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SUMMARY:China Humanities Seminar featuring Ya Zuo — Fighting Feelings with Feelings: The Quanzhen Daoist Ordering of Emotional Life
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Ya Zuo\, Associate Professor of History\, University of California\, Santa Barbara \n\n\n\nQuanzhen Daoism wielded a profound influence across eastern Eurasia\, shaping the intellectual landscape of the Jurchen Jin dynasty (1115–1234) and leaving a lasting impact on the Mongol Yuan empire (1279–1368). In this talk\, I delve into the focus on emotions in Quanzhen philosophy. The religion emphasized the qing (emotions/feelings) as a central concept and assigned its clergy with an active role in emotional stewardship. Highly critical of conventional feelings and desires\, Quanzhen Daoists sought to convert followers to a new affective regime known as the “feelings of the dao.” \n\n\n\nYa Zuo is an associate professor of History at University of California\, Santa Barbara. She is a cultural historian of middle and late imperial China\, and the author of Shen Gua’s Empiricism (Harvard Asia Center\, 2018)\, with the Chinese translation published by Zhonghua Book Company in 2024. Driven by interdisciplinary interests\, she has written a range of articles on topics such as theory of knowledge\, sensory history\, medical history\, book history\, and the history of emotions. She is currently working on a book on crying and tears in middle-period China.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-humanities-seminar-featuring-ya-zuo-fighting-feelings-with-feelings-the-quanzhen-daoist-ordering-of-emotional-life/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:China Humanities Seminar
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SUMMARY:Eurasia From the East\, 2024
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers:David Wolff\, Professor\, Slavic-Eurasian Research Center (SRC)\, Hokkaido UniversityNorihiro Naganawa\, Professor on Russian and Eurasian History\, Hokkaido UniversityAkihiro Iwashita\, Professor\, Department of Slavic-Eurasian Studies\, Hokkaido UniversitySerhii Plokhii\, Mykhailo S. Hrushevs’kyi Professor of Ukrainian History / Director of the Ukrainian Research Institute \, Harvard University \n\n\n\nAs we approach the third year of the war in Ukraine\, the ripples from the conflict go deeper and further into the fabric of international relations. Today’s seminar brings together three scholars from Japan to analyze the war’s impact and meaning outside Eastern Europe. Their expertise includes Russia and other world areas\, including the Middle East and Northeast Asia. Issues to be addressed include Japan’s policies\, historical contexts\, borderlands\, energy security\, and China’s perspective on the war. \n\n\n\nRefreshments will be provided.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/eurasia-from-the-east-2024/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S354\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241120T120000
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Anne Stevenson-Yang — What Happens After the Chinese Miracle?
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Anne Stevenson-Yang\, Founder and Reseach Director\, J Capital ResearchModerator: Anthony Saich\,Director\, Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia and Daewoo Professor of International Affairs\, Harvard Kennedy School \n\n\n\nAnne Stevenson-Yang co-founded J Capital Research\, which publishes highly diligenced research reports on publicly traded companies. She also writes a weekly research piece called China Primary Insight. Over 25 years living in Beijing\, Anne worked as an industry analyst and founded three businesses in online and print media and software. She is author of three published books\, including Wild Ride: A Short History of the Opening and Closing of the Chinese Economy (2024\, Bui Jones). \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-anne-stevenson-yang/
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:20241120T150000
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SUMMARY:Fan Dai — Certainties out of the Uncertain: Subnational Climate Diplomacy Between the U.S. and China
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Fan Dai\, Director\, California-China Climate Institute\, University of California\, Berkeley; Senior Fellow\, Environment and Natural Resources Program and Science\, Technology and Public Policy Program\, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs\, Harvard Kennedy School \n\n\n\nDr. Fan Dai is the director of California-China Climate Institute\, and adjunct faculty at Energy and Resource Group\, University of California\, Berkeley. She is also a Senior Fellow in the Environment and Natural Resources Program and Science\, Technology and Public Policy Program at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School. Her research expertise includes market mechanisms for climate change mitigation\, climate diplomacy and governance. \n\n\n\nDr. Dai was appointed by former California Governor Jerry Brown as Special Advisor to chair the state’s China Interagency Working Group and served as the liaison on critical economic and environmental initiatives with China. Previously\, she served as a senior advisor at the California Environmental Protection Agency and the California Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development\, where she provided counsel on the state’s international policy and global climate partnerships. At the California-China Climate Institute\, she led several critical research projects on subnational climate policy and long-term planning for carbon neutrality. Dr. Dai received her BS in law from Beijing Forestry University\, her master of law from Berkeley Law\, University of California\, and her doctoral degree on environmental policy and economics from State University of New York at Syracuse. \n\n\n\nSponsored by Harvard-China Project\, Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/fan-dai-certainties-out-of-the-uncertain-subnational-climate-diplomacy-between-the-u-s-and-china/
LOCATION:Pierce Hall 100F\, 29 Oxford St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241122T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241122T110000
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SUMMARY:Xiaolu Ma - Transpatial Modernity: Chinese Cultural Encounters with Russia via Japan (1880–1930)
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Xiaolu Ma Assistant Professor\, Division of Humanities\, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.  \n\n\n\nModerator: David Wang\, Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature\, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nTranspatial Modernity offers the first in-depth account of the triangular relationship among Chinese\, Japanese\, and Russian literature and culture in the modern era. Drawing on primary sources in all three languages—among others—Xiaolu Ma reveals how Chinese writers translated and appropriated Russian cultural tropes through the intermediary of Japanese writing in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. To trace the global journey of these literatures and ideas\, Ma maps four case studies involving leading cultural figures including Leo Tolstoy\, Futabatei Shimei\, and Lu Xun. Together\, they demonstrate the central role of relay transculturation—cultural exchange among at least three cultures\, one of which serves primarily as an intermediary—as the key to understanding East Asian modernity. Not limited to a dyadic relationship between source and target culture\, Transpatial Modernity explores the implications of cultural brokerage within complex transculturation process\, thus establishing the value of a new transpatial framework for understanding literary and cultural exchange in local\, regional\, and global contexts. \n\n\n\nOnline via Zoom webinar. To join\, register here: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_IDsl4v7VSsyNetcMlSpMlg. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/xiaolu-ma-transpatial-modernity-chinese-cultural-encounters-with-russia-via-japan-1880-1930/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
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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-16/
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:20241123T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241123T180000
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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-17/
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-18/
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:20241125T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241125T110000
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SUMMARY:Household Registration: A Tale of Two Cities
DESCRIPTION:zoom registration\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Anthony Saich\, Director of the Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia and Daewoo Professor of International Affairs\, Harvard Kennedy SchoolDiscussant: Rana Mitter\, S.T. Lee Professor of US-Asia Relations\, Harvard Kennedy School \n\n\n\nThe household registration system (hukou) is widely seen as a major factor contributing to inequality in China. Individuals’ benefits depend on where their registration is located\, with rural residents enjoying considerably less welfare support than their urban counterparts. This has been especially problematic for migrant laborers. There have been calls to abolish the system\, and even the central leadership has advocated for its amendment or removal. Yet\, many cities maintain it in some form. This talk explains why.  \n\n\n\nBefore reforms\, policy was exogenous\, determined by Beijing. Subsequently\, changes have become exogenous\, driven by bottom-up initiatives to modify the system. An examination of the cities of Shijiazhuang and Zhengzhou reveals how the local political economy shapes the outcomes of hukou reform.  \n\n\n\nPresented via Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ysKe4YuNR_-oX7x9nRFMig \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/household-registration-a-tale-of-two-cities/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241125T113000
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SUMMARY:Jeongsoo Shin — Can Korean Calligraphers Write Like Wang Xizhi? The Mujangsa Stele and its Reception in a Sino-Korean Context
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Jeongsoo Shin\, Associate Professor\, Korean Cultural Studies\, The Academy of Korean Studies; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2024-25Chair/Discussant: Sun Joo Kim\, Harvard-Yenching Professor of Korean History\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nFrom the late eighteenth century\, Chinese scholars took a keen interest in the steles of early Korea. Some inscriptions on those steles were seen as material evidence of ancient Chinese calligraphy that had vanished from China. One notable case is the Memorial Stele for Enshrining the Amitābha Buddha Statue at Mujang Temple (鍪藏寺阿彌陀佛造成記碑\, 801). Weng Fanggang (1733-1818) lauded it for preserving the authentic trace of the “Lanting Preface\,” since the original work by the legendary calligrapher Wang Xizhi (ca. 303-ca. 361) no longer existed. Yet Weng’s disciple\, Kim Chŏnghŭi (1786-1856)\, opined that it was the brushwork of a Korean calligrapher. This talk will explore how the same inscription was viewed differently among scholars from the two countries. While current scholarship often romanticizes Sino-Korean antiquarian exchange\, I will demonstrate that beneath the transnational friendship lies a reflection of each side’s cultural centrism. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/jeongsoo-shin-can-korean-calligraphers-write-like-wang-xizhi-the-mujangsa-stele-and-its-reception-in-a-sino-korean-context/
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:20241126T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241126T220000
DTSTAMP:20260518T104752
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SUMMARY:Urban China Lecture Series featuring Sarah Chang — From Xiagang (layoffs)to the New Silk Road: SOE Reform and Urban Renewal in Southwestern China from the 1990s to the Present
DESCRIPTION:zoom meeting link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers: Sarah Chang\, Assistant Professor of History\, Miami UniversityThis presentation examines the relationship between urban renewal projects and SOE closures from the late 1990s to today. It uses published government and factory documents\, oral history\, and ethnography to explore how Chengdu’s urbanizing projects after the 2000s redefined the purpose of urban space\, ejected industrial communities from the urban core\, and imagined new zones of development in response to the Belt and Road Initiative. The talk analyzes how the Party engaged in adaptive strategies of governance and borrowed from Mao-era political sentiments to induce industrial communities’ compliance with changing urban and industrial policies. Connecting Mao-era urban and industrial drives with the present\, the presentation observes how Chengdu is transforming a socialist-era industrial district into a free trade zone and international hub for transportation and logistics\, part of China’s New Silk Road. \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-sarah-chang/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Urban China Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241203T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241203T220000
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SUMMARY:Urban China Lecture Series featuring Liu Zhi — What Drives Urban Regeneration Action in China Today?
DESCRIPTION:zoom meeting link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers:  Liu Zhi\, Peking University-Lincoln InstituteOver the last few years\, the Chinese government has actively promoted urban regeneration action across the country. However\, many projects are not justified by demand and struggle to attract investment. Others lack rigorous feasibility studies and economic assessments\, posing significant risk of inefficient or wasteful investment. Behind this phenomenon is what I call “investment impulse\,” a bureaucratic incentive that uses public investment not to meet demand in a cost-effective way\, but to increase the size of local GDP. What drives the investment impulse? Placing the urban regeneration action into a broad context of China’s public capital investment behavior\, I argue that the investment impulse is an unintended consequence of China’s political and economic management system and can be avoided with policy reform measures. \n\n\n\nZhi Liu is Senior Research Fellow and Executive Director of China and Asia Program\, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy\, and Director\, Peking University–Lincoln Institute Center for Urban Development and Land Policy. His research interests are mainly in land and housing policy\, infrastructure economics and policy\, municipal finance\, and urban and regional planning. Before joining Lincoln Institute in 2013\, he was a lead infrastructure specialist at the World Bank\, with years of operational experience in the infrastructure and urban sectors. He is co-editor of International Housing Market Experience and Implications for China (Routledge 2019) and Infrastructure Economic and Policy: International Perspectives (Lincoln Institute of Land Policy\, 2022). \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-liu-zhi/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Urban China Series
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SUMMARY:Mark Baker — 𝘗𝘪𝘷𝘰𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘢: 𝘚𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘗𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘐𝘯𝘦𝘲𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘔𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘯 𝘡𝘩𝘦𝘯𝘨𝘻𝘩𝘰𝘶
DESCRIPTION:zoom registration\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Mark Baker\, Lecturer (Assistant Professor) of East Asian History at the University of Manchester\, UK. Moderator: Xiang Zhou\, Professor of Sociology\, Harvard University  \n\n\n\nPivot of China (Harvard Asia Center\, 2024) examines spatial inequality across China’s twentieth century and beyond. It argues that by focusing on certain kinds of places\, people and infrastructures\, the development strategies of successive Chinese states exacerbated inequality in multiple dimensions: rural-urban\, inter-city\, and inter-regional. Pivot of China explores this story through the city of Zhengzhou – an unheralded inland regional center\, ‘pivot’ not just of China’s railroad network but also between the winners and losers of modern China’s spatial politics.  \n\n\n\nOnline via Zoom webinar. To join\, register here.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/mark-baker-%f0%9d%98%97%f0%9d%98%aa%f0%9d%98%b7%f0%9d%98%b0%f0%9d%98%b5-%f0%9d%98%b0%f0%9d%98%a7-%f0%9d%98%8a%f0%9d%98%a9%f0%9d%98%aa%f0%9d%98%af%f0%9d%98%a2-%f0%9d%98%9a%f0%9d%98%b1/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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SUMMARY:Yu Zhao — The Effectiveness of China's Emission Controls on Air Quality\, Deposition and Health Burdens
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Yu Zhao\, Professor\, School of Environment\, Nanjing University; Alumnus (Postdoctoral Fellow) and Collaborator\, Harvard-China Project \n\n\n\nDr. Yu Zhao is a Professor in the School of Environment at Nanjing University. His research interests include the quantification and evaluation of air pollutant emissions with multiple measures; analysis of regional and city air quality and its improvement strategy; and assessment of ecological and environmental health effects from energy and climate policies and air pollutant emission controls. He is a former postdoctoral fellow in the Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences\, and additionally held a research assistantship at the International Institute of Applied System and Analysis\, Austria. He is the receipient of the Second-class Award of Jiangsu Provincial Science and Technology Prize and the National Outstanding Ph.D Dissertation Award. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/yu-zhao-the-effectiveness-of-chinas-emission-controls-on-air-quality-deposition-and-health-burdens/
LOCATION:Pierce Hall 100F\, 29 Oxford St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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SUMMARY:Heejung Seo-Reich — The Emergence of the Aesthetic Subject in Zhuangzi
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Heejung Seo-Reich\, Associate Professor\, School of International Studies\, Sun Yat-Sen University; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2024-25Chair/Discussant: Michael Puett\, Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History and Anthropology; Director\, Asia Center\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nWhat is East Asian aesthetics? In the study of aesthetics\, there has been considerable doubt about the relevance of academic discussions to the East Asian context. However\, this study assumes that the aesthetic thinking in East and West is fundamentally interconnected and based on common human emotions. I will endeavor to find a prototype of the aesthetic subject—a figure that represents this emotionally driven perspective in the Zhuangzi. To facilitate this\, I divide the subjects depicted in the Zhuangzi into three different types: wo (我)\, ou (耦)\, and wu (吾). By examining the unique characteristics of these subjects through their interactions with the things around them\, we can better understand the aesthetic subject in the Zhuangzi as one that transcends cognitive limitations by redefining the relationships between subject and things. This approach not only enriches our understanding of East Asian aesthetics\, but also emphasizes the universal nature of human emotional experience. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/heejung-seo-reich-the-emergence-of-the-aesthetic-subject-in-zhuangzi/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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SUMMARY:Webinar: The Global Impact of the United States Election
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers:Erica Chenoweth\, Academic Dean for Faculty Development; Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment\, Harvard Kennedy SchoolJay Rosengard\, Chair\, Indonesia Public Policy Program\, Rajawali InstituteAnthony Saich\, Director\, Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia; Daewoo Professor of International Affairs\, Harvard Kennedy School \n\n\n\nYou are invited to an online event featuring Ash Center faculty Erica Chenoweth\, Jay Rosengard\, and Anthony Saich\, who will discuss the global impact of the incoming Trump administration. \n\n\n\nThis webinar is part of the 2024 U.S. Election Webinar Series sponsored by the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation. As the United States heads to the polls in November and in its aftermath\, this series will convene scholars and practitioners to discuss down-ballot issues\, election administration\, election security\, voter trends\, and more. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/webinar-the-global-impact-of-the-united-states-election/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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SUMMARY:Urban China Lecture Series featuring  Philipp Demgenski — The Burden of the Past: Housing Expropriation and the Changing Priorities of Inner-City Redevelopment in Contemporary China
DESCRIPTION:zoom meeting link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers:   Philipp Demgenski\, Institute of Anthropology\, Department of Sociology\, Zhejiang UniversityUnder current Chinese leadership\, inner-city redevelopment has shifted from a “demolish and rebuild” (da chai da jian) model to prioritizing heritage preservation (baohu) and “subtle redevelopment” (wei gaizao)\, with policies prohibiting violent evictions\, requiring public interest justification\, and promoting transparency in housing expropriation. Drawing on long-term ethnographic fieldwork\, in this presentation\, I explore how these changes have played out at the micro level of urban society in the concrete negotiations over housing expropriation and compensation in the old\, former colonial town centre of Qingdao. I show that while these policies aim to enhance the “quality” of redevelopment and bolster government legitimacy\, they often fall short. Launching a housing expropriation and renewal scheme has\, I argue\, been much like opening a Pandora’s box in unleashing unresolved legacies and burdens of the past. Redevelopment announcements created expectations and triggered actions relative to compensation that the local government was unable to effectively address. This hints at the multifaceted challenges that China faces in reforming its redevelopment practices. \n\n\n\nPhilipp Demgenski is an Assistant Professor in Anthropology in the Department of Sociology at Zhejiang University. He holds a PhD in Anthropology from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research has been focusing on urban redevelopment and heritage politics in China as well as global heritage governance. His book “Seeking a Future for the Past: Space\, power\, and heritage in a Chinese city” was published in 2024 with Michigan University Press. He was previously a member of the “UNESCO Frictions” project at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales\, researching the implementation of the UNESCO 2003 Convention in China\, Brazil and Greece. \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-philipp-demgenski/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Urban China Series
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SUMMARY:Yi-Chieh Lin — AI Meets Journalism: Rethinking Ethics\, Efficiency\, and Integrity in Taiwanese Newsrooms
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Yi-Chieh Lin\,  Associate Professor\, Department of Journalism\, National Chengchi University; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2024-25Chair/Discussant: John P. Wihbey\, Associate Professor\, Media Innovation and Technology\, Northeastern University \n\n\n\nThis study explores journalists’ perspectives on the perils and possibilities of using generative AI tools in Taiwanese newsrooms\, comparing specific applications across news reporting processes in Taiwan and the United States. Through semi-structured interviews with Taiwanese journalists\, the talk examines how AI reshapes journalistic practices\, focusing on its impact on efficiency\, ethics\, organizational culture\, and audience engagement. \n\n\n\nDrawing on journalism ethics as a conceptual framework\, it addresses opportunities and challenges such as maintaining editorial oversight\, mitigating bias\, and establishing boundaries for AI’s role in journalistic decision-making. For instance\, some Taiwanese organizations enforce strict human verification for AI-generated content and implement safeguards to prevent the misuse of sensitive data. \n\n\n\nThis research further explores how AI adoption influences media brands\, deepens audience understanding\, and reshapes the relationship between technology and journalistic integrity. This ongoing study underscores the need for cautious yet innovative approaches to generative AI\, balancing its transformative potential with ethical accountability. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/yi-chieh-lin-ai-meets-journalism-rethinking-ethics-efficiency-and-integrity-in-taiwanese-newsrooms/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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SUMMARY:Michael Beeman — Walking Out: America’s New Trade Policy in the Asia-Pacific and Beyond
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Michael Beeman\, Visiting Scholar\, Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center\, Stanford UniversityModerator: Mark Wu\, Henry L. Stimson Professor\, Harvard Law School; Director\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Also via Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIldeyrqzsvHt1-rpjNby98mM_q0kt89fUF#/registration \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/michael-beeman-walking-out-americas-new-trade-policy-in-the-asia-pacific-and-beyond/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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SUMMARY:The Role of Long-Duration Storage in Decarbonizing China's Power Sector
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Haiyang Jiang\, Postdoctoral Fellow\, Harvard-China Project \n\n\n\nThe increasing integration of renewable energy sources introduces significant long-term uncertainty to power systems\, creating challenges for maintaining energy balance over extended periods. Traditionally\, coal-fired generation has provided the flexibility needed to address these imbalances. However\, as coal-fired generation is phased out\, long-duration storage emerges as a promising solution to mitigate the risks of long-term imbalances in renewable-dominated power systems. This talk will explore the critical role of long-duration storage in advancing the decarbonization of China’s power sector. \n\n\n\nDr. Haiyang Jiang is a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Harvard-China Project at Harvard University. He earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Tsinghua University in 2023 and was a visiting student at the Harvard-China Project in 2022. His research focuses on power system modeling and planning\, long-duration energy storage\, and assessing long-term inadequacy risks in the power sector. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-role-of-long-duration-storage-in-decarbonizing-chinas-power-sector/
LOCATION:Pierce Hall Room 301\, 29 Oxford St.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250204T113000
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SUMMARY:Du Ying - The Cinematic Cold War Between the US and the PRC: Hong Kong\, 1950s–1960s
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Du Ying\, Professor\, Chinese Literature\, East China Normal University; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2024-25Chair/Discussant\, David Wang\,  Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nThis talk examines the policies and strategies of the United States and the People’s Republic of China in controlling cinematic production and access in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia during the 1950s and 1960s. By comparing these approaches\, it offers new insights into the complex interplay between global and local forces in shaping Cold War cinematic ecosystems. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/du-ying-the-cinematic-cold-war-between-the-us-and-the-prc-hong-kong-1950s-1960s/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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SUMMARY:Andrew Collier — The Decline of China’s Property Market and the Global Economy
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Andrew Collier\, Senior Fellow\, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government\, Harvard Kennedy School \n\n\n\nFrom 1992 until the boom ended in 2021\, Chinese home property sales grew at an average rate of 25 percent per year. China was awash in new construction — often in the middle of empty fields far from city centers. In the United States and Europe real estate generally is less than 10 per cent of fixed asset investment. It was much higher in China. Real estate investment grew rapidly from 4 per cent of GDP in 1997 to 15 per cent of GDP in 2014\, accounting for 15 per cent of fixed asset investment and 15 per cent of urban employment. In some cities it topped 40 percent of local investment. China has built more housing per person than any major European country even though its GDP per capita is only one-third as high. \n\n\n\nHowever\, concerned about a speculative bubble\, the leadership crashed the market in 2020 with a new set of rules\, the “Three Red Lines\,” forcing developers to halt or slow construction. As a result\, China has lost its top contributor to economic growth and is struggling to replace it. What does this mean for geopolitics? Slowing Chinese growth will weaken the country’s global position militarily and politically and force the leadership to make hard choices about economic allocation. \n\n\n\nThis study group / discussion is open to all HUID holders. Registration is not necessary.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/andrew-collier-the-decline-of-chinas-property-market-and-the-global-economy/
LOCATION:Room L-163\, Littauer Building\, 79 JFK St.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250205T160000
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SUMMARY:Modern China Lecture featuring Tong Lam — Let the Ore Speak: Extractivism and China’s Early Cold War Mobilization
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Tong Lam\,  Associate Professor\, Department of History\, University of Toronto \n\n\n\nFrom Chairman Mao’s “receiving” of an ore in Zhongnanhai to the nationwide mapping of mineral resources and the mass movement for sighting and reporting minerals\, the 1950s marked the beginning of what could be described as China’s age of extractivism. The intensifying interactions between humans and nonhumans in socialist China had profound global and planetary consequences that continue to resonate today.Tong Lam’s research areas include the modern and contemporary history of China\, science and technology\, politics and aesthetics\, urbanism\, and empire. His first book\, A Passion for Facts: Social Surveys and the Construction of the Chinese Nation-State\, 1900-1949 (2011)\, analyzes the profound consequences of the emergence of the technology of the “social fact” and social survey research in modern China. Professor Lam’s current research examines China’s urban infrastructures\, ruins and ruination\, as well as the renewed imperial ambitions of the later Qing empire. As a visual artist\, he uses photographic and cinematographic techniques to dissect contemporary China’s transformation\, as well as Cold War ruins around the world. He has published a photo-essay book\, Abandoned Futures (2013)\, and has exhibited his work internationally. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/modern-china-lecture-featuring-tong-lam/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S250\, 1730 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:FCCS Modern China
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250210T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250212T212000
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SUMMARY:Symposium: “Vision for Tomorrow: Law\, Technology\, and Prosperity for a Thriving Global Community\,”
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us at the Harvard Law School China Law Association’s annual China Law Symposium\, “Vision for Tomorrow: Law\, Technology\, and Prosperity for a Thriving Global Community\,” in celebration of the Lantern Festival. This three-day event features six engaging panels with lunch/dinner provided\, and concludes with a festive Lantern Festival Social.SCHEDULE OF EVENTSFEBRUARY 10\, 202512:15 – 1:30 PMNavigating Disputes: Global Commerce and Dispute ResolutionLocation: WCC 2012Speakers: Shaoyi Che\, Managing Partner\, YoungZeal LLPHuawei Sun\, Senior Counsel\, Zhong Lun Law FirmBob Tseng\, Managing Partner\, TWL Law GroupModerator: Katniss Li\, S.J.D. Candidate6:00 – 7:15 PM Chinese Americans and the LawLocation: WCC 1015Speakers: William Lee\, Partner\, WilmerHaleJi Li\, John S. and Marilyn Long Professor of US-China Business and Law\, University of California\, Irvine School of LawPatrick Toomey\, Deputy Director\, ACLU National Security ProjectModerator: Michael Tian\, J.D. Candidate ‘25FEBRUARY 11\, 202512:15 – 1:30 PM Divorce\, Domestic Violence\, and Gender Inequality in ChinaLocation: WCC B010Speakers: Xin He\, Professor\, Faculty of Law\, University of Hong KongKe Li\, Associate Professor of Political Science\, John Jay College of Criminal Justice\, City University of New YorkModerator: Selina Chu\, J.D. Candidate ‘266:00 – 7:15 PM AI\, Technology\, and CybersecurityLocation: WCC 1015Speakers: Gilad Abiri\, Associate Professor of Law\, Peking University School of Transnational LawDavid Pan\, Partner\, Llinks Law Offices LLPDongsheng Zang\, Associate Professor of Law\, University of WashingtonModerator: Kevin Wei\, J.D. Candidate ‘26FEBRUARY 12\, 202512:15 – 1:30 PM Antitrust and Innovation in China’s EconomyLocation: WCC B010Speakers: Carol Xianxiao Liu\, Counsel\, Axinn\, Veltrop & Harkrider LLPDaniel Sokol\, Carolyn Craig Franklin Chair in Law and Professor of Law and Business\, USC Gould School of Law and Marshall School of BusinessWentong Zheng\, Professor of Law\, University of Florida\, Levin College of LawModerator: Tiffany Chu\, J.D. Candidate ‘266:00 – 7:15 PM Future of the Chinese EconomyLocation: WCC 1015Speakers: William Alford\, Jerome A. and Joan L. Cohen Professor of Law\, Harvard Law SchoolYasheng Huang\, Epoch Foundation Professor of Global Economics and Management at MIT Sloan School of ManagementBing Xiang\, Founding Dean\, Cheung Kong Graduate School of BusinessModerator: Michael Tian\, J.D. Candidate ‘257:20 – 9:30 PM Lantern Festival SocialLocation: WCC 1015 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/symposium-vision-for-tomorrow-law-technology-and-prosperity-for-a-thriving-global-community/
LOCATION:WCC\, Harvard Law School\, 1585 Massachusetts Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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SUMMARY:Urban China Lecture Series Featuring Bruce Pang — China's Property Market: Navigating the Evolving Landscape
DESCRIPTION:Zoom meeting link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Bruce Pang\, Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) Greater China \n\n\n\nFor the past three decades\, the real estate sector has been a cornerstone of China’s economic growth\, social development\, and urbanization. Commercial real estate\, in particular\, has thrived due to vigorous domestic growth and seamless integration into the global marketplace\, resulting in a mature\, diverse\, and thriving sector. As China pledges to shift its long-accustomed investment-driven growth model to a “quality over quantity” paradigm\, the property market is undergoing significant transformations\, with slower growth and disparities among sub-sectors.This lecture will explore these transformative dynamics and offer a forward-looking perspective on China’s real estate market\, including both the residential property sphere and key segments within the commercial property sector. By utilizing official data and JLL’s proprietary data\, we find that China’s property market serves as a proxy that can effectively reflect the country’s short-term cyclical headwinds and longer-term mega-trends. This includes China’s reshaped landscape in investment\, consumption\, financial\, and services sectors\, its urbanization and demographic outlook\, among others. We conclude that time and patience are still needed for China’s emerging industries and domestic consumption to regain growth momentum and offset the pressure on economic expansion\, especially as policymakers demonstrate a higher tolerance for slower growth and more focus on the domestic market.Bruce Pang is the Chief Economist and Head of Research at Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) Greater China. He also is a member of the Chief Economist Forum in China\, a Distinguished Senior Research Fellow at the National Institution for Finance and Development (NIFD)\, and a Research Fellow at the Center for Housing and Urban Development of Shanghai Jiao Tong University. In addition\, he holds adjunct faculty positions at the Chinese University of Hong Kong\, Fudan University\, Renmin University of China\, Sun Yat-sen University\, among others. Bruce holds a PhD degree in Economics from the University of Hong Kong as well as an MA from the University of Chicago and an MSc from HKUST. He has authored papers in peer-reviewed academic journals and industry journals\, focusing on macroeconomics\, policy analysis\, real estate economics\, financial markets\, and asset allocation strategies. \n\n\n\nWe would like to thank the MIT Sustainable Urbanization Lab\, the University of British Columbia’s School of Community and Regional Planning\, and the Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies for supporting this event. Please subscribe to our mailing list if you’d like to receive e-mail notifications: http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/urbanchinaseminar. \n\n\n\nJoin Zoom Meeting: https://mit.zoom.us/j/97147498753 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/urban-china-lecture-series-featuring-bruce-pang/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Urban China Series
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SUMMARY:Beijing’s Multiple Facets from the Qing to the Present (1644-2025)
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers:XU Yamin\, Department of History\, Lemoyne College Eugenio Menegon\, Department of History\, Boston UniversityDaigengna Duoer\, Department of Religion\, Boston UniversityCathy Yeh\, World Languages and Literatures\, Boston UniversityMA Zhao\, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures\, Washington University in St. LouisMin Ye\, Pardee School of Global Studies\, Boston UniversityJorge Heine\, Pardee School of Global Studies\, Boston University \n\n\n\nPresentations followed by Q&A and conversations on the history of Beijing\, past\, present\, and future\, at the intersection of urban history\, politics\, religion\, literature\, and the arts. The meeting is open to faculty\, graduate students\, and advanced undergraduates.Register at: https://bostonu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bmFCX0ScZP4RU8K?Q_CHL=qr \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/beijings-multiple-facets-from-the-qing-to-the-present-1644-2025/
LOCATION:Pardee School of Global Studies\, Boston University\, 121 Bay State Rd\, Boston\, Massachusetts\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:China Initiative: Impacts and Implications – Law\, Science\, and U.S.-China Relations 
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers: Patrick Toomey\, National Security Project Deputy Director\, ACLUGang Chen\, Professor\, MIT Mechanical EngineeringYasheng Huang\, Professor\, MIT Sloan SchoolEdgar Chen\, Special Advisor\, National Asian Pacific American Bar Association  \n\n\n\nThe China Initiative\, launched under the Trump administration\, led to the wrongful prosecution of Chinese American scientists\, including MIT Professor Gang Chen. With discussions of its possible revival\, this talk will explore its legal and social impact\, its effects on the scientific community\, and what its return could mean for U.S.-China relations.  \n\n\n\nSponsored by China Law Association. For more info\, contact Ying Zhou at yzhou@jd25.law.harvard.edu \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-initiative-impacts-and-implications-law-science-and-u-s-china-relations/
LOCATION:WCC 2012\, Wasserstein Hall\, 1585 Massachusetts Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Peking Opera\, Shanghai Style: From Mei Lanfang to Shi Yihong海上京劇：從梅蘭芳到史依弘
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Shi Yihong\, Shanghai Jingju Theatre CompanyModerator: David Der-wei Wang\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nSponsors:East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard UniversityFairbank Center for Chinese StudiesChiang Ching-kuo Foundation \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/peking-opera-shanghai-style-from-mei-lanfang-to-shi-yihong%e6%b5%b7%e4%b8%8a%e4%ba%ac%e5%8a%87%ef%bc%9a%e5%be%9e%e6%a2%85%e8%98%ad%e8%8a%b3%e5%88%b0%e5%8f%b2%e4%be%9d%e5%bc%98/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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SUMMARY:The 28th Annual Harvard East Asia Society Conference — Flow: A Symposium
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Harvard East Asia Society (HEAS) Graduate Student Conference is an annual event that provides an interdisciplinary forum for graduate students to exchange ideas and discuss current research on topics related to Asia. The conference invites young scholars to present their research to their peers and renowned scholars in relevant fields. Participants will also meet others in their research area and forge new professional relationships. \n\n\n\nThis year’s conference is titled “Flow: A Symposium.”Flow is about time\, dynamics\, and fluidity. It reflects East Asia as a region nourished by rivers\, seasonal winds\, and maritime routes. How can the idea of flow help us rethink and even unlearn the studies of East Asia? This title advances the notion of global East Asia as an infinite set of critical inquiry\, lifting the theoretical\, historical\, and empirical boundaries of East Asia Studies beyond any territorial borders. The committee welcomes scholarship whose subjects\, approaches\, and/or methodologies take a step back in reflection on the idea of East Asia in ways that “go with the flow” rather than “off the beaten track.” We also invite scholarship engaged with local\, national\, regional\, and transnational\, as well as (trans)historical and interdisciplinary studies. \n\n\n\nMore information can be found on our website: https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/heasconference  \n\n\n\nQuestions or concerns can be directed to heasconference@gmail.com. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-28th-annual-harvard-east-asia-society-conference-flow-a-symposium/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Conference and Workshops
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SUMMARY:Weixin XU — Ukraine Every Day: An Artist’s Diary of 1\,090 Digital Drawings
DESCRIPTION:Artist Weixin XU has been working on his art project “Ukraine Every Day” since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Xu has completed almost 700 works using an iPad application. The portfolio includes portraits of soldiers\, political figures\, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky\, as well as scenes of the war. These images give voice to the artist’s hope for justice\, peace\, and resolution and his solidarity with the people of Ukraine. \n\n\n\nWeixin XU was born in Urumqi\, Xinjiang province\, in 1958\, and now lives and works in New York and Beijing. He received a BA from the Xi’an Academy of Arts and an MFA from the Zhejiang Academy of Arts. Xu has combined his interest in universal human conditions with a stark Realist style that is deeply rooted in China’s modern art history. His most recent works are single-person portrait series\, whose subjects share the same historic time or environment\, merging personal and collective narratives. Xu’s critically acclaimed works have been exhibited and collected by public institutions and private collections in China. Solo exhibitions include Song of Workers (Shanghai Art Museum\, 2007)\, Chinese Historical Figures: 1966-1976（Today Art Museum\, Beijing\, 2007)\, and China Image: Portrait in Circulation (Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard University\, 2011). He is currently a professor of painting and the former executive dean of the School of Arts\, Renmin University\, Beijing. In 2016\, Xu had his first major solo exhibition in USA at the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/weixin-xu-an-artists-diary-of-1090-digital-drawings/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Room S153\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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