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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171116T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171116T190000
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SUMMARY:Film Series - Aging in Asia
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, November.13\nOld Partner (Korea\, 78 min.)\nIntroduced by: Paul Chang\, Associate Professor of Sociology\, Harvard University \nTuesday\, November. 14\nBaghban (India\, 178 min.)\nIntroduced by: Professor Samir Dayal\, English and Media Studies\, Bentley University \nWednesday\, November 15\nFor Fun (Zhao le) (China\, 98 min)\nIntroduced by: Haijing Hao\, Asia Center Associate; Assistant Professor\, Management Science and Information Systems Department\, College of Management\, University of Massachusetts\, Boston \nThursday\, November 16\nPecoross’ Mother and Her Days (Japan\, 113 min.)\nIntroduced by: Alexander Zahlten\, Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University \nRefreshments provided \nCo-sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Korea Institute\, Lakshmi Mittal South Asia Institute\, and Reischauer Institute
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-series-aging-in-asia-2017-11-16/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S354\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest,Film Screening,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171116T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171116T190000
DTSTAMP:20260512T014722
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SUMMARY:Prasenjit Duara - Spiritual Ecologies: Sustainability and Transcendence in Contemporary Asia
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Prasenjit Duara\, Oscar Tang Professor of East Asian Studies\, Duke University\n\n\n\n\n\nThe crisis of global modernity has been produced by human overreach that was founded upon a paradigm of national modernization. Today\, three global changes: the rise of non-western powers\, the crisis of environmental sustainability and the loss of authoritative sources of transcendence – the ideals\, principles and ethics once found in religions — define our condition. The physical salvation of the world is becoming the transcendent goal of our times\, transcending national sovereignty. The foundations of sovereignty can no longer be sought in tunnelled histories of nations; we are recognizing that histories have always been circulatory and the planet is a collective responsibility. \nI re-consider the values and resources in Asian traditions—particularly of China and India—that Max Weber found wanting in their capacity to achieve modernity. Several traditions in Asia\, particularly in environmentally marginalized local communities offer different ways of understanding the relationship between the personal\, ecological and universal. The idea of transcendence in these communities is more dialogical than radical or dualistic: separating God or the human subject from nature. Transnational civil society\, NGOS\, quasi-governmental and inter-governmental agencies committed to to the inviolability or sacrality of the “commons” are finding common cause with these communities struggling to survive. \nThe Environment Forum at the Mahindra Center is convened by Robin Kelsey (Dean of Arts and Humanities\, Harvard University) and Ian Jared Miller (Professor of History\, Harvard University).
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/prasenjit-duara-spiritual-ecologies-sustainability-and-transcendence-in-contemporary-asia/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Environment,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171117T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171117T140000
DTSTAMP:20260512T014722
CREATED:20170803T172600Z
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SUMMARY:Mae Ngai - The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Professor Mae Ngai\, Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies and Professor of History\, Columbia University
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-chinese-question-the-gold-rushes-and-global-politics/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171117T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171117T180000
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SUMMARY:David Palmer & Elijah Siegler - Enchanting Huashan in the Global Spiritual Circuit: Intersecting Modes of Making Sacred Space
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\nDavid Palmer\, University of Hong Kong\nElijah Siegler\, College of Charleston \nThis talk is based on the newly released book Dream Trippers (University of Chicago Press)\, a multi-sited ethnographic study of transnational encounters between American Daoist spiritual tourists and practitioners and the Chinese monks and hermits of the sacred Daoist peak of Huashan. In this talk\, the co-authors will describe how the mountain is a source of enchanting experiences for both American “Dream Trippers” and the Daoist monks of the Order of Complete Perfection. \nMany American practitioners perceive these experiences within a framework of ontological individualism\, while others use Qigong practice to connect and attune to the ‘energies’ of the mountain within the framework of a Daoist cosmology that has been extracted from its historical and cultural context. For the monks\, on the other hand\, the cosmological attunement of Daoist cultivation occurs through enchanted connections with the Immortals of Daoist history and lineage. What happens when\, through encounters between the two groups\, these different narratives of enchantment confront each other\, or become imbricated with each other? \nDr. David A. Palmer is an Associate Professor of Anthropology\, Department of Sociology and Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences\, at the University of Hong Kong. After completing his PhD in the Anthropology of Religion at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris\, he was the Eileen Barker Fellow in Religion and Contemporary Society at the London School of Economics and Political Science\, and\, from 2004 to 2008\, director of the Hong Kong Centre of the French School of Asian Studies (Ecole Française d’Extrême-Orient). His books include the award-winning Qigong Fever: Body\, Science and Utopia in China (Columbia University Press\, 2007); The Religious Question in Modern China (co-authored with Vincent Goossaert\, University of Chicago Press\, 2011; awarded the Levenson Book Prize of the Association for Asian Studies); and Dream Trippers: Global Daoism and the Predicament of Modern Spirituality (co-authored with Elijah Siegler\, University of Chicago Press\, 2017). \n Dr. Elijah Siegler is a Professor of Religious Studies at the College of Charleston in South Carolina. He has degrees from Harvard University and the University of California at Santa Barbara. He has published an introductory textbook on New Religious Movements (Routledge\, 2007)\, and articles about religion in film and television\, on American Daoism\, and on religious studies pedagogy. He recently edited Coen: Framing Religion in Amoral Order (Baylor University Press\, 2016) and co-wrote\, with David Palmer\, Dream Trippers: Global Daoism and the Predicament of Modern Culture (University of Chicago Press\, 2017)
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-humanities-seminar-2017-11-17/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:China Humanities Seminar,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171117T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171117T210000
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SUMMARY:Film Screening and In-Person Discussion with the Director - We the Workers
DESCRIPTION:Shot over a six-year period (2009-15) mainly in the industrial heartland of south China\, this film primarily follows labor activists Peng Jiayong and Deng Xiaoming as they find common ground with workers\, helping them to negotiate with local officials and factory owners over wages and working conditions. \nThreats\, attacks\, detention and boredom become part of their daily lives as they struggle to strengthen worker solidarity in the face of pressure from police and their employers. In the process\, we see in their words and actions the emergence of a nascent working class consciousness and labor movement in China. \nDirected by Wen Hai\nWen Hai studied at the Beijing Film Academy and has since 2001 been active as an independent film director. Among his best known films are Floating Dust (2003)\, that won him the Georges Beauregard award at the 16th Festival International du Documentaire in Marseille in 2005\, Dream Walking (2005)\, and the We that won the Horizons Special Mention award at the 2008 Venice International Film Festival. He also worked as a cameraman on Wang Bing’s film Three Sisters (2012). \n  \nPlease note that there will also be a screening of Wen Hai’s 2008 film WE at Boston University on Thursday Nov 16\, 2017 at 7pm\, with the filmmaker available for Q&A afterwards.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-screening-and-in-person-discussion-with-the-director-we-the-workers/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Emergent Visions Film Screening,Film Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171118T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171118T120000
DTSTAMP:20260512T014722
CREATED:20171108T204415Z
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UID:6271-1510995600-1511006400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Donald Sturgeon - Digital Research Tools for Pre-modern Chinese Texts
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Donald Sturgeon\, East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University \nDigital methods offer increasingly powerful tools to aid in the study and analysis of historical written works\, both through exploratory techniques in which previously unnoticed trends and relationships are highlighted\, as well as through computer-assisted assembly of data to refute or confirm particular hypotheses. Applying such techniques in practice often requires first overcoming technical challenges – in particular access to machine-readable editions of the desired texts\, as well as to tools capable of performing such analyses. \nThis hands-on practical workshop introduces approaches intended to reduce the technical barriers to experimenting with these techniques and evaluating their utility for particular scholarly uses. The first part of this workshop introduces the Chinese Text Project (https://ctext.org)\, which has grown to become the largest full-text digital library of pre-modern Chinese. While on the one hand the website offers a simple means to access commonly used functions such as full-text search for a wide range of pre-modern Chinese sources\, at the same time it also provides more sophisticated mechanisms allowing for more open-ended use of its contents\, as well as the ability to contribute directly to the digitization of entirely new materials. \nThe second part of the workshop introduces tools for performing digital textual analysis of Chinese-language materials\, which may be obtained from the Chinese Text Project or elsewhere. These include identification of text reuse within and between written materials\, sophisticated pattern search using regular expressions\, and visualization of the results of these and other types of analysis. \n24-seat limit. Light refreshments.\nRSVP at https://goo.gl/ac1K96\nQuestions: ying_qin@fas.harvard.edu\nDetails: https://dsturgeon.net/digital-tools-chinese/ \n 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/donald-sturgeon-digital-research-tools-for-pre-modern-chinese-texts/
LOCATION:Northwest Building\, Room B129\, 52 Oxford St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171120T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171120T170000
DTSTAMP:20260512T014722
CREATED:20171116T131457Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171116T131457Z
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SUMMARY:Ezra Vogel - China’s Development and Its Role in the Global Affairs
DESCRIPTION:Keynote Speaker: Ezra Vogel (傅高义）\, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus \nPanelists:\nEzra Vogel\, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus\nRichard Cooper\, Maurits C. Boas Professor of International Economics \nModerator:\nAnthony Saich\, Daewoo Professor of International Affairs\, Director of the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation \nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/seminar-chinas-development-and-its-role-in-the-global-affairs-tickets-39852171919
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/ezra-vogel-chinas-development-and-its-role-in-the-global-affairs/
LOCATION:Wiener Auditorium\, Taubman Building\, 79 JFK St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171121T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171121T133000
DTSTAMP:20260512T014722
CREATED:20171103T191018Z
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SUMMARY:David Huang - Accommodating America?: Understanding U.S. Influence in Xi's Policy Toward Taiwan
DESCRIPTION:The Ash Center invites you to a discussion with David Huang\, Associate Research Fellow\, Institute of European and American Studies (IEAS)\,\nAcademia Sinica\, Taiwan and Associate Professor\, Graduate Institute of National Development\, National Taiwan University for a discussion to better understand how the U.S. has influenced Xi Jinping’s policy toward Taiwan. This talk will be moderated by Ash Center Director Tony Saich. Lunch will be provided.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/david-huang-accommodating-america-understanding-u-s-influence-in-xis-policy-toward-taiwan/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest,Taiwan Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171128T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171128T210000
DTSTAMP:20260512T014722
CREATED:20171108T203722Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171108T203722Z
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SUMMARY:Film Screening of "Plastic China" and Q&A with Director Wang Jiuliang
DESCRIPTION:After the screening\, Director Wang Jiuliang will attend via Skype for a Q&A with the audience moderated by Professor Zhang Ling of Boston College and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. The discussion will be interpreted by Canaan Morse\, a Ph.D. candidate in Chinese Literature at Harvard.  \nAbout the Film: As the world’s biggest plastic waste importer\, China receives ten million tons per year from most of the developed countries around the world. With high external costs impacting the local environment and health\, these imports are reborn here in these plastic workshops into “recycled” raw materials for the appetite of China – the world factory. This waste is then exported back to where they came from with a new face such as manufactured clothing or toys. Following the daily lives of two families living in a typical plastic waste household-recycling workshop\, PLASTIC CHINA explores how this work of recycling plastic waste with their bare hands takes a toll not only on their health\, but also their own dilemma of poverty\, disease\, pollution and death. \nAbout the Director: Director of the award-winning documentary film BEIJING BESIEGED BY WASTE\, WANG Jiuliang graduated from the School of Cinematic Arts of the Communication University of China in 2007. From 2007 to 2008\, he finished a set of photographic works about Chinese traditional superstitions. He started investigating landfill pollution around Beijing in 2008\, and in 2011\, finished BEIJING BESIEGED BY WASTE\, a set of photographic works and a documentary with the same name. Since 2012\, he has been working on and promoting the documentary PLASTIC CHINA. \nBoston-area premiere co-sponsored by the Harvard-China Project on Energy\, Economy and Environment\, Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences; Environment in Asia Series\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies; and Emergent Visions Film Screening Series\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. \nFree admission to the film screening is made possible through the generous support of the Harvard Global Institute. 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-screening-of-plastic-china-and-qa-with-director-wang-jiuliang/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Emergent Visions Film Screening,Environment,Environment,Events of Interest,Film Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171129T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171129T140000
DTSTAMP:20260512T014722
CREATED:20170803T165814Z
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SUMMARY:Mark Gillette - Security Implications of a More Assertive China
DESCRIPTION:Event Summary \nSpeaker: Mark Gillette\, Deputy Director for Strategic Planning and Policy\, U.S. Pacific Command; formerly Defense Attaché-China\, Defense Intelligence Agency
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-2-2017-11-29/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171130T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171130T133000
DTSTAMP:20260512T014722
CREATED:20171108T201314Z
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SUMMARY:Xu Jian - The Legendary Yelang State in Southwest China\, What\, Where and by Whom? Rethinking the roles of historical writing and archaeology in reconstructing ancient history
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Xu Jian\, Professor of Archaeology and Art history\, Department of History\, Sun Yat-sen University; HYI Visiting Scholar\nChair/discussant: Rowan Flad\, John E. Hudson Professor of Archaeology\, Department of Anthropology\, Harvard University \nFor decades\, Chinese archaeologists have searched extensively in current Guizhou and northeastern Yunnan for remains of the legendary state Yelang\, which is still out of sight by large. The Yelang state\, ranging from the 4th to the 1st century BCE\, is depicted ambiguously in the Records of Great Historian as one of the targets and victims during the Western Han’s expansion in the Southwest. The continuing findings of large burial sites in Zhongshui\, Weining and Kele\, Hezhang call great attention by high qualified or exotic artifacts from elite tombs\, unusual burial practice hinting a long-distance contact\, and a certain degree of social complexity revealed by the hierarchy system in the measurements of the burials\, but some key features\, assumed as indexes of Bronze culture by the dominant Childe school\, such as city wall or fortifications\, ceremonial\, administrative or general public architecture\, are absent from these sites. Did the Yelang state really exist in history? Have archaeologists already exposed its nucleus or is its urban center still under the ground and beyond archaeologists’ reach? What are the possible shape and characteristics of the Yelang state? This presentation will take into account all these issues\, and raise a further discussion on how to reconstruct history by historical writings from an etic perspective and archaeological finds gained in a framework based on experiences from dramatically different settings.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/xu-jian-the-legendary-yelang-state-in-southwest-china-what-where-and-by-whom-rethinking-the-roles-of-historical-writing-and-archaeology-in-reconstructing-ancient-history/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171130T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171130T140000
DTSTAMP:20260512T014722
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SUMMARY:Jie Li - Gained in Translation: The Reception of Foreign Films in the Mao Era
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Jie Li\, Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University\nDiscussant: Professor Carter Eckert\, Yoon Se Young Professor of Korean History\, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University \nSponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center\, Korea Insitute\, Lakshmi Mittal South Asia Insitute\, and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard University.  \nAlthough Hollywood films were expelled from China in the 1950s and not reintroduced until the 1980s\, audiences in the Mao era still had access to an impressive array of international cinema. Apart from many Soviet films dubbed into Mandarin with a Northeastern accent\, urban residents had access to films from countries as diverse as Bulgaria\, Czechoslovakia\, Egypt\, England\, Hungary\, India\, Iraq\, Italy\, Japan\, Mexico\, and Poland. Even in the later years of the Cultural Revolution\, a popular saying circulated about the masses’ cosmopolitan film diet: “Chinese films\, newsreel documentaries; Vietnamese films\, airplanes and cannons; North Korean films: weep\, weep\, smile smile; Romanian films: hugs and kisses; Albanian films: baffling and bizarre.” This paper outlines the exhibition of foreign cinema and studies their influence on Chinese audiences from the 1950s to the 1970s\, with a focus around four case studies: the Soviet film Lenin in 1918 (1939)\, the North Korean film The Flower Girl (1972)\, the Albanian film Victory over Death (1967)\, and the Indian film Awara (1951). I address questions such as: What made The Flower Girl such a tearful sensation? How did the theme song and social criticism in Awara resonate with Chinese audiences from the 1950s to the 1980s? What aesthetic influences did Albanian films exert on fashion\, gesture\, and romantic ideals? Drawing on memoirs and oral history\, my approach goes beyond the close analysis of media texts to excavate the diverse contexts for film screenings as well as audience responses.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/jie-li-gained-in-translation-the-reception-of-foreign-films-in-the-mao-era/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171130T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171130T180000
DTSTAMP:20260512T014722
CREATED:20171128T175050Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171128T175050Z
UID:6362-1512057600-1512064800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Asia Responds to Trump in Asia
DESCRIPTION:Listen again on the Fairbank Center’s podcast: \n \nChair:  Karen Thornber\, Victor and William Fung Director\, Harvard University Asia Center; Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and of Comparative Literature\, Harvard University\nModerator: Andrew Gordon\, Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History\, Harvard University\n\nRonak Desai\, Associate\, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs\, India and South Asia Program\, Harvard Kennedy School\nWilliam  Kirby\, Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration\, Harvard Business School; T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies\, Harvard University; Director\, Harvard China Fund\nSophie Lemière\, Postdoctoral Fellow\, Weatherhead Scholars Program\, Harvard University; Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow\, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies\, European University Institute\nTae Gyun Park\, Kim Koo Visiting Professor\, East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University; Professor of Modern Korean History\, Graduate School of International Studies\, Seoul National University \nCo-sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Korea Institute\, Lakshmi Mittal South Asia Institute\, Reischauer Institute\, U.S.-Japan Program\, and Weatherhead Center for International Studies
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/asia-responds-to-trump-in-asia/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171202T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171202T120000
DTSTAMP:20260512T014722
CREATED:20171121T163715Z
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UID:6338-1512205200-1512216000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Lex Berman - A Practical Approach to GIS and Spatial Thinking for China Research
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Lex Berman\, GIS Specialist & Web Services Manager\, Center for Geographic Analysis \nSpatial Humanities is a synthesis between traditional historical and textual research methods and the use of geographic information systems to find spatial relationships.  Exploring the spatial aspects of data\, and examining how those change over time\, we can develop interesting visualizations\, and also discover new questions to pursue in our research. In this Workshop we will introduce general concepts of spatial thinking and querying of spatial data\, browse Chinese datasets available for your research\, and provide a basic hands-on guide to using QGIS software.  The QGIS instruction will be brief\, covering how to open GIS datasets\, create thematic maps\, and prepare your maps for print publication. \n24-seat limit. Light refreshments.\nRSVP at https://goo.gl/5x3LMA\nQuestions: ying_qin@fas.harvard.edu
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/lex-berman-a-practical-approach-to-gis-and-spatial-thinking-for-china-research/
LOCATION:Northwest Building\, Room B129\, 52 Oxford St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171204T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171204T183000
DTSTAMP:20260512T014722
CREATED:20170831T132116Z
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SUMMARY:CANCELED: Jing Tsu - Key Strokes: What Made the Chinese Script Revolution?
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Jing Tsu\, Yale University \nIt is tempting to understand the Chinese script revolution of the modern era as part of a familiar narrative of vengeance.  The Chinese language was idealized then disparaged by the Europeans\, on this view\, banished then revived only to play a mere prop in different fantasies about the Orient.  That Chinese was simplified and romanized into pinyin in the twentieth century–both claimed as Mao’s achievements–merged readily with the narrative of China’s rise in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries\, especially with the new emphasis on “innovation.”  In contrast to this satisfying story\, I will talk about the underside of this history\, one that did not enjoy big moments or one-time victories in telegraphy\, typewriting\, or the digital age but drew from the energy and failures of Chinese and non-Chinese alike\, who each put a different arc on how this history could have developed–but sometimes did not.  Emerging from this process is the one change that truly changed everything\, which will be the focus of this lecture. \nJing Tsu\, a new Guggenheim Fellow\, is a literary scholar and cultural historian of modern China at Yale University. She is the first person to be tenured and become Professor of Chinese Literature and Comparative Literature at Yale\, and author of four books (two co-edited). She is currently writing a new book about how China entered the IT era\, The Kingdom of Characters: Language Wars and China’s Rise to Global Power\, a remarkable tale that uncovers what happened to the Chinese script in the age of the Western alphabet (under contract with Riverhead at Penguin Random House). Her research spans literature\, linguistics\, science and technology\, typewriting and digitalization\, diaspora studies\, migration\, nationalism\, and theories of globalization\, and she has written for The New York Times.  \nAt Yale\, Tsu is also a Senior Research Fellow at the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies\, a member of the Executive Committee of both the Whitney Humanities Center and the Humanities Program\, as well as a faculty affiliate of WGSS (Women’s\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies) and ER&M (Ethnicity\, Race\, and Migration).
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-humanities-seminar-2017-12-04/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:China Humanities Seminar,Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Daisy Yan Du - Plasmatic Empire: Animated Filmmaking in the Manchukuo Film Association\, 1937-1945
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Daisy Yan Du\, Assistant Professor\, Division of Humanities\, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; HYI Visiting Scholar\nChair/discussant: Jie Li\, Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University \nThis talk examines animated filmmaking in the Manchukuo Film Association (Manying\, 1937-1945)\, which played an important role in shaping wartime film culture in Northeast China and other Japanese-occupied areas such as North China and Shanghai. Some studies have been conducted on Manying films\, but they have focused on documentaries\, newsreels\, and fictional live-action films\, and do not systematically address the cinematic form of animation. Since animation is a different medium\, an in-depth study of it will provide a unique perspective from which to understand Manying and the complicated wartime culture of Manchukuo\, China\, and Japan. The major theoretical problem that this talk tries to address is the convoluted relationship between animation and politics. On the one hand\, animation\, often regarded as a fantasy art form intended for an audience of children\, is widely known for its escapist and apolitical tendencies as it features fairytales\, folklore\, and talking animals. On the other hand\, animation\, due to its kinship with caricature and cartoon\, can be used as a powerful weapon to disseminate ideologies to both children and adults. In a politically fraught time when the non-political could be highly politicized\, how do we locate and dislocate Manying and its animation on the spectrum between escapism and political propaganda? \nAnimated films to be screened during the talk:\nTerrible Lice (Kepa de shizi\, 1943\, in Chinese)\nDreaming to be Emperor (Huangdi meng\, 1947\, in Chinese)\nCapturing the Turtle in the Jar (Wengzhong zhuobie\, 1948\, in Chinese)
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/daisy-yan-du-plasmatic-empire-animated-filmmaking-in-the-manchukuo-film-association-1937-1945/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Meg Rithmire - State-Business Relations Under Xi Jinping: The End of an Era?
DESCRIPTION:Event Summary \nProfessor Meg Rithmire\, F. Warren McFarlan Associate Professor of Business of Administration\, Harvard Business School
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-2-2017-10-18-2017-12-06/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China
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SUMMARY:Nicholas Burns - U.S. Foreign Policy\, Trump\, and China
DESCRIPTION:As President Trump returns from his first visit to China as Commander-in-Chief\, how is U.S. foreign policy reacting to a new administration in Washington and a new rising power in Beijing? Join Ambassador and Harvard Kennedy School Professor Nicholas Burns in conversation with Jeeyang Rhee Baum\, Ezra Vogel\, and Odd Arne Westad\, moderated by Michael Szonyi. \nSpeaker:\nAmbassador (Ret.) Nicholas Burns\, Roy and Barbara Goodman Family Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Relations\, Harvard Kennedy School; Former U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs \nDiscussants:\nEzra Vogel\, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus\, Harvard University\nOdd Arne Westad\, S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations\, Harvard Kennedy School\nJeeyang Rhee Baum\, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy\, Harvard Kennedy School \nModerator:\nMichael Szonyi\, Director\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and Professor of Chinese History \n  \nListen again to this panel discussion on Soundcloud:\n \nThis event is sponsored by Harvard’s Ash Center for Democratic Governance\, and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/nicholas-burns-u-s-foreign-policy-trump-and-china/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest,Special Event
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SUMMARY:Mediating Religion: Text and Object in Chinese Religion
DESCRIPTION:9:30 AM     Workshop Opens \n9:45-10:45     Playing with Corpses: Assembling Bodies for the Dead in Southwest China \nSpeaker: Erik Mueggler\, University of Michigan \nThis paper describes the ritualization of death in a “minority” community in Yunnan Province\, China\, called Júzò in the local Tibeto-Burman language. Here\, people are heir to an extraordinary range of resources for working on the dead\, including abundant poetic language. Work on the dead takes the form of making them material and immaterial. Social personhood\, involving relations among living and dead\, is mutual entanglement through shared substance; dead persons are subjected to a long labor of disentanglement with the final goal of severing them from the shared world of matter and memory. Through work on the dead\, people assess social relations and envision the cosmological foundations of the social world. In this context\, a long history of official interventions meant to reform death ritual has been deeply consequential. \nThe focus of this paper is the assembly of fully social dead bodies in the reform era\, when death rituals were re-established after a hiatus of two decades.  To attend to the active fashioning of dead bodies is to build on the focus that the tradition of the anthropology of death has maintained on the corpse and its transformations\, while running counter to that tradition’s tendency to take dead bodies as given\, if problematic\, entities left over after death. In Júzò\, kinship begins with the assembly of dead bodies. Living bodies are made through generative relations of nurture and care; dead bodies are made through the materialization and actualization of ideal relations. Procreation and bodily health among humans and domestic animals and plants depends on life substance channeled through filial relations with dead parents. This process depends upon the successful fabrication of dead bodies out of idealized\, formal images of the relations in which the dead were once suspended in life. Through work on the dead\, the dead body is made into the image of an entire social world. This world contrasts with another social whole\, “society\,” the foundation of political discourse in the socialist era and post-socialist eras. \n11:00-12:00    Mother Ghost Seeks a Human Son-in-Law: Ghost Shrines in Taiwan \nSpeaker: Wei-ping Lin\, National Taiwan University \nThis article\, inspired by the studies of material religion\, reconsiders the concept of ghosts and the relationships they build with humans by means of a detailed analysis of a particular type of religious architecture\, namely the ghost shrine. Ghost shrines in Taiwan are usually located outside of settlements; compared to temples\, they are shabby\, isolated\, and off the beaten track. By studying the material composition\, naming\, and rites of these shrines\, this paper will show how ghosts are conceived of as asocial and individual beings\, gathering mostly in single-sexed groups. This forms the basis for understanding the central incident investigated here of a “mother ghost seeking a human son-in-law.” In contrast to previous research that describes human-ghost relations in terms of the troublemaking and threatening roles of ghosts\, this story importantly shows that it is not only ghosts who take advantage of human beings. Motivated by greed\, humans also cross the spatial boundary separating humans and ghosts to coerce the latter for their own selfish ends. By dramatizing the gender contrast of ghosts and humans\, the story of the mother ghost epitomizes people’s ridicule and condemnation of human greed. \n12:00 PM      Lunch on your own \n1:30-2:30     Envisioning Paradise: Maitreya’s Utopia in Medieval Mural Paintings at Dunhuang \nSpeaker: April Hughes\, Boston University \nMaitreya Buddha’s terrestrial paradise was one possible afterlife for medieval practitioners.  My paper considers how Maitreya’s earthly utopia was imagined visually in the cave-temple mural paintings at Dunhuang by examining the following episodes: the three assemblies; scenes related to the Wheel-Turning King; and scenes of daily life in the paradise.  I argue that in retelling the Maitreya story the artists established a distinct version of the narrative.  In these murals\, the painters not only opted to depict specific scenes from the broader Maitreya story\, they also modified and enhanced elements that were derived from the canonical scriptures. \n2:45-3:45     The Stuff of Power:  Politics\, Ideology\, and Virtue in China’s Mid-19th Century Civil War \nSpeaker: Tobie Meyer-Fong\, Johns Hopkins University \nA military handbook compiled in central China during the Taiping Civil War dedicates significant attention to the physical appearance\, practical function\, moral affinities\, and political power of material artifacts mobilized by or against the Taiping cause.  The objects are never presented as politically neutral; they reveal absolute ‘moral truths’ otherwise obscured by the fog of war. First\, the authors use things (of power) to elevate and denigrate the Taiping polity as an aspiring\, but ultimately failed\, dynastic regime.  To that end\, they catalogue and in many cases illustrate the politically charged objects in circulation in Taiping territory. At the same time\, the legitimacy of these politically charged artifacts had to be negated; they had to be fake\, flimsy\, or insufficient.  Second\, the authors use objects\, including food and clothing\, to document social and regional difference\, and thus to reveal the Taiping and their adherents as a core group of violent and uncouth savages surrounded by an outer layer of coerced captives looking to flee.  Finally\, the handbook describes manifestations of virtue in the material world by way of the strange behavior of objects\, including especially human remains. Here\, the textual representation of material objects produced moral and political boundaries between self and other\, orthodox and heterodox\, civilized and savage.  A consideration of how objects functioned in this text provides insight into how the authors of this text\, and by extension\, the Qing and their militia allies\, used “things” to articulate their ideological and strategic agendas in the context of the Taiping Civil War. \n4:00-5:00     Texts and Objects in Statues: New Vantage Points onto Chinese Local Religion \nSpeaker: James Robson\, Harvard University  \nOver the past ten years or so I have been involved with a large-scale collaborative research project on small polychrome statuettes from Hunan province.  The first phase of the project involved cataloguing five collections of statues that total around 8\,000 images.  Now that the cataloguing is completed we are able to move into the next phase of analysis. What is most distinctive—and of scholarly importance—about these images is that they have a small niche carved into the back that contains (among other things) materia medica and manuscripts that were interred at the time of consecration. The manuscripts provide us with an unprecedented amount of information about the date of the image\, its precise provenance\, the patrons\, and the reasons for the statue’s consecration. Scholars of Chinese religion are often frustrated by the fact their sources only allow them access to rather elite levels of practice. These statuettes\, dating from the Qing dynasty to the present\, however\, take us down to the level of village and even domestic religious practice.  In this talk\, I intend to tack back and forth between the documents inside of the statues and what we can know from other types of local sources to see what new vantage points they provide us onto the local religious landscape of Hunan province. I also intend to introduce some recent research the I have done on some of the non-textual objects inside the statues and how we might also utilize them in developing a more complete sense of the contours of that religious landscape.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/chinese-religions-workshop/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S354\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conference and Workshops,Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Yasheng Huang - China’s Venture Capital Industry: Examining Its Role in Funding Start-ups
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Yasheng Huang\, International Program Professor in Chinese Economy and Business and Professor of Global Economics and Management\, MIT Sloan School of Management
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/yasheng-huang-china-economy-lecture/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Kevin O'Brien - China's Disaffected Insiders
DESCRIPTION:Event Summary \nSpeaker: Professor Kevin O’Brien\, Walter and Elise Haas Professor of Asian Studies; Alann P. Bedford Professor of Asian Studies; Professor of Political Science; Director\, Institute of East Asian Studies\, University of California\, Berkeley
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-2-2017-12-13/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180129T180000
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SUMMARY:Paul W. Kroll - Personal Moments in Medieval Chinese Poetry
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Paul W. Kroll\, University of Colorado \nMedieval Chinese poetry\, like most self-consciously traditional literature\, embraces learning\, presumption\, and intertextuality with ardor. Scholarship delights to roam in these fields which provide rich fare for the mind. But those moments that suddenly engage the heart (a somewhat neglected organ in the postmodern era) affect us at a deeper level. It is for these irregular but personally cherished splendors and miseries that one continues to read throughout a lifetime. In this lecture readings and interpretations will be offered especially from two medieval poets with rather contradictory histories—Lu Zhaolin 盧照鄰 from the mid-seventh century and Jiang Yan 江淹 from the late fifth century. Reflecting on their works may also prod us to consider the critical limits latent in the reputed “death of the author.” \nPart of the Fairbank Center China Humanities Seminar Series
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-humanities-seminar-2018-01-29/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:China Humanities Seminar,Events of Interest
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180131T133000
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SUMMARY:Liao Yang - When Buddha *Tejaprabha Came to Yunnan: Regional Characteristics and His Place in the Local Pantheon
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Liao Yang (Professor\, Institute of Ethnology & Anthropology\, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Visiting Scholar\, Harvard-Yenching Institute) \nChair/discussant: Eugene Wang (Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art\, Department of History of Art and Architecture\, Harvard University) \nHarvard-Yenching Institute lunch talk \nhttps://harvard-yenching.org/events/when-buddha-tejaprabha-came-yunnan-regional-characteristics-and-his-place-local-pantheon
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/liao-yang-when-buddha-tejaprabha-came-to-yunnan-regional-characteristics-and-his-place-in-the-local-pantheon/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180202T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180202T170000
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CREATED:20180110T194241Z
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UID:6448-1517583600-1517590800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:A roundtable discussion on "Encountering China: Michael Sandel and Chinese Philosophy"
DESCRIPTION:Participants:\nMichael Sandel (Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government\, Harvard University)\nJoseph C.W. Chan (Professor\, Department of Politics and Public Administration\, University of Hong Kong)\nChaibong Hahm (President\, The Asan Institute for Policy Studies\, Korea)\nTatsuo Inoue (Professor\, Graduate Schools for Law and Politics\, University of Tokyo\, Japan)\nHongmei Qu (Professor\, Department of Philosophy\, Jilin University\, China) \nChaired by Elizabeth Perry (Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government\, Harvard University; Director\, Harvard-Yenching Institute) \nOrganized by the Harvard-Yenching Institute \nThe roundtable is held in conjunction with the publication of Encountering China: Michael Sandel and Chinese Philosophy (Harvard University Press\, January 2018\, https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674976146). In the book\, leading scholars of Chinese philosophy explore points of contact between Michael Sandel’s work and the Confucian and Daoist traditions. In a concluding chapter\, Professor Sandel replies to their commentaries. This roundtable will seek to elaborate and expand upon this dialog between Western and Chinese political thought\, and to assess the response to Sandel’s work in China\, Japan\, and South Korea. Following the roundtable\, a book signing by Professor Sandel will be held in the CGIS concourse\, with copies of the book available to purchase. \nhttps://harvard-yenching.org/events/roundtable-discussion-encountering-china-michael-sandel-and-chinese-philosophy \n 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/a-roundtable-discussion-on-encountering-china-michael-sandel-and-chinese-philosophy/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180202T173000
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SUMMARY:Colin P.C. Jones - Searching for a Social Order: The Sociology and Afterlives of Law in Japanese-Occupied China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Colin P.C. Jones\, Reischauer Institute Postdoctoral Fellow (Ph.D. Japanese History\, Columbia 2017)\nModerator: Andrew Gordon\, Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History\, Harvard University \nThis talk connects the legal history of the Japanese empire to the broader history of legal and social thought in the twentieth century. It examines the design\, execution\, and long afterlife of the North China Rural Customary Law Survey. Conducted from 1940 to 1944\, the survey was unprecedented for the ethnographic approach it took to its subject. Through interviews with Chinese villagers\, its researchers sought to uncover the intricate web of customary practices\, associational norms\, and religious beliefs that coordinated and regulated daily life independently of the state—or what survey’s designer\, Suehiro Izutarō\, called the “living law.” I trace this concept to its inception in Habsburg Central Europe and show how\, through its implementation in northern China\, it continues to shape our understanding of East Asian legal systems. \n 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/colin-p-c-jones-searching-for-a-social-order-the-sociology-and-afterlife-of-law-in-japanese-occupied-china/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180205T180000
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SUMMARY:Fu Gang  傅剛 - A Study of the Western Han Bamboo Slip Text\, "Fan yin\," in the Collection of Peking University 北京大學藏西漢竹簡《反淫》的整理與研究
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Fu Gang\, 傅剛\, Peking University \nModerator: Xiaofei Tian\,  EALC\, Harvard University \nThe talk will be given in Chinese.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/fu-gang-a-study-of-the-western-han-bamboo-slip-text-fan-yin-in-the-collection-of-peking-university-%e5%8c%97%e4%ba%ac%e5%a4%a7%e5%ad%b8%e8%97%8f%e8%a5%bf%e6%bc%a2%e7%ab%b9%e7%b0%a1%e3%80%8a/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180207T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180207T140000
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SUMMARY:Deborah Davis - China's Changing Families
DESCRIPTION:Read event summary here \nSpeaker: Dr. Deborah Davis\, Yale University \nDeborah S. Davis’ primary teaching interests are inequality and stratification\, contemporary Chinese society\, and methods of fieldwork. In addition to teaching at Yale\, she runs a summer fieldwork seminar where Yale students work collaboratively with students from Hong Kong and China. Davis is currently a Trustee of the Yale China Association and serves as Associate Editor of The Journal of Asian Studies\, and on the editorial board of The China Quarterly and The China Review. In 2004 she helped launch the Yale China Health Journal. At Yale she has served as Director of Academic Programs at the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization\, Chair of the Department of Sociology\, Chair of the Council of East Asian Studies\, Director of Graduate Studies in both East Asian Studies and Sociology\, Member of the Publications Committee for Yale Press\,  and co-chair of the Women Faculty Forum .
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-3/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China Series,Events of Interest
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180207T203000
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SUMMARY:Jennifer Rudolph and Michael Szonyi - The Coop Event Series/ "The China Questions" Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Join the editors and contributors to The China Questions for a book launch at the Harvard Coop’s Event Series. \nMany books offer information about China\, but few make sense of what is truly at stake. The questions addressed in this unique volume provide a window onto the challenges China faces today and the uncertainties its meteoric ascent on the global horizon has provoked. \nIn only a few decades\, the most populous country on Earth has moved from relative isolation to center stage. Thirty-six of the world’s leading China experts—all affiliates of the renowned Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University—answer key questions about where this new superpower is headed and what makes its people and their leaders tick. They distill a lifetime of cutting-edge scholarship into short\, accessible essays about Chinese identity\, culture\, environment\, society\, history\, or policy. \nChina has already captured the world’s attention. The China Questions takes us behind media images and popular perceptions to provide insight on fundamental issues. \nJoin editors Jennifer Rudolph and Michael Szonyi\, and contributors Peter Bol\, Andrew Erickson\, Susan Greenhalgh\, Wai-yee Li\, and Karen Thornber\, at the Harvard Coop to discuss the book and the key questions it raises about China’s future. \nEditors \nJennifer Rudolph\, Associate Professor of Modern Chinese political History\, Worcester Polytechnic Institute \nMichael Szonyi\, Professor of Chinese History\, Harvard University \nContributors \nPeter Bol\, Vice Provost for Advances in Learning\, and Charles H Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard university \nAndrew Erickson\, Professor of Strategy\, Naval War College \nSusan Greenhalgh is Professor of Anthropology\, Harvard University \nWai-yee Li\, Professor of Chinese Literature\, Harvard University \nKaren Thornber\, Professor of Comparative Literature\, and East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University \n 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/jennifer-rudolph-and-michael-szonyi-the-coop-event-series-the-china-questions-book-launch/
LOCATION:Harvard Coop\, 1400 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Environment,Events of Interest,Special Event
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SUMMARY:Xu Lanjun - Leftist Print Culture and New Notions of “Chineseness”: Hu Yuzhi\, Shanghai Book Co.\, and Overseas Chinese Youth in Cold War Southeast Asia
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Xu Lanjun (Associate Professor of Chinese Studies\, the National University of Singapore; Visiting Scholar\, Harvard-Yenching Institute\nChair/discussant: David Wang (Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature\, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University) \nHarvard-Yenching Institute lunch talk \nhttps://harvard-yenching.org/events/xu-lanjun-february-8-2018
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/xu-lanjun-leftist-print-culture-and-new-notions-of-chineseness-hu-yuzhi-shanghai-book-co-and-overseas-chinese-youth-in-cold-war-southeast-asia/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:(De)Constructing Boundaries - The 21st Harvard East Asia Society Conference
DESCRIPTION:Harvard East Asia Society 21st Annual Conference: (De)Constructing Boundaries\nHarvard University\, February 9-10\, 2018 \nSpecial Panel: The Art of Narrating China\nDiscussant: Professor Eugene Wang (Harvard University)\nLocation: CGIS S030 Doris and Ted Lee Gathering Room\nSPECIAL TIME: 3:30 – 5:30 \nGu Zheng\, Professor and Vice-Director of the Research Center for Visual Culture at Fudan University\, Visiting Scholar at the Harvard-Yenching Institute \nHa Jin\, Professor and Director of Creative Writing Program\, Boston University Award-winning author of the 1999 National Book Award\, and the 2000/2005 Pen/Hemingway \nHao Jian\, Professor at the Beijing Film Academy\, Visiting Scholar at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. Widely-published film critic and screenwriter. \nDonny Liang\, Producer at Arclight Film and Fellow at the Harvard University Asia Center. Past productions include many Chinese blockbusters such as Tiny Times. \nOpening Remarks: Xiaofei Tian\, Chair\, RSEA\, Harvard University\n \nKeynote Remarks:\nKaren Thornber\, Harvard University\nJohn Park\, Harvard Kennedy School \nClosing Remarks: James Robson\, Harvard University \nDownload the full conference schedule here. \nFor more information\, visit https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/heasconference/home.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/deconstructing-boundaries-the-21st-harvard-east-asia-society-conference/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, CGIS South\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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