdelal, Herbert F. Johnson Professor of International Management, Harvard Business School; Director, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Aurélie Bros, Postdoctoral Fellow, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
More information: https://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/events/interpreting-energy-dependence-eurasia
Sponsored by the Davis Center & the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs

Film Screening and Discussion with Director Hu Jie - The Spark
2019-05-09 16:00 - 18:30 | CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010), 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Director Hu Jie will be in person for a Q&A (Mandarin with English translation) following the screening.
Following the Anti-Rightist movement of 1957, a group of Lanzhou University students who had been condemned as Rightists were sent to rural areas in Tianshui, Gansu Province, to be reformed through labor. There they witnessed the violent absurdities of the Great Leap Forward and the mass starvation and deaths of the Great Famine. In response, they started an underground publication, which they called The Spark, in which they exposed exaggerated local harvest reports along with rural poverty and starvation. They also initiated a profound theoretical analysis and criticism of the structure of the People’s Commune, placing blame for the Great Leap Forward on the Communi The publication also carried Lin Zhao’s long poem “Prometheus’s Day of Passion.” The Spark is the only extant unofficial, intellectual periodical from the time of the Great Famine. In the end, 43 people, including the Rightist teachers and students who were connected with its publication, as well as the peasants and rural cadres who sympathized with them, were arrested and given long prison sentences. Among them, three key figures—Zhang Chunyuan, county party secretary Du Yinghua, and Lin Zhao—were executed during the Cultural Revolution.

Exhibition Reception - Calligraphy • China Gene : Ronghua Jing
2019-05-11 14:00 - 16:00 | Gutman Library, 6 Appian Way, Camrbidge, MA, 02138, United States
“One brush reveals all” is the secret of calligraphy and the key of decoding aesthetics of traditional Chinese art. This exhibition consists of ten calligraphies and ten Chinese paintings, including Chinese landscape paintings and Chinese bird paintings. The connotation of Twin Ten, 十全十美 (Ten in Whole, Ten in Beauty) implies perfection in Chinese culture. In the art of calligraphies, it tells a calligrapher’s life story, calligraphy note, and the journey of calligraphy study and practice.
Ronghua Jing selects several poetries of Tang Dynasty poets, including his favorite, Dufu (杜甫) , and shows his friendship with Reedstone. In the art of Chinese landscape paintings, Professor Jing expresses his love for nature and China, especially Changjiang River and Yellow Mountain. As an erudite history professor, he has insight on the philosophy of Yin-Yang and which he creates through brush pen.

Chinese Optics: Artful Looking
2019-05-17 09:30 - 18:00 | Sackler Building Room 427, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States

Pauline Yu - ’A New Day is Upon Us’: Building the Field of Chinese Studies
2019-09-04 16:30 - 18:00 | CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Speaker: Pauline Yu, President Emeritus, American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)
Pauline Yu served as President of the American Council of Learned Societies from 2003-19 and was previously Dean of Humanities at UCLA, Founding Chair of the Department of East Asian Languages and Literature at UC-Irvine, and professor at Columbia University and the University of Minnesota. Her publications have focused on classical Chinese poetry, comparative poetics, and issues in the humanities. She received her B.A. in Modern European History and Literature from Harvard University and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Stanford University. Yu serves on the boards of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Academy in Berlin, the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange, and The Henry Luce, The Robert H. N. Ho Family, and The Teagle Foundations. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and elected member of the American Philosophical Society and Committee of 100. A senior research scholar at Columbia, she holds five honorary degrees.

Exhibition - Fire Dream: Zhao Meng and the Reinvention of the Clay Medium
2019-09-06 08:00 - 2019-10-31 07:59 | CGIS South, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Exploring the myriad material possibilities of clay, Zhao pushes the boundaries of the medium while reworking traditional forms. A closing reception and panel discussion will feature artists and scholars Brad Miller, Jeffrey Moser, Sun Ren, Eugene Y. Wang, and Nigel Wood.
Closing Event: Friday, October 25, 2019 | 4:00 – 6:00 PM
Room 427 | Sackler Building | 485 Broadway | Cambridge MA

Celebration of Professor Roderick MacFarquhar
2019-09-07 14:00 - 15:00 | Memorial Church, 1 Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Roderick MacFarquhar
1930-2019
The Fairbank Community is Invited to Attend
a Celebration
on
Saturday, September 7, 2019 at 2:00 PM,
at the
Memorial Church of Harvard University
With Tributes from Family, Colleagues, and Friends
Reception to follow at the Harvard Faculty Club
The Family of Rod Mac Farquhar
together with the
Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
and the
Department of Government
Harvard University

For planning purposes, if you are attending Rod’s Celebration, please fill out this short RSVP form. Thank you.
